This necromancer is going to seduce the beautiful girls who are already dead.

Leona had just asked her question when everyone heard a sharp whistling sound: "Hiss hiss hiss!"

The evil god's puppet had discovered them. In the moonlight, the countless jewels adorning the puppet shimmered with a dazzling yet eerie luster. The expression on her face was extremely ferocious upon seeing the Abyss and its companions.

"Don't steal my jewelry! Hiss hiss hiss!"

When this puppet screamed, her voice was no longer human; corrupted by greed, she had long since lost her human form.

“He does resemble that Baron Kupin quite a bit.” Abyss wasn’t nervous. He kept his eyes fixed on the monster that was rushing towards him, summoned a magical catfish, and casually pulled out a large piece of amber from its mouth.

The monster was visibly taken aback when it saw the amber in the Abyss's hand.

"Go!" Abyss didn't hesitate at all, throwing the valuable piece of amber in his hand directly behind the monster.

"Jewelry! My jewelry!" When the monster saw the amber in the Abyss's hand being thrown away, she no longer cared about attacking the Abyss and her group. Greed for jewels took precedence in her simple mind. She twisted her body and leaped upwards, just in time to grab the amber that the Abyss had thrown over, and held it in her hands to admire it.

The amber that Abyss threw out was of extremely high quality, brought from a nobleman's tomb. The monster was so fascinated by it that it began to dance with joy.

Abyss smiled slightly and said, "Leona, go and see if you can pry the gem off her body—use your aura to pry it off, don't use your hands."

“I won’t touch that lump of mud even if you tell me!” Leona immediately understood and rushed forward at lightning speed.

Chapter 168 The Battle for the Gem

Leona increased her speed and in an instant, she was in the other direction of the evil god puppet.

With a flick of her wrist, a wisp of battle aura, solidified into a physical form, shot from her fingertips, transforming into a rope with hooks and claws that lashed out at the evil god puppet.

Click.

With a thud as it struck a stone object, Leona's aura grappling hook successfully caught a sapphire that had been spilling from the long, serpentine tail of the evil god puppet. Once she confirmed her catch, Leona swiftly pulled the grappling hook back.

Snapped!

Leona's aura grappling hook did not bring back the sapphire she had just grabbed, while the evil god puppet shifted its attention from the amber she was holding in her hands to Leona.

She glared angrily at Leona, hissing sharply, making her teeth ache, and lunged at her target.

"Hey, here we go again!" Abyss's voice rang out again at this moment. As he said this, a large piece of jade was tossed into the air from his hand. The jade's unique crystal clarity reflected the moonlight, once again attracting the attention of the evil god puppet.

"Jewelry!" The evil god puppet forgot that Leona had just tried to steal the jewelry from her, and pounced on her again to snatch the emerald that the Abyss had tossed up.

Leona and the Abyss now have a considerable level of understanding. Without the Abyss saying anything, Leona directly throws another aura grappling hook at the evil god puppet.

This grappling hook is naturally different from the last one. The current grappling hook is imbued with a large amount of the power of the Fallen Lords, with tiny divine lightning bolts wrapped around it. As Leona swung it, the grappling hook caused some damage when it hit the black mud on the puppet's body—a palm-sized pit was dug out, and a beautiful lapis lazuli bead was also dug out.

The evil god puppet had just received the emerald thrown by the Abyss and was immersed in joy when she suddenly felt something missing from her tail. She immediately convulsed nervously, turned the spot where Leona had just dug a hole around, and stared wide-eyed at the rapidly healing area.

Leona was already holding the lapis lazuli she had just pried off the evil god puppet. Of course, she had no interest in it whatsoever. Seeing the puppet looking at her angrily, Leona threw the gem back to the evil god puppet.

The puppet, true to its obsession with jewels, upon seeing Leona return what it had stolen, disregarded the grudge Leona had just held against it for digging a hole in its tail and lunged at the lapis lazuli that Leona had returned.

“ABC, now we can pry the gems off her body. What do we do now?” Leona asked Abyss through the shared mind.

“I’ll distract her in a bit, and you can find the lens-shaped gem on her. Since she took it, it might be hidden on her,” Abyss replied.

"Huh? What if there isn't any?" Leona asked immediately afterward. "She's been visible for ages, and I haven't seen any lenses or anything like that on her."

“No problem. If not, we can search for her at her hideout after we defeat her,” Abyss said casually.

"Got it!" Leona immediately understood. She quickly distanced herself from the puppet and hid in the surrounding woods. This way, she could see the evil god puppet, but it would be difficult for the evil god puppet to notice her.

The Abyss also began his own operation. He first handed Sheila over to Agnes, instructing Agnes to use Transfiguration to hide nearby and observe for any unexpected situations. Then, he secretly slipped a ring to Edvina, telling her to wear it so she could communicate with her telepathically at any time.

As for why the ring was secretly given to Edvina, it was because she didn't want the evil god puppet to see it; otherwise, the evil god puppet would definitely want it.

Edvina gradually disappeared into the darkness of the night, and then Abyss shouted loudly to the evil god puppet, "Hey! Look this way! I have even more jewels for you!"

"Jewelry!" The evil god puppet still had basic language ability. When she heard Abyss say this, she immediately turned her head, her eyes wide open, looking quite frightening.

Looking at the Abyss, who had said "I can give you more jewels," the puppet's eyes didn't show longing or pleading, but rather an undisguised wildness and aggression. She had no intention of resolving any issues peacefully; her first thought was to snatch all the jewels from the Abyss.

This time, the evil god puppet finally had its chance to pounce. Its upper body rose high, and its huge snake tail made of black mud swam in an S-shape on the ground as it lunged at the Abyss.

Abyss calmly took a sparkling diamond from his pocket and tossed it high into the air.

"Hiss!" This time, the evil god puppet was not fooled again. Although her attention was partially drawn to the dazzling diamond, her body did not change direction. Her huge tail was raised high, trying to attack the Abyss while snatching the diamond.

"This is exactly what I wanted!"

Abyss smiled slightly and flicked his wrist, unleashing a shockwave composed of battle aura. This shockwave, imbued with the power of the Lord of the Fallen, directly severed the tail of the evil god puppet that it was raising to snatch the diamond.

Just as a sack full of gems was broken, as the tail of the evil god puppet was shattered, a handful of gems poured out from the black mud that had been dispersed by divine power, and fell to the ground with a clatter.

The evil god puppet, whose tail had been severed, instantly lost its balance and fell to the ground in a very disheveled manner, landing face-first in the mud.

She raised her head again, feeling that the gems inside her body had diminished considerably, and became even angrier.

"Fizz!"

The severed tail of the evil god puppet instantly transformed into flowing black mud, rapidly covering the ground. Her upper body, along with part of her tail, merged with the black mud covering the ground. This thin layer of black mud was like a swimming pool to the evil god puppet, who easily plunged into it and disappeared without a trace.

"Did you see anything that looks like a lens?" Abyss asked Leona in the mind-sharing session.

“No!” Leona replied, “They’re all kinds of gems!”

“Keep searching!” Abis said.

The black mud spread wider and wider, and everyone except the Abyss chose to retreat to avoid touching it. The Abyss, however, stood still, divine lightning swirling beneath his feet, preventing the mud from rising.

Behind the Abyss, the body of the evil god puppet suddenly and silently rose up, and one hand slammed into the back of the Abyss.

Chapter 169 The Evil God Puppet That Can Learn from Experience

The Abyss, of course, wouldn't fall for such a low-level trick as "teleporting to the back and then stabbing someone in the back." It only works on characters in novels that the author wants to kill off.

The Abyss had already spread its magic throughout the surrounding environment the moment it was discovered by the evil god's puppet. Now, even the slightest change here cannot escape the Abyss's perception. Whether it's an insect crawling in the grass or a snake-man suddenly appearing behind it with its eyes wide open in anger.

He didn't let the evil god puppet touch him at all. His hands instantly coiled with dense divine lightning, and then, with a backward chop, the power of this divine force sliced ​​the evil god puppet in two, right through its chest. As expected, the cut surface of the evil god puppet's body was black mud, mixed with a large number of gems.

"Fizz!"

The evil god puppet let out a miserable scream, its severed body twisting as it fell into the black mud on the ground, melting away and disappearing without a trace.

Abyss had a premonition that this attack could not kill the puppet of the evil god, and he was not surprised by the enemy's disappearance again, remaining calm and composed.

Leona is now at a high vantage point, looking down at the ground.

The evil god's puppet's serpent tail had now turned into a mass of black mud, and the various gems that had been stored within her enormous serpentine body had followed her tail to the ground, surging up from time to time. From above, Leona could see a large number of gems at once.

This might seem like an impossible challenge to an ordinary person—so many gems, constantly shifting, how could one find what they wanted? But for Leona, it might not be a problem. Her eyesight and dynamic vision provide her with the means to search for what she desires among hundreds and thousands of constantly moving gems.

"Hmm... mirrors... mirrors... all these are just pieces of gems, there aren't any mirrors at all..." Leona squatted on the canopy of a tree, looking down and muttering in frustration, "Eganda, Eganda, where are you? Come out and let me see..."

Sheila, now turned into a mushroom by Agnes, is also using her special senses to stare at the black mud of the evil god's puppet, trying to find something that looks like a lens.

Meanwhile, Abyss continued her battle with the evil god's puppet. The puppet acted primarily on instinct, so she completely ignored the few people who had already quickly retreated out of her sight; now, she only had eyes for Abyss.

The evil god puppet launched several more attacks on the Abyss, while the Abyss leisurely stood with one hand behind his back, dealing with the evil god puppet that would occasionally pop its head out of the mud and launch ineffective attacks with only one hand. In fact, even if the evil god puppet really hit his body, it wouldn't cause too much of a problem, since he had already moved all his internal organs and brain to Helheim.

"Leona, have you found anything?" Abyss casually smashed the evil god puppet that pounced on him and asked Leona through telepathy.

"No... all the gems on this guy are polished individual stones, there aren't any lens-like things. Why don't you kill her, and then we can look for them slowly?"

“I’d like to do that too, but as you know, the puppets of the Lord of Delusion are very difficult to kill, and I don’t know how to deal with her yet.”

"I'll look for it some more, be careful."

After ending his call with Leona, Abyss contacted Sheila through the ring (although Sheila had turned into a mushroom, the ring's magical power remained) and asked, "Sheila, have you discovered anything?"

"No...no, there are just too many gems. I can't see them all, I can only see a small portion. I haven't found anything yet..."

"Oh, it's alright. Leona hasn't found anything yet, so I'll leave it to you to keep an eye on things."

"I...I'm sorry!"

“There’s no need to apologize, just take it easy. If Flora talks to you more, you two will definitely have a lot in common,” Abyss said with a smile.

Although the puppets of the Lord of Delusion act solely on instinct, they can also learn new things from battle. This particular puppet of the evil god is now gradually changing its method of attacking the Abyss—her body can now split into two inhuman parts, attacking the Abyss from two directions. The Abyss now has to use both hands to fight back and avoid being touched by the puppet.

Then, the evil god puppet learned to split into more parts, launching fierce attacks on the Abyss from different directions.

The Abyss's response was simple: it released its battle aura, which resembled tentacles that could easily pierce the evil god's puppet as it attacked. The source of this divine power, the Fallen Lord, had extensive experience as a giant jellyfish, so using His power to unleash these tentacle-like attacks felt perfectly natural to the Abyss.

However, if this continues, what new attack methods will this evil god puppet learn? Currently, her only demonstrated ability is constant resurrection, but could she possibly have other attack methods as well?

Just as Abyss was thinking this, the evil god puppet indeed displayed a different ability than before.

Suddenly, as if she had made up her mind, in Leona's vision, a relatively inexpensive white jade that had been floating in the black mud suddenly seemed to melt away, and the puppet that had just condensed its entire body opened its mouth and suddenly spat out a white beam of light at the Abyss.

The Abyss was already on guard against the evil god's puppet's new skill. The beam of light didn't hit the Abyss; he simply ducked and dodged it. Instead of striking the Abyss, the beam struck the ruins of a nearby building, easily leaving a perfectly smooth hole in it.

"She was using up her own gems to launch that attack!" Leona immediately reported her discovery to Abyss.

"Then we need to hurry, we can't let this guy waste his gems!" Abyss's voice came back.

"Damn it... how can the evil god's puppet also play the game of risking big for small gains..." Leona also knew that if this puppet used up Ergunda, they would not be able to make another one, so she hurriedly began to search.

However, there was still no trace of the lens in her field of vision.

Just as she was urging the Abyss to quickly find a way to defeat the evil god puppet, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Wait a minute... could it be that Eganda is...?"

Chapter 170 The Existence of Erganda

A possibility suddenly arose in Leona's mind.

“Could this be the reason why I can’t see Erganda here…” Her eyes gleamed as she looked at the writhing black mud on the ground. “Erganda is right here, but it’s no longer in the form of a lens. This snake-man shattered Erganda into pieces.”

This is because Leona, having previously been a noblewoman, understood some of the tricks of the jewelry world.

Some pieces of jewelry are actually quite large, but when they reach the merchants, they have to order the craftsmen to cut them into smaller pieces. This is to ensure that some medium-sized pieces of jewelry can be sold at exorbitantly high prices under the guise of being "oversized".

The saying goes that things are valued for their rarity. Some gemstones are indeed rare at first, but their rarity decreases after a few mines have been dug. Therefore, merchants must artificially increase their rarity in order to maintain their exorbitant profits.

With this understanding, Leona began searching for the Eganda, which might have been cut apart.