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

As for how to put those fragments back together, that's not Leona's concern. There are so many capable people in Eternal Night City; piecing together a lens shouldn't be too difficult for them.

After searching with her eyes, she finally spotted some unusually shaped transparent fragments among the dazzling array of gems.

They were deep blue fragments, unpolished, seemingly smashed with some kind of tool. Leona's eyesight was good enough to discern some of the curves on them—indicating they had once been part of a lens.

"It's you guys!" Without hesitation, while the evil god puppet's attention was still on the Abyss, Leona swung out her aura grappling hook, collecting every fragment she could see one by one.

The evil god puppet is currently busy fighting the Abyss. It seems that she discovered the Abyss's fear of beams when she just spat out the beams, so she is sacrificing the gems in her body more and more frequently, spitting out beams of light at the Abyss.

Abyss is now forced to evade the attacks of the evil god's puppet, which he has just discovered are destructive to both matter and energy. Disrupting Abyss's magical bonds could potentially lead to unpredictable problems.

While the evil god puppet was attacking and its attention was completely off her, Leona worked hard to take the broken lenses out of the black mud on the ground.

Leona didn't keep these lenses to herself; instead, she handed them directly to Rebecca, who was already waiting in the City of Eternal Night, through a spatial rift.

After picking out the large fragments, Leona moved down a few meters and began to pick out the small, barely noticeable fragments.

"There's one here... Is this it...? Bring it up first."

Abyss smiled as he watched Leona's aura grappling hooks relentlessly steal the gems from the evil god's puppet.

"Ninety percent of the lenses have been collected, Leona!" Rebecca's voice was also transmitted to Leona and Abyss through the shared thought process.

“Rebecca, do you have a way to put these shattered lenses back together?” Abyss asked Rebecca.

Rebecca immediately replied, "Not yet. I haven't done any tests on the lens, so I can't rush into repairing it. However, my team has already pieced together the outline of the lens, and it's almost complete!"

Leona was also doing her best to search for the other fragments of Ergunda, and her grappling hook was getting smaller and smaller in order to grab the smaller and smaller fragments.

“We’re still missing something the size of a pine nut…” Rebecca encouraged Leona. “That tiny bit is missing from inside the lens. Once we find it, we’ll be done!”

"Let me look again..." Leona's eyes were already working their hardest; she had never used her vision so diligently before.

In just a short while, the Abyss had already exchanged blows with the evil god puppet several times. The evil god puppet had figured things out; she knew the Abyss disliked her using beams, so she deliberately attacked the Abyss with beams, while the Abyss managed to dodge each beam and tear the evil god puppet's body apart with her aura.

"Hiss! Jewels! Give me jewels!" The evil god puppet emerged from the black mud once more, spitting a beam of light at the Abyss's body.

Abyss was now somewhat worried. While dodging the beams of light, he used his aura wings to cleave the evil god puppet in two from above, and asked Rebecca, "How is it?"

"Leona hasn't found the last one yet, don't rush her, she's already working very hard."

"Could the last one not be here?" Abyss asked at this moment. "This evil god puppet has used dozens of beam attacks and consumed dozens of gems. Perhaps it has already been used up."

"Rebecca... I can't find it..." Leona's distressed voice rang out at this moment, as if she felt very guilty about not being able to find the last piece.

“Keep looking, but don’t put too much pressure on yourself!” Rebecca said. “Maybe this evil god puppet has already used up the last fragment we were missing!”

Leona focused her attention completely again. Logically speaking, since the body of the evil god puppet had been smashed countless times by the Abyss and merged into the black mud on the ground, all the jewels on her body should have had a chance to appear. As long as they were still there, they should be able to be found.

A few more minutes passed, and the evil god puppet had learned to split into two clones, spitting two beams of light of different thicknesses at the Abyss. Leona finally reported decisively, "They're gone!"

“Then forget it, let’s figure out a way to get rid of her…” Abyss wasn’t surprised. He had seen the fragment that Leona had taken away. Although it was beautiful, it didn’t seem to be priceless. It was very likely that this evil god puppet, who was addicted to collecting jewels, had used one of them as a consumable.

As soon as Abyss finished speaking, he sensed that Edvina, who had been lurking nearby, suddenly moved. She swiftly approached the evil god's puppet. Her figure, concealed by shadow magic, was silent and undetectable, but it did not escape Abyss's perception.

Abis did not stop Edvina from acting on her own initiative; in fact, he was now somewhat curious about her.

"Hiss! Give me the jewels!" The evil god puppet materialized again, opening its mouth to unleash a beam of light at the Abyss.

Ding!

Just then, Edvina, who had silently approached, stabbed the evil god puppet in the back!

"Hiss! Aaaaaaah!!!" The evil god puppet let out a scream that it had never made even when it was torn apart countless times by the Abyss!

Chapter 171 The Basic Qualities of an Assassin

The evil god puppet, which had just been able to recover and pounce on the Abyss no matter how it was tormented, screamed loudly after being suddenly attacked by Edvina. At the same time, the black mud on her body began to boil.

After her attack succeeded, Edvina withdrew without lingering for a moment, while Abyss immediately used magic to float away from the range of the evil god puppet, Black Mud.

"Ah ...

The evil god puppet's screams grew increasingly hoarse. The boiling, surging black mud was rapidly corroding its upper body like the strongest corrosive agent in an alchemical laboratory. Its skin, which had once been indistinguishable from that of a normal person, was turning black and peeling off in chunks.

Beneath her glamorous exterior, the murky depths were churning, and some gems spilled from her body, falling into the boiling murky mud.

Even the hardest gemstones cannot escape the fate of being corroded by the black mud. Those gemstones, which were originally either round and well-proportioned or had sharp edges, are gradually ground into other shapes in the boiling black mud.

The more the black mud boiled, the less there was, and the mud pit that originally covered a considerable area of ​​the ground visibly shrank.

As the upper body of the evil god's puppet was completely corroded and vanished without a trace, the black mud finally finished boiling. All the black mud disappeared, leaving only the unrecognizable, flattened spherical gems on the ground.

"Phew, it actually worked." Abyss looked in Edvina's direction with some surprise.

After the enemy had been eliminated and disappeared without a trace, Edvina, who had been hiding in the darkness, revealed herself. She stood on a tree opposite the Abyss and gave it a slight bow: "I've made a fool of myself."

"Wow, Edvina, you're amazing!" Leona had no idea how to defeat that evil god puppet, but Edvina surprised everyone by taking down the evil god puppet cleanly and efficiently on her first attempt.

"How did you do that?" Abyss asked curiously.

Seeing that Agnes and Sheila had returned to human form, Edvina jumped down from the tree, landing lightly on the ground. She then said earnestly, "As an assassin, my greatest skill is observing the enemy's weaknesses. Given enough time to observe, I can find the enemy's weakest point. Just now, I also found the weakness of this evil god puppet—she has an unusual jewel on her body, and I believe that's the breakthrough."

As she spoke, Edvina walked to the pile of gems on the ground that had been corroded and lost most of their value, and kicked a cat's eye stone that looked quite lustrous and must be very expensive.

"It's this gem. Every time Master Bellator split the puppet's body open, I could always see this gem on the cross-section of her body. She never naturally moved the gem to other places. And when she created clones, I could also find that the largest clone of hers contained this gem. Therefore, I believe that this thing is the puppet's weakness."

Leona stepped forward and looked at the gem at Edvina's feet: "Hmm... although it's been corroded, it should still be quite valuable. The quality is excellent; in noble circles, many people would be vying for it."

“This thing might be a family heirloom or a spiritual artifact that the evil god puppet possessed before it had any consciousness, which is why it instinctively protected it,” Edvina continued. “Therefore, I tried to memorize the location of this gem, and then just now I tried to shatter it, and the evil god puppet indeed collapsed.”

"I see. You really have a strong ability to observe as an assassin." Abyss was very impressed.

If the Abyss were alone with him, he might have been able to spot this flaw, but he was still somewhat inferior to Edvina, a professional assassin, and might have noticed it a little later. After all, the Abyss relied on his excellent intellect and eyesight, while Edvina had undergone professional training, specifically enhancing her ability to attack weaknesses.

"This is just a basic requirement of our profession," Edvina said modestly. "Every dark elf assassin has this ability. I am only among the top few of all the patriarchs throughout history, but I would not call myself the best."

"What about Sophia's ability?" Leona asked curiously.

She still harbored some curiosity about this partner with whom she had not yet had a normal conversation. Although they were enemies now, she firmly believed that Abyss would have a way to restore Sophia to normal.

“Sophia is twice as strong as me,” Edvina said seriously. “And she’s not just strong in observation, but also in her methods. Only Miss Sheila can see her stealth; no one else, including myself as her partner, can detect her when she’s in stealth. Her attacks can cut through space and ignore all defenses.”

"Wow, that's amazing..." Sheila exclaimed softly from the side.

"So, she actually held back during our previous battle?" Abis noticed this. The battle with Sophia wasn't that intense; in fact, Sophia even fell for her trick. If she were truly as powerful as Edvina claimed and had fully unleashed her potential, the scene from that battle wouldn't have unfolded as it did.

“As you can see, although she has lost most of her consciousness, she does not seem to be completely controlled by the Lord of Delusion, and still retains some rationality.” Edvina nodded. “She may have used some method to prevent herself from being corrupted by the Lord of Delusion.”

Abyss is also increasingly looking forward to Sofia's next appearance.

At this moment, Agnes gently tugged at Abyss's sleeve and said, "Lens."

Abyss turned to look at Agnes and smiled, "Of course I remember."

Sheila became a little nervous upon hearing this, as it concerned her. She looked up at the Abyss and asked, "Mr. Abyss... how is the lens left to me by my ancestor? Can I still use it?"

“I’m sorry, but we still haven’t been able to find one of the pieces of that lens during the battle. It may have been evaporated by the evil god’s puppet in this battle or some previous one. The lens we can piece together now is incomplete,” Abyss said.

"Ah..." Sheila was a little frustrated.

“However, Rebecca said she’s still working on the repairs. We can go to Eternal Night City to see what she’s doing,” Abyss suddenly said.

"Don't speak so dramatically!" Leona protested from the side.

Chapter 172 Breaking Through and Establishing a New System

The group quickly entered Rebecca's laboratory.

This isn't a place where you're afraid of being disturbed. The reason is that there are already quite a few people in this laboratory. Since Rebecca first moved into Evernight City, she has gradually become one of the leaders of the necromancers here. Together with several academic luminaries, she leads all the necromancers in Evernight City to keep the research work in an orderly manner.

The alchemy laboratory has now been expanded several times its original size, with multiple rooms. Rebecca is currently working with several undead alchemists to conduct final tests on the fragments of Ergunda that Leona has just returned.

"Phew... How's it going? Has the melting point been determined yet?" Rebecca didn't immediately greet Abyss and his group as they entered the lab. Instead, she stared nervously at a strange-looking bottle of reagent being heated with magical flames, while asking a necromancer beside her who was operating the equipment.

Flora was also in the alchemy lab at the time. She was overjoyed to see the Abyss and their group return unharmed. She came forward to greet them, saying, "Ah, you've come! Rebecca is currently testing these fragments!"

"It's out... This thing has a melting point of 4,154 degrees Celsius, it's amazing." The necromancer who was operating the equipment answered Rebecca. "We succeeded, Ms. Rebecca."

“That’s excellent.” Rebecca smiled slightly. “I knew I couldn’t melt it with regular flames.”

Only then did she give orders to the several skeleton servants who were waiting nearby.

"You lot, maintain the flame at that temperature until all the Egundar fragments are melted, then hand them over to Master Halsey."

The skeleton servants had no self-awareness, so they naturally obeyed Rebecca's orders without question. They clicked their teeth twice in response and then immediately took over from the necromancer who had been operating the equipment.

“Rebecca, how’s the lens situation? Are you going to melt all the fragments?” Abyss asked.

All the necromancers present bowed respectfully to the Abyss.

“Abyss.” Rebecca turned to look at the Abyss who was walking towards her, smiled at him, and then looked at everyone who was walking towards her. “You’ve all worked hard. I’ve just finished testing the fragments of Egundar and I’m planning to melt them all down and try to make a new one.”

"Why melt them all down?" Leona asked curiously. "I've heard that some craftsmen can glue broken crystals back together so that the cracks are invisible."

“There are indeed craftsmen like that in the City of Eternal Night,” Rebecca laughed. “They can indeed make Ergunda appear flawless. But after some testing, we found that Ergunda’s lens must be recast to restore its original properties—some of the light-transmitting mechanisms inside are unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, and cannot be achieved by materials from our world. Once there’s a crack, whether it’s visible to the naked eye or not, it will affect the light transmission of this thing. In other words, if we try to restore it to its original state through ‘repair’ methods, I’m afraid we won’t be able to do so.”

"So you're planning to remake it?" Abyss understood Rebecca's meaning and nodded.

“Yes—Sheila, you can come and see it.” Rebecca patted Sheila’s shoulder, who was standing behind the Abyss, and smiled at her. “You look a little worried again. There’s no need to be so nervous. Let me tell you about our plan.”

The necromancers were still discussing various issues when they saw Rebecca leading Sheila toward the melting fragments of Egundar, and they all made way for her. Walking among this group of scholars dressed in uniform white lab coats, clearly top researchers, Sheila even felt a sense of the sacredness of knowledge, and her expression involuntarily became solemn.

“We can’t piece together the artifacts left by your ancestors. The missing piece, though not the largest, is in the middle and is crucial. Without it, Ergunda cannot be restored to its former state. So we’ve changed our approach. Why can’t we make it work without restoring it to its former state?”

At that moment, a skeleton waiter walked up from the side and placed a blueprint in front of Sheila.

The blueprint depicted a lens, covered with formulas and random numerical values ​​that Sheila couldn't understand at all. These were likely the various things Rebecca and her research team had tested in that short time, along with the lens's original shape.

“I don’t understand it, but I’m deeply moved,” Sheila said earnestly.

“I just wanted to show you what the original Oganda looked like. The formulas on it are just for convenience, so don’t feel pressured.” Rebecca smiled. “We plan to recreate a smaller version of the Oganda based on this shape. We discovered that the Oganda is a lens that is polished from a single piece of crystal, so we plan to melt it down, recrystallize it, and then polish it again.”

Sheila then understood the importance of the blueprint: "Now I understand."

“However, melting it requires rather special conditions—not only high temperature, but also high pressure, and the use of magic to simulate extreme gravity,” Rebecca said. “If it weren’t for the time it took us to find these conditions, you should already have the finished product by now.”

As the two were talking, the skeleton servants had already finished their work. They maintained the temperature and served the melted Eganda fragments to an elderly dwarf who had been waiting nearby.

"Hehehe, it's finally here, precious treasures!" The dwarf was very excited when he saw the molten substances, and he immediately began his work.