Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

really?

Her mind was filled with random thoughts, but Elsa didn't pay attention to Vivian's slightly blushing expression. She just slowly felt the faint familiar smell in the air.

"Not this way."

Aisha pulled Vivian around and turned around, choosing a new direction to move forward.

"Not this way either."

The smell seemed to be spreading, and it was not easy to find the direction without trying several times - but it was not too troublesome for Elsa.

"Here it is."

Elsa and Vivian stopped in front of a wall.

"Here? What's here?"

Vivian stared at the wall. It was plain and unremarkable, without even a rune on it. It was bare.

Elsa thought for a moment, then stretched out her hand, pressed her fingers against the wall tiles, and began to vibrate at an extremely high speed. Under Vivian's stunned gaze, Elsa's four fingers slid into the wall tiles smoothly - just like some kind of cutting machine, Elsa's fingers left a smooth incision on the wall tiles.

Dust fell, and with a crisp sound, Elsa dragged out a wall brick and threw it on the ground.

Elsa sniffed, frowned slightly, and blocked Vivian behind her.

"Elsa?"

"—It's miasma."

As she spoke, Elsa pushed her hand forward, and the water shield suddenly gathered from all sides with Elsa as the center. When it passed by Vivian, it didn't even wet Vivian's hair, but immediately formed a transparent film to separate Elsa and Vivian.

"Vivian, go tell Hannah, there's a problem here."

"oh oh!"

Vivian didn't ask any more questions and turned to run in the direction they came from. Elsa frowned slightly and stared at the place where a brick was missing.

——This is clearly below the regiment’s base, so why is there miasma?

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230. What is behind the wall?

In fact, Vivian had never smelled anything special - not only her, but also Sophia, who was very sensitive to magic, did not notice anything unusual, and neither did the other people in the investigation team.

But Vivian knew that if Aisha said there was, then it must be there.

So when the miasma appeared, Vivian just thought "as expected" and was not surprised at all. It was Hannah who was surprised.

"miasma??"

Hannah repeated it subconsciously, and then quickly realized something.

"Sorry, I'm being rude... I just find it hard to believe..."

"Then... shall I take you there?"

"Good work."

Led by Vivian, Hannah quickly reached Elsa. Sure enough, wisps of miasma seeped out from behind the dismantled bricks. Elsa had already demolished half of the wall—behind the bricks was still bricks, and so far, nothing special seemed to exist.

"Lady Faris, how did you find this place? I've already investigated this area several times, but I didn't even notice it..."

"Smell—I'm a little sensitive to smells."

"But... this is magic element..."

"It's not entirely magic essence, it has the smell of earth veins."

"what?"

Hannah was a little confused.

Do magic essence and ley lines have a smell? If you come into contact with such things without permission, it will undoubtedly cause harm to your body... But seeing Elsa standing there nonchalantly, Hannah swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

"Thank you, Lady Faris, for controlling these miasma."

At this time, Renee also ran over.

"Sir, do we need to ask the church to send someone over to carry out the purification?"

"No need," Aisha said, "If you need purification, let me do it, but before that I want to investigate what's going on here."

Hannah was stunned again.

Although she didn't know where the miasma came from, judging from the concentration of miasma she had roughly observed, the total amount of miasma was quite large, and purifying it would certainly be difficult. However, Aisha...

Oh, it seems that Elsa can cast the forbidden holy light spell on her own. Hannah feels that she has no doubts.

"The miasma seems to be seeping from behind here, but I didn't tear down the entire wall because it seemed like it would destroy the magic circuit here. That's why I called you over here. You should know more about this than I do."

Aisha tapped her toes and said.

Hannah thought Elsa was too modest, but at this moment she didn't have the luxury of being polite to Elsa. She ran to Elsa with a serious look in her eyes, squatted down, and stared at the wall tiles with her breath held.

After a rough inspection, I still couldn't figure out what it was - miasma is a thing that is both common and uncommon. It is common because miasma can be produced wherever magic energy accumulates, and it is uncommon because miasma should not be produced in places where people live.

Human activities would stir up the miasma, even for those who had not learned magic. People's soul power, life force, and the small amount of natural magic power in their bodies gathered in a city, constantly changing and reorganizing. In a place like a city, even if you dug more than ten meters down, it would be impossible to find the magic elements that deposited into miasma.

What's more, this is within the area affected by the underground magic circle.

Even if there is a problem with the magic circle here, then is there also a problem with the three major magic circles in this city?

"That shouldn't be the case... Miasma shouldn't be generated under the control of the earth vein sealing array..."

Hannah stroked her chin and stared at the wall in front of her in confusion. Elsa also seemed to be thinking about something.

“Perhaps this place has also been tampered with?”

Vivian suddenly blurted out something, causing both Hannah and Aisha to look over, and she quickly shrank her neck.

"I mean... although it's presented as an architectural form, I see that many of the patterns and runes on the wall are magical confinement spells. This... is actually the background pattern of a magic circle, right? Since the runes can be tampered with, the magic circle itself may also be tampered with... right?"

"It's possible."

Elsa nodded, and Vivian immediately smiled.

Hannah couldn't be as relaxed as Elsa and Vivian. She frowned solemnly and took a deep breath.

"Renee, blueprints."

"it's here!"

It has to be said that Hannah's investigation team does have considerable power. They even obtained architectural drawings from more than 40 years ago - these are top-secret files kept in the lord's mansion.

"Isn't it hard to tell?"

Renee came over and said.

Hannah stared at the blueprint silently. Indeed, the architectural structure here was not very simple, and the array pattern was not symmetrical. When you were in it and had no reliable reference, it was difficult to quickly identify the direction, not to mention quickly understanding the array pattern layout on the blueprint - and Hannah was not a magician.

"Renee, do you understand?"

Renee shook her head.

She's not a magician either.

Hannah looked at Elsa for help, but Elsa looked at Vivian instead.

"Vivian, do you understand?"

Aisha asked, and Vivian nodded and tapped lightly on the drawing.

"it's here."

"Thank you."

Hannah didn't ask any more questions. Her eyes fell on the place where Vivian pointed, then she raised her head and looked around to confirm that it was correct.

“There should be another part after this.”

"Then why is it closed? It doesn't look like it was closed recently. Did they make any changes along the way?"

Aisha asked.

After all, magic theory is constantly evolving, and it's possible to modify the magic circle when necessary.

Hannah shook her head, her brow furrowed.

Every step of the way had exceeded her expectations. These elaborate magic arrays were the very foundation of the fortress's existence. Who was destroying them? This was a major event that was eroding the fortress's very foundation.

After receiving Hannah's reply, Elsa kicked the wall without saying anything. At the same time, the azure water isolated the entire area. With a bang, a visible air wave spread out from Elsa to the surroundings. The entire wall suddenly exploded, and the surging miasma rushed directly towards Elsa.

"Elsa..."

"I am fine."

Elsa directly cast a small purification spell, the holy light illuminated the area, and the miasma dissipated in an instant. Elsa pushed the water film to suppress the raised dust, and walked straight forward.

Vivian hurried to follow, and Hannah and Renee swallowed their throats - the magic explosion that could blow up the entire regiment's base failed to destroy this place, and Elsa kicked it open?

Some things cannot be thought about too deeply, so Hannah and Renee quickly put away the drawings and followed. Then they heard another loud noise, accompanied by magical light.

It turns out that there is more than one wall inside, and the outer wall covers the inner side. Nothing can be seen from the outside, but inside there are layers of dense runes engraved.

"This is a magic blocking rune..."

Vivian said - among the people present, only Vivian was knowledgeable in magic. Although Elsa mastered a lot of magic, she didn't know the principles behind it. As a great magician, Vivian acted as a temporary consultant.

Hannah glanced around. Elsa used water magic to stop the spread of the miasma, but everyone could see that the miasma was getting thicker.

"It seems that these runes are blocking the miasma in the back."

"There must be something behind this."

Elsa continued to move forward, and kicked again, which made Hannah and Renee tremble with fear. They walked forward for a distance until a dark gap appeared on the ground - the gap was as big as a person.

Elsa stopped, and Hannah and Renee came over.

"here it is……"

"There is no road ahead."

Hannah glanced at the blueprint, but this was the end. She looked down at the gap in front of her and frowned.

She couldn't see anything.

However, Elsa squinted her eyes - she saw that in the depths of the gap, a dark branch was emitting an evil aura - this aura was very familiar to Elsa, it was the same black dead branch that had appeared many times since the revival of the demon general.

But what I saw before me was not a dead branch.

Instead, it was a plump black branch, and even had buds sprouting out of it - the buds were also black.

Elsa sniffed, and the scent of the earth veins in the air became stronger.

But this is not a ley line.

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231. White Tree

"The array pattern has been changed. The magic array here has lost its original function."

“I don’t know what this thing is.”

The gap in the ground was as wide as a person, and below the gap was pitch black. Hannah and the others could not see anything. Even when Vivian used magic to enhance her vision, she still could not see clearly - it was not known whether it was some kind of mist produced by the alternation of miasma and magic elements that obscured the view, or if there was something blocking Vivian's exploration.

"Although I can't see clearly, I can feel the flow of miasma and magic..."

Vivian said.

Just as Vivian was about to use magic to cover up her perception, Aisha stopped her.

"Don't touch it, that's a black branch—put away your magic."

The black branches are very strange. They will erode the magic power of those who come into contact with them. Tricia has already verified this. Even magicians of Tricia's level must treat this with caution. Elsa doesn't want Vivian to take risks.

"Huh? Another black branch? Why is it here..."

Vivian, Hannah and Buck couldn't see what was underneath, but they believed what Elsa said.