Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

"Finding the traitor is a hassle, but we already have a preliminary investigation direction, and I'm sure we'll get results soon," Elsa said, sighing helplessly. "It would be much better if I could use 'Magic Vision' as well."

Magic vision sounds simple and its function is very intuitive, but it is actually a very complex magic and a mysterious branch of ritual magic. It cannot be achieved without precise magic operation skills and sufficient magic power as a backing - even Sophia, a witch, is completely unable to use it. So far, Elsa has only seen Tricia master this magic, which shows how difficult it is.

There is no magic specifically used for disguise in this world, unless using illusion and hypnosis, but these two kinds of magic are not reliable in themselves, so directly covering and changing one's own characteristics is the simplest and easiest way.

For example, Tricia’s iconic black hair - in the Linthesius Empire, black hair is actually a very rare hair color, and few people would deliberately dye their hair black.

Tricia even changed into a simple hooded coat and leather half-body armor, and then applied a light layer of powder on her pretty and elegant cheeks, making her look much more stern and sharp. Although her face was still beautiful and not the kind of woman you would see everywhere, she couldn't tell what she originally looked like.

Even Elsa felt amazed by this set of operations.

“I didn’t expect Tricia to be so good at makeup. She looks like a completely different person.”

Elsa smiled as she looked at Tricia now. Her flaxen hair was hidden under a hood, and her body was wrapped in leather armor and coats. Although Tricia's facial features were still beautiful, no one would think she was the Mystic Sage herself when she walked on the street.

Isn't this a kind of makeup technique?

"I learned this when I was traveling around the continent... It saved me from a lot of trouble. Back then, many people thought my black hair was a bad omen."

Talking about the past events as if nothing had happened, Tricia used magic to take a full-body look at herself. After confirming that everything was correct, she took out a set of short bow and quiver that looked very low-quality and hung them around her waist, which made her look more like an adventurer that could be found anywhere.

"How about it, does it look good like this?"

"Yeah, of course." Elsa smiled.

"Hehe," Tricia laughed, covering her mouth with her hands. She lowered her eyes and looked away. "There must be an enemy spy inside the Magician Corps. Maybe he's been lurking there for a long time. So I'd better not show up directly to avoid alerting the enemy."

That's what Tricia's costume change is all about.

It is not difficult to guess that there are spies left by the enemy in the Magician Corps. In fact, Hannah has already sent people to track down the magicians who disappeared in the attack. The Knights, the Church, and the Lord's Mansion are also conducting strict self-inspections, but no results have been obtained yet.

"Let's go into town," Tricia said.

Due to the existence of the defensive magic circle, Elsa naturally cannot fly into the city from the air, so she has to go through the city gate.

The city gates need to pass through checkpoints for inspection.

……

Because the Magician Corps was attacked, the inspection at the city gate has become very strict, but Elsa and Tricia had no trouble entering the city.

Elsa's identity did not need to be checked, and as for Tricia... Elsa thought Tricia would fabricate an identity to sneak in, but Tricia actually walked in openly in front of so many people without being checked at all - and it seemed that no one except Elsa saw her, and no one stopped her.

Elsa and Tricia walked towards the central city.

"How did you do that? Invisibility magic?"

Aisha asked curiously.

Elsa still knows very little about magic.

"You can really see me."

"Ah."

Tricia blinked meaningfully, then smiled, as if she was not surprised that Aisha could see her.

"It's true that I used invisibility, but it wasn't entirely invisibility. I also used illusion. While using invisibility, I also used illusion to block their perception of me."

Tricia explained, while covering the process of constructing the magic circle of the illusion for Elsa - and all this was ignored by the passers-by around them.

"The essence of invisibility magic is to distort light to deceive the human eye. However, at close range, even subtle changes in light can be easily detected by a careful eye. Furthermore, invisibility cannot block one's own breath or sound. Casting invisibility in a crowded place also carries the risk of being bumped into and exposed. Therefore, generally speaking, in a situation like just now, using illusion is safer—of course, using both together is the safest approach."

After all, there were a lot of people crowded together at the inspection checkpoints before entering the city.

"However, illusion has obvious shortcomings. Due to its limited range, it can't fool scouts with Eagle Eye, while invisibility can. Furthermore, illusion itself requires a high level of mental strength from the caster, and it's useless against those with strong mental strength. For example, Elsa, my illusion can't fool you. Therefore, many people think that illusion has a high barrier to entry. However, magic itself is not superior or inferior. Illusion and invisibility each have their advantages and disadvantages. What an excellent magician needs to do is to choose the most appropriate magic at the right time, or to use magic in combination to maximize the magic."

Tricia explained as if it was a matter of course, nodded seriously, and smiled at Aisha with a sidelong glance.

Perhaps for Tricia, this was not knowledge and skills worth bragging about, but Elsa knew that any magic involving mental manipulation was almost always higher-level magic, and was not as simple as Tricia had made light of it.

Anyway, when Elsa saw the magic circle, she knew that it would be difficult to control it with her current magic power.

"But don't worry. The inspection at the city gate isn't something you can easily pass with illusions. There are several detection arrays there, but they were originally written by me, so they're useless to me. As long as you know their complete structure, you can use reversal magic to offset the detection - but there are only a handful of people who can do that."

Moreover, one must know the structure of each magic array at the same time, which makes it difficult to take shortcuts.

Perhaps only Grace's subconscious hypnosis method could escape the level's detection? But even so, Grace still couldn't enter the fortress.

But if you think about it this way...

"If that's the case, how did those vampires get into the city?"

"The black dead branches can disrupt or even destroy magic circuits," Tricia said slowly. "And according to Alman, they have an insider inside the fortress. That insider is in a very high position and has access to a lot of confidential information. I suspect that this insider is involved in not only the vampire attacks, but also this time. The only question is what his purpose this time is."

Last time, it was to block reinforcements and successfully revive the demon general. What was the purpose this time? Just to attack? To cause chaos?

Aisha didn't think someone who hid so deeply would do such a thing without any purpose.

"let's go."

She said.

At the same time, in a dark, enclosed room, an elderly man frowned and closed his eyes in thought.

His expression became increasingly gloomy.

"I've barely completed the first step... Humph, Elsa Faris is indeed the biggest obstacle."

The old man stood up and paced around the room, stroking his beard.

He had thought the person he feared most was the sage Patriculosia Celisilda.

But he missed one person: Aisha Faris.

The strength of the nun named Aisha Faris really exceeded his expectations. Even though he had overestimated Aisha's power more than once, common sense says that a person always has a limit, right?

Sophia Trauns was likely the one who had uncovered the clues about the Undead Golem, and he wanted to kill her, either for his plan or as revenge.

He deliberately chose to attack Sophia Trawins when Elsa Faris was in the Lord's Mansion and selecting the Holy Nun. He thought that Elsa would definitely not be able to arrive in time at this point, but the fact made him feel uneasy.

Not only did Elsa arrive in time, she also used the forbidden spell of holy light to heal more than half of the magicians who should have been killed or injured.

This greatly interfered with his plans.

"But it doesn't matter. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. It's not too late to recognize Elsa Faris's strength now. She's just a warrior who only knows how to use force. Just don't confront her head-on."

For example, right now, my informant reported that Aisha Faris had just left the fortress. In other words, with her away, now was the perfect opportunity to continue with the plan...

At this time, footsteps were heard from outside.

"Master, you asked me to monitor the city gates, and I noticed that Elsa Faris has returned."

"what?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, and his hands shook so much that he almost tore his beard off.

So soon? Didn't she just leave not long ago?

Forget it, there's no point in dwelling on this. That girl is a nuisance. I won't be able to defeat her if I confront her head-on. I can only be careful.

Anyway, the focus is not on her, but on the magic circle underground.

Because of the incident with the vampires, entry and exit to the fortress became very strict - and he was supposed to stay in the city and wait for the demon general to attack the city as an insider. He even prepared means to destroy the fortress's defense formation. In the end, the demon general died before leaving the underground palace, and the plan failed. The entry and exit inspection of the fortress became strict, and he was unable to leave.

Now he just wanted to escape from this city, the sooner the better. Otherwise, once Shibern found out about him through the clues provided by the vampires, he would really have nowhere to go. Besides, the Sage was also a big trouble. Because of the Sage's intimidation, he didn't even dare to show his head, for fear that the Sage would see through him.

So he prepared two plans.

One of them is to restart the plan to destroy the fortress's magic circle - the fortress's magic circle will block the launch and direction of unauthorized space magic, so if you want to leave the fortress, you must destroy the fortress's magic circle and lift the blockade of space magic. At that time, he can leave the fortress through the teleportation array that has been built long ago.

The second is to usurp the teleportation array of the Lord's Mansion, tamper with the destination, and use the teleportation array of the Lord's Mansion that has been approved by the formation to leave the fortress.

Therefore, he wanted to kill those magicians -

Firstly, if the formation was damaged, the magicians would definitely try their best to repair it quickly. Even if they could buy a little time, that short time would not be enough to locate the space magic, and I'm afraid even the pre-activation would not be completed. Therefore, he could only kill those magicians to completely destroy the fortress formation.

Secondly, the teleportation array is also maintained by the magicians. If they don't die, even if the teleportation array is usurped, it will be discovered quickly and the plan will easily go wrong.

As a result, this goal was not achieved because of the appearance of Elsa.

"Hmph, you're lucky."

The man snorted coldly.

"But next time, you're all dead—I want to leave, I want to live, and no one can stop me!"

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239. Vivian is my friend

Elsa and Tricia came to the headquarters of the Magicians' Corps. Along the way, no one noticed Tricia's presence and just thought that Elsa came back to check.

No one knew that Elsa had gone to Weilin Town.

Before leaving, Elsa asked Hannah to seal off the entire underground area of ​​the Magicians' Corps. Now Hannah and the investigation team are looking for other clues in the base. Sophia copied down the Abyss Runes and continued to be responsible for studying the functions of the Abyss Runes, while Vivian became a temporary wizard consultant - although Vivian was not good at talking, but as a genuine great magician, she had surpassed most of the people in the Magicians' Corps.

Seeing Aisha, Vivian immediately ran over.

"Elsa——"

"Sorry for leaving you alone without my permission."

Elsa touched Vivian's head, and her fingertips brushed across the corner of Vivian's mouth, causing Vivian to blush.

"Well, don't worry about my..."

Although she said this, Vivian still looked very happy.

"..."

Tricia just stood aside and watched.

Hannah also came over. She looked behind Elsa and saw no one else.

"Lady Faris, you are back."

Elsa glanced at Tricia.

Tricia was standing next to Elsa, but no one here noticed her presence. Tricia was observing something around her. Her eyes stayed on Sophia for a moment, then fell on Vivian, and she raised her eyebrows slightly.

Aisha glanced at Tricia for a moment longer before looking away.

After a brief greeting, Elsa got down to business. "I just went to ask a friend for help. I left the white sapling with her temporarily. She'll investigate its origins and uses for us. Is that okay?"

Hannah naturally wouldn't object to Elsa. She had seen the strange sapling with her own eyes and knew that if she kept it in her hands to investigate, there would most likely be no results. Since Elsa was willing to help find someone to investigate, she was naturally willing to do so - in short, Elsa was absolutely trustworthy.

Hannah said, "Of course it doesn't matter, but it's up to Lady Faris to arrange."

"Well, I'll tell you when there's a result." Elsa didn't say anything more and continued to ask, "Has the investigation made any progress while I was away?"

"I'm sorry, we haven't found any specific clues yet, but our investigation team has teamed up with the Church Knights to capture a missing member of the magician group. As expected, he is indeed a dead puppet. After we caught him, he immediately committed suicide -"

At this point, Hannah shook her head and sighed sadly.

"He's already a dead puppet, and he's been dead for quite some time. I'm afraid the other people who are missing like him are also..."

Hannah didn't say anything else, but the fact was already clear. The time when those people "left" was too coincidental. It was obvious that they had already become puppets of the enemy.

Hannah had been in the Knights Templar before. The Knights Templar and the Magicians Templar had a very good relationship. They were each other's very reliable comrades. The incident with the Magicians Templar was like a former friend of hers having met with misfortune, which made her feel upset.

Elsa could also see what Hannah was feeling.

"Hannah, we will make that guy pay the price. He has nowhere to escape."

Hannah looked at Elsa and nodded seriously.

"Well, I will also do my best to track him down and find him out."

"Any news from Sir Hibourne?"

"Well, the Knights and the Lord's House are also conducting self-inspections. Like the Magicians, they also have missing people."

"How many people are missing?"

"So far, there are forty-one, twenty-two of whom are concentrated within the Magician Corps."

The entire magician group only has a few hundred people, twenty-two people, plus the attackers and the two people who were caught by Grace, this number is already quite a lot.

Hannah continued, "These missing people didn't just vanish into thin air. No matter who they were, someone must have seen them. We've already sent people to track down their whereabouts. Lady Faris, please rest assured. As long as they're still within the fortress, we'll definitely track them down."

After all, she was Sibern's right-hand man, and Hannah's work ability was worthy of recognition, so Aisha didn't ask any more questions.

"Then I'll leave this place to you. I'll go check underground. I still have some things to confirm."