Do you want to become a servant of an evil god?
"Speaking of which... what exactly is this mysterious energy? Why is it so difficult to eliminate..."
Phil left while lost in thought. Suddenly, she felt something was wrong with the road ahead. She looked up and realized she didn't know where she was; she was surrounded by a meadow.
Phil pondered for a moment, "This seems to be... the lawn next to the temple? How did I get here?"
Just as I was about to turn back, a voice came from the side: "Aren't you going to sit for a bit before leaving?"
Familiar voice.
Phil looked up abruptly and saw a figure shrouded in a black robe sitting at a table outside the lawn, where people were resting.
The familiar black robe, the familiar hood, the familiar voice.
Phil's heart began to pound.
She was uneasy and cautiously approached step by step, stealing a glance at Ross with each step before moving on.
After getting close to the table, she even faced Ross's direction, and like a crab, she walked sideways to the stool and sat down, head down, like a little girl who had done something wrong.
"Hand out."
Ross's voice came through, and Phil, as if by reflex, stretched out her fair little hand.
Due to the long-term invasion of demonic energy and the influence of divine power, her skin was bloodless and very pale.
She whispered cautiously, "Um, Lord Luo... I haven't allowed any pollution to corrupt my body recently; everything is under control..."
"Well done."
Phil's lips curled up slightly; she didn't even know why she felt a little happy.
"but……"
The happiness is gone.
"You've caught something new these past few days."
Phil paused, "You mean the mysterious power extracted from Enarse?"
Ross remained silent, maintaining his aloof demeanor, and began the treatment immediately.
When Celia was treating Enars, Ross instructed Celia to circulate the divine power from the divine fragment within her body and fuse it with holy magic. The purpose of this was not to treat Enars, but rather to treat Phil now.
Ross mobilized the divine power remaining in Celia's body, sending it into Phil's body to draw upon the divine power invading Phil's body, absorbing it and integrating it into that trace of divine power.
Ross's control of that wisp of divine power acted like a magnet, attracting all the divine power that had invaded Phil's body along the way. Only after confirming that all the remaining divine power had been absorbed did he draw out that divine power, which then appeared at his fingertips.
Ross flicked his finger, and the divine power dissipated into the air.
He then stared at Phil until she lowered her head, before saying calmly, "Do you know the side effects of this stuff before you keep inhaling it?"
"I don't know," Phil said honestly.
"It will absorb your magic and grow stronger, slowly replacing your magic. You can control it, and it will be a power stronger than magic, but you cannot control it. It is destined to grow stronger and then tear your body apart."
Phil lowered his head and whispered, "Oh..."
Ross's voice suddenly turned stern: "Don't absorb unfamiliar powers indiscriminately in the future, do you hear me?"
Phil was startled, and his hand involuntarily trembled.
"I know, I know!"
"very good."
Ross nodded in satisfaction, his figure slowly fading away as he used spatial magic to leave, leaving Phil sitting there, staring blankly at the empty space opposite him.
I wrote 15,000 words in a row, it feels so good!
Chapter 286 Why is Miss Celia happy?
The next few days were peaceful for Celia and the other candidates for sainthood, as they worked hard every day to be the first to ascend the steps.
Celia, on the other hand, spent most of her time on the coursework that Ross required.
While she doesn't possess Benovia's exceptional memory, her progress is still quite good thanks to the effects of magic.
She has been paying a little more attention to the situation at get off work these past few days.
As Mill returned to school on the third day, in extremely poor mental condition, the class discussion turned to private conversations. Some sympathized with him, some mocked him, and some gloated.
The murder of his brother and the serious injury to his father would leave anyone feeling hopeless.
If Mil were older, or at least at the third rank, he probably wouldn't be so lost... he might even be laughing out loud.
But now, as a nobleman in Shining City, his powerful backer has fallen, and the pressure from all sides makes it impossible for him to smile.
Especially those illegitimate children of fathers, they started to get restless.
Celia did not react to this.
As Benovia said, kindness is reserved for the good; to be kind to the wicked is to be wicked to the good.
Norsen deserved his fate, and so did his father. If his magic hadn't been drained, he probably would have taught Benovia a lesson and then waited for Enarse to be discharged from the temple before secretly killing her.
Now, if they dare to make a move, someone will use it as an excuse to attack them.
Nevertheless, Celia was still a little worried about Enars' safety. Benovia noticed her concern and told her that the nanny taking care of Enars was a third-tier mage, so there was nothing to worry about, which put Celia at ease.
This continued peacefully until the second week, the last week before the deadline Ross had set for Celia, when Enarse was discharged from the hospital and returned to school.
Originally, this wasn't a big deal. After Aina's accident, the school gave her a leave of absence to recuperate. Although no one knew what had happened to her, they knew she was sick.
As a student who hadn't integrated into other groups in the class, Aina's return didn't cause much of a stir; at most, a few of her close friends surrounded her and asked her all sorts of questions.
Until Mil stopped Enarse and, in front of the whole class, excitedly shouted:
"Ainars, why didn't you become a normal person? Tell me quickly, how did you recover?"
Seeing that Mil was stopping her instead of Celia for the first time, Enarse was a little confused. "What do you mean by becoming a normal person? What do you mean by recovering? Why do I need to become a normal person?"
After losing her divine power, Ainars fell into a coma. She was only awakened when Celia healed her and restored her magic and soul. She only felt that her magic was depleted and she urgently needed to meditate to recover. She did not know that during her coma, she had become an ordinary person.
So she was completely baffled by Mir's question.
Mir was extremely agitated at this moment. If Ainars could recover, then wouldn't his father be able to as well?
Upon hearing Enarse's words, he couldn't help but step forward, wanting to grab her.
A staff was placed in front of him and Enarse. Celia said coldly, "Mir, don't lay a hand on girls."
“Celia…I’m sorry, Celia, I need to get what I want from Enars right now. I’ll leave once she tells me and I won’t bother her.”
Enarse frowned and said with disgust, "I don't know what you want, but I don't know anything. Asking me is useless. If you want to cause me trouble, I'm ready anytime."
After saying that, Enarse left.
It seems that after dealing with Norsen, her personality became cold.
It gives the feeling of indifference towards the whole world.
Celia couldn't help but recall that in the beginning, Enarse was a delicate girl who was breathless even when running, and she was also a little timid.
Seeing that Enarse had left, Celia also left.
But she knew that Mir wouldn't give up so easily.
"Luckily I disguised myself at the time, otherwise who knows if it would have been exposed in the end." Celia was very relieved.
Sure enough, not long after, while Celia was away, Mir stopped Ainars again. If the school's enforcement team hadn't arrived in time, they would have had a life-or-death duel. Ainars's attacks were all aimed at killing, and Mir, as a second-tier mage, also got angry.
The two were then taken to Elena's office by the enforcement team, after which a school-wide announcement was made.
Upon hearing the school's announcement, Celia found Enarse. "Enarse, calm down. Fighting is forbidden in school. If you want to compete, you have to go to the dueling arena."
"Norsen's brother is also a villain. He's lucky I didn't kill him. I don't want to say anything to him."
Celia said helplessly, "If you don't want to talk to him, just ignore him, just like I've always done before."
Enarse paused for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
Celia felt that she probably hadn't listened to a word she said.
So, during her evening meditation, she found Benovia and told her what had happened.
Benovia laughed and said, "Have Ainars tell that I invited him. If he wants to know, he can come to me, if he has the guts."
Celia nodded and sighed, "Benovia seems to be an even more powerful noble family than the Mil family."
Benovia smiled slightly and said nothing.
Celia wasn't interested in other people's backgrounds. After a brief sigh, she stopped asking questions. Then, she relayed Benovia's words to Enarse, who replied with "Received."
But not long after, Enarse sent another message: "Could you introduce me to Miss Benovia?"
“Ainars wants to see you,” Celia said.
Benovia nodded. "Then let her come to the park on the west side of the school. I'll wait for her there. You come too."
Celia paused for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
Under Doris's clenched-teeth gaze, the two left together and sat down in a small park outside the Forbidden Forest, where most students rested and strolled, to wait for Enarse.
Not long after, Ainars came over and sat down next to the two of them.
Enarse looked at Benovia and went straight to the point: "Miss Benovia, I want to know who the god who guided you to retrieve the Puppet Heart is...? Can you tell me?"
Benovia smiled faintly. "I don't know the name of that deity, Miss Enarse. But you don't need to be so eager to find Him. You may also be one of His chosen ones. Just do your duty, stay true to yourself, don't seek death, don't cause trouble, and cultivate diligently. He will give you new revelation. Just keep a devout heart and pray to Him every day."
Enarse fell into deep thought.
Knowing the situation, Celia watched silently, thinking to herself, "Lord Ross, you're about to gain another devout follower."
Ross smiled slightly, "Perhaps it's piety, but the divine contract is too low, only three times the height of Jonathan, making him unsuitable as a candidate for descent."
"That's it."
Celia felt a small surge of joy...
Thank you to reader 20240429103811482 for feeding Celia!
The ending of this chapter was a bit of a struggle...
Chapter 287 Attempting to Learn Spells Beyond One's Level
At the suggestion of Celia and Benovia, Enarse reluctantly told Mir about Benovia asking the priest to treat her.
With Benovia deliberately revealing the information, and knowing that Mir's father was seriously injured at Benovia's place, Mir indeed stopped going to see Enarse in the following days.
She didn't even look for Celia anymore, and became quiet and withdrawn all day. She stopped hanging out with her old friends, and like Enarse, she left right after class and was absent-minded during class.
With no one to disturb her, Celia was naturally very happy and smoothly completed the learning and memory enhancement of all second-year subjects within the time limit requested by Ross.
She breathed a sigh of relief after successfully completing her studies, working through last year's second-grade test, and getting a high score.
The girl looked at Ross's illusory figure: "Lord Ross, what should we do next?"
Ross said, "Apply to the school to take the exams earlier. Apart from morning and evening meditation, you don't have to attend classes at other times. Use this time to improve yourself."
He summoned Celia's puppet, manipulated it, took out a piece of paper, and wrote down this month's improvement plan on it.
"During morning and evening meditation, let loose and absorb as much as you can. After meditation, immediately return to the dormitory for a bath, then go out to practice the spells you practiced during the holidays, and then start trying to learn third-tier spells."
Ross took out another piece of paper and wrote a few words.
"This is a third-tier spell I'm trying to learn: Ice Shield."
"Ice Shield..."
Celia quickly recalled her knowledge of the Ice Shield spell.
"This spell seems to be an upgraded version of the Ice Wall. By condensing the ice wall into a thin ice shield, it is more flexible, has stronger defense, and can even be transformed into an ice cage..."
Ross nodded: "Yes, an upgraded version of the Ice Wall, which can be used for both offense and defense. Its defensive performance completely surpasses the Ice Wall you use with the Mithril Net. Try learning it now, and once you successfully reach the third tier, you can integrate the Mithril Net into the Ice Shield spell to form an even stronger defense."
"Yes, you can also fuse the advanced spell of Forest Silk, the third-tier nature spell [Withered Silk], to make the ice shield more resilient and impact-resistant, with defensive power no less than the [Bearing Wall] combination skill that you and Elena developed."
Celia's eyes lit up. "I want to learn this!"
The defensive capabilities of load-bearing walls are undeniable.
After all, this is constructed from Earth Shield, the strongest defensive spell among the third-tier spells, and it also incorporates water, ice, and nature spells. It's impossible for one person to learn so many spells.
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