The defeated saint is also on the way to tame the evil god today

"I always carry it with me," Alice nodded. "Come on."

Alice and Aurora stood beside Xingmo, the three of them standing back to back, facing three directions, confirming the center of the altar.

At this time, the criminal began to roar, and little flames lit up in the corridor, accompanied by the crying of women and children and the screams of men.

Xingmo gathered his spirit, closed his eyes, and spread his spirituality.

She gradually couldn't hear the sound of rain around her, and everything around her turned into darkness, leaving her alone.

Then, she drew her wand, raised it above her head, and waved it downwards—

"call--"

Where she passed, the wind died down and the raindrops hung in the air, as if hitting a wall.

Alice and Aurora waved their wands simultaneously, and three gusts of spiritual wind blew past, creating a closed triangle.

At the same time, Alice took out a small bottle and sprinkled the silver powder inside into the air.

The powders began to crackle and flash when they came into contact with the air, and then turned into misty white smoke, swirling around the center of the altar.

Aurora stepped out of the center of the altar and circled it clockwise, placing three candles on the ground along the way.

Then she returned to the center of the altar, smiled, closed her eyes and waited.

This is a simple ritual magic that aims to extract a certain amount of spiritual power from nature to strengthen the soul, so as to withstand the burden placed on the soul by playing high-string magic.

Normally, this load is borne by all those performing the ritual together, but in order to test whether one can be promoted, all the loads of this ritual's magic will be concentrated on Xingmo.

In ancient times when the theory of string playing was not fully developed, people often held ceremonies in units of ten to pray for the blessings of nature.

According to legend, there have even been cases in history of ritual magic involving hundreds of people.

Of course, we don’t actually need that many people, what we need are powerful wizards.

"call..."

Xing Mo took a deep breath, and her spirituality spread in the windless altar, touching the three candles.

Then, waving her wand, she struck the first chord—

"call--"

When the black string light came on, three candles suddenly emitted blue flames and burned in the altar.

The white smoke curling around the altar began to converge towards the three candles, forming three vortexes.

Then, Xing Mo spoke in a low voice:

"I pray to you, 'Star Sea Goddess'."

"You are the master of the starry sky, the supreme gold, and the eyes that cover the night sky."

"You are the guardian, the goddess of peace and sleep, the lamplighter of the golden dawn."

"I pray that you will gather the power of nature, gather the power of the spirit, and turn your gaze into my cloak—"

After Xing Mo finished speaking, he felt the three candles rapidly emitting spiritual energy, and powerful forces immediately gathered at the center of the altar.

Now is the time... Xingmo took a deep breath and played quickly -

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-"

The crisscrossing strings lit up one by one, and together with the original one, they read "shadow, shadow, fire, fire, ice, ice".

The moment the black, blue, and red colors intertwined, Xing Mo felt that all the spiritual energy in his body was rapidly draining away, and his head began to ache uncontrollably.

"Gu..."

Even with the help of the ritual, Xingmo almost fainted after playing the strings beyond his ability to bear at one time.

At this moment, she felt two other forces coming from the altar at her feet - the spiritual power of Alice and Aurora.

With the help of those spiritual powers, Xing Mo regained consciousness and immediately stirred his magic wand in the air -

"Rumble--"

The gushing spiritual power turned into a vortex, and among the colorful colors, illusory gravitational tentacles rolled out.

Xing Mo looked towards the apartment building, and through her gray vision, she saw the crazy wizard—

"Six-string magic, 'Soul Cage'!"

Xing Mo waved his wand, and in an instant, illusory tentacles swept across the spirit world and locked the mad wizard tightly.

The wizard's spiritual power erupted with a strong resistance, and the force like a volcanic eruption almost tore the cage apart, but it was quickly swallowed up by the tentacles.

Xing Mo could feel him trembling and in disbelief - he never dreamed that what was waiting for him was a six-string magic, a destructive magic that directly acted on the soul level.

"Aaaaaaaaaa!!!"

The screams of the spirit were heard, Xingmo closed his eyes and waved his wand again -

"Shhh-"

The spiritual blade tore through the mad wizard's mind, and the tentacles of gravity surged into his body, pulling his soul out.

At the same time, in the material plane, a family of three bound by ropes stared blankly at the wizard who was waving his wand a second ago and suddenly became stiff, then fell to his knees and lowered his head.

He died without even seeing his enemies.

"..."

At this time, Xingmo's spiritual power had been completely exhausted. She waved her wand, and the gravitational tentacles crushed the mad wizard's soul into a white light spot, and then pulled it towards Xingmo.

Seeing this, Aurora jumped out of the altar, waved her wand, and imprisoned the light spot in the air.

Xing Mo wanted to call on the detectives to rush in to protect the hostages, but before she could open her mouth, she fell backwards softly, her whole body as soft as cotton.

"The suspect has been killed and the hostage is confirmed to be safe!" Xing Mo heard Alice's shouting, and then she was supported by someone.

Detectives led by Sheriff Laura rushed into the apartment building, and the rest maintained a cordon nearby to prevent anyone from escaping.

The wind wall disappeared, and the sound of rain sounded again, and the raindrops felt cold on Xingmo's face.

"cough..."

She coughed slightly and stood up with Alice's help. Her vision went dark for a while, but otherwise she was fine.

Closing his eyes and meditating, Xingmo did not show any signs of soul damage.

This meant that her soul could bear the burden of six-string magic, and it also meant that she had the conditions to be promoted to six-string.

"...It seems that, without realizing it, my soul has become strong enough..."

Xingmo gave Alice a wry smile, then looked at Aurora:

"...In the next two days, let me be promoted to the sixth string..."

She needs a stronger power to protect the people around her and to avenge Miriam.

......

8) At the end of September with the autumn breeze (Part 7) -4k-

=After confirming that the police officers had taken over the scene, Alice helped Xingmo back to the carriage and locked the door.

"It's time to interrogate him." Alice turned to Aurora.

"okay."

Aurora pointed in the air, and the mad wizard's soul gradually took shape, hovering on top of the carriage.

He had a young face, but strange symbols were carved on it, and his eyes were lifeless, as if he had suffered a great mental shock.

Alice took out a small bottle and sprinkled the spiritual powder inside into the air, creating a white mist.

Through the white mist, she murmured in a voice almost whispering:

"Your name is?"

"...I have abandoned my name...that name that served the goddess...is now tainted..." the spirit of the mad wizard murmured.

Hearing this, Xing Mo, who was a little depressed, trembled his pupils and looked at Alice.

Having served the goddess... means he is a clergyman... maybe a priest...

He believed that serving the goddess's name was defiled...which meant he had abandoned his faith in the goddess...

Was it the evil god who did it? Xingmo glanced at Aurora beside her and found that she was smiling for some reason.

Please don't always act like a villain...Xing Mo complained inwardly.

"What do you want the Angel's Tears for?" Alice continued to ask.

The mad wizard's spirit flickered unsteadily, and then whispered:

"...I want to go to the stars...I want to go to the stars...I want to go to the stars..."

"...but...I don't have wings..."

The mad wizard's spirit trembled again. It was obvious that he no longer had the logical ability of a normal person.

But Xing Mo could still get some information from his words: he needed wings to travel to the starry sky, and the function of the "Angel's Tears" was to "seal" some characteristics, even the god's divinity could be temporarily sealed.

He needs this medium to seal something... and then take it for himself... This means he knows the location of a powerful force...

Maybe it's an evil god, maybe it's a treasure.

So, Xing Mo asked:

"Who will give you wings? Where is it?"

The mad wizard trembled a little, then muttered in a low voice:

"...in Wintershire...in the Caradorans Mountains..."

Hearing this, Xingmo's back suddenly straightened and his body leaned forward.

Wintershire! The Caradorans Mountains!

Isn't that where Aurora landed?

Winter County is the border between the Machiavelli Empire and the Faroese Republic. It is also a human settlement on the edge of "Motiheim". It is covered with ice and snow all year round and is rarely visited by people.

Is there a powerful force hidden in that place? So powerful that it even requires the "Angel's Tears" to contain it?

Xing Mo glanced at Alice, who had obviously come to some conclusions and said:

"The college's church system is very complete. If someone is missing, we will know about it quickly."

"This guy is obviously from the church, and since we don't know, that means he's from somewhere else."

"Is he the pastor of Winter County?" Xingmo frowned.

"Indeed, it now appears that Winter County has many connections with the 'Devil's Advent' incident. Perhaps there's a bigger secret behind it..."

Alice glanced at Aurora and found that she looked as if she had nothing to do with the matter. It was obviously unlikely that she would be able to get anything out of her.

Alice raised her head and asked the spirit:

"Who is the being that gave you the power?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the mad wizard seemed to be stunned, floating in the air blankly, motionless.

The next second, he let out a painful roar:

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

The spirit exploded in an instant, turning into scattered spirits that circled inside the carriage.

Before anyone had a chance to stop him, his soul dissipated and turned into fragments of spiritual power.

"He... collapsed...?" Xing Mo murmured.

Just asking a question caused his soul to collapse?

On the side, Alice frowned, obviously the current situation was beyond her expectations.

There was only silence in the carriage for a while. After a long while, Aurora said calmly:

"The truth about your world... is very heavy..."

......

Fifteen minutes later, Xingmo and Aurora opened the door of the apartment and returned.