I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

"Ah~ah, I've reached my limit. I should go home now. Bye."

After a long yawn, Ella took off the sapphire crown she had been wearing, and her long golden hair flew. Then, with the help of Lotte and other maids, she closed the stall and walked into the mansion dragging her long white priest robe.

far away--

Menia stared at Ella until she disappeared deep into the mansion. Then she came to her senses. Her tightly closed lips slowly opened until her masseter muscles reached their limit. Her eyes shrank to the size of a needle tip as if she had seen something horrible. Her body slowly backed away until she sat down on a chair. Only then did she shout out the shock in her heart.

"Impossible, this is impossible! How could someone use purification magic after adding 'inhibitors' and 'magic frenzy' powder?! It must be a monster!"

"Calm down, Menea. Did you notice that girl's sapphire tiara? It's very likely a magical item like mine, perhaps even more powerful than mine. So she's probably borrowing the power of that item!"

As Taji spoke, a layer of blue light appeared on the crown and enveloped Menea, calming her originally confused mind. Menea breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hoo--that's all, Taji. Thank you."

The cyan light disappeared, and Menea's voice sounded tired.

"Magic items? If they were stronger than yours, Taji, it wouldn't be impossible for them to achieve this level of power. And if she used the same forced calming effect as you, Taji, to suppress the raging magic, then the magic item using purification magic wouldn't be damaged. Yeah, that must be the case."

"Menia, stop comforting yourself. Controlling three magic items simultaneously is practically impossible. You know that, right? Isn't it time to go apologize to that girl?"

"No, as long as there's a possibility of using it, I won't give up. I'll find other ways later. Wait, civilian."

Menia snorted out of habit, glanced at Ella's mansion viciously, and turned to leave the cottage.

Chapter 18: Flat-chested Saint Ladies...

At a roadside stall in the city of Kepa, several demons gathered together, seemingly discussing something.

The man in the linen short-sleeved coat rested his elbows on the table and greeted the other demons around him with a malicious smile.

"Hey, hey, did you hear? This morning, Master Doshi went to see Master Ella again."

"Of course I heard about it. What's the matter? Remember when Doshi-sama came to see Ella-sama last time, she seemed very angry, right?"

"Hey, did you know that Lady Doshi is going to join Lady Ella in purifying the Unhesir River?"

"Huh? Even if Lady Aira's purification abilities seem stronger than Lady Doshi's, it's still too difficult to just purify the water source, right?"

Seeing the worried expression on the skinny demon's face, the short-sleeved demon who first brought up the topic grinned and patted his thigh.

"Haha, you don't have to worry about that. Master Doshi won't force Master Ella. She's just taking Master Ella to try. It doesn't matter if she fails."

"Really?... I really hope that Lady Ella can succeed."

"What? You don't even bless Master Duoxi?"

The short-sleeved demon opened his eyes wide and stared at the thin-looking demon opposite him, but the thin demon was not intimidated by the short-sleeved demon's momentum. He first shrank back, and then leaned forward like the short-sleeved demon, staring with wide eyes.

"Lady Aira is so adorable, and unlike Lady Doshi, she's not so capricious. Isn't it only natural to wish Lady Aira well?"

"Duoxi, that's a tsundere! Do you know what a tsundere is?! He arrogantly says he hates you while clinging to you in a coy way. Isn't that the romance a man should pursue?"

"Hmph, a truly romantic girl should be as gentle and considerate as Lady Ella, someone who doesn't care about money at all. Can Lady Doshi do such a thing?"

“You—”

"Asshole, I've been annoyed with you for a long time. Today is the time to settle the score."

The demon in short sleeves grabbed the collar of the thin demon, and the thin demon, not to be outdone, punched the demon in short sleeves.

……

Unlike the carriage that Iris prepared for Ella, although Menia is the earl of the western demon territory, the shock absorber on her special carriage is just a layer of soft cushion inside.

Ella is now sitting in the carriage with Menia. In addition, there are two warriors wearing full body armor on the carriage. These two warriors are responsible for protecting Menia's safety when she leaves the city. The rest are only the coachman responsible for driving the carriage and the four dragon horses that serve as the power of the carriage.

Both warriors were elite warriors, each above level 15. According to the original rules, Menea was supposed to bring at least three level 15 warriors with her when she left the city to purify the Unkhsir River. However, with Ella aboard today, the carriage could only accommodate two more warriors, so Ella was unable to bring either Lotte or Nina along.

The bumpy ride of the carriage made it impossible for Ella to relax and sleep. She could only lean her back against the carriage and yawn continuously.

This weird atmosphere... there's no way to communicate.

Just as Ella thought, Menia and the two soldiers had not spoken a single word since they set out in the morning until now. The heavy atmosphere made Ella feel uncomfortable. This sense of restraint even made Ella dare not open the curtains on the carriage, for fear that her rash actions would draw everyone's attention to her.

I should have known not to agree to Menea's request earlier... I clearly wanted to find a chance to apologize for my joking behavior that day, but now I can't even say a word...

In the morning, Menea found Ella and said that she wanted to take Ella with her to purify the Ankhsir River. Ella thought about her previous behavior of claiming to have used purification tools but not being able to produce anything, which seemed like she was teasing Menea. So she wanted to take this opportunity to apologize and explain her true situation.

Although she was initially displeased with Menia's rude attitude, Lotte later explained that Menia's anger might have been caused by her unintentional actions, stealing Menia's limelight. Thinking that such thoughts were normal for a girl her age, Ella let it go.

After adjusting her posture, Ella took out the water bottle from the dimensional backpack that Lotte gave her, unscrewed the cork, and drank the sweet spring water.

Hmm - but speaking of this, Lotte is the one who looks the most abnormal. She is obviously so much younger than me, but she looks like a wise man who knows everything. Well, this may be related to Lotte's experience, so it's better not to delve into it too much.

"Ahem."

For the first time, there was a human voice in the carriage. It was Menea's voice. Ella turned her gaze to Menea and found that Menea was holding her fist in front of her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.

Sure enough, it wasn't a cough that indicated discomfort, but a dry cough that started a conversation.

"There's no one else here, and the two warriors are trustworthy and won't tell anyone about our conversation. So I'll say it again, civilian, if you hand over your magic items to me now, the situation can still be salvaged. If you're unwilling to sell them, I won't rob you. I just need to borrow them temporarily as evidence to explain your situation."

While Menia was looking into Ella's eyes, she would occasionally glance at the sapphire crown on Ella's golden hair. The two warriors in the carriage did not move, as if they did not hear the conversation. Of course, because the two warriors were wearing helmets, Ella would not be able to detect any fluctuations in their expressions.

"Uh, no, first of all, I apologize for joking with you last time, Menea. I'm really sorry for making you angry back then. And...actually, I didn't use any magic items, but the real 'Purification' magic."

"Don't be ridiculous, commoner. Being able to so effortlessly rage—ahem, being able to cast purification magic with both hands so effortlessly—even a second-level magic caster from the God-man race wouldn't be much better than this. You look younger than me now, how could you possibly do that without the aid of a magic item?"

"Younger than you?"

Ella glanced awkwardly at Menea's chest—it looked like it was about the same size as her own.

For a moment, Menia didn't understand what Ella said and looked confused. Until she noticed where Ella was looking, her face flushed instantly, and she picked up the long stick leaning against the inside of the car and pointed it at Ella.

“You—○△…”

"Menea—"

The silver-white crown emitted a green light, calming Menea's emotions.

"Hmph, don't regret it later."

As soon as Menia finished speaking, the carriage stopped and the driver's voice came from outside.

"Lady Menea, Lady Ella, we've reached the Unhesir River. Do we need to go a little further?"

"No, let's just stay here. If we go any further, the purification effect won't be that noticeable."

After Menea told the coachman the direction, she turned her head and glared at Ella, lifted the cloak behind her, pulled open the curtain, and jumped out of the carriage.

Chapter 19 A New Plan

As Menea jumped off the carriage, Ella gave a helpless smile. Although she was indeed frightened by the way Menea chanted the spell just now, she saw the two warriors around her straighten their bodies slightly and knew that they would stop Menea before she cast the magic, so she did not react too much. She just felt like she seemed to have messed things up again. But then again, part of the responsibility should be blamed on Menea herself, if she could listen to what she said carefully.

The two warriors sitting on the outside turned around, nodded to Ella, and jumped off the carriage. Then, Ella, who was sitting at the innermost position of the carriage, also jumped off.

Compared to Ella's camping spot a few days ago, the location chosen by the driver was much more desolate. Apart from a few sparse cacti, there was only a desert covered with yellow sand. The Ankhshil River flowing not far from their feet also looked very desolate, with countless food scraps and animal carcasses floating in it.

Menia glanced at the river and frowned.

"Let's clear out the floating corpses first. I'll prepare the materials."

"Yes."

The two warriors who had been silent before finally spoke. With the clanging sound of their armor colliding, they walked to the river and began to move the large pieces of garbage.

Then, Menea walked to the front of the carriage, took out a huge bag from the bottom of the carriage, and then took out various jars containing unknown contents one by one and placed them on the sand.

The reason why Menia asked Ella to come along to purify the water source today was to get close evidence of Ella using magic props. Purifying the Ankhshil River is more difficult than purifying water in a limited capacity. And more importantly, Menia found that in her heart, she seemed to have slowly accepted the fact that Ella did not use magic props.

Although he said that he would find evidence as long as it was possible to use them, the difficulty of using three magic items at the same time was too great. After a long time, even he began to disbelieve it. So there was another purpose for this trip, and this purpose gradually overwhelmed the desire to catch Ella's flaws - that is, even if he could not beat Ella in purifying a certain amount of water, he had to at least suppress her in purifying water sources, which he was good at.

Menia took out the prepared materials in the bag one by one. These were the magic potions that she had discovered through her continuous efforts over the years. They were the most suitable for amplifying the effect of the "purification" magic.

The magic of "Purification" has a characteristic, which is that it will definitely remove all impurities from the target. Although this characteristic is very practical in small-scale containers, it also brings another problem. That is, if the number of targets is far greater than the caster's magic power, the effect of purification will become negligible. Since the magic power is not enough to support the purification of all river water at once, the newly purified water will immediately be assimilated by the surrounding sewage, and almost no effect will be seen.

This was also the biggest problem Menea encountered when she first started purifying the Ankhsir River. After repeated attempts failed, Menea began to experiment with adding chemicals to the water to enhance the purification effect. However, she concluded that while this had some effect, it still did not solve the fundamental problem.

Until one day, Menia found a clever trick, which was to work on the purification spell. Although the demons could not cast auxiliary magic, it did not mean that the demons could not study spells. In those months, Menia kept trying to change the chanting order of the spells, the chanting tone and speed, or add or delete individual spells. Finally, one day, she found the purification magic that was most suitable for purifying the Ankhsir River - a magic named "Purification Change" by Menia. This purification magic would only purify impurities such as oil floating on the water surface. In this way, the residents of "Kepa" city only needed to use the method of filtration and sedimentation to obtain cleaner river water.

Only Menea herself knows this magic, so she has full confidence in the task of purifying the Ankhsir River today.

——In this way, you will be of greater use.

Thinking this in her mind, Menea opened all the jars, mixed the powders inside in a huge container, and then, with the help of two warriors, poured it all into the Ankhsir River.

Out of curiosity, Ella stood next to Menea.

"What are you doing?"

Noticing that Ella was looking at her with a confused expression, Menia felt a strange sense of pride in her heart. She straightened her chest and put her hands on her waist.

"This is a magic potion I specially developed. It can increase the purification effect by 10%. Even if it is consumed by others, it will not cause any harm. What do you think? Isn't it amazing?"

"Oh~oh, that's really impressive. Menea seems pretty smart."

Indeed, on this point, Ella had to admire Menea. Although she had the equipment "Heavenly Punishment Pestle" given by the Loli God in the healer state, which could increase magic damage by 50%, and the effect was much higher than the potion made by Menea, she could not understand the principles of these things. In other words, her limit was to increase by 50%, while Menea could increase infinitely without an upper limit, which was something she could never catch up with.

Although... the basic values ​​of both sides are different.

Menea closed her eyes and raised her head, placing a hand on her chest, her already proud tone becoming even more smug.

"Hehe, I am the Saint, commoner, you are still far away from me."

"Menea, don't relax any longer. Finish the purification ritual quickly and go back. This is already a border area."

"Okay, okay, I get it."

Interrupted by the words of the tiara, Menea waved her hand perfunctorily, indicating that she understood, and then turned her head to Ella.

"Commoner, you'd better hide your magic items so that Taji and I don't find them. Of course, it's better not to use magic items, but the task of purifying the water source is too difficult. It's better to do it within your ability, okay?"

"Uh... I think I can last about the same amount of time as Miss Menea."

"Tsk, how dare you say that. Also, don't call me Menia so affectionately. I haven't given you permission to do that. You have to call me Doshi-sama. Got it?"

"Menea, we can begin."

"Hmph, let's get started then."

After Menea finished speaking, she no longer paid attention to Ella, but took out her staff and pointed it at the Ankhsir River in front of her.

Chapter 20 Changes

The arrogance from before gradually disappeared from Menia's purple pupils.

"▽□▼, ▽○◆——『Purification o Kai』."

Unlike the large amount of white light emitted by ordinary purification magic, the purification magic that Menia cast now only has a very small number of white light spots, and they are injected into the Ankhsir River in a line.

This is also one of Menea's research. This method of continuous injection is the most suitable method for purifying the Ankhsir River, and the effect is also very significant. With the location where Menea casts the purification magic as the center, the oil stains on the surface of the water are quickly dispersed.

Looking at the water that was becoming clearer, Menia turned her head and cast a smug look at Ella, just in time to see Ella nod and take out a long staff without any decoration from her backpack.

"Well then, I'm going to start too, 'Purification'."

A faint white light gathered in Ella's hand, and then, like Menea, the white light flowed into the river in the form of a thin line.

Seeing the white light, Menia's pupils shrank instantly, as if she saw something impossible, and her mouth opened slightly.

No, it's impossible! How could this happen?! "Purification Modification," which allows for continuous purification magic output, is the result of months of diligent research. How could it be so easily accomplished?! This, this is definitely not the level of a magic item! There's no way a bulky magic item could accomplish this!

Noticing that Menea was staring at her, Ella turned her head slightly.

"What's wrong?"

"Um—no, nothing."

Quickly shaking her head to expel the previous shock from her mind, Menia refocused her attention on the magic output that had been somewhat disordered due to her mental fluctuations.

Since it is certain that this civilian is not using magic props... then let's have a fair fight with purification magic. At least, I can't admit defeat in this regard.

The scorching sun stung her skin, and countless fine beads of sweat began to appear on Menia's forehead. After the fine beads of sweat gathered together, they flowed down her beautiful cheeks, dripped into the sand and quickly disappeared.

Menea said in a low voice after checking her magic power consumption.