Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

Where is your license?

"license?"

"Child, you are not allowed to enter or leave the Sacred Beast Forbidden Forest without a permit or a mentor. Don't you know that?"

The bracelet moved slightly, and the name and identity of the white-bearded old man appeared on it: Professor Austin, the guardian of the Forbidden Forest.

She immediately admitted her mistake: "I'm sorry, Grandpa Austin, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have trespassed into the Forbidden Forest."

Austin was quite pleased to be called "Grandpa." His expression immediately softened, and he nodded. "Don't be so reckless next time. I see you came from Forbidden Forest Lake. If you want to fish, apply for a permit from me in advance. There are many places in the Forbidden Forest that you can't enter, otherwise you might be toyed with by the sacred beasts inside without even knowing it."

"Okay, thank you, Grandpa Austin!"

Austin didn't make things difficult for Celia. He looked her over for a moment and figured that the person who had overturned his Word of Power was probably not her.

After all, she's so pretty, cute, innocent, kind, and polite—how could she possibly spill the old man's secret brew?

As he watched Celia walk away, Austin stroked his beard, preparing to return to the house, when suddenly his expression changed. He sensed someone flying towards him, in the opposite direction from the mysterious person who had knocked him over!

He immediately used his privileges to make the other party's flying broom land towards him.

Austin's expression was serious: "What grade are you in? You don't look like a freshman. Don't you know that you're not allowed to enter the Sacred Beast Forbidden Forest without a permit?"

“Professor Austin, I have a permit.” Northon, who had been forced to land, quickly produced his pre-approved permit to enter the forbidden forest.

Austin didn't take it. "Since you know you need to apply for a permit, don't you know you need to give me the permit before entering the Forbidden Forest so I can install the activity area planetarium for you?"

"what?"

Norsen was dumbfounded.

Professor Austin has a license and he hasn't said anything about it, has he?

Why are you acting like you took the wrong medicine today?

"Norsen from the third-year elite class? I've already notified your tutor. Just wait here until your tutor comes to take you away."

Notifying the advisor means being punished by the school for trespassing into the restricted forest. It's not a big deal, but it's not a small one either; it all depends on whether you've caused any trouble and how Austin decides to proceed.

In any case, there will be no shortage of reports.

Norsen's face turned green.

Chapter 18 Life is full of pitfalls

The next day, Saturday, was free of classes.

Celia left school early in the morning to go to the Sorcerer's Guild to buy the Heart of the Puppet.

Ross had been curious about this Puppet Heart for a long time. At present, the mental power he could output was not strong enough to penetrate into other people's puppets to observe the intricate parts inside. He just felt that this Puppet Heart was somewhat familiar and probably not something new, but something that had existed for thousands of years.

However, only a small percentage of puppets have this feeling; many puppets do not.

"Lord Ross, are we really going to buy Puppet Hearts from the Sorcerer's Guild? The school and the Holy Court also sell Puppet Hearts, and their quality is definitely better than that of the Sorcerer's Guild."

Before coming, Celia checked the guide on how to buy Puppet Hearts and found that there were many tricks outside. If you wanted to buy a Puppet Heart that you liked, you had to be very careful. Unlike buying it at school or the Holy Court, where they would customize it for you.

"Most of the Puppet Hearts in the Holy Court and the school are of the Holy type. You don't know if there are any backdoors. Besides, you'll need to explain to them where your gold coins came from. It's better to buy them outside. You'll find attributes that are more suitable for you, and it will be easier to explain then."

Puppet Hearts have different attributes, the most common being Holy, Demon, and common elemental attributes (wind, fire, water, earth).

Different Puppet Hearts have a significant impact on the spells cast by the puppet. For example, a Holy Puppet Heart will increase the casting time and power of Holy spells, but it will reduce the power and increase the casting time when casting Demon spells. The extent of the reduction depends on the spell's rank and the quality of the Puppet Heart.

"I read in the guide that there are many people selling Puppet Hearts at the Sorcerer's Guild. They disguise ordinary Puppet Hearts as rare ones and sell them at a higher price. Moreover, many of them are artificial Puppet Hearts, and naturally generated Puppet Hearts are very rare."

"I didn't realize there was a difference between man-made and natural."

This may explain why Ross felt that some puppets' puppet hearts were familiar, while others were not.

Artificial puppet hearts can also be used, but their performance is not as strong as that of natural puppet hearts; for the same quality, they may only have 20%-50% of the performance.

Although the guide to buying Puppet Hearts provides detailed explanations of the differences between artificial and natural Puppet Hearts, this is Celia's first time buying one. Will reading more guides really be useful when the time comes?

If it were Celia alone, she definitely wouldn't go out to buy it.

"We can only rely on the gods."

"Natural or artificial isn't a big problem. You just need to choose the attribute that suits you. Based on your spell learning progress these past few days, I've determined the attribute you're best at. Don't worry."

"What is my element?" Celia asked expectantly. "Is it Holy? Or Spatial? Or Nature, Lightning, Moonlight, or something like that?"

Celia listed several rare attributes, but Ross shook his head: "None of them. You are ice-type, an advanced attribute of water-type, ice attribute."

"Me? Ice attribute?" Celia never imagined that her most compatible element was ice.

Ice element is an advanced attribute of the water element among the common elemental systems, and it is also considered a rare attribute. Celia can accept it, but she just doesn't understand it because she is not ice at all.

“Affinity attribute has nothing to do with personality. And don’t look down on ice type. There is an ice god among the twelve main gods.”

"I didn't look down on it."

The nearest branch of the Sorcerer's Guild is not far from the Holy Magic Academy; it's about a half-hour walk away.

If it weren't for the no-fly zone in the city, it would only take less than ten minutes to get there by flying broom.

Half an hour later, Celia appeared outside the Mage Guild, looking curiously at the building bustling with pedestrians.

The Sorcerer's Guild occupies a large area, divided into many zones. Today, Celia is going to the Sorcerer's Trading Zone, which occupies a large area.

There are many mages who have returned from adventures selling things here. Usually, the mages form teams, accept quests from the mercenary guild, and if they find something that is not part of the quest while completing it, they will bring it to the mage guild to sell.

It is said that they originally intended to sell them at the Mercenary Guild, but soon everyone discovered that only items that were helpful for adventures, such as potions, self-defense scrolls, and attack scrolls, were selling well at the Mercenary Guild. Other auxiliary items were difficult to sell. However, in the Mage Guild, many non-mercenary mages liked to buy these items.

For example, the Heart of the Puppet would definitely not sell in the Mercenary Guild, because that's something everyone has. Unless it's extremely rare, but mercenaries who live on the edge are all very shrewd, so there's no way to get a premium for it.

The Sorcerer's Guild is different. There are many sorcerers raised in a sheltered environment here, as well as many nobles and wealthy people. Naturally, there are buyers willing to pay a premium.

Upon entering the mage trading area, a cacophony of hawking cries assaulted the senses.

"A pure, natural magic puppet heart, a rare lightning-type magic puppet heart, usable up to rank six! First come, first served!"

"The shock-proof gemstone provides maximum cushioning when falling off a cliff, so you no longer have to worry about falling to your death!"

"A rotary jet aircraft, only the size of a fist, that can spew out cool flames! Come and take a look!"

"..."

Ross glanced at it. "That 'Natural Puppet Heart' is artificial, the model is called 'Natural'. The downside of the shockproof gem is that it can only be used once. You've seen the rotating jet aircraft, it's that student who spirals into the sky."

As Ross commented, Celia, whose mind had been racing, gradually calmed down.

This place is really a rip-off. They may not be lying, but they only talk about the advantages and never mention the disadvantages. Even the advantages are exaggerated, and they only talk about the theoretical upper limit.

There are too many things, and they're too varied to look at them all.

Fortunately, Puppet Hearts was designated as a separate area, where they were sold everywhere.

Ross scanned all the puppet hearts for sale with his mental power and fell silent: "These are all man-made."

"Huh?" Celia was stunned for a moment. "Then I came for nothing today?"

"Hello, ma'am, would you like to buy a Magic Puppet Heart? All of my products are all natural and inexpensive. For example, this Thunder Magic Puppet Heart is only 50 gold coins. This is a friendly price because it seems like this is your first time here. I usually sell it for 100 gold coins."

The vendor hawking his all-natural puppet hearts called out as soon as he saw Celia stop.

Celia glanced at it; the Thunder Puppet Heart was multifaceted like a diamond, oval in shape, with both ends surrounded by a device that connected to the Puppet Heart, leaving an interface for connecting to the puppet.

"Are you sure this is natural? If it's not natural, you'll have to pay me back."

"Of course it's all-natural, 100% all-natural!"

"Really? Why does it say it was made by seventh-tier mage Harros, and the model number is 'all-natural'?"

"Oh? Haha, ma'am, you know it." The stall owner reluctantly took back the Puppet Heart, and then said in a low voice, "However, I do have a Natural Puppet Heart. If you want to buy it, I don't mind selling it to you."

The stall owner did not display the natural puppet hearts; he planned to bring them out when he found a wealthy noble or merchant. Given that the entire sales area consisted of artificial puppet hearts, he was certain he could sell the natural puppet hearts for an extremely high price.

He noticed that Celia had an extraordinary air about her, and seemed to be a student of the Holy Magic Academy. Since she wanted to buy the Heart of Nature's Puppet, she must be a big shot who was not short of money. If he made a profit from this, he would be set for life for the next three years!

"Take it out and see."

The stall owner took a heavy box out of his backpack and slowly opened it.

When the familiar fluctuations from the Heart of the Puppet arrived, Ross's eyes narrowed, filled with surprise and uncertainty.

"This puppet heart... how come it looks so much like a god? Could it really be a god!?"

Chapter 19 Is this the Heart of the Puppet?

Deities have two very important characteristics: faith and divinity.

Ross didn't have any of these.

Because he took the hidden path to godhood.

Only a hidden path to godhood could have given him the courage to fight the twelve main gods in succession.

These were all set up when the game was first launched.

He had never seen a god after transmigrating, but such a thing as a god existed in the game.

An extremely valuable item. Using it will grant a buff to yourself, your subordinates, and your nation. Obtaining godhood involves a long event chain.

The image of the deity in the game is quite different from the one in front of me. In the game, the deity is like a series of beautiful gems of different shapes, but what I see now is a gem wrapped in a sophisticated device, as if it is drawing power from within.

The divine attributes in the game are extremely precious, each one left behind by a dead god in the background story, and there are only about ten in the entire game.

As a result, modern people directly used the divine essence for the puppets, treating it as the puppets' CPU?

Where do so many deities come from?

and so……

Ross carefully scanned the area with his mental energy and confirmed one thing.

This is indeed a divine essence, but a fragment of a divine essence.

What happened to this god's divine essence is unknown. After his death, his divine essence was shattered. This fragment of divine essence is about one-thousandth of the full divine essence's power, which means that the power of this divine essence may have been divided into a thousand parts.

Of course, outwardly, a complete divine essence and a one-thousandth fragment of a divine essence, as long as they are of the same origin, will look almost identical, since this is the materialized manifestation of a divine essence.

It's also possible that the designer was lazy and used the same texture.

Based on current observations, puppets have become the standard configuration for sorcerers, and sorcerers have become puppeteers, leaving no place for traditional sorcerers.

After all, using divine power to drive a magical puppet would definitely make it more powerful than a mage of the same level.

However, the whole world is using godhood fragments, and there's never enough godhood to go around.

How many fragments of divinity are there in the entire world?

Ross felt that the Age of Calamity was definitely not as simple as just the deaths of a few gods.

Are the other gods really just sleeping?

Ross was filled with doubt.

In reality, when Celia saw the Puppet Heart in the box and heard Ross's words, she was a little confused.

"Mr. Ross, is this really a divine spark?"

"No, I misread it."

It's best not to let Celia know, lest she overthink things.

"This Puppet Heart is indeed genuine, although... well, the quality isn't very good, it's low-grade... cough, ordinary water attribute, but it's still usable."

Although it only has one-thousandth of the performance, it is still a divine entity, which is much better than the artificial puppet heart.

It’s the price…

"How about it? This Puppet Heart is a genuine natural Puppet Heart, I guarantee I'm not ripping you off. It's also rare. I won't try to take advantage of you, it'll only cost 100 gold coins."

“Isn’t this just an ordinary water-attribute puppet heart?” Celia blinked. “Our mentor said that wind, fire, water, and earth-attribute puppet hearts are the most common and the least valuable, worth at most 10 gold coins.”

"Ten gold coins?" The stall owner gasped. This was an outrageous price cut!

However, what Celia said was also true. Although it was a Natural Puppet Heart, its performance was too weak. It had no competitiveness among Natural Puppet Hearts. It was also the most common water type, with insufficient attack power and its support capabilities were not as good as the holy type.

Even an artificial puppet heart, if it has even slightly rarer attributes, is more valuable than this.

If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have had to hide and prepare to find a fat sheep.

It was sold a long time ago!