Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

Upon learning that Celia was going to Shining City, the city lord immediately offered that she could use the South City's teleportation device to go there, without having to take a day-long patrol car.

No matter how much Celia declined, the city lord insisted that she ride the directional teleportation device.

Even if she doesn't come, he'll still start it once.

“Activating a directional teleporter doesn’t cost much, Miss Celia. It costs 5 silver coins to travel from here to Shining City by patrol car, but the directional teleporter only costs 20 gold coins.”

"20 gold coins isn't enough?"

Celia was shocked.

How many scrolls does she need to sell to earn 20 gold coins?

A patrol car costs 5 silver coins, while a teleporter costs 20 gold coins. Do you think there's only a tenfold difference between the two?

According to the official exchange rate, this is a price difference of four hundred times.

It would take an average family at least two years to earn 20 gold coins.

If one copper coin is considered equivalent to one dollar, then 20 gold coins at the official exchange rate would be 200,000. Ross also felt that this price was too expensive and not something an ordinary person could afford.

He said, "I remember when I was developing transportation, the price of a directional teleporter was only about 5 gold coins, which is about the same as the price of your patrol vehicle."

Celia nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's why I've only ridden it when the school uses it. I've never ridden it at other times. I only ride it if it's not free!"

"The 20 gold coins belong to someone else. Miss Celia helped Southern Border City design the protective array. Such a great contribution, how could we possibly charge her? No matter how many times Miss Celia uses the directional teleportation device, we will give it to you for free for life!" said City Lord Punil.

Celia's eyes lit up: "How could I possibly accept that?"

Then he followed Punil to the directional teleporter.

Chapter 267 Benovia attempts to sculpt the statue of Rose

Today is the day before the start of the new semester at the Holy Magic Academy.

By this time, many students had already returned to school from various parts of Ishtar, and the school was gradually becoming lively.

Celia's original plan was to take the border patrol car from Southland City this morning, arrive at the school in the evening, rest for the night, and then report for duty the next day.

The time was very tight.

As a result, Lord Punil insisted that she come by directional teleportation device, which led to her arriving at the directional teleportation device in Shining City in the morning.

The city's teleportation device cannot directly teleport to the school's teleportation device. The Holy Magic Academy's teleportation device is only open to certain areas, and it is a one-way teleportation from the school to the other side.

The reason for this is that the directional teleportation device requires payment for both bidirectional positioning. Generally, the starting point collects the fee, half of which is given to the Holy Court, and then the Holy Court distributes it to the target point.

The Holy Magic Academy doesn't need to make money from this, so it only connects to other cities in one direction. If it is used, the money will be cashed out to the local city on the spot after the teleportation.

Therefore, when Celia returns to Ember City, she can only appear in the Ember City Directional Teleporter built by the Ishtar Royal Family, and then return to the school from there.

"I thought I was pretty early, but I didn't expect there to be so many people at the school already."

With her backpack on, Celia looked at the people coming and going in the school and sighed.

Ross laughed and said, "You're the last one to arrive; the other prospective saintesses have already returned to school."

"Why are they back so early?" Celia asked, puzzled.

"Who knows?" Ross chuckled.

Under his mental scan, he saw Benovia diligently cleaning the statue in that secret hut.

She didn't seem to have anyone else take care of the place; she cleaned it all herself.

Ross noticed a detail.

The original faceless statue seemed to have been re-carved, but the mental scan could not see the details directly; it could only be roughly sensed. One would have to go there to find out what it had been carved into.

"Could it be that Benovia changed me to look like me?" Ross wondered thoughtfully.

His interest was piqued, so he said to Celia, "After you put the things back, go and say hello to Benovia."

Celia paused for a moment, then nodded without suspicion, "Okay."

The girl quickly took the items to her dormitory with the puppet. Without even cleaning the dormitory, she summoned the puppet back and left.

Celia had been to Benovia's cabin once and knew its location, but before going there, she contacted Benovia with her bracelet to confirm her presence before heading over.

Before long, Celia arrived at Benovia's secret hut, knocked on the door, and heard a sound from inside.

"Who?"

“It’s me, Celia.”

"Oh, come in."

Benovia opened the door and let Celia in.

Just as she entered, Celia was about to say something when she suddenly noticed the change in the statue.

She frowned, looking at the statue in surprise, "This statue..."

Benovia smiled and said, "I received guidance from a deity in a dream, so I tried to draw the deity's appearance according to my memory, but unfortunately, I can't remember the deity's appearance. I can only reproduce a trace of the deity's expression."

Celia carefully examined the statue, which hadn't changed much, and frowned, asking Ross in her mind, "Lord Ross, why do I feel that this statue bears a resemblance to you?"

Ross laughed and said, "Really? I remember you wanted your puppet to look like me too. Do you think they look alike?"

Celia shook her head: "It's different. The face of the puppet I made doesn't have the divinity that this statue presents."

Rose had always been very amiable with Celia, hardly displaying any of the majesty one would expect of a deity. So when Celia tried to draw the puppet's face in the likeness of Rose, the result was completely different from the statue in front of her.

The only similarity between the two is that they seem to resemble Rose, but in reality, they are nothing alike.

The gods possess an innate ability that, unless they themselves acknowledge it, will prevent any statue they create from accurately capturing the face of the deity, even if it is carved in accordance with the deity's image.

This applies not only to Ross, but also to the twelve Olympian gods.

All gods are like this.

Ross did not need faith, and apart from the one statue he built when he conquered the entire continent, he never agreed to the construction of any other statues.

That statue was probably destroyed by the twelve Olympian gods long ago.

Ross wouldn't agree to Celia sculpting his likeness into that of a puppet—what kind of talk is that?

Similarly, he would not permit Benovia to build the statue.

The reason for bringing Celia over was to confirm whether she was trying to build her own idol.

Now he is certain that it is indeed true.

However, having only met once, and relying solely on that sliver of memory, Benovia could only achieve a slight divine resemblance, and couldn't even make Ross feel anything.

"Did you receive a response from the gods? Congratulations," Celia said.

She kept glancing at Ross in her mental space, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

Ross knew what she wanted to ask.

But he didn't say.

Previously, he deepened Benovia's divine realm and helped her at the last moment by giving her an infinite mana regeneration buff. After that, Benovia went to find Celia and asked if the god that Hiro worshipped was Ross.

Considering the trace of Ross's divinity emanating from this unknown statue, Benovia's words began to have some doubts.

Benovia said, "Although you didn't admit it, I went to confirm with many members of the Hero Order, and they all said they didn't know if it was him, but I feel it is him, the god who helped me. Celia, you were very surprised when you saw the statue, did you know something about it?"

Finally, she winked at Celia.

Celia quickly shook her head: "I don't know, it just feels like the statues in your house have become very strange."

Ross is the only designated evil god appointed by the gods; he's not someone those quack evil gods can mess with.

As an evil villain written into the sacred words, it's best if no one knows that he accidentally summoned an evil god!

Don't ask, you just don't know.

Although she suspected that Benovia had contacted Ross, Celia was determined not to reveal it to anyone.

Unless Ross shows up on his own initiative, like Jonathan did.

"Isn't it amazing?" Benovia wasn't too surprised by Celia's words. She nodded, looked at the statue with a fascinated gaze, and said, "I also find it amazing that I would 'dream' about that god."

Seeing Benovia's infatuated state, and the object of her infatuation wasn't even one of the gods of the Holy Court, Celia reminded her, "Benovia, you are now a prospective saintess of the Holy Court."

"It doesn't affect it."

Celia: "..."

Fine.

Chapter 268 Doris: Why doesn't Celia come to find me?

After chatting with Benovia for a while, Celia said goodbye and left.

After thinking it over, she felt she couldn't show favoritism, so she contacted Anko, went to Anko's medicine laboratory, took a look, borrowed a few bottles of medicine from her, and then went to visit Phil, who was treating people at the rescue center outside the Temple of Ember.

Phil was still heavily contaminated with demonic energy, but thankfully, it was much better than when the Lighthouse was lost.

Celia was puzzled: "Even if the purification speed is slow, it should have purified all the pollutants in the body by now, right?"

They are saints with exceptionally high talent; mere pollution is nothing to them.

It turned out that Phil still had it on him.

Phil said, "I went to many places during the holidays and cleaned up pollution for many people. I picked up some pollution from them, but it's nothing."

Celia: "..."

Phil seems to have embarked on a very peculiar path. Celia, thinking of those heretics who use pollution and magic to enhance their strength, couldn't help but ask, "Phil, you're not going to use this pollution to combine with magic to enhance your strength, are you?"

Phil shook his head: "No, letting pollution erode demonic energy will only make the magic weaker. Once it is purified, not only will the strength regress, but it will also have aftereffects."

Celia nodded: "It's good that you know."

Ross said, "Celia, let me check on Phil's condition."

Celia paused for a moment, then nodded slightly. "Okay."

She let Ross control her body, sat down next to Phil, and after Phil finished treating the patient, she reached out and grabbed her wrist, through which a wisp of magic entered her body.

'Celia's' sudden action startled Phil, who tried to break free: 'Celia, you...'

“Don’t move,” 'Celia' said.

Phil paused, feeling a strange familiarity with that unwavering tone, like…

Just like that sir.

But in front of her was Celia...

Phil stared blankly as 'Celia' took her pulse. After a moment, 'Celia' withdrew her magic and reverted to the real Celia.

Celia waved her hand in front of Phil: "What are you daydreaming about?"

Phil snapped out of his daze and shook his head. "N-nothing, you were just now..."

Without blinking, Celia said, "I'm examining your body."

Phil tilted his head, his long white hair hanging down, and blinked his red pupils: "?"

Then Celia saw Ross's phantom appear beside Phil, patting Phil's head in a virtual gesture.

Celia snorted and said, "I'm just checking to see what the pollution in your body is like. Don't worry about it. I won't cleanse you of the pollution without your permission."

The purification technique of the Ross Church can actually quickly cleanse Phil of the pollution, but at the cost of her suffering like a heretic, spending years in bed and developing chronic illnesses.

If you want to avoid any lasting effects, you'll need long-term treatment, or you can do what Phil did: transfer the pollution from others onto yourself and gradually eradicate it.

The difference between the two is that the former is like cutting through tangled hemp with a sharp knife, while the latter picks out strands one by one. The Holy Court's purification spell, when used at high power, is gentler, like forcibly pulling a rope, removing as much as possible.

Celia would never do that to her own people.

After chatting with Phil for a while, she left so as not to disturb Phil's treatment.

After leaving, Celia asked, "Lord Ross, how is Phil doing?"

Ross laughed and said, "She has been corrupted by demonic energy for a long time and has gradually found the knack of using demonic energy to cultivate. The demonic energy in her body is like tempering her flesh and demonic energy. In the process of tempering, she perfectly prevents the demonic energy from truly eroding her. It is a very good cultivation method, but only Phil can use it. Anyone else who uses it will become a heretic."

Celia gasped, "This is too..."

No wonder the Holy Court didn't stop Phil from letting the demonic energy enter her body; they already knew about her constitution.