"In principle, those whose visas have expired are not allowed to stay longer."
Celia nodded. "Okay."
"Prohibited in principle" means that staying is permitted.
Currently, the border has little binding force on mages; unless there is a war, they can enter and exit freely.
Even if you build a border wall, a warlock can fly over it.
No empire currently has the time or inclination to build border walls or set up barrier arrays.
With such a long border, preventing sorcerers from crossing would require a lot of resources. Who knows, if some sorcerer gets annoyed, they might destroy your defenses from the other side every day, and you wouldn't be able to cross the border to find them.
It would be better to set nothing and allow free entry and exit.
They even welcome you to come and serve the empire.
Benovia looked at Celia: "Aren't you going back?"
"I'll go back in a couple of days. I've been either researching the competition or searching for heretics lately, and I'm exhausted. I want to rest quietly for a few days before going back. Anyway, I've already finished my second-year courses."
Blake said helplessly, "I'll allow you to take leave since you won the championship for the school, but be careful and come back as soon as possible."
Nicodimers said, "You can stay if you want, but you'd better come with us on the train and give other people the illusion that you've left before you come back."
Celia nodded, "Okay!"
……
The day after the competition ended, the team prizes were distributed to everyone.
In addition to the 100 gold coin bonus, there is also the passive spell [Puppet Meditation], fourth-tier puppet customization materials, and advanced elemental crystal cores.
Celia's elemental crystal core is an ice-type elemental crystal core. She gave the puppet materials to Benovia to help her send them back—she hasn't reached the standard to break through to the fourth tier yet, so it's better to take them back and store them properly than to carry them with her.
The puppet meditation method is taught by having everyone go to a specific meditation room on the spot.
The other party did not tell them the learning requirements for the Puppet Meditation Method, but only told them the knowledge points and magic circuits, asked them to summon the puppet on the spot, practiced it once, and then let them leave.
Upon leaving the special meditation room, Celia immediately sensed the magical power emanating from the puppet. This power was transmitted to her through her connection with the puppet, slightly increasing her own magical power.
"Is this the basics?" Celia asked in surprise.
Ross said, "There are two conditions for learning this Puppet Meditation Technique. First, you must have a puppet below the third rank. Second, you must circulate your magic power once in that special meditation room. Once you achieve this, you will learn it immediately. It is much easier than the Danger Perception Technique."
"Oh, I see." Celia suddenly realized.
After the rewards were distributed, the Mage League was officially over.
After relaxing, on the third day after the event, Celia and Benovia planned to go sightseeing in Costa City together, but they were soon surrounded by enthusiastic fans.
Discussions surrounding the Sorcerer League remain heated, with the entire city of Costa still immersed in the final match.
In contrast, there was very little discussion about the individual competitions.
"Speaking of which, who was the individual champion again?"
The individual finals ended one day earlier than the team finals.
Celia had been studying her final opponents and training, and hadn't had time to pay attention to the individual competition results. Now that she suddenly remembered, she quickly logged into the Protoss Network to check.
Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.
"The individual champion is... Elena?"
Celia was shocked.
"How did she become so powerful... Oh, I almost forgot, she obtained the relic of the Elf God."
This round can be considered a victory for the gods.
Seeing this, she had an idea. She quietly left the inn, disguised herself as an elf, and slowly made her way to the area where the elves lived.
Looking up, she saw the elven team getting into a carriage, seemingly preparing to leave.
She saw Elena in the crowd.
Elena saw her too.
She immediately left the crowd and ran over.
"hope……"
"Shh~!"
“How could you…” Elena began, then paused, bowing slightly. “I’m sorry, Celia, I’ve been here so long and haven’t even come to see you. The elven elder leading the group is too strict; he doesn’t allow us to go out freely.”
Before Celia could speak, she saw an elderly-looking elf emerge from the elven crowd.
"Elena, let's go. What are you still doing?"
Elena's face showed dissatisfaction. "Can't I even talk to my friend? I helped the elves win the individual championship, after all."
The elven elder approached and noticed Celia's pointed ears, pausing slightly in surprise. "An elf? No, you don't have any natural aura. A half-elf?"
She shook her head. "Forget it. Elves outside the Elf Forest have nothing to do with us. Elena, you need to understand your current identity. Half-elves are a group that is even more absolutely forbidden to contact than humans. We cannot let you be tainted in any way."
"You..." Elena clenched her fist and raised it, wanting to punch the elven elder, but in the end she held back.
She can't beat him.
She looked at Celia and said quickly, "Although I can't have a proper chat with you now, there will be plenty of time in the future. I'll find a chance to escape and go on adventures with you again."
Celia nodded: "Okay, I'll wait for you."
"You can't go out and take risks in your current identity, and you shouldn't even think about escaping."
"Alright, alright, I got it, you old man."
"What did you call me?!" the elven elder roared.
Elena ignored her and waved to Celia, "Goodbye, Celia... Come visit me in the Elf Forest sometime!"
After saying that, without waiting for Celia and the elven elder to say anything, she ran back and got into the returning carriage.
Celia watched her leave, clicking her tongue in amazement.
It seems that Elena has gone through a lot since obtaining the relics of the Elf God. Perhaps she is being groomed to be the next Elf God?
Celia thought that was probably the case, otherwise she wouldn't have made so many demands of her.
Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard the words of the elven elder.
"You'd better forget about Elena and stay away from the Elf Forest. Half-elves are not well-liked among the elves."
Celia turned around.
"Tch, wait, I'm going anyway!"
Chapter 359 Celia's Outfit Change
After leaving Elena, Celia slowly strolled around the city.
While wandering around casually, she slowly shed her elven disguise and reverted to her original appearance.
She realized that, apart from a few die-hard fans, most viewers wouldn't notice who the passersby were.
If she had to pretend to be someone while shopping, Celia thought she might as well pretend for the rest of her life.
Let's see if we get recognized!
However, just in case, she still used a disguise technique to add a faint veil to herself, so that people wouldn't guess who she was if they weren't paying attention.
After that, she wandered around aimlessly.
"I haven't been this relaxed for a long time."
Celia went into a clothing store and browsed around, but in the end she didn't buy anything.
"Ordinary clothes don't offer magic resistance, and clothes with magic resistance are too expensive. Sigh, I'll just wear whatever I like."
Ross said, "Didn't Doris give you a set of clothes? Why aren't you wearing them?"
"I plan to add the runes to my clothes after I leave tomorrow, and then I'll wear them."
"With danger perception, you can wear ordinary clothes every day. The Northern League's clothes are quite unique. Buying a couple to change your style would be a good idea."
"It seems...not bad."
Celia was intrigued, so she headed to another clothing store.
Not long after, she came out wearing a blue and white dress.
The dress features a silver-white bodice, blue skirt, and a red lining. Gold lines, resembling runes, spread across the entire dress, adding a touch of mystery.
She wore sheer black stockings that made her legs look incredibly long.
Celia lightly touched the brick road with her toes, taking two steps forward like a swan, and looked at the phantom of Ross beside her.
"Mr. Ross, is it good?"
Ross nodded. "Not bad, but if you walk a few more steps you'll leave the city center and head into the slums, and this outfit will attract a lot of attention there."
"The slums..."
Celia looked up at the end of the street and realized that it was indeed not far from the slums.
"It's daytime now, the Mage League has just ended, there shouldn't be any of those annoying things in the slums, right?"
Celia walked toward the slums.
"Since we're leaving anyway, why don't we take a stroll through the slums?"
Leaving the wide roads in the central area, Celia came outside. The stone-paved road had turned into a dirt road. Fortunately, it hadn't rained for the past two days, but there was garbage everywhere on both sides of the road, and there was a ditch next to the road filled with dirty sewage.
Several children were playing in the stinking ditch.
Even though it wasn't her first time there, the pungent smell still made Celia frown, forcing her to use a purification spell to cleanse the odor from the air around her.
Now, her magical skills have reached a level of microscopic mastery, allowing her to control even purification spells so precisely that they can only affect a few centimeters of her cheek.
At such a short distance, and with purified air, the magic power consumed was negligible. After finishing, Celia walked into a side street next to the main road, intending to see where the market in the slums was, when she suddenly faintly heard shouts and curses coming from not far away.
She could vaguely hear the words "heretics," which aroused Celia's curiosity.
She followed the sound and soon saw two men dressed as Sheriff Koster were shouting at each other on the side of a side road...
Two elderly people?
Celia frowned and rushed over immediately.
The words of the two sheriffs gradually became clearer.
“You two old men, are you deaf? I told you your son joined a heresy, was arrested, and now needs gold coins to get out. He asked me to come and get you to raise the gold coins.”
The two elderly people were a couple. The elderly man said in a trembling voice, "We...we have no money. Didn't we say before that our child...died?"
The two sheriffs exchanged a glance, and one of them immediately shouted, "What do you mean 'dead'? I'm just kidding. He's just been arrested and needs money. Hand over the money now! Pay the fine first, and we'll talk about the ransom later."
"We...we have no money. The 12 silver coins we gave you are our last bit of money."
"Twelve silver coins are not enough, and the fine is ten gold coins. Here, see if you have anything valuable at home, preferably magical materials or something. Bring it out so we can take a look."
Celia slowly walked to the two of them and suddenly asked, "What are you doing here?"
The two sheriffs visibly trembled and hurriedly turned to look. When they saw Celia wearing a veil, they were stunned. They felt that the girl in front of them, dressed in the beautiful clothes that only residents of the central district would wear, looked somewhat familiar.
But they couldn't remember for a moment.
He's probably not a big shot.
However, people in the central area still shouldn't have any wild ideas.
One of them waved his hand impatiently and said, "Get out of the way. We are enforcing the law. Don't obstruct us, or you will be fined too."
Celia raised an eyebrow. "You think you're in the right to bully two old people?"
Another person scoffed: "They're not ordinary old people. Their son is a heretic of the Arctic Blood Alliance and participated in the Frozen Arena incident."
"The Frozen Arena?" Celia frowned. "Weren't all those heretics in the Frozen Arena dead...?"
"Die, die, die? What do you mean, die?" The sheriff who spoke first immediately interrupted Celia, his tone unfriendly: "Are you a resident of the central district? What are you doing here? Go back right now, or we won't be so polite if you delay law enforcement any longer."
Celia said with dissatisfaction, "Why are you so irritable? I only came over to find out what was going on when I saw you two bullying an old man. I'm being lenient by not beating you up right away."
"Oh ho, you want to fight the sheriff? I think you'll... ah!"
You'll Also Like
-
They are really too low!
Chapter 92 51 minute ago -
Snape, the Sunshine of Hogwarts
Chapter 73 51 minute ago -
My fiancée Yukino
Chapter 483 51 minute ago -
Chat group, if you have anything to say to my Holy Sword,
Chapter 140 51 minute ago -
The afterlife blew up Gensokyo
Chapter 289 51 minute ago -
Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint
Chapter 336 51 minute ago -
Ultraman: Invincible from Saving Tiga
Chapter 179 51 minute ago -
Anime, infinite dimension starting from Mahou no Yakumo
Chapter 213 51 minute ago -
Zongman: Under One Person, join the chat group
Chapter 201 51 minute ago -
One Piece: Kaido's adopted son, opening the Eight Gates
Chapter 168 51 minute ago