Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

After taking down the heretical stronghold with the help of Celia and the others, Elena changed the subject and told them about Phil's disappearance, the discovery of the underground space, altar, and magic circle. She emphasized that she was already close to the limit of a third-tier mage, which is why she didn't let Celia go in to investigate and instead chose to return early.

Blake laughed and said, "If it were someone else, we would indeed be worried about the pollution, but she is Celia. You don't need to worry about Celia's resistance to pollution. To be precise, there is no need to worry about any of the five Saintess candidates. Their resistance to pollution is very high, and even ordinary fourth-tier mages cannot compare to it."

Elena nodded: "I know, especially Phil. It's just that they can handle it, but the other students can't. I can't just leave them there to risk their lives and come back alone, can I?"

Melina nodded: "You did a good job. Don't worry about Blake's opinion. I'll call the array master over later to record the array and bring it back for study."

Elena nodded: "Okay, by the way, Celia hopes to come and check it out after she gets the magic circle."

Blake said, "No problem, let her see it."

Melina had no objections. She knew that Celia's talent in magic arrays far surpassed that of ordinary array masters. She was capable of leading the construction of city magic arrays, so who would question her?

Even Alvis, the strongest array master in the Holy Court, dares not question it now.

Elena bid farewell to Melina and the other woman, returned to the area where her group was stationed, found Celia practicing magic, and conveyed Black's words to her.

Celia nodded casually in response and continued practicing the weakened version of the Wind Field Domain.

Elena glanced at it and asked in confusion, "Chilia, aren't you an ice-type? Why are you learning wind magic?"

Celia said, "This spell might be effective against the contamination of the Golden Apple Stone Forest."

"Oh?" Elena looked closely and saw that the wind magic in Celia's hand had turned into a ball, and the magic was moving inside the ball.

Celia tossed the ball out, allowing it to expand and become a wind field that enveloped a person.

"An unfamiliar wind-based spell, a wind shield?"

“No.” Celia shook her head. “It’s a spell called [Wind Field Domain]. Its function is to create a wind field in an area.”

Elena's interest was piqued. "Oh? It sounds like an area-of-effect spell?"

"No."

"Is that a group blessing spell? Like, something that increases speed within a region?"

"Not at all."

"...Then what is the purpose of this wind field area?"

"Expand the domain to purify the air within it... This can keep pollution outside the domain's boundaries."

"Isolate from pollution..." Elena immediately sensed the significant effect of this spell.

The premise is that—

it works.

“Does it really work?”

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Elena wasn't the first mentor to ask Celia for advice.

Basically, whenever a mentor sees her practicing magic while passing by, he will come over out of curiosity and ask her about it.

Celia was also helpless.

In the realm of wind fields alone, of course, there is no effect.

The idea that a single spell could isolate one from troublesome demonic pollution was something even she, let alone her mentors, didn't believe.

Wind Field is a fourth-tier spell that increases the spell power of wind spells and reduces the effects of other spells within the field.

Ross gave her a weakened version, with no effects whatsoever; it could only isolate air, turning it into a purely decorative spell, or even a third-tier decorative spell...

"It looks pretty cool when the domain unfolds," Celia muttered.

To avoid being asked questions again, Celia decided to leave the camp and practice outside.

On the cliff outside the camp, Celia looked down at the Golden Apple Stone Forest shrouded in polluted mist and shouted, "Expand your domain!"

The magic was transformed into wind, emanating from her entire body.

The cyan magic spread outwards, encompassing a two-meter radius around it.

Ross's phantom appeared beside her: "Not bad. Before long, you should be able to cover a ten-meter area. That will be considered a mastery."

"Ten meters doesn't feel like enough..." Celia was not satisfied.

Ross laughed and said, "You're not a wind-type specialist, so your learning speed for wind magic is only affected by your magic refinement level. If you want to learn faster, just increase your refinement level."

Celia nodded seriously and whispered again, "Expand the domain!"

After she finished, she looked at Ross and asked, puzzled, "Lord Ross, why did you make me shout 'Domain Deploy' when I used it?"

Ross laughed and said, "It's nothing, I just think it sounds more powerful to shout it like that."

Have it?

The girl was puzzled.

Why do I feel not only lacking in presence, but also somewhat ashamed?

After much thought, Celia concluded that she felt ashamed because the wind field had no power and was merely for show.

If it's part of the "Super Invincible I Love You" combo, shouting that would be pretty good; it's a visually appealing spell...

I think I'll pass.

Celia thought to herself.

Ross said, "Although it's still a bit short of ten meters, we can now incorporate Holy Dispel and Shadow Bind. Remember to use Elemental Harmony."

"Ok."

Celia took out a scroll of Shadow Binding spell.

Her success rate in drawing third-order spell scrolls has improved significantly, and she no longer fails as frequently as before.

The success rate of scrolls is related to focus, magic control level, magic output, and magic intensity. The reason why the failure rate was so high before was mainly because the efficiency of single magic output was too low. If you are not careful, you will accidentally output too much or too little magic.

After the magic refinement level exceeded 100%, the success rate of Celia's scrolls increased dramatically, especially after entering the third tier.

"However, using a third-order scroll for experiments is still too extravagant."

A guaranteed 5 gold coins per card!

Purely burning money.

The girl's heart bled as the scroll was torn open.

Even though her scroll was almost at cost price, it still cost nearly 1 gold coin.

"Once we succeed, we'll have the Holy Court reimburse us!"

The Shadow Binding Scroll was torn open, and a dark purple chain emerged, gradually enveloping the edge of the wind field under the influence of Celia's elemental harmonization and the Mage's Hand.

This was followed by a divine exorcism.

Celia raised her staff, and a holy light shone from the tip of the staff.

bah—

A slight noise was heard in the wind field area.

A crack appeared, then more appeared, quickly spreading across the entire edge of the area.

The next second, the domain shattered.

"My gold coins!"

The girl cried out in anguish.

Ross said irritably, "Gold coins can be earned back. Do you know what it means to spend all your money and then have it come back?"

"I don't know," Celia said honestly.

"It means that even if you spend all one thousand gold coins, they will come back to you."

Celia suddenly realized, "I see, but how did the gold coins come back?"

"Nonsense! If you succeed, you can try to incorporate this combination technique into a scroll and sell it to the Holy Court. Wouldn't the gold coins just come pouring in?"

"Oh, I understand!"

So Celia put aside her heartache, took out another Shadow Binding Scroll, and began to practice.

It wasn't until the tenth scroll was torn open that Divine Dispel and Shadow Bind were integrated into the Wind Field under the effect of Elemental Harmony.

Celia wiped her forehead.

Although she wasn't sweating, she still felt like she had wiped away sweat.

"This combo is too expensive."

Ross said, "Ten barely succeeded, not bad, in line with expectations."

Celia said, "Holy and dark magic are naturally opposed, like water and fire, and are too difficult to reconcile."

"It is a bit difficult, but the result is the same, all transformed from magic. With the harmonization of elements, there is nothing that cannot be fused." Ross laughed: "On the contrary, opposing elements can only release power far exceeding other fusion spells after fusion, just like [Super Invincible I Love You].

Celia agreed wholeheartedly and took out another scroll.

"I made 20 scrolls last night when I had some free time. That's enough for today. I'll make some more!"

Time flew by during the practice.

In the evening, Celia returned to the camp, went back to her room, picked up a blank scroll, and began to draw the Shadow Binding Scroll.

Seeing how busy she was, the other candidates for sainthood moved around the room more quietly.

While Celia was finishing a scroll, Anko came over with a bottle of medicine and handed it to Celia.

"Here, this is a potion to restore energy and improve concentration. Using this will increase the success rate of scroll making."

Celia looked up, took the potion, and smiled at Anke: "Thanks!"

Anke adjusted his glasses. "You're welcome. Our trials all depend on your scrolls."

“Then I’ll have to charge you,” Celia said playfully.

“Okay.” Anke nodded seriously.

Celia waved her hand: "Just kidding. If there's any money, it'll be the Holy Court that gives it. We're friends, why would we need money? I didn't pay for your potion either."

“Either is fine,” Anke said.

Time passed as the scroll was drawn.

The next day, we rested and did nothing.

Elena gathered everyone together to meet with the other student teams, and Principal Blake told them some news.

Yesterday, not only did Celia and her team encounter an ambush by two fourth-tier mages, but all the teams attacking the outer strongholds did as well.

To determine the cause, we will be taking a break today while awaiting the investigation results and treatment for the injured.

Blake looked serious, said a few words, and then waved to dismiss the group.

"The principal's expression seems a bit off," Celia muttered.

Benovia said, "Because yesterday, apart from our team, the other trial teams at the other outposts weren't so lucky; many of our students were seriously injured."

She paused, then said in a low voice, "There are others... who have died, more than just one or two."

Chapter 403 Scroll Combination Techniques?

"Students...injured or killed?"

Celia's pupils contracted.

She knew that casualties were inevitable when attacking heretical strongholds.

But when it actually happened, Celia still had a... indescribable feeling.

It's somewhat like... feeling sorrow for one's own kind? Like the rabbit mourning the death of the fox?

Very complicated.

No wonder Principal Blake seemed a bit off.

Benovia said, "This news will soon spread to all the trial teams, and problems may arise then, which is why we stopped the siege of the heretical strongholds."