Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

Yesterday, Celia and her group were among the first to return. Thanks to the timely arrival of the Saintess Squad and Elena's sacrifice of being injured to shield the students who were initially fleeing from the first wave of attacks, they escaped without any casualties.

After returning, they handed the captured heretics over to the Knights of the Law, and Celia stopped caring about these matters, focusing instead on practicing her Wind Field technique, unaware of what had happened.

Among the wounded who were returning with the main force, she had even run out to practice and naturally had no idea what had happened.

Today, after listening to Benovia's explanation, Celia looked up and noticed that many teams were in low spirits.

Their team leader was also injured.

The mentors are using words to soothe their emotions.

"No wonder Bishop Melina emphasized that applications could be submitted before departure and the school would not punish them."

Celia thought of what Melina had said the day before yesterday.

At the time, she thought that quitting would erase her grades.

Many students probably thought the same thing at the time.

Looking at it now...maybe not.

Although the rating will be lowered, it shouldn't drop to zero.

Their lives are their own, and the school shouldn't force them to risk their lives. It's just a holiday trial; they shouldn't have to lose their lives.

Just as Celia was about to go back, Blake walked over.

"Celia, come with me for a moment, I have something to tell you."

Celia nodded: "Okay."

Following Blake out of the student encampment and arriving at the Knights of the Law's encampment at the rear, Celia saw Melina and Shuen appear ahead.

Upon seeing Xiu En arrive, Xiu En immediately came over and asked, "Celia, how are you?"

Celia said, "It should be possible, but I haven't tried it in the Golden Apple Stone Forest yet, so I don't know how effective it will be."

Xiu En waved his hand and said, "Come on, I'll take you to the Golden Apple Stone Forest. With me here, the chaos and pollution won't hurt you."

Blake said, "Old man, why are you in more a hurry than I am?"

Xiu En raised his eyes slightly: "Aren't you in a hurry?"

"Of course I'm in a hurry."

"Let's go then."

So, led by three sixth-tier mages, Celia arrived at the edge of the Golden Apple Stone Forest.

Blake looked at the gray fog in front of him and suddenly said, "Wait for me."

He ran away in an instant.

A short while later, he brought over a heretic.

When Celia looked, she was shocked to see that it was the one Elena had captured yesterday.

Upon seeing the Golden Apple Stone Forest so close at hand, the other party chuckled and asked, "Would you like me to lead the way?"

"Shut up!"

Snapped!

Melina slapped the other person hard across the face.

puff!

The fourth-order heretic spat out a mouthful of blood, but remained unconcerned, still chuckling.

Blake looked at Celia: "Celia, you said you could use purification magic after isolating the pollution. Give it a try. Here's the best guinea pig; use it however you like."

Celia looked at the fourth-order heretic, who was also looking at her, and chuckled strangely: "Hehe, it's you. Don't get caught by our leader, the great Deep Sea Kin, or you'll be in for a world of hurt."

Celia did not reply and entered the chaotic contamination zone.

Wind Field, Divine Dispel, and Shadow Binding Scrolls were used one by one, quickly forming a pale purple field.

This area has a radius of only 3 meters, but it can cover everyone.

As they saw the demonic energy pollution within the area being rapidly separated, the joy on the faces of the three grew stronger.

Celia looked at the fourth-order heretic, raised her staff, and the light of a special purification spell appeared, enveloping the entire area.

The fourth-order heretic immediately showed a distressed expression.

She roared, "Shut it down! You lackey of the Holy Court, your disgusting purification spell is dispelling my deep-sea power! I command you to stop!"

No one paid any attention to her.

Blake held her firmly, while Melina circled around, surveying the area and marveling at the sights.

Xiu En, meanwhile, was intently observing the condition of the fourth-tier heretic, sensing the rapidly dissipating demonic pollution within her body, his expression growing increasingly surprised.

However, since the opponent was a fourth-tier opponent, although Celia's purification spell was fast, it was still relatively slow overall.

She couldn't do what Ross did, using a mage's hand to probe every bit of purification power into the other person's body without wasting a single bit of magic.

If we consider Ross's purification technique as a reactor, and the energy utilization rate of the released purification technique reaches 90%, then she is probably like someone who is roasting people with charcoal, with extremely low energy utilization.

Take the fireball spell as an example. While others explode outside their bodies, Ross inserts the fireball inside the enemy's body to make it explode.

Although Celia was amazed, she didn't try to learn it; it wasn't something she could consider at the moment.

The duration of the domain depends on the duration of the scroll. After sensing the shadow bindings within the domain gradually dissipating, Celia withdrew the purification spell and disconnected the domain.

Endless demonic energy once again shrouded this area.

Seeing this, Celia asked curiously, "Why doesn't the pollution here spread outside the Golden Apple Stone Forest?"

Xiu En said, "Because the entire Golden Apple Stone Forest is a huge magic array, which is like a garbage dump, binding all the pollution within it."

He paused, a look of worry appearing on his face: "However, this magic array has existed for five hundred years, which is too long. Nobody knows how much longer it can last."

Blake said, "It's alright, Celia is here. We must trust Celia and believe that she can resolve the pollution of the Golden Apple Stone Forest."

Xiu En glanced at him but didn't say anything.

Melina shook her head, thinking to herself that Blake was hopeless.

He trusts Celia so much, could it be that he's become Celia's... fan?

Melina stared at Blake with a strange expression.

You old codger, still so trendy, trying to be a fan like young people.

Blake turned to Melina, frowning, and said, "I have a feeling you're thinking something really outrageous."

Melina didn't even blush: "Oh, not at all, I haven't thought as much as you have."

The experiment was a great success, and all three of them smiled.

Back at camp, Celia said, "This combo involves the dark magic [Shadow Binding], which we can't learn since we practice Holy Word, so—"

"I plan to integrate the entire system into a scroll, just like a regular scroll, which can be activated to start the domain."

The three of them were startled and stared at Celia in astonishment.

"what?"

"You mean... using scrolls to record combo techniques?"

"Your idea is far too far-fetched."

Celia glanced at Ross secretly, then said firmly, "The blessing of the gods will surely help me succeed!"

Chapter 404 Success!

Swish!

Celia crumpled up a failed scroll and threw it into the trash can.

A new sheet is laid out again.

"We'll definitely succeed this time!"

The girl picked up her pen, and the tip emitted a faint glow due to the output of magic.

Where the pen tip passed, a faint blue light appeared and then disappeared.

Magic circles, scrolls, and magical artifacts are three types of objects that require runes. Magic circles do not have high requirements for details or magic power. The principle they adhere to is that bigger is stronger. The supply of magic power depends entirely on magic crystals and various materials that produce magic power with specific attributes. Even ordinary people can set them up. They only need to consider macro-control.

Magical devices, including magical puppets, flying machines, weapons, and armor, use runes only as an auxiliary tool. The focus is on the connection and communication between the various components and the efficiency of magic transmission. The key is the strength of the materials, not the runes. There are now machines that can draw runes in batches, specializing in drawing miniature rune arrays, to mass-produce magical devices.

Scrolls are the most demanding test of one's rune-drawing skills. They require the infusion of magic and mental energy. Magic is used to draw spell circuits and imprint the spells on the scroll, while mental energy serves as the interface, allowing the scroll caster to control the spells within.

"When will a machine that can draw scrolls appear...?"

Another error destroyed the scroll, and Celia rubbed her temples and sighed deeply.

Benovia, who was quietly reading a book nearby, laughed when she heard this: "Scrolls require the mage to infuse them with mental energy, and they need to be infused with magic power in conjunction with the magic power. Magical devices don't have mental energy, so they can't do it."

Celia put down her pen and stretched. "There must be a way. Like the magic puppet. Who would have known before that magic puppets could be stronger than sorcerers and could even store spells?"

She is trying to draw a combo scroll.

However, even with Rose's guidance, there were still many difficulties.

The four spells are combined, and each spell has a different magic input value, so you need to be careful at all times. Sometimes, when the patterns are transformed, the magic input value must be changed immediately.

For other patterns, the magic input value needs to be gradually reduced until it reaches 0 when you stop writing.

In such situations, one can easily become careless due to prolonged focus, and all previous efforts could be wasted.

Especially when trying a new type of reel for the first time, there will be more mistakes.

Even Celia, after failing 100 times, still hadn't managed to draw a single one successfully.

If there were no time limit for drawing the scroll, Celia would definitely choose to stop and rest for a while after completing each part before continuing.

Unfortunately, that won't work. If you stop for too long, the magic you initially input will dissipate. The scroll ink can only keep the magic in place for a short time, not forever. It needs to be completed and transformed into a full spell before a circuit is formed, locking the magic firmly within the scroll.

"Magic input control, pattern accuracy, ink volume... and so on, can all be completely replaced by manual operation by the magic device."

Celia picked up her pen again, absentmindedly touching her rosy lips as she pondered the feasibility of having machines replace humans in drawing scrolls.

"In other words, the only thing lacking now is a magical device that can store and output mental energy. Once that's solved, mass production of scrolls will be a reality."

Magical devices for storing spiritual energy have been a key research focus for major empires, guilds, and merchant societies, but unfortunately, no one has succeeded in creating one to date.

With her mind wandering to random thoughts, Celia was about to continue writing when she suddenly caught a glimpse of the magic circle record she had casually tossed aside.

That was sent by Blake's men. It was after they sent a formation master into the stronghold yesterday, the formation master recorded it, printed it on paper, and sent it back.

Today, not only the student group has suspended its attack, but the Knights of Law have also suspended their assault on the main camp.

However, instead of resting, they received orders to search the various strongholds that had been besieged the previous day to see if there were any hidden sacrificial arrays in the other strongholds.

Current reports indicate that each stronghold has one underground.

After obtaining the record of the magic circle, Celia took some time to study it and told Blake about the magic circle, letting them know its function.

As they parted, Celia saw Blake's expression of sudden realization, as if it had answered some of his questions.

Upon accidentally seeing this pile of information about magic arrays, Celia thought about the function of magic arrays and suddenly had an idea.

"Absorbing souls... Souls and spiritual power seem to be somewhat related. If we absorb souls, could we find a way to absorb spiritual power from them?"

Celia looked at the pile of magic array data.

Unfortunately, the central altar was destroyed, so the structure of the core magic circle is unknown; all that is known is the structure that absorbs the souls of the inhabitants.

"These heretics use the bed as a medium; as long as a person lies on it, the magic circle will be activated, draining their soul energy while they sleep..."

Magic can be replenished through meditation, mental strength through sleep, but the soul... can only be slowly restored through daily nourishment.

News has come back of the ordinary heretics who were sent back. Almost all of them are in very poor physical and mental condition. Some have not even recovered their senses and are still in a state of madness.

Even those who regain their senses are confined to bed and need to recuperate for months or even years.

The thought of such an evil magic circle made Celia feel very uncomfortable.

Ross's voice entered his mind: "The evil is not the magic circle, it is people. This magic circle was modified from a magic circle that nourishes the soul. The magic circle is just a tool. Every spell can kill a large number of ordinary people. Can you say that magic is evil?"

Celia said, "I know... but I'm just feeling a bit unwell. Lord Ross, do you think it's possible to research a mental energy storage rune by referring to this magic circle?"

"Of course. The body and spirit are the carriers of the soul. A magic array targeting the soul is itself a magic array targeting the body and spirit. It's like a combination technique. It's just that after it matured, it became a new category and is no longer called a combination technique."