His face was filled with sorrow: "Miss Celia, thank you for your help to Bea Village. Hurry up and leave, you can't handle him, it will be too late if you don't leave now."

Celia: "?"

"I'm only at the second level, I can't hold him off for long, let's go!"

"Go to hell!" Ross cursed. "Get out of my way and don't bother me."

Jack was taken aback by 'Celia's' sudden outburst, but then smiled knowingly, "Fine, let's all go together then, what if a miracle happens?"

Seeing 'Celia' rushing towards Dylan, he changed his target and turned to Dylan's puppet, saying, "Hold Dylan back, and I'll try my best to deal with his puppet."

Jack raised his hand and unleashed two sword energies, leaving a shallow white mark on the puppet's body. The puppet then charged forward, and with a simple punch, it snapped Jack's fishing rod in two, sending him flying backward.

On the other side, Ross's mental energy was firmly locked onto Dylan. When he saw the other raise his hand, he immediately knew that he was going to use the second-tier spell [Earth Cage] to trap him.

"too slow."

First-tier spell, Basic Illusion, activate!

'Celia's' body flickered, creating a substitute that became the target of the Earth Cage, while the real Celia moved to the side and unleashed 100 ordinary ice spikes!

Just like a Gatling gun, a hundred ice spikes rushed towards Dylan in succession.

At this moment, Dylan's Earth Cage had just finished casting the spell. The arrival of the ice spikes surprised him for a moment, but he did not bother to stop them.

"So many ice spikes?!"

Dylan's expression changed drastically, and he hastily used Mage's Shield—but when he cast it, he was already hit by a dozen ice spikes. All the ice spikes concentrated on one point, shattering his protective magic.

Fortunately, the Mage's Shield was successfully cast.

Before he could even catch his breath, an invisible hand suddenly appeared, shoving his mage shield aside and exposing him to the ice spikes!

A large number of ice spikes formed an ice pillar. This ordinary first-tier magic made Dylan very embarrassed, so much so that he had no time to pay attention to controlling the puppet and let it fight freely.

"Watch closely, this is how to use the Mage's Hand."

Ross spoke to Celia, and a mage's hand, formed from concentrated mental energy, slammed into Dylan, sending him flying.

Ice spikes followed closely behind.

A fierce look appeared on Dylan's face.

"You forced me!"

He took out a scroll from his pocket, which remained unharmed despite the attack of the ice spikes.

"Bring it to you."

However, just as he was about to tear it open, the mage's hand snatched the scroll away and presented it to Ross.

"A fourth-tier spell, Meteor Shower Scroll, not bad, I'll take it."

Dylan was stunned. "What kind of magic is this?"

"Who pulls out a scroll when they're being beaten?"

A deluge of magic engulfed Dylan.

The mage's hand transformed into the purest mental shock, further disorienting him and rendering him unable to cast spells, leaving him only as a target.

"Ice Spikes has no cooldown and reduces resilience, and it's controlled by Mage's Hand. As a third-tier mage whose lack of training has resulted in a significant reduction in all attributes, once your resilience bar is empty, you can forget about ever getting back up."

Unfortunately, first-tier spells are still too weak. If second-tier spells were used, Dylan would have died eight hundred times over.

Of course, under Rose's crushing dominance, his situation wasn't much better.

"This is the downside of focusing on puppet training while neglecting one's own development. A dignified third-tier mage with only second-tier physical strength," Ross instructed Celia.

Celia nodded repeatedly. Although she didn't understand what Ross meant by resilience bars, she still carefully sensed the magic circuits Ross was casting.

This is a rare teaching session, and the target audience is a third-tier mage.

Celia could tell that Dylan, this third-tier mage, lacked daily practice and had become rusty.

He hadn't fought in a long time and had forgotten what fighting was like.

"Kill or not?" Ross asked.

“Ah? This…” Celia hesitated for a long time, then shook her head. “I… I’ve never killed anyone, I wouldn’t dare… He… he’s a member of the Holy Court, let the Inquisition decide.”

"what ever."

Ross responded casually, his mental energy transforming into a needle that pierced Dylan's brain, turning his mental space into a mess, shattering his magic, and turning him into a Muggle.

He then looked at the situation on the puppet's side.

Despite having the help of Celia's puppet, Jack was not in a good position against a puppet of third-tier strength.

Unlike ancient puppets that would stop moving when their master disconnected them, these puppets fight autonomously, fighting until they complete the command given by their master.

Unless the magic runs out.

Just like now, without Dylan's magical input, relying solely on the magic within the Arcane Forge, the puppet has gradually stopped attacking.

However, at this point, Jack had little power to resist and was only slightly better off than Dylan.

Ross walked over and looked down at Jack. "Is he dead?"

"No."

Jack turned his head with difficulty to look at the defeated Dylan, his shock lingering in his eyes.

"You...killed him?"

"He's not dead, he's still breathing," Ross said calmly, raising his hand to cast a healing spell on him.

Jack felt as if the girl in front of him had become a completely different person.

It feels so unfamiliar, so scary.

Seeing that Jack's condition was starting to improve, Ross stopped arguing with him and took out his puppet repair tools. He opened Dylan's puppet and looked at the puppet heart inside.

"Strange, how can it be man-made? It's garbage."

Ross shook his head, returning control of the body to Celia.

"Your teachers have arrived."

"really?"

Celia looked up in surprise and saw several figures flying across the sky in the distance.

Chapter 41 Is this still the saintess I know?

"what happened?"

Elena and her two school instructors landed on the ground and were somewhat stunned to see the knights lying haphazardly and the remaining traces of magic.

While the other two mentors checked the surroundings, Elena rushed over and pulled Celia up to check her over.

Seeing that Celia was alright, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that you're alright. Tell me, what happened here?"

“I beat up the temple knights and the high priest,” Celia said.

"You brought...what? A Templar Knight? A High Priest?"

Elena didn't react for a moment.

The instructor inspecting the battlefield walked over, his expression quite interesting.

"The fallen people were not heretics, but knights of the Holy Court, and there was also a high priest, who seemed to be the high priest of the Snow Fir Town Temple."

The three looked at each other, and then simultaneously turned to look at Celia.

Celia's fair cheeks flushed slightly, and she lowered her head. "It's like this..."

She told the three of them about the problems she encountered at the temple, and what happened before and after the high priest suddenly appeared with knights while she was preparing to deal with the contaminants.

"You mean you defeated a third-tier mage, plus five first-tier knights?" Elena asked repeatedly to confirm.

Celia nodded.

"It was just good luck. Thanks to Mr. Jack, he was the one who subdued Dylan. I only helped out a little."

Jack: "?"

Another mentor came over and said, "The High Priest of the Snow Cedar Temple has had his magic core shattered and can no longer gather magic power."

The three looked at Celia, thinking she probably couldn't do it, and then looked at Jack lying down.

Jack opened his mouth, as if to say something, but Celia had already said, "It was me. Lord Dylan ignored my objections and tried to kill all the villagers of Bea Village as heretics. This is my punishment for him."

Elena and the other two: "???"

Elena hesitated for a moment, then went over to examine Jack and said, "His injuries are mostly healed, but he's still unable to move due to excessive magic consumption. He'll be fine after a short rest. Hello, we are instructors from the Holy Magic Academy. We need your cooperation in investigating the situation here later. Is that convenient?"

Jack nodded.

Even if it's inconvenient, it has to be convenient.

The three in front of me were of indistinguishable rank, their magic was profound, unlike Dylan who had been corrupted by life. I couldn't beat them, I simply couldn't beat them.

Elena exchanged a glance with her two mentors. One of them took Jack away, while the other stayed with Elena and put the five knights and Dylan together.

“Regis, please send them back and have the judge priests of the Temple of Embers come and take over the Temple of Snowflakes to convict them. I’ll go with Celia to check out the anomaly.”

Regis nodded, raised his hand to cast a levitation spell on all the injured, and then carried them away.

"Is this the pollutant we collected?" Celia asked, looking at the room emitting waves of pollution.

"Yes, I'm counting on you, Instructor Elena."

"Wait for me over there."

Elena went into the house and didn't come out for a long time.

The pollution coming from inside has faded considerably.

"Celia, can this house be burned down? There are too many pollutants; the whole house is now contaminated and unusable."

“It can be burned, thank you for your trouble, sir,” Marina’s voice came.

She had just settled all the villagers and was preparing to come and fight the enemy together when she arrived, only to find that it was already over.

They even arrived slower than the "law enforcement team".

"Row."

Elena raised her hand, and the entire house turned into a sea of ​​fire.

After placing a magic circle around the area to prevent the fire from spreading, she beckoned Celia to get into her flying vehicle.

“Celia, take me to see what’s wrong over there.”

"it is good."

Celia boarded Elena's flying vehicle with the puppet, which was a magical device resembling a unicorn.

"Miss Marina, could you please keep an eye on things here? We'll be right back."

"Okay, don't worry."

……

Upon landing at Lake Bea, Elena immediately sensed the persistent pollution.

The pollution is very mild; it won't affect ordinary people unless they stay inside for a long time.

The traces looked familiar, and Elena quickly connected them to the traces near the school.

She understood.

"So this is where it was. We searched the area around the school and the city of Huijin from top to bottom, but we couldn't find any trace of the heretical ritual."

She turned to look at Celia: "How did you find out, Celia?"

Celia blinked: "I just happened to be here to do a mercenary job."

"happen?"

"Yes, I went to the Mercenary Guild to ask if they had any challenging missions, and they recommended this one to me, so I came here."

Elena thought about it and felt it must be true.

It couldn't have been Celia who came looking for us, could it?

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