Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

The girl thought to herself with a smug satisfaction.

What she's drawing now isn't the scroll she'll be using in the next couple of days, but the one she'll be preparing for the next few days.

It's early November now, and there's still a long way to go before school starts in March.

She had a feeling that she wouldn't be staying in Star Grey Town with Vanessa this year.

Therefore, you should take advantage of your free time to prepare more.

……

the next day.

The campsite became deserted.

The students have all left; now only the law-enforcing knights, mercenaries, and itinerant merchants remain.

The vacant houses, vacated by the students, were offered by the Holy Court and rented to arriving mercenaries at low prices.

The main base has been taken down, but it's not over yet.

Despite being managed by the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association for so long, the Golden Apple Stone Forest still contains numerous outposts and various altars.

The Knights of the Law issued numerous commissions, sending mercenaries into the Golden Apple Stone Forest to search for and clear out the altars and strongholds.

The entire camp gradually transformed into the shape of ancient ruins, which became very familiar to Celia.

She even noticed a somewhat familiar-looking person among the traveling merchants.

Karl, a traveling merchant who sells the Heart of a Puppet.

“Perfect, I can sell him the Puppet Heart that I don’t need.”

Chapter 449 The two thousand gold coins I just mentioned!

"Boss, how much is the Water-type Puppet Heart?"

"50 gold...wait, aren't you that guy?"

Karl looked up, was taken aback when he saw Celia, and then was immediately overjoyed.

"Hey, Miss Celia, I'm so glad to see you again. Would you be interested in modifying the linking device for my Puppet Heart?"

Celia certainly wouldn't mind making a little money on the side, but she didn't agree immediately. Instead, she asked, "50 gold for a Natural Water-type Puppet Heart?"

Was the one I bought for 10 or 20 gold coins?

Celia couldn't quite remember.

Carl chuckled and said, "Yes, but if you want it, I'll give you a discount..."

No discount needed.

Celia shook her head.

Karl's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed with delight, "This is great, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Celia take out a puppet heart and casually reach out her hand.

"50 gold coins, thank you."

Karl's smile froze.

Celia said, "This Puppet Heart is completely different from the ones you sell, boss. Look at the color. It's also very compatible with other types, such as ice and nature. If you don't believe me, I can test its abilities for you so you can buy with confidence."

Karl: "...Miss Celia, are you mistaken? I sell puppet hearts."

"When it's for sale, you won't buy it?"

"Of course I'll buy it, but it costs 50 gold coins..."

“I have other Puppet Hearts here.”

Celia took out all the usable Puppet Hearts she had obtained after clearing out the heretical strongholds following the league.

"If you buy all of them, I'll upgrade some of the connection devices for you for free."

Carl hesitated.

"If you don't want to buy it, then forget it."

Celia took back all the Puppet Hearts.

The puppet hearts that survived are all of decent quality, even though they're secondhand... but who cares how many times a puppet heart has been used?

"Wait a moment!"

Karl quickly called out to Celia.

The puppet hearts that Celia took out were all natural. Even if the quality wasn't that good, they could still sell for a high price. Although the highest quality puppet hearts were water-based, water-based items weren't unusable.

After all, water magic users, like fire magic users, are two major categories of magic users; there are no more factions than these two groups.

Karl hesitated for a moment, "How about upgrading all of my Puppet Hearts?"

"I don't have that much time, so I can only make some for free. I don't have time even if you pay me."

Celia held up two fingers. "These puppets will cost you 200 gold coins, plus 20 free upgrades to the linking devices."

"200 is too expensive."

"It's not expensive. At your unscrupulous price, you'll break even very quickly."

Celia looked at the Puppet Heart on the stall.

"It seems you've sold all those Puppet Hearts that I enchanted for you before."

Carl smiled broadly: "Yes, they're all sold out. This is the new stuff."

They've sold hundreds of Magic Puppet Hearts a year and are already making a fortune.

He experienced the benefits of upgrading the link device, but unfortunately, apart from Celia, no one was willing to upgrade his link device. Even if he did upgrade, the transmission efficiency would not reach more than 90%, and 70% would be the limit.

And the price is ridiculously high.

He didn't care about this at first, because buyers would find their own way to do it. But now that he's tasted the benefits of selling it as a package deal, he has no choice but to do it.

Moreover, the natural puppet hearts that Celia provides can also attract customers, even if they are expensive and cannot be sold, they can still attract people to buy the cheap artificial puppet hearts.

"Then 210 gold coins it is, if you don't want to buy it, that's fine too."

Carl's smile vanished again.

"Where can you find more and more plants the more you cut them down?"

"Don't want me to leave, okay?"

"I want it, I want it all!"

"..."

A few hours later.

Celia left with a big smile on her face.

With 210 gold coins in hand, plus what I had on hand, I earned 2400 gold coins from this trial. Although I used a lot of them in the process, they were all from what I had earned before, so I still have nearly 2500 gold coins.

It's worth mentioning that all the scrolls that were previously used to compete with the sorcerers for free were also sold to Melina.

"There are so many gold coins, I could never spend them all!"

Celia's pupils turned into the shape of gold coins.

Ross nodded thoughtfully: "It's good to have more gold coins. When we get back, we can buy a spatial ring, at least one cubic meter in size."

"Such a large space, 500 gold coins aren't enough, it might need 1000 gold coins..."

"Don't you have some?" Ross glanced at the gold coins in her hand.

Celia's face fell.

Ross said irritably, "With a space ring, you can carry more things. Do you want to be like Anke and hollow out the puppet's chest cavity to stuff things inside? How much can you fit in a chest cavity?"

“We could make a giant magic puppet…” Celia muttered to herself.

Before Ross could hit her, she quickly raised her hand: "I know it's wrong, I was just saying, please don't hit me (;)=3=3=3"

Giant golems are not an idea that no one has considered.

However, unless you are a sixth-rank or higher mage, the [Puppet Storage Spell] can only hold a puppet that is less than 2 meters tall. Even if you use a trick like Anko, there is not much space to store things. If you damage the puppet as a whole, it is very likely that the puppet will be damaged in the storage space.

This spell existed before the Age of Calamity, and with the rapid development of puppet technology today, many forces naturally want to study it.

Unfortunately, the low-level puppet storage technique still couldn't be activated.

Without sufficient physical strength, even a mage with spatial talent will find it difficult to expand the storage space for a magic puppet, and can only barely store one magic puppet.

Otherwise, we might already be seeing an army of puppets formed by a single person.

Of course, this is on the premise that you use natural puppet hearts of the same attribute, or all artificial puppet hearts; otherwise, the puppet hearts will conflict and cause problems for the sorcerer.

Even those with the same attribute are not used carelessly.

There is only one situation in which multiple puppets can be used: when the mark of the previous puppet is removed, a mark can be added to the next puppet.

Artificial Puppet Hearts are not subject to this restriction, but currently they only work on tiers three and below. For tiers four and above, Artificial Puppet Hearts are no longer sufficient for the daily use of sorcerers.

Once you reach the sixth tier, which allows for expanded storage space for magical puppets, even puppets with natural puppet hearts no longer provide as strong an amplification for the mage, let alone artificial ones.

Creating a bunch of man-made things is nothing more than creating a bunch of cannon fodder.

Ross said, "Only after you buy the spatial ring will you not have to carry it around all the time after you get the Golden Apple."

"At the same time, you will also need to purchase other high-grade materials to blend with the Golden Apple and refine them into potions and cultivation aids that you can currently use."

"But I don't know anything about potions..."

"I know."

"...How many gold coins will it cost?"

"Two thousand."

"..."

I just withdrew two thousand gold coins...

Chapter 450 The Divine Fragment is Stolen

1,000 meters underground.

Celia returned to this secret hideout.

At this time, the area had been taken over by the Holy Court, and sorcerers were everywhere.

The base is not large overall. The largest room is the underground space used for prayer. The other rooms are relatively small and contain many things. Some are laboratories used by the Deep Sea Aid Society to research magic arrays and sacrifices, while others contain some high-level materials, the purpose of which is unknown.

There were things in each room, and at that moment, the Holy Court sent people in to study them.

Besides taking everything away, the magic array at the stronghold was also a subject of study.

After Celia came down, the array master in charge of studying the stronghold's magic array immediately came over.

“Celia, you’ve come at the right time. We’re studying the magic array at the base and have made some progress.”

Upon hearing this, Celia immediately sensed something was wrong.

"Is there a problem?" she asked.

The array master took out several drafts and said, "There is a big problem. We discovered that the foundation of the array has been taken away. The high-level magic crystals that are placed here are obviously not the foundation of the stronghold array."

"what?!"

Celia's voice rose an octave.

If I remember correctly, the cornerstone of the stronghold magic circle is an ultra-rare magic puppet heart.

Now you're telling me the Heart of the Puppet is gone?

"Did the Deep Sea Boss take it?"

"No, I asked the court, and they didn't find anything on the leader."

Celia frowned slightly: "Then what exactly happened?"