A gentle request has a 90% success rate!
Demanding it by force has a 100% success rate!
After returning to school smoothly, Celia started running around looking at the materials list.
At the same time, she submitted an application to Black for the use of three rare materials, and while she was at it, she went to the Holy Court and, through Vasily's connections, obtained three more. Finally, she spent a large amount of gold coins to buy the last two rare materials from the Sorcerer's Guild.
With the three materials obtained from this trip, plus the Golden Heart gifted by Benovia, all the rare materials are now complete.
Adhering to the principle of not spending money if you can get something for free, Celia applied to the school for the remaining ordinary materials under the pretext of practicing runes.
However, you can't apply for too many materials at once, so Celia had to spend her remaining gold coins to collect them all.
Looking at the pile of various materials, Celia counted the expenses on her fingers.
"Morning dew, 20 copper coins; white swan down, 10 copper coins..."
"Phew, I have 8 gold coins and 20 silver coins left. Thank goodness, I was lucky to get 10 gold coins on this trip, otherwise I would have been 2 gold coins short."
There were so many things that Celia had no idea whether any of the materials had been missed.
But seeing that Ross didn't mention it, she didn't bring it up either.
At this point, Ross had already manipulated the puppet to begin fusing the materials, slowly extracting what he needed.
This process lasted for two days.
All the materials were transformed into a strange liquid containing fine powder.
The final product has a deep blue juice that exudes a strange aroma and a strong sense of magic.
"How amazing is potion science! What kind of potion is this?" Celia stared at it with wide eyes, unable to contain her curiosity as she asked.
"In my time, this was called alchemy. This is not a potion, but ink for drawing magic circles, called ink for white whales to burrow."
"What a hasty name..."
"Because I just came up with that name randomly."
Ross took out some bait ink, put it into a crystal glass container, and then added some Heart of Gold.
The mixture of the Heart of Gold and the Dough Ink immediately unleashed a powerful surge of magical energy.
The destructive magical energy contained within made Celia's heart race, fearing it would explode at any moment.
"Don't worry, it won't explode. The magic released by the violent reaction between these two things is attribute-less, there are no conditions to detonate it, and it cannot be absorbed."
"That's good." Celia breathed a sigh of relief.
She had originally wanted to ask if the magic could be absorbed, but Ross had already answered in advance, so she had to give up in disappointment.
"What do we do next?" Celia asked.
“Let’s go fishing,” Ross said.
"Huh? Fishing again?!"
"Ah."
"But I didn't finish eating the fish I caught before."
"Stop talking nonsense, just go when I tell you to. We'll continue fishing starting tomorrow."
"OK then……"
……
The next day, after finishing her classes in the afternoon, Celia packed her bags and went to the outside of the Sacred Beast Forbidden Forest again.
Austin is leisurely drinking tea.
as usual.
His eyes lit up when he saw Celia arrive. "What a rare guest! Celia, it's been so long since I've seen you fishing."
Because I've caught enough.
Celia thought to herself, then said shyly, "Good afternoon, Grandpa Austin. Would you like to go fishing together?"
Austin tossed aside the newly made Word Magic Brew and rushed into the house to grab his fishing rod.
"Let's go, let's go! I haven't fished for days. Ever since I caught that 100-pound golden cod, I haven't caught any extraordinary fish. I must catch another one this time!"
Passing by the Word of Power Brew that had been casually tossed aside, Austin paused, picked up the water bottle and put it on his backpack, then called to Celia to head to the Forbidden Forest Lake.
"Will Grandpa Austin have any influence?" Celia asked Ross.
"It won't affect anything, you can go ahead," Ross replied casually.
"That's good."
The two quickly arrived at the lakeside and began to dig a nest.
Austin approached Celia and placed the water bottle he had just picked up next to her.
"This is a secret brew of Words of Power. It can help sorcerers calm their minds, make it easier to enter a meditative state, and also enhance their mental strength. How about I trade it for bait?"
"The Secret Brew of Words? Excellent!"
Celia immediately agreed.
Austin asked for bait, found a good spot, and prepared to catch another big fish, while Celia poured herself a glass of Word of Power Secret Brew, sipping it as she casually cast her line.
While they focused on fishing, Ross manipulated the golem, carrying the special ink and the Heart of Gold, to wander around the Forbidden Forest lake.
After a long while, he returned to the area behind Celia.
Ross left the puppet in place and returned to Celia's mental space.
"Okay."
"Okay, wait a minute, I'll catch another one."
Ross glanced at the fish and saw that Celia's catch today was so-so, with only two palm-sized fish.
Without his help, it would be impossible to catch the extraordinary fish.
After all, those extraordinary fish usually hide in the deepest parts of the lake and never come out. To catch them by skill alone, you would probably need to do special research and have extremely good luck.
Celia's catch wasn't good, while Austin's was about the same, with only a tiny fish about two fingers wide after all that hard work.
Seeing that Celia was packing her things to leave, Austin noticed that Celia hadn't caught any extraordinary fish and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Are you leaving now?"
"Well, I still have homework to do, so I'll stop fishing. Grandpa Austin, you continue fishing, I'll be going now."
"Aren't you going to wait until you catch the extraordinary fish before leaving?"
"We can't catch any. Maybe all the extraordinary fish in the lake have been caught."
Austin immediately nodded in agreement: "That's right, I had the same feeling. Someone must have dived into the water and taken all the fish, which is why we can't catch any."
Celia: "..."
Chapter 80 Invading the School's Magic Array?
Over the next few days, Ross continued to send Celia fishing at the Forbidden Forest Lake, while he continued to complete the magic array for capturing the Beluga whale.
As Ross embedded the magic circle into the ground beneath the Forbidden Forest Lake, Celia worried that it might be discovered and destroyed by others.
Ross, however, was not worried.
"If the magic array I set up can be easily found and destroyed, then I can give my title of evil god to whoever finds it."
Ross had always been very reliable, and Celia chose to trust him.
After all, even Austin, who occasionally went fishing with him, didn't notice what he had done, let alone anyone else.
Celia worried more than once about being discovered by Austin, but in the end she found that once Austin entered fishing mode, he paid no attention to anything else and only wanted to catch the fish.
Of course, it's also possible that Celia didn't appear with the puppet; either Ross entered the Forbidden Forest beforehand, or she entered after she started fishing.
In this situation, Ross intentionally concealed it, making it difficult for others to detect.
While Celia went fishing every afternoon to cover up Ross's magic circle setup, the peaceful campus life was thrown into turmoil by a school broadcast.
[Dear faculty and students of the Holy Magic Academy, this is the school broadcasting room. Principal Black has issued an order that a major upheaval will occur in Ember City, and all faculty and students are prohibited from leaving the city for the next week.]
The broadcast was played three times, immediately causing a stir among the entire student body.
Within the Protoss network discussion groups, countless students speculated about what had happened.
Some well-informed individuals with connections within the Holy Court became even more excited upon learning that a heretic was summoning monsters of the level of evil gods' servants, and spread the news throughout the entire school.
The students in the ivory tower were unaware of how dangerous this was; they only wanted to know how the summoning was progressing.
The day after the announcement was released, the Holy Magic Academy broadcast it again.
This is a notification to activate the school's protective array.
A faint, sacred light rose from the seven towers scattered around the school, gradually enveloping the entire school as if it had a dome.
During the day, it wasn't noticeable, but at night it was dazzling, attracting countless students who had never seen it before to record the scene.
Celia also recorded the activation of the school's protective magic circle.
Previously, at the Twilight Cult stronghold, she used someone else's magic circle to attack a fourth-tier mage, which made Celia very interested in magic circles.
At this moment, she showed great interest when she saw the school activate its protective measures.
"Does the school's magic circle have a self-destruct function?"
"What are you thinking?"
Celia made a face. "I'm used to it. When I saw that other people's protective magic circles had self-destruct functions, I thought the school's had them too."
"It has a strong protective barrier and also incorporates self-destruct runes. Only a mentally unstable person would design a magic circle like this."
"Hehe, that's true."
Looking at the holy light in the sky, Celia looked at the tower closest to the dormitory area.
"This tower seems to be the Tower of Purity? Is the school's magic array based on these seven towers?"
Ross nodded. "Yes, the school's magic array wasn't placed underground; it was implemented using a specific building, and its strength is incomparable to the rudimentary magic arrays found in heretical strongholds."
"I wonder if it's possible to hack into the school's magic array..."
Celia was getting restless.
"With your current mental strength, you can only infiltrate the tower from the inside. If you encounter anything from the outside, immediately sound the alarm and summon all the high-level mages in the school."
"Alright." Celia gave up the idea of studying the school's magic circle.
Ross said, "The magic arrays at your school are too advanced for you right now, and too difficult to understand. There's no need for you to learn about them. However..."
He was also looking at the light screen in the sky.
"Although this magic array has been optimized, its flaws are still very obvious. I can find no less than ten ways to break it, and one of them is even very simple."
"Is it really that bad?" Celia retorted without any confidence.
“It’s just that pathetic.” Ross shook his head. “In your era, apart from advanced puppet technology, everything else is quite backward. This magic circle was probably dug out from some lost ancient ruin.”
Celia: "..."
I really wanted to speak up for the school, but Ross was too authoritative, and I had no idea how to help.
So she decided: "A foolproof way to break down a system? Can you teach me?"
Ross sized up Celia, saw through her thoughts at a glance, and chuckled: "Okay, I'll teach you. This kind of magic circle that requires seven types of buildings to construct is called the Seven Star Towers, and each tower is called a Star Node."
"The foolproof method of dismantling is to find the Resting Star among the seven Stars, copy the prepared runes into it, and thus destroy the integrity of the node, thereby dismantling the entire magic circle's protection."
"The Starlight of Rest?"
"Yes, the Seven Star Towers are based on the legend of the ancient gods creating the world. The seventh day is the Sabbath, and it is also the weakest point of the entire magic array, which can even be broken down from the outside..."
As Ross explained, the sacred protective array gradually fell from its pedestal in Celia's mind.
She picked up a scroll. "I'll try to draw the Disintegration Rune!"
Ross chuckled, "What? Are you planning to secretly dismantle the school's magic array while the white whale is summoning, so the white whale can blow up the school?"
"Hehe, how could I possibly have such a thought? I'm just curious whether such a massive magic array could really be destroyed by simple runes?"
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