Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

"Take out one, freeze the rest and store them properly."

Celia took out a strand.

“Eat it directly?”

This strand is about 20 centimeters long and only one to two millimeters in diameter, like a rice noodle.

"It's up to you. You can eat it directly or cook it with other ingredients. But be careful, you can only eat one prepared shark fin a day. If you eat too much, you won't be able to cleanse your body of toxins."

After all that, Celia clearly had no interest in making three dishes and a soup anymore, so she just opened her mouth and gulped it down.

Well……

It has little flavor; it's like eating chewy jelly.

Celia guessed it was because no ingredients or salt were added during the processing.

After all, Ross's method of treatment, while appearing to be cooking, actually didn't involve adding any other ingredients, only magical materials.

These magical ingredients are lucky if they're not bitter; it's impossible for them to taste good.

Thinking of this, Celia felt a slight bitterness in the shark fin in her mouth.

She quickly chewed it and swallowed it.

A massive amount of magic power exploded within her body, and Celia quickly entered a meditative state to guide and refine this magic power.

"After processing, the beluga whale's fins can not only be refined to increase the purity of magic and physical strength, but also absorb residual magic and transform it into its own magic, thus achieving an all-round improvement."

Ross's voice came through, but Celia couldn't respond. She endured the surge of magic, trying her best to guide it.

After a long while, Celia opened her eyes and exhaled a mouthful of contaminants.

She felt as if many impurities had been removed from her magic, increasing its purity.

Increased purity of magic has many benefits. It not only makes it easier to use the puppet, but also increases the power of the magic and reduces its consumption.

Ordinary sorcerers cannot manipulate magic like Ross. The only way to reduce the magic consumption of spells is to increase the purity of magic—not counting the reduction in magic consumption after advancing in rank.

At the same rank, the amount and purity of magic power affect a mage's actual combat ability, second only to the performance of a magic puppet.

"Ice spikes!"

Celia manipulated the puppet to unleash an ice spike attack, then carefully sensed the effect of purified magic on spellcasting.

"I feel like my magic consumption has decreased by one-tenth."

“With your rank, the first ten of these thirty shark fins can reduce your magic consumption by about one-tenth,” Ross said.

"Wouldn't that mean we could cast spells with zero cost?"

Ross looked at her like she was an idiot: "Yes, yes, yes."

Celia took out her bracelet and began calculating how much magic power she could reduce after ten uses.

After calculating the result, the girl exclaimed, "It can reduce consumption by about 60%, that's a lot!"

"After 10 uses, the effect will be greatly reduced, eventually decreasing magic power consumption by about 70%," Ross said.

"That means the magic power that could originally unleash three spells can, after being fully refined, unleash ten!"

Such a clear upgrade made Celia eager to use her second shark fin.

However, she felt that the residual pollution in her body had not been completely purified, so she had to give up.

"No rush, there are still three months until the final exams. I'll aim for the second tier before then!"

The girl began to think about how to cook shark fin with other dishes the next day.

Chapter 86 Following Her

"Celia, are you going out anytime soon?"

That noon, Enarse found Celia and asked her about it.

"You don't have any plans to go out recently, what's wrong?"

It is now the second week since the beluga whale was captured.

Celia stopped going out and focused on attending classes every day.

Now that we have the most important thing in hand, the next step is to digest and absorb it.

Ross also said that it's best not to go out until you successfully reach the second stage.

So she didn't go out.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to have dinner with you. It's been a long time since we ate together."

Since discovering the summoning circle in Bea Village, Celia has been very busy, constantly on the move at Ross's urging. Often, she is not allowed to eat lunch at the canteen, but instead gets her own food and eats fish and meat that she has cooked herself.

"It's been a long time since we ate together. Let's go have lunch."

With her strength steadily improving, Celia was in a good mood, especially since she was no longer forced to eat fish. It was time to go back to the cafeteria and get free food.

Celia sensed what Enarse wanted to say, but she didn't mention it, so Celia didn't ask.

Upon arriving at the cafeteria, Celia was about to get something when Enars beat her to it.

"You've always been the one treating me, let me treat you this time."

Celia: "?"

She looked Ainas up and down carefully: "Are you alright? I'm paying for the meal, why are you insisting on paying for it?"

"That's different, this time it's my treat."

Celia was quite confused and was about to say something when Enars stopped her and continued, "Even if you eat for free, you've treated me to meals so many times. I'd like to treat you this once, it won't cost much."

"Fine, if you insist, then so be it."

How someone else uses their money is their business. If they still insist on doing what they're told after being reminded, then so be it.

That said, there's no reason for her to be so attentive; I wonder what Ainars is up to.

"I think he'll tell me after I treat him to a meal, right?" the girl thought.

A little while later, Ainars brought lunch: a potato, two slices of bread, and a glass of milk.

And expensive tuna sandwiches.

This thing can't even be supplied to the candidates for sainthood for free.

Celia stared at the sandwich on her plate. If she remembered correctly, this sandwich cost at least fifty copper coins, which was a considerable expense for Enars.

Celia never treated her to a meal.

This time it was her turn to treat, but surprisingly, there was nothing on her plate.

Seeing that she clearly needed his help, Celia had no choice but to say, "Just tell me what you need. We're friends, and I'll help you if I can. What are you dawdling about?"

"This is something I can't say out loud."

Enarse still hesitated.

Celia didn't move. "If you're not going to tell me, then I won't eat."

"No!" Enarse lowered her head. "Okay, it's just... I want to... I want to borrow some money from you."

Having mentally prepared herself for all sorts of outrageous requests, Celia was taken aback. "That's it?"

I thought it was something important.

The result was borrowing money.

Hmm... it's still quite important.

She hadn't gone out much during this period and hadn't spent much money, but looking at the only 8 gold coins she had, Celia felt a sense of urgency.

I just don't know how much Ainars is planning to borrow, or what she'll do with it.

"How much do you want to borrow?"

Ainars looked up, made a "V" sign, then pulled one finger back, leaving only her index finger raised.

"One gold coin, is that alright?"

Before meeting Ross, a gold coin was a treasured possession of Celia, and she would never lend it out under any circumstances.

But now that she has a "huge sum" in her hands, and with her recent spending spree, Celia subconsciously feels that 1 gold coin isn't much.

She even took out two gold coins directly.

"I don't know what you're going to do with so much money, but as a good friend, I should still support you. Are you going to use it to buy the Heart of the Puppet?"

"No, I've just run into some difficulties and urgently need some money."

Enarse looked longingly at the two gold coins, but in the end, she only took one of them.

"One gold coin is enough, that's enough..."

"Just take it, what are you dawdling for? Put it away right now!"

Celia flicked the coin into Enarse's arms.

"You can pay me back when you have an income later."

Celia laughed and began to eat.

I vaguely heard Ainars say, "It will happen."

I didn't hear clearly, but I did hear Ross say: "The help this girl really wants isn't a loan."

"What?" Celia was stunned, not quite understanding what Ross meant.

“It’s normal for this girl to be short of money, so it’s understandable that she hesitates for a long time before asking for a loan. However, it’s unlikely that she would invite you to a meal just to ask for a loan.”

Is anything impossible?

"Who would treat someone to a meal just to borrow money? So, does the other person lend it to you or not? Regardless of whether they lend it or not, the relationship between the two people will eventually fade because it's like morally blackmailing someone. Only an idiot like you wouldn't think that far ahead."

Celia suddenly realized, "There are other explanations? Then why did Enarse ultimately choose to borrow money rather than reveal her request for help?"

"First, this matter may be very difficult, so difficult that you might encounter problems or be unable to complete it; second, this matter may cross your bottom line or the law; third, you may be concerned about your dignity. There may be other reasons, but in general, the reasons why people want to ask for help but cannot bring themselves to do so are nothing more than these three."

Celia glanced at Ainars, who was eating quietly across from her, and noticed that she seemed to have lost a lot of her youthful appearance.

This is not a good thing for a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl.

Perhaps something very troublesome was bothering her; she wanted to ask Celia for help, but couldn't bring herself to ask.

Celia hesitated several times, still unsure how to ask Enarse to open up, so she turned to Ross for help: "Lord Ross, how can I get her to talk?"

"We'll wait until she comes to her senses," Ross said. "Speaking of which, aren't you angry with her? But she's the one who sent you to the flying competition. If you hadn't been careful, you would have been publicly shamed throughout the school."

The consequences of having a candidate for sainthood publicly announced throughout the school are self-evident.

"I did blame her, but if she hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have known that I could earn extra money like this. And the one who should be blamed is Mill. I just don't know if Doris was behind it... This matter is over now, and I'm not the kind of person who likes to hold grudges."

Ross nodded.

The Holy Court is indeed skilled at selecting candidates for sainthood.

"If you want to help her, it's not that there's no way to get her to talk. However, the method I'm suggesting might make her talk, but it could also embarrass her. And you might discover some unknown aspects of her, which could ruin your friendship. Are you sure you want to do that?"

Celia was taken aback. "What method could be so terrifying?"

“Follow her.”

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Thank you Q for the 500 points you've been giving away all day long!

Chapter 87 Transformation

In the end, Celia still failed to track down Enarse.

This is something you can't do casually. If you discover something that shouldn't be known, you might not even be able to remain friends.

"We can't track them down, but we can try to find out more."

So, aside from studying and practicing, Celia would occasionally pay attention to whether Ainars' other friends had mentioned her during her free time or mealtimes.

One thing was confirmed at the end—