The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Yulia was just about to check Marcy's breathing when she saw that Marcy's whole body suddenly started burning up.

Having anticipated this, Emerald snapped her fingers and used a sealing spell to isolate the flames, preventing the living fire from burning down her office, while also retracting her foot.

A few seconds later, Marcy, whose maid outfit had been burned away, stood up. She calmly pulled out a new maid outfit and changed into it before waving to Yulia.

"Hi, Yulia, you're back~~"

Yulia stared in disbelief for several seconds before asking with some curiosity:

"Sissi, you were really trampled to death by Emery just now, but you've come back to life?"

"...How could that be? I haven't reached that level yet."

Marcy gave a wry smile upon hearing this:

"I was just suffocated by the young lady's stepping on me, but then the self-protective function of the Flame of Life activated and healed me."

After saying that, Marcy ignored Julia and went to hug Amelie's feet again:

"Young Miss! I've learned something new! This method is really effective! Please, just like before, stomp on me until I suffocate. It's so satisfying... no, I mean, so efficient for cultivation!"

"Let's talk about it tonight... This kind of experience isn't effective if it happens too often."

This time, however, Amelie didn't offer her black-stockinged legs to Marcy. Instead, she used her other leg to 'kill' Viliana within seconds.

"Oh my god... This is the power of my master... I really am just a nobody~~"

Viliana doesn't have the Flame of Life; she was truly paralyzed after being 'killed,' and will likely be unable to move for a while.

"Hmph! Shameless little minion!"

Julia muttered something under her breath, then, with a quick dart in her eyes, she grabbed Emerald's arm:

"Oh right! Emerald, you promised me you'd help me train when you got back! You can't go back on your word, so come with me to the training grounds now!"

"...What? Baby, you can't wait for me to give you a good hard time?"

Amélie gave Julia a half-smile, but didn't refuse. Instead, she casually pinched Sulina's cheek with her lowered hand.

"Senior, it seems you're going to rehearse a song and dance with your girlfriends later? Then you should change your clothes. You don't have to be a chair today... I'll probably be spending the rest of the time with you at the training ground."

"Yes."

Su Lina breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she was used to having Amelie sit on her back, Julia sitting on her and flirting with Amelie was a bit unbearable for her. It was so much better to be able to go to dance rehearsals.

Sulina immediately took back the magical costume that made her feel ashamed, put on a relatively normal white bodysuit, and wanted to go out.

"and many more!"

But Emery's voice suddenly turned cold:

"Senior, you haven't forgotten your place, have you? I've granted you permission to stop here for today, shouldn't you offer something in return?"

!

Su Lina's body trembled slightly, and she sighed.

She gritted her teeth, but still turned around, knelt down in front of Emerald, and gently kissed the toes of Emerald's black-stockinged feet:

"Thank you for your kindness, Miss... You are beautiful and kind-hearted, Miss, I like you the most!"

"Hmm~"

Emery's voice warmed up, but she was clearly not very satisfied:

"Senior, you really are sensible... but you don't sound very willing?"

"...No, that's not true, Miss."

Helpless, Su Lina could only use that self-hypnosis-like spell again to force her emotions to be genuine and repeat the sentence.

"Hahaha...that's more like it. Okay, senior, go practice your dance."

Emerald then smiled and let Sulina go, while simultaneously embracing Julia:

"Let's go, baby, to the training ground. I'm going to give you a good workout!"

Chapter 173 Has Yulia gone astray too?

Inside the Blue Star Film and Television building.

Emerald and Julia appeared hand in hand, walking side by side in the building's corridor, seemingly heading towards the stairwell.

Seeing this, the employees in the offices on both sides of the corridor, although still pretending to be working diligently, actually pricked up their ears, eager to hear what the boss and the current top candidate for the boss's wife were talking about.

Faintly, Yulia's voice reached everyone's ears.

"Will going indoors be fine, Emerald? You're so capable now, I'm afraid such a small indoor space won't be enough for the two of us to handle, right?"

"How about we go find some wilderness outside the city to play in? I actually quite like the outdoors; it gives me a sense of freedom and is very exciting..."

The sound quickly faded away with the footsteps, but the gossipy eavesdroppers were all shocked.

What?! Miss Yulia, the great heroine of Locke City, actually enjoys outdoor combat? And she's even dragging the president of Blue Star Films and the young lady of the Melson family along? This is too exciting!

Many people secretly noted this news, intending to use it as bragging rights and incidentally provide inspiration for the creators of some strange novels and picture books.

Meanwhile, Yulia, unaware that her words had been misunderstood, was still pulling Amelie aside and suggesting they go to find a wilderness outside the city to play.

Yulia does enjoy fighting in the wild, but not the kind of wild fighting; she enjoys real wild fighting—fighting without worrying about damaging the city and streets, and fighting freely and to her heart's content.

But Emerald didn't want to go into the wild.

Now that her astonishing strength has just been revealed, many organizations will surely want to obtain more detailed information. There are countless intelligence agents lurking in the wilderness of Locke City... It would be too inconvenient to give Yulia special training in such a place.

So in the end, despite Julia's pout and dissatisfaction, Amelie still dragged Julia to her training ground.

"So how do you plan to train me, Emery?"

As soon as she entered the training ground, Yulia perked up and rubbed her hands together, eager to get started.

"Emerite, you're a very powerful Fusion stage mage, right? Can this training ground really withstand your power when you're serious?"

"Hmm... If I were serious, the training ground probably wouldn't be able to withstand it, since even Yulia could easily break through the ceiling."

Emery touched her lips with her finger, her smile somewhat alluring:

"But I'm the only fusion-stage mage. Yulia, you're still far from it... You don't think I need to take your training seriously, do you?"

"You... hum!"

Yulia pouted again, and waved her fists.

"Don't underestimate me! Even you, Emery, will suffer if you underestimate me!"

"Yes, yes, yes... You're the best, baby~~"

Emerald casually caught Julia's waving fist and, as she had done many times before, rubbed it against her lower abdomen through her clothes, squinting her eyes in comfort.

"Actually, my dear, you are very clear about your current shortcomings, right? Although you abandoned thinking and relied entirely on your physical instincts when you fought Shadow Dragon, you still have a clear memory of the battle afterwards, right?"

"……Um."

Somewhat unwilling, Yulia nodded nonetheless:

"Amelie gave me such great power back then, but I couldn't control it... Was it because my brain was too stupid and held my body back?"

"...Actually, that's not quite right."

Emery thought for a moment and said:

"The inheritance that Senior Uri gave you was comprehensive, and the physical enhancement you received after absorbing magic and receiving the blessing was also comprehensive... The same goes for your mind. Your thinking speed was actually very fast at that time, but the problem was that you had never had that kind of experience before, so you were not used to it, which caused you to suffer a great loss when you first fought the Shadow Dragon."

"Later, when I told you to stop thinking, I actually meant to help you concentrate, so that your conscious mind wouldn't interfere with your brain's automatic processes... Hmm, you should still remember vividly the feeling you had during the fight, right?"

"Uh-huh."

Yulia nodded repeatedly, then looked somewhat dejected:

“But I can’t do it… I tried it when I first returned to Locke City, but without the power you gave me, I seem unable to enter that state.”

"Trying? How exactly did you try, Yulia? Were you bullying monsters around the city again?"

Amélie asked, finding it particularly amusing.

"of course."

Yulia asked in a somewhat strange tone:

"Besides the monsters in the wilderness outside the city, who else can I practice against? I don't know what happened to those gangs from outside, they've all become very honest businessmen. I can't just beat them up for no reason, can I? Anna was also mysteriously absent for those few days, so I had no choice but to practice against monsters?"

"Then of course you won't be able to enter that state."

Emery shrugged:

"Because Julia, your speed is too fast... Even without my enhancement, your speed can crush the monsters in the wilderness around Locke City. This means that even if you often get distracted and daydream during battle, you can still easily dodge any attack, so it's obviously ineffective training."

"That's it..."

Yulia nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite:

"So the first step in my special training is to find an opponent who is fast enough?"

"Pretty much... That's why I said this training ground is enough, because you don't need me to use my strength seriously in the beginning of your training, and this alone is enough."

Amelie smiled and extended a hand, gently grasping it. In mid-air, an identical pale blue transparent palm appeared, moving in sync with her hand's movement.

"This is... the [Magic Hand]? Emerald, you're using this to train me?"

Yulia suddenly became a little sulky again:

"Amélie, aren't you underestimating me a bit? Does being a Fusion Stage mage give you the right to be so arrogant and conceited?"

【Hand of Magic】is considered the most basic and simplest spell in magic; almost anyone who can sense and control magic can learn it. If magic were compared to mathematics on Earth, this spell would be roughly equivalent to addition and subtraction within 100, with no difficulty even in multiplication and division.

【Magic Hand】 isn’t even considered a combat spell. Most magic apprentices and awakened mages can only use it to remotely bring themselves a glass of water, or to remotely retrieve the clothes they carelessly threw off last night when they wake up in the morning… In short, it has very little power and can only carry a weight of no more than 5 kilograms.

Once a mage reaches the level of a formal mage or a master mage, the "Hand of Magic" can do some heavy work, but it's only enough to lift a bag of flour. Its maximum strength is usually less than that of a healthy, ordinary adult woman.

Even for grand mages and fusion-stage mages, the power of [Hand of Magic] is generally only a few hundred kilograms. Basically, no one would use this spell in combat; it is just a very ordinary and simple life-related spell.

So when Yulia saw that Emery was trying to get rid of her with the "Magic Hand," even with her good personality, she was very dissatisfied, and her pouting lips were so thick they could hang an oil bottle on them.

Then Emerald suddenly leaned forward, launching a surprise attack, quickly kissing Julia's pouting lips, then immediately pulled away as if nothing had happened, saying:

"Actually, fusion-stage mages can be arrogant and conceited... Yulia, if you're not convinced, try breaking through the blockade to attack me. I'll only use [Magic Hand]. You can use any method you want, as long as you can land one effective attack on me, you'll pass the training."

"...Ugh, that scoundrel Emery attacked me again."

Julia blushed and muttered something before raising her fist again, her eyes darting to Emerald's lower abdomen, a strange excitement flickering within them.

"Really? I'm fine with anything?"

"of course it's true."

Emerald's expression remained relaxed, and the pale blue, transparent hand in mid-air followed Emerald's movements with several agile motions:

"Come on... Yulia, if you're ready, we can start anytime~~"

"...Hmph, then I won't hold back!"

Yulia acted without hesitation, charging towards Emerald as soon as she finished speaking, clenching her fists and aiming directly at Emerald's abdomen, completely ignoring the [Magic Hand].

Yulia's magical theory is indeed not very good, but just like people on Earth with only an elementary school education can do addition and subtraction within 100, Yulia also understands the [Hand of Magic] very well.

The [Magic Hand] used by mages in the Fusion stage generally has a strength of only a few hundred kilograms, and rarely exceeds one ton.

This power would pose some threat to a typical master-level mage and would require some defense, but Yulia didn't need to at all—she was confident that she could withstand the [Hand of Magic].

In fact, Yulia's judgment was not wrong. Amelie's [Magic Hand] also did not exceed one ton in strength. Whether she punched or pushed with her palm, she could not shake Yulia.

However, Emerald is not only a fusion-stage mage, but also a seasoned scumbag, having earned the title of one of the most notorious scumbags in school.

The pale blue, transparent hand didn't use a fist at all; instead, it pinched the fist between the index and middle fingers and then gently poked it with the ring finger. Yulia, in the midst of her charge, lost all strength, her legs buckling as she half-knelt on the ground, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Ugh... Emerald, you're such a bad person! How could you use such a move? You're so mean!"

"It was Julia who told me to train you hard, and it was you who completely disregarded the basic spell [Hand of Magic]."

Emerald then defiantly moved her pale blue magical hand, its fingers twirling nimbly in front of Julia, deliberately using a slightly mocking tone:

"So, Yulia, you're already done for? No way... you think you can become the strongest hero? You're such a weakling!"

"You... hum!"

Yulia's legs instantly straightened, and her eyes practically blazed with fury: