The villain daughter did all kinds of things

It's unlikely that her strength will improve significantly in the short term. Generally, the interval between the two fusion organs of a fusion-stage mage is about 50 years, and many fusion-stage mages only have one fusion organ in their entire lives.

Even if Emery has many special skills, her success rate in obtaining a second fused organ in a short period of time is very low and the risk is high. It is not worth trying lightly.

Therefore, Emerald's upgrade this time is an upgrade in terms of equipment - she is going to fully upgrade her magical artifact [Saintess].

The [Saintess] was made using a lot of materials from ancient dragon-level monsters, making it perfectly capable of being crafted into a magical artifact suitable for a fusion-stage mage.

Unfortunately, at that time, Emery was only at the Control level. If the magic armor was too powerful, it could easily drain her magic power, causing additional damage or even endangering her life.

Therefore, the genius craftsmen of the Melson Magic Workshop imposed restrictions on the [Saintess], limiting the performance of this magical costume.

Therefore, Amelie's first step in upgrading and modifying the "Saintess" was to completely remove the performance limitations of the "Saintess".

Technically, this step isn't difficult; the technical team that Emery poached from her own company could do it. However, there's one challenge.

Material.

When the Saintess was first created, in order to limit her performance, the artisans at the Melson Magic Workshop used a solidification engraving process on many parts to ensure that the Saintess would never cause any accidental harm to the user.

To remove the performance limitations, all the magical artifact parts that have undergone solidification and engraving must be replaced. Most of these parts are made from materials from ancient dragon-level monsters. Before Emery finishes her entrepreneurial trial, even as a fusion-stage mage, it will be difficult for her to gather all these materials in a short period of time. That's why she hasn't upgraded or modified the [Saintess].

But now the problem is very simple. The Melson family has all the materials needed to create the [Saintess], and the reserves are not small. Given Amelie's current status in the family, she can use them freely. She brought enough materials with her when she returned from Sphingard.

The restrictions on the [Saintess]'s performance have been lifted, so there's no problem.

But Emerald wasn't satisfied with merely removing the performance limitations of the [Saintess]; she also wanted to add new combat components to the magical costume.

The main material for this new combat component is the feathers of the Aurora Bird.

In fact, not long after Emery broke through the Fusion stage, she had been thinking about how to upgrade her magical artifact to improve her combat power.

Emery was always very clear about her strengths and weaknesses.

Her innate magic is a control skill, and her organ fusion ability is a support skill; both of these skills are quite powerful.

The combat style of the Mystic Code [Saintess] is also primarily focused on control and support. Its only powerful offensive weapon is the high-level holy spell [Divine Punishment], which has a powerful beam attack. While this spell is indeed powerful, relying solely on this one move is clearly insufficient, especially when facing opponents of similar strength.

So, after the Goddess incident, Emerald had been secretly and diligently studying the necromancy taught to her by the old lich Granny Ya. Previously, she had only used necromancy as a means of gathering intelligence, but now it had become her primary offensive skill.

The [Touch of Withering] and [Finger of Death] skills used when hunting the Aurora Bird were the result of Emerald's secret and arduous training during this period.

Even so, Emerald was still not satisfied with her own offensive capabilities, especially after witnessing Barbara's powerful earth magic.

Although Emerald could easily defeat Barbara's helpless Aurora Bird, if Emerald were to fight Barbara head-on on the ground, Barbara would beat her to a pulp.

Strong control types definitely have the upper hand against agile types, but they are helpless against fortress types.

Amelie estimated that even if Barbara didn't retaliate and just defended, it would be difficult for her to inflict any fatal damage on Barbara, as she was severely lacking in powerful offensive skills.

So how can we make up for the lack of output?

The best solution, of course, is to obtain a fusion organ with powerful output capabilities, but this is not something that can be done in the short term, nor can it be rushed.

Continuing to diligently study the old lich's necromancy is also a path, but cultivating magic is like leveling up in an online game—the further you progress, the harder it becomes. Amelie's current necromancy is roughly at the level of a grand mage specializing in necromancy; further improvement will be equally difficult to achieve in the short term.

Changing to a new magic armor focused on output is also an option, but Emerald has been using her current magic armor, [Saintess], for several years. Those high-level holy spells are very useful and she is very comfortable using them, so Emerald doesn't want to change it.

Therefore, the only solution is to add a component that can significantly improve the output capability while maintaining the original performance of the [Saintess].

Normally, this design is almost impossible to implement because the [Saintess] is already a fairly comprehensive magical artifact, with very few new components that can be added. Even if each new component is inscribed with an attack spell, a few attack spells would hardly change the current situation of insufficient output.

Fortunately, Emery had already come up with the idea, and it had been partially validated.

At the heart of this concept lies the Lohid family's greatest achievement—the Lohid replication technique.

When hunting the Aurora Bird, the two rotary machine gun-like magical devices below the Dragonbone Fighter were Emerald's initial test of her ideas, and the test was very successful.

Her own Withering Touch was originally unable to break through the Aurora Bird's defenses, but after being enhanced by Loshid's Copying Technique by 12x0.8 times, she easily destroyed the Aurora Bird.

那如果这个威力增幅不止是12x0.8，而是120x0.8甚至是200x0.8呢？就算是一招秒杀同等级的融合期强者都很有可能啊！

This is why Emerald chose Aurora Bird Feathers as the main upgrade material, because each Aurora Bird feather can be used as an independent spellcasting unit, and they are also very lightweight and beautiful.

If you're only making a magical artifact, then an artifact made from a single Aurora Bird feather is definitely not as strong as most other Elder Dragon-level monster materials.

But Emery's idea this time is to use quantitative changes to trigger qualitative changes.

She will use the feathers of the Aurora Bird to create a pair of wings for the [Saintess] as a new component. When she unleashes her full power, each feather on the wings will become a magical artifact, a magical artifact inscribed with the Lohid Replication Technique.

After that, no matter what magic Amelie uses to attack the enemy, a large number of feathers will use Lohid's Copying Technique to amplify the power of the magic by more than a hundred times.

Although such an attack would certainly consume a lot of magic power, magic power consumption is never a problem for powerhouses in the Fusion stage during battle. The key is to use a powerful and forceful strike to destroy the opponent first.

Furthermore, the feathers of the Aurora Bird, as independent spellcasting units, also have the function of storing magic power. Emerald can fully store the magic power in her wings on ordinary days, so that she can have two or even three opportunities to release her ultimate move in battle with almost no consumption of her own power.

Emery's technical team members were full of praise for her design and admired her even more.

In order not to disappoint their young lady's expectations, the entire technical team volunteered to work overtime, sleeping less than three hours a day and living and eating in the workshop.

With such effort, they finally did not disappoint Emerald, completing the task the day before Emerald was to take people to Sphingard for the sword-forging competition.

Emerald's magical costume, "Saintess," has been fully upgraded.

The upgraded [Saintess] doesn't differ much from her previous attire, except for the addition of a pair of pure white wings on her back that look quite holy, making Amelie, dressed in her magical costume, appear like an angel descended to earth.

She looks even more beautiful and kind-hearted, even full of love.

Emerald was very satisfied with this. After thinking for a moment, she gave the magical costume a more fitting new name – [Celestial Wing Saintess].

. . . . .

While Amelie was busy improving herself and those around her, there was another person working tirelessly day and night.

It was Ms. Mengmeng, a Purple Star Investigator from the FBI.

In the case of Lulu's kidnapping, the kidnapper Ham wanted to kidnap Lulu because his own daughter had also gone missing. The disappearance of Ham's daughter is most likely related to the case of the trafficking of magic-repelling cubs that Mengmeng has been investigating.

At the time, Mengmeng wanted to bring the living Ham back to the Bureau of Investigation for interrogation, but Emerald killed Ham with a single Death Finger, leaving Mengmeng with only a corpse.

However, just like Emerald's favorite method of intelligence gathering, in this world, corpses are often more valuable than living people in terms of information. Although Mengmeng doesn't morally approve of this, she admits it in her heart.

So after bringing Ham's body back to the FBI, Mengmeng didn't hold back. She used all sorts of magic and magical devices that could extract information from the dead on Ham... The FBI was never a pushover, and they had no shortage of necromancers and related magical devices.

Although doing so is disrespectful to the deceased, since it was Emery who killed the person, Mengmeng felt no psychological burden when she did it.

What Mengmeng valued was Ham's innate magic, the kind that allows one to establish a connection with blood relatives and share all their senses.

She wanted to search through Ham's memories for clues to see if she could find any important information related to the disappearance of the magic-repelling cub.

Amelie killed Ham because she was worried that Mengmeng might actually trace the clues from Ham to old Langdon. Although old Langdon had done many bad things, his original intention was indeed for the sake of the human race. More importantly, he was very talented and valuable, and it was not yet time for him to leave the stage.

So the moment she killed Ham and turned him into a zombie, Emerald had already read Ham's relevant memories. She found that all Ham received from his missing daughter was meaningless noise, without any instructions. So she let Mengmeng examine Ham's body at will.

But this time, Emery made a mistake.

Because Ham's daughter was a magic rejecter, she could not withstand Ham's innate magic. Therefore, the information she shared with Ham was not even vision, and the sound was incoherent. There were only meaningless noises at long intervals, and these noises did not contain human language, so not a single word could be heard.

When Mengmeng first used the magic device to read Ham's memories, she got the same result.

But Mengmeng did not give up. Even though the messages sent back by Ham's daughter were all static, Mengmeng studied every single sound.

Mengmeng first extracted and recorded the noise separately, and then used some FBI technical methods to reduce the noise and make it clearer.

This work was very time-consuming and yielded no results for a long time. After special processing, the noises were all environmental sounds, such as the sound of objects colliding, the sound of wind, and the sound of water dripping.

The human voices that Mengmeng most wanted to hear were nowhere to be found, not even footsteps or breathing. There was absolutely no valuable clue.

Despite their best efforts, they found nothing, leading many members of the investigation bureau who were helping Mengmeng with her investigation using technical means to give up and advise her to look for other clues.

But Mengmeng wouldn't listen to advice. She used her privileges as a Purple Star Investigator, determined to analyze all the noise left by Ham's daughter, even if it meant wasting the Bureau's resources.

Finally, perseverance paid off. In analyzing the last few static messages left by Ham's daughter, which should have been the static messages transmitted on the day Ham's daughter was murdered, a major discovery was made.

Although one of the noises was very short, after special noise reduction techniques, it could be clearly distinguished that it was no longer ambient noise, but a woman's voice.

It wasn't the sound of speaking, but just a woman's soft moan for a moment. The sound was very faint, and it must have come from somewhere not close by, but it was already an exciting discovery.

"Compare voiceprints! Find out who owns this female voice! Quickly!"

Mengmeng immediately gave orders to the subordinates she had brought to help her, feeling that she was really close to the real culprit this time.

Unexpectedly, the subordinates looked at each other with strange expressions.

"What's wrong? Get back to work! If we solve this case, I can apply for a major commendation for each of you!"

Seeing that his subordinates were not moving, he urged them again.

"This……"

One of the young female technicians in charge of the analysis swallowed hard.

"Sir, didn't you recognize it? That woman's moaning voice was yours."

Chapter 197 The Investigator's Misbehavior

"what?"

Mengmeng was dumbfounded.

Was that moaning sound her own?

how can that be!

My Mengmeng Bell was upright and pure throughout her life, how could she possibly make such a sound?

Mengmeng immediately wanted to angrily rebuke her subordinates for their nonsense, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her expression froze on her face.

"...Sir? What do you think...?"

A quick-witted subordinate seemed to realize something and tentatively asked.

"……never mind."

Mengmeng took a deep breath and waved her hand:

"This is none of your business, you can leave now... I will investigate this case myself from now on. Your efforts these past few days will not be in vain, I will apply for performance bonuses for you."

"Yes, sir!"

The subordinates who had been temporarily pulled in by Mengmeng to help all breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, they had long wanted to give up on investigating this case, and now they were finally free.

After sending all her temporary subordinates away, Mengmeng locked herself in her office and continued to listen to the specially processed voice over and over again, her expression gradually becoming serious.

She was now certain that the female technician hadn't been wrong; the moaning sound that Ham's daughter had heard before she died was indeed her voice.

Has Mengmeng ever made that sound?

It really was posted.

That was more than a month ago. She disguised herself as a nurse and sneaked into Langdon Hospital to search for someone. Unfortunately, she was caught on the spot by a scumbag rich girl and was bullied for two days.

During those two days, although Mengmeng did not actually lose her virginity, she was repeatedly bullied by the scumbag woman with her superior skills, causing her to scream loudly and uncontrollably.

The soft moan that Ham's daughter heard must have come from that moment, and the timing matches perfectly.

This confirms it: that old man Langdon was indeed a bad guy. It's very likely that all the magic-repelling cubs that have gone missing over the years have been sent to him, even the children we rescued last time...

The thought that the children she had tried so hard to save were most likely to have been harmed made Mengmeng feel heartbroken and regretful, unable to breathe.

However, Mengmeng was an excellent investigator after all, and she quickly adjusted her emotions, suppressing her regret deep in her heart... The most important thing at the moment was to protect the remaining children from harm.

Mengmeng desperately wanted to rush to Langdon Hospital and arrest the old man Langdon, but she knew it would be pointless.

A voice extracted from a dead person's memory, especially one processed with special technology, is simply not sufficient evidence. Even if you forcibly bring old Langdon back, he can simply leave immediately.

And most importantly, is that scumbag rich girl involved in this matter?

Snapped!

Mengmeng broke the pen in her hand in two, her mind replaying every moment she spent with Amelie.

Deep down, Mengmeng wanted to believe in Emerald. She felt that although Emerald wasn't exactly beautiful and kind-hearted, she was still much better than most members of the conglomerate. At least Emerald would provide assistance every time Mengmeng was handling a case.

And if Emery really was in cahoots with old man Langdon, how dare she bring me to live in his house? Was she underestimating me, a professional investigator?

The more Mengmeng thought about it, the more she felt that Emerald could still be trusted, at least subjectively.

But objectively speaking...

Mengmeng found the information about Old Man Langdon and Langdon Hospital that she had already looked at many times, and the more she looked at it, the more her brows furrowed.

Langdon Hospital was originally established by Mearson alone, and all of Langdon's research initially relied entirely on funding from the Mearson family.

Until the emergence of the magical bionic organ, the greatest achievement of the old man Langdon, other investors and talents flocked to invest in Langdon Hospital, directly turning it into one of the strongest hospitals in the Federation.

Today, the Merson family still holds more than 40% of the shares in Landon Hospital, and the remaining major shareholders are all well-known names in the Federation—Lohid, Morgan, Vance, Parker, Slater, etc., all of whom are top-tier financial groups in the Federation, and almost all of them have their own monopolistic industries.

In terms of medical capabilities, Landon Hospital may not be the strongest in the Federation, but its backing is certainly the strongest in the Federation at present.