"Come again!"

Yulia fought on despite repeated defeats.

She always tried to defeat Emerald using Emerald's tricks, but she was far from being able to surpass her master, and naturally ended up being taught a lesson in various ways.

The first half of the night was all Amelie's winning streak.

It wasn't until late at night that Emerald finally sensed that something was wrong.

Yulia's stamina... is just too good!

The intensity of the previous battles was enough to make Marcy and Viliana faint from exhaustion more than 10 times over, but Yulia was not only not tired, but even more excited?

...Won't I be worn down by this war of attrition?

Emery was already feeling a bit tired.

But she definitely couldn't lose in this situation, so she didn't hesitate to use her killer move, starting to fight Yulia with invisible ribbons, and often tying Yulia up in various positions and hanging her in the air before activating [Energy Drain] to absorb Yulia's stamina.

Yulia was even more vulnerable now, surrendering in less than 20 seconds in the fastest round.

No matter how badly Julia was defeated, even if her stamina was drained by Emeryte's magic, she could recover in a few seconds and start a new battle.

It was as if all the girls who had been bullied by Emerald were now truly standing with Julia, determined to take revenge on the scumbag.

Emerald would not give up on victory so easily. She could even adapt to Julia's Mind Correction Fist as a very comfortable massage. How could she lose so inexplicably?

So Emerald intensified her efforts, absorbing Julia's energy to replenish herself, wanting to see just how exaggerated Julia's physical limits really were.

However, it wasn't until almost dawn that Emerald finally became convinced that even a numerical monster body in its super-magical form shouldn't have such exaggerated physical abilities.

There's only one explanation—the world's consciousness intervened again. It still hasn't given up on letting Julia kill Emerald, and gave Julia an unlimited stamina cheat.

To this, Emerald merely sneered—so what if she has unlimited stamina? A fusion-stage mage also has unlimited magic power, and as long as Emerald has magic power, she can absorb Yulia's stamina, thus making her stamina essentially unlimited as well. Then let's fight!

And so it went... until the next day when it was fully light, the battle still hadn't come to a conclusion.

Although Yulia had been defeated and begged for mercy countless times, according to her, as long as she still had the strength to fight again, it could not be considered a defeat, but only a temporary setback.

"Hmph, you're pretty good, you scumbag woman. Let's settle this another day!"

When it was almost time for breakfast, Julia finally stopped challenging Amelie. Blushing, she jumped away from Amelie and ran into the bathroom.

Emerald moved her slightly numb fingers, took a deep breath, and lay sprawled on the bed.

...As expected of the chosen one favored by the world's will, it will certainly not be an easy task to completely subdue her.

But...

Recalling the unprecedentedly intense battle of last night, Amelie smiled with satisfaction.

So cool.

Even if such a duel cannot be decided, so what?

Give me more!

. . . . .

After a night of intense water magic battle, Julia had to take a bath by herself, but Emerald didn't have to.

Actually, Emerald originally wanted to take a bath by herself, but seeing that the battle was over, Marcy rushed in almost impatiently and helped Emerald to another bathroom.

"Hehehe...Young Miss, you and Lady Yulia fought all night yesterday, you must be exhausted by now, right? Then don't move, let me serve you~~"

Marcy was quite excited about her job.

Emery, of course, knew what Marcy was thinking.

As her personal maid, Marcy was most likely waiting outside the door when Emery fought Julia's water magic last night, and probably even prepared plenty of food and drinks to replenish her strength, but in the end, she didn't need them.

Given the nature of elves, it's already quite remarkable that Marcy managed to refrain from joining the battle immediately; her current eagerness is understandable.

Thinking of this, Emerald put away the slightly disgusted expression on her face, instead squinting her eyes and completely relaxing her body, letting Marcy take the initiative to serve her bath.

This time the bath took a little longer. By the time Amelie, dressed in a new dress, led Maxie out of the bathroom, Julia had already finished eating and gone out to work.

Having just broken through to the Super Magical form, Yulia was full of enthusiasm and couldn't wait to show off her skills and win everyone's praise.

After tidying up a bit, Amelie went to her office.

Sitting on Sulina's lap, with her legs and feet being cared for by the still-wanting Marcy, and occasionally sipping the fresh elven honey fed to her by Viliana... Amelie, who was already in a good mood, felt even more comfortable.

But it's not good to keep indulging in this kind of enjoyment.

"Go get my things, Anna."

After suppressing her urge to drink a few more sips of elven honey, Amelie's watery eyes cleared completely, and she gently patted Viliana and gave her instructions.

"Yes, Master."

Viliana instantly switched from fiery elf mode to aloof guard mode, bowed slightly to Emeryte, snapped her fingers, and disappeared into the fluctuations of teleportation magic.

A few minutes later, Viliana reappeared, this time carrying a thick stack of more than a dozen newspapers.

After having Viliana place the newspaper on the desk, Amelie pulled her legs and feet away from Marcy, placing them together under the desk, and picked up the newspaper to read.

Marcy then naturally stood behind Emerald and massaged her shoulders, while also curiously glancing at the newspapers on the table.

These are all well-known newspapers in the Allen Federation, mainly distributed in the federal capital Sphinx and some continental capitals, and their influence is still very significant.

Meanwhile, these newspapers, which are either wholly owned by Emery's Melson Entertainment or have close ties with the Dessert Gang, all worked overtime overnight to change their original front-page headlines after Emery ordered the plan to begin yesterday.

The new front-page headlines were all in large, blood-red letters, which looked shocking.

[Shocking! The president of the Arts Association is actually a traitor to humanity?!]

The report first gave a relatively objective account of the Level 5 demonic tide experienced by Locke City. It didn't go into much detail about this aspect, and people weren't particularly interested in it. After all, humans have coexisted with demonic tides for thousands of years, so it's not a novelty anymore.

If it weren't for the two main characters in this magical tide—Emerite and Julia—who are currently the most talked-about figures in the Federation and also great beauties, news about this magical tide would absolutely not have made it to the front page of the newspapers.

Even with the support of Emerald and Julia, a news story about a demonic tide extermination would at most make the front page of the newspaper. The key reason that made it directly to the headlines was the fact that Mondori was suspected of being a human traitor.

War can be lost, but traitors must die!

Although this statement was just a joke made to vent anger, it is enough to prove that any human being has almost zero tolerance for traitors, and the Allen Federation is no exception.

Even the most ambitious and greedy individuals rarely choose to betray their race, because once such a thing is exposed, they are destined to be condemned by everyone and there is no chance of escaping it.

Although the president of the arts association has been largely inactive for nearly a century, she is still mentioned in many books. In people's minds, she was an exceptionally talented singer and dancer, as well as a stunningly beautiful woman with a beautiful face and figure. How could she suddenly become a traitor to humanity?

Chapter 221 Information Bombardment

The report was relatively objective, not directly calling Mondoly a traitor, but only saying that her behavior was highly suspicious and hoping that she or the arts association could come forward to explain.

After all, when everyone is fighting the demonic tide, it seems suspicious that Mondoly suddenly goes to attack people and launches a large-scale indiscriminate attack on innocent civilians.

At the end of the objective report, there were several interview transcripts with officers and soldiers from Judy's unit. Although none of the officers and soldiers used a definitive tone, they all expressed some doubts about the demonic tide in Locke City.

After all, these officers and soldiers had participated in many demon tide suppression campaigns with Judy. They might not have as much intelligence as Judy, but their experience and intuition were not much different.

Judy had suspected that the demonic tide in Locke City might have been deliberately created by Emery, and her officers and soldiers naturally wondered if the demonic tide might have been man-made.

Just as wild animals and domesticated pets on Earth can have very obvious differences even if they are the same species, the current demonic tide in Locke City is indeed quite special. In particular, the scene after the demonic tide lord was killed, where the demonic tide power seemed to be recycled, makes it hard not to have doubts.

Normally, the prime suspect in this kind of thing should be Emerald, and given her status and power, it's not impossible that she deliberately orchestrated this to boost her reputation.

But now this suspicion has been pinned on Mondoly... There's no way around it, her indiscriminate attack on civilians was just too stupid, making people only think the worst of her.

On the morning the news broke, many people went to the headquarters of the Arts Association to protest. Reporters surrounded the place, and anyone entering or leaving the Arts Association was shoved with a microphone by reporters, who asked for their opinion on the matter.

If the people from Wayne's faction in the Arts Association were still around, there might still be a chance for things to turn around.

After all, during the years that Mondoly stayed behind the scenes to focus on her breakthrough, the Art Association was always run by Wayne, and all kinds of connections were in the hands of Wayne's faction. Wayne's faction was also good at public relations.

Unfortunately, almost everyone in Wayne's faction was wiped out in the Goddess Incident, and even their connections were implicated. Even those who were lucky enough to survive were purged in the subsequent internal power struggles within the Arts Association; being dismissed or expelled was considered a bad outcome, while many others, like Old Gate, died mysteriously.

The existing core members of the art association are all die-hard fans of Mondoly, or even fanatics of her.

They are genuinely loyal, and their artistic talents are quite good, but that's about it. They are simply not good at public relations and problem-solving.

Faced with protests from the crowd and questions from reporters, the members of the arts association neither presented evidence to prove their innocence nor tried to deflect responsibility and suspicion. Instead, they engaged in a heated exchange with the reporters and protesters, calling them nothing more than a group of vulgar scoundrels and country bumpkins who only knew how to shout and tarnish high art.

This, of course, completely enraged people.

Reporters may not be good at fighting, but they are powerful with their pens. In the latest round of reports, the word "suspect" has been completely omitted from the story of Mondoly being a traitor to humanity.

The protesters were instigated and controlled by the Dessert Gang. Now that their anger has been aroused, Cynthia doesn't even need to worry about them. They start spreading rumors about Mondoly everywhere, and the rumors are getting more and more exaggerated.

In just one night, Mondoly went from being a human traitor who colluded with monsters to the protagonist of a coloring book who had given birth to more than 100 children for monsters, according to rumors.

That wasn't the end of it. Before people could even process the bombshell news that Mondoly was a traitor to humanity, Emery and the Federation military officially filed a lawsuit against Mondoly.

They did not accuse Mondoly of betraying humanity in their lawsuit; their focus was on Mondoly's indiscriminate attack. Their aim in the lawsuit was to seek compensation for economic losses from Mondoly or the Arts Association.

Mondori launched that indiscriminate attack near the city square of Locke City, which is also the area with the highest land prices in Locke City.

As the most powerful local force in Locke City, the Velen family had already bought a lot of land in Locke City. The Velen family was also the maternal family of Emerald's biological mother. Now they were counting on Emerald to lead them to success, and they had long been obedient to Emerald. The Velen family's property was also Emerald's property.

As for Emerald, she had long regarded Locke City as her private territory. After officially ending her entrepreneurial trial and gaining financial freedom, she had been acquiring land in Locke City. Now, more than 8% of the people in Locke City still had to call her the Landlady. Almost all the buildings destroyed by Mondori belonged to Emerald.

If you come to my house, fight, and damage my property, it's perfectly reasonable for me to sue you and make you pay compensation. Nobody can find fault with that.

The Federation military, of course, was dragged into the conflict by Emerald. Judy said her troops lost a lot of their latest equipment after Mondori's attack, and several mages were injured and forced to retire early—significant losses that the Arts Association had to compensate for.

Of course, the military high command was also well aware of the specifics—the lost equipment would definitely reappear at the White River Gang and White River Shipping soon, and the military mages who retired early would basically go to Blue Star Film and Television or White River Shipping to take new high-paying jobs.

But what can you do if you know? Many high-ranking military officials do these things, but most of them don't dare to be as blatant as Judy, so the military just lets Judy do as she pleases.

After all, Judy has a general father who is a good friend of Miss Merson. I heard she's even dating Merson's eldest son, so her future is limitless.

If someone files a formal lawsuit through official channels, and the plaintiffs are all prominent figures, then the federal court will definitely accept the case.

Once a case is filed, the defendant must attend the hearing regardless of the outcome.

Normally, such matters wouldn't be so urgent, but can the situation where Emery and the Federal military are both plaintiffs be considered normal? The Federal Court, of course, immediately issued a summons to Mondoly and planned to hold a trial as quickly as possible.

Of course, the court couldn't find Mondoly herself, so it could only issue a summons to the Arts Association, asking them to notify Mondoly to attend the trial; otherwise, it would be considered that she had absconded to avoid punishment.

The arts association was completely bewildered when it received the summons, because they didn't know where Mondoly was, so how were they supposed to notify her?

Where is Mondoly now?

In fact, after being beaten up by Julia in Locke City and escaping, Mondorie knew that Emerald would never let her go. What followed would be a barrage of attacks that would not stop until she and the Art Association were destroyed.

Although Mondoly was arrogant and conceited, she wasn't completely stupid. She knew very well that with her current personal strength and the power of the Art Association, she was absolutely no match for Emery, who had Melson backing her up.

Even if she could inflict heavy losses on Emerald through some desperate means, her own fate would be certain death... This was something Mondorie absolutely could not accept; she didn't want to die.

Therefore, Mondoly chose to take a gamble, which is theoretically the most correct approach.

She wants to advance her advancement ahead of schedule. Once she succeeds, she will gain power equivalent to the legendary Transformation Stage, at least as strong as the Elf Queen... At that time, she can become the queen of humanity, and Melson will have to kneel before her.

Long ago, Mondori gave up on pursuing the transformation stage. She believed that the path of full-body magical fusion was a dead end. So, over the years, Mondori has only had her vocal cords as a fusion organ.

Just as the ancestor of the Melson family was able to develop magical artifact technology using knowledge about magical girls from another world obtained from pancakes, there are still some magic practitioners in the Allen Federation who have embarked on a special path through knowledge from another world.

Mondoly was one of them. In her youth, she encountered a god of faith from another world and gained a lot of knowledge about the power of faith.

At that time, Mondori was somewhat tempted. She felt that no traditional mage had been able to break through to the Ascension stage for so many years, so perhaps trying the method from another world would work.

In those otherworldly realms where gods already abound, it would be extremely difficult to vie for enough faith power to ignite divine fire and condense a divine essence. However, this world is currently a blank slate in this area, and Mondori believes she has a great chance.

So from that time on, Mondolly set her sights on the position of goddess of song and dance, wanting to absorb people's worship and praise of the best singers and dancers in order to ignite her own divine fire and become a deity.

However, directly establishing a religion would make the intention too obvious, since she is not the only person in the Federation who has come into contact with knowledge of otherworldly gods.

Therefore, Mondoly did not dare to establish a religion directly. Instead, she formed an arts association and used her outstanding appearance and singing and dancing talents to conquer the Federation and become the most outstanding singer and dancer in people's hearts.

Mondoly was very successful in this step.

No matter how ambitious or wicked she may be, her outstanding talent as a singer and dancer is undeniable. To this day, the only person in the history of the Federation who can rival her is the queen of song and dance, Su Linsha, whom she killed.

Mondolly received praise and adoration from almost everyone in the Federation who enjoyed watching song and dance performances.

However, the praise and worship that fans give to their idols is ultimately different from faith. The power of faith that Mondoly refined from this praise and worship was very little, so little that even the supply from hundreds of millions of people for hundreds of years could not ignite her divine fire.

However, Mondoli was not in a hurry. She chose to play it safe. If 500 years was not enough, then a thousand years would be fine. In any case, the lifespan of a Fusion Stage expert was very long, and she had enough patience to wait until the day she succeeded.

Later, Wayne joined because Mondoly was focused on her spiritual practice, but the art association still needed someone to operate and manage it.

So Mondoly and Wayne reached an agreement—Wayne would first run the art association well to help Mondoly become the goddess of song and dance, and after Mondoly succeeded, she would help Wayne become the god of painting as well.

One of them was a singer and dancer, and the other was a painter. Both belonged to the arts and there was no conflict between them. Huai En didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he agreed.

Whether Mondoly will truly become a god first and then influence those who follow, no one knows, because Wayne has already been killed by Emeryte.

Mondoly also encountered a crisis many years ago—Sullina almost stole the position of the goddess of song and dance that she had raised for hundreds of years. Mondoly absolutely could not tolerate this and personally took action to make Sulina die in disgrace.

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