Chapter 248 The Situation

"Senior Apprentice Sister, what brings you here?"

Suren thought he was seeing things.

Because during the last communication, Ms. Jing was still far from the Cursing Valley.

Even without any unexpected delays, he estimated it would take several hours for her to arrive.

But now, she had suddenly appeared before him?

"Mm."

Ms. Jing pushed back her hood, revealing her cold and pretty face.

She looked at Suren, the corners of her mouth lifting into a slight arc, and said softly, "You're in good shape. Looks like I'm not too late."

Only towards this junior apprentice brother would she reveal such a relaxed expression.

"You really came..."

Suren listened, feeling a sense of unreality.

But he couldn't hide the joy in his eyes.

No matter how Ms. Jing arrived, the fact was that she was here!

With the arrival of this "golden thigh," this seemingly hopeless situation instantly had the ability to turn the tables.

Ms. Jing glanced at the dense red threadworms in the passage, her delicate eyebrows rising slightly, as if she recognized the origin of these worms.

Without much delay, she turned to Suren and said, "I'll explain later. I'll go out and deal with that Outer God's follower first."

"Mm."

Hearing this, Suren naturally had nothing to add for the moment.

He also naturally thought that his senior apprentice sister had arrived early because she had calculated something.

Just as she finished speaking, Ms. Jing rapidly made a series of warlock seals with her hands, her expression stern.

Suren watched the sequence of her warlock seals and felt it was very peculiar.

This wasn't the beginning of any elemental spell, nor any warlock seal system Suren had ever seen. It felt more like… she had created it herself, a unique technique?

Before Suren could guess, Ms. Jing had already formed the warlock seal, and she whispered, "Domain: Myriad Mirror Wheel!"

So, it was a seventh-tier domain?

A look of realization dawned on Suren's face.

This was also the first time he had seen a genuine Law Domain.

This was very different from Black Umbrella's "Night Curtain Domain," and the corrosive domain of the tentacle monster before.

As soon as this technique was activated, a faint luster suddenly enveloped Ms. Jing's body, and around her body there seemed to be pieces of shattered mirror. Even though this domain wasn't directed at Suren, standing within the range of the domain, he instantly felt as if he couldn't sense anything around him. It was as if this world was under Ms. Jing's control.

Looking again, Ms. Jing's figure had already disappeared into the passage.

Suren looked at the place where the mirror light had flashed, and murmured, "Senior Apprentice Sister has become so strong..."

.......

"She really came..."

Suren felt a lingering sense of disbelief in his heart.

But with strong support arriving, the heavy stone in his heart suddenly fell.

He didn't want his physical body to get involved in that level of battle, which must be like a battlefield of hell.

Suren waited in the passage and then let the Black Crow fly in, wanting to watch the battle.

But the battle was too fierce, and the aftermath of the collision of high-level laws was simply a destructive disaster for low-level creatures.

The Black Crow's body was shattered several times by the aftermath of the battle.

Each time it reformed, it "cawed" and complained about its dissatisfaction.

Fortunately, Suren had collected a dense amount of death energy in the coffin before, and after taking a few sips, the Black Crow felt like it could go on.

But even with the Black Crow, Suren never saw what the battle in the Hall of Valor was like from beginning to end.

Yeger, or rather that "heretic," was fighting desperately.

The destructive power generated by the collision came wave after wave.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the collapsing movement in the underground passage gradually subsided.

"It's over."

Suren's slightly furrowed brows relaxed.

Although he guessed that his senior apprentice sister's strength must be very strong, she had said that her strength hadn't fully recovered.

Moreover, Suren didn't know if this enemy, who seemed to be a god's will, had any other means.

Now that he saw the battle was over, the red threadworms on the rock wall had withered and blackened, looking like they were dead.

The outcome was obvious.

"But speaking of which, what tier is Senior Apprentice Sister now?"

Suren became more and more curious.

Hearing Ms. Jing's reply on the communicator that the battle was over, he didn't think too much. With a few spatial shifts, he quickly shuttled through the collapsed passage.

He was so eager because, on the one hand, he was concerned about Yuta and Ms. Jing's safety.

And another thing was that he had to clean up the battlefield.

After all, the body was still warm.

If he went, he might be able to make it in time.

.......

Suren quickly arrived at the Hall of Valor.

The previously intact space had been shattered to pieces.

Ms. Jing was standing at the dark hole, performing some kind of術式 (jutsu), with a round, ancient mirror of the Forbidden Artifact level floating above her head.

Seeing Suren arrive, she nodded in acknowledgment.

Ms. Jing seemed to be doing something important, so Suren didn't disturb his senior apprentice sister.

Turning his eyes, he saw Yuta, who was recovering her strength, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The magic pot was surrounding her body, and streams of rainbow-colored energy were repairing her seemingly minor injuries.

Although her aura was very weak, she was fine.

Suren's eyebrows completely relaxed, and he walked over, rubbed Yuta's head, and asked, "Yuta, are you okay?"

Yuta also had a relieved expression and responded with a slightly pale smile: "I'm fine."

After a pause, she glanced at the golden-patterned cloak figure in the distance, blinked her eyes, and her inquiring meaning was obvious.

Suren smiled: "That's the one I told you about, my senior apprentice sister, also the daughter of Sir Isaac."

"Oh."

Hearing this, Yuta's eyes lit up, and she completely breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Suren had informed her of everything in advance, and she knew of Ms. Jing's existence.

But this golden-patterned cloak person arrived much earlier than agreed.

And it was too coincidental that it was exactly when the war was breaking the seal.

She couldn't help but be wary.

Although this mysterious person did help her kill the enemy, her current actions were also very puzzling.

But now, hearing Suren's confirmation, Yuta was completely relieved.

Since she was a descendant of Sir Isaac, she was a friend of the Daru tribe.

.......

Yuta's condition was worse than it looked, and she completely relaxed her guard after seeing Suren.

But it was also because of the relaxation of her tense spirit that she suddenly fainted.

Suren quickly checked her injuries, which weren't too bad.

The power of nature had a special effect on healing injuries, which was more effective than any potion.

Without Suren needing to worry too much, the magic pot was healing Yuta's injuries.

Ms. Jing was fiddling with the seal, and Yuta was healing her injuries. Suren didn't need to intervene.

He walked to the center of the battlefield and saw the tentacle monster's body, which had been cut into pieces.

Suren saw the "gray mist" on the corpse, and the shadow of the Grim Reaper appeared behind him and devoured it.

「You stripped the soul of 'Yeger Selt,' and obtained some fifth-tier 'Fire Elemental Law,' and sixth-tier 'Fragment of Disaster Law';」

「You have gained a lot of experience in using '奧義·無侍' (profound meaning: Mu Shi), and comprehended 【無侍·Flame Emperor】(Mu Shi: Flame Emperor), casting experience +555.」

「You stripped a lot of 'Secret Agent Professional Knowledge'」

「You have obtained some 'information from the Royal Loeng Intelligence Agency'」

「Mental power +14.7」

Suren originally thought that Yeger's soul fragments would solve many of his doubts.

But unexpectedly, he didn't strip out any information about the "heretic" behind this guy.

Even the high-end secrets of the Loeng Intelligence Agency were not there.

He only stripped out some not-so-important intelligence.

Later, after digesting the information about the Intelligence Agency, Suren realized that these high-ranking officials of the Intelligence Agency had mental restrictions and training.

Once they encountered soul searching or dream exploration methods, the restrictions would instinctively eliminate the sensitive information to prevent intelligence leakage.

As for the information about that "heretic"...

Suren felt that it might be some very clever method that directly erased that memory.

Moreover, the Law fragments were also stripped out in a disorganized manner.

The fifth-tier 'Fire Elemental Law' seemed to be what Yeger had originally comprehended.

This also matched the information Suren knew before. This guy should have originally been a fifth-tier.

And the sixth-tier 'Fragment of Disaster Law' was like something foreign, only a small amount.

But this was a "treasure" for Suren.

After he digested it, he suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his understanding of the realm.

It was like seeing a few stars when looking up in the dark night.

Although it was not enough to illuminate the road ahead, it confirmed the location and height of certain specific existences.

It was a very rare gain.

Suren was also the first time he had come into contact with such a high-level Law.

He didn't have the ability to kill a sixth-tier professional to strip fragments elsewhere.

As for the experience of using "無侍" (Mu Shi), Suren was also greatly shocked when he saw that guy using it before, so he prioritized it over other skills and stripped it out smoothly.

People from the Intelligence Agency had cultivated this secret method since they were young. It could be said that Suren stripped out decades of experience this time.

【無侍·Flame Emperor】(Mu Shi: Flame Emperor) was the advanced form of this secret method.

This stripping directly pushed the proficiency to the point of "complete mastery."

As long as Suren had enough dark energy, he could immediately cast this secret method, and his life-saving and combat abilities would skyrocket several times.

.......

Suren digested those memories, which was also a good harvest.

Turning his eyes, he focused on the minced meat on the ground again.

To be precise, it was countless rotten and blackened worms.

"Parasites?"

Suren frowned.

He had stripped a "Control Worm Warlock" before and knew a lot of strange worms.

But he had never seen this kind before.

Yeger's memory didn't have any information about these worms, which was obviously directly related to that "heretic."

In his soul perception, he also sensed a few scattered souls in this pool of flesh and blood.

But it was rapidly decreasing.

That was the sign that the worms were dying quickly.

However, there was one exception.

"Not completely dead yet?"

Suren muttered in his heart.

Controlling the silk thread, he found a heart in the place with the densest vitality.

As soon as he picked it up, the blood vessel-like threadworms emerged, like leeches eager for blood, standing up their "bodies" and probing towards Suren's direction, constantly trying to stretch out.

Whether it was because the heart was the last place where these worms were parasitic, these parasites had not died.

Suren looked at it with a frown, originally wanting to burn it with fire to completely solve the problem.

But now the matter was not so simple, so he took out a container and put the heart in it.

It was the rune glass bottle that he had once used to hold the heart of the fallen angel.

He thought that if he could hold the heart of a real god, he could naturally hold the heart of a fifth or sixth-tier professional.

After looking at it for a long time without seeing anything, Suren didn't waste time.

He thought about asking Ms. Jing about it later.

......

Since he was cleaning up the battlefield, he naturally had to be careful.

Suren put the jar aside, and then found a storage ring in the corpse fragments.

The storage space was very large, probably Yeger's.

There were many things inside, a variety of things, and many boutiques.

He was indeed a royal intelligence officer.

Turning his eyes, Suren saw two large silver bricks in the storage ring, and was a little surprised, "Oh... this is 【Living Silver】?"

This amount didn't seem to be much, but after all, it had been refined.

If you really calculated it carefully, it was probably a hundred times the amount that Suren had refined from the two giant aberrations he had hunted before.

But before he could be happy for long, Suren suddenly remembered something: "My Poisonous Incense Burner!"

He hadn't forgotten that his Poisonous Incense Burner was taken away by those people from Loeng.

Moreover, nearly a hundred people from the Holy Judgment Legion had left, which meant that all the spoils had been taken out.

"This is troublesome..."

Suren suddenly felt that the storage ring in his hand was no longer fragrant.

He didn't know if he could catch up now, even if he did, Suren couldn't do anything about it.

Ms. Jing was his senior apprentice sister, but not his thug.

What's more, the previous legion commander Barrett was risking his life to stop Yeger from destroying the seal...

Even if he was an enemy, he was only an enemy in terms of position.

Thinking of this, Suren's thoughts spread.

He suddenly felt that those who left might not have a good ending in Loeng.

"There is obviously a problem with the Loeng royal family now, and Barrett stopped that 'heretic' from destroying the seal. Going back, he is afraid that he will not escape death..."

Suren immediately felt a headache.

It seemed that he was about to lose something.

Everything else was fine, but 【Living Silver】 was an irreplaceable main material for alchemy golems.

And while he was complaining, a gentle voice came from his side: "What are you thinking about?"

Turning his head, it was naturally Ms. Jing with a gentle expression.

.......

Because there were no outsiders, Ms. Jing took off her cloak.

Although she gave people a very approachable feeling, Suren also saw that the aura on her body was becoming more and more ethereal.

Suren looked at the familiar face that was cold and peerless, and asked curiously: "Senior Apprentice Sister, has your cultivation recovered?"

Ms. Jing shook her head and responded softly, "Not yet."

Suren looked at her appearance, and the battle just now obviously didn't take much effort. Thinking that she wasn't an outsider, he curiously asked: "Senior Apprentice Sister, are you at the seventh tier now?"

Ms. Jing smiled and didn't answer, looked at him, naturally guessed that her junior apprentice brother was curious about her tier, and then said: "After sleeping for a thousand years, a complete recovery will smoothly advance to the eighth tier."

After a pause, she didn't hide it from Suren, and said: "If there are some more great opportunities, I have a chance to reach the ninth tier in this life."

Hearing this, Suren's expression immediately became rich, "So powerful!"

She was definitely a golden thigh!

Not to mention whether he could advance to the ninth tier, the eighth-tier professional was already a top powerhouse.

Ms. Jing smiled without committing herself.

Suren didn't say much on this topic, he glanced, and the black hole behind him was gone?

Seeing his suspicious body, Ms. Jing responded: "I have arranged a mirror illusion on the seal, so it is not easy to be discovered. Even if someone touches it, I can come at the first time."

Hearing this, it was done.

Suren didn't ask any more questions, but he was more curious about something else, and asked directly: "Senior Apprentice Sister, didn't you say that it would take several hours to arrive? Why..."

This was also what he didn't have time to ask just now.

Because he knew that his senior apprentice sister was a very rigorous person.

She would definitely arrive at the time she said.

But this time, she actually arrived early.

And it happened to catch up with the most critical moment of the battle, solving the urgent need.

This made people very curious.

Ms. Jing glanced at him, and explained calmly: "Divination and prophecy are not impossible to deceive. Before, when I heard you say that those people were eagerly reclaiming the cursed space, I guessed that someone among them might have foreseen that my arrival would bring some changes. So I used a little trick..."

Hearing this, Suren seemed to understand something.

But it was definitely not as simple as "deceiving" him.

Instead, she deceived the enemy as well.

This was how she seized the opportunity and arrived in time.

Otherwise, there might have really been a big problem.

Ms. Jing didn't hide anything, and explained very patiently: "Some of the rules of divination can sometimes be misled by clever means. The essence of most divination is to infer the possible outcomes based on the laws of nature, rather than the established results. The premise is that you have to understand those rules thoroughly. My father also masters the Law of Destiny, so I happen to know a little more..."

"Oh."

With this explanation, Suren felt like he understood something, but he didn't seem to understand.

The meaning of this sentence was to use means to deceive some divination rules of this world?

His level was not enough to understand those means, so he didn't think deeply.

In the end, there was only one sentence in his heart: Senior Apprentice Sister, you are awesome!

As she said, Ms. Jing added meaningfully: "Just like the situation you asked me about before. The existence that is forgotten by the world is non-existent in the world's karma. That is also a very clever way to deceive the rules of heaven and earth."

"Oh."

Hearing her say this, Suren instinctively felt that it was very profound.

But when he reacted, his thoughts were slightly confused: Huh... what did I ask?

Ms. Jing caught the daze in his eyes and smiled.

But she obviously didn't plan to say much on this topic, looked at Suren, also saw that Suren had made great progress, and didn't stingy with her praise, and said: "The third tier is consolidated. Also, your 'Qi' is well nourished."

"Hehe."

Hearing his senior apprentice sister's praise, Suren was not polite and smiled unceremoniously.

But when he mentioned "Qi," he instantly thought of that trace of insight when he watched Barrett before.

He couldn't grasp it very well, so he simply asked: "Senior Apprentice Sister, what is 'Qi'? I heard that it is a prerequisite for advancing to the sixth tier?"

"That's not absolute. Some professionals who have accumulated a lot of resources can also advance to the sixth tier. But 'Qi' is a necessary path to becoming a strong person, and it is necessary to condense a domain in the seventh tier. Otherwise, you will find that in addition to the understanding of the Law, the power of the condensed domain will be very different..."

It seemed that this question was not easy to answer, Ms. Jing paused here for a moment.

Then she said: "If you have to specifically describe what 'Qi' is... you can say that to become a strong person, you must have an aura of dominance."

"Aura of dominance?"

Suren pondered for a moment, feeling that this was very similar to the feeling he had seen in Barrett before.

Since he was praised for his well-nourished Qi, he asked shamelessly: "Senior Apprentice Sister, do I have that 'aura of dominance'?"

"You are still far from it."

Ms. Jing looked at her junior apprentice brother, joked, and then said: "You are sometimes too cautious, consider things too carefully, and nourish Qi more slowly. Although that is not wrong, you lack some recklessness and some dominance."

Suren didn't care about this "lecture," but smiled.

Anyway, since he had asked, he casually said again: "Senior Apprentice Sister, how can I quickly condense Qi?"

Ms. Jing: "Everyone condenses different Qi, and the path they ultimately take is different, no one can say for sure. But..."

Speaking of this, she raised her eyebrows, and suddenly changed the topic, "For example, the last time in Black Fort Reef, you came back to save me, which was very good. Some things that make you disregard gains and losses, and make choices from the bottom of your heart, will allow you to quickly condense your own 'Qi'."

"Oh..."

Hearing this, Suren finally understood something.

The meaning of this explanation in layman's terms was: Take life and death lightly, and do it if you don't agree?

.......

The two senior apprentice siblings hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they reminisced about the past.

Soon, Suren brought the topic to the current situation.

Some situations could not be explained in detail in the communicator before, and now that they had met, he told everything he knew.

Finally, he asked: "So... Senior Apprentice Sister, what exactly is that 'heretic'?"

Mentioning this question, Ms. Jing's expression was also slightly solemn. After pondering for a moment, she said: "It should be an 'Outer God'."

"Outer God?"

Suren showed confusion, this was a very unfamiliar term.

Ms. Jing explained: "As long as it is not a god of the alchemy system, we usually call them 'Outer Gods'."

After a pause, she looked at the heart in the jar, thought for a moment, and said: "Now our plane is lacking laws, and under normal circumstances, god-level powerhouses cannot be born. So it can only be left over from ancient times. If there are no accidents, this 'Outer God' may be one of the 'Heavenly Demons' who destroyed the Dawn civilization. Although we don't know what happened in the great war that led to the collapse of civilization, it is certain that all the 'Outer Gods' who came to invade fell."

Hearing this, Suren asked suspiciously: "Then why is this one still alive?"

Ms. Jing didn't seem surprised, and explained: "This kind of existence has appeared in history. It is very difficult for a god to completely fall. And even after falling, the incomplete will, Law, or broken Divine Spark of those ancient Outer Gods will pollute other living beings. So, under normal circumstances, it will create some 'false gods' who think they are gods. During the Atria Empire era, the official exterminated many similar heretics."

Suren finally understood, and the pressure in his heart was not so great, "So, this tentacle monster is not necessarily a real god?"

Ms. Jing disagreed and said: "Even if it is, it is not a big threat at present. Once a god is injured, without faith, it is not easy to recover, and it is not much stronger now. At least the main body did not come in person, which shows a lot of problems."

After a pause, she continued: "The 'Outer God' should have also been severely damaged in the battle that destroyed the Daru tribe five hundred years ago. Otherwise, it would not have shown up for hundreds of years. And... there may be some other reasons, it dare not show up. It is not a big problem to rely solely on polluting a few believers."

"Other reasons?"

Suren vaguely felt that this sentence seemed to touch some familiar thoughts in his mind.

But when he tried to think about it, he couldn't remember it at all.

Ms. Jing didn't say much, but thought of something, and her eyes were slightly solemn: "Judging from the information we have now, I can roughly guess what it is going to do."

Suren looked at the minced meat on the ground and guessed, "It wants to use royal power to restore its strength?"

Yeger's identity was very special, so it was not difficult to guess.

"Mm."

Ms. Jing nodded and continued: "That 'Outer God' wanted to find some ways to re-condense the Divine Spark from this land of buried gods, but it failed. It will not succeed in the future. So, it only has the last choice, which is to spread faith. There is an old saying: Re-establish faith, and the god is still a god. Although I don't know how it reached into the Loeng royal family, it seems that the problem will not be small."

Suren listened as if he understood, but the concept of faith was very vague.

Ms. Jing continued to explain: "In fact, 'faith' is not terrible. Ancient books record that there were many other god believers in our plane. Just like the God of Nature believed by the Daru tribe, it condenses the three Divine Sparks of peace, poetry, and nature. It will not do anything to slaughter lower-level creatures. But the fear is the evil god. That kind of existence will cause suffering to living beings, invade the plane and turn it into a kingdom of God, and treat living beings as slaves. If that is the case, it will be a disaster of civilization destruction for us alchemists who have no god faith..."

Speaking of this, Ms. Jing's eyes once again fell on the heart in the glass jar, and a chilling aura suddenly rose in her tone: "Now it seems that this 'Outer God' is very likely an evil god. If that is the case, we must never let it succeed..."

"Mm."

Suren was also infected by this sentence, and there was a sense of excitement in his heart for no reason.

He knew that his senior apprentice sister's ambition was very far-reaching, and she was always thinking about many problems from the height of the survival of human civilization.

She had a kind of personality brilliance that was difficult to hide.

Ms. Jing thought of something, and sighed slightly: "Now the two great empires have been fighting for hundreds of years, and human alchemy civilization has almost stagnated for hundreds of years. This will definitely not work... So, I want to rebuild 'Dawn City' as a place for free communication among alchemists, and promote alchemy civilization. But now the problem is also very big. The aristocratic centralization system monopolizes more than 90% of the resources in society, and the class solidification, many actions will be restricted. If you want to establish such a free and neutral place, you can't avoid dealing with those powerful people. Even if 'New Dawn City' can be established, it will inevitably be resisted by the two great empires and the aristocratic class in the later stage. This is inevitable. Those guys who are greedy for power will never allow a 'free' place to develop vigorously... What's more, now it seems that the situation in Loeng is very complicated, and there may be a lot of changes. So, I need more powerful 'force', not just me alone, I may establish an organization that is enough for me to complete this ideal..."

Suren also felt that Ms. Jing's future resistance would be very great.

The greater the ability, the more high-end the things considered.

But listening to his senior apprentice sister's words, although it was only a sign, was this a preparation to create a "revolutionary army"?

The fact that they would be hostile to the two great empires in the future was essentially a revolution.

However, chatting was just chatting.

Suren felt that Ms. Jing's plan had nothing to do with him at present.

He didn't feel any sense of urgency.

But as if there was a telepathy, as soon as this thought came up, Ms. Jing turned her head to look at him and said seriously: "Suren, work hard to become stronger."

Suren pointed to his nose: "Me?"

He guessed something, and his eyelids twitched violently.

"Yes."

Ms. Jing smiled gently, "You are my junior apprentice brother, and you naturally need to complete the goal of rebuilding Dawn City with me."

"..."

Suren rolled his eyes and said quietly: "Senior Apprentice Sister, you think too highly of me..."

He wasn't belittling himself, but this was the reality.

He had the 【Death Harvester】 talent, as long as he didn't die, he was sure to advance to the fifth tier.

But the later ones would be difficult to say.

Without an eighth or ninth tier, he wouldn't even have the qualifications to think about such a great ideal as rebuilding Dawn City.

Ms. Jing didn't say much, and smiled meaningfully.

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