The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess

Besides guiding ships, the lighthouse has another vital function.

Monitoring the sea.

Sea monsters can sometimes be even more frightening than those on land.

It is said that Letes City once experienced an outbreak of deep sea demons. The demons alone were manageable, but during the outbreak, the sea also surged with hundred-meter waves, intending to submerge the entire city.

It was for this reason that Mr. Pharos resolved to exterminate every last demon near the coast.

After clearing the demons, the lighthouse was established.

Now, this lighthouse has issued a warning.

This means that a large number of demons have appeared at sea.

Hilia glanced at the lighthouse and summoned a magic puppet.

"Let’s deal with the demons from the deep sea before worrying about anything else."

As she prepared to approach the sea to confront the sea demons, Rose suddenly said, "Don’t go, get inside the lighthouse, now."

Hilia paused, didn’t doubt, and cast an ice element spell onto the latch of the wooden lighthouse door, then gave it a hard push.

The latch shattered like glass, allowing Hilia to easily enter inside.

"Let’s modify the array of the lighthouse... never mind, I’ll do it."

Rose manifested a phantom directly, his spiritual power tendrils touching the reinforcement array within the lighthouse, beginning modifications.

After a moment, he stopped and shook his head: "The material is too low-grade, but it’s enough."

"What’s the matter?" Hilia asked.

"Go upstairs, you’ll find out."

Hilia was a bit confused.

So she chose to stop thinking and quickly ran up the lighthouse as per the instructions.

This lighthouse also has layers, with spiral staircases connecting each one.

When Hilia reached the third floor, a faint scent of blood wafted down from above.

The girl’s expression changed, and she applied the Light Body Technique and Swift Movement Skill over herself, swiftly running toward the top of the tower.

Before long, she reached the room at the top.

This lighthouse’s structure is somewhat different from the Lost Lighthouse; the light aimed at the sea is not above the tower but within the tower itself, on the highest level, directly projecting a huge magic lamp toward the sea.

The area up here is also quite large.

As she climbed up, the scent of blood became increasingly strong.

Reaching the top room, she saw a person standing by the window, hands behind her back, looking out at the sea.

It was a woman, with three corpses behind her. The bodies were dressed formally, with faces showing a mix of obsession and horror, dying with eyes wide open, blood trickling down their necks to the floor.

From their attire, Hilia could tell they were the Tower Guards, and as for the woman standing with her back turned...

After Hilia arrived, the woman slowly turned her head, revealing a beautiful face.

"Hehe... I sensed you the moment you opened the door and came in. I thought you’d run, but I didn’t expect you to be so bold to come up."

She was very beautiful, with a pleasant voice, but gave Hilia a strange feeling.

As if... this was not her true appearance at all.

Hilia cautiously held her magic staff and watched the other person closely.

"Who are you?"

"Does it matter?" The woman retorted, not waiting for Hilia to answer as she suddenly understood: "I get it, you want to die knowing who killed you."

She smiled: "Alright then, remember my name, Caramel, the shark from the deep sea."

A terrifying magic power and pollution burst from Caramel’s body, sweeping over toward Hilia.

Unlike the Tier Four heretics she had encountered before, Caramel’s pollution targeted Hilia solely, with only a trace leaking outwards.

Hilia understood.

The faint pollution she sensed outside was likely leaked by Caramel.

Her control over power was far superior to the Tier Four heretics Hilia had seen.

The girl unhesitatingly raised her magic staff, unleashing the Purification Skill against the pollution.

The smile vanished from Caramel’s face: "Dog of the Holy Court? Tell me, where did you learn the Purification Skill? I might spare your life."

Hilia did not speak, only intensifying the power of the Purification Skill.

Unlike its previous usage, this time she applied the Mage’s Hand to the Purification Skill, transforming it into a beam of light that directly collided with the oncoming pollution.

Although this beam scattered significantly, the remainder still blocked the impact of the pollution.

This is the strength of attribute restraint, where even if the opponent’s power is stronger, the buff gained from restraint can help resist.

The beam from the Purification Skill even penetrated the pollution, entering Caramel’s body and causing her negative effects.

Caramel scowled, eyes cold: "Hmph, won’t say, huh? Well then, stay here, I’ll be taking your face."

With that, she charged toward Hilia.

Hilia controlled the magic puppet to block in front of her, casting layer upon layer of the Ice Shield Combination Skill to slow down Caramel’s speed.

She then raised her magic staff, causing a cloud to condense above her.

A cluster of starlight-like Fire of the Singularity appeared from her magic staff, floating up to the cloud.

"Although my Fire of the Singularity isn’t as strong as Doris’s, it’s sufficient to detonate the Ice Rain Skill."

As her strongest magic combination skill, Hilia couldn’t master the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon, but she could learn the Fire of the Singularity.

Even a beginner-level Fire of the Singularity could be harmonized with elements and merged into the ice rain, forming a large ice sphere.

This was Hilia’s strongest magic combination skill at the moment.

The magic puppet also stored some spells, but it could only store ice and water elements up to mastery level, not as strong as Hilia’s cultivation, then that released through the magic puppet.

Hilia remained unflustered, completely calm.

"Master Rose isn’t taking over, which means I have a chance against this Tier Four Mage. She perceives me as a Tier Three Mage, doesn’t even bother to summon her magic puppet, and her attacks are haphazard, believing she can kill me easily. I can take advantage of her underestimation."

A simple strategy formed in Hilia’s mind.

Caramel continued her charge.

However, each time she broke through an ice shield, it exploded, hindering her speed.

Then, a new ice shield would emerge.

Caramel frowned in irritation.

"Can’t you just obediently wait for me to harvest your face? This resistance of yours, do you think you can overstep the difference in ranks?"

She glared at the magic puppet, about to deal it a heavy blow when a subtle sense of danger suddenly entered her heart.

Caramel frowned, looking up at Hilia above her. The condensed cloud had now shrunken into the shape of an ice sphere.

Within the ice sphere were countless specks of starlight.

"Go!"

Hilia softly cried as the ice sphere flew toward Caramel.

Danger!

Caramel’s expression changed, instantly halting and raising her hand to cast a protective spell on herself.

Boom!

Amidst the explosion of ice and fire, a figure was blasted out from the explosion.