Chapter 423 - 421: Benovia: Are You Playing Matryoshka Here?
The vast magic power slowly transformed into a strand of divine power, weaving into Phil’s body, and spreading throughout her along the runes left by Rose, then gradually disappeared.
After it was done, Rose clapped her hands, seeing the pain on Phil’s face slowly fade away, nodding with satisfaction.
"That’s good, now let’s watch the show."
Rose did not prevent the pollution from invading Phil’s body, only protecting her soul, magic power, and spiritual power.
The influx of demonic qi is poison to others, but a great supplement to her body.
The excessive influx of demonic qi would push her body into an overload state, and under pressure, it could unleash her body’s potential.
Coupled with the influx of soul energy, it allows her soul to bear the strength of her body, enhancing together.
However, forcefully upgrading from tier three to tier five would still tear her apart.
Rose’s divine power rune acts as the final safeguard, allowing her to strengthen without being shattered by excessive enhancement.
As long as she exhausts the demonic qi pollution within her body, the divine power rune will protect her from death.
Although she would need to recuperate for a while afterward, she’ll be able to immediately begin the trial to advance to tier four once fully recovered.
"During this process, I can also establish a weak connection with her through the abyss, perhaps allowing her to cross the abyss, reach the bottom of the endless abyss, and directly break my seal,"
thought Rose.
Across the entire Starfall Continent, besides the gods, Phil is probably the only one who can move freely in the abyss without worrying about attacks from those demons.
She might not have to wait until the holy stage to walk within the abyss, go into the endless abyss, and reveal the seal to release him.
"Need to quickly find a new divine format for her to use,"
Rose pondered how to have Hilia arrange for a new divine format.
This task could only be done by Hilia; others couldn’t freely communicate like Hilia.
For instance, Benovia, Rose felt that if he faced her as he did with Hilia, her faith would likely collapse.
Then no one would know whether it would weaken their connection.
If it weakens, then the gains would not be worth it.
Observing the world from multiple perspectives, Rose was reluctant to give up Benovia’s perspective, even though she spent most of her time at home reading or praying to the gods, only going out once or twice a month.
Rose thought: "Whether within the Hiro Association there are acquaintances or gods, maybe Benovia can investigate deeply, and if there’s a divine format, let Hilia retrieve it."
After carefully sensing Phil’s situation, Rose nodded with satisfaction and quietly left.
Returning to the surface, he looked at Benovia who was diligently meditating.
By now, several guards had already gathered; they were called by Benovia.
Only, because Benovia was meditating, trying to restore her magic power, she couldn’t inform them of the situation inside, so they could only wait.
Coincidentally, among the guards was the captain whom Benovia had previously called to deal with the heretics. He recognized Benovia and, seeing that she seemed to be in some situation, instructed the guards to keep watch over her and prevent others from approaching.
Seeing Rose emerge, the captain immediately stopped him: "Do not approach, Miss Benovia is meditating."
Benovia opened her eyes, barely restored some magic power.
She looked at her magic puppet, an inexplicable look in her eyes.
Rose spoke in her mind: "Withdraw the magic puppet."
Benovia struggled to stand up and retrieved the magic puppet.
The captain blocking the puppet was surprised for a moment and apologized: "Oh, it’s Miss Benovia’s magic puppet, I thought it belonged to someone else. Are you alright now? Feeling better?"
Benovia weakly waved her hand: "I’m fine, thank you all, I’m much better."
The captain nodded and asked: "Miss Benovia, is there something you called us here for?"
Benovia looked towards the house opposite, furrowing her brows slightly, and said: "You are only tier one mages, you can’t handle this. Please summon your superior, at least tier four mage is required to tackle this."
Benovia was beautiful, and the captain wanted to show off in front of her, so he waved his hand boldly: "Don’t worry, I’m a tier two mage, even if there are more heretics, they’re still no match for me."
Benovia did not reply, instead cautiously transmitted a message to Rose in her mind: "Lord God, can you tell me what’s below?"
"A temporary tier five mage trained by the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association, she will emerge in an hour to destroy the world. Leave, this is not your battlefield."
"What?"
Benovia’s eyes widened.
This is the city center, nearby is the City Lord’s Castle, the Divine Hall, and the residences of various nobles and wealthy merchants.
The house Rose went to was a mansion with a backyard.
The people living near here, even if accidentally killed by Phil, there’s probably not one out of ten who would be innocent.
Thus, Rose did not mention notifying those people to Benovia.
As for whether Benovia would inform them, that was not Rose’s concern. He figured Benovia would likely choose to notify.
Because she was a Holy Daughter candidate.
Sure enough, upon learning that a tier five mage was about to emerge, Benovia promptly alerted the surrounding guard unit: "Quickly, there’s a powerful heretic hidden here, they’re about to appear soon, call the nearby residents to leave fast!"
The captain was stunned and said: "A powerful heretic? Are they stronger than me? Don’t worry Miss Benovia, I..."
Benovia exerted pressure at the level of a tier three mage, weighing down on the captain.
There was no time for gentleness at this moment.
"Are you stronger than me?"
The captain’s eyes widened, "Third-tier mage? You’re a tier three mage?!"
Benovia said earnestly: "Captain, I hope you can help by notifying the surrounding residents. I’m not lying."
Unless absolutely necessary, she didn’t want to reveal her identity as a Princess.
This wasn’t Huijin City; she wasn’t sure whether exposing her identity would be advantageous or detrimental.
Though Ista is a unified empire, the nobles in various cities still have autonomy, and under special circumstances, they can ignore the royal family.
The captain, although temporarily blinded by beauty, came to his senses after Benovia demonstrated the pressure of a tier three mage, hurriedly saying: "Alright, Ma’am, I’ll immediately have people go, but I need to notify my superior."
"Thank you."
The captain quickly notified his superior, who took Benovia’s words seriously, and a tier three mage rushed over quickly.
Seeing the other party seemed doubtful, Benovia helplessly said: "If you don’t believe me, go to that house, there is a cellar with a deep cave inside, but I’ll warn you, it’s a heretical base. You’re only tier three; if you go in, whether you can come out, I can’t say for sure."
The tier three mage rushed over and soon discovered the cave. Given the deep-sea demon’s attack, he decided to believe Benovia’s words.
"Are you saying there’s a heretic inside that’s stronger than tier four? If so, I need to report to my superior."
Benovia resisted the urge to reveal her identity, leaving with a casual "Do as you please."
She suddenly realized something—
"This is the center of Letes City; these are top nobles. Why should I worry so much? Die if they must."
Benovia chose to reconcile with herself.