Chapter 448 - 446: Sea God: Lying Flat!
The news returned to the camp outside the Golden Apple Stone Forest, and the students, the wounded, and those mercenaries waiting for the end of the battle to fill their commissions erupted into cheers and applause.
The mercenaries, though indifferent to the matter of heretics, cheered along with everyone else upon seeing the celebration.
Of course, among them were some who genuinely felt happy, because they had all faced trouble caused by heretics to varying degrees.
When the Law Enforcement Knight Order returned triumphantly, bringing one good news after another, the entire camp was enveloped in a sea of celebration.
At this time, besides the students, Law Enforcement Knight Order, and mercenaries, there were many traveling merchants from Letes City in the camp.
They were allowed to sell their goods in the camp, and now, they took the opportunity to organize celebration activities.
When Hilia returned to her room, she was pulled up by Benovia and others, who bombarded her with questions until dusk, and then dragged her out to take a stroll around the camp.
"Hilia, what are you thinking about?" Doris noticed Hilia was deep in thought while roaming the street and couldn’t resist asking.
Hilia said, "Nothing much, just have a feeling I forgot something upon returning."
"Forgot something?" Benovia turned around, thought for a moment, and said: "If you forgot something, you can use similar things to provide keywords, like if you forgot what you intended to do at the market, you can think about what you’re lacking, like if you intended to buy something."
"Let me think."
Hilia furrowed her brows.
At this moment, Rose’s voice came: "Haven’t thought of it yet?"
"I’m not really sure what it is, and I don’t have the keywords Benovia mentioned." Hilia shook her head.
Rose shook her head: "Think about what else you needed to do in the Golden Apple Stone Forest besides the trial."
"What to do?" Hilia was stunned, thinking about it, and said: "Find magical artifact, Golden Apple."
"Yes, besides the Golden Apple, what other magical artifacts did you encounter in the Golden Apple Stone Forest."
"Uh..." Hilia fell into contemplation, after a moment she shook her head: "Can’t think of anything, surely the Heart of the Magic Puppet doesn’t count... Heart of the Magic Puppet?"
Hilia paused.
"Right, I remember Lord Rose mentioning the extremely rare Heart of the Magic Puppet."
Rose nodded: "Yes, I told you before that the foundation stone of the secret base’s array is the extremely rare Heart of the Magic Puppet, and because of this, the base can be hidden under the Golden Apple Stone Forest array."
Hilia suddenly remembered what she had forgotten.
She forgot to take the foundation stone of the secret base’s array!
"Glad you remembered." The girl showed a brilliant smile and waved to the others: "Let’s go, I remember what it is, let’s explore well, we’ll be leaving in the next few days, how can we not explore properly?"
"..."
Endless Abyss, Sealed Land.
Sea God Ethel watched the already completed Divine Hall with lifeless eyes.
The first palace of the Divine Hall was complete, yet he couldn’t feel happy about it.
Rose stood beside him, nudging him with her foot: "Why do you look like you’ve been taken advantage of? It’s just lending me your Divine Format for a while, is that worth sulking over?"
Ethel’s eyes moved slightly, and he growled angrily: "Do you know how important Divine Format is to Gods? Just lending it casually, humph, why don’t you ask the Love Goddess to strip and let you play around a bit."
Rose raised an eyebrow: "Are you saying that letting others play with Divine Format is like a girl being stripped and played with? Then aren’t you being played with daily by your senior believers? After all, your Divine Format is in others’ magic puppets."
Ethel: "..."
He wanted to stand up, but realized he couldn’t win the fight, so he immediately sat back down.
"If you want to fight, just fight."
Rose: "?"
Rose: "Why would I waste my time fighting you? Get up and do some work, old thing, hurry up."
No matter how much Rose shouted, Ethel wouldn’t move, acting as if he had resigned himself.
Rose squinted at the grand building that was already completed, pondering aloud: "I’ve always felt this Divine Hall doesn’t look good, should I tear it down?"
Ethel rose furiously: "You dare!"
Boom! Crack! Thud!
In a series of quick movements, Rose floored Ethel again with a threat: "If you don’t continue working, I’ll tear down your Divine Hall."
"You..."
Ethel snorted and, patting his butt, got up to lift the huge stones.
Suddenly, he realized something.
Indeed, shouldn’t this Divine Hall belong to Rose? If he wants to destroy it, go ahead, what’s it got to do with me?
The more he thought about it, the angrier Ethel became.
He snorted, stomped his foot, and several huge stones flew into the air, carried by his Divine Power, towards the empty ground beside the Divine Hall.
Squinting his eyes, Rose immediately understood Ethel’s approach.
This guy... this god, unable to defeat him and still wanting to rebel, thus ignoring his previous prohibition of using Divine Power, directly resorted to using Divine Power to lift stones to build houses.
Facing this, Rose thought it over and decided to pretend not to see.
...
The next day.
Hilia and others came to the camp’s open square.
By then, Mr. Blake and Ms. Meilina had arrived and were talking to school instructors.
After all the students gathered, Mr. Blake stood up and began his speech.
Today is the students’ last day in the camp.
The current speech is about the trial’s conclusion, after which they’ll either return to school led by tutors or apply to remain, not returning to school but going home directly.
There’s not much to say about the process.
This time Hilia refused to go on stage to speak, her reasons left Mr. Blake unable to refute.
"The last speech was about conquering ancient ruins, this time it’s about conquering heretics, unlike with ancient ruins, going up to speak would be too conspicuous, what if we’re targeted by other heretics or remaining mages?"
After careful consideration, Mr. Blake decided to abandon the idea of asking Hilia or the Holy Maiden Squad to go up and give their remarks.
Below the stage, Doris whispered while looking at Mr. Blake above: "Did you notice? The principal seems to have been beaten up, there’s a bruise on his face."
The others immediately looked at her with shock.
How dare you say that?
Encore said: "Principal and Ms. Meilina were on the frontline yesterday, isn’t getting hurt quite normal?"
Doris realized, "So that’s it."
Hilia noticed Mr. Blake’s gaze flicked over Doris, and couldn’t help but sweat for Doris.
If it weren’t for Encore, Doris might have been targeted by the principal.
Others didn’t know, but Hilia understood why Mr. Blake had marks of being beaten.
These marks are the kind that comes from a direct confrontation, clearly not typical battle scars.
There’s only one possibility, Mr. Blake took the Deep Sea Leader back but didn’t escape Holy Master’s capture.
Hilia muttered to herself as Mr. Blake finished speaking, then the tutors in charge of each team took the stage to comment on their respective teams.
Afterward, the ’closing ceremony’ of the trial was considered concluded.
Hilia found Alina, and said: "Ms. Ailina, I’m planning to stay here for another two days, not going back yet."
Alina replied: "If it were someone else, I could agree, but Hilia, you can only go to the principal to seek his approval."
After a pause, she added: "You might also need Ms. Meilina’s approval."
Hilia tilted her head: "Why?"
Alina said with exasperation: "It’s just that you take risks so casually that even the principal is afraid."
Hilia blinked innocently: "I didn’t take risks, right? I’m fine, not hurt at all."
"..." Alina was speechless.
Facing off directly against a Tier Six Mage, how could there be any chance for you to get hurt.
Either unharmed or dead.
No third option.