Chapter 411 - 409: Unknown Attractant
The aquatic parasitic beast leaped high, directly exposing the belly of the orca skin, allowing Hilia to see the dense, twisting tentacles inside the abdominal cavity.
Hilia didn’t know how the defense of that orca skin was.
But now it’s just right.
"No matter how strong you are after merging, your body is only at Tier Two level."
The magic staff lifted, a large number of ice balls appeared, and meanwhile, the magic puppet also slashed out several ice blades, all magic rushing towards the leaping aquatic parasitic beast.
The sound of roaring was incessant, a large amount of blood fell with the group of aquatic parasitic beasts, dyeing the entire beach red.
Hilia lightly jumped, avoiding the impact of the aquatic parasitic beast, a storm of magic appeared next to Hilia, hammering towards the aquatic parasitic beast.
For a long time, the ice mist dissipated, leaving only a lot of flesh and blood, the orca skin with the aquatic parasitic beast had all been blown up, unrecognizable.
The crowd, still in shock, realized such a large thing was actually a waste, and immediately cheered.
The mage responsible for monitoring the ocean on the beach ran over quickly, stopped not far from Hilia, and looked at her with awe.
"Thank you for your intervention, if it wasn’t for you..."
"Just a convenient act." Hilia raised her hand to interrupt the other’s speech, retrieved the magic puppet and weapon, "You should report to the City Lord to have this place cleaned up, and meanwhile keep an eye on the ocean, there might be other sea monsters attracted to it."
"Sure, sure."
The other readily agreed.
Hilia left the beach and asked, "Lord Rose, besides this, will other demons come?"
Rose said, "Not sure, it depends on what demons are nearby."
Just now while Hilia was battling, Rose informed her that this type of aquatic parasitic beast should strictly be considered a Deep Sea Demon, and like the Sea Successor white whale, it’s a Deep Sea Demon that has emerged from the Abyss.
It’s just that its level is relatively low, can only hunt ordinary creatures to survive, and itself serves as food for higher-tier demons.
Generally, this type of demon won’t easily approach the coastline, because the coastline doesn’t have the demonic qi pollution they prefer. If they stay long in non-polluted areas, they gradually weaken, eventually unable to even defeat ordinary fish.
"So, the reason the aquatic parasitic beast came over must be that it’s attracted by something."
"What could have attracted it..."
Hilia fell into contemplation.
It’s clearly not pollution.
Because Letes City is a large city, with beaches, ports, iconic buildings, like the gigantic lighthouse that’s a wonder, making it one of the most prosperous cities in Ista.
This place is different from Southern Border City, here aside from Tier Four mages, there are also Tier Five mages guarding the area, as for Tier Six, Hilia doesn’t know.
"I should go report to the Divine Hall first, and hope they would heed my words."
Hilia quickly arrived at the Divine Hall and met the person in charge, Bishop Helder, a powerful Tier Five mage.
Helder evidently recognized Hilia, and shortly after her request for an audience, he came out and invited Hilia into the prayer room.
"Miss Hilia, welcome to Letes Divine Hall, please forgive me for only knowing of your arrival now. Later, the City Lord will host a banquet for you, please join us."
Hilia blinked and pointed to herself, "Host a banquet? For me?"
Did I mishear?
Helder nodded with a smile, "Of course, your contribution in the Golden Apple Stone Forest is not only known by us, but also by the Letes City Lord, Duke Pharos. He has just learned from the guards near the lighthouse that a young female mage solved a sea monster, saving many civilians. From the guards’ recorded projections, we knew it was you, so he hopes I can invite you over as a guest."
Hilia wasn’t particularly interested in attending banquets, she shook her head saying, "I think forget it, I’m not interested in those insincere dealings, and don’t like crowded places."
Actually, Hilia doesn’t care much about crowds; she simply detests insincere dealings and dislikes hearing others’ flattery.
Hilia said, "I came to tell Bishop Helder something, that sea monster wasn’t a near-shore one, it’s from the deep sea, attracted by something unknown to me. I hope you notify the City Lord to pay attention to the conditions of the ocean."
Helder’s expression turned serious, "I see, when I received the news, I was puzzled why a sea monster appeared. The ocean within 300 kilometers radius of Letes City has been cleared, daily patrolled, and all threatening demons removed. There shouldn’t be such demons."
As he spoke, he thought to himself, "Could it be related to Ms Meilina the Archbishop’s effort to expel the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association?"
Hilia shook her head, "I don’t know, all are connected to ’Deep Sea’, maybe there’s a relation, perhaps the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association called for external reinforcements."
Helder nodded, "Alright, I’ll take note of that. But are you really not going? There aren’t only strangers there, there are people you know."
Hilia was slightly taken aback, "I know people? Who?"
Helder smiled mysteriously, "The Duke will not let me say, your friend knows there’s a banquet for you and specially came back to dress up."
A question mark appeared above Hilia’s head, "Male or female?"
I don’t know many acquaintances, how could there be acquaintances on my first visit to Letes City?
If it’s a male..."
Hilia thought there’s no need to consider, besides her school tutor, and the Archbishop of the Holy Court, she hardly knows male friends, even classmates are merely nodding acquaintances with few entanglements, since others still keep some decorum, unlike Mier who forced his way over.
"It’s certainly a female friend." Helder laughed.
Hilia filtered through people she knows in her mind, "Is it Elina?"
"Elina?" Helder slightly puzzled, "The name sounds familiar."
"The Mage League champion, that elven girl."
"No."
"Pamisha?"
"I don’t think so."
"...Then forget it, I’m not interested in knowing who, if it’s my friend, let her invite me herself."
Hilia didn’t like the riddler’s style.
Trying to pique interest through curiosity?
Humph, I won’t let you have your way.
Hilia made up her mind, said goodbye to Helder, and left.
Helder watched Hilia’s back and shook his head helplessly.
He took out his bracelet and contacted the City Lord, conveying Hilia’s words, then said, "I said it wouldn’t work with Hilia."
A voice of helplessness came from the other side, "It wasn’t my idea, it’s dear Phil who wanted me to do this, she said she wanted to surprise Hilia."
"You better do it yourself, Hilia shows no interest in banquets, maybe you’ll need Phil to come personally."
"Hm, I’ll talk to her about it."