The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess

Alina wasn’t the first to inquire about Hilia’s mentor.

Basically, whenever someone passed by and saw her practicing magic, the mentor would come over out of curiosity to ask.

Hilia felt quite helpless.

A simple Wind Domain, of course, had no effect.

Relying on one spell to isolate troublesome demonic qi pollution, not just the mentors, even she didn’t believe it.

The Wind Domain is a Tier Four spell, its purpose is to enhance the intensity of Wind Magic and reduce the effects of other magic within the domain.

Rose gave her a weakened version, all effects nullified, only capable of isolating air, turning into a purely ornamental spell, even a Tier Three ornamental spell...

"The domain expansion does look pretty cool," Hilia mumbled.

To avoid being asked repeatedly, Hilia decided to leave the camp and practice outside.

On the cliff outside the camp, Hilia looked down at the Golden Apple Stone Forest shrouded in a pollution mist and whispered: "Domain expansion!"

Magic Power transformed into wind attributes, emanating from her whole body.

The azure Magic Power spread outward, encompassing a range of two meters into the domain.

Rose’s shadowy figure appeared beside her: "Not bad, it should soon be able to cover a ten-meter area, and then you’ll have mastered it."

"Ten meters feels insufficient..." Hilia wasn’t very satisfied.

Rose chuckled: "You’re not specialized in wind elements, your speed of learning wind magic is only affected by the refinement degree of Magic Power. If you want to learn quicker, just increase the refinement."

Hilia nodded earnestly, once again gently calling: "Domain expansion!"

After finishing, she looked at Rose, puzzled: "Lord Rose, why do you want me to shout ’Domain expansion’ when using it?"

Rose laughed heartily: "No reason, just thought it sounds imposing."

Does it?

The girl was confused.

She felt it not only lacked imposingness but even seemed a bit shameful. Why is that?

After thinking about it, Hilia felt it was because this Wind Domain lacked power and was purely for show, hence the embarrassment.

However, if she were using the [Super Invincible I Love You] Combination Skill, shouting like that might be okay, this ornamental spell...

Better forget it.

Hilia thought.

Rose said: "Although it’s still a way from ten meters, now you can fuse Holy Dispersal and Shadow Binding into it, remember to use Elemental Harmony."

"Okay."

Hilia took out a Shadow Binding Spell Scroll.

Now her success rate at crafting Tier Three Scrolls had improved significantly, no longer as prone to failure as before.

Scroll success rate was related to focus, magic control level, magic output, and magic intensity; the high failure rate before was mainly due to low efficiency in single magic output, leading to slight excess or deficiency.

After her magic refinement exceeded 100%, Hilia’s scroll success rate skyrocketed, and upon entering Tier Three, it was even more so.

"Though using Tier Three Scrolls for experiments is still too extravagant."

One scroll costs a minimum of 5 gold coins!

Purely burning money.

As the scroll was torn open, the girl’s heart bled.

Even though her scrolls were nearly at cost price, they still had almost 1 gold coin worth of cost.

"Once successful, I’ll have the Holy Court reimburse!"

The Shadow Binding Scroll opened, and a dark purple chain emerged, gradually enveloping the edges of the Wind Domain under Hilia’s Elemental Harmony and Mage’s Hand.

Next was Holy Dispersal.

Hilia raised her Magic Staff, and the tip shone with holy brilliance.

Boom—

The Wind Domain produced a slight sound.

A crack appeared, followed by more, quickly crawling across the entire domain edge.

In the next second, the domain shattered.

"My gold coins!"

The girl cried out heartbroken.

Rose said with irritation: "You can earn more gold coins; do you know what ’spendthrift returns’ means?"

"I don’t." Hilia was very honest.

"It means even if you spend a thousand gold coins, they’ll still come back."

Hilia realized: "So that’s what it means, but how will the gold coins come back?"

"Duh, if you succeed, you can try to fuse this combination skill into a scroll and sell it to the Holy Court, won’t those gold coins come pouring in?"

"Oh, I get it now!"

Thus, Hilia set aside her heartbreak and took out another Shadow Binding Scroll to begin practicing.

It wasn’t until the tenth scroll was opened that Holy Dispersal and Shadow Binding successfully fused into the Wind Domain under the effect of Elemental Harmony.

Hilia wiped her forehead.

Though there was no sweat, she still felt as if she had wiped sweat.

"This combination skill is too costly."

Rose said: "Ten attempts managed to succeed; not bad, up to expectations."

Hilia said: "Holy and Dark Element magic are inherently opposed, like water and fire, they’re hard to fuse."

"It’s indeed difficult, but everything eventually merges, they’re all Magic Power transformations, under Elemental Harmony, there’s nothing that can’t be fused." Rose said with a smile, "Opposing elements, after fusion, can release far more power than other fusion magic, just like [Super Invincible I Love You]."

Hilia agreed deeply, taking out another scroll.

"I took some time last night to make 20 scrolls; today should be sufficient, let’s continue!"

Time passed quickly while practicing.

In the evening, Hilia returned to the camp, went back to her room, and picked up a blank scroll to start drawing a Shadow Binding Scroll.

Seeing her so busy, the other candidate Holy Daughters became quieter entering and exiting the room.

During the break between finishing a scroll, Encore approached with a bottle of medicine and handed it to Hilia.

"Here, this is to restore energy and improve focus, using this can increase the success rate of scroll crafting."

Hilia looked up, took the potion, and smiled at Encore: "Thanks!"

Encore adjusted her glasses, "You’re welcome, our trials all depend on your scrolls."

"Then I should charge money." Hilia teased.

"Okay." Encore nodded seriously.

Hilia waved her hand: "Just kidding, the money will come from the Holy Court anyway, we’re friends, why charge money, I haven’t paid for your potion either."

"Whatever works." Encore said.

Time passed while crafting scrolls.

The next day was a rest, no action.

Alina gathered everyone, joining other student teams, and Principal Blake told everyone some news.

Yesterday, not only Hilia’s team encountered an ambush by two Tier Four Mages; all teams attacking the outposts encountered one.

To figure out the reason, today they were temporarily resting, waiting for investigation results and treatment for the injured.

Blake’s expression was stern; he just said a couple of words and waved to dismiss everyone.

"The principal’s expression doesn’t seem right," Hilia muttered.

Benovia said: "Because yesterday, besides our team, other trial teams at the outposts weren’t as lucky, and many students were seriously injured."

She paused, lowered her voice: "And some... died, not just one or two."