The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess-Chapter 73 - 71: First Boss Battle Experience

Beside the Ghost Fruit Tree, a solidified spirit was floating around the tree.

It emanated a strong aura that repelled other spirits trying to approach.

It came up to the faintly glowing fruit, extending its little ghostly hand, wanting to touch it but hesitating, and so just stared at the fruit with a smile.

However, that smile didn’t last long before a suddenly appearing ice wall shattered it.

The guardian spirit turned around to see a mechanical creature rushing towards it, ice walls closing in from all sides like being drawn by invisible hands, quickly surrounding it.

It let out a sharp scream, its body enlarging in an attempt to break through the ice walls directly.

The next moment, it realized that these ice walls were fragile and shattered at a touch.

It scoffed with a sharp scream, but soon discovered it was wrong.

The shattered ice walls suddenly exploded with massive energy, transforming into ice blades that pierced its body from all directions.

Even though the guardian spirit had high magic immunity, this attack slightly diminished its form.

The combination skill enraged the guardian spirit, which let out a scream, three blue flames emerging around it and dispersing the remaining ice blades.

Hilia hid in the shadows, controlling the magic puppet to evade the three ghostly fires, directly approaching the guardian spirit.

"Water of Stagnation!"

The spirit’s speed slowed down.

"Approaching the spirit is not a wise choice," Rose said calmly.

Hilia quickly realized the meaning of those words, sensing a spiritual attack from the guardian spirit through the magic puppet.

This spiritual attack felt like needles piercing her mind, causing the magic puppet’s movements to stall.

The guardian spirit screamed, a sound wave woven with magic power spreading far.

Hilia immediately understood what it was doing.

"Is it summoning other spirits?"

Hilia tensed up briefly but remembered Rose saying he wouldn’t let other spirits disrupt her duel with the guardian spirit and relaxed.

Taking advantage of the guardian spirit’s summoning, she controlled the magic puppet to rush forward, its palms shimmering with a holy glow, reaching for the spirit’s body.

However, the puppet’s hand passed through the spirit.

"The guardian spirit doesn’t have a physical form."

Rose shook his head, indicating that Hilia still lacked combat experience.

Fortunately, Hilia reacted quickly, condensing the Mage’s Hand into a rope, attempting to imbue it with divine magic power, then tying up the guardian spirit.

This time, she succeeded.

The spirit was adept at spiritual attacks, but similarly, spiritual attacks could be 100% effective against them.

As long as you also possess the ability for spiritual attacks.

Imbuing magic with divine power is a compulsory subject in the Divine Magic Academy’s magic course.

Adding divine attributes to magic offers specific advantages against certain units but not much else—except looking impressive.

"Your summoning is invalid; it’s my turn now!"

Hilia chuckled, controlling the magic puppet to throw one fireball after another at the guardian spirit’s face.

It’s the only Fire Element magic she knows, though it’s weaker when used by a Water Element puppet, it still deals more damage to spirits compared to Ice Element magic.

A large amount of magic power transformed into fireballs through the puppet, continuously bombarding the guardian spirit.

Boosted by the enhanced Heart of the Magic Puppet, Hilia couldn’t achieve Rose’s terrifying efficiency, but it’s still stronger than using magic spells directly, consuming half the magic power and doubling the power.

Meanwhile, spiritual power was depleting rapidly, the Mage’s Hand rope resisting the vigorous struggle of the guardian spirit.

"Why does it feel like it’s struggling more fiercely?"

Hilia, sweating from her forehead, looked confusedly at the spirit being bombarded.

The spirit’s previously solid body had now become faint, seemingly about to dissipate.

Yet Hilia felt its resistance growing stronger, even the Mage’s Hand rope showed cracks, on the brink of being torn apart by force.

Rose looked over and said, "It has a passive skill where the lower its health, the stronger it becomes; the weaker it gets, the more its combat power explodes. If you continue to restrain it, once it tears apart your Mage’s Hand, you’ll faint immediately."

"What? There’s such a side effect?"

"This is a side effect of consuming huge amounts of spiritual power, not from the Mage’s Hand being destroyed. When the Mage’s Hand is broken, your spiritual power drains rapidly; when insufficient, you’ll pass out, potentially causing soul damage."

"What?"

Hilia immediately loosened the Mage’s Hand restraining the guardian spirit.

The freed guardian spirit emitted a piercing scream, unleashing a potent magic shockwave around.

The magic puppet couldn’t dodge in time and was directly hit, flying back over ten meters!

At this moment, the guardian spirit’s soul body seemed like it would dissipate at any moment, yet the aura it emitted surpassed what she’d encountered with Tier Three Grand Bishop Dylan.

In contrast, Hilia’s condition wasn’t good.

The magic puppet’s components had come loose due to the impact, its insides damaged, requiring repairs.

Her remaining magic power and spiritual power were drained from continuous bombardments earlier.

Even the guardian spirit’s shockwave affected her, causing head-splitting pain.

Though her body suffered no injuries, if she didn’t continue suppressing the spirit, her circumstances could reverse.

She bit her lip, quickly contemplating strategies in her mind.

But with drained magic and spiritual power, even if the magic puppet was unharmed, she couldn’t challenge cross-tiers.

No matter how strong a magic puppet is, without magic power supply, it’s mere scrap metal.

"There must be a way, there has to be."

Hilia thought quickly, considering any possible methods to deal with the spirit.

But however she thought, besides Rose stepping in, there seemed no way to deal with the fiercer spirit.

Wait!

Hilia suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Perhaps this could be tried!

As the spirit charged towards the magic puppet, Hilia took out a magic scroll from inside her robe.

It was Tier Four scroll [Holy Song - Baptism] gifted by Alina.

"As Mr. Rose said, scrolls are meant to be used; if not used now, how will I obtain better scrolls?"

[Holy Song - Baptism]’s effect is healing allies while imposing ’Repentance’ as a negative condition on enemies, causing them to repent.

But when used by a mage below Tier Three, it might lead to imprecise control, potentially healing the enemies while allies on the battlefield repent.

Without resorting to the Evil God, Hilia had no other choice.

The girl took a deep breath.

She would gamble!

Just as she prepared to open the scroll, Rose’s light-hearted voice intervened.

"That’s enough; this scroll shouldn’t be used here. What’s important is your willingness to use it; leave the rest to me."

A gentle resistance emerged from within her body, stopping Hilia from activating the scroll.

The magic puppet, about to be struck by the spirit, changed its stance, shifting from passive defense to active attack.

The girl’s tense heart relaxed, and she sat down heavily.

Watching Rose effortlessly finding gaps to evade under the spirit’s fierce assault, she sighed softly.

"I... am too weak."