The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess-Chapter 80 - 78: Return and Preparation

"With this, the hardest materials to find are all gathered."

Hilia looked at the Dragon Scale Stone in front of her, which looked like an ordinary rock. It had traces of handling, with a bit of a patina.

Its shape was an irregular circle, like a stone bead.

This was found at Wagner’s home. According to Wagner, this stone absorbed the essence of the dragon and could bring good fortune, so he kept it at home as a decoration and occasionally played with it.

Unfortunately, the Dragon Scale Stone didn’t bring him good fortune; instead, it brought Hilia, who sent him to the Judgement Court.

"I didn’t expect to get it so coincidentally," Hilia marveled at her luck.

Rose didn’t hesitate to throw cold water on her: "It’s not that you’re lucky; most noble families in Dawn City have a Dragon Scale Stone. If it weren’t for Wagner’s situation, I would’ve told you to steal one."

"I’d rather not resort to stealing... I can’t do that."

"Quite high morals you’ve got there."

Since in games, breaking into others’ homes to steal—no, take things was a common occurrence, as it was a reward set by the game meant for players in the first place.

But after crossing over, the integration of these memories made his mindset subtly shift.

"Such absurd thoughts, I’m a law-abiding young person, how can I steal things from others?"

Thankfully, he didn’t actually incite Hilia to steal.

Rose decided that in such situations in the future, he would just tell Hilia to directly ask the owner for the items.

Polite request, 90% success rate!

Forceful demand, 100% success rate!

Returning smoothly to school, Hilia began running around with the materials list.

She also submitted a usage application for three rare materials to Blake, and stopped by the Holy Court to use Vasily’s connections to get three more, and finally spent a lot of Gold Coins to buy the last two rare materials at the Mage Guild.

Adding the three materials obtained from this trip and the Heart of Gold gifted by Benovia, all rare materials were gathered.

With the principle of getting things for free whenever possible, for the remaining ordinary materials, Hilia applied to the school saying it was for rune practice.

However, applications couldn’t cover too many types of materials at once, so for the rest Hilia had to spend her remaining Gold Coins to gather them.

Looking at the various piled materials, Hilia counted the expenses on her fingers.

"Dew of Dawn, 20 Copper Coins, White Swan Velvet, 10 Copper Coins...

"Phew, 8 Gold Coins and 20 Silver Coins are left, lucky to have gained 10 Gold Coins on this trip, otherwise I’d be 2 Gold Coins short."

With so many things, Hilia couldn’t quite remember if any materials were missing.

But seeing Rose say nothing about it, she didn’t mention it either.

At this point, Rose was already controlling his Magic Puppet to start merging the materials, slowly drawing out what he needed.

This process lasted for two days.

All the materials turned into a powdery strange liquid.

The final product was a liquid of deep blue color, emitting a peculiar fragrance and rich Magic Power.

"Amazing alchemy, what kind of potion is this?" Hilia couldn’t help but ask curiously.

"In my era, this is called Alchemy, and this isn’t a potion; it’s an ink for drawing arrays, called White Whale Nesting Ink."

"What a hasty name..."

"That’s because I named it on a whim."

Rose took some Nest Ink and put it into a crystal glass container, then added the Heart of Gold.

Once the Heart of Gold mixed with Nest Ink, it immediately erupted with intense Magic Power fluctuations.

The destructive Magic Power fluctuations within made Hilia’s heart race, afraid it might explode in the next second.

"Don’t worry, it won’t explode. The violent reaction of these two releases un-attributed Magic Power, with no detonation conditions, and can’t be absorbed."

"That’s good," Hilia breathed a sigh of relief.

She originally wanted to ask if the Magic Power could be absorbed, but since Rose had already answered, she let it go resentfully.

"What’s next?" Hilia asked.

"Go fishing," Rose said.

"Huh? Fishing again?!"

"Yes."

"But I haven’t finished the fish I caught before."

"No arguments, I said go, so go; start fishing again tomorrow."

"Alright then..."

...

The next day, after afternoon classes ended, Hilia packed her bag and headed outside the Holy Beast Forbidden Forest again.

Mr. Oston was leisurely sipping tea.

Just like usual.

Seeing Hilia arrive, his eyes lit up, "What a rare visitor, Hilia, long time no see here for fishing."

Because I’ve fished enough.

Hilia thought, awkwardly saying, "Good afternoon, Mr. Oston. Want to fish together?"

Mr. Oston tossed aside the freshly brewed Word Spirit Brew, quickly went inside to grab his fishing rod.

"Let’s go, let’s go. I haven’t fished in days since last time I caught that hundred-pound Golden Cod. I haven’t caught any extraordinary fish since. This time I must get another!"

Passing by the casually discarded Word Spirit Brew, Mr. Oston paused, picked up the water pot and stored it in his backpack, directly signaling Hilia towards the Forbidden Forest Lake.

"Will Mr. Oston be a problem?" Hilia asked Rose.

"Not a problem, just go," Rose replied calmly.

"That’s good."

The two quickly arrived at the lakeside and started nesting.

Mr. Oston approached Hilia, placing the water pot he had taken by chance next to her.

"This is Word Spirit Brew; it can help mages to be calm, making it easier to enter a meditative state while also enhancing Spiritual Power. How about trading it for your bait?"

"Word Spirit Brew? Sure!"

Hilia readily agreed.

Mr. Oston got some bait, then found a prime spot to try catching a big fish again, while Hilia poured herself a cup of Word Spirit Brew, sipping at it while casually casting her rod.

As they focused on fishing, Rose controlled his Magic Puppet to move around the Forbidden Forest Lake with Nesting Ink and Heart of Gold on its back.

After a long while, he came back to Hilia’s rear.

With the Magic Puppet on standby, Rose returned to Hilia’s Spiritual Space.

"It’s ready."

"Okay, just a sec, let me catch one more."

Rose looked over to see Hilia’s mediocre catch, only two palm-sized fish for the day.

Without his assistance, extraordinary fish couldn’t be caught.

After all, those extraordinary fish usually hid in the deep depths of the lake and wouldn’t come out on their own; wanting to catch one with pure skill would take specialized study and extremely good luck.

With Hilia’s poor catch, Mr. Oston faired similarly, working hard all day to get only one two-fingers-wide fish.

Seeing Hilia pack up to leave, Mr. Oston noticed she hadn’t caught any extraordinary fish, secretly relieved.

"Leaving already?"

"Mm, I’ve got homework to do, can’t keep fishing. Mr. Oston, you continue, I’m heading off."

"Not waiting to catch an extraordinary fish before leaving?"

"Can’t catch one, maybe all the extraordinary fish in the lake have been caught."

Mr. Oston immediately nodded approvingly: "Yes, I agree, definitely someone snuck underwater to scoop out all the fish, so none can be caught." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Hilia: "..."