Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 25 Summoning Survey
The runes that Celia engraved on the puppet were derived from the basic runes, with slight modifications to simplify some of the complex parts and increase the strength of the runes.

Back when Celia was imprinting, Ross was already complaining that the past thousand years of development had gone to waste, and that it hadn't even developed as fast as the few hundred years he spent playing games—back then, everything had developed except for the fact that they hadn't yet entered interstellar space.

As a result, a thousand years later, everything went back to normal, even the basic runes were decades behind.

This is outrageous.

It's hard to imagine what the gods did after ending the age of calamity.

“Just tell me that you thought these were the changes that should be made, so you changed them,” Ross told Celia in response to Elena’s question.

He added, "You can also just say you got it from an evil god."

After replying to Elena, Celia lowered her head somewhat guiltily.

At the same time, she was also a little uneasy: "Professor Elena, could it be... that I made a mistake?"

This was, after all, something belonging to an evil god, and since it was right there in her mind, she dared not question it.

And considering how we've spent time together...

Celia felt that this evil god had no airs of a deity at all; he was approachable and, at most, a strict mentor.

So far, we haven't found any behavior from the other party that matches what pagans call an evil god—no, some evil gods described by pagans are actually embodiments of truth, goodness, and beauty, so it seems to fit that description somewhat.

I wonder why the Evil God cares about the Deep Sea Aid Association...

"That's not wrong, but after your modifications, these runes have been made less redundant, and the efficiency of magic circulation seems to have improved..."

Elena's eyes lit up.

"This improved set of basic runes might be able to be included in the 'Basic Runes' book! Celia, I want to confirm again, did you make these improvements?"

Celia didn't want to nod, but Ross had already used his mental power to press her head down twice.

"Quickly admit that you did it."

Ross's voice echoed in her mind. Celia didn't know what he wanted to do, only that if she didn't speak, he might control her to say it...

“Yes.” Celia lowered her head slightly. “It was modified based on clues and inspiration I found in the historical documents I was researching.”

"This is a huge change! Celia, so you're a natural runemaster! Come on, let's go see the headmaster!"

Elena was about to pull Celia away when the other teachers quickly stopped her: "Elena, the principal isn't at school. He's gone to deal with the Crimson Spring. We have a mission to complete right now."

"Oh, right, it's my fault for being in such a hurry."

Elena patted Celia on the shoulder. "Celia, go back and organize your simplified materials. These are important materials for publishing papers. Don't lose them. When the principal comes back, I'll take you to see him."

"Oh well."

"Don't leave the school during this period, and don't get too close to uninhabited areas."

"Understood, Instructor Elena."

"Well, go back."

"Goodbye, Mentor Elena."

Celia said goodbye to Elena and walked towards the school's teaching area.

But after walking for a short while, Ross said, "Go to the right, do as I say, go around to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, to the east."

Celia turned and walked in the direction Ross pointed, asking as she did so, "Have you found any traces of Deepsea Aid over there?"

"It's possible. I heard your teacher mention that direction, and he's on his way there now."

The location Ross gave us wasn't far from here, and Celia arrived in no time.

This is the eastern part of the activity area, not yet in the forbidden forest area, a place where students occasionally come to take a walk or practice meditation.

Celia found a place to sit down. Seeing that Ross didn't say anything and seemed to be investigating, she focused her mental energy, summoned the Mage's Hand, and practiced the Mage's Hand technique by swirling up the surrounding leaves. After a while, Ross said, "Don't move around here. I'm going over there."

"Ok."

Hilia, engrossed in practicing the Mage's Hand technique, simply responded with a sound.

Ross controlled the puppet to leave Celia, circled around the grove, and entered the forbidden forest.

Before long, the connection between the puppet and Celia weakened, but thankfully, it was still within Ross's sensing range.

In extreme circumstances, he can transform his mental energy into a wisp and control the puppet to move at least one kilometer away from Celia without injuring her, while also possessing a certain degree of detection ability.

Silently venturing deeper into the jungle, Ross soon arrived at his destination.

This was a cleared-out area where Elena and several teachers were kneeling, investigating something.

Austin, the Forbidden Forest Guardian, was also there.

After examining the ground carefully for a moment, Elena said solemnly, "There are traces of pollution, but they are very slight. The Deep Sea Aid Society has cleaned up all the traces, so it's hard to tell what they were doing."

Austin pondered for a moment, “Judging from the behavior of the Deep Sea Assistance Association, they may be conducting astronomical positioning.”

One tutor exclaimed in surprise, "Location? Are they trying to summon a sea monster from the deep sea again, and this time they're summoning it to our school?"

Elena shook her head. "Unlikely. This might just be a distraction, to make us focus on the school investigation while they continue their clandestine rituals."

Austin asked, "How's it going with the principal?"

"News came from over there that the Crimson Spring is being purified, but they were too late. There was no trace of the heretics in that area; they had already completed their ritual."

"Search again to see if there are any such star-positioning arrays inside or outside the school, and then report back to me. If this is just a trick to confuse us, inform the Holy Court and let the Holy Court take over."

“Yes, Professor Austin.”

"..."

Not long after, the group left one after another.

After waiting a moment, Ross approached the open space where the astrological positioning array Austin had mentioned was located, investigated it briefly, and then shook his head.

"What star-positioning array? This is clearly a surveying magic array for summoning abyssal monsters, but it has been abandoned, which means this is not the best place to summon abyssal monsters."

Ross dug up some soil containing "contamination," tidied up the traces, and left quietly.

When they arrived next to Celia, the girl was still playing with leaves.

Numerous leaves were swept up by her mage's hand and flew through the air.

"Celia, it's time to go to class."

Celia looked up. "Is it all done?"

"Okay, go to class now. I'll send the puppet back to your dorm."

"Ok."

Except for puppetry class, other classes do not require bringing puppets. Bringing puppets is like bringing a flying broom, which is inconvenient to set up.

So Celia walked to class, while Ross controlled the puppet to fly back to the dormitory on a flying broom.

The classroom where the afternoon class was held wasn't far from the dormitory, and it was within Celia's mental control range.

Celia sensed that Ross had indeed returned to his dorm and hadn't done anything else.

"What exactly happened just now?"

The girl scratched her head.

(End of this chapter)