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

Chapter 72 First Experience with the Boss Battle
Beside the ghost fruit tree, a solidified ghost was floating around the tree.

It exuded a powerful aura, driving away other ghosts that tried to approach.

It came to the fruit that emitted a faint glow, and the ghostly little hand reached out, wanting to touch it but not daring to, so it could only stare at the fruit and smile.

However, this smile didn't last long before it was shattered by a suddenly appearing ice wall.

The guardian ghost turned around and saw a mechanical creature rushing towards it. Ice walls converged on it from all sides, as if drawn by an invisible hand, quickly surrounding it.

It let out a sharp scream, and its body suddenly grew larger, attempting to break through the ice wall.

The next moment, it discovered that these ice walls were extremely fragile and would shatter at the slightest touch.

It let out a disdainful scream, but it soon realized it was wrong.

The shattered ice wall suddenly erupted with a huge energy shock, turning into ice blades that pierced its body from all directions.

Even though the guardian ghost has a high level of magic immunity, this incident still caused its body to become noticeably lighter.

This combo enraged the guardian ghost, which shrieked and unleashed three blue flames that instantly dispelled the remaining ice blades.

Hiding in the shadows, Celia controlled the puppet to dodge the three will-o'-the-wisps and approached the guardian ghost directly.

"Stagnant water!"

The ghost's speed slowed down.

"Getting close to ghosts is not a good choice," Ross said calmly.

Celia quickly grasped the meaning of those words, feeling the spiritual impact emanating from the guardian spirit through the puppet.

This mental shock felt like a needle prick in her mind, and the puppet's movements came to a standstill.

Upon seeing this, the guardian ghost let out a scream, the sound waves carrying magic and traveling a great distance.

Celia immediately understood what it was doing.

"Is it summoning other ghosts?"

Celia tensed up for a moment, but then relaxed when she remembered that Ross had said he wouldn't let other ghosts interfere with her duel with the guardian ghost.

While the guardian ghost summoned other ghosts, she controlled the puppet to rush forward, holy light emanating from her palms, and reached out to grab the ghost's body.

However, the puppet's hand passed through the ghost.

"Guardian spirits have no physical form."

Ross shook his head; he still lacked combat experience.

Fortunately, Celia reacted quickly. She condensed her mage's hand into a rope, tried to imbue it with holy magic, and then bound the guardian ghost.

This time, she succeeded.

Ghosts are adept at mental attacks, but mental attacks are also 100% effective against them.

As long as you also possess the ability to launch mental attacks.

Imbuing magic with divine power is a required course in spell classes at the Holy Magic Academy.

It adds a holy attribute to magic, granting it special attacks against specific units but not against general targets—but it looks good.

Your summoning is nullified. It's my turn!

Celia chuckled and manipulated the puppet, slamming fireballs into the face of the guardian ghost.

This is the only fire magic she knows. Although the power of the water magic is greatly reduced when used by the water magic puppet, it is still more powerful than ice magic because of its special attack against ghosts.

A large amount of magic power was channeled through the puppet and transformed into fireballs, which continuously bombarded the guardian ghost.

With the enhanced Puppet Heart, although Celia couldn't achieve the terrifying efficiency of Ross, it was still better than using magic herself, with magic consumption halved and power doubled.

At the same time, his mental energy was being rapidly depleted, and the rope formed by the mage's hands was resisting the guardian ghost's fierce struggle.

"Why does it feel like it's struggling harder and harder?"

Celia, her forehead beaded with cold sweat, stared in bewilderment at the bombed ghost.

The ghost's previously solid body had become indistinct, as if it might vanish at any moment. But Celia sensed that its resistance was growing stronger, and even the ropes of the mage's hand were cracking, about to be forcibly torn apart by it.

Ross glanced at it and said, "It has a passive ability that makes it stronger the lower its health is. The weaker it is, the stronger its combat power becomes. If you continue to restrain it, you will be knocked unconscious once it tears apart your Mage Hand."

"Huh? There's this kind of side effect?"

"This is a side effect of your massive mental energy depletion, not a side effect of the destruction of the Mage's Hand. The destruction of the Mage's Hand will cause your mental energy to be rapidly depleted in an instant. When it is insufficient, you will faint, and in severe cases, it may even damage your soul."

"what?"

The mage's hand that had been binding the guardian spirit immediately loosened.

The guardian spirit, having broken free of its restraints, let out a shrill scream and unleashed a powerful burst of magical energy in all directions.

The puppet had no time to dodge and was hit directly, flying more than ten meters backward!
At this moment, the guardian ghost's soul form appeared to be faintly visible, as if it would dissipate at any moment, but the aura emanating from it was even stronger than that of the third-tier high priest Dylan whom they had encountered before.

On the contrary, Celia was not in good condition.

The puppet was hit so hard that although it didn't fall apart, many parts came off and the internal parts were damaged, requiring repair.

Her own magical and mental power were almost completely depleted after the continuous bombardment.

Even the impact of the guardian ghost breaking free affected her, causing her unbearable headache.

Although she was not physically injured, her situation would be reversed if she did not continue to suppress the ghost.

The girl gritted her teeth and quickly thought of a solution in her mind.

However, even if the puppet is uninjured, it cannot perform a challenge against a higher-level opponent when both its magic and mental abilities are depleted.

Even the most powerful magic puppet is just a lump of scrap metal without a supply of magic power.

There must be a way, there must be.

Celia quickly thought of ways to deal with the ghost.

But no matter how I look at it, it seems there's no way to deal with this ghost that gets stronger the more crippled it gets, except for Ross taking over.

wrong!

Celia had a flash of inspiration.

Maybe you could try this!

As the ghost rushed toward the puppet, Celia took out a magic scroll from her bosom.

That was a fourth-tier scroll, "Hymn of Baptism," gifted by Elena.

"Just like Mr. Ross said, scrolls are meant to be used. If we don't use them now, how can we get better scrolls?"

The effect of 【Hymn of Baptism】is to heal the ally and inflict the negative effect of 'Repentance' on the enemy, causing the enemy to fall into the state of repentance.

However, if used by a mage below rank three, it will result in an inability to accurately control the effect, potentially causing the enemy to be healed while one's own side is left to suffer on the battlefield.

Without relying on the evil god, Celia had no other choice.

The girl took a deep breath.

Take a gamble!
Just as she was about to tear open the scroll, Ross's soft laughter rang out.

"That's enough. This scroll shouldn't be used here. It's good that you're willing to use it. Now, leave the rest to me."

A faint resistance emanated from within her body, preventing Celia from activating the scroll.

The puppet that was about to be struck by the ghost changed its posture, from passive defense to active attack.

The girl's tense heart relaxed, and she collapsed to the ground.

She watched as Ross easily found openings to dodge the ghost's ferocious attacks and sighed softly.

"I... am too weak."

(End of this chapter)