Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

"Crow, go in and take a look."

The crow cackles as it flies towards the portal, but is swallowed up by a flash of aurora in a flash of light, without even a feather falling.

"It seems that it's not that easy."

Tricia was not surprised by this. Most of the ruins of the Age of Gods would not be directly open to anyone, and it would take some time to crack the way of entry.

But the question is, how did those black monsters get in? Did they know the key? Or were they just like water, not considered "living things" by the portal?

At this time, the faces of the people who remained in the mountains were more exciting than each other. Even the paladins were lucky to have the opportunity to see such a wonderful battle. Some of them also knew forbidden spells, such as Ryan. As long as he was given enough preparation time, he could also cast a forbidden spell.

However, the difference between "knowing" and "easily doing it" is not a little bit, and the gap between forbidden spells can be a thousand miles apart. It cannot be generalized. With Ryan's strength, even if he is given time to prepare the forbidden spell, he will never be able to hurt Tricia. There is such a gap between extraordinary wizards.

"It was a truly spectacular battle."

Ryan said, full of admiration, and the others nodded in agreement.

Inksas eyes were already filled with longing and admiration, and her gaze had hardly left Elsa - Tricia's magic was very powerful, but elemental magic was not in the same system as her holy light magic, and it would be difficult for her to learn it even if she wanted to. But Elsa's admirable power was different, and Inksas felt that she might have a chance.

One punch can blow up a large group of monsters. What a fascinating power.

"Inksa, you guys come over here quickly. Remember to have Ryan prepare the 'beacon'."

At this time, Tricia's voice came from the mark on the back of Inksha's hand, and everyone immediately stood up and rushed towards the central lake. This time they did not intend to save magic power and physical strength. Some rode on giant familiars, and some used magic to fly for a short time.

Inksha didn't know how to summon familiars, and she hadn't yet mastered the levitation magic of the holy light magic, so she followed Moira and flew down the mountain on a giant, fat bird.

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165. In Heaven

Elsa didn't get close to the portal. If she accidentally smashed it to pieces, it would be too funny.

This kind of thing really needs professionals to do it - Ryan and others have already arrived here. He is leading the magicians and Tricia to prepare something together.

Since no one else could help, the paladins simply took over the task of cleaning up the scene and guarding the surroundings. They used magic to gather the corpses and burn them. Every time they saw the traces of the battle left by Elsa and Tricia, they were amazed.

Aisha and Inksa were the only two idle people present.

"Lady Faris, are you free now?"

Inksha followed Elsa, and her attitude towards Elsa became more admiring and yearning.

"Just call me Elsa."

"Then... Elsa... Lady..."

Inksha couldn't help but add a suffix. In fact, she was not only like this to Elsa, but also to other people - she was not yet accustomed to her identity as a saint. In her eyes, these people in front of her were all great figures.

Elsa smiled helplessly, but didn't really care.

It's just a name anyway.

"Um... Lady Aisha, your fighting posture is truly graceful and elegant," Inksa asked cautiously, her voice soft and gentle. "That punch, in particular, is truly astonishing—how did you do it?"

"One punch?"

"That's it!" Inksha pointed at the place that collapsed after Elsa's punch, and was faintly excited. "That's the one that suddenly collapsed..."

Inksa said this while making gestures in a serious manner.

"that……"

Elsa didn't know how to explain it, so she repeated what Tricia had said to her, which made Inksha seem to understand.

"...compress the magic energy to its limit, trigger a chain reaction, and explode it," she thought seriously. "Is that so... As expected, that sounds amazing!!"

"That's about it. You can ask Sister Tricia for details."

Aisha said.

Elsa's understanding of magic was not profound. After all, she could learn it quickly, and she herself had not yet figured out the principles. This kind of thing really had to be left to Tricia to avoid misleading others.

Inksa's eyes lit up—Lady Aisha was introducing her! What a gentle person!

"But it's said that it's not that easy to do. Anyway, why are you asking that, Inksha?"

"No, nothing... I'm just curious... Oh, by the way, Lady Aisha, I can hold my chopsticks steady now."

Inksa changed the subject feeling a little guilty.

Elsa just smiled.

"That's great, you're quite talented."

"hey-hey……"

Inksha smiled happily. Aisha praised my talent! This proved that the path I chose was right. I must continue to work hard.

At this moment, Tricia didn't notice the conversation between Aisha and Inksa. She stared at the huge portal, lost in thought. Ten minutes had passed, and no black monster had emerged. She had no idea what was happening on the other side of the portal.

If she tried to force her way through this portal, she would only damage it. She could only take it step by step.

The teleportation arrays in the Age of Gods ruins occasionally possess an "identification" function, blocking any creatures with ulterior motives from entering. This is said to be determined by the nature of the ruins themselves. Some of these arrays connect to more important locations. Even now, wouldn't anyone entering a city go through a checkpoint beforehand? And for the Age of Gods ruins, if a monster from nowhere were to enter, it would undoubtedly be very troublesome.

As for the ruins of the Age of Gods, humans today are also a race that is not allowed to enter.

Rather, any living creature existing on the continent today is not qualified to enter the ruins of the Age of Gods—thus, current scholars believe that the ancestors within the ruins of the Age of Gods have long since become completely extinct, with not even their bloodlines left behind.

In order to safely enter this type of ruins, later magicians came up with a way to bypass the teleportation array to find its main body, which is the "beacon".

"Ryan, is the beacon ready?"

“They’ve all been activated.”

"Ah."

At this time, Elsa also came over curiously to watch. She saw Tricia holding a palm-sized object that looked like a cone. At first glance, it looked like a pyramid composed of a hollow black cone shell and an IV needle inside.

"what is this?"

"'Beacon'—Elsa has never seen such a thing, right?"

Elsa shook her head.

"No. What is it used for?"

"Detecting the direction of the portal in the Age of Gods ruins—its function is to find the other end of the portal. The principle is not complicated. Next, I will place a total of sixty-six 'beacons' around the portal. These beacons will form a large magic circle to envelop the teleportation array, receiving all magic fluctuations from or into the teleportation array. In short, it will recreate a 'fake' shell to monitor and intercept all magic fluctuations, thereby analyzing the destination of the teleportation array—even more, the 'beacon' magic circle can reversely affect and rewrite the teleportation array itself."

Tricia explained, while lifting hundreds of beacons into the air like a fairy scattering flowers, and controlling them to fall to the corresponding positions.

A magic circle larger than the portal slowly took shape.

"The ruins don't have a magic array to counter teleportation magic—although this is a basic feature of large cities today, to prevent enemies from entering directly through this method, but the ruins of the Age of Gods don't seem to have any concerns about war... So, as long as I know the ruins' exact location, I can directly teleport my people there."

"Magic is such a convenient thing..."

Elsa was very envious. Although she didn't necessarily need teleportation magic, having it would obviously bring a lot of convenience and avoid causing unnecessary damage.

"Having said that, not all Age of Gods ruins can be traced back using 'beacons'. After all, Age of Gods ruins are who knows how many years old, and it's normal for their portals to run out of energy. For those ruins, it's impossible to use simple methods like 'beacons' to detect them. We have to start by analyzing their magic arrays - and that's when we have to rely on scholars of Age of Gods magic, such as Ryan and his students."

This was also one of the reasons why Elsa brought Ryan and others with her. After all, Ryan was an expert in the ruins of the Age of Gods.

"Of course, only the teleportation arrays in the Age of Gods ruins are so easily hacked. Back then, our ancestors lived in a peaceful and stable era, without war, and no one worried about the teleportation arrays falling into the hands of others. But now, teleportation arrays are all encrypted, and they can't be hacked or affected by 'beacons' alone. So, putting aside security, the speed and efficiency of inter-city teleportation arrays have actually decreased. How to improve transmission efficiency while ensuring safety is a key issue in current magical research."

Elsa could understand this. Sacrificing a little performance for safety was no big deal. It was better to say that this was a better evolution.

Otherwise, wouldn't the enemy only need to use enough beacons to rewrite the teleportation array? By then, the enemy could use the teleportation array to send elite troops to the rear of the city before the battle even begins, which is extremely deadly in war.

Soon, feedback came from the "beacon".

"There are results."

Tricia said, but then frowned suspiciously.

"What's going on... the direction indicated by the portal is in the sky?"

"Heaven?"

Everyone looked up and saw nothing in the sky.

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166. Sky Island

"Heaven?"

The location of the ruins detected by Tricia surprised Ryan and the others. There was clearly nothing in the sky, and even though it was still night, if there was something there, it shouldn't be completely undetectable. If the sage hadn't said this, they would have suspected they were wrong.

Besides, it is impossible for there to be relics in the sky. The relics discovered so far include those in the desert, those in the forest, those in caves, those underground, and even in the sea, but none in the sky.

But, if we haven't discovered it, does that mean it doesn't exist? -- No one would doubt that Tricia's magic could go wrong, so we can only doubt our own experience.

Tricia didn't say anything, but just frowned slightly and stared at the crescent moon in the sky.

Her magical vision expanded to an extremely long distance until the sky became cloudy and her entire vision was blocked by the magic elements in the air. Only then did she retract her gaze.

Nothing has been found so far.

But she tested it again, and it was still pointing to the sky.

"Come to think of it, when you first discovered the Magic Dragon, Aisha, it appeared from the sky, right?"

Tricia suddenly asked.

"Yeah, probably in that direction."

Elsa pointed to the moon, which was where Tricia was looking at at that moment.

This made Ryan and others slightly stunned.

Tricia nodded.

"Elsa, can you see anything?"

"Well, it's a little unnatural—you'd hardly notice if you weren't staring."

At the end of Elsa's vision, in the center of the crescent moon, a "something" only the size of a sesame seed was suspended there. To Elsa, it was transparent, like a piece of glass. If no one reminded her, it would be very difficult to notice the slight distortion of light. Only when the clouds passed by would its outline be briefly highlighted.

"That's right. It seems this relic is in the sky... But... whether it is a relic or not, or whether it is the original appearance of the ruins of the Age of Gods that we imagined, having been dormant for countless years, is hard to say."

Tricia's words left Ryan and others confused.

"crow--"

Tricia called out, and the crow appeared, and Tricia constructed a teleportation array again.

"This is the teleportation array I rebuilt. The connection point should be in the ruins of the Age of Gods—I'm counting on you, Crow."

The crow cackles as it lands in the teleportation array and quickly disappears. Tricia then raises her head, her gaze fixed on the cold moonlight.

"in the sky."

She said.

The crow is Tricia's familiar. Although Tricia can no longer see the crow beyond a certain distance, she can still feel the crow's location. Obviously, it is still in the sky this time.

But soon, the crow's reaction disappeared, and it seemed that it had encountered something.

Tricia pondered for a moment.

"It looks like something has taken over here. You wait here for a moment. I'll go check out the ruins first. Aisha, can I leave this place to you for now?"

"Can you do it by yourself? Or let me pass."

Aisha asked with concern.

Tricia just pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes drifting towards Aisha.

"Don't worry, you're the only one in this world who can leave me helpless."

Besides, Tricia couldn't teleport Elsa.

"Then I'll go there first."

Tricia said.

As soon as the words fell, circles of blue light arcs engulfed Tricia's figure, and soon, Tricia's figure disappeared.

Tricia felt the slight suspension and dizziness caused by the teleportation, and the moment she opened her eyes, her expression returned to calm. The moonlight came into her field of vision again, and there was no shadow of clouds. Although Tricia didn't feel it, she knew that the temperature here was much lower, and the north wind was biting.