Chapter 545 - 543: Run If You Can’t Win?

When playing with the elf Elina in the ancient castle maze ruins, Hilia tried to repair the released magic and succeeded.

Now, this skill is naturally not forgotten.

Wherever the enemy attacks, it gets repaired; although it can’t compare to complete magic and magic combo techniques, it can be used, continue to withstand attacks, and reduce magic power consumption.

Having a high total magic power doesn’t mean it should be squandered casually.

Hilia looked at Suna, who was trapped in reverse by the Ice Shield Skill, with a trace of daze on her face.

Last year, facing Suna’s oppressive force, she could only run, even needing to beg the Gods for help to escape.

But now, she doesn’t need to run and can even handle it easily.

The obstacle technique constructed by the Ice Shield Skill can’t block her enchanted punches completely, but it can’t be broken very quickly either.

This gives Hilia the confidence to defeat Suna.

An ice bow appeared in Hilia’s hand, she drew the bowstring, a Crystal Arrow appeared, slowly gathering into a Crystal Arrow.

Suna felt a strong sense of crisis, her body’s dark flames exploded instantly, with a momentum that seemed to melt everything, enveloping her and the Ice Shield of the magic puppet showing signs of melting.

She and the magic puppet moved almost synchronously, punching the Ice Shield.

The magic power of both sides seemed to reach some strange resonance; the next second, with a loud boom, Hilia’s thick ice wall constructed with five layers of Ice Shield Skill shattered, the resulting fragments and impact swept towards all directions, crushing all buildings and ice sculptures caught in it!

Just like that, all the temporarily frozen heretics by Hilia turned into shattered ice.

A gray demonic qi emerged from all the dead heretics, instantly entered Suna’s body, and her black flames burned more fiercely.

At the same time, Hilia released the bowstring, and the Crystal Arrow seemed to slice through the air, creating two trails of white ice fog, rushing at Suna.

This spell was under Hilia’s precise control—can’t dodge it, it will adjust direction with the target’s evasion.

Even if successfully dodged, it will explode immediately when close, causing AOE damage.

Suna sensed this, so she didn’t plan to dodge.

"Can a mage’s magic compare to a magic puppet?"

Suna snorted and transferred a large amount of magic power to the magic puppet, allowing it to stand in front of her and rush towards Hilia, with black flames that seemed to devour light burning on its fist, fiercely crashing into the Crystal Arrow.

Boom!

A more violent aftermath than before occurred, leaving no place untouched, dismantling the entire base.

At the same time, the magic puppet was knocked flying, along with Suna, landing far away.

She didn’t lose her rationality; she still remained calm and collected.

However, her eyes were full of incredulity at the moment.

"This intensity of magic power doesn’t seem like what a newly entered fourth-tier could possess, who exactly are you?"

Hilia remained silent, another arrow formed.

This time, it was a triple arrow.

Although it didn’t take as much time to gather as before, the three arrows were equally not to be underestimated.

Suna took a deep look at Hilia, her whole body flared up, turned, and ran outside.

"Trying to escape?"

Hilia was startled, immediately locked onto Suna, released the bowstring, and three arrows crossed the sky, flying towards Suna.

At the critical moment, Suna withdrew the magic puppet then summoned it again, blocking it behind her.

Bang!

The ice arrow exploded, and the Ice Burst Skill detonated again, directly severely damaging the magic puppet!

But at the same time, using the impact of the explosion, Suna ran even faster.

Hilia hesitated for a moment, looking at Rose in her mind: "Lord Rose, should we pursue?"

Rose smiled at Hilia, "You haven’t exposed yourself, whether to pursue or not doesn’t matter."

Hilia felt relieved.

She didn’t want to pursue, because Suna’s speed was so fast it caused her dizziness.

In other words, if she really wanted to pursue, she would have to ask Rose to speed her up.

But speeding up to catch up with Suna would undoubtedly lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness caused by fear of heights and dizziness.

Hilia encountered this situation for the first time.

The heretics she encountered before all were determined to fight to the death, never giving up until they were defeated.

But Suna did the opposite, running away directly upon realizing she might lose, without even being mentally affected by corruption.

Hilia knew that relying only on two spells couldn’t kill Suna; after all, she was a mage of the same tier.

The other party decisively ran when realizing she couldn’t win; if Rose didn’t specifically ask to pursue, Hilia wouldn’t dare pursue, in case she ended up in an ambush.

The last triple arrow caused significant damage to her magic puppet, persuading her to retreat was enough.

Watching Suna’s figure disappear, Hilia looked around and clicked her tongue.

"The whole base is destroyed, I suspect she did it deliberately."

The consecutive impacts just now left no place intact in the base; everything was reduced to collapsed ruins.

As for those shattered heretics, they were conveniently buried under the ruins.

Hilia carefully sensed, finding nothing valuable in the base.

The most valuable was the advanced magic crystal maintaining the array, but that advanced magic crystal was already contaminated, its effects greatly reduced, and Hilia looked down upon it.

After casually strolling two circles, finding nothing of value, Hilia looked at Rose.

"Lord Rose, there doesn’t seem to be anything here, what exactly are we here for?"

"To find the Heart of the Magic Puppet."

Rose replied casually.

"But there’s none here..."

"Do you think there’s only this one base here?" Rose questioned.

Hilia thought for a moment and shook her head.

Creating such a big scene, involving the Nether River Boatman, and operating under the eyes of Dawn City for so long, there couldn’t be only this one base.

Probably this base is intended to deal with Dawn City’s siege, the real base must be in a hidden location.

Rose’s shadow appeared beside Hilia, looking at the surroundings, calmly saying: "The lingering death aura here isn’t like a scenario caused by a dragon."

Previously, Rose didn’t think much upon arrival.

After all, Starfall Continent is filled with various miracles; some are naturally formed, some result from intervention by powerful mages.

The former can generally persist for a long time, the latter depending on its extent.

Places dense with death aura due to the death of a mighty creature aren’t rare.

However, after learning that the Divine King is setting up across the world, now he views every miracle as possibly arranged by the Divine King.

Coincidentally, here in Dusk Town, there’s a rumored miracle without confirmation; regardless of what Rose says, confirming if a dragon’s death caused this or if it was orchestrated by the God of Life and Death or Divine King is necessary.

The first two are fine, but the last one requires contemplating what Zeus really wants to do.

Rose gazed deeper, his eyes deep.

"Let’s proceed."

"Understood!"