Chapter: Chapter 503
Wait, there’s this person in our team? The priest beside him scratched his head in doubt. He looked back at his subordinates behind him and counted them carefully, finding that no one was missing.
No one missing?
Then where did this dwarf come from?
His heart pounded like a drum, and a sense of fear suddenly rose in the priest’s heart. The girl’s appearance was completely without warning, and she had alerted no one!
She was like air, making people subconsciously ignore her abnormality.
This is wrong, this is absolutely wrong!
Subconsciously holding his breath, the priest didn’t know what to do now. Should he expose this guy on the spot? Or pretend he didn’t see anything?
He was a bit afraid to make a decision.
Just as he was struggling, the black-robed girl seemed to glance back at him casually.
Her pure black eyes carried a faint warning, making the priest feel as if he had been doused with ice water from head to toe. With a jolt, he made a decision: he would pretend he hadn’t discovered anything.
This girl is too strange, but she doesn’t seem to have any ill intentions. Could it be that she is also a believer of Lord God, here to help us?
Trying to make the best of a bad situation, the priest thought with a glimmer of hope.
After glancing at the priest, Leticia shifted her attention back to dismantling the magic array. Dismantling this three-dimensional magic array was indeed troublesome, but it was not a challenge for her.
Soon, she removed the parts of the magic array that had been eroded by black magic.
“Done, what should I do next?” Leticia asked the fox-like beastman, who was stunned beside her, after clapping her hands.
The fox-like beastman had no reaction. He stared blankly at the magic array that had been dismantled, muttering, “This is impossible,” “How could it be so fast?” “What have I learned before?”
“Hey! Stop spacing out! Get to work!”
“Oh, oh, sorry.” The fox-like beastman was startled by Leticia’s suddenly raised voice. He patted his chest to calm himself down, and looked at Leticia with a complex expression, “How did you dismantle this magic array? Can you tell me?”
This dismantling method was so aesthetically pleasing and fast, much more advanced than the method he knew. His method was like that of a country bumpkin, using tools to slowly cut off the problematic parts, and he had to worry about using too much force and damaging other parts of the magic array.
But this girl, her skills were so brilliant, she didn’t even use tools. She used only her hands to precisely remove all the contaminated parts. This was simply unbelievable!
“It’s a secret.” Leticia playfully put her hands behind her back and jumped a few times back into the priest’s team. “The rest is your job.”
“Okay, then please wait here for a moment. This time, repairing the damaged parts is not difficult.” Seeing Leticia’s reaction, the fox-like beastman sighed in his heart and took out some materials for drawing magic arrays from his portable toolbox.
As ancient incantations were chanted, these materials slowly emanated golden brilliance. The fox-like beastman dipped his golden brush into a liquid mixture of golden materials and began his performance.
He was like a master painter, creating his work in the air. The golden brush swept through the air, leaving behind traces of dark gold. These traces were neat yet complex, making one feel dizzy at a glance.
“Such exquisite skill!” Even Leticia marveled at the fox-like beastman’s array-drawing technique. Although it was not as fast as hers, the ability to draw arrays out of thin air was incredibly cool.
Hearing Leticia’s soft praise, the priest cautiously took a small step back, moving to a position parallel to Leticia. “May I know who you are…”
“Don’t ask, just consider me a friend of Zhiyuan.”
“Oh, oh, I understand. I will definitely keep this secret.” The priest’s eyes brightened. He had only asked half a sentence, and this mysterious girl had already mentioned the name of Lord God. Without a doubt, she was one of them.
He never expected that Lord God would have such powerful beings under his command. As expected of the invincible Lord God!
“This fox’s array-drawing technique should be the best among you, right?”
Hearing Leticia’s question, the priest quickly replied in a low voice, “Yes, the faith in Lord God has been passed down in the north for a very long time. He is a descendant of one of those lineages, and as for his array-drawing technique, I heard he learned it from an ancient book.”
“What was that book called… I think it was some kind of prophecy book?”
Prophecy book?!
The Orcs’ prophecy book is in the hands of these people?
Leticia’s eyes widened slightly. This news was a bit beyond her expectations. She only knew before that the Orcs’ prophecy book was not in the hands of the Royal Tent, but she didn’t expect it to end up in the hands of these rebels.
Could it be that these rebels are the true orthodox of the Orc race?
“Prophecy book? I’ve heard of it, but does the prophecy book also contain array-drawing techniques?”
Leticia had read the Demon race’s prophecy book. It recorded some prophecies about gods and stories of creatures from the mythical era, with no combat techniques.
As for the Human race’s prophecy book, Leticia had not seen it. She only knew that the Humans had caused a big commotion with the things in the prophecy book. That crystal lotus was the culprit that caused her to transmigrate to the Orc world.
And now, the Orcs’ prophecy book also appeared in her sight. The revival of Huang seemed to have something to do with this book.
“I haven’t read it either, I just heard from those who have read it. I heard that after our Lord God is resurrected, he will also have a fight with a black dragon,” the priest said to Leticia mysteriously. “That’s why we are trying to speed up Lord God’s resurrection, so that Lord God will have more time to prepare for the battle.”
“It seems that we have succeeded now!”
The priest’s confident voice made Leticia want to laugh. The black dragon in the prophecy was probably herself. There were very few black dragons in the entire Orc race that fit this condition, and only she, a dragon who was not a dragon, could fit it.
And your Lord God has not fully recovered yet, so the prophecy is actually correct.
Sigh, so how were the prophecy books written, and how did they manage to predict these things so accurately?
Leticia couldn’t figure it out, so she could only set aside this question for the time being.
“Yes, we have succeeded.”
Choosing the “Yes, yes, yes” response, Leticia refocused her attention on the fox-like beastman who was working hard to repair the magic array.
His technique was indeed a bit higher than Leticia had imagined, but because his own strength was not enough, repairing this super complex magic array was still a bit strenuous. After repairing only about half of the magic array, fine sweat had already appeared on his forehead, and his face had become pale.
The hand holding the golden brush was trembling slightly. Although it did not affect the repair work of the magic array yet, Leticia was sure that after a while, the fox-like beastman’s condition would rapidly decline to the point where he couldn’t even hold the brush steady.
His mana pool was too small, and repairing magic arrays was a task that consumed a lot of mana. It was normal for this fox-like beastman to be unable to bear it. Such large and complex magic arrays generally required the cooperation of several experienced mages to repair them in a short period of time.
Now, this fox-like beastman wanted to repair it alone in a short period of time. It could only be said that he had overestimated himself a little.
“He won’t last long,” Leticia whispered to the priest beside her.
Won’t last long? The priest looked at the fox-like beastman upon hearing this and also noticed that the fox-like beastman was not right. He looked a bit weak, completely different from his energetic appearance just now.
“What should we do then?” Knowing that Leticia was a true expert, the priest was not hesitant and immediately chose to let the expert lead.
“Watch.” With her hands in her pockets, Leticia said calmly, “Let him learn a lesson.”
“Understood.”
Leticia’s conversation with the priest was not heard by the fox-like beastman. The beastman now had no energy to pay attention to anything else. Repairing this magic array consumed more energy than he had expected. Even with all his might, he could only barely repair half of the magic array.
The best choice now would be to go back to the ground to rest for a night and continue today’s work tomorrow after his condition recovered. Repairing the core of this magic array in two days was not an unacceptable pace.
However, the fox-like beastman, who had just seen Leticia’s display, subconsciously rejected this option. He was the most formidable array-master in the organization, so how could he be pressured by an unknown young girl in such a matter?
Even if they were on the same side, it wouldn’t prevent the fox-like beastman from secretly competing with Leticia in his heart. He was a competitive beastman by nature.
This young girl performed so perfectly just now, and he himself had been so confident, saying he could repair the magic array quickly. But now he said he needed to rest for a night to continue working. Wasn’t this a complete disgrace?
Unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable!
The fox-like beastman gritted his teeth, dipped his golden brush into a bit of golden liquid, and continued his repair work.
But soon, his vision began to blur, and his hand began to tremble violently. The depletion of mana within his body placed an extremely heavy burden on his body.
Just a little bit more, just a little bit more! The fox-like beastman tightly gripped the golden brush, wanting to continue repairing the magic array, but the waves of weakness that surged from within his body made him unable to even hold the brush steady.
The guards beside him quickly supported the swaying fox-like beastman and loudly called for the priests who were watching to come up and lend a hand, to carry this master up.
In this state, it was impossible to repair the magic array today.
“He’s a little weaker than I imagined.” Leticia picked up the golden brush that had fallen on the ground with a speechless expression as she watched the fox-like beastman being carried away by the guards and priests. A hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, “This brush is quite something.”
Because of the fox-like beastman’s sudden collapse, his materials were not put away. Leticia squatted down and began to carefully analyze these materials used for repairing the magic array.
She didn’t know until she looked, but she was shocked. Almost every one of these materials had the aura of Huang. The one with the strongest aura of Huang was the golden brush held in Leticia’s hand.
Could this thing be made from Huang’s bones? Leticia thought with some curiosity.
The followers of Huang had various ways of utilizing Huang’s corpse. Selling blood, selling weapons, using bones and feathers as the core of magic arrays. Now, using bones to make a brush for drawing magic arrays didn’t seem like anything surprising.
As for the golden liquid, Leticia couldn’t figure out the specific ingredients and could only guess that a little divine blood was mixed in.
Leticia didn’t know how these people managed to make Huang’s divine blood coexist with other materials. Was it a method taught by Huang?
“Pack these things up, they’ll be needed tomorrow.” Calling the priests over to tidy up the area, Leticia casually drew a few lines in the air with the golden brush.
Black and gold lines appeared in the air. Unlike the fox-like beastman, who needed golden liquid to draw magic arrays, Leticia could directly set up magic arrays with her own magic power. This was the gap in their realms.
Speaking of which, if she could do something to this brush… Leticia twisted the brush, and an idea popped into her mind.
For example, she could leave her tracking mark on this brush. When the fox-like beastman finished his work and returned to that sacred ground, she could follow him to track down the location of that sacred ground.
However, it seemed a bit difficult to leave a tracking mark on this brush, as it contained the aura of Huang. Unless Leticia removed this aura, it would be wishful thinking to leave her own mark.
She cautiously tested it with her magic power, and the golden brush suddenly lit up. The scorching aura instantly incinerated Leticia’s magic power.
As expected, it was like this. She knew it wouldn’t be that simple.
“Perhaps I can make a replica.” Since she couldn’t leave a mark on the original golden brush, Leticia immediately thought of another method. If the real one didn’t work, she’d use a fake one.
With the fox-like beastman’s skill, it would be quite difficult for him to recognize the replica made by Leticia.
Restoring the external appearance was simple, and the aura of Huang could also be handled by having Zhiyuan imitate it. Mortals like the fox-like beastman wouldn’t be able to distinguish the auras of Huang and Zhiyuan.
The ideas in her mind gradually became clearer, and Leticia’s mood became relaxed. It was truly a case of “seeking something without looking and finding it without trying.” This method wouldn’t even require her to find a way to trick the fox-like beastman; she just needed him to finish his work and obediently go back.
It seemed that this time, luck was not on Huang’s side.
