Chapter: Chapter 342
“Cough, cough, I was careless.”
When Bai Ling returned to where Leticia was, she saw a girl sitting helplessly on the ground against the wall, covering her nostrils with one hand, but unable to stop the wisps of crimson flowing from them.
Seeing the familiar figure appear before her, the girl coughed lightly and gave a weak smile, “Alas, I’m not as skilled as them.”
The reason she ended up like this was quite simple: she had lost the duel. The spatial confinement she had set up was forcefully broken, and as the magic maintainer, she naturally suffered a backlash.
A nosebleed was a very minor price to pay.
“Even you couldn’t stop them?” Bai Ling walked to Leticia’s side and took a handkerchief out of her pocket, “Let me take you upstairs first.”
Taking the white handkerchief Bai Ling offered, Leticia wiped her hand briefly, then pressed it under her nose. Soon, the white handkerchief was stained red, making one doubt if the price was indeed low.
“I don’t have the strength to go up right now…” Leticia said listlessly.
“It’s okay,” Bai Ling said softly in her heart, ignoring the girl’s surprised look. She bent down and gently picked the girl up… in a princess carry.
“Bear with it. Being held by me is much more comfortable than sitting here,” the white-haired girl spoke before the girl could.
“Mhm.”
Holding the girl, who was as light as a feather, Bai Ling walked back the way she came. Just as she was about to return to the ground, a green figure appeared before her.
Xiao Lü had also arrived, but she was quite late.
Seeing Leticia, who looked like she was “about to die,” in Bai Ling’s arms, Xiao Lü was stunned for a moment. Then, she reacted, “Is Sister Su okay?”
She didn’t ask about the robbers, nor was it necessary. If those people had been stopped, the two people in front of her wouldn’t have such heavy expressions.
About ten minutes later, at a hospital cooperating with the Hero Association, Xiao Lü listened to Leticia and Bai Ling’s account of the bank robbery.
Leticia was already lying on the white hospital bed with an IV drip. Her nose was now stuffed with two cotton balls, but the slowly seeping red indicated that these cotton balls wouldn’t last long.
“When we arrived, those people should have just broken through the vault door, and then they used a spatial ability to escape,” Leticia stared at the ceiling and added details in a ethereal voice, “I used a spatial confinement spell to temporarily stop their escape, but their response was more sophisticated than I expected. After realizing it was unrealistic to take everything with them, they immediately changed their strategy and focused their strength to break through my spatial blockade.”
What was ultimately taken was about a quarter of the contents of the vault. Any more, and the mysterious spatial ability user wouldn’t have been able to break through Leticia’s spatial confinement.
“Their mastery of spatial abilities is very high. I suspect… it might be a supreme spatial ability user beyond all our imaginations,” Leticia whispered, pressing her throbbing head.
Using such a method to forcefully break through her spatial blockade, their strength would not be much weaker than hers, and might even be stronger… Alright, here’s the problem. Leticia was already one of the top ultimate mages in this world. Those stronger than her would only be those from mythology.
Well, a god actually robbed a bank.
Who would have thought a god would come to rob a small bank!
Even Leticia couldn’t have imagined it. At first, she simply thought the person casting the teleportation spell was a psychic with spatial teleportation abilities. Who knew that the one dueling her was a god? Now, it had backfired.
“Users of spatial abilities are already a minority. If such a powerful individual appeared, they would definitely be recorded by our Hero Association. I’ll go to headquarters to check the records. Perhaps I can find some information,” Xiao Lü nodded. She still had many things to do and couldn’t stay with Leticia. “The association will reimburse the medical expenses. Sister Su, please rest well for the next few days, don’t run around anymore. Come back after you’ve recovered.”
“Uh, I’m actually not that badly injured…” Just as Leticia was about to explain her condition, Xiao Lü didn’t seem to want to listen at all and ran out of the ward in a flash.
“You don’t need to pretend. If the sky falls, I’ll be here to hold it up for you.” Even Miss Bai showed a look of heartache. Clearly, she didn’t quite believe Leticia’s words.
After all, Leticia’s current appearance was truly dire. Crimson was still flowing from her nostrils, her face was as pale as paper, and her eyes showed a deep fatigue. She said she wasn’t badly injured?
This clearly was a big problem!
No, this was just a normal backlash. It looked a bit scary, but she would recover about seventy to eighty percent in a day. Leticia sighed helplessly. She didn’t know how to explain magic to Bai Ling. She hadn’t encountered the backlash from magic being forcefully disrupted like this in years, but she had encountered it often a long time ago.
“I’m telling the truth. I’ll be completely recovered tomorrow. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Kira. If you don’t believe me, you must believe Kira, right?” Leticia pulled out the cotton ball, which was now completely red, from her nose. “Help me clean this up, my blood can’t stay here.”
Saying that, she inserted a new cotton ball into her nose to stop the bleeding.
Honestly, her current state did look a bit terrifying.
Taking the heavy, red cotton ball that Leticia handed her, Miss Bai suddenly asked with some curiosity, “Is there any other use for this blood?”
“…” Leticia was silent for a long time before nodding strangely, “Actually, it’s a very useful alchemical material.”
Demon King’s blood could be used to make many magic potions, but Leticia rarely used her own things to make potions.
For her now, the effect of potions was infinitely close to zero. As for giving them to others… using Demon King’s blood as a material for potions as a gift to others was too precious.
“If you want it, I can make a few healing potions for you, but the effect on you will definitely not be significant.”
“However, if you really want it, it would be better to bleed on the spot later. The blood in these paper balls will have deteriorated by then. You should destroy them as soon as possible.” Due to the backlash of magic power, Leticia should avoid using her magic power as much as possible. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have asked Miss Bai to do this.
Receiving the answer, Miss Bai nodded. She placed the red cotton ball in her palm, clenched her fist, and with a dreamlike purple glow, the two cotton balls turned into specks of starlight and disappeared from the world.
“That’s fine. Phew, I’m going to sleep for a while. This IV drip should last for a while.” Glancing at the clear bags above her head, Leticia signaled Bai Ling to lower the hospital bed a bit. She needed to rest to recover her energy.
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Central City, West District.
A silver light suddenly appeared in a pre-cleared area. When the silver light dissipated, about ten people in black clothes were lying on the ground in a daze, with a large amount of precious metals scattered around them. Seeing these things, the black-haired man waiting at the edge of the open space showed a surprised expression.
“Success! It really succeeded!” He clenched his fist and punched the sky fiercely, but soon, he frowned because he found that the harvest this time seemed less than expected. “Why did we only bring back this much?”
He wasn’t asking the black-clothed men who had lost consciousness during the spatial teleportation. The person he was asking was the man in the golden suit standing beside him.
“We encountered unexpected obstacles. For safety’s sake, bringing back this much is already the best outcome.” An ethereal voice echoed in his ears. The one answering the black-haired man was not the golden-haired man, but a short figure who had been standing beside the golden-haired man.
She was wearing a very thick black robe and a bright silver mask that completely concealed her face, revealing only a pair of silvery eyes and a lock of soft hair that seemed to emit silver light.
The golden-haired man nodded, seeming to be very respectful of this girl. “Are the forces of those blasphemers also here?”
“Not those people, but another force…” The girl didn’t say much. Her silvery eyes looked to the east, and a low voice came from her mouth, hidden by the mask, “This place is indeed a magical place.”
“What are you talking about?” The black-haired man asked blankly. He truly didn’t understand what these two were saying. He only knew that the plan seemed to have gone a bit awry, resulting in the original target not being reached.
The girl didn’t want to explain further. She left a sentence and turned to walk towards a black car not far away.
“There are many hidden powerhouses here. Be careful in future actions.”
“Be careful, you say…” The golden-haired man nodded, then turned his gaze to the black-haired man. “Mr. Luo, since the items are already obtained, let’s split them fifty-fifty as agreed.”
The man called Mr. Luo put his hand over his chest and nodded somewhat painfully. This operation was the first formal cooperation between their organization, Hundred-Footed Blades, and the golden-haired man’s organization. Hundred-Footed Blades provided the manpower, and the golden-haired man’s side provided the spatial teleportation technology. They would split the spoils fifty-fifty.
Although the harvest was not as much as they initially expected, it was not small. At least it was enough for Hundred-Footed Blades to get through the most difficult period.
The matters of dividing the spoils outside did not affect the small figure inside the black car. As soon as she entered the black car, the black-robed person took off her mask, revealing the delicate face hidden beneath it.
From any perspective, the black-robed person was a very beautiful girl, but her complexion was clearly not good. Her eyes were bloodshot, and her well-developed chest rose and fell constantly. Occasionally, she would cover her mouth and cough a few times.
Only when the golden-haired man opened the car door from the outside and sat in the front seat did the girl put on her mask again.
“There’s no one else here, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t wear a mask,” the golden-haired man said softly.
The black-clothed person who had been sitting in the driver’s seat from the beginning seemed not to hear the conversation between the man and the girl. He methodically started the car and slowly drove it onto the road.
The girl shook her head. “Mystery is necessary. Our power is at its weakest. A single misstep could lead to complete failure. You don’t want to be wiped out, and I don’t want to be caught by those people.”
She paused and let out a soft sigh of stale air. “Fortunately, in this place, the strength of those blasphemers is insufficient, and they cannot launch a large-scale attack against us. If something like what happened a month ago happened again, we might not even have a chance to escape.”
Speaking of what happened a month ago, the girl felt a headache. The spatial barrier she had painstakingly prepared was broken within a few days. In the last assault, she sensed that there were multiple existences at her level.
She didn’t know what evil had befallen them, but they had actually helped those blasphemers deal with their own kind. What did they want? Did they want to kill her and steal her authority?
“This body is also reaching its limit. A body created by alchemy is ultimately inferior to a real body.”
“We only have three bodies left that we brought out, and they can only support you for three weeks at most. If we can’t re-establish the workshop to create new bodies during this period, we will lose your help.” The golden-haired man gave a wry smile. As a human, it was laughable to rely on demonic technology at this time.
The girl coughed a few more times. “When that time comes, just bury me somewhere and escape on your own. Just make sure to throw me far away.”
“That won’t do. If that time comes, we can still use you to claim credit from those blasphemers,” the golden-haired man chuckled twice, but his voice was filled with bitterness.
The girl heard the bitterness in the man’s voice, and she shook her head. Who wouldn’t feel bitter after encountering such a thing?
Her painstakingly prepared unsealing ritual had to start all over again, the golden-haired man’s organization was completely destroyed, those blasphemers were unforgivable!
If she wasn’t unable to defeat those guys, she would definitely let them know what it meant to provoke a god!
“As long as we’re alive, there’s hope,” she softly uttered a few words, but she still had some doubts. The aura that had stopped her spatial teleportation just now gave her a very strange feeling.
It felt like both a god and a mortal.
