The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess

Chapter 234: Chapter 232: The Competition Arrives

Today, Hilia and Elina are just like yesterday.

After healing the mercenaries, they continue to endure hardship within the ruins.

Rose is like yesterday, providing no hints after they start, unless there’s a life-threatening trap.

But Rose finds that the difficulty of traps in this ruin adjusts according to the tier of the mage entering.

A team with a comprehensive Tier One will only encounter traps of Tier One to Two strength, comprehensive Tier Two teams face Tier Two to Three, and comprehensive Tier Three teams encounter traps that reach the extreme of Tier Three.

The traps aren’t strong enough to be insurmountable, but don’t think you can pass easily. You must endure the hardship with full concentration; a slight lack of attention could lead to serious injury or even death.

For ordinary mercenaries, this intensity is too high. Basically, curses are unavoidable, but as long as they’re not seriously injured, they can withstand it. The curse only prohibits healing, not self-recovery.

For Hilia, this intensity is just right. High-intensity confrontation can enhance her control over magic power and magic, and also help her identify shortcomings in her defense.

Like yesterday, discovering ice walls can combine with natural magic.

Therefore, when the two explored the second level, Rose didn’t offer any assistance.

Meanwhile, he was also looking for clues to the third level.

The owner of the ruins hides things well; clues are always tucked away in nooks and crannies. Without scanning several times, even Rose might overlook them.

Of course, scanning multiple times would definitely uncover them.

If you really can’t find them... directly enter the trap and learn how it operates, from which you can easily find a way to safely pass through.

Traps on the second level are relatively fewer, but their intensity is higher. Hilia and Elina could only persist for about six hours before their magic power was completely exhausted. Under Rose’s guidance, they easily reached the third level again and obtained the save point voucher.

"Let’s call it a day. We’ve gained some things. When we return, let’s sort them out and sell those we don’t need..."

Finishing their day of hardship, Hilia felt relieved, as if freed, each carrying away a half-human-sized magic guide device from the second-level magic guide trap, which the two decided to take after some discussion.

As Rose guided them to the third level, the two individually carried their devices up to the third floor, taking them out through the fog at the "save point."

"I wonder if the magic guide devices we take out of the ruin will also disappear from other mirrored ruins..."

"They probably won’t disappear. The existence of the ruin is quite peculiar. What you can take out of the mirrored ruin only means it no longer exists in that world, but other worlds still have it."

"If it weren’t for the traps everywhere, I would’ve thought about emptying the ruins from start to finish..."

The two chatted as they returned to camp. After putting their things away, changed their clothes, and resumed their healing business.

Yet today seemed a bit different.

As they began, across from them on the other side of the temporary street, a stall was set up with a sign that read "Dispel Curse, Only For 5 Silver Coins." fгeewebnovёl.com

Thus, the mercenaries queuing for treatment quickly ran over and surrounded that stall.

Hilia and Elina exchanged glances.

"Someone is competing with our business."

"Shall we go and have a look?"

"Let’s go."

...

As someone who values gold coins greatly, to the point where he doesn’t seem to fit in with the Ista Royal Family, Pascal wouldn’t easily resort to force.

Not to mention, his older sister is overseeing him here. Even without that, if he were to do something to those two elves, it would be fine if resolved, but troublesome if not.

Those two elves are mysterious in origin, with one seemingly part of the Elf Royal Family. An unintended mistake could escalate into a diplomatic incident.

However, doing nothing is not Pascal’s style.

Especially after deducing that the other party might be with Emilia, who hustled him for 40 gold coins, it’s even less likely he’ll let this go.

So, his strategy was—

To contact friends he knows and recommend two elf friends, temporarily join the Royal Mercenary Corps to dispel curses for mercenaries, cutting off Hilia and Elina’s source of income.

Of course, it cannot be said that he cut off their source of income.

After all, knowing elves can dispel the ruins’ curse, of course, you’d call two elves over to share in the profits.

To aggravate Hilia and Elina, he particularly spent some money to buy the area opposite them for his elf friends’ healing stall.

When Hilia and Elina returned to find the mercenaries queuing, they immediately put up a sign and started their business.

"The two opposite charge each patient about 10 silver coins, but you’ll charge 5 silver coins and snatch their patients away. Afterward, I’ll support your treatment under the Royal Mercenary Corps, bringing you many patients. As for profits, we split sixty-forty, sixty for me and forty for you."

This is what Pascal told the two elf friends he brought over.

Coincidentally, the two elf friends Pascal brought over were also mercenaries adventuring through various ruins, and they had long been eager for such a money-making opportunity.

Pascal, considering mercenaries’ preferences, deliberately chose a male and a female elf, male for mastering magic, female for support, also pleasing to mercenaries’ eyes, attracting them over.

Of course, the male elf could also be pleasing for female mercenaries.

Once everything was set, the two elves didn’t immediately start, instead observing Elina’s dispelling process. After determining that she only used the Elf Blessing, without any other magic or the legendary Elf King’s Blessing that only the royal family can use, they began their operation.

As they started ’working,’ Pascal immediately called upon the mercenaries from the Royal Mercenary Corps to support them, letting them speak loudly to attract passing mercenaries and those queuing opposite.

Pascal hid in the dark, watching most mercenaries rush over to save money, a smile appeared on his face.

"My gold coins aren’t that easy to take!"

...

Hilia mingled among the crowd, came to the side of the two opposite elves, and watched from afar as they used Elf Blessing to dispel the mercenaries’ curses.

"Slower than Elina, not as talented as Elina, but it seems they can also purify. Alas, looks like there’s no way to monopolize the medical business."

Hilia muttered to herself, curious about their cooperative treatment, stealthily using Mage’s Hand to follow their Elf Blessing as they dispel curses for a new patient, quietly probing into the mercenaries’ bodies.

After working with Elina for so long, Hilia has become familiar with the operation pathways and dispelling methods of Elf Blessing, able to use Mage’s Hand’s mental tendrils to sense their treatment traces without alerting them.

Almost identical to Elina’s dispelling purification, except that their dispel doesn’t match Elina’s speed, even if there’s two of them.

As she watched, Hilia suddenly frowned.

"Something’s not right, they seem to have not thoroughly purified, just suppressed the curse effect with magic, making the curse temporarily ineffective... what are they doing?"

Confused, Hilia returned to her stall.

Upon her arrival, Elina hurriedly said: "Hilia, quick, I found that Elf Blessing can only suppress, not dispel, it requires your assistance."

"What?"