72~Former Teammate
“Mr. Unknown Divine Son, I believe that ‘get lost’ isn’t quite appropriate for daily conversation. It’s a little too rude,” Tillysha squatted on the ground, one hand fiddling with her silk-like hair, while her snow-white hand reached out to poke at the cornflower growing out of the Divine Son’s neck. “Girls won’t like someone who’s too rude, you know.”
“Do you even hear what you’re saying?!” The Divine Son’s eyes bulged as he was tied up and humiliated by this woman, who now had the audacity to criticize his manners?
The Divine Son thought he already had quite a bit of patience. If he weren’t so averse to hostility towards her, he might’ve already cursed her whole family by now.
“You vile woman!…I admit defeat, but a gentleman may be killed but not humiliated. Why don’t you just finish me off if you’re going to do this!”
“Vile woman?” Tillysha paused for a moment, a trace of helplessness appearing at the corner of her lips.
A year ago, she was just an innocent boy, and now someone was calling her that.
“Sorry Mr. Divine Son, I truly didn’t mean to humiliate you.”
“Hmph!” The Divine Son’s head slumped on the ground, glancing at the cornflower on his shoulder, letting out a cold laugh.
“If you would just cooperate a bit, it would be over soon.” Tillysha poked at the Divine Son’s cornflower. “Like this, do you feel anything?”
“No!” The Divine Son grumbled irritably.
“Do you feel any discomfort or abnormality? For example, the feeling of something inside you being gradually sucked away?”
“How would I know? I don’t.”
Seeing the Divine Son being uncooperative, Tillysha kept quiet and stared at the cornflower, giving the Divine Son a tingling sensation.
Soon, the man noticed something was wrong. He felt the dizziness in his head worsen, his head and limbs growing heavier.
“How about now? Do you feel like something’s being sucked away?”
“You, you…”
Tillysha looked at the increasingly flourishing cornflower. “The cornflower is blooming more vibrantly, obviously being nourished by something. Judging from your pale face, it’s probably something like energy or bl**d.”
Soon, the cornflower on the man’s neck began to swell, with its stem thickening like a vine.
Tillysha stepped back, with mixed feelings, and the next moment, the cornflower with deepening colors exploded, its blast power tearing apart thorns.
As the announcement of his elimination sounded, Tillysha bowed towards the direction the Divine Son disappeared in.
Was that too much?
But because of this, Tillysha gained further information about the “Emerald Celestial Fragrance.”
When it makes contact with the body, it roots and flowers, these flowers have no offensive nature but will continuously draw energy from the host body as nourishment. When it reaches an upper limit, a small explosion occurs, which could harm the host.
However, there are many variables. For instance, the test subject this time was a Divine Son without any powers. Would its effectiveness on a Divine Maiden be greater than on a Divine Son?
Leaving aside the effect of the “Emerald Celestial Fragrance,” using it was still troublesome. It requires power to control and ‘Natural Elements’ to release; both are essential.
So far, the “Emerald Celestial Fragrance” could only be stored for five releases. If the battleground wasn’t in the forest, her strength would be significantly weakened.
But the “Emerald Celestial Fragrance” wasn’t her ultimate trump card.
Entering an introspective mode, Tillysha directed her gaze towards her other two Divine Authorities.
The First Authority, “Holy Oblivion of Creation and Destruction.”
The Third Authority, “Realm of the Collective Forest Authority.”
These two Divine Authorities were her true trump cards, but one needed to be used cautiously, and the other required strict conditions and a massive amount of Divine Authority for release. Considering the prolonged war, it couldn’t be used carelessly.
In this world, there are many types of alchemical medicines and enchanted tools for restoring vitality and life, but there are very few for restoring Divine Authority. Even if they existed, they would only appear at auction.
So during battles, when a Divine Maiden’s Divine Authority is exhausted, they can only lay there waiting for it to recover naturally.
How to allocate Divine Authority is also a part of a Divine Maiden’s tactics and experience.
But this varied from person to person. Some Divine Maidens used so little Divine Authority that they never needed to consider allocation issues, but clearly, Tillysha wasn’t one of them. Even forming light arrows consumed Divine Authority, let alone these more extravagant Divine Authorities?
Even though her upper limit of Divine Authority wasn’t small, she couldn’t use it indiscriminately without consideration.
She had already wiped out two teams.
Tillysha picked up the tally token, put away her large bow, and proceeded north.
The moment she exited the forest, Tillysha suddenly felt that some effect that had been on her had disappeared.
She looked at her porcelain-white hands, the golden sun harp pattern on her hand’s back started to dim.
All the positive buffs she had enjoyed, such as faster recovery of Divine Authority, gaining natural elements, sensory enhancement, agility, etc., had all faded away.
No wonder they say not to fight elves in the forest. The elves in the woods get such terrifying buffs.
She glanced back at the forest behind her, suddenly feeling as if she was moving farther and farther away from home.
Soon, the forest became indistinct in the distance, leaving Tillysha walking on a barren wilderness. Her delicate feet, covered in white silk stockings, stepped lightly on the dry earth without being scratched or dirtied by the rough surface, as if there was a magical force protecting her.
The wind, carrying a hint of weariness, blew through her radiant golden hair. From afar, the young girl looked like a snow lotus blooming in the desert.
If there were forests in the northern valley, Tillysha’s chances of success would increase significantly. But obviously, she wasn’t that lucky.
From the looks of things, that valley would likely be a barren mountain devoid of any vegetation.
“Click.” She felt like she stepped on something hard. Tillysha slightly lowered her head, there was a white lump protruding from under the sand.
Tillysha bent down, while pulling her long hair up so the tips wouldn’t touch the ground, and gently brushed away the covering sand with her white hand, revealing a piece of white bone.
This bone obviously wasn’t human, nor elf; it should be the bone of a large beast.
There was no way it could belong to the freshmen participating in the competition here. Thus, it could only be from the beasts that used to live here before this Secret Realm was taken over by Coleman Academy.
Tillysha continued forward.
In this lonely land devoid of humans, the wind covered up the insignificant footsteps of the young girl. In this desolate desert without any signs of life, it felt like she was the only one left in the world.
Her pointed ears twitched; Tillysha halted. The elf’s acute hearing captured some muffled conversations in the desolation.
Tillysha slowed down and quietly approached, confirming that the sound came from behind a boulder.
When she slowly got closer, her beautiful eyes slightly widened.
She saw two extremely familiar figures.
Her former teammates, Rainy and Cole.
