Chapter 169: Chapter 167: Sea God’s Favored — Bluewing Seahorse

Boom——!!!

With the explosion, several demons were blasted away, various magic spells coming from all directions, continuously bombarding the demons. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Ten demons. The Holy Maiden Squad had five people and five puppets, theoretically one-on-one, to save resources. However, with the suppression of resources by potions and scrolls, they chose to gather the demons together and continuously bombard them, keeping them suppressed.

"We’re not the empty-handed ones facing the Sea Siren from a month ago anymore!"

Scrolls were torn and tossed as if they cost nothing, and Hilia’s smile was a bit twisted.

Amid her twisted smile was the heartache of seeing the gold coins flow away.

But at the thought of the benefits of clearing the ruins, she became anticipative again.

Not to mention other rewards; just the rewards given by the Empire and the Holy Court after clearing would be plenty of gold coins. Although they might not match the selling price of these scrolls, at least the cost could be recovered.

As for other rewards, such as the spoils of war, there’s no need to mention them. Everyone came for the loot and relics when conquering the ruins.

Thinking of this, Hilia hesitated no longer. Apart from the scroll for the Tower Master, she distributed all other scrolls, making a wealthy declaration:

"Use them all!"

So, under the crushing resources, the ten demons fell one by one.

Until the entire ninth level fell silent.

The girls were not satisfied, discovering for the first time that fighting with scrolls could be quite fun.

Just a bit expensive.

Hilia habitually went to the window of the level to look down, checking the movements of the Ghost Ship.

Resisting the urge to shoot a Crystal Arrow downwards, she returned to the team to regroup with the others.

Doris said, "Next is the final battle. We don’t know if there’s only the Tower Master at the top of the tower or a bunch of demons. To be safe, we’d better restore our condition to peak here before going up."

Encore distributed some potions to everyone: "These are Enhancing Potions, which can increase magic power and the circulation of magic. Take them when going up. This is a potion to replenish magic power..."

Hilia was generous with the scrolls, so Encore was generous with the potions.

Receiving Encore’s potions, the three of Benovia felt a strange feeling.

Among the five Holy Daughter candidates, three were from noble backgrounds, two from commoner backgrounds. Yet, the two commoner candidates were "spending extravagantly," while they themselves were using others’ resources, having brought few consumables...

Not knowing what others thought, Benovia had already made up her mind that once they got out, she would calculate how many potions and scrolls were used from the bracelet’s recordings and compensate accordingly.

Benovia looked at Hilia, once again thinking about her conversation with Phil from yesterday.

Hilia... Rose... Hiro Association...

What exactly is the connection among these...

After a brief rest, the Holy Maiden Squad set out again, climbing to the top of the tower, standing under the giant beacon light.

It was very spacious and large here, allowing them to see both the distant sea and the distant land.

They came up at the edge, near the land side. Looking back, they could even faintly see the distant camp clusters.

However, they had no mind to look at the camp now, all eyes were on the giant beacon light below.

Under the floating beacon light, sat a... horse?

No, it was a winged horse with a horse head, fish tail, and blue wings.

Rose recognized the creature’s identity, showing disappointment: "It’s not the Sea God, just the Sea God’s mount, the Blue-winged Seahorse. Tsk tsk, turns out the Sea God’s horse is gone."

"The Sea God’s horse is gone?" Hilia questioned.

Rose didn’t answer, only said, "Let’s do it. This Pegasus, as the Sea God’s Favored, isn’t easy to win. Even though its power is suppressed and corrupted, it’s still quite strong."

Learned Benovia also recognized the creature’s identity.

"This is the Blue-winged Seahorse, rumored to be the Sea God’s mount, driving the Sea God’s golden chariot, though not sure if it’s true. But... did not expect the Tower Master to be it..."

Hilia asked, "Do you know what abilities the Blue-winged Seahorse has?"

Benovia thought for a moment, uncertainly said, "It should only be able to spray water?"

Rose said, "The Blue-winged Seahorse can not only spray water, but also ram, claw, and use various water element magic."

"It knows various water element magic," Hilia said.

"We’ll know once we try," Doris led her puppet forward.

As she advanced, the Blue-winged Seahorse ahead let out a low growl, the warning meaning very obvious.

But Doris didn’t stop at all, continuing forward.

Benovia also controlled her puppet, coming to Doris’s puppet’s side, raising a shield.

Others followed one after another, gradually moving forward until the Blue-winged Seahorse stood up on its front legs, spreading its wings.

Its corrupted eyes were blood-red, emitting thick black smoke.

It neighed, stretching its wings, spanning ten meters wide.

Then, it opened its horse mouth, spewing a massive column of water at them.

"Don’t block its magic, dodge if you can," Hilia shouted, "The water column attack is the most dangerous, I will warn you to dodge next."

As Hilia spoke, others were already dodging, but the closest, Benovia’s puppet, couldn’t dodge, was hit by the water column, flew back directly, crashing into the rear fence, almost being knocked off the lighthouse.

Feeling the damage from her puppet, Benovia frowned, "Indeed powerful."

"Use the scroll," Doris shouted.

Just like the previous level, five scrolls were torn open in one go, various spells turning into streams of light, rushing towards the massive Blue-winged Seahorse.

However, what was usually successful faced unexpected results with the Blue-winged Seahorse.

It was seen flapping its opened wings fiercely, the incoming magic forcibly deflected, glancing past its body, flying behind and reacting on the ground.

Seeing this, Encore took out a bottle of potion, "Benovia, potion, give it a delaying status."

Benovia took the potion, and just as her puppet barreled through, she threw the potion to the puppet, which charged forward, directly tossing the potion to the foot of the Blue-winged Seahorse.

Boom!

The potion bottle shattered, and the liquid flowing out from it immediately turned into thick gas clusters wrapping around the Blue-winged Seahorse.

"Try using the scrolls again to see the effect."

They threw out five scrolls again.

This time, it couldn’t flap them away, but it used magic to create a water curtain to resist the magical attack.

Then, it began to counterattack.

With its massive size, it charged directly towards the puppets, crashing along, almost turning Doris’s puppet into scrap as it struggled to dodge.

"This Pegasus is tough."

Hilia said, "Of course it’s tough, because it’s the Sea God’s Favored. Its original physical strength is extraordinary. Even if it’s been corrupted, losing nine-tenths of its strength, it’s not something a puppet can withstand."

"Anyway, leave no reserves, fight with all your might!"