Chapter 310: Chapter 308: Lord Evil God Is Teaching Miss Xilia How to Hack into the Star Spirit Network

Bang!

Crossing the border between the central district and the slums and entering the area affected by the array, Hilia stopped supplying energy to the flying broom, put it away, and turned herself into a parabolic arc, shooting toward the central city.

About to crash, she quickly cast Light Body Technique and Swift Movement Skill on herself, her face pale as she endured the discomfort brought by high-speed flight, running straight toward the inn without looking back.

It wasn’t until she’d gone quite far that she finally looked back, spotting Suna standing at the border between the slums and the central district, staring at her, her gaze deep and unfathomable.

Hilia continued forward, only stopping once she could no longer sense the other’s presence, one hand bracing against a streetlamp, the other patting her chest as she gasped for breath.

"Facing the pressure of a Tier Four Mage head-on is terrifying."

If possible, Hilia wouldn’t want to fight a Tier Four Mage at all.

According to Rose’s theory, Tier One to Tier Three are low-tier mages, Tier Four to Tier Six are mid-tier mages, and the boundary between low-tier and mid-tier is between Tier Three and Tier Four—the gap is still huge.

With Suna’s explosive aura just now, Hilia had absolutely no confidence in winning, unless, like during the Southern Border City incident, she could set up an array in advance capable of blocking a Tier Four Mage. Then she’d have a small chance.

"Now that I mention it, why didn’t she come in?" Hilia wondered as she caught her breath.

Rose said lightly, "Expand your thinking. Consider her purpose for appearing here. As a heretic, she charges into the rich area without any attempt to hide—does this affect her goal?"

Hilia pondered and said, "She suddenly comes all this way; it can’t possibly be just for ’Mier,’ right?"

As she spoke, she thought no matter how she looked at it, it seemed unlikely.

The most likely reason was something to do with the recent actions of the Polar Blood Alliance.

"The heretic sects teamed up, planning to stir trouble through this Mage League?"

The Mage League was an event across the continent. The Polar Blood Alliance alone might not dare to cause trouble, but as long as they teamed up with other heretics, they’d love nothing more than to destroy the world.

Hilia felt that made perfect sense.

But she still couldn’t figure out why Suna injured the people from the Polar Blood Alliance so badly when she appeared.

"Ugh, that’s a shame. Finally caught the Polar Blood Alliance in the act, and now the trail’s gone cold." Hilia sighed in disappointment.

Rose chuckled, "There’s still a chance. When that woman was chasing you, the heretic secretly slipped away. Go on, track him and see where he’s headed."

Hilia’s eyes lit up, "But my spiritual power strength is too weak—I can’t find him anymore..."

Rose materialized beside her, flicked her forehead, and shared the heretic’s movements with her.

And Suna’s movements as well.

As Hilia disappeared, Suna paused for a moment, then returned to where she lived.

Meanwhile that heretic was moving slowly.

After being heavily wounded by Suna’s magic, he could still run—Hilia was actually somewhat impressed.

Rose laughed, "After suffering a serious injury, he might have wanted to lure you to a fake location, but now he has no choice but to go to the real hideout."

Hilia checked the time—2AM. She was a little sleepy, but thinking of the enemy’s movements, she immediately perked up.

"There’s no competition happening anyway, so it’s not too late to go back to bed after I settle this!"

With that, the girl set off once more, sensing the situation of both parties as she ran out.

Given that the unlucky heretic earlier apparently got seriously injured by Suna because he tried to step on someone’s house, Hilia paid a bit more attention this time, making sure she landed only on shabby houses so as not to step onto a high-tier mage’s roof.

Soon, Hilia caught up with the heretic named Jestikaf.

This time, she chose to keep hidden, not revealing herself, simply watching as Jestikaf limped toward a spot in the slums.

About ten minutes later, he left the densely packed slum, entered a small town leaning against Kost, and slipped into a little castle with a courtyard.

Hilia quietly climbed onto a house next to the castle, gazing inside across two buildings.

Unfortunately, once Jestikaf entered the house inside the little castle, she lost track of him.

But it didn’t matter, Rose’s spirit tracking was still active.

Hilia sensed him, and soon realized he headed underground after entering.

"Looks like the Polar Blood Alliance’s hideout is under this house."

Hilia focused on the small castle, carefully scrutinizing the layout and defense forces.

"Two guards at the gate; not sure about the inside. Looks just like an ordinary noble or merchant’s estate—nothing special at all. No one would suspect it’s a heretic hideout..."

Hilia jumped down and came to the side of the castle’s wall, mimicking Rose and using spiritual power to scan inside.

Unfortunately, her spiritual power wasn’t strong enough to penetrate the walls.

Rose couldn’t help but laugh, sharing what she’d scanned: "There are four visible guards, four hidden ones, two at the door, two in the hall where there’s a secret passage. The four hidden guards are watching around the hall, all just Tier Two."

"Only Tier Two, huh."

Hilia relaxed a little.

"But... I’m not a Shadow Mage, so I probably can’t slip past them and get inside."

Rose said, "There’s a method of infiltration nobody knows about. Want to hear it?"

Hilia’s eyes sparkled, "I do!"

Rose smiled, "Kill them all. Then nobody will know you infiltrated."

Hilia: "..."

The girl was exasperated: "Lord Rose, don’t joke around! If I kill them, how could nobody know? I bet this entrance has anti-assassination alarms, right?"

Rose smiled, "What do you think the alarm would be?"

"Maybe something they carry, so if they die it triggers alerts and sends messages; somebody manually raising the alarm; array-triggered alarms..."

Hilia listed all the warning methods she could think of.

Rose nodded, "Most of those can be ruled out—only the carried device alarm and array alarms are worth noting. Hilia, have you ever considered that devices connected to the Star Spirit Network are constructed with tiny runes. In those devices, when you edit messages, send information, make real-time calls—you’re affecting the internal runes, right?"

Hilia said, "That involves rune pulses. Why are you suddenly talking about this, Lord Rose?"

"When you try to infiltrate arrays, you only focus on hardware hacking or modifications—you’ve never touched micro-rune infiltration. You could try to hack the micro-runes."

"Micro-rune infiltration..."

Hilia’s eyes brightened.

"Lord Rose, you mean I could hack their alarm devices, modify the rune pulses inside, so the alarms don’t work?"

Rose nodded with a faint smile: "Mage’s Hand can manage that level of finesse. Haven’t you been obsessing over why your Mage’s Hand isn’t precise yet? Maybe you could try micro-operation."

Hilia looked at her bracelet, "Then I’ll try with my bracelet!"

"No need. Just use their alarm devices directly."

"Won’t that trigger the alarm?"

"Not if you hack the software—there are no firewalls."