The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess-Chapter 46 - 44: Magic Combination Skill

The next day, Hilia returned to the classroom. After being called for a test, she regained her calm.

What’s different is that the school learned Hilia already has a magic puppet and independently completed a commission, so they cut some elective courses for her, replacing them with magic puppet training classes.

This course is different from the magic puppet class. The former teaches mages who own magic puppets, while the latter teaches students to learn about magic puppets and how to make them.

This afternoon was her first magic puppet training class.

Upon entering, Hilia saw several familiar figures.

The other four pre-selected Holy Daughters.

They were surprised by Hilia’s appearance. Doris directly walked over, sizing up the magic puppet Hilia brought, and said incredulously, "Have you collaborated with some family?"

"Yes, they provided the Heart of the Magic Puppet to me free of charge." Hilia had a good mood today and was even in the mood to tease Doris.

The other three candidates also noticed Hilia, but they didn’t come over.

They didn’t think Hilia could threaten them.

Coming from a remote area of the Divine Hall, where the high priest was still upright, unable to provide the gold coins to buy a magic puppet heart. How could she compare to candidates supported by either great nobles or grand divine halls?

Only Doris had the intention to recruit, always wanting to do something.

"Which noble is so foolish to provide it free of charge?" Doris believed it.

This made Hilia a bit speechless, "You mean you don’t know..."

Isn’t it Doris who instructed Mier or Anarce to have me participate in the flight competition and then take the opportunity to create trouble?

"Know what?"

"Nothing, it’s starting now, Ms. Doris."

Hilia shook her head, suppressing the doubts in her mind.

Because the instructor arrived.

Unlike the relatively younger instructors of other courses, the instructor for the magic puppet training class had already entered old age, his aged face revealing an amiable smile: "Today, our magic puppet training class has a new member joining, Hilia, everyone welcome."

He was not only an instructor but also a professor at the school.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Applause rang out in the classroom, even Doris applauded.

"Thank you, everyone." Hilia stood up and performed a Holy Court Etiquette to everyone.

"I am Mr. Abros, the instructor of the magic puppet training class. You can come to me if you have any questions regarding magic puppets in the future."

After introducing Hilia to everyone, Mr. Abros began teaching.

"The magic puppet training class is divided into three parts, the first part is combat teaching, the second part is practical training, the third part is question solving..."

"Today in this class, we’ll talk about how to allocate magic reasonably. Depending on the mage rank and magic puppet heart’s grade, a magic puppet can store many spells.

"During battle or work, assist the magic puppet in achieving goals. So, how to allocate spells so they cause chain reactions in battle or work, that’s a profound knowledge..."

Hilia initially thought she wouldn’t understand due to missing many classes, but she found that wasn’t the case. Mr. Abros’s explanations were simple yet deep, and many aspects of allocating spells to a magic puppet opened her eyes, generating many creative ideas.

She couldn’t wait to store those spells in the magic puppet.

However, Rose directly poured a cold bucket of water on her: "Don’t think about it, you can’t perform micro-control of storing Blast Skill in Ice Spike."

Hilia was not convinced: "Then how about Thunder Strike Skill combined with Rainfall Skill, allowing the thunder to attach to every raindrop to strike the enemy?"

"It could, the power would be a bit stronger than scratching them."

"Then can I use Earthquake Intimidation to hide Ice Spikes, letting them sneak attack from underground?"

"You could, but Earthquake Intimidation is a Tier Three magic and an earth element, incompatible with your magic puppet."

Hilia felt quite aggrieved: "So there’s no way? Why can’t magic puppets cast all magic..."

"Your magic puppet is Water Element, casting water element has the greatest boost, ice element, nature element, wind element, etc., close to water element magic can also perform at 100% performance, but fire element, earth element, thunder element, etc., will be weakened, don’t lose focus."

"Then how should I choose the magic to embed in the magic puppet?" Hilia directly asked.

"Choose from water element and elements compatible with water, like ice element, Tier One spells are too few, rather than thinking of those messy combinations, think what spells can assist the magic puppet in melee."

"Huh? Melee?"

"Otherwise? Why let the magic puppet cast magic? Why not cast it yourself? It also reduces the magic power loss during transmission."

Rose didn’t quite understand why people nowadays like making magic puppets indestructible and using them as mages.

Shouldn’t they be used as a meat shield while casting magic from behind?

Even if they can’t learn many spells, why not specialize in a unique spell combination route and excel along that route?

However, thinking about the core of the magic puppet being a divine fragment, a divine proxy is apparently stronger than the mage’s own, it made sense.

How useful is it for a low-tier mage to specialize in many spells, could they outperform a magic puppet with divine proxy in combat?

Probably when embedding a bunch of magic into a magic puppet, the puppet’s proxy would be better than the mage casting it themselves.

Even considering the transmission loss, it’s probably better than manual casting.

Thinking about this, Rose didn’t continue ranting, pondering for a moment, saying: "Considering the particularity of this era, I’ll select a combination skill for you with Mage’s Hand at its core." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Hilia had witnessed the prowess of Mage’s Hand, though the strength of this spell depends on the mage’s spiritual power, being able to swat someone’s shield aside was astounding.

Coincidentally, this era had already forgotten this non-attribute magic of Mage’s Hand; no one wished to learn it.

Which also meant, no one knew how to counter it!

The first part of the training class wasn’t short, but listening carefully, ended swiftly.

Next was the practical training session.

Doris had been waiting for some time, and once Mr. Abros announced free training, she came to Hilia’s side inviting:

"Hilia, free training is best with two people sparring; come, let me teach you how a magic puppet fights."

"I haven’t embedded any spells in my magic puppet yet, not considering sparring for now, sorry." Hilia shook her head, refusing.

Rose had already listed four spells revolving around Mage’s Hand for her, and she planned to ask Mr. Abros if he had memory crystals for those spells.

Memory crystals are tools for storing spells; when given to a magic puppet, it can store the magic from the memory crystal into its memory module and then use the magic.

Without memory crystals, the magic puppet can only use spells the mage has learned themselves.

"I know, but I want to tell you, in magic puppet combat, spells are only part of it; I can spar with you without using spells." However, Doris was persistent, insisting on sparring with Hilia.

From her eyes, Hilia sensed she was determined to make her experience crushing defeat.

A surge of emotion arose in the young girl’s heart.

"Bring it on!"

I’ve already found you unpleasant!