Ronald's reaction in the temple was different.
Costate had no intention of pursuing the truth of the relics, or rather, she simply didn't care.
The moment she faced the enemy, Costate lifted her right leg and chopped down, directly toppling the elk clinging to the person's body. The sound of the opponent's bones shattering was unmistakably clear.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
By the time they realized the current situation, one of the humans with white pupils instantly became furious:
"Scum, what are you doing!"
Before the white-pupiled human finished speaking, he was smacked in the face by Costate.
The magic power-enhanced strength of the maid did not allow for any melodramatic turn taking with slaps. Just like that, she completely shattered the fragile bones of the white-pupiled human, who then fell to the ground, with no chance of stirring again.
At this moment, the cave's grand hall was very quiet.
Seliel and the others had seen Costate's abilities before and were not surprised by this devastating attack.
But it was different for Dawne's group.
As ordinary people who had never been in touch with the mysterious side before, they were seeing Costate seriously take action for the first time, and their brains couldn't even process the scene their eyes had witnessed in such a short time.
What had happened in those few seconds?
Was there something wrong with the scene they saw?
Had the enemy just... died?
The other creatures with white pupils fared even worse.
Not to mention that two of their companions had been directly killed, they, belonging to the mysterious side, had sensed that the traps they had left earlier had been solved, but had never expected someone as ruthless as Costate to arrive.
According to the information from the first group of people they had killed.
There shouldn't be such an entity in the explorers' campsite outside, right?
In the mysterious side, the strong must be respected.
Especially since the other party had shown such formidable power.
Facing this situation, another white-pupiled human didn't dare to utter the word 'scum' again and immediately tried to negotiate with Costate:
"This argument is based on the fact that such a series of events are consistent with a series of experiments."
The white-pupiled human's inquiry came to an abrupt halt.
Because right in front of him, Costate chanted a spell with an indifferent expression.
As a few brief incantations were spoken, a strange magic fluctuation descended upon the cave's grand hall. Although the effect of the spell was not yet clear, those present inexplicably felt a premonition—that some irreversible destruction was imminent.
However, just like the fleeting magic fluctuation,
that premonition quickly vanished without a trace.
Costate made no further moves, standing in place with her cold, indifferent eyes, observing everything around her.
"Miss... what did you just use..."
After waiting a few seconds, the white-pupiled human who started to negotiate intended to continue the previous conversation, also probing what exactly Costate had done in the cave's grand hall.
But his inquiry was not finished.
When he suddenly felt his heart stop beating for a few seconds!
The follow-up question naturally couldn't be asked anymore.
—Does the person I'm inhabiting have a heart condition?
—Or was it the spell just now? I didn't feel any magic fluctuation!
Many questions surfaced in his mind one after another, but the white-pupiled man immediately prepared to repair his body, as ensuring survival was the top priority no matter what.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
The moment Costate's incantation was completed, the fates of everyone present had reached their end.
The next second after the heart paused.
The white-eyed beings themselves also had a problem.
It wasn't the bodies 'they occupied' that had the issue; it was those 'summoned creatures stripped of their traits' that harbored their true consciousness which were experiencing the problem.
The eukaryotic creatures, originally adjusted by spells, suddenly lost a certain balance, and at the same time, the function of hosting consciousness also started to fail.
This anomaly coming from within was something the white-eyed beings had never anticipated and couldn't cope with.
The white-eyed being, having lost control over the body, fell to the ground, as the vitality-depleted white eukaryotic creatures slowly seeped from their mouth and nose.
Even if their consciousness were to recover now,
The eukaryotic creatures that had left the human body could no longer continue the conversation with Costate.
In contrast, the sight seen by Dwayne, who was bound in place, was even more exaggerated than that of the white-eyed beings collapsing to the ground.
Whether bears, elk, or humans, all the white-eyed life around him dropped to the ground at nearly the same moment and then the white substance flowed from their mouth and nose.
Costate just stood there, quietly watching the life around him fade away.
Merely a spell of unknown purpose, Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on 𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅✦𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾✦𝗇𝖾𝗍
and it had completely annihilated these dangerous existences, without a single survivor!
"Mr. Megan, are all you wizards this powerful?"
"I can't understand it at all!"
Farther away, Selyiel couldn't help but ask her companion.
"How could that be!" The middle-aged Caster said with a wry smile, shaking his head, "Not just you. Even though I know Miss Crowe used a spell, I can't comprehend the details either."
"I'm also very shocked..."
Hearing Megan's tone, Ina wasn't as completely overwhelmed as Megan.
The young girl even initiated the conversation:
"This... seems to be a very special spell."
"There's no sign of it after the initial Magic Fluctuation of the casting; no subsequent attack effects make any sound."
The discussion of Costate's spell did not continue successfully.
Not only because they truly lacked the ability, but also because shortly after Ina spoke up, they heard footsteps coming from the tunnel behind them.
Hearing the footsteps, the group naturally turned their heads to look.
Ronald, who had hurried over, was just entering from the tunnel behind them.
However, at that time, Ronald no longer had the gentle expression he wore before. After scanning the cave hall and confirming that Dwayne and the others were safe, Ronald's gaze directly fixed on Ina.
Then Ronald raised his right hand toward Ina.
Ina realized everything in an instant.
She looked at the depths of the cave with a look of great unwillingness.
Then, the girl who claimed she couldn't cast any spells, burst out with a surge of powerful Magic Power without a moment's hesitation.
At that moment, Ronald caught Ina, drawn over by the spell.
— There was no sign of life.
— She had committed suicide.
Ronald's eyes coldly looked at the corpse in his hand, then he directly called out to the maid in the center of the cave hall:
"Costate, come here."
"Read its memory immediately."