Ch 511: Countermeasures Activated, But Seemingly Ineffective

The next morning, Bal woke up, and Phia was putting on clothes in front of the wardrobe.

“You’re up so early?”

Bal sat up, slowly got out of bed, and came to the wardrobe. Phia sighed, and after putting on her clothes, she turned around and tidied Bal’s hair.

“I didn’t sleep last night; refining magic items is very troublesome.”

“You worked hard.”

Bal hugged Phia and kissed her on the face. Phia didn’t resist. After Bal put on his clothes, the two went downstairs to eat.

“Yselle, you’re up so early too?”

Seeing Yselle eating breakfast, Bal pulled out a chair and sat down. Yselle swallowed the mouthful in her mouth and smiled.

“I didn’t know when you two planned to act, so I decided to get up early.”

“Good. Let’s get started after we finish eating. I refined all the magic items last night. You’ll come with me to get them later.”

Phia sat next to Bal. She picked up the bread spread with butter in front of her and took a small bite.

Soon, the three finished breakfast. After entrusting Hiel to Xiaoyue, Phia took Yselle to the forest to install the magic items.

“Be careful. If you encounter strangers, report to me immediately. Don’t act rashly.”

Phia handed the refined magic items to Yselle, and Yselle patted the sword on her waist.

“Don’t worry, mission guaranteed!”

“Mm.”

Yselle flew off, and Phia went directly to the Guild. Selena was already at work. She was very curious to see Phia’s arrival.

“What wind brought you here?”

“Nothing. Yselle is setting up magic items, and I’m just resting here for a while.”

“Didn’t sleep last night?”

“Mm, refinement is time-consuming.”

“You worked hard. Would you like some tea?”

“No, thanks. I’ll just doze off for a while. Yselle will come back to find me after she’s finished.”

Phia lay down on the sofa in the office, and Selena took a blanket and covered Phia.

“Rest a little longer.”

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On Yselle’s side, she placed a magic item at intervals as Phia had instructed. The places she hid the magic items were quite unique. Because Phia had previously said that the detection range of this type of magic item was a sphere with a radius of 10 kilometers, she directly stuffed these magic items into various nooks and crannies, such as hollow tree holes, rock crevices, shrubbery, etc., focusing on concealment.

“Whew, although this distance is relatively short, finding a good place is still quite tiring.”

Yselle stopped. She floated in the air and used Wind Magic to cool herself. After resting for a while, Yselle continued to place the magic items.

Phia gave Yselle 10 magic items. The total distance can be extended to 200 kilometers. Although it doesn’t reach the border of God’s Country, it’s enough to cover the road from God’s Country to Guangyue Town.

After placing 5 magic items, Yselle sensed someone approaching. She immediately flew to a high altitude. Although her detection range was not as good as Phia and Grey’s, she had an absolute vertical height advantage, so she could directly fly above the opponent and detect them at the limit distance.

“Four people, two men and two women. The magic power emanating from these people is very strong.”

Yselle did not act rashly. She directly contacted Phia.

“Phia, are you there? I encountered four suspicious people.”

“Received. Please do not act rashly. Report your location, and I will come immediately.”

“In the sky 100 kilometers west of Guangyue. I haven’t made direct contact with the target.”

“Okay.”

The next second after Yselle finished communicating, a dagger flew up from below. Fortunately, Yselle was agile enough to dodge the dagger.

“Discovered?”

Yselle drew her sword. She watched the four people below. Two women were looking up and waving at Yselle. This let Yselle know that she shouldn’t stay here for long. To avoid exposing her position, she accelerated towards the sun. Using the sunlight as cover, she shook off the few people’s sight, then accelerated towards the Adventurer’s Guild, where she had agreed with Phia to meet.

“Not good!”

Yselle returned to the office of the Guild. Phia was sleeping on the sofa. Selena looked up and saw Yselle come in.

“What happened?”

“I encountered suspicious personnel about 100 kilometers west of Guangyue Town, two men and two women. They seem to be able to intercept information from the communication magic items.”

Phia woke up. She saw Yselle in front of her.

“Yselle? Finished placing them?”

“No, I encountered suspicious personnel.”

Yselle told Phia what had happened. Phia frowned. Yesterday, they had already used puppets to probe, so this time they were probably planning to advance directly toward Guangyue Town. Since they had attacked Yselle, there was nothing more to say.

“Let’s go back. I’ll check the effect of the magic items.”

“Mm!”

Yselle nodded vigorously. Selena stood up and walked to Phia’s side.

“Is there anything I can do here?”

“Stop today’s commissions. Don’t let the adventurers go out and contact those people. I’m afraid they will become those people’s shields.”

“Understood.”

“Send someone to the Self-Defense Force. Tell them to quickly gather their troops.”

“I’ll go.”

Ken walked to the door. He took on the task of passing the message to the Self-Defense Force. Selena also followed. She needed to tell Anda about the situation.

“Get the money ready. We’ll have to give compensation later.”

Selena glanced at Phia, and Phia nodded in agreement. The next second, Phia and Yselle returned home. Bal saw the two return. He noticed the magic items Yselle hadn’t used up yet.

“You encountered people?”

“Mm, faster than I imagined. Get ready. I’ll go check the terminal.”

Phia went upstairs to the study to check the terminal. In theory, the terminal should display information on passersby, but this time, there was nothing on the terminal.

“What’s going on?”

Bal and Yselle came over. They saw Phia’s furrowed brows and knew the seriousness of the situation.

“The terminal can’t find these people’s traces.”

“Tsk… It seems we have to go there in person and stop those people.”

“That’s the only way. Yselle, get ready. Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

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“Ona, Clova, you’re too conspicuous.”

Gao Wen stared at the two women in front of him. When they attacked Yselle just now, Gao Wen had intervened, otherwise, Yselle might not have been able to dodge.

“Sorry, Hero, we just wanted to ask that person for directions. We didn’t expect that person to be so timid.”

Clova’s insincere smile ignited a nameless fire in Gao Wen’s heart.

“Stop messing around. Archbishop Sebas said that as long as this mission is completed, we can go to exterminate the Demon King, and then we can go home.”

“Yes, yes, Hero. Let’s quickly complete the mission and bring back the new Divine Child.”

Ona remained languid. She leaned against the tree, almost asleep. Garrick released the puppet on his back. His fingertips were connected to the puppet with magic threads. After the puppet landed, it began to move.

“Let’s use my puppet to scout the way.”

“Thank you.”

After a simple scouting, the four began to run quickly. They had only one goal: Nia.