Chapter 280 Dealing with Sang Zhitao's fingertips gently touched the bed...
Sang Zhitao lightly tapped the bed with her fingertip.
Just as the man behind him was about to point his long sword at the figure on the bed, he suddenly realized that there was nothing in front of him.
"What's going on?!" the man exclaimed, instinctively holding the knife upright in front of his chest and warily surveying his surroundings.
"Hehe." A few eerie laughs echoed in the room.
"Where is he!" Judging from the voice, it should be the one who spoke first. He asked the man with the knife sharply.
"How should I know!" In his haste, the man with the knife had no time to conceal his voice.
"I told you not to come in yet!" The first person, in his anger, even forgot to hide his true feelings.
“A man and a woman.” Sang Zhitao, hiding in the shadows, raised an eyebrow.
The two people in front of her were completely covered by black robes. If she hadn't been careless and failed to conceal her voice, she probably wouldn't have been able to tell if they were men or women.
"We can't stay any longer! Let's go!" The woman glared at the man and quickly ran towards the door.
The man didn't linger any longer and turned to run towards the door.
With a loud "bang," the two men were kicked into the room, their impact creating a human-shaped dent in the wall.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand to remove the barrier in front of her, glanced at Hailai and Mihar at the door, and then turned her gaze to the two lying on the ground.
"It seems the Guardian Tower isn't so safe after all."
Hailey's face was unusually grim. After bowing apologetically to Sang Zhitao, he turned to Mihar and instructed, "Take the person to the courtroom."
Sang Zhitao didn't plan to go with them to the Guardian Tower to clean house, but Hailai advised her, "You can use them to test the abilities of the divine remains, so that no one will disbelieve you and disturb you."
Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow, feeling that what he said made sense, and agreed.
The courtroom is located on the third basement level of the Guardian Tower, where magic is strictly prohibited, so it is illuminated by millions of candles.
The candles, scattered across the walls, shelves, and floor, illuminated the space brightly.
Lin Xiao and the other two had already joined the crowd and were waiting there, but they didn't say anything or offer any suggestions. So they stood in a more remote place, watching the trial that was about to take place with indifference.
When Sang Zhitao arrived here with Hailai, the two men who had tried to assassinate her were already kneeling in the middle.
There was a huge magic circle on the ground, and the magicians around it had intense fear in their eyes, the most genuine emotion from the depths of their hearts towards the magic circle.
Sang Zhitao looked at the magic circle, her fingertips twitching slightly, and felt a familiar aura emanating from it.
She looked up abruptly at Hailey and asked, puzzled, "What is that magic circle?"
Hele paused in his act of declaring the sins, glanced blankly at the magic circle in the center of the room, and then said with understanding, "That is a judgment magic circle given to us by the gods, which can judge these sinners according to their crimes."
Sang Zhitao frowned slightly. The aura on the magic circle wasn't very obvious, but she was very certain that the magic circle was related to the true god.
"Is that so..." She didn't question it. After all, according to Hailai, this magic circle had been in use for more than a year or two. Under such circumstances, she couldn't be sure whether her unfounded statement would convince the people guarding the tower.
"Aaaaaaah!!!" The two people in front of them were as if they were being squeezed by some mysterious force, and were forcefully swallowed by the magic circle.
A white light tinged with black light shone before her, and screams echoed throughout the room.
Sang Zhitao did not pay much attention to such punishment.
She rubbed her stomach, then quietly took out a slice of squid from her sleeve and began to eat it.
The surrounding magicians listened to the screams that made their legs go weak, and watched the girl in front of them happily eating from the plate. For a moment, they didn't know whether to admire her carefree attitude or sigh at their own cowardice.
Sang Zhitao listened for a while and found it a bit noisy, so she cast a soundproofing spell on her ear.
With the soundproofing in place, the surroundings were completely quiet, and for a moment, one could not perceive the speed at which time passed.
So much so that she didn't realize the punishment was over until she saw the magicians around her calm down.
She slightly moved her fingers to remove the soundproofing spell before turning her head to look at Hailai beside her.
Hailey nodded slightly to her: "Please have them see the energy in the wreckage."
Thinking of what she had already discussed with Hailai, Sang Zhitao casually tore off two thumb-sized pieces of squid from the squid in her hand and handed them to Mihar next to her.
Mihar first looked around warily, and after receiving countless fearful and evasive glances, he stepped onto the magic circle and directly stuffed two slices of squid into the mouths of the two people in front of him.
The black robes covering the two were already tattered, and the magic covering their faces had also failed, so that their pale faces, which turned red after eating the squid slices, were clearly displayed to everyone.
So everyone in the courtroom watched as the two men's faces went from white to red and then back to white, before their faces became flushed again and turned bluish-purple.
Everyone watched as their two former companions, whose slender bodies seemed to inflate like balloons, exploded right in front of them.
“I told you, you can’t absorb this energy.”
Sang Zhitao smiled as she surveyed the magicians around her. She lightly tapped her fingertip, and the people in front of her seemed to be suppressed by some powerful pressure.
Unconsciously, they bent their knees and then knelt on the ground in unison.
Sang Zhitao took a few steps forward, and the blood from the two explosions stained her white leather boots.
"Plop, plop..." She gently stepped into the pile of flesh and blood, the soles of her shoes making a sticky sound as they touched the flesh.
"Consider this a lesson. Don't try to ambush or challenge me." Sang Zhitao turned around and her gaze settled on Hailai in front of her.
And so, one stood on the high platform bathed in light, the other stood amidst flesh and blood, enveloped in shadow.
"Yesterday was your last chance. Starting today, I..." Sang Zhitao's delicate face revealed a smile that could be described as obedient, yet chilled everyone present to the bone, "I will be invincible."
The last four words echoed throughout the courtroom, their light tone carrying a powerful impact that struck the very core of everyone's heart.
The pressure they felt was like carrying a mountain on their backs, and it also brought some clarity to those who had become somewhat headstrong in their pursuit of power.
"No one will harm you." Hailai looked at Sang Zhitao seriously. "Hailai is willing to protect you with her life."
"Mikhal will protect you with his life." Mikhal, unusually stern-faced, solemnly performed a magician's salute to her.
"We are willing to protect you with our lives." As he finished speaking, the other mages also bowed their heads to offer their loyalty to her.
"What's going on...?" Aria and the other two were isolated outside by Sang Zhitao, so they looked at the mages kneeling on the ground with bewildered expressions.
Then he looked at the innocent girl who had been so well-behaved and cute before, who suddenly stood in the flesh and blood like a witch descending to earth and made harsh words, and then he looked at the others who suddenly offered their loyalty respectfully.
"She...may truly be the savior." Shadow's indifferent voice echoed from the depths.
Lin Xiao silently turned his gaze to Sang Zhitao not far away, his heart filled with mixed feelings. Perhaps this person could truly become the savior they had been waiting for...
The pressure suddenly vanished from everyone's shoulders, and no one dared to say anything more. They quickly turned around and left the courtroom through magic circles in different directions.
Hailey sighed softly before stepping down from the platform. After casting a cleansing spell on the ground, she said to Sang Zhitao, "Why do you say yesterday was the only chance?"
Sang Zhitao pulled out fragments of the world from her sleeve.
Helene and Michal, who were standing next to her, then realized that another piece of the world was missing.
The three people, including Lin Xiao, who had just walked over, also looked at her with puzzled expressions.
Sang Zhitao chuckled softly before saying, "Yesterday I accidentally absorbed the power of a fragment of the world, which restored some of my abilities."
Last night she stared at the fragments of the world for a long time until she got a little hungry.
Originally, I was planning to take out a piece of squid from my sleeve and take a couple of bites, but I suddenly found that the fragments of the world in front of me were actually quite tempting.
She swallowed hard, remembering that she had eaten world fragments before.
So she raised her hand, clutching the fragment of the world with a restless urge.
The crystal fragments in front of her slowly shed their cold exterior in her eyes, beginning to fill with an aroma that made her want to swallow them whole.
She swallowed hard, hesitated for a moment, then gently bit the fragment of the world into her mouth.
"Crack." Like biting into a piece of amber candy, a crisp breaking sound rang out from the tip of her teeth.
Then a surge of heat flowed from the tip of my throat into my heart and lungs.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but chew a few times. The world fragments that should have been as hard as diamonds were now like rock candy in her mouth, easily crumbling into millions of pieces with a gentle chew.
After swallowing it, Sang Zhitao could feel a portion of her power being unsealed.
She waved her hand subconsciously, and the air in the room suddenly became fresh, remaining murky until she arrived at the courtroom.
Sang Zhitao originally planned to eat it all so that she could purify part of the world today. However, before she could even start, she heard rustling sounds downstairs. She had no choice but to stop what she was doing, pick up a book, and pretend to read.
Hailai noticed her reluctance to elaborate, so she didn't press the matter further.
"Should we rest for another day? Or should we set off as planned after dawn?" Hailey sighed and changed the subject.
Sang Zhitao nodded: "Okay, let's take a day off. I want to try to resolve the issue of the abnormal rules on the Sky Continent."
"Really? That's great!" Hailey had already learned from Mihar that the memory plague on the Sky Continent was caused by a change in the rules.
At this moment, there was no confusion or bewilderment on his face, only excitement and joy.
Ailiya and Ying looked at Sang Zhitao with the same fervent gaze, and even the usually aloof Lin Xiao couldn't help but be moved.
Sang Zhitao nodded: "Leave it to me."
As she spoke, she walked toward one of the magic circles, turning back to look at them and saying, "I need to rest for a bit."
"Of course, please." Suppressing her excitement, Hailey quickly took a few steps and unleashed a spell, teleporting Sang Zhitao directly to her doorstep via the teleportation array.
After Sang Zhitao consumed the remaining fragments of the world and stabilized her internal abilities, it was already noon.
Looking up at the bright sunlight, the warm sun shone on my skin, bringing a slight burning sensation.
The waves from the distant sea kept crashing against the rocks beneath the guard tower, creating bursts of white spray.
Further away, the blue sea gradually turns black as it recedes into the distance, until the Soul Continent, shrouded in dark clouds, appears and disappears from sight.
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