It was said to be a statue, but in fact, the entire statue, including the pedestal, had been torn apart and turned into a pile of gravel lying on the ground. Judging from the size of the pedestal, it should be a statue as tall as a person. Perhaps it was the 'my angel' mentioned by Geryon.
"Is this the place?"
Heine looked at the statue in front of him and took out a piece of paper from his pocket. There was a short word 'Ariel' on it. That was the angel that he was given.
At this time, the paper emitted a faint light, and a new sentence gradually appeared below the angel's name.
"— Angel is a beast. It glares at the sky from the west and devours the sun."
Heine nodded thoughtfully.
"Only when the magic wavelength matches a certain pulse will the words appear. What a simple but practical spell. In other words, only by finding this place can I get the next clue."
Heine muttered to himself as he turned around and looked at the direction behind him. A faint smile appeared on his face.
"I didn't think that I would become a cicada that was targeted. Then, who is the mantis that is targeting me?"
From his words, it was obvious that he found out that someone was following him.
Luvia was helpless. She could only remove the magic that hid her presence and walked out of the forest. She stood in front of Heine with Ryuga still standing behind her like a servant.
She also had a piece of paper in her hand. It was emitting a faint light, and the same sentence was written on it as the one in Heine's hand.
"I didn't think that I would be tricked by this piece of paper."
There was a helpless smile on Luvia's face. Neither she nor Liuxia had been exposed. However, because they were close to the correct location, the next sentence of the clue appeared on the paper that Luvia was carrying. The paper emitted an extremely weak magic wave, which was why Heine was able to sense it.
"So it's Ms. Edfeld."
Heine looked at Luvia with surprise. "I thought it would be that Astrologer, Freng. After all, he is the only [Magician] among us, and he also has the good name of 'Master's Killer'."
Heine's words had a hint of sarcasm.
On the one hand, he had satirized Frenge's status as a magician, and on the other, by Frenge, he had satirized Luvia, whose conduct was close to that of a magician.
He was an orthodox magician, so it was natural for him to look down on magicians.
"Whatever you say, but seeing that you've solved the first part of the puzzle for me, I won't hold it against you."
Luvia waved the paper in her hand, a proud smile like that of a white swan appeared on her face. "I didn't expect it to be one of the Twelve Zodiac Temples. I really didn't expect it."
The seventy-two letter names themselves corresponded to the Twelve Zodiac Signs, and the Twelve Zodiac Signs could refer to a direction. In other words, it divided the 360 degrees around oneself into seventy-two equal parts. This way, the direction would naturally be clear.
Heine's face became a little unhappy. Anyone who knew that their own results had been stolen by others would be unhappy.
"Hmph, you might be right, but I've already grasped the clues to the second stage. What about you? Miss Edgefield? "
Luvia raised her eyebrows and a look of surprise appeared on her face.
The hint for the second stage had clearly just appeared, but this alchemy genius already had a clue? When she saw the new sentence that appeared on the paper, she didn't think of any clues at all.
"I'll go back first tonight. I hope you'll be able to find something."
Heine didn't intend to continue searching. Otherwise, the results of his next step would be stolen by Luvia again. He cast a wary look at Ryuga, then walked around the two of them and headed back to the castle from another direction.
Ryuga didn't stop him, but silently let him leave.
When Heine's figure completely disappeared from her sight, Luvia sighed and flipped her blonde curly hair with some distress. "As expected of the genius of the Istali family. I didn't expect him to have reached this level … I still haven't found anything."
"The clues he's referring to should be those footprints, right?"
Ryuga pointed in the direction of the broken statue and said to Luvia. His eyesight was so strong that he could see everything within a kilometer radius. Even if his vision was affected in the dark, it wasn't to the extent that he couldn't see more than ten meters away.
"Footprints?"
Luvia was slightly taken aback. She walked to the front of the broken statue and parted the grass. Immediately, she found the footprints of varying depths on the ground.
"I see. He's just deliberately mystifying things."
A confident smile reappeared on Luvia's face. She took out a blue gem from her pocket and activated a magic spell.
"Call (Awaken)."
This seemed to be the prelude to her magic spell. Every magician needed a high degree of concentration to activate a magic spell. Once the concentration was slack, the magic spell would immediately fail. Therefore, most magicians would apply a 'switch' to themselves that allowed them to concentrate. Once it was turned on, they would be able to concentrate immediately.
For Luvia, this prelude chant was the preparation needed to allow her to concentrate.
"Search (Search)."
Luvia threw the sapphire in her hand and let it fall to the ground. The sapphire hovered around the footprints for a while, like a police dog sniffing for the scent of a criminal. Then, it suddenly shot off in a certain direction.
"Let's go after it."
Luvia called out to Ryuga. Both of them immediately chased after the sapphire.
The sapphire followed the footprints and left the forest. It shot towards the direction of the castle like an arrow.
"It's in the castle?"
Luvia looked at the sapphire's trajectory. Her face was full of astonishment.
But she didn't hesitate and continued to run towards the castle. At the same time, her white and tender fingers secretly clasped a few different colored gems.
"Roar —"
In the next moment, before Luvia reached the castle's entrance, a violent roar came from the direction of the castle. Luvia's expression instantly changed.
That wasn't an ordinary beast's roar. An ordinary beast's roar wouldn't be able to make the young miss of a prestigious family of magicians change her expression. In fact, the reason why she was shocked was because that beast's roar actually contained a powerful magic power that was enough to cause substantial physical damage to those who heard it, injuring their eardrums and internal organs.
"It's a magical beast!"
Luvia was able to determine the true form of this beast almost instantaneously.
Immediately after, a black shadow of a beast as tall as a human flashed out of the castle, disappearing into the bushes in the distance with a speed that far exceeded that of a cheetah.
Luvia's expression suddenly turned ugly.
With her 'enhanced' vision, she saw that the beast's forelimbs seemed to be holding a bloody limb. It looked like an arm or a leg.
"Could it be!?"
Luvia seemed to have thought of something. Her expression changed and she quickly said to Ryuga who was following behind her: "Yin-yang, you go after that beast. I'll go into the castle!"
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