Chapter 496 - 494: It’s Over, Encore Has Been Corrupted by the Evil God

For some reason, Encore felt her face burning a little, and she couldn’t help but mutter to herself whether she also had some strange quirk like Doris?

At that thought, she felt a chill and confirmed she didn’t have such strange thoughts.

Encore’s vehicle could carry passengers; it was shaped like an Alchemy Bottle, almost transparent, with two small seats inside and a transparent door to enter.

After being pulled in by ’Hilia’, before Encore even sat down comfortably, the sudden acceleration made her lean back instinctively, grabbing Hilia’s hand tightly.

A moment later, she eased up, but the extreme speed forced her to grit her teeth, enduring several Gs of acceleration as the ground rapidly receded backwards.

Fortunately, it wasn’t long before the vehicle slowly stopped, and she looked at the vehicle, sighing in relief.

Thankfully, the vehicle wasn’t broken.

With trembling hands, Encore adjusted her crooked glasses, "Hi-Hilia, your speed reminds me of that wind in my first year that knocked me over."

"What?" Hilia was puzzled.

Encore said, "In the first year, while I was gathering materials in the Forbidden Forest, a sudden strong wind blew me to the ground, and I accidentally ate some dirt. Later, I realized it was senior students having a flying competition."

Saying this, Encore gritted her teeth: "If Encore catches that guy, I’ll make him eat three pounds of dirt alive!"

First year? Flying competition? Strong wind?

With control back over her body, Hilia felt guilty; Encore actually had such a secret.

Hilia must absolutely not let her know it was caused by herself.

"Hilia’s vehicle speed is similar to that mysterious senior student," Encore said, shaking her head: "Of course, Encore knows Hilia wouldn’t do such a thing. Back then, we had just learned to fly, and such underground campus competitions were too distant for us."

If not mistaken, Doris seems to know I participated? Hilia thought about going back and silencing her.

But Doris shouldn’t know that I won the competition?

Forget it, let her off this time.

Doris, who was fighting in the ruins, didn’t know she just walked past "death’s door."

Encore looked around, curiously asking: "Where are we now?"

Surrounded by high mountains, without villages or cities, Encore didn’t know where they were.

Hilia said, "We’re still near Dragon Island. From outside Dragon Island, we can see the volcanic eruption scene, and probably the mages competing for Bathing Fire Essence too."

Encore’s eyes lit up, "I see, Hilia just went around and came back?"

Hilia nodded.

Of course, it was Rose who drove, having nothing to do with her.

Although Rose drove the entire time, without any direct experience, watching the rapidly receding land still made her a little afraid. But fortunately, she could hide it at this extent.

Hearing that they were still near Dragon Island, Encore also dismissed the thoughts of that ’senior student’ who made her eat dirt and the strange feeling just now when grabbing Hilia.

She seated herself back into the vehicle, calling to Hilia: "It’s hard to see from the ground, how about we observe from the sky?"

Hilia said, "In the sky, it’s easy for dragon riders to spot us."

"Then..."

"But I can set up a hidden array for your vehicle."

"That’s fantastic!"

Before long, the Alchemy Bottle rose again, reaching the sky, soon seeing Dragon Island in the distance.

Seen from the outside, the scene above Dragon Island was even more spectacular.

The volcanic ash collection array on Dragon Island resembled a funnel, the funnel’s hole was the volcanic area.

That is, the arrays around the volcano were actually the funnel’s pipe below.

Various substances erupting from the volcano were intercepted mid-air by the funnel’s upper part, accumulating, waiting for collection.

The array barriers were invisible, but the volcanic ash was not, making the funnel’s shape very obvious, somewhat like a mushroom.

As a mushroom, its cap would cover Dragon Island and a large surrounding area.

Simultaneously, vague silhouettes of many mages were flying around the funnel, collecting materials spewed by the Fire God.

"It’s huge."

It felt grand inside, more grand outside.

Both were captivated by this magnificent scene.

However, it was a pity as dusk gradually fell, leaving little time for admiration.

They decided to find a place to camp and continue tomorrow.

While searching for a place, Hilia’s face shifted, saying, "We don’t have to search slowly; some friends are nearby, let’s go find them."

Encore was taken aback, "Are those the friends who greeted you before?"

Hilia nodded, "Yes, they also left Dragon Island."

Saying this, Hilia moved towards Pamisha’s location.

Shortly after, the two arrived at a small campsite set by Pamisha and Anthony.

Besides them, there were two young Cat-women.

They spotted Hilia and Encore, and immediately charged over with joy, Meowlan grabbing Hilia’s skirt, looking up with blinking eyes.

"Excellent, it’s our savior!"

Hilia curiously asked, "How did you end up with Pamisha?"

"We noticed you seemed to have connections with these two Cat-men friends before, so we specifically went to find them, bringing them to leave with us," Pamisha walked over and said.

Looking at them, she breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Anthony said something big might happen on Dragon Island tomorrow, dragged me out, and unexpectedly, you two also came out."

Hilia looked up at Anthony setting up the camp, thoughtful.

After so long, Anthony barely advanced to Tier Two Mage.

Was he just being cautious, or did he find out something?

Hilia decided to ask.

After chatting with the two Cat-women and Pamisha, introducing Encore, she went next to Anthony, releasing the Magic Puppet to set up camp beside their tent.

She casually asked, "Anthony, is something happening tomorrow? You didn’t even stay at the inn, coming directly outside to camp?"

Without looking up, Anthony replied, "Tomorrow is when the legendary treasure fully forms, high-tier mages will definitely act then, great chances of being affected while inside Dragon Island. I don’t want to be a lucky audience member getting struck randomly, so I dragged Pamisha out."

Noticing how Anthony continued working and spoke without even looking at Hilia, Pamisha couldn’t help but smile slightly.

Encore noticed Pamisha’s expression, shook her head helplessly, and sighed.

Lovers, missing no details, unlike Encore whose whole life was dedicated to alchemy and the Gods, never having such worries.

Speaking of Gods, Encore’s mind flashed back to when Rose descended, granting her strength to complete the trial of ascending steps.

Receiving the Gods’ blessing during the trial was a good thing; legend says during the Era of Calamity, fortunate ones favored by Gods would experience such things.

But why was it... that God?

Thoughts of that now came up from time to time.

Damn, thoughts were getting corrupted.