My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 117: Will be Revived Continuously

It had been a few hours since the journey to the sky-high tower. Ely and her group had already covered over twenty kilometers but were still on the first mountain region. The array of volcanoes and sea of fiery lava could still be seen.

"Purification." Ely led the healer team to assist her in purifying everyone from evil energy corruption and then healed everyone’s injuries. The healers were only her, Rafaela, Kirara, and Remiel.

Remiel’s healing skills were still beginner, but every healer was invaluable in this journey.

After all, they encountered many terrifying demons and monsters of the Hell Trial Realm. They had no other choice but to kill those evil creatures. However, they would receive a direct corruption debuff every time they kill an evil creature.

"Let’s rest here. We might be able to get out from this realm in a few days." Ely looked out of the cave. The sky was still fiery blue and pretty dark, like twilight before the dark.

There was nothing different from the sky. Although everyone was safe from the evil energy in the air, they were overwhelmed by the demons and monsters that could spawn continuously after dead.

Ely used her Sacred Vision, and she could see a massive horde of demons and monsters in the distance. Luckily, everyone retreated quickly and could secure a safe place to rest.

"It would be much easier to fly straight to the destination. The land route has too many obstacles and threats." Azrael muttered nonchalantly.

He was relieved that the demonic whispers in his mind had disappeared due to his master’s purification. However, everyone was still in a difficult situation.

"We can’t circulate our spiritual energy to fly more than two meters above the ground, not even with the help of a magic item. Flying at high speed at that altitude was risky, especially because of the density of the evil energy in the air. But, the enemy does not have such a restriction..." Uriel sighed.

"Then, how can those evil creatures spawn again and again? We annihilated them, but they rose from their own ashes." Azrael grasped his head as he couldn’t stop thinking.

"They are neither undead nor immortal demons. They resemble the higher demons Lady Sylvia summoned on the battlefield." Gabriella put her hand to her chin as she couldn’t help but speculate.

"But, those devil minions were eliminated by Ely and never revived. That’s different from the strange demons we just faced. They rose from their own ashes even though Ely eliminated them." Sylvia refuted the opinion that had just surfaced.

"Then, where did the devils you summoned come from? I also feel those devils are from this realm." Yuuki crossed her arms.

"Uh, how am I supposed to know the answer?" Sylvia shrugged her shoulders.

"I assume there is something with this realm, the Hell Trial. The demons, devils, monsters, and other evil creatures will be revived endlessly."

"This realm is named Hell Trial by that big evil for a reason."

"Yeah, this realm is probably designed for the demonic vassals’ training. But, the big evil wants to convert us into mindless demons and puppets."

"Secret realm within secret realm... What should we do?"

"It’s okay. Our master hasn’t even said anything, and you all are panicking like the world is ending. She has foreseen the entire situation and has a plan for everything."

"Oh~"

Ely’s disciples had great faith in their master. After all, they looked at their master like an all-knowing and all-powerful Goddess.

They had no idea that Ely was also struggling to find a solution to their predicament. She still remained calm because it was still too early to feel hopeless.

"Hmm..." Ely opened her grimoire to check her conjecture.

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[Slaying 4th Rank demon | SP +8]

[Slaying 4th Rank demon | MP +8]

[Slaying 5th Rank demon | SP +10]

[Slaying 6th Rank demon | MP +12]

[Healing skills | MP -2.9K | SP -3.2K | VIT -3.5K]

[Purification skills | MP +14K | SP +12K | VIT 16K]

Sure enough, the gain was too small as she had expected.

She sacrificed some MP, SP, and VIT to heal her disciples and friends.

However, she obtained a large compensation after using her purification skills. She was the one who shouldered the burden but received a return gift from it.

It was probably related to the evil energy she purified. However, she couldn’t remember her getting anything after removing the curse from anyone before.

Nevertheless, she could convert the potent evil energy into pure energy for her benefit!

’Was it because I missed it, or the notification came late?’ Ely asked in wonder, but she couldn’t be sure because there was no search feature on the log history page.

Regardless, she got some good news... back to the current problem.

’If Sylvi’s summoned devils are from the Artificial Hell Realm or perhaps from the Hell Trial, then it explains why the gain is smaller than average. Is it because this secret realm’s laws limit the stat points I can gain?

After all, the evil creatures will be revived a few minutes after being annihilated. As for Sylvia’s summoned devils, they probably returned to where they came from after being exterminated?’ Ely muttered in her mind as she was guessing several possibilities.

Since she had clues, she prayed to her grimoire for answers. And she received one.

[The Hell Trial’s creatures will be revived continuously in their territory five minutes after death until their true life essence is exhausted]

[Any Hell Trial creature killed outside their territory will be resurrected in their original territory’s revival chamber]

’So, this is the reason...’ Ely was enlightened.

She felt such a heavenly gift to have an informant as reliable as this grimoire. With notes, she had to understand some clues about the problem she would ask. The answer to her prayer would be more accurate and helpful if she held more detailed clues.

Ely closed her grimoire with relief because she knew what to do.

Exiting this Hell Trial would probably be easier and more rewarding. She could farm many stat points because her enemies, namely the evil creatures, were so many. Those monsters would also be revived every time she killed them.

If only she could slaughter around four hundred million evil creatures... She could unseal her Goddess Master sooner!

’Even if I can afford it, what price do I need to pay? I only have a few hundred holy weapons, artifacts, and treasures. We don’t know how many enemies we will face and how strong they will be. Also, we can’t last too long here. We are pressed for time...’ Ely sighed and shook her head.

[Hell Trial 0.6% completion]

"..." Ely was speechless when a virtual screen popped out before her vision. She just thought about it, and it popped out by itself.

They had already moved about twenty kilometers from their starting point and eradicated all evil creatures they encountered. However, it had yet to reach 1% completion.

They couldn’t fly straight to their destination. They could only hover around two meters above the ground and travel at a moderate speed, or the other option was to run fast.

If it took them about eight hours to get 0.6% completion while exterminating the evil creatures they encountered along the way, then they would need more than one thousand, three hundred hours... or nearly two months!

It was only if they kept moving and fighting without rest...

’This is stressing me out...’ Ely opened her grimoire again to check her quest list.

Nothing had changed there, but she just wanted to check the missions at the top of the list.

[Clear the Hell Trial][Reward: Artificial Hell Core]

[Conquer the Hell Trial Realm][Reward: Super big harvest]

’That’s it. If we can clear this Hell Trial, we might be able to take over the Artificial Hell Realm. However, how many sacrifices and what price do we need to pay to achieve this?’ Ely stared at the sky-high tower in a dilemma.

To achieve it, everyone required a lot of struggle to challenge the big risk of death. She might lose half of her people. That was a terrible price, and she would not go down that dangerous path.

At that moment, Ely recalled what Yuuki had said a while ago. It was about every secret realm that always had a realm core.

If they could find and refine it directly, she could cheat into clearing this Hell Trial. Since the quest’s reward was the core, it was clearly somewhere in this Hell Trial. She had to find it!

Even so, the great risks were there, and their priority was finding a way out. It was bad to be corrupted by the evil energy for too long.

"Ely?" Yuuki called out with great curiosity.

"Hmm?" Ely glanced sideways.

She found everyone watching her with some curiosity, except for the little dragon. Sylvia’s pet was lying down lazily.

"What do you have in mind? Can you share some of your thoughts with us?" Yuuki knew Ely already had some plans in mind. It would make everyone feel calm and relieved if they knew what to do.

"I plan to return the favour to the big evil and need your help. The first thing we do is experiment on how many evil creatures can be revived in this Artificial Hell." Ely stood up, and everyone immediately got ready to go into action.

Ely then shared some about her discovery. After that, she sent two volunteers with the fastest movement skills to kidnap several evil creatures.

"I’m leaving." Evelyn smoothed her shadow cloak. It was Ely’s gift to disguise her presence aura.

"Please wait for my good news." Sylvia raised her hand in farewell while walking out of the cave. She also wore a shadow cloak.

"Make sure no one follows you when you retreat to our hideout." Yuuki reminded her friends firmly.

"Mkay~ Eve, don’t get caught, or it will be difficult for me to save you."

"I know. I’m confident in my lightning moves. We’ll see who gets back first."

Thanks to her shadow cloak, Evelyn dashed away like a shadow of lightning but didn’t leave any elemental traces behind.

Sylvia moved like a quick flash of black mist. Nobody could see her movements unless the observer had special eye abilities.

They detoured through several rocky mountains and volcanoes before dashing towards the demon and monster hordes.