Chapter 366: The Unseen
[Some hours ago.]
"What is my order, Master?" Jessica asked, standing rigidly on top of a gothic roof. The chilling wind whipped at her uniform, but her silver eyes remained utterly devoid of emotion. She was staring at Master Teacher Nadia, whose calculating gaze was fixed on the sprawling expanse of Galaxy City.
"You know there are Galaxy cities in the first, second and third worlds?" Nadia asked, a small, chilling smile on her face, viewing entire realms as mere squares on her chessboard.
"I have never been to the Third World, so I don’t know." Jessica answered respectfully, her voice hollow.
"That’s understandable... Anyway, this is a side mission from your main mission." She said, turning around to face Jessica, the dark robes swirling in the updraft.
"Side Mission?" Jessica tilted her head to the side, a bit confused, her mind trying to process the sudden deviation from their parameters.
"Yup... Make sure to reach the final round. You will encounter Mirabella. I want you to destroy her core, can you complete this mission?"
Jessica paused, thinking for a moment, running thousands of combat simulations against the Dragon Academy’s Captain. "Mirabella is powerful, if she drops any summon, I won’t be able to win." She said, assessing the raw limits of her current host body.
"Don’t worry." Nadia snapped her hand, and the spatial fabric warped. A jagged villain crystal appeared, hovering above her palm. This was far different from the normal, mass-produced villain crystals the demons used to artificially increase their strength; it was a deep, cursed red, glowing with pure, concentrated death energy that sought to devour the energy in the air.
"Master, if I reveal this in the competition, I will surely be disqualified, I won’t even have the chance to use it." Jessica said, staring warily at the red crystal in Nadia’s hand. The tournament’s detection arrays were forged by the world’s greatest mages to prevent exactly this kind of corruption.
"Of course I know that... The death energy will be sealed by me. As long, I am close by, no one will be able to sense anything." The Crystal floated gently to Jessica, who slowly caught it, feeling the freezing chill of the abyss bite into her palm.
"This crystal takes away the ability to use Spirit energy... Don’t worry, it already marks Mirabella as a target, so her spirit energy will be sealed. Without her spirit energy, she won’t be able to use any skill... That’s your perfect opportunity to deal with her." She said, her eyes gleaming with malicious anticipation, and added: