The Defeated Saintess Is On A Journey To Tame The Evil God Book 01 Chapter 05.06 - Gold

Among four string magic, Dagger of Truth was the most difficult one to master.

It required the string player to have affinity with the string of fire and have a spiritual rank of five strings or higher. At the same time, it required to leverage the power of the string of the shadows and the string of the moon.

This complex string magic required the combination of multiple natural authorities to tear apart reality and thereby read the secrets hidden in the world's memory.

The natural authorities involved in the domain of the string of fire were annihilation, life, and entropy, the natural authorities involved in the domain of the string of the shadows were darkness, memory, and lower space, and the natural authorities involved in the domain of the string of the moon were truth, light, and freeze.

The three strings came together, using the "annihilation" of the string of fire to tear apart the "lower space" of the string of the shadows, and then used the string of the moon to read the "frozen" "truth".

Just like the arrangement and combination of notes when composing music, string magic was magical.

Across the Citadel, only a handful of people truly mastered this four string magic. Xing Mo only barely mastered it, and it took a great toll on her whenever she used it.

Humm...

Xing Mo's eyes turned golden, and she extended her hand and gripped a heavy Dagger of Truth.

Golden lines of light emerged and extended up her arms and into her sleeves, and Xing Mo's body became hot.

She brandished the dagger with all her might and tore open the space in front of her.

Rippp—

A rift bloomed in the shadows, and the ice-blue light symbolizing the string of the moon flowed into her golden eyes and condensed into a series of scenes.

In her eyes, the street in front of her began to go backwards in time, and blurs of crowds of people criss-crossed, as if a videotape being plaid back at an accelerated speed.

Xing Mo was reading the world's memory.

She soon discovered a black smudge settle in the blurs.

She extended her hand and turned the dagger, making the flow of images stop and then reverse course.

Subsequently, she saw the source of the black aura—a carriage approached late at night and stopped in front of the store.

A man in a yellow robe got off the carriage, took two boxes of materials with black aura into the store, and then continued driving along the street.

At this time, Xing Mo was almost at her limit, and her hand holding the dagger began to tremble.

The next course of action was to follow the direction of the carriage, to use the Dagger of Truth again to find the origin of the carriage.

But... sure enough, it's really tiring... the Dagger of Truth is indeed a string magic that requires considerable talent to be mastered.

If it were Senior Alice instead, even if she were to cast it a dozen-plus times a day, she wouldn't be tired.

Xing Mo thought this. Just as she was about to let go of the Dagger of Truth, a small hand grabbed her wrist.

She turned her head in surprise and found that Aurora's eyes were rippling with green stars.

"Don't be discouraged, you are my Saintess."

A stinging pain transmitted from the back of her hand. Xing Mo looked down and saw the green Tree of Life brand light up, and lively spirituality poured into her from the brand.

"Come on, take me on a stroll in your world." Aurora smiled, leaning her head on Xing Mo's shoulder.

In the next moment, Xing Mo's spirituality turned green, and her soul jumped out of her body.

Aurora also jumped out of her body. Her soul was also green, with six wings of light behind her.

Before Xing Mo could react, Aurora pulled her by the hand and took her flying in the gray world.

In an instant, the entire Southern District seemed to have become a blur below the two. People, carriages, white doves, and even rays of the sun, all moving objects turned into continuous moving blurs—those were memories that settled beneath the world.

Among the chaos of lines and trajectories, only that carriage was clear. It stopped in front of various shops in the Southern District: from restaurants to grocery stores and even public places like libraries.

In the end, it stopped at the entrance of the hot springs in the beach area; it drove in and never came out.

Found it! It's right here! The source of the Southern District's curse!

Based on her memory, Xing Mo quickly locked on the address: Southern District, Garden Quarter, Tukhacanquin Street No. 15, Sunflower Hot Springs.

Then, her soul retreated quickly, and the scenery in front of her turned into a blur of lines.

When she awoke, Xing Mo hazily saw Aurora's glimmering blood-red eyes.

"You're awake?"

After a few seconds, Xing Mo realized she was lying on Aurora's lap.

A slight stinging pain came from her forehead. This was obviously caused by excessive consumption of spiritual force. Xing Mo wanted to get up, but was pushed back by Aurora: "Take a good rest. The soul leaving the body is a very rare experience."

"Mmm..." Xing Mo didn't resist and lay on Aurora's lap.

Aurora picked up some of Xing Mo's hair and twisted it into a small curl with her fingertip: "You are a race that can't even go to the stars, yet the way you interact with the world is really magical..."

She was referring to Dagger of Truth's power.

After a moment of silence, Xing Mo replied in a low voice: "Ever since the Goddess saved us during the Age of the Gods with golden light falling from the sky, we never stopped exploring nature, all in order to better protect ourselves and one day repay the Goddess's favor."

Upon hearing this, Aurora chuckled. Xing Mo couldn't tell what this meant.

The little lass didn't say anything. She just gently rubbed Xing Mo's temples.

One person and one God stayed quietly on the edge of the roof, while the street below was filled with noisy traffic.

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When night fell, at the entrance of the establishment at Tukhacanquin Street No. 15, an attendant wrote on two yellow tickets.

"Please confirm once more. It's Ms. Xing Sheng and Ms. Xing Yu... right?"

The attendant raised his head and saw two girls—one slender and the other petite and cute—in yellow robes, wearing large-rimmed glasses.

"Yes, it is us!" Aurora took off her glasses and gave the attendant a wink, acting innocent and cute.

The attendant lowered his head again, stamped the yellow tickets, and then handed the tickets to Xing Mo, who was clearly the older one: "Your private room is ready. Please enjoy our services tonight. If you wish to upgrade to a golden ticket, you can do that in the reception."

"We understand." Xing Mo took the yellow tickets and nodded.

After passing the reception desk, the two looked up at the door of the hot springs. There was a sunflower-shaped symbol engraved in ancient imperial script: "Sunflower".

At this time, it was the establishment's operating hours. Many residents of the Southern District, who have finished the day's work, will choose to purchase a ticket in the large bathhouse and then relax and unwind.

There were also many middle class people who chose to book a room and stay the night after bathing in the hot springs -- the tickets Xing Mo and Aurora bought were of this level.

This was money Senior gave me to pay for a hotel... I ended up spending it on something similar... Xing Mo sighed.

Of course, if you have more money, Sunflower Hot Springs can provide further services: such as Game of Gold and duke suite.

The former, a game of chance, was a distinctive pastime of imperials.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm really looking forward to taking a bath in the hot springs." Aurora slapped Xing Mo on the butt, her eyes shining with joy, like a little squirrel that found a pine cone.

"Don't forget our objective for tonight." Xing Mo grabbed Aurora's hand and squeezed it, "We are looking for the source of the curse."

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