novelraw Chapter 445: Super Tool: Book Saint
Chapter 445: Super Tool: Book Saint
"This... isn't that Saint of the Spiral Library at the pinnacle of the Book Tower, is it?"
Palu, as a great pirate, had pulled off many robberies targeting the rich to help the poor.
Relying on powerful transcendent ships, they set off fireworks all night and raced across the sea at midnight, utterly unrestrained and brazen.
They paid no heed to the navy or any other official organization.
But the highest-ranking person he and Burry had ever kidnapped was only the Book Tower Federation’s diplomatic ambassador.
And now, standing before them, was a Saint from the White Tower Federation navy’s top echelon, a Saint who had ruled the White Tower for centuries!
"I will never forget her face."
The Ice Witch looked at the Book Saint inside the crate, a sly smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
On the girl’s skin now, faint black veins were visible, and across her chest there was a clear blade wound.
This must be the wound from the Blood Hunter’s Blade Release strike, inflicted by the Black Blood Poison mentioned in the intelligence.The Book Saint herself suffered from severe mutation disease;
once she fell into a heavy injury state, she would enter a dormant sleep.
In that state, kidnapping a sleeping Book Saint was indeed not impossible.
But how did they manage to bring the Book Saint back alive?
The Ice Witch glanced at An beside Chen Qi and vaguely understood everything.
The Book Saint was indeed powerful, a genius. In her long life, few dared to look her in the eye, much less kidnap her!
Book Saint, your previous life was far too comfortable... The Ice Witch narrowed her eyes, looking like a little white-furred fox.
Though she did not say it aloud, she had to admit:
Little Black Hair, you did splendidly!
Chen Qi shrugged and said,
"Ice Witch, if the Book Saint joins us, can we finish constructing the rift workshop quickly?"
"Of course!"
The Ice Witch lifted the corner of her mouth.
What their team lacked now was precisely a top-tier Hammer affinity Transcendent.
And without doubt, the Book Saint was currently the strongest Hammer affinity Transcendent at sea!
Their construction speed for the rift workshop would increase fivefold—no, perhaps tenfold, even a hundredfold!
Next would be applying secret arts to fully control the Book Saint...
The Ice Witch and the Book Saint were enemies already;
even if the latter was the Lamp Lord’s granddaughter in the White Tower Federation, a chosen one from the Book Tower’s noble family, nobility among nobles...
She intended no mercy.
The Book Saint before them needed her training!
The Ice Witch crouched and summoned her condensed ice, preparing to freeze Aslina’s limbs first.
The Book Saint Aslina in the crate slowly developed a faint layer of ice crystals on her skin.
Crack!
Suddenly, Aslina in the crate reached out and grabbed the Ice Witch’s arm.
"Ah—"
The Book Saint yawned deeply, opened her eyes, and slowly took in the scene.
Still groggy, she rubbed her eyes, looked at the Ice Witch before her, and revealed a fox-like smile:
"Kneel, witch!"
The Book Saint was captivated by sleep because she had learned a special lucid dreaming technique, allowing her to possess a dream under her control.
In that dream, she was a great god!
"..."
Clatter!
At the next instant!
The Ice Witch, with almost no hesitation, unleashed her powerful spiritual pressure.
Aslina’s back, who was sitting inside the crate, instantly bent;
the terrifying spiritual pressure slammed her head heavily against the ground!
"!!!"
Almost in that instant, the drowsy Aslina snapped fully awake, her eyes sweeping over everything like a vengeful spirit.
A pitch-black room...
Black Hunter, An, the Ice Witch, and some strangers...
This was not her room, and it was a broken rift workshop that limited spiritual energy release!
"Interesting!"
Aslina’s eyes flashed.
Although Black Hunter had helped the Book Tower solve a crisis, she had nearly forgotten the relationship between Black Hunter and the Ice Witch.
She realized it all in a moment.
This had to be the Ice Witch’s plan!
Ice Witch, you dared scheme against me!
Boom!
She lifted her head and unleashed her spiritual field.
Even amid the workshop full of magic-banish crystals, her spiritual field became like a storm.
That powerful force briefly collided with the Ice Witch’s own spiritual field!
"Ice Witch! You strike at me, you profane the Lighthouse! You profane the power of the White Tower Federation!"
Aslina rose and opened her magic book.
This... Chen Qi’s pupils constricted slightly.
Unexpectedly, the kidnapped Book Saint showed not a shred of fear in her eyes;
rather, she was overwhelmingly proud, as if all of them together were no match for her.
The Book Saint floated, looking down on them:
"Witch, you should understand what price you will pay for attacking me, right?"
A price... The Ice Witch bit her lip as ominous memories resurfaced.
People rarely investigated the Book Saint’s background.
But as nobility among nobles, her status in the White Tower even surpassed Princess Yisha of the Goldenfinch Kingdom.
Offend her, and you were at odds with the entire White Tower.
"..."
A trace of hesitation appeared on the Ice Witch’s face, and the speed at which she released spiritual power slowed.
This was the critical period for resisting the Great Whale disaster.
They absolutely could not add new enemies now.
At that moment, An spoke softly:
"Ice Witch, for a short period, the Book Tower should not discover her absence."
"An..."
The Book Saint tilted her head to look at An and Black Hunter beside him, a complex expression crossing her eyes.
As an eternal one, she had long since become indifferent to countless lives.
She had watched countless students marry, bear children, and eventually die together from mutation disease at sea...
Yet never had a student dared to lay hands on her!
But now, her students had conspired with an outsider, with her enemy the Ice Witch, to kidnap her...
I treated you so well, nurtured you, gave you all the work, set trials for you, frequently chastised you with words...
I was even prepared to hand the Book Tower’s 'Book Saint' position to you!
Betrayal!
A naked, raw betrayal!
The Book Saint blinked and felt a tearing pain in her heart:
"That An, you actually teamed up with an outsider and kidnapped me..."
An turned her head. Although the Book Saint often punished her, she could not help feeling hurt:
"Teacher, Black Hunter and I have known each other for a long time..."
If it were not for Chen Qi back then, she would not have taken part in the Book Witch selection trials!
Am I the outsider then?
The Book Saint’s heart felt sliced, and she looked down on them, opening layer upon layer of magic books behind her:
"The disappearance of a Saint will surely trigger unprecedented uproar. Witch, you will repent for your presumption today!"
Having said this, she prepared to Release 'Little Star' and obliterate everything before her.
The terrifying storm made the magic-banish crystals in the dark room shake violently.
"Little Black Hair..."
The Ice Witch called softly.
"Got it, got it, Big White Hair."
Chen Qi gripped the knife at his waist;
he now understood the Ice Witch’s meaning.
Click!
Time stopped moving from this moment!
The Ice Witch tacitly granted Chen Qi the freedom to act.
Without hesitation, Chen Qi struck at the Book Saint’s magic book.
Click!
Time began moving again.
The blade slashed through! The magic book shattered...
Time Solidification! The Book Saint was alarmed.
She seemed to have underestimated the Ice Witch’s current condition.
Combined with the rift workshop’s severe limitation on her spiritual output...
"Very well then!"
The books behind Aslina’s back fluttered wildly:
"Book Release. Magic Book Annihilation!"
This attack could obliterate this broken workshop, even the whole island.
"Don't waste your efforts..."
The Ice Witch repeated her trick, and with Chen Qi again, sliced through the book.
Click!
"..."
Aslina widened her eyes.
The second time time froze!
The witch before her, though only fifth tier in strength, still managed to activate the former Time Solidification technique and, within that frozen time, unleash a powerful killing blow.
Yet as the top of the Book Tower, she could not easily concede:
"Book..."
Sput!
The next moment, the Book Saint preparing a third Release coughed up a massive amount of fresh blood, and wounds on her body gaped open.
"Cough cough cough cough cough!"
Aslina’s spiritual energy fell into imbalance as she plummeted out of the air, unable to believe her body would display such a humiliating spectacle.
Her mighty body should not show such disgrace!
Blood poured out!
The Book Saint knelt and looked at the blood on her hands;
the Black Blood Poison in her body had not yet been fully neutralized.
The Ice Witch walked over, looked down at Aslina, and said quietly:
"Aslina, you have been poisoned by Black Blood. Rest assured, we do not want your flesh;
we only need your talent..."
A frail look flickered across the Book Saint’s face as she raised her head.
The Ice Witch reached out and patted the Book Saint’s head:
"Do not underestimate this marginal power. You should know better than I do how terrible the consequences are when two mutation diseases co-exist."
"As payment, we promise never to harm you, and we will help cure your Black Blood mutation."
"Cough cough cough!"
The Book Saint lifted her head and looked at the Ice Witch.
The Ice Witch’s white hair lightly brushed her face, and her voice was gentle, like a saint coming to save her.
Wounded and faced with both the Ice Witch and Black Hunter—two Saints—she had no strength left to defeat them.
Moreover, on reflection, she really had done some terrible things to An;
she had no right to be angry and seek revenge.
Rather than resist, it was better to endure for now!
Once the Book Tower discovered her disappearance and came to rescue her, they would all have to pay the price!
Right now, survival was all that mattered!
Live!
In that instant, the Book Saint’s expression changed from anger to calm.
She accepted the Ice Witch’s outstretched hand:
"Fine, no problem. This Saint is willing to help you build the rift workshop."
"After all, there is no Hammer affinity Transcendent stronger than I am upon this sea."
She rose, tidied her cloudlike, voluminous silver-white hair, and pulled out a pair of round glasses symbolizing wisdom and books from her Backpack Card.
She only donned those round frames when she focused seriously on work.
She put on the glasses and nodded.
Reconciled... Palu, Burry, and An breathed a sigh of relief.
If the Ice Witch and the Book Saint had fought to the death, the island would have been reduced to ash!
The Book Saint adjusted her round glasses:
"Speak. What are your specific requirements?"
"Not many."
The Ice Witch surveyed the workshop:
"First, Aslina, you must take charge of the entire rift workshop’s construction. That is your primary task."
"Hmm, no problem. The rift workshop for the coastal mage families of the White Tower Federation took me ten years to complete."
Very good... The Ice Witch nodded and continued:
"In addition, after the workshop is completed, I want you to help build the Shepherd’s Lamp.
To resist the impending full-scale assault by the Black Blood Empire and the Blackfin Crew, Little Black Hair's ranch will become, after Noah's Wall, the second main defensive installation."
The Shepherd’s Lamp was a special item unique to Chen Qi the Shepherd, able to greatly boost sea beast strength and item output speed.
Chen Qi handed the plans to the Book Saint to review.
Aslina carefully scanned the blueprints and nodded:
"Hmm, not too difficult, but the final step of the Shepherd’s Lamp will need the Black Hunter’s personal touch."
Then the Ice Witch looked at the Black Hunter.
Chen Qi cleared his throat and said,
"Book Saint, I hope you can also build a Bookmaker’s 'Inspiration Library' inside the rift workshop."
The Inspiration Library was a special building exclusive to the Book Saint, a fifth-tier profession!
In that room, learning ritual techniques would be greatly accelerated.
If one wanted to master two domains before the catastrophe broke out, the Book Saint’s Inspiration Library was indispensable!
You actually know this... The Book Saint bit her lip and said softly:
"Okay."
She jotted down the three tasks and adjusted her glasses:
"Counting the time needed to gather materials, the rift workshop will take three months, the Shepherd’s Lamp should take three months, and the Inspiration Library—this is my secret—will take half a year..."
"In a year, these three grand projects can all be completed!"
The Book Saint calculated the schedule.
A year! Chen Qi’s pupils constricted.
A year from now, this sea might no longer exist.
The Ice Witch’s voice dropped:
"No!"
"One month. All three tasks must be completed in one month!"
One month to finish all three... The Book Saint’s smile shifted slightly:
"Are you kidding? Even if I sleep only eight hours a day and rest two days a week..."
The Ice Witch’s expression was blank:
"You will rest two hours a day;
on the last day of the month you may rest four hours.
Also, I will arrange assistants for you to reduce your workload."
This was the final hour before the whale disaster descended.
There was no time left for rest!
And the overburdened Book Saint still wanted to sleep?
How could she possibly sleep?
"Huh?"
The Book Saint froze for a moment.
What? Two hours of sleep a day!
Although she was a Saint, due to Knowledge Worms, she loved to sleep—
She required twelve hours of full sleep each day.
Two hours was basically treating her like a slave!
She adjusted her glasses, indignant:
"Witch, this is abuse. I refuse your proposal..."
However, the next second, the Book Saint went stiff.
Without her noticing, a relic from the Winter Convent appeared in the Ice Witch’s hand:
A holy object that looked like a venomous snake, studded with snowflake-like protrusions!
The Whip of Agony!
The Ice Witch said coldly:
"Miss Aslina, if you have no objections, start working."
"..."
Aslina swallowed and nodded.