"It's just one ...... of a large circle node"

Ending his perception of the ritual in front of him, Ronald slowly stood up.

The cult warlocks in Waterfall City obviously also know what what they are doing means to normal people. Therefore, during this ritual, they kept the magic fluctuations emitted by the magic circle particularly secret.

The cult warlock, a force with a long history, is still very good at accumulating spell casting techniques on the mysterious side.

So under their best efforts to conceal it.

Even a canon holder like Ronald can only perceive it at close range.

As for standing on the streets of Waterfalls......

I'm afraid that even the best detective spellcasters may not be able to detect the network of magic circles buried underground.

In order to achieve the ultimate goal of this plan, this group of cult warlocks also made a bloody investment.

"Is Ronald in a bad condition?" At this time, Phil asked from the side.

Although the child could not perceive the fluctuations of mana, he had already sensed the danger from Ronald's changing expression.

"Yes, it's bad." Ronald nodded slightly, and then explained to Phil beside him, "This group of cult warlocks is in the city, and they have prepared a magic circle to summon foreign beings to descend here. Now it seems that the circle was launched at nightfall last night, and the war with Waterfall is going especially well. So even if I destroy this node now, I'm afraid I won't be able to stop the whole ritual from unfolding later. ”

“……”

Ronald explained the situation in a few words, and Phil immediately understood the trickiness of the matter.

However, the little girl behaved very calmly, and after a moment of contemplation, she had an idea:

"So what if you destroy a few more nodes of this ritual?"

Ronald shook his head regretfully:

"Unlikely."

"These guys have done a very good job of concealment, and even if they do not have any taboos in the future, I am afraid it will be difficult to find and destroy enough nodes."

Answering Phil's suggestion, Ronald already had an idea in his mind.

So he turned and went up the basement:

"Phil, let's go up first."

"Okay."

Back on the ground, Ronald immediately walked in the direction he had come.

His deal with the cult warlocks in this secret stronghold was completely a devastating and decay-level cleanup.

The whole process took more than a quarter of an hour.

So back to the ground at this moment, the death time of the previous cult warlock leader has not exceeded twenty minutes!

Ronald pointed at a charred piece of debris on the ground and said a mantra:

"Starting from the relationship between the whole earth and the sky, we will begin to form our cognitive ......"

As the incantation is pronounced.

A miraculous sight appeared in front of the two of them - the spell [Precession].

Ronald once experienced a time lapse, but it was a self-correction of the rules of the world itself.

If we follow the situation last time, the remains of the corpse of the leader of the cult should begin to gather gradually, and the substance incinerated to ashes by the [Solar Power] should begin to burn in reverse like an upside-down slide.

But the [Precession] spell is different.

As soon as the spell was activated, the charred corpses on the ground suddenly disappeared.

Immediately, the cult warlock's originally intact body suddenly appeared on the ground.

It's not like going back in time.

Instead, it was as if one piece of film had been cut out and replaced with another twenty minutes earlier.

But at the same time.

This violence is not over in time.

Because the spell [Precession] locks the degree of time rewinding, even Ronald, the caster, can't adjust it.

That's twenty minutes and twenty-four seconds without the slightest deviation, with extreme accuracy.

So when the cult warlock, who had experienced such a miracle and regained consciousness on the ground, opened his eyes, he was at a loss for everything around him, and even looked at the figures of Ronald and Phil in a bit of a daze.

Valley "uh......"

It was exactly twenty minutes before the cultist warlock, so he didn't even have a memory of fighting Ronald

For this guy who has regained his life, he was in the basement one second overseeing his men's maintenance of the spell ritual, and the next second he suddenly lies down on the burning street outside.

"You...... Mr. Ronald? ”

"Whew!"

The cultist warlock was a little dazed and recognized Ronald's identity in front of him.

However, when the guy continued to do something, Ronald cast a spell to completely suppress all his actions.

At this time, Ronald pulled out another vial from his clothes.

In the previous simple questioning, he had confirmed that this cult warlock had a strong spirit, and relying solely on spells to ask the truth would only fail.

So this time.

He had to take out the potion that Heloise had left for him again.

Ronald looked at the vial in his hand with some regret, and finally did not hesitate to pinch open the mouth of the cultist warlock, and then poured him a quarter. And just to be on the safe side, he continued to cast spells on the cult warlock at this time to ensure the accuracy of this interrogation.

"How big is the scope of the ritual you're preparing?"

"The whole city."

"How many key nodes are there in the magic circle that summons great beings?"

"There are a lot of them, but only Lord Shesta knows the exact number."

“……”

Only Shesta knows.

Although it was expected, Ronald still felt a little troubled when he heard this answer:

"Do you know where Shesta is now?"

The cultist immediately gave a very reasonable answer:

"Miss is presiding over the core of the entire circle."

“……”

This answer, that's exactly what Ronald is going to do now.

It is unlikely that this ritual will be terminated by removing one node at a time, so just rush to the source. A ritual used to summon foreign objects to come to this world, no matter how powerful it is, it must follow the principle of summoning the magic circle, and there is a core position to pray for the arrival.

Just find this place and destroy it, and everything will be fine today.

Faced with the rare good news tonight, Ronald immediately asked:

"So, where is the location of this core?"

The cultist sorcerer spat out a short, helpless answer:

"I don't know."

“……”

Ronald raised his eyebrows, and almost couldn't hold back his scolding.

I was thinking about good news just now, but the next second it turned out to be such a result.

I know there is such a core, but I don't know exactly where it is.

It's a huge waterfall city, and it's still at war at the moment, so you can't let Ronald's family go to visit one by one, right?

There really needs to be such idle time.

I'm afraid that by the time Ronald finds his destination, the other party has already successfully summoned the so-called great existence!

Ronald sulked and was very dissatisfied, but Phil next to him stepped forward at this moment and cautiously asked the cultist warlock

"Do you know the approximate scope of this ritual?"

The cult warlock, whose mind was controlled by potions, immediately nodded to Phil regardless of the object of questioning:

"I know."