Because the initiative was firmly in Ellie's hands, she could do as she pleased, so Ellie ignored the Theocracy's high-ranking officials who had followed her.
"This brat actually ignored the High Priests! She's asking for death…" The bewildered attendants were terrified.
Ellie quickly walked up to the rostrum where the Fire Extinguishing Scripture had given their speech before their deployment.
The position was good, and the attendants and the monk soldiers, who had gathered there for some unknown reason, had their eyes almost entirely focused on Ellie.
This was inevitable, as the highest leaders of the Slane Theocracy were following her, so it was normal to be noticed.
"What is this about you! How did you summon the Windflower Scripture's security team?!" At this moment, a very quiet, reproachful voice came from the High Priests behind her.
From the sound of it, the questioner should be Raymond, the uncle she had met before, right? Then the person he was questioning should be Dominic, who could mobilize the Windflower Scripture's personnel, right? So these monk soldiers were from the Windflower Scripture, I see, I understand.
If these people were summoned by Dominic, Ellie immediately understood what was going on. These people must have been gathered by Dominic to stand by because he was worried that she might cause more trouble detrimental to the Slane Theocracy!
No wonder that guy seemed a bit flustered when she walked over earlier. This guy… Ever since the last time she went with him to the Empire to trick the Blood Emperor, Ellie felt that this guy seemed to have considerable hostility towards her.
It was the same during that escort; he barely looked at her the entire time, and communication was mostly minimal. Since that was the case, she would have to find an opportunity to properly play with this scoundrel later.
"Hmm! Your Slane Theocracy is indeed quite impressive. You even train in such abnormal weather? It's truly enviable to have such a force." Ellie turned her head, glanced at Dominic, and said meaningfully.
"…" Dominic dared not reply, and Raymond, beside him, also offered an awkward smile. After all, this unit was specifically for guarding Ellie herself.
"Well then, enough with the pleasantries, let's get to work. Could I trouble you all to step back a bit? It might be dangerous if you're too close to me." Ellie showed a half-smile and then said so. The High Priests also wisely retreated.
"Heh heh! Well then, I'm going to start." Ellie said she was going to start, but before she did, Ellie seemed to deliberately do something for the High Priests to see, taking out the Magic Ring from her bag and putting it on.
It was a very deliberate action, and the purpose was to make them misunderstand! The effect of this ring had already been made known to the Chief Priest of the Magic Development Institute, who had been staring at her from behind.
What was the name of this uncle?
This false information, that this ring was her own limiter, should have been conveyed to the other High Priests, right? Doing this was naturally a bluff to trick people, making them misunderstand that casting Ultimate Magic with a limiter was safe. Her warning to them to retreat just now meant the same thing. So, let's get to the main business!
After putting on the ring, Ellie, as before, struck a very chuunibyou pose. After all, she was about to cast Ultimate Magic, and in front of so many people, it would be a waste not to strike a pose.
"Ultimate Magic! Sky Transformation!" After Ellie struck her pose, a large number of pure white magic circles flashed around Ellie, emitting dazzling light and beginning to encircle Ellie.
Naturally, the unsophisticated High Priests widened their eyes. They had never seen magic circles with such complex structures.
It should be known that by simply looking at the complexity and number of magic circles a Magic Caster constructs before casting a spell, one can basically tell what class of magic that Magic Caster is about to cast.
However, the complexity and number of magic circles of the Ultimate Magic Ellie was casting were something no one present had ever seen, except for those few who had previously had the good fortune to witness Ellie's bluffing preparations. But this time was the true opportunity to witness the appearance of Ultimate Magic, which had only appeared in the records of the Six Great Gods.
It had been almost three minutes since Ellie began constructing the magic circles. Ellie still maintained her original pose without moving, and Sky Transformation had not been activated for a long time. In fact, although Sky Transformation was Ultimate Magic, it only took about fifteen seconds from chanting to being able to cast it. Ellie was just deliberately delaying the time.
The bumpkins who had never seen Ultimate Magic naturally didn't know that Ellie was deliberately delaying the casting time. They all watched Ellie nervously, and no one had any suspicion.
"Sky Transformation! Activate!" Finally, Ellie felt she had delayed long enough. Well! Actually, she was tired of posing, so she directly activated Sky Transformation.
The effect was the same as before: a white light flashed from the magic circles surrounding Ellie, shooting directly into the sky. The sky, which was originally covered with white clouds, rippled like a lake into which a stone had been thrown, instantly dispersing the clouds, and warm sunlight once again poured down.
"Whew! This should be enough. To expand the range to the entire country, I deliberately strengthened the effect! This should clear the previous influence." Ellie looked up at the clearing sky and said.
However, the High Priests were still too shocked by the previous scene and hadn't recovered. They all stared blankly at the sky, seemingly quite frightened. If they were stunned by just this, how would they react if she had the chance to blast them with Skyfall later?
"Ah… hmm, thank you very much, Princess Elizabeth." Raymond, who took a long time to react, was the first to thank Ellie.
"No problem, no problem! This whole mess was something I stirred up earlier, so it's only right to clean up my own mess. This should restore things to normal." Ellie directly took off the ring on her hand in front of Raymond and put it back into her bag. Ellie had noticed that when she removed the ring from her finger, Uncle Raymond's gaze was indeed fixed on her ring.
"Hmm? Don't worry about it, this ring is just a simple tool to limit my magic output. If I cast Sky Transformation without this ring, it might directly affect neighboring countries, so I can only wear it. After putting it on, I was worried that the output wouldn't be enough, so I delayed a bit just now to input more magic." Ellie, fearing Raymond wouldn't understand, explained it very deliberately. Of course! Not a single word of it was true.
"Then… then Princess Elizabeth really bothered herself for our country. Thank you again." Raymond responded unnaturally. The lie was out, whether they believed it or not was up to them. But given the performance she just put on in front of these bumpkins, logically, there should be no reason for them to suspect that she was actually bluffing, right?
"Well, the task is done! I should head back now." Ellie smiled and glanced at the other High Priests behind Raymond, who still had pale faces, then said to Raymond.
"Are you leaving already? Although I would love to ask Princess to stay as a guest in our country for a longer period, we are very ashamed of what our country did to you earlier, so we don't feel it's appropriate to ask you to stay. However, even so, please give our country a chance to save face and let us send someone to escort you back to your country?" Raymond said respectfully.
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