Minerva led seven prisoners of war deep into the Underground Palace.

Infiltrating the Underground Palace had been surprisingly easy as the Resentful Spirit Demigod rarely managed affairs, leading to chaos in the castle's management. Moreover, the low-rank Undead Spirits largely lacked their own consciousness, allowing Minerva to easily slip inside, disguised as a Banshee.

The lower level of the Underground Palace was where the Undead Wizard Ansalra worked, guarded stringently by apprentices, a stark contrast to the laxity of the upper levels. If not for this tight security, Minerva would have infiltrated it herself long ago.

With the seven prisoners in tow, they reached the end of a corridor where Mia suddenly materialized. The next second, she and everyone around blinked out, undetected.

Elsewhere, a Wizard Apprentice, accompanied by a female Transcendent, proceeded downwards, encountering numerous checkpoints along the way.

There were checks to see if the two were disguised using the "flesh" ability and tests to detect any underlying malintent, among others. Banshees responsible for these tests could possess a host and learn most of their secrets.

Once the Wizard Apprentice reached the lowest level and entered Ansalra's laboratory, he found his teacher already waiting there.

"Let me see!" Ansalra, a bald and portly man, spun around from his workstation upon seeing his apprentice ushering people in.

His gaze swept over the dispirited female Transcendent, a satisfied gleam crossing his eyes, before he waved his apprentice off,

"You can leave now!"

The Wizard Apprentice hastily scurried off, while Ansalra continued scrutinizing the female Transcendent, shackled in chains, with a peculiar gaze that resembled assessing meat.

Bloodline Completion, at least Level 10, white hair, likely Norman, of northern descent. The undead from the highlands managed to catch such a fine specimen? Perfect, I have a Frost Banshee experiment I want to try...

Thinking thus, Ansalra reached out to drag her onto the operating table.

The next second, people suddenly surrounded him.

Ansalra's expression flickered, and just as he was about to activate a hidden array on the floor, a beam of dark light struck him first.

Curse Death!

As the team's highest burst output instant-death Skill, it nearly killed Ansalra in an instant—Peggy had intentionally spared some Spirituality.

In fact, inflicting critical injury was sufficient, for the white-haired female Transcendent, already shedding her frail disguise, swiftly threw a punch directly at his chest.

Her fist struck Ansalra's chest, invisible force exploding within him and tearing his body to shreds.

Immediately after, his corpse vanished—Teleported to Fire Island.

"That was fast!" The girls were shocked. It had hardly taken half a second to eliminate their target.

"Stick to the plan!" Aske promptly urged.

Everyone swiftly got to work, clearing out the entire laboratory.

"Found it!" Nora exclaimed suddenly, retrieving a small crystal statue from a shelf, within which countless faces and illusions swirled.

Ansalra's Banshee Army, all sealed within.

Medea then sent a signal using the Manipulation Law, prompting Mia to Teleport there. Everyone was transported to Fire Island, after which Mia picked up the Ancient Book and Teleported away again.

Minutes later, a faint silhouette suddenly passed through the ceiling and landed next to Ansalra's mutilated corpse, face grim and silent.

Mia Transported thousands of kilometers to the west of the city, reappearing dizzily and slumping beside the road for a while.

Indeed, as Aske had said, the Ripple Sword was only suited for short-range, high-frequency Teleportation, and long-range Teleportation likely caused dizziness—even her "Space Affinity" ability couldn't prevent nearly vomiting her gallbladder out.

After feeling unwell for half a day, she could only teleport back to Fire Island and have her teammates come out to take over.

Seeing Mia on her stomach teleporting in, Nora quickly went to help her and carried her to a bamboo chair that was already prepared.

"What is that?" Little Mia muttered, just as she saw Miel pulling a figure from Ansalra's leftover Extraordinary Traits.

"It's Ansalra from the parallel world," Nora gently massaged her temples. "Miel's method of pulling people requires an anchor point, didn't she tell you?"

"No," little Mia said guiltily. She just remembered that there might be something like that.

With the help of Ansalra's Extraordinary Traits from the parallel world, after Miel pulled out the parallel world's Ansalra, she teleported back to the Main Plane with Aske.

Under the spiritual control of Eden Fruit, the parallel world's Ansalra silently took out a crystal statue.

Inside, numerous invisible banshees, unlocked by spirituality, surged out and dispersed in all directions.

"Let's go," Miel said.

Miel maintained the existence of Ansalra from the parallel world, but as it constantly required the use of spirituality, this couldn't last for a long time.

On the other hand, Aske maintained the abilities he plundered, which also required the use of spirituality and couldn't go on indefinitely.

Therefore, it was arranged for the parallel world's Ansalra to keep going for a period of time, then have Aske come out to take over before sending Aske back and having Miel come out. This rotation and alternation would restore their spirituality, ensuring the banshee army would continue scouting around the clock for 24 hours. This was the final action plan everyone agreed on.

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By March, The Azure Longsword Mercenary Corps had already crossed half of the southern coastal area and had begun to enter the Sevilla Plain.

The undead that appeared around them also became increasingly dense, like the queue of marching skeleton warriors, ghouls running like packs of wolves, and black warriors carrying great swords, advancing alone.

With the feedback from the large number of surrounding banshees, Aske, who was carrying an ancient book, continued to dodge these approaching undead armies to avoid being spotted by them while there were living people nearby.

However, it seemed that a large-scale battle would occur soon on the La Mancha Plateau, so there was gradually more troop movement from the south to the north. Sometimes, he even had to take long detours or stops or call Mia out to teleport past these dense undead fronts.

About half an hour later, it was time to swap shifts.

Miel teleported out from Fire Island and handed Aske a hamburger.

Aske: ??

"Lunch," Miel said. "Nora made it."

"Oh," Aske responded, taking it and planning to head back to Fire Island.

"I saw some troubling signs near Sevilla ahead," Miel suddenly said. "It seems like the undead army is conducting some kind of large-scale search operation, as if they are looking for someone."

"You mean, our tracks have been exposed?" Aske asked.

"Yeah," Miel hesitated but nodded, "I suspect they're targeting us. Aske, should we change our route?"

Aske pondered for a moment before saying,

"If we change our route now, we'll have to take a much longer path... Let's stick with the original route for now."

He didn't go back to Fire Island but continued on with Miel.

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