After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King
Chapter 141 - 10 Material Devourer

Chapter 141: Chapter 10 Material Devourer

"Calling forth the patrons of dust and earth, praying to the spirits of sand and stone, moistening the withered shell of the land, staining the dry riverways, softly and sticky, merging here and now; floating, sinking, and falling between!"

Vera chanted simply, as the soft murmuring spread, the dark blue Mana swiftly radiated from her palms, covering the rocks blocking the entrance to the mine in front of them with a wave of Mana.

Soon, the Mana shot forth like dancing fireflies, tiny points of light swiftly adhering to the rocks. Using a specific **trigger**, she recalled the script she had memorized.

Connecting with the World Tree, borrowing Mana from the Mana network, sketching the spell’s model, using her own magic power as the lure... Magic cast!

"Shangtiya fossil to mud technique!"

With the final words declaring the magic’s name, under Vera and Yila’s watchful eyes, the miracle known as Magic activated, and the sloping, collapsed mine entrance before them suddenly cleared.

The rocks and dirt firmly lodged inside the mine swiftly turned into moist mud and some wet sand, sinking continuously down the sloping passage, revealing the black interior of the mine.

The mine was not very large, just barely enough for Yila and Vera to enter with their heads bowed. However, as soon as the path cleared, a long-sealed musty smell of dust surged out from within.

"Ugh~"

Vera, who was close by, immediately gagged... However, with her Witch Demon body, she couldn’t actually vomit anything out, but the stench was undeniably awful.

Even Yila’s face didn’t look much better... He stared at the mine emitting an acrid and putrid smell of decay, gazing into its dark and repulsive depths, pondering whether to proceed.

"Are we really going to explore inside?"

It sounded like Vera wasn’t very willing either.

"..."

"Why don’t you cast a **Material Devourer**?"

Yila suggested, while Vera rolled her eyes and said, "I haven’t memorized it. If you can cast it, why don’t you do it yourself? You know I have limited magic power, and you’re asking me to cast a Legendary Magic spell?"

So she hadn’t learned it... and her logic was indeed sound.

Accepting Vera’s words, Yila nodded, deciding to cast the spell himself...

"Third Wing Pillar·Witch Demon·Wing Shatter!"

With Yila’s voice, a pair of corpse-like pale wings appeared behind him, instantly shattering in the next moment, transforming into countless ethereal Wing Fragments whirling around Yila.

Since it required magic that the Governor couldn’t cast, Yila had just acquired the **wing** from Vera, only to shatter it... It wasn’t that Legendary Magic necessitated shattered wings to cast.

In fact, the most basic **Wing Spread** could equally allow the casting of such spells, except **Wing Shatter** provided a significant boost in spell power. The real reason Yila did this was due to the special nature of **Wing Shatter**.

It had been mentioned before that if it were **Wing Spread**, the Mana consumed through Yila’s abilities would be traced back to the World Tree... When Yila used the Crimson Dragon’s wings for travel, Mana within Satan Ye also got drawn.

Then, when Yila, in his earlier enraged transformation, cast the cataclysmic **Crimson Nova·Star Disaster Comet**, the Mana within Satan Ye couldn’t withstand that consumption... yet she showed no reaction at all.

Because the World Tree hadn’t traced it back to her.

This was quite counterintuitive, but in principle, it could be explained as exploiting the World Tree’s mechanism... or one might call it leveraging a bug in the Governor profession.

Typically, whether Knights using their abilities or Mages casting spells, their own Mana would be expended first, followed by exchanging for Mana needed to cast spells from the World Tree.

Governors, however, were different. Governors would first draw Mana from the World Tree, which only afterward traced the source to reclaim that portion of Mana... the Governors effectively forced a debt note.

Usually, creatures would be killed by Governors, and Mana from those creatures would be used to pretend to be the creature’s **name** to cast abilities... but the World Tree couldn’t find the debtor on the note.

The World Tree just had to swallow its frustration... What? You say the Governor’s using the creature’s Mana? But that’s the Governor’s Mana, not the debt-ridden creature’s, so how can the World Tree forcefully take it?

But the Mana Yila now used, belonged to living owners, so **Wing Spread** would draw Mana from them, but **Wing Shatter** worked differently~

It was like borrowing money, and before the note got registered, and the name got recognized by the World Tree, the note got torn immediately; to use a more incomprehensible but vivid analogy... it was like a Phoenix People blowing themselves up and hiding in the pit.

Thinking that way, the World Tree actually seemed pitiful.

Moreover, Yila didn’t need to use extensive chants to set a spell’s trigger. He only needed to state the name, informing the World Tree of the magic he wished to use.

"Material Devourer."

Yila simply recited, omitting a large volume of chanting. Under Vera’s envious gaze, the wings shattered by **Third Wing Pillar·Witch Demon·Wing Shatter** immediately refracted countless beams of light, forming a pitch-black sphere at the center of the beams.

The four-to-five-meter diameter black sphere hovered in the air, awaiting the caster Yila’s command. It was pitch-black, reflecting no light from its surface.

"Get to it!"

Yila lightly commanded. The **Material Devourer** instantly dived into the original mine’s location, progressing swiftly along the tunnel, expanding it as it went.

The stones and dirt in the mine’s path disappeared wherever the Material Devourer passed, as if devoured, giving an impression of a very dangerous spell... though it couldn’t devour any living things.

Otherwise, the Material Devourer would shift from being a useful magic to a **powerful magic**.

"By the way, how many words are in the original script of Material Devourer?"

Vera asked casually as she and Yila walked through the mine tunnel widened by the Material Devourer, "It should be fewer than those plant-based Legendary Magic spells, right? Thirty thousand?"

No way it’s that short...

"Indeed, it’s fewer than the standard ninety-thousand-word plant-based Legendary Magic spells, but it’s still a Legendary Magic spell, right? Material Devourer has six hundred and seventeen thousand seventy-four words. I remember the book is on the fourth floor’s middle bookshelf."

Yila said, reminiscing about the countless sleepless nights he spent memorizing.