SCT-Novel Chapter 302: Empire’s Destruction, the Final Battle!
Chapter 302: Empire’s Destruction, the Final Battle!
“Shion!”
The cries of the people from the old world were filled with despair.
All eyes converged on the black-gold Magical Girl who had suddenly appeared.
In essence, having yet to fully comprehend the Authority of the world, she should not have rashly descended to meddle in the affairs of the mortal realm.
But Shion, watching the Flame Emperor’s Fruit Position being fought over, naturally couldn’t hold back.
However, upon descending, she realized that Fengqin was right; without removing the ring, descending felt like a human desperately squeezing into an anthill.
With just a slight exertion of force, the two leaves representing the new world and the Mirror Kingdom seemed on the verge of destruction.
Watching Keke and Itaen, who had been flung out in the lotus explosion, Shion was unable to pursue them.
Because if she moved around too much, even she wouldn’t be able to save these two worlds.
Her own cave heaven couldn’t disappear so soon.The dragon tail trailing behind her merely brushed lightly through the air, and everyone was pressed flat to the ground.
An overwhelming, irresistible pressure!
“Greetings, Sect Master!”
The vast Azure Cloud Sect disciples knelt on one knee in unison, Azure Cloud’s ten thousand swords bowed before Shion!
Sonora was crushed to the ground by that terrifying force, unable to rise. She looked around; all members of the old world, including the group of Alices, were on their knees, struggling to hold on.
Only Twins spread her arms and legs, lying flat on the ground.
“Oh, you can’t fight it, just enjoy it~”
She was even cheerfully offering advice.
Towards that completely resigned magical man, An Shiyu naturally had no good expression.
She lifted her head with difficulty, looking at the spot where the fire lotus had exploded. Whether it was Magical Girl Ruri or Mirror Queen Alice, they were both in a miserable state, but layers of nanomachines on Alice’s body rapidly repaired her form.
Only the black-gold Magical Girl, Lady Winter, bathed in the triple Buddha’s Fury Lotus, remained completely unharmed.
When Sonora confirmed the identity of that beautiful face, the real Lady Winter herself.
Her originally ugly expression began to change gradually.
As if she were somewhat excitedly laughing!
Then Sonora rubbed her hands together, raised them, and despite the immense pressure, still waved them somewhat excitedly.
“Magical Girl Winter, Lady Winter!”
Twins, lying flat beside her, was stunned and turned her head to look at Sonora.
When did she become such a brave person?
“My name is Sonora! I’m your fan! Lady Winter, look at me, look at me!”
Damn, a delusional fangirl!
But, it was way too abrupt! She hadn’t shown this crazy fangirl behavior before, right?
And, you, a Magical Girl from the Witch Association, how can you worship Shion?
Although there do seem to be quite a few people in the Witch Association who worship Shion, shouldn’t someone of Sonora’s status be afraid?
“Lady Winter! Lady Winter! Lady Winter!”
Lying on the ground, like a puppy, Sonora frantically crawled towards Shion, “Please give me an autograph! Please take a photo with me! If possible, please shake my hand-”
It was starting to become harassment.
And, how could she crawl forward under this immense pressure? After Shion descended, the surroundings felt like several hundred times the gravity, making it hard to breathe. Yet she could still crawl at this speed, which even made Twins a bit impressed.
Watching Sonora, who was almost upon her, Twins clicked her tongue.
The next second, Sonora was blown back by a strong gust, tumbling away.
That’s right, the Azure Cloud Sect disciples were still there. Wanting to get close to Shion was nothing short of a fantasy.
If you want to be a fanatic of the Azure Cloud Sect leader, you’re still twenty thousand years too early!
You’re not even in the queue...
Then, realizing that Lady Winter was also looking in her direction, Twins grinned stupidly and waved, indicating she was fine.
Only then did Lady Winter smile and nod at her, making Twins’ heart feel warm and sweet.
“Shion.”
The voice of the Mirror Queen, Itaen, was like a demon crawling out of hell.
“You still dare to show up!”
However, before Itaen could act, the Magical Girl Ruri beside her charged forward madly and violently!
This time, the Great Barren Imprisoning Heaven Finger combined with the fire lotus pressed directly down on both Itaen and Shion!
Itaen met the fire lotus with an expressionless face. The fire lotus was gradually absorbed by her, and the Great Barren Imprisoning Heaven Finger couldn’t touch her at all.
Shion’s dragon tail brushed past lightly. The fire lotus exploded in mid-air, its power infinite, but compressed by an invisible force, unable to burst outward.
It was rapidly shrinking.
Before Magical Girl Ruri could react, the dragon tail had already come crashing down!
Her entire body was embedded deep into the ground, transforming into fertilizer to nourish the flowers before finally quieting down.
Shion just turned her head to look at Winter: “Keep an eye on her. I’ll deal with her properly when I get back.”
Winter nodded obediently and said, “Just don’t hit her too hard...”
“I know.”
On the other side, Itaen was already thrusting the Immortal Slayer Sword forward from within the explosion!
Shion sidestepped slightly, catching her wrist and snapping it instantly.
Following that, the dragon tail whipped out again. Itaen shot into the sky like a meteor!
Shion flapped her dragon wings, and before Itaen could stabilize herself, she kicked her again!
The two flew upward, out of the world!
During the flight, fragments kept falling from the sky of the Mirror Kingdom. The numerous remnant leaves in the new world, symbolizing Earth and the universe, trembled and shook violently.
It was as if there was an existence that could burst all worlds, this land fundamentally unable to contain her power. Just moving casually brought the world to the brink of collapse.
Along with the many old worlds connected to the new world, even those spatial turbulences were teetering!
Yet her control over her own power was unparalleled. Thus, the entire new world and Mirror Kingdom remained on the edge of collapse, without the slightest breach of balance leading to total disintegration!
Only after the Sect Master had disappeared did Yumo ask softly:
“Didn’t the Sect Master say she couldn’t come down?”
“Probably to compete for the Flame Emperor’s position.” Thousand-Pinweed explained for the Sect Master for once, “If I saw two Cultivators arguing over who gets to be Harry Potter, I’d step in too.”
“Makes sense...”
Seeing that her own presence wasn’t needed, Qinghua, still playing games in the main sect, sighed:
“What a play, ‘Twin Queens Fight for the Emperor Fruit, Sect Master Wisely Seizes the Only Throne’! Want to know what happens next? WeChat me fifty bucks first...”
On the other side, Yumo remained silent, solely focused on suppressing all the Alices trying to rescue their queen.
Shuangye and Thousand-Pinweed, meanwhile, used Diagnosis on the left hand and Demonic Art on the right, dispersing to sweep the Mirror Kingdom for others.
Unexpectedly, among all the officials and military of the Mirror Kingdom, not a single one remained.
Jiegeng, however, was inviting the inner sect Magical Girls to study her [Old World Captive, Head In Peace-Inducing Divine Magic] – hitting with a wooden sword, then slashing, over and over...
The good children of the inner sect, upon hearing this, gladly went over and earnestly observed the subtleties of the true-transmission.
Afterwards, they earnestly reported her to Lady Winter.
Since the Sect Master had arrived, everyone acted as if the threat of the Full Bloom enemy didn’t exist, each doing their own thing.
The previously silent battlefield once again became lively and bustling.
Winter assigned tasks to almost every disciple and also sent the remaining ones to support South China.
Although Mùjǐn and the others were still outside and shouldn’t require Azure Cloud Sect’s concern, Winter was still preparing for a rainy day...
Boom!
Keke, who had been embedded in the ground, transformed into a dragon, rising from the clouds, and charged out again!
The mana aura on her body hadn’t weakened at all; instead, it was climbing to an even more exaggerated degree!
The young girl, lifting her head, her voice somewhat hoarse, was still unleashing her fury and rage!
“Itaen!”
Having completely lost her mind, the black-red flames seemed to have utterly devoured her soul.
When Winter tried to reach out and grab her, the black-red flames mercilessly engulfed her!
“Lady Winter!”
The most startled was naturally Twins, until the flames dissipated and she saw Lady Winter surrounded by her ice, then she breathed a sigh of relief. Afterwards, she angrily slapped the Vine Captain beside her, “Look at the monster you created! Your technology is so shoddy!”
“She couldn’t control herself, what does that have to do with me? My technology is perfectly fine! Don’t spread rumors and affect my win!”
Sonora took a sharp breath: “We’re screwed. Now that the Mirror Queen and Shion are gone, she’s going to be unstoppable!”
Just as it looked like Keke would also fly out of the sky, an arrow, like a meteor, pierced through Keke’s right arm!
The arrow seemed to pin Keke’s arm in place, hanging her in the sky.
Both Sonora and Twins were shocked. There’s another expert here?
Even though Keke’s flames incinerated the arrow, she was still hung there by an invisible force, unable to break free.
She looked down.
A Magical Girl in a miko uniform held a purple-wooden longbow fully drawn. Strands of hair at her temples brushed her cheek in the wind. Her cold, black pupils reflected Keke’s somewhat deranged face.
“No matter what relationship you have with the Sect Master.”
The bowstring touched her collarbone, brushing past the collar of her miko uniform. The hand holding the string released. As the arrow left the bow, the rebounding string let out a deep “vwoom.” The gust of wind stirred her sleeves and skirt as the arrowhead firmly pierced through Keke’s forehead!
“Just stay put, you stupid little midget! Don’t move!”
Keke let out an indistinct scream. The arrow piercing her forehead seemed to nail her head to an air wall, rendering her immobile.
However, the Pseudo-Full Bloom Magical Girl violently pulled at her body.
At the wounds on her head and arm from the arrows, the power of rules and her Magical Outfit melted together into magma, continuously dripping down.
Jiegeng’s lips overflowed with blood, suffering the backlash of her own magic. Her longbow and loose miko uniform drooped weakly.
It seemed she had taken heavy damage.
She cursed in her heart: Fuck your mom, is a Pseudo-Full Bloom this ridiculously strong...
At the same time, she realized, damn, this Ruri has the Flame Emperor template. Her combat power at the Pseudo-Full Bloom level rivals a real Full Bloom’s insane power. This is truly unfair...
However, just as Keke was about to break free from her magic, Jiegeng bit her lip hard and drew the bowstring again.
Aiming at Keke, her tone was exceptionally irritable: “Didn’t you hear me telling you not to move?!”
“Fuck it, I’ll kill you!”
But just as she was about to shoot, Thousand-Pinweed pressed down on her hand.
“Wait, listen to Lady Winter’s orders. Don’t act without Lady Winter’s command.”
Though a bit displeased, Jiegeng snorted coldly and withdrew her longbow.
Because she couldn’t beat Thousand-Pinweed.
Within the Azure Cloud Sect, besides Senior Sister Bai Mei, Thousand-Pinweed was the only one she had clearly lost to.
Looking towards Lady Winter, the Azure Cloud Sect disciples were all looking up at Keke, but no one acted.
Lady Winter herself looked somewhat helpless, gesturing for Yumo and the others not to make a move.
Were they really just going to let her go crazy?
Jiegeng felt some dissatisfaction in her heart.
Doesn’t everyone have any sense of crisis? Just because she has a relationship with the Sect Master, should they give her special treatment?
When she saw that the Magical Girl, mimicking her own style, created a longbow and actually turned the five-colored fire lotus into an arrow, nocked it, drew the bowstring fully, and aimed at her side, Jiegeng nearly exploded with rage.
She could naturally see that the other party had perfectly copied her magic!
Hit the target first, then shoot the arrow!
In the sky, Keke released the bowstring. The arrow blasted towards them!
“Warn...”
The warning shout was cut short by a strange, crisp breaking sound.
The sudden, crisp cracking sound made the space crack like glass.
Then came a clear, resonant dragon’s roar.
The furious Jiegeng immediately quieted down.
She looked up. A sharp fissure was constantly expanding and spreading from outside the space.
As the crack grew larger, terrifying Sword Energy began to uncontrollably leak out. That sharp, biting cold made everyone turn their heads.
Just before the arrow landed, a clear sword light, like silver moonlight, shot out from the broken space like a startling rainbow or lightning!
Like a ripple spreading through space, it reduced the arrow in the sky to ashes!
The Sword Energy, which had cleaved through both space and causality, slashed down onto the frenzied Keke under everyone’s gaze!
The sword light was like a silver strand of hair. The clouds in the sky and Keke’s body were all slightly misaligned and tilted within this strand.
Then, the flowers, trees, and even the earth – the entire Mirror Kingdom – split open with a loud crack in this one sword strike! The world was about to break into two pieces, but then a purple firelight surged from the fissure like chains, securing the nearly destroyed Mirror Kingdom in place.
Keke, instantly de-transformed, fell unconscious like a kite with a broken string.
Winter quickly flew up and caught her own sister. The other true-transmissions also gathered around, commenting on Keke, who had suddenly broken into the Pseudo-Full Bloom state.
Only Sonora and the old world members’ gazes fell on Bai Mei, who had just cut open the dimensional space herself and walked out.
They all took a sharp breath.
A Sprout-level Magical Girl, and she could cut down a Pseudo-Full Bloom...
An Azure Cloud inner sect disciple came over, looking not at all surprised, and just chatted happily:
“This is the second Pseudo-Full Bloom the senior apprentice sister has defeated, right?”
“I didn’t expect it to be Miss Magical Girl Ruri.”
“If we become Pseudo-Full Bloom, can we compete for the true-transmission spot?”
“Think too much. Who would you want to eliminate, Shuangye?”
“Forget it then...”
The old world people looked at each other in confusion. The few who had been planning to escape or resist immediately obediently followed the inner sect disciples away.
Outside the Mirror Kingdom, within South China.
Mùjǐn crouched before a small mound of earth, muttering to herself: “Look at you. When South China was tough, you followed South China. When the Mirror Kingdom was tough, you followed the Mirror Kingdom. You never got to enjoy a single good day. You always chose the wrong path. Let’s just say your luck is really bad. You can’t do anything about it now...”
Shion’s single blow hadn’t even left a complete corpse. Fortunately, there were some remnants, so she made a small grave. A place to remember her later.
“It’s a good thing most people in South China don’t really know you. The name Changgeng will still be the hero of South China, the very first Magical Girl. I was so afraid you might have done something terrible, caused deaths among the South China people. If that had happened, how could I have asked South China to continue seeing you as a hero? If you were forgotten, it would be... too lonely, wouldn’t it, Changgeng?”
She mumbled, feeling a bit sad nonetheless.
The reason she desperately saved the people of South China was also to prevent her old friend from actually killing anyone. Mùjǐn and Changgeng were names in the textbooks of South China. She wanted her own and her friend’s names to remain there forever.
But if Changgeng had actually killed people, how could she let South China continue to commemorate a murderer?
Thinking of this, Mùjǐn looked up at the sky.
The Mirror Kingdom, which raised the dead to humiliate them... she knew it had nothing to do with the current Mirror Queen. It was probably the previous Mirror Queen who had brought Changgeng’s corpse back to life.
For them, with their Alice technology, it wasn’t difficult.
But it was unforgivable.
Really, utterly unforgivable.
“I want to go up there and take a look.”
So Mùjǐn spoke softly to An Shiyu. “Let’s part ways here, Little An.”
“No.”
In the world of consciousness, Little An gripped her hand tightly. “Take me with you.”
“It’s very dangerous.”
“I’ll be with Senior Mùjǐn. I’m not afraid, no matter how dangerous.” An Shiyu was uncharacteristically firm. “You must take me, or I will hate you for the rest of my life!”
“Wow, don’t hate me~”
Mùjǐn said cheerfully. “I’m scared of being hated.”
An Shiyu was silent for a long time before she spoke softly: “If it were Changgeng, Senior Mùjǐn, would you definitely take her?”
“Of course. Changgeng and I are comrades bound by life and death...”
“And me? Am I not enough?” An Shiyu lowered her head, her tone somewhat sullen. “Can’t I share life and death with you? Am I not considered a Magical Girl?”
Mùjǐn scratched her cheek. “That’s not it. Little An will become an excellent Magical Girl someday, even stronger than me. So there’s no need for you to risk your life like me, who’s already died once...”
“But I want to go.” An Shiyu immediately cut her off, a flickering light of intense longing in her eyes. “I don’t want to become an excellent Magical Girl in the future. I want to become one now, one who can stand by your side, who can chase after Shion, an excellent Magical Girl. I don’t want to just dream about the future while being a useless waste in the present, Mùjǐn.”
“Please, let me stand by your side. I want to become a comrade who can share life and death with you, Mùjǐn.”
Such a fervent and straightforward confession left Mùjǐn feeling a bit embarrassed. “You really don’t know how to be shy...”
“Because if I don’t say it, there might not be another chance.” An Shiyu grabbed Mùjǐn’s hand. At this moment, she seemed like a more powerful Magical Girl than Mùjǐn. “I don’t want to have regrets. Whether it’s Mùjǐn or Jiang Si, you’re both once-in-a-lifetime miracles in my life. I will never let go!”
Mùjǐn could only concede before those determined pupils. “Alright, alright. Since Shion is up there anyway, we’ll go together. No matter what, I will protect you. After all, I’m a Full Bloom Magical Girl!”
“Mm!” An Shiyu finally smiled. “As long as Senior Mùjǐn is here, I can be a very powerful Magical Girl too!”
“Even without me, Little An is already a very strong Magical Girl now.”
“I’m still far from it.”
“I’m serious. Little An is already very, very strong...”
Mùjǐn said with some emotion, then rallied her spirits and laughed loudly. “Then let’s go! Let’s see what’s outside the world!”
But just as she was about to open a spatial rift to follow, someone grabbed her clothes from behind.
Both Mùjǐn and An Shiyu were startled. They turned back to see Blackberry, with some dust and bloodstains on her face, quietly looking at them.
“Please... take me with you!”
***
[Alice Armor Fear MKI Type, initiating first layer detachment...]
Tossed like a bowling ball into the chaos outside the world by Shion,
Itaen had yet to counterattack before another foot stomped viciously onto her head!
The back of her head smashed the planet beneath her into fine glass-like fragments. Just as her head was about to be crushed,
Her clothes and skin began to peel off rapidly, like dense ants.
[Alice Armor Fear MKI detachment complete. Second layer armor activating. Data fully inherited.]
Itaen lifted a foot and kicked Shion squarely!
Though the girl, who looked like a dragon, didn’t budge an inch, Itaen managed to create distance.
Four types of Full Bloom mana enhancement, yet she couldn’t even shake her opponent...
Even though her emotions were almost burning her heart out, this one strike cooled Itaen down considerably.
The sheer terror of life and death had cooled the flames of rage in her heart.
Her brain, connected to the system, calculated frantically.
The opponent’s power was still superior; she couldn’t fight head-on even now.
She immediately turned and began to flee into the distance.
The space outside the world was different from predictions. Here, it was like the universe, with many planets—some seemingly newly born, just created.
Countless stars materialized here. Weaving through the debris field created by their earlier clash,
Using the complex terrain, constantly changing trajectories, weaving through the gravitational shadows of asteroids, but when she burst out from behind an icy planet, Shion was already waiting for her ahead.
Her speed was also not an advantage.
The dragon tail flashed. The core of the Alice Armor on her chest shattered instantly. Her body crashed into the core of the icy planet from the immense impact, shooting out from the other side.
Half the planet, like a squeezed and broken egg, collapsed, crumbled, spraying planetary debris!
Another layer of the Alice Armor peeled off.
As the third layer of the Alice Armor activated, Shion was already crashing into her like a comet, dragging a flash of light for dozens of kilometers, carrying terrifying power!
But this time, Itaen simply extended one hand, enduring this blow under the immense impact!
[Alice Armor Fear MKI, iteration complete.]
She grabbed Shion’s ankle with her other hand. Countless nano-Alices writhed on her arm.
Then, the entire arm was covered with the same black-gold Magical Outfit as Shion’s.
The same mana density, the same mana circulation efficiency, the same construction method...
Itaen raised her head, looking into those golden, vertical pupils.
A hint of what seemed like surprise flickered in them.
Her status beneath the Magical Girl’s disguise gave her a sort of vengeful pleasure from that surprise.
“Has your fighting style always been this simple?”
She spat out mocking words, and the perfectly replicated power of Shion was turned against Shion herself!
Shion shot out faster than a comet!
But the dragon wings flapped just once, and the flung-away girl stabilized herself in an instant.
As if defying the laws of physics, inertia ceased to exist.
She could even spin around and swing her dragon tail back!
Itaen still manipulated the arm imitating Shion’s Magical Outfit and threw a punch!
A massive shockwave dispersed through the chaos, causing countless dense planets around them to explode!
A debris belt spanning trillions of zhang surrounded the two like a planetary ring.
There was no sound, but the entire debris field lit up.
The terrifying energy of the collision converted into light radiation, its brilliance a thousand times hotter than the newborn star in the distance!
The point of impact between the fist and the dragon tail created a spatial fold, swallowing up fragments for hundreds of thousands of kilometers around.
Itaen barely steadied herself in the debris dust. She glanced down at her right hand.
On her trembling right hand, the imitation Shion Magical Outfit from the Alice Armor was completely shattered.
She looked around again and noticed a problem.
In this chaotic external world, stars were constantly being born.
Although the force of their collision had destroyed many stars, more were quickly born to replace them.
For instance, that star from just now had just been created.
Someone was creating stars during their battle...
However, her thoughts couldn’t extend much further.
From the distant debris field, the black-gold mana radiance flashed again.
Itaen watched as Shion habitually pulled out her magic javelin and couldn’t help but laugh.
The black-gold light streaked across the cosmos. The chaos it passed through was like thin paper, tearing a black-gold crack.
The surrounding debris instantly melted into even finer dust!
Destructive power more terrifying than before.
Perhaps this was the first time in this fight that Shion was getting serious...
But for Itaen, it was nothing more than that.
She reached out her hand.
[Upon entering the King’s Hand, all weapons shall bow]!
The invisible text was inscribed again. The sky-shattering, earth-destroying black-golden spear was caught steadily in her hand!
The violently vibrating mana emitted a restless hum, but the next second, countless nano-Alices on the Alice Armor rapidly covered the entire black-gold spear. The glow of the mana was thus covered.
The black-gold spear, originally belonging to Shion, had completely fallen into her hands.
“I have all the combat data from your fight with Xiao Qi.”
Was it pride, or did she want to prove something?
Shion turned her head and glanced around.
The nano-Alices Itaen had deployed were now attached to all the surrounding dust particles. Her Mental Landscape had thus been silently and unbiddenly unfolded.
“Your mana has incredible qualitative changes, but they’re all fundamentally based on known Magical Girl types.” After the Mental Landscape expanded, countless mana formations lined up before Itaen. “We collected and analyzed all the mana properties.”
“For the Mirror Kingdom, there was never any miracle.”
Different types of mana fused within the Mental Landscape, turning into a Buddha’s Fury Lotus.
Another batch of mana morphed and was born, evolving into the massive Immortal Slayer Sword.
The Great Barren Imprisoning Heaven Finger, Sword Energy, gale force winds, including Qinghua’s puppets, and Bingtang’s ice, all brewed and completed simultaneously.
“Step by step, we collected data, analyzed it, built models. Every step requires a logical explanation. All our technology can be reproduced and replicated. Through continuous accumulation and evolution, we find the patterns and summarize them.”
“So, even if I can’t become a Magical Girl, I can still stand above everyone else!”
Itaen tried her best to forget the person beneath the Magical Girl’s skin.
She was simply speaking frankly with that Magical Girl, Shion.
The strongest Magical Girl, the representative of Magical Girls.
The Mirror Kingdom, from its birth, was the opposite of Magical Girls. They didn’t pursue unachievable miracles. They took one step at a time, creating reproducible technology.
This was why they were abandoned by the Incubators.
“Everything you see is the technological achievement of the Mirror Kingdom simulating magic. We use technology to imitate Magical Girls, and ultimately, surpass your miracles.”
“Is that why you sent me to the disaster-human realm, Prince-sama?”
The impassioned speech was crushed by a single sentence.
The pretense of Mirror Queen versus Shion, Magical Girl versus Mirror Kingdom, was completely torn apart.
The calm maintained by pride shattered. Itaen looked at her, speaking word by word, as if chewing on something while responding: “I am not the Prince. I am the Mirror Queen. The one who went to the disaster-human realm was Simo Tu...”
“I am Simo Tu.”
Stars were born and died. In the chaotic world, black holes and silence accompanied eternity.
The chaotic world, covered by her Mental Landscape, finally slowed the birth of stars.
Itaen let out a “Ha” of laughter.
“As a man, are you fighting using a Magical Girl’s body?”
Her once proud face gradually turned cold, and an overwhelming rage surged from her pupils!
“Have some sense of shame, you liar—!!!”
All the magic she had collected, empowered by the mana of four Full Blooms, engulfed Shion!
The main computing power of the Omniscient Domain was all dedicated to analyzing Shion.
Her mana, her magic, her Magical Outfit, all her changes, movement patterns, and attack habits.
All the combat data was collected and analyzed to build a combat model of Shion.
Perhaps it understood her habits in dealing with enemies better than she herself did!
Shion closed her two fingers together like a sword, gently swiping downward.
It was the same sword strike that had split the sun and moon in her fight with Xiao Qi.
A terrifying magic that even Xiao Qi, connected to the total cluster, found hard to withstand.
But it gradually dissolved upon touching the gray-white mana in the Omniscient Domain.
As long as the mana property is analyzed and neutralized with the opposite mana, Shion’s magic can be rendered harmless!
Meanwhile, the world’s magic replicated here, supported by the mana of four Full Blooms, finally managed to suppress Shion, pinning her into the exploding star behind her!
“Next.”
Itaen revealed a contemptuous and cold glare. “I will defeat you in front of the entire world.”
Then—
Step your face into the mud, cut off your limbs, install mechanical cat legs, dress you in a maid outfit.
Then personally put a collar engraved with my name, Itaen, around your neck, and lead you crawling through the palace like a cat.
I will make you regret forever deceiving me, making an enemy of me...
Only then can she salvage her trampled self-esteem.
The humiliation of the deception, and the pain of all her dashed hopes.
Even if she ignored it countless times, even if she tried desperately to overlook and forget.
But the moment the other spoke, it brought an indescribable pain!
Under the support of the Domain’s Certain-Hit effect, countless trillions of spells bombarded Shun continuously.
Yet Itaen saw the other party walking leisurely forward, like she was taking a bath amidst the sword rain and sea of fire of the Domain’s Certain-Hit!
The vast amount of Sword Energy and Extinction Lotus that had been analyzed, which should have broken through the magic defense, constantly erupted in dazzling sparks of extinction on the resilient dragon scales.
The Omniscient Domain, having exhausted all the Mirror Kingdom’s technology, computational power, and accumulated resources, was running at full capacity!
It constantly searched for possibilities to break through the dragon scales.
The Omniscient Domain was a Mental Landscape that could analyze everything, inscribe rules, and change probabilities. Using the Mirror Kingdom’s powerful core as its energy source, its upper limit was undoubtedly extremely high.
The only flaw was its inability to change 100% and 0% probabilities.
Just as technology cannot create miracles that are absolutely impossible, the Omniscient Domain cannot change the probability of an already determined event.
[Possibility of breaking through the dragon scales: Zero percent.]
“Keep calculating!”
[Initiating overclocking. Will directly calculate the possibility of directly destroying Shion...]
[Computing power overload. Please terminate other processes...]
Just as the Prince was stunned, Shion suddenly spoke from the other side:
“So, this is what it feels like.”
Bathed in the attacks of the Mental Landscape, the black-gold Magical Girl said, as if exceedingly satisfied. She raised her right hand.
The conspicuous ring on her right hand was slowly removed by her.
“Come back, mana, all of it.”
The moment the words fell, the entire chaotic world came to a standstill.
Stars stopped being born, stopped spinning. The belt of rubble, like a star ring, solidified into a floating sea of stone.
The light of the sun lingered at the moment of its beat.
Itaen sensed something and immediately looked down.
Below, in the new world, the planets centered around the four largest landmasses of South, West, North, and East China, and even the entire universe extending outward, began to separate again!
She only then suddenly realized.
The birth of stars in the chaotic space was actually Shion’s doing.
The fact that the new world below, the Mirror Kingdom, the many old worlds, and even the spatial turbulences could still exist, not completely destroyed by their battle, was because Shion was using that ring to control them.
The vast majority of her mana was being used on these places...
After removing the ring, the purple demon god, having reclaimed all her mana, merely raised her hand slightly.
The overwhelming mana almost made Itaen unable to breathe!
The raised hand turned into something like a dragon’s claw, pressing down towards her.
A mundane attack, almost invisible in power.
Just a hand strengthened purely by mana and then pressed down.
But the Mental Landscape let out a cracking sound.
[Evasion probability: Zero percent.]
[Unable to calculate, analysis probability zero, block probability zero.]
[Overload, calculation error, overclocking failed, overload...]
The core, forged from the brains of all the people in the Mirror Kingdom’s history, the computing power and technology that could surpass any Magical Girl’s miracle,
All calculations and probabilities began to produce errors.
No matter what rule was [Inscribed], no matter how many spells were [Stripped].
The probability of every single move of the enemy before her was locked at 100%.
Everything she did was inevitable.
So Shion didn’t need any special countermeasures against the Omniscient Domain.
Simply by continuously acting within this Mental Landscape, the Domain, frantically calculating her every move, faced the problem of computing power overload...
So, I was almost going to marry someone like this?
In a daze, such a thought inexplicably arose.
Shion’s fist fell.
[Calculation failed. System damaged. End process. Failed to end process.]
[Forced calculation. Calculation failed. Re-organizing. Calculation failed. Calculation failed. Calculation failed...]
[System out of control. Warning. System out of control. Computing power occupied...]
The final error message came to an abrupt halt under this fist.
The Omniscient Domain disappeared completely.
The terrifying power slammed directly into her.
Layer after layer of the Alice Armor broke down—the power and data of the previous layer were passed to the next.
These Alice Armors simulated Personal Reality, the key to unfolding her Mental Landscape. In essence, they were a replication of the Magical Outfit using nano-Alices. The properties were nearly identical, and the effects achievable were the same.
Each time the Alice Armor broke and was replaced, it also had an invincibility-frame effect during the transformation.
This was a multi-use invincibility-frame mode.
It was the proud core crystallization of the Mirror Kingdom’s technology...
Yet, in an instant, all the Alice Armor was destroyed.
Only half an Alice Armor remained.
The so-called invincibility frame seemed not to have triggered. The nano-Alices didn’t even have time to re-aggregate before they were shaken into a cloud of ownerless metallic dust by this force that passed right through her.
The supercomputing module of the armor core restarted three times within 0.0000003 seconds. The conclusion from every restart was identical—
[Current configuration cannot defend. It is recommended to change tactics immediately.]
Finally, it fell completely silent.
Itaen looked up.
Shion was just leisurely putting her ring back on, no longer casting her gaze towards her.
The birth of stars in the chaotic space continued again. All the worlds below, which had been in turmoil, stabilized simultaneously.
South China was slowly pulled back into the new world, merging with other regions, and the planet reformed.
Rage was ignited, uncontrollably.
Even without the Alice Armor, the Mental Landscape, or the support of the Mirror Kingdom’s technology.
As an ordinary person without the ability to transform, Itaen still desperately called upon the last vestiges of mana within the Alice Armor, grabbing a piece of falling debris.
She jumped up desperately, stepping on the debris belt that circled Shion like a planetary ring, rushing towards her.
Roaring like a dying lion!
“Shion—!!”
However, she could no longer reach that distant girl.
Because, in the next breath, her chest was silently pierced by a mana cannon.
Her hand reaching for Shion froze in mid-air.
Her body finally lost control and began to fall downwards.
Everything became distant, and the ambusher behind her also appeared in her sight.
It was Blackberry, and Mùjǐn.
Magical Girls of South China.
Behind them, it was as if countless South China Magical Girls stood, staring at her with fury and disgust.
Carrying a cold, murderous intent.
“We won’t let you harm South China anymore.”
The cold sensation of blood loss surged up. Itaen let out a cold laugh.
But she had no interest whatsoever in Blackberry and Mùjǐn, who had ambushed her.
She didn’t even feel anger or hatred.
She just looked at the Magical Girl, Shion, who was getting further and further away.
The existence she once thought she could almost reach was now, once again, becoming distant and unattainable.
“Shion...”
Unable to resist, she stretched her hand out towards that distant, beautiful girl.
I was so close... just a little bit more...
Seeming to sense her gaze, Shion turned her head and looked at her as well.
Her lips moved slightly.
It’s fine. Continue to hate me, Mirror Queen, who is no Magical Girl. I permit you to hate me and take your revenge on me.
Hate me, forever.
The voice seemed to sink into the deep sea.
Consciousness and voice began to blur together, but her hand clenched earnestly in Shion’s direction.
As if trying desperately to grasp that coldly staring girl.
With effort, she parted her lips slightly. It felt as if endless seawater was pouring into her mouth. Bitterness spread from the tip of her tongue to her heart, then surged up into her mind.
Shion.
Actually, the thing I hate the most...
Is the part of me that, even so, can’t bring myself to hate you.