Sticky situations were indeed disgusting, but they weren’t impossible to handle. Luo Shuangyue put in some effort and successfully took off the ring, tossing it out of the Starlight Tunnel.
During this time, Luo Shuangyue also discovered that by using demonic energy to form a barrier between herself and the ring, she could easily block the ring’s attempts to cling to her.
Although this caused the ring to stick to the barrier without coming off, this regenerating demonic energy wasn’t particularly valuable. Luo Shuangyue simply discarded the energy along with the ring, and that was that.
What surprised Luo Shuangyue even more was that after being attracted by her demonic energy, the ring became as well-behaved as a child who had found their way home. It stopped running around and causing trouble.
This gave Luo Shuangyue a somewhat bold idea.
‘Could I use this method to fix all that black qi in place and stop them from continuing to turn into monsters?’
Thinking of this, Luo Shuangyue felt there was no point in sitting around overthinking. It was better to go outside and try it. Even if she failed, it would only waste a bit of demonic energy.
Practice brought true knowledge. She wasn’t some scientific genius with a 250 IQ; for things like this, a direct, hands-on approach was much more efficient.
Theories could be refined later. For now, she only needed a method and a result.
“I’m going out to verify my idea. Xia Mo, guard the entrance.”
Leaving the Starlight Tunnel again after thirty minutes, Luo Shuangyue summoned her demonic energy and began a silent massacre of the nearby Path Creatures.
Every time the pitch-black currents approached a monster, the creature’s body would instantly collapse, turning into black mist that clung to Luo Shuangyue’s demonic energy.
It was as if her demonic energy possessed an incredibly strong attraction, compelling the black qi that formed the monsters’ bodies to abandon its original shape and follow her wholeheartedly.
Soon, the wisp of demonic energy that was originally only as thick as an arm became incredibly massive. Its size grew taller than an ordinary skyscraper, carrying a significant sense of oppression.
Luo Shuangyue also felt that controlling this mass of demonic energy was much more taxing than at the beginning. The attached black qi increased the volume of the demonic energy she wielded, which made it much harder to manipulate.
First of all, the mass became very heavy. Luo Shuangyue did not have control over the attached black qi; her magic power could only carry the black qi along, not command it.
There was a huge difference there. As the amount of black qi flocking to her increased, the strength required to control it grew exponentially.
Even Luo Shuangyue found it quite exhausting, so she chose to simply abandon the overstuffed wisp of demonic energy.
Along the way, she wanted to see how the black qi would handle her demonic energy once it lost her control.
As the demonic energy stalled, the indescribable black giant fell from the sky, smashing a modest crater into the grey wasteland.
The black currents on the surface of the giant mass writhed restlessly, constantly shifting shapes. It was truly a sight that challenged the limits of human sanity.
At the very least, Luo Shuangyue was a bit disgusted.
But disgust aside, she noticed that the black qi attached to her demonic energy had indeed become more docile. It didn’t turn back into the shape of a monster, but instead stayed obediently in place along with the dormant wisp of energy.
This black qi came from many different Path Creatures. Once they gathered, the consciousness formed from their fusion was incredibly chaotic, making it impossible for them to reach a unified opinion.
Well, that wasn’t entirely true. Although these consciousnesses were chaotic, there was still a single commonality within the madness: they wanted to break through White Night’s Defensive Line and rush into that rift.
Feeling the constant waves of consciousness, Luo Shuangyue knew these obsessions were likely the masterpiece of the other world’s consciousness. Just like evil intent, it was the method used to drive the Nightmare Creatures to attack the other world.
From the moment they were created, these things were weapons meant to invade the other world. The world consciousness didn’t even bother giving them true intelligence; that was a treatment only the strong deserved.
Weak consciousnesses like theirs only needed the obsession to destroy everything.
Consciousnesses capable of wielding powerful strength weren’t exactly common goods. Even for a world consciousness in charge of a realm, they had to be nurtured slowly.
This was also the reason why Emperor-class monsters were relatively rare. These Nightmare Creatures required a powerful consciousness as a support, and those powerful consciousnesses could only come from the powerhouses within their own world.
But no matter how foolish a world consciousness might be, it wouldn’t be so stupid as to kill the powerhouses of its own world just to process their consciousnesses into weapons to stab at another world. What she did was recycle waste, collecting the consciousnesses of powerhouses who had already died in the world and turning them into weapons.
While it was essentially the same thing, it sounded a bit more normal.
‘But even those powerhouses will gradually lose themselves in continuous deaths,’ Luo Shuangyue complained in a whisper, looking at the giant monster in the distance that had been hacked to pieces by her mother.
That giant monster naturally wasn’t the consciousness of a single powerhouse. If a powerhouse of that strength had truly died in that world, the Holy Sovereign certainly wouldn’t have lacked an impression of it and wouldn’t have failed to mention a single word.
Furthermore, Luo Shuangyue could feel the mixed aura on that monster. It was also a stitched-together monster, a stitched Path Creature whose consciousness was fragmented and then fused with other fragmented consciousnesses.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t know how many deaths and failures the predecessor of this monster had experienced to become like this. However, considering how long her mother had been guarding this place, the monster had probably died a significant number of times.
Don’t think that White Night had only been stationed here during the years she was missing. In fact, from the moment White Night learned about this place, she had been suppressing this area.
It was just that she used to suppress it with her avatars. As the monsters gradually increased and began to fuse and strengthen, her avatars could no longer handle the situation, forcing White Night to suppress the area with her own transformation.
After all these years, the predecessors of that monster had probably died over 1,000 times.
Luo Shuangyue couldn’t get an accurate answer, but the answer wasn’t very important.
She only needed to know that this stitched monster was very strong, so much so that even her mother had to exert some effort to defeat it.
‘Could I use this method to make that guy behave as well?’ Luo Shuangyue thought to herself.
That giant monster was the existence that influenced the situation the most. As long as it was temporarily dealt with, her mother could hold out for longer, giving the Magic Department a better chance to find a way to solve the crisis.
Luo Shuangyue felt this idea had some feasibility, but the implications were too great. She still needed to discuss it with her mother before deciding.
What she had to do now was simple: wipe out the nearby monsters before her mother finished off the giant one to make up for her previous mistake of accidentally protecting those monsters.
The number of remaining Path Creatures wasn’t too large. They barely reacted to Luo Shuangyue’s attacks; they only obediently covered themselves over Luo Shuangyue’s demonic energy.
She wasn’t sure which would be more troublesome: this obedience or desperate resistance.
After expending three wisps of demonic energy and condensing three massive black qi aggregates on the ground, Luo Shuangyue had cleaned up the stragglers completely. At the same time, the battle on her mother’s side was drawing to a close.
The massive Path Creature was completely torn apart, turning into that giant cloud of black mist Luo Shuangyue had seen before. Once it reached this stage, White Night had no more ways to deal with it.
She could only wait for the monster to slowly reform and then engage in another grueling battle.
However, unlike before, she could finally obtain mental power from right within her reach after this battle ended.
“Yue! You’re back so soon?” The white-clad maiden descended from the sky, grabbing Luo Shuangyue just as she was about to say something, making *huff huff* sounds.
Being held by her mother like this, Luo Shuangyue felt her body go stiff. And that strange breathing sound—Mom, please mind your image!
You are currently the Watcher of the World, the number one magical girl in the world, and a mentor among mentors. Acting like this will make your image collapse completely.
Xia Mo, who was peeking out from the Starlight Tunnel, had a very strange expression. It was an awkward mix of wanting to do something but feeling that doing so wouldn’t be right.
First of all, since White Night was a magical girl, her physical age looked very young. She looked even younger than Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo.
With White Night hanging onto Luo Shuangyue like this, Xia Mo felt a strange sensation, as if her girl were being stolen right in front of her.
But White Night was not only the mentor she admired, but in a sense, she was also her elder. She couldn’t very well be jealous of her girlfriend’s mother, could she?
Completely unsure of how to handle the situation, Xia Mo could only watch blankly as White Night took a deep inhale while hugging Luo Shuangyue. Only after she was satisfied did she let go to talk about serious business.
“They sent you to find me? It seems they haven’t made much progress over the years… Letting Monice take the lead? Well, it seems they’ve made some progress after all.” After hearing Luo Shuangyue explain the purpose of her visit, White Night nodded and gave her evaluation.
In reality, the Magic Department hadn’t done much yet. They had only prepared the people to face a crisis, sent Luo Shuangyue to get more information from White Night, and put Monice, the right person, in charge of the research.
These were all things they should be doing. Did they really expect White Night to praise them for doing a good job?
“I’ve already given them all the information I can. After all, I’m just a relatively powerful magical girl. I’m good at fighting, but I really don’t understand much about other things.” White Night stabbed her sword into the ground and spread her hands, indicating she couldn’t help more.