Chapter 191: Assembling Forces

Solid beams of Magic Power shot out from the ringed segments, compressing and purifying the black qi at the center of the circles.

Luo Shuangyue, who had just finished absorbing the Demonic Energy attracted by this black qi, returned to the periphery. She quietly watched this purification process, which was notably not led by a Magical Girl.

The speed was not slow, but it was still much slower than if a Full Bloom-Class Magical Girl were to take action personally. However, the suppression of the black qi was quite good; the dark mist was completely pinned to the center, unable to escape at all.

From the perspective of battlefield support, the effectiveness of this device could be considered quite excellent. At the very least, it was not a meaningless waste of resources; it was truly useful and could even utilize Transhuman resources that were originally unusable.

Under the continuous flushing of the Vast Power, the black qi lost its original ferocity. Their color lightened, revealing a relatively clean light gray.

Luo Shuangyue flew over to the purified black qi, reaching out to pull a bit of the light gray mist to taste it.

The flavor was okay—better than the Demonic Energy—but compared to the Magic Power of Magical Girls, the taste was still quite inferior.

‘Maybe there are some unpurifiable impurities left inside?’

The Mentor also flew to Luo Xiangyue’s side, looking troubled by the mass of light gray Nightmare Power.

“I feel like… it is not the type that is easy to absorb.” In her expectations, the purified black qi should have been pure white, not the light gray it currently presented.

Gray represented uncleanness, indicating that bad things remained within this mass of Nightmare Power. If Magical Girls or Transhumans consumed such Magic Power, they would likely get a stomachache.

Only someone like Luo Xiangyue, with her extraordinary consumption ability, would dare to shove this thing directly into her mouth to chew.

“Maybe the quality of the Vast Power is not high enough? Or perhaps the flushing time was not long enough?” Luo Shuangyue voiced her thoughts.

At that moment, the Mentor reached out and used her own authentic Vast Power to purify the mass of Magic Power that had not been thoroughly cleaned. After a short while, the Magic Power finally took on a clean color.

Now it could be absorbed by the Mentor, but the cost seemed somewhat enormous.

Even the Mentor shook her head helplessly and handed the mass of Magic Power to Luo Xiangyue. “The loss outweighs the gain. To waste so much time only to get a similar result… it would be better to use that time to purify other black qi.”

The time and Vast Power consumed to completely purify this single mass of Demonic Energy were enough for her to purify another mass to that light gray state.

In the light gray state, the black qi no longer had the ability to cause harm. Its toxicity had been eliminated, even though the taste was still off and would cause slight conflicts with the Magic Power of Magical Girls.

However, there was no problem with Luo Shuangyue absorbing this Vast Power.

“We need to purify the maximum amount of black qi in the shortest possible time,” the Mentor analyzed calmly. “We cannot waste time on completely purifying them. The best way is for you to perform the final harmless processing.”

Letting Luo Shuangyue eat the semi-purified black qi was a solution that satisfied everyone.

In any case, Luo Xiangyue would not get a stomachache from eating these things, and it happened to advance her other plan. Why not?

Naturally, Luo Shuangyue agreed with both hands. Although the texture of the gray mist was not that great, at least she would not get diarrhea.

That was enough.

Her physical mediation plan required her to increase her strength as much as possible. This gray mist was a precious resource; being able to swallow it all in one gulp was definitely a good thing.

“Mhm, the preparations on my side are basically complete. Next, it will depend on the progress in other areas.” After reaching an agreement with Luo Shuangyue, the Mentor’s mood visibly improved.

The tasks she had to do were actually not many; it was simply a matter of slightly modifying the defense devices originally used to protect the Mother Star, so that others on the planet could contribute their own strength to this Great Crisis.

As for the other departments of the Magic Ministry, they were truly busy right now.

“By the way, Little Butterfly, has the exit location of that Spatial Rift been determined yet? I need to transport these things to the exit.” The Mentor pointed to the ring devices that had already entered their standby state.

“It is mostly determined, but I am not sure if we can fixedly anchor the exit of the spatial channel at that exact spot…”

Between the Mother Star and the moon, a small minaret flowing with Starlight had appeared at some unknown time. It was fixed by chains of Magic Power extending from the void, serving as a landmark for the exit.

This was a creation of Yi’s Starlight Magic Power. With this lighthouse present, Yi could cross vast distances to accurately fix the exit of the Spatial Rift to this location.

Theoretically, that was how it worked.

But in actual operation, the uncertainty was actually quite large. For example, when Luo Xiangyue previously sensed a part of her body to open a spatial channel to find her mother, the exit had ended up slightly shifted.

Although such a shift was almost negligible relative to the distance between the two points, an error was still an error, was it not?

Now, the Magical Girls were facing the same problem. No one knew where the exit would shift to, which caused many pre-war preparations to get stuck at the beginning stages.

The testing of the ring devices was complete, but their deployment location remained unknown.

The same was true for other preparations. After testing them several times, they could only stop and wait for the opening of the spatial channel to be completed.

The space-type Magical Girls at the World Junction also knew they had become the core of the entire plan. They were working very hard to complete their mission, but this kind of thing truly could not be rushed.

The most difficult work was what they were doing right now. Do not talk like they were just slacking off!

“Which idiot created this Spatial Rift in the first place? Fixing this thing takes more effort than us tearing a new one ourselves!” A space-type Magical Girl, whose Vast Power and Mental Power were nearly exhausted, complained right in front of Luo Shuangyue.

They had estimated the difficulty of the repair work to be high, but the final difficulty had far exceeded their imagination.

Even for Yi, using her Starlight Nightmare Power to stabilize that channel was a bit taxing. One had to know that this was currently the Magic Power with the best stabilizing effect on space among all Magical Girls.

Without Yi, relying solely on these few Full Bloom-Class Magical Girls, it would have been impossible to stabilize this channel.

“Haha… maybe their original intent was just to create a rift with an uncertain exit.” Luo Shuangyue gave a few awkward laughs. Her original thought of asking exactly when the exit would be ready was now hidden in her heart, she dared not say it.

‘I feel like if I ask, I might be dragged into a black room by these mentors and given a sound thrashing…’

“Does the Mentor need Vast Power replenishment? I can help you prepare some Magic Power that is easy to absorb.”

“No need. I still have to recover my Mental Power. By the time my Mental Power is mostly recovered, my Vast Power will basically be full too.” The Mentor shook her head. Simple replenishment of Magic Power was not enough.

Luo Shuangyue had no way to help with the recovery of Mental Power.

“Dark Moth, White Night seems to be looking for you. You should hurry over.”

A somewhat familiar voice came from behind Luo Xiangyue. She turned her head and saw a familiar Mentor.

The Soul Summoner Princess had arrived behind her, speaking with a smile.

This Mentor possessed the ability to quickly recover a Magical Girl’s Mental Power; she was here to serve as a battery.

Although they were old acquaintances, Luo Shuangyue did not say much to the Soul Summoner Princess and hurriedly ran toward the other side.

Now was not a time when they could afford to waste time.

Running to where her mother was, the first thing Luo Xiangyue saw was a mountain of Sealing Cards piled on the ground. Most of these cards radiated her mother’s aura and were likely her mother’s handiwork.

The creator of the Sealing Card method was White Night. Even if Luo Shuangxing had made some improvements based on her Sealing Cards, White Night could still very quickly master the manufacturing method of the new version with her abilities.

And once she had mastered the method, Luo Shuangxing had been kicked over to the Spatial Rift as a supervisor.

After all, she alone was enough here. It was more meaningful for Luo Shuangxing to go there and keep watch, making sure those space-type Magical Girls did not faint from overwork and suffer Costume Dissolution.

“How long will it take you to process these cards once you take them back?” Pointing at the cards on the ground, White Night questioned Luo Shuangyue.

Luo Shuangyue picked up a card to sense the amount of black qi inside. She calculated quickly in her mind and held up three fingers. “It will take about two days.”

“Two days, huh…” White Night looked up at the black qi monster, of which she had carved away a small portion, and felt this speed was acceptable.

As long as this largest threat was eliminated by breaking it down into smaller pieces, she could hold out here for a longer time, and more time would bring more changes.

Perhaps one day, they could completely purify all the monsters on this land.

“Then go do it quickly. Time waits for no one.”

“Mhm. But Mom, have you considered that doing this might make these monsters cornered dogs jumping over the wall?”

“I have. But we have no other choice, do we?” White Night certainly did not think these monsters would just sit still and watch her cause trouble like fools.

When she first started cutting the black qi Path Creatures, she was already prepared for these monsters to suddenly activate and bite her. However, it seemed that what she was doing had not yet touched the monsters’ nerves.

Or rather, she had not been noticed by the World Consciousness of the other world.

But this state could not be expected to last forever. White Night felt that by the time the plan was about halfway through, the World Consciousness of that world would realize what they were trying to do.

By then, these monsters would not let her do as she pleased like they were now. Instead, they would fight back desperately to stop her plan.

“I will do my best to control the scale of the unrest. Their resurrection takes time. As long as they are kept in a state of resurrection, there will not be any major problems.”

White Night spoke terrifying words with a calm tone.

Her meaning was equivalent to saying she would slaughter all the rioting monsters and keep them in a perpetual state of death.

In this world, she was probably the only one who could make such a grand and bold declaration without blinking.

“Mom, you do not have to take everything on your own shoulders. Xia Mo has already gone with Taya to find Dad. Once Dad comes over, your pressure should be much smaller.”

“Her… whether she is willing to come is still hard to say.” White Night’s lips curled; her mood seemed somewhat poor.

She did not know what kind of attitude she should use to face the Holy Sovereign. That Dark Moth who had stayed with her for so many years was the other’s avatar consciousness, while the other’s true Transformation had never even met her.

Should she treat her like a stranger she was meeting for the first time? Or should she treat her as the Dark Moth she was familiar with? White Night was somewhat hesitant. Her usually quirky personality actually became apprehensive regarding this matter.

“She will definitely come. Even if Dad does not want to come for you, Mom, Shuangxing and I are here. She can hardly refuse to recognize both of us, right?”

Before Luo Shuangyue finished speaking, White Night lightly tapped her on the head.

White Night was a bit dissatisfied with that statement.

“She did not help much when I gave birth to you two.” White Night, who looked like she was the same age as Luo Shuangyue, reminded her with a stern face.

If the Luo sisters had come out of the Holy Sovereign’s belly, then what Luo Shuangyue said might have been fine. But the one who gave birth was White Night; the Holy Sovereign had merely provided some conceptual guidance.

In other words, the Holy Sovereign was just a cheerleader. Maybe she would just turn her back and refuse to recognize them?

“Do not worry, Mom. You have not seen Dad, but I have. I believe she will definitely not ignore us. Furthermore, this matter concerns the survival of both our worlds. How could she stand by and do nothing?”

Although they had only spent a few days together, Luo Xiangyue knew very well what kind of person her Dad was.

Personal feelings might not take up a high percentage of her heart, but when things involved the survival of the world, she certainly would not be able to sit still.

Maybe she would be back with Xia Mo in a short while.

“Calculating the time, Xia Mo should have already met with Dad, right?”

***

“I did not expect the situation to have worsened to this extent…” After reading the information Xia Mo had handed over, the Holy Sovereign, who had only been relaxed for a few days, showed a troubled expression again.

She had finally resolved the world-ending crisis on her own side with great difficulty, only to be told now that the world-ending crisis in another world was imminent. If it was not handled well and caused a chain reaction, the world she had just protected would also be finished. Who could withstand this?

“Let me hand over the matters I am currently handling.”

Troubled as she was, the Holy Sovereign did not hesitate on how to respond to this crisis.

Whether it was out of gratitude or protecting the world, it was necessary for her to meet with her ‘partner.’ The other party had helped her solve such a huge trouble; now that the other party was requesting aid, how could she ignore it?

Sigh, if only there were a way to solve all the problems once and for all, how wonderful that would be.