“So, where exactly is Hell?” Luo Shuangyue’s breath grew rapid—this was the first time she had received a crucial clue about her mother’s whereabouts!
“I don’t know. I only know this place exists, and that White Night is here. Beyond that, I’m completely in the dark.”
“Tch…”
“Although I don’t know, that Royal-Class Magic Beast might know something. After all, it seems to know more than I do~”
“Her mind has temporarily stabilized. Should I perform some minor manipulations?”
“Not for now. If you mess up her brain, I’ll be the one distressed.”
“Hmph? So you don’t trust me?”
“Have you ever treated non-human beings with confidence that no problems will arise?”
The next morning, Luo Shuangyue hurried to the Eternal Night Headquarters and was surprised to find Monice arguing with a very familiar girl.
Soul Summoner Princess? When did this senior arrive? Luo Shuangyue wondered.
Could it be that Monice specifically brought her here to treat Xiao Yi’s psychological issues?
Never mind all that, she decided to first tell Monice what had happened last night.
Gathering her thoughts, Luo Shuangyue quickly approached Monice and recounted every detail of the dream she had the night before.
Monice raised an eyebrow and was about to ask if Luo Shuangyue’s imagination was too vivid when Soul Summoner Princess interrupted for her.
“That explains why that girl’s mind is so disordered… because of this,” the Soul Summoner Princess punched her palm.
She had been somewhat puzzled about what had caused Xiao Yi to become like this, but now, with Luo Shuangyue’s explanation, she understood.
“Give me that pendant. The problem most likely lies here.”
When the pendant was with Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi went mentally unstable. When it came to Luo Shuangyue, she began having strange nightmares at night.
And those dreams seemed centered around Xiao Yi, meaning the nightmares targeted her. Luo Shuangyue was just an innocent bystander caught up in it all.
Luo Shuangyue took out the pendant and handed it to the Soul Summoner Princess, who glanced at it and immediately came to a conclusion.
“There is indeed a spiritual fluctuation emanating from it. It’s more than enough to affect ordinary people.”
As for how it causes nightmares… the Soul Summoner Princess’s fingertips flickered with a wisp of Soulfire, sending it into the center of the pendant.
The Soulfire easily penetrated the pendant’s transparent shell, drawn into the beautiful Xinghai spiral inside.
Then, a faint purple flame shot out from the pendant, heading off into the distance.
“Found it! It’s very close. Dark Moth, you go and capture the mastermind!”
“Eh? That’s a Royal-Class Magic Beast! Me, alone?” Luo Shuangyue was stunned, then pointed at herself with a questioning look.
“I just said, it’s Royal-Class, a terrifying one with a whole legion under its command. As a mere Initial Bloom-Class Magical Girl, I definitely won’t stand a chance against it, right?”
Her head was then tapped by Monice.
“The one here definitely isn’t its true body. If it were, this would be simple.”
A Royal-Class Magic Beast is a powerful lifeform that rarely escapes the Magic Department’s surveillance.
Phantom Thorn and Phantom Scythe, this ‘mother and daughter’ pair, managed a rare loophole, but the foreign Royal-Class Luo Shuangyue encountered had no such intention to hide.
And judging from what Luo Shuangyue said about this magic beast’s personality, there’s no doubt it wouldn’t try to conceal its identity and sneak into Xinghai City to cause trouble.
If its true body were here, it would have already launched a massive assault.
But it hasn’t. It only torments Xiao Yi from behind the scenes, even acting like it’s playing a game.
So Monice could confirm there wouldn’t be any powerful enemy at the location the pendant pointed to—at most, it’s King-class.
Sending Luo Shuangyue to handle the opponent is a very safe bet.
Monice’s explanation made sense, though Luo Shuangyue still felt a bit uneasy.
At worst, it’s King-class. If it were Royal-Class, she would just Transformation into White Night and slap the opponent to death—no loss either way.
“Alright, I’ll go check it out… By the way, are we killing or capturing it?”
“Capture it alive if you can.”
“Got it!”
Following the Soul Summoner Princess’s Soulfire guidance, Luo Shuangyue quickly found her target.
The opponent had no intention of hiding and stood casually in an abandoned factory, her right hand wrapped with a pendant almost identical to Luo Shuangyue’s.
She looked very similar to the girl Luo Shuangyue had seen in her nightmare last night, but with a bit more vitality.
The girl from the dream seemed like a corpse forcibly brought back to life—lifeless all over. But the girl Luo Shuangyue saw today looked alive.
Of course, that’s ignoring the black thin threads extending from the girl’s ears down to her spine.
“My fragment of consciousness disappeared. Was that you?” The girl raised her eyes to Luo Shuangyue, her voice cold and tinged with an eerie otherworldliness.
“Sort of. Your nightmare was pretty realistic, but it didn’t affect me.”
“Seeing such a scene, and you felt no fear? Strange indeed.” The girl turned toward the deserted factory behind her, a faint sneer in her voice.
“Ah, I see now. You surface-dwellers don’t even realize what my arrival means.”
Her tone was like a city dweller looking down on a country bumpkin from the heart.
But in a way, she wasn’t wrong. Compared to an existence that can roam the starry sky, humans trapped on this planet are indeed a bunch of bumpkins.
“You know, those ‘Elves’ once confidently thought they could easily defeat me. But I destroyed their civilization in just a few years by your reckoning, turning that civilization capable of strolling the stars into a mere page in history.”
“Their resistance was so weak that I didn’t even need to intervene personally. My armies slaughtered them easily, and even their Mother Star didn’t last a day under attack.”
“And you… huh.”
Luo Shuangyue quietly stared at the magic beast disguised in human skin, speechless.
She knew this was the magic beast boasting about its power, hoping to see her frightened—but she wasn’t scared at all.
She actually wanted it to talk more so she could get more information.
“Why do you speak our language? Does the entire starry sky speak the same language?” Luo Shuangyue asked a foolish question.
As expected, the magic beast burst into laughter.
“Ha ha ha, what an arrogant creature. I just ate a few of your kind and learned your language.”
Then it uttered a series of strange words with complex intonation. Luo Shuangyue tried to remember them, but had no idea what they meant.
“That’s the ‘Elves’ language. It means, the frog at the bottom of the well is truly pitiful.”
Damn that superiority complex! How can a magic beast be so infuriatingly smug?
If I ate two elves, I’d speak just as fluently—like anyone couldn’t eat stuff!
Annoying, but she forced herself to hold back, taking a deep breath.
She needed to keep this magic beast talking, slowly drawing out more secrets.
This method was far more effective than slapping it unconscious and performing a Memory Restoration Spell—after all, here was only a fragment of the beast’s consciousness. If it wanted to stop cooperating, it could abandon this consciousness altogether, leaving Luo Shuangyue empty-handed.
“You…” Luo Shuangyue’s face flushed, vexed yet unable to argue.
Seeing this, the magic beast laughed mockingly again.
“Ha ha ha, you beings living on a tiny planet still dare defy a mighty being belonging to the infinite starry sky. Truly, ignorance is bliss.”
“The Elves’ fleet can cross star seas, turning your planet into a sea of fire in an instant. But before me, they are as powerless as you are before them.”
The magic beast continued boasting about her strength and how she destroyed the Elves’ resistance. Luo Shuangyue’s expression grew paler and paler, more and more fearful.
This delighted the magic beast; she loved seeing these creatures’ terrified faces. To her, it was a lavish feast.
“That girl abandoned her companions, escaping alone in an escape pod as the fleeing fleet was about to be destroyed. Her closest kin were left behind on that doomed fleet.”
The magic beast stroked her face, emitting a truly vile laugh.
“I found her and granted her new life, bringing her back to life to find the family who abandoned her. Tell me, did I do right or wrong~”
Granted new life? You call that granting new life… Luo Shuangyue felt like she had a million complaints.
No, this girl is completely a puppet. You’re the one controlling her body, right?
“I don’t think those are her true feelings,” Luo Shuangyue said sternly.
“Oh? But before I granted her new life, she kept murmuring, ‘Sister, don’t go,’ and ‘Sister, save me.’ And now, I’ve brought her to find her sister~”
Damn, this one is downright vicious!
Among all the Royal-Class Magic Beasts Luo Shuangyue had met, this one was by far the cruelest.
Controlling Xiao Yi’s younger sister’s body, destroying Xiao Yi’s mind, turning her into a fool in terror.
If it weren’t for Hei Ting and Jiu Ye finding Xiao Yi in time, she would have been tortured beyond recognition by this monster.
“Is she still here?” Luo Shuangyue couldn’t help but ask.
“I am her. She’s already become a part of me~”
Well, it looked like Xiao Yi’s sister was beyond saving.
The magic beast surely wouldn’t show mercy. When occupying Xiao Yi’s sister’s body, it had already devoured that poor girl’s consciousness.
“That’s enough talk. This boring meeting should come to an end now.” The magic beast’s lips curled as the dark magic slowly oozed from her body.
An extraordinarily powerful King-class aura appeared in Luo Shuangyue’s perception—a formidable enemy.
Based on aura alone, this one was even stronger than the Super King-class she had killed before. But Luo Shuangyue felt this fight wouldn’t be much harder.
The previous King-class was tough because of its hard shell, but this opponent was humanoid, making it easier to handle.
“Oh? Then it’s time to show you cosmic bumpkins the power of a Magical Girl.” Luo Shuangyue stretched out her hand, and dark purple magic formed into a giant scythe.
Phantom Scythe leapt out of Luo Shuangyue’s body, stared at the magic beast girl for three seconds, then cheered, “Delicious!”
Whoosh!
“What?!”
The magic beast girl’s pupils constricted sharply as Luo Shuangyue suddenly appeared before her.
What was this?
Was this part of the script? Shouldn’t this bumpkin have drawn a weapon and then been easily defeated by her?
Then why was the situation like this? Why did this person dare to rush straight at her?
It wasn’t until Luo Shuangyue’s scythe pierced her abdomen that the magic beast snapped out of her shock and surprise.
Black magic thorns burst from her body, completely restraining her movements. Phantom Scythe was ready to follow up, but Luo Shuangyue hurriedly called a halt.
Capture alive—remember that!
And she was a bit baffled. How could this magic beast be so weak?
Her aura was pretty strong, yet why did she get one-shot without even dodging?
Shouldn’t their battle have been earth-shattering, with both sides fighting fiercely until one made a fatal mistake?
Why didn’t she resist at all, letting herself get instantly defeated?
This was very strange!
“Hey, aren’t you going to fight back?” Luo Shuangyue poked the magic beast girl’s face with her finger, confused.
You were so arrogant and proud earlier, but now you’re less threatening than your own subordinates?
One slash and you’re down? Are you pretending, trying to make me let my guard down?
“What are you exactly? How can you possibly have this kind of power…” The magic beast girl was stunned. She had never encountered such a situation.
When she fought Xiao Yi’s kind, her army always crushed them effortlessly. Not a single meaningful resistance appeared.
The Elves’ fleet couldn’t even make a ripple against the magic beast armies. Their strongest fleet cannons couldn’t even leave a scratch on her Close Guard legion.
And the body she was using now, although not as strong, had combat power even surpassing her personal guards.
After all, the guards were King-class magic beasts, but the magic in this body was granted by Royal-Class power.
Yet here on this small planet, she was one-shot by a seemingly ordinary girl.
In a one-on-one duel!
What was going on?
“You really are cosmic bumpkins. Don’t you know what a Magical Girl is?” Luo Shuangyue scratched her head, suddenly feeling this Royal-Class magic beast wasn’t so scary after all.
Without Magical Girls, magic beasts do suppress technology civilizations terribly—after all, everything technological fails near them, so how could they fight back?