For such a major event, Luo Shuangyue naturally couldn’t make preparations based solely on a surge of hot-bloodedness and just charge in.
Before getting down to business, she had to become somewhat familiar with the operational process of expelling Evil Intent to see what problems she might encounter during the task.
Fortunately, she had two experimental subjects on hand that she could use to progress step-by-step: Xiaozi with Wang-Class strength, and Anxing with Emperor Rank strength.
She could practice on Xiaozi first, and after becoming proficient, experiment on Anxing, before finally dealing with that Super Boss.
“But there’s still one more problem. If I go to help, will the other people in the Sanctuary let me?” Luo Shuangyue rested her chin on her Hand, a flash of helplessness in her eyes.
Yes, even if she wanted to help, she had to see if the people here were willing to let her.
If the other party didn’t trust her and thought she just wanted to kick them while they were down, Luo Shuangyue alone wouldn’t be able to defeat so many Sanctuary powerhouses.
In the end, she was still just a newly ascended Royal-Class Magic Beast and didn’t possess such overwhelming strength.
Unless… she used Mother’s Sword to cleave through everyone blocking her path?
Glancing at the Long Sword thrown over by Mother, Luo Xiangyue instantly dismissed the idea. The power of this sword should be used entirely to kill the separated Evil Intent, not for infighting.
If infighting led to insufficient energy later and an inability to kill the Evil Intent, things would become disastrous.
Therefore, before the final battle, this sword absolutely could not be used.
“I’ll try to convince them. In a moment of Great Crisis, I don’t think they’ll flatly refuse our request,” Xia Mo pondered.
They weren’t going to negotiate terms with the Sanctuary; they were going to selflessly help the Sanctuary and the Holy Sovereign overcome the current Great Crisis. If the people of the Sanctuary had any brains at all, they wouldn’t directly reject the help of the two of them.
“Will there be a problem with your body?”
“I’ll always have enough strength to say a few words.” Xia Mo’s eyes drifted to Taya on the side. “I’ll have Taya carry me as she flies over.”
After the Dragon Girl reverted to her original form, she was a quite excellent means of transportation. Xia Mo believed that at this critical juncture, Taya wouldn’t mind the extra Magic Power consumption from returning to her original form.
“Then, I’ll leave it to you.”
The strength of one person is small. Luo Shuangyue knew very well that it would be difficult to push everything toward a happy ending by herself.
She needed the help of her Friend and relatives.
She needed Xia Mo’s help.
And she was a very lucky person, because she truly could receive help from where she sought it.
After dawn the next day, Xia Mo, who had recovered some strength after a night’s rest, climbed onto the back of the Silver Dragon and waved her Hand twice toward Luo Shuangyue.
“I’m off! Wait for my good news!”
After saying that, without waiting for Luo Shuangyue to reply, she had Taya take flight and head toward the direction of the Sanctuary.
She could guess Luo Shuangyue’s answer with her toes, so she didn’t want to waste any time.
Watching Xia Mo disappear into the distance, Luo Shuangyue turned her head back somewhat helplessly; she should have at least let her say “safe travels.”
Forget it, it wasn’t a big deal. She should first think about how to deal with Xiaozi.
“Is this much preparation necessary?” Zheng held several strands of black silk in her Hand, while Xiaozi had already been bound by these threads and the Black Thorn summoned by Luo Shuangyue, the strength in her body having been basically drained dry.
“It’s very necessary. Only this way can we better target the Original Magic Power.”
Xiaozi’s body was somewhat illusory. Her current state could be called her worst ever. Almost all the Magic Power in her body had been drained by Luo Shuangyue, leaving only the most important Original Magic Power untouched.
Normally, a Demon’s Original Magic Power should wander throughout the body without a fixed shape, but in this state, the Original Magic Power would contract, revealing its Transformation.
And this was precisely the best opportunity to act upon the Original Magic Power.
“Don’t worry, it’ll be over soon.” Luo Shuangyue signaled for Zheng to leave first, then loosened the restraints on Xiaozi.
This Demonic Energy might also become an accomplice to the Evil Intent later, so it couldn’t be left here.
After all preparations were complete, Luo Shuangyue extended her Hand, piercing directly into Xiaozi’s chest and grasping that mass of Xiaozi’s Original Magic Power.
The girl’s pure black eyes lost focus in an instant. Her body went limp and collapsed on Dadi, her entire form becoming unstable.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t care about this. Her Hand that had entered Xiaozi’s chest had transformed into countless tiny tentacles, dissecting that mass of chaotic Magic Power bit by bit, separating those wisps of aura carrying pure malice from the Magic Power.
During this process, Luo Shuangyue realized the uniqueness of her own Demonic Energy.
Her Demonic Energy was like a sponge with extremely strong water absorption. As soon as the Evil Intent came into contact with her Magic Power, it would be immediately attracted and merge with it.
Furthermore, this Magic Power tainted by Evil Intent would still follow Luo Shuangyue’s orders to a certain extent.
Thus, very quickly, several wisps of black-red gas were separated from Xiaozi’s body, condensing into a black-red butterfly the size of a heart in front of Luo Shuangyue.
This was the Evil Intent in Xiaozi’s heart.
Compared to the Evil Intent of a Royal-Class Magic Beast, and compared to the Evil Intent Luo Shuangyue had faced before, this Evil Intent could indeed be said to be pitifully small.
It seemed that Demons were not only distinguished by rank in strength, but their innate Evil Intent also had rank distinctions.
Weak Demons carried little Evil Intent, while powerful Demons carried much more.
However, this wasn’t hard to understand. Weak Demons were more easily influenced by Evil Intent; it didn’t take much to drive them into a frenzy.
In contrast, powerful Demons required a much larger amount of Evil Intent to shake their minds.
All of this was for that final goal: to destroy The World.
As for why they wanted to destroy The World, Luo Shuangyue didn’t know the answer for now, as even that plan didn’t mention anything regarding this aspect.
White Light shone from Luo Shuangyue’s palm. Magic Power imitated from her Sister slowly flowed in, swallowing that black-red butterfly which realized something was wrong but was already too late to escape.
Accompanied by a very faint sound like a bubble bursting, this wisp of Evil Intent was easily eliminated by Luo Shuangyue.
“As long as it doesn’t come into contact with other Demonic Energy, it’s very, very fragile. It has almost no ability to resist before the Magic Power of a Magical Girl.” Looking at the vanished Evil Intent, Luo Shuangyue reached a conclusion that put her in a good mood.
The reason Manzhu was so difficult to deal with after turning into a Demon was mainly because Manzhu herself was difficult to handle, not the Evil Intent inside her.
Evil Intent was like the driver of a steel giant; it was fragile itself, and only when it had something to control would it display its terrifying destructive power.
Naturally, after leaving the things it could control, it would become extremely fragile.
Although this fragility was only relative to a Magical Girl’s Magic Power; for other existences, this Evil Intent remained a considerably difficult thing to resolve.
“Success. I wonder what changes Xiaozi will have after she wakes up.” Withdrawing her Hand from the chest, Luo Shuangyue sent a bit more Magic Power into Xiaozi’s body, waking her from her slumber.
The girl slowly opened her eyes. Her black pupils swept over Luo Shuangyue in front of her, and then she unhesitatingly reached out to grab Luo Shuangyue’s wrist, biting down hard.
“Meanie!”
Her Original Magic Power no longer contained Luo Shuangyue’s Magic Power, so Luo Shuangyue’s control over her had naturally been released.
And the effect of Luo Shuangyue’s surgery this time was clearly excellent. Xiaozi even retained her memories of this period; she still remembered how she had been bullied by Luo Shuangyue these past few days.
The Magic Power she painstakingly absorbed every day would be drained by this bad woman at a fixed time, and she only ate the leftovers that Luo Shuangyue and Zheng didn’t want. Was this any way for a person to live!
Even though Xiaozi was only a month old, she relied on her common sense, which far exceeded those of her age, to judge that she had definitely been mistreated.
So she bit down.
“Hey, I was helping you. Helping you, do you understand?” Luo Shuangyue, whose wrist was being bitten tightly, laughed twice. She could say she was quite satisfied with this result.
Xiaozi’s reaction was very normal. The emotions she vented were reasonable; a person should possess these emotions.
She did these things not because of that innate Evil Desire of Destruction, but because she was truly unhappy.
“Meanie!”
“Fine, fine, I’m a meanie. Can you let go of me first? Doesn’t your mouth feel sore?”
“Meanie!”
“Do you know what you’re saying? The Holy Sovereign became like this because of those monsters, yet now you want a monster to save the Holy Sovereign?”
The Sanctuary, once regarded as a pure land, was now deserted. All residents had evacuated outside the Sanctuary.
And the Six-eyed Crow, as the Close Guard of the Holy Sovereign, was the temporary leader of these refugees.
The one Taya led Xia Mo to find was this very person. The lives in the Sanctuary didn’t have much of a hierarchy; if you wanted to find someone, you could just find them without complex procedures, which was a good thing.
And after hearing Xia Mo’s purpose for coming, the Six-eyed Crow displayed the resistance Xia Mo had expected.
“Demons and monsters are different. Even if you don’t believe what I say, please come back with me to speak with my Friend face-to-face, okay?” Xia Mo didn’t come here with the plan to directly convince these Sanctuary residents; she just wanted everyone to sit down and communicate properly.
She didn’t want them to fight to the death as soon as they met, as that would drive away potential allies.
“My Friend has always been working hard to protect The World. Previously, she was the one who risked danger to guide the Holy Sovereign’s attack, and she was also the one who killed that terrible monster along with me. If you don’t believe it, you can ask those who were just fighting alongside me.”
Xia Mo raised her Hand and pointed four times at the surrounding Sanctuary residents who were watching. They were exactly the four Sanctuary powerhouses who had besieged Manzhu not long ago.
Thus, everyone’s gaze fell upon them.
The minds of the lives in this world were mostly simple, and at this moment of life and death, they didn’t dare lie. Soon, they recounted everything they had experienced.
No one knew who had guided the Holy Sovereign’s attack; the Flower Sprite and Meteora only knew it wasn’t them.
And as for that shot that killed Manzhu, there was no doubt it came from the hands of Xia Mo and Luo Shuangyue.
“Besides, my Friend and I only arrived in your world a month ago. We have nothing to do with those monsters you’re familiar with.” Xia Mo continued to throw out heavyweight arguments.
Proving this sentence was Taya. The little Dragon Girl stutteringly recounted her experience of how she met these two strange Maidens in the Deadland, how she brought them to this world, and finally how she returned to the Sanctuary.
Finally, she very seriously gave her own opinion. “I think Xia Mo is a good person, and her Friend is also a good person.”
Taya hadn’t spent a long time with Luo Shuangyue, but she had spent a full month with Xia Mo and knew very well what kind of person Xia Mo was.
She was willing to believe in Xia Mo, and on that basis, she was also willing to give Luo Shuangyue enough trust.
“But…” Facing so much evidence, the Six-eyed Crow also hesitated. it turned its head to look at that large Cocoon hanging in mid-air, mottled with black-red and silver-white. “That is, after all, the Holy Sovereign…”
“It’s precisely because it concerns the Holy Sovereign that you can’t reject me so arbitrarily. Could it be that you have a way to resolve the current situation?”
Xia Mo’s single sentence plunged everyone into silence.
The damage from this sentence was too high; it was true damage that ignored armor and magic resistance because the Natives here truly had no way to resolve the current situation.
They could only pray now, praying that the silver-white on that large Cocoon would overcome the black-red.
But looking at the current situation, things were not as optimistic as they thought.
“So since you don’t have a good solution, why not go see ours? I don’t need you to make a decision right now, just follow me back once.”
This time, Xia Mo did not encounter a refusal.
After the Sanctuary residents, who didn’t have many schemes, discussed noisily for a while, they decided to trust Xia Mo once. They sent a small team to follow Xia Mo back to see if her Friend was as capable as she claimed.
To prevent this from being a trap set for them, this team was packed with four powerhouses like the Flower Sprite and Meteora, plus the Six-eyed Crow who could make decisions, and a Two-Headed Dog universally recognized by the Sanctuary residents as the smartest.
To describe this lineup in one phrase: it was a menagerie of demons and monsters.
“Let’s go quickly.”
Once the decision was made, these Sanctuary residents were no longer as hesitant as before.
The thought that what they were doing now was to protect the Holy Sovereign made them incredibly excited.
Just as Taya was about to revert to her original form to let Xia Mo ride on her, the Six-eyed Crow manifested its body first.
“Come onto my back. I fly fast.” This crow, whose true form was larger than a jet airliner, made a somewhat friendly sound.
Xia Mo didn’t overthink it and jumped directly onto the crow’s back, while the other team members flew up using their own abilities.
“Set off!”
With the Six-eyed Crow’s command, the seven figures turned into Meteora and flew rapidly into the distance.