It would be best to strip that power out bit by bit, with Xia Mo beside her like a game of whack-a-mole—hitting down any Evil Intent as soon as it emerged.
This was the safest and most reliable way.
“Very well.” This request was nothing for these otherworldly beings.
They were far more powerful than Xia Mo, and helping her quickly recover her strength was a simple task.
Thus, Xia Mo took out her somewhat dim purple Magic Stone and began to receive the Magic Power transmission from these magical creatures.
About an hour later, her Magic Stone became brilliant once again, and even Ye Lin woke up from her deep, injury-induced slumber.
When the little snake she had turned into poked its head out from Xia Mo’s shoulder with a head full of question marks, the Two-Headed Dog in the visiting party suddenly let out a scream.
“You? Is it you? Snake!”
This yellow dog with two heads pounced in front of Xia Mo like a flying arrow, its eyes burning as it looked at the tiny snake head on Xia Mo’s shoulder.
“Wait, who is Snake?” Xia Mo instinctively took a step back. Even shrunken, this Two-Headed Dog was taller than her.
Having it pounce in front of her like this made her feel nervous.
Amidst her nervousness, she also felt a bit of confusion.
Who was this Snake the big dog was talking about? Was it Ye Lin?
“Look, everyone, doesn’t she look like Snake?” One of the dog’s heads turned back to call its companions.
So the other strange creatures gathered around, surrounding Xia Mo to scrutinize the iridescent little snake.
“She does.”
“Exactly the same.”
“But didn’t Snake die a long time ago?”
The Sanctuary was indeed a pure land, but that didn’t mean no one died within it.
These creatures had almost all grown up with the Sanctuary.
When the Holy Sovereign was first establishing it, they were already around her, helping out.
And the “Snake” they spoke of was one of them. Snake’s strength hadn’t been as great as theirs, but her passion was not even a bit less than theirs.
It was precisely because of this passion that Snake had lost her life in an attack launched by the Demons.
Logically, once someone died, they couldn’t be brought back to life, and it was the same for these otherworldly lifeforms.
But Ye Lin indeed looked exactly like the former Snake.
Except for lacking the memories of the past, she could almost be said to be the same person.
“It’s the exact same situation as Anxing.” Luo Shuangyue also sidled over now.
After listening to these magical creatures’ muttering, she looked at the still-sleeping Anxing on the other side with a complicated gaze.
Anxing also looked exactly like someone who had died, and she also lost her past memories.
This wasn’t just similar to Ye Lin’s situation—it was identical.
“In our world, she is a monster like Anxing. But Anxing, in our world, was a guardian and a hero just like you.” Xia Mo organized her thoughts and spoke to the visitors.
She now had a rough idea of what was going on with the Demons.
Things that died in one world would appear in the other world as Demons, and their strength would basically stay at the level they had when they were alive.
For example, Morning Star, a Full Bloom-Class Magical Girl, became the Demon Emperor Anxing after she died.
Snake, whose strength was similar to a Wang-Class Demon, became the Serpent Demon King in the Human world after she died.
There were traces to follow for all of it.
“Speaking of which, are you familiar with this power?” Luo Shuangyue raised both hands, and several pitch-black thorn vines emerged from her palms.
The six visitors observed for a while and began to discuss hesitantly.
They seemed to have seen similar power, but the owner of that power wasn’t a colleague of theirs in the Sanctuary.
Instead, it was a Great Tree that had died at the beginning of the Black Calamity and the Magical Beast Disaster.
After all, plant-type lifeforms back then didn’t have the ability to run away.
When the Great Crisis arrived, there was very little they could do.
The vast majority of plant-type lifeforms died at the very beginning, and Phantom Thorn’s past life was likely among them.
As for the Emperor of Eyeballs that Luo Shuangyue had modeled with Magic Power, this one was an old acquaintance of these folks.
He was a stubborn-as-a-mule thickhead who refused to go to the Sanctuary for refuge and finally met his wish by being beaten to death by several Demon Emperors.
This individual’s way of dying across two lifetimes is somewhat similar.
“Speaking of which, if Anxing is Morning Star, then who is Manzhu? Based on her strength, she should have been a Full Bloom-Class Magical Girl before she died, right?” Since Xia Mo had not fully recovered yet, Luo Shuangyue took this idle moment to ask about Manzhu’s situation.
That woman was truly wicked; she really couldn’t imagine someone who was a Magical Girl in their past life being this evil.
Just look at Anxing. Even though she had lost all her memories and turned into a Demon, her character remained very upright.
As for Manzhu, she was just a pure, wicked woman.
“I’m not sure. Over the many years, many Full Bloom-Class Magical Girls have died in the wars, and some died during internal strife. Perhaps that Manzhu is one of them.” Xia Mo shook her head.
She had never seen Manzhu’s normal appearance, so she naturally couldn’t give an answer at this time.
The only clue was that the abilities Manzhu used were plant-based, but there were many dead plant-attribute Full Bloom-Class Magical Girls.
It was impossible to guess who Manzhu actually was.
Not every dead Magical Girl was recorded by the Magic Department, and not every Magical Girl died in battle against Demons.
The Magic Department only accommodated most Magical Girls, not all of them.
Those drifting outside the Magic Department wouldn’t necessarily do good deeds.
Manzhu might have been one of them, someone who committed an unpardonable mistake and was eventually secretly eliminated by the Magic Department.
“I see. Anyway, that person isn’t anyone good, so forget about her.”
“I didn’t really intend to worry about her. Alright, I’ve mostly recovered. Let’s get ready to start.”
Xia Mo gave Luo Shuangyue a brief look, pressed the Magic Stone in her hand against her chest, and entered her Transformation state.
However, her Weapon still hadn’t returned.
The Crow and the others had only refilled Xia Mo’s Magic Power; as for that shattered weapon, they could only let time slowly heal the scar.
“This power… sniff sniff…” The two-headed large dog leaned its heads closer, a hint of confusion flashing in its eyes.
Why did this scent feel a bit familiar?
It felt like it had smelled it somewhere before.
It had been too long; it couldn’t quite remember.
“What is it?” Xia Mo couldn’t help but step back a bit.
Both heads of the large dog shook simultaneously, indicating it just felt the scent on Xia Mo’s body was a bit familiar.
“Could she originally be one of your people too?” Luo Shuangyue, who was doing preparation work on the other side, heard the conversation and turned back to ask.
This question was quickly denied by the large dog. Xia Mo was a Human; she couldn’t be a lifeform from their side.
Transformation, a method to save Magic Power consumption, was only researched by the Holy Sovereign after the Black Calamity broke out.
Even for those like them who had transformed, their Transformation was still that of a beast-shaped monster.
The Demons they became after dying and going to the other world would naturally be beast-shaped as well.
Xia Mo didn’t have a Transformation form; she was just a normal Human.
“It’s just a little bit familiar, but I don’t know exactly why it’s familiar,” one head of the large dog said.
At this time, Luo Shuangyue also changed back into her Maiden form, which had stronger base stats.
In this form, she resembled the Holy Sovereign more than her previous energy-saving form, causing the Crow and the others to let out excited soft cries once more.
She ignored the noise and walked straight to Anxing, whom she had deliberately kept in an unconscious state.
She reached out both hands toward Anxing’s chest.
Before her fingertips even touched the girl’s skin, they turned into twisted, pitch-black Thorn vines.
This scene didn’t look the least bit alluring; it only carried a terrifying sense of dread that made one’s skin crawl.
It looked as if a monster was carving open an innocent girl’s chest, wanting to pull out her heart to feast upon it.
Zheng, standing to the side, had a strange look in her eyes.
She remembered that when Luo Shuangyue cleared the Evil Intent from Xiaozi, she had pressed her hand directly onto Xiaozi’s chest.
Why wasn’t she doing that this time?
Was it because the target was different? Or because the audience was different?
Her gaze couldn’t help but fall on Xia Mo. If there was anyone who could make Luo Shuangyue make such a change, it could only be this girl.
An inexplicable thought popped into her mind: could Luo Shuangyue’s change be because she didn’t want to be misunderstood?
Zheng averted her gaze and began to analyze the strange thought in her mind.
Had she done something like this before as well?
No one cared what the two weak, pitiful, and helpless little Demons were doing.
Everyone’s gaze was focused on Luo Shuangyue, waiting for her to make the move that would change the situation.
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