‘These guys aren’t going to be easy to deal with…’
As she was wondering how to deal with these monsters, the pendant hanging around her neck suddenly lit up.
Then, as if it had gone mad, the pendant began dragging Luo Shuangyue toward the exit.
“Ancestor, please don’t start something now!” Luo Shuangyue tried to hold the pendant back, but she quickly discovered it was impossible.
She used all her strength to play tug-of-war with it, but in the end, she actually lost by a narrow margin.
Left with no choice, Luo Shuangyue could only let go and watch as the pendant turned into a streak of white light and flew into the distance.
It was like a child who was desperate to go home…
“Why did it fly away?” Xia Mo had naturally seen this scene.
She poked her head out from behind Luo Xiangyue and muttered in confusion.
Of course, the reason was actually quite easy to guess.
This pendant was White Night’s weapon. What other reason could there be for it to fly away in such a hurry?
It could only be going to find its Master.
“It’s probably going to find my mother. It seems we’ve come to the right place.” Luo Shuangyue leaped out of the spatial channel.
After confirming there was no danger nearby, she reached out her hand to Xia Mo, who was still inside.
“But how are we going to break through this circle of monsters to find Mom?”
Xia Mo grabbed Luo Shuangyue’s hand and jumped out of the spatial channel, ruling out the least feasible plan in the process.
“Either way, we can’t launch a frontal assault.”
The number of monsters was too great.
Even if they were truly fragile, they could crush Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo through sheer numbers alone, not to mention that there were variants among them whose combat power should be quite decent.
Those mountain-like black shadows certainly didn’t look like mere small fry or cannon fodder.
Closing the exhausted spatial channel, Luo Shuangyue looked at the ocean of black monsters and felt a slight headache coming on.
Despite the headache, she was also praising her mother in her heart.
If her guess was correct, her mother had been here all these years, suppressing this group of monsters alone. If her mother hadn’t been here holding them down, and these guys had rushed into the human world… it would undoubtedly be a terrifying disaster.
“How about we try to sneak in?”
“Maybe, but how? I don’t know any stealth magic.” Xia Mo had already completely retracted her aura, giving off the feeling of an ordinary human with absolutely no magic power.
However, in a place like this, an ordinary human was also an anomaly. Xia Mo didn’t think those monsters would remain indifferent if she just walked past like that.
“Let me think… If I’m not mistaken, these monsters should be the predecessors of Demons. Once they go to our world, they become the Demons we’re familiar with,” Luo Shuangyue said to herself.
There wasn’t much logic to this deduction, but she felt it was definitely the truth. Otherwise, what had her mother been suppressing here all this time?
‘And I’m a Demon myself now. I wonder what their attitude toward their own kin is…’
“Yeah, I think it’s worth a try!”
Then, under Xia Mo’s watchful gaze, Luo Shuangyue snapped off her right palm and forearm. The severed part churned for a moment and transformed into a chibi Luo Shuangyue, looking like a doll about thirty centimeters tall.
She threw the little doll into the distance with all her might, then sat down and closed her eyes, beginning to control the tiny doll’s movements.
After her strength had made a qualitative leap, Luo Shuangyue was already able to control a part of her body from a distance. The little doll she had just thrown out was a part of her body, so she could naturally control it to scout for information among the monster horde.
Even if this little doll was torn to pieces by the monsters, it wouldn’t have the slightest impact on her Transformation.
This was the benefit of being a Demon; it would be a waste not to use it.
As for a true Avatar… Luo Shuangyue felt a great deal of resistance in her heart.
It wasn’t just a subjective mental resistance; her body’s instincts were also resisting her doing such a thing.
Her soul had only just merged into one.
Having experienced a true split and then a reunion, every part of her, from the inside out, now resisted that feeling of being fragmented and incomplete.
Furthermore, if she really split her consciousness again, what would happen when it was time to merge later? Would she have to devour the other party like she did before?
Luo Shuangyue was equally repulsed by that kind of behavior and would rather give up using that Avatar ability.
Anyway, the current ability to remotely control a doll was enough for her. Using that Avatar ability would be nothing but asking for trouble.
A pair of butterfly wings that were somewhat disproportionate to its size grew on the little doll’s back.
With a gentle flap of those wings, it was delivered into the midst of the black monsters.
The monsters here were a bit more intelligent than the ones Luo Shuangyue had seen before; at least they showed some reaction to the little doll’s arrival.
But… it was limited to that.
After discovering a little doll flying in behind them, these black monsters merely glanced at it and then moved aside to make some room.
It was as if a group of people watching a concert had discovered a companion arriving late and shuffled their bodies to give them a spot, allowing the companion to squeeze in a little.
Truth be told, these monsters were actually quite considerate in this regard.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t intend to stop there.
She had the little doll fly a bit higher, grazing the tops of the monsters’ heads as it continued toward the depths of the monster ocean.
Her deep penetration still went unblocked. These monsters huddled together showed no intention of stopping her.
The spirit waves coming from them were extremely small—the kind that existed but were practically non-existent.
In more common terms, they were a bunch of dorks with somewhat questionable intelligence.
This was good news for Luo Shuangyue. After all, the stupider the opponent, the easier it was for her. Perhaps she wouldn’t have to do anything at all and could just easily blend in to the very center to find her mother.
Just as she was thinking this, she realized her vision had suddenly darkened.
A giant black monster cast its gaze toward the doll from the distance.
Then, Luo Shuangyue received a spirit wave with a clear meaning.
The giant monster was greeting her.
These big monsters were intelligent!
Luo Shuangyue wanted to respond at this moment, but unfortunately, this little doll didn’t have that function.
She could only act as if she hadn’t heard anything and continue toward the depths of the monster ocean.
But the big monster that had spoken to her didn’t stop talking just because Luo Shuangyue ignored it.
For the first time, Luo Shuangyue realized how annoying a chatterbox could be.
“You look so small and strange. The things on your back look a bit familiar. What were they again?”
“Did you just get here? Hey, let me tell you, there’s a very scary fellow here. I advise you not to go any further. If you go any deeper, you’ll be targeted by her.”
“Whatever, go in if you want. Anyway, even if she kills you, you can come back to life. But if you die a few more times, you might not be you anymore.”
The big monster talked a lot, and its words contained some information that Luo Shuangyue was very interested in.
For example, the “very scary fellow” probably referred to her mother, and going deeper would make it easier to encounter her.
As well as why there were so many monsters here—it was because they wouldn’t die. They would be reborn after being eliminated, with the price being that they became less like themselves.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t mind chatting with this big monster later, but she had a more important mission to attend to right now.
She had to see what the center of this monster ocean actually looked like.
So, she controlled the little doll to wave at the big monster and then flew toward the depths of the monster ocean without looking back.
“You really do understand me! Why don’t you answer? Are you… Hey, don’t run so fast!”
Ignoring the big monster’s grumbling behind her, Luo Shuangyue’s little doll shot like a rocket into the depths of the monster ocean.
The scene here was actually not much different from the outer perimeter; it was just a large group of small fry mixed with a few big monsters.
They didn’t show much reaction to the little doll’s arrival either. Presumably, the arrival of a new kin wasn’t a matter worth paying attention to.
Luo Shuangyue also discovered that the consciousness of these monsters was even more chaotic than those on the outer perimeter.
Some of their bodies were even mixed with auras that didn’t belong to them.
This was very interesting.
Thinking back to what the clear-headed chatterbox monster had said, Luo Shuangyue could roughly guess what the price these monsters paid for Resurrection was.
Each Resurrection would make one less like oneself. So why were they still staying here?
Obsessions?
With this doubt, Luo Shuangyue continued forward.
After leaving that area, what entered her vision was a very eerie, empty space.
Yes, in the deepest part of the monster ocean, there was a clearing.
Not a single monster existed here.
There was only the thick black gas permeating the air and the pure white light that remained brilliant even in the darkness.
A white-haired, gold-eyed maiden stood at the very center like a pillar holding up the sky.
Behind her was a particularly gruesome spatial rift.
This rift was enormous, large enough for all the monsters here to pass through together.
‘Is this what Mom is suppressing?’
It really was… terrifying.
Even the well-traveled Luo Shuangyue was somewhat frightened at this moment.
If these guys rushed out of here all at once, wouldn’t their world be finished instantly?
It wasn’t that Luo Shuangyue looked down on the combat power of the Full Bloom-Class mentors, but there were simply too many monsters here—so many that she had no way to count them all.
And these monsters weren’t just cannon fodder; there were also many giant monsters among them.
If these monsters went to the outside world, they would undoubtedly be existences at the Demon Emperor level.
“This number is almost the same as the number of Full Bloom-Class Magical Girls. How is it possible to win?”