‘The fragmented black qi Path Creatures have mostly been cleared out. Is that most troublesome fellow the only one left?’
After receiving the news from the other side, Luo Shuangyue felt that the situation had become somewhat tricky.
After constantly devouring Vast Power over the past few days, she felt her own strength had become very, very great, far stronger than she had been before.
However, without a concrete point of reference, she had no way of knowing exactly how strong she was now or whether she could defeat that great monster.
“That Path Creature is invincible within that space. We can only try to defeat it here,” the purple-clad girl said as she flew to Luo Xiangyue’s side, relaying the latest news.
Xia Mo’s current mission was to act as a messenger, running back and forth between the two sides to deliver information.
After all, her current status was a bit awkward; a crippled Full Bloom Class was simply too useless in a situation that demanded so much Magic Power and endurance.
Her greatest use had been sending Ye Lin to the Ring Device, allowing the Spirit Weapon to cooperate with the Senior’s commands to suppress the black qi.
After Ye Lin was sent away, there was very little left for her to do.
Running errands as a messenger was the work most suited for her.
“Bring that monster over here?” Luo Shuangyue hesitated upon hearing Xia Mo’s words.
That great monster was different from the black qi here, which had little power to fight back.
Even in its black qi state, it had led her Dad and Mother to conclude it was invincible.
If it descended into this world and absorbed Demonic Energy to become a true Demon, wouldn’t it be even harder to deal with? Luo Shuangyue didn’t think she could swallow all the Demonic Energy the monster would summon in one go.
“Yes, this is the only way the Mentors could think of after their discussion,” Xia Mo nodded.
When fighting in the monster’s home territory, it was invincible.
Its recovery and endurance were too terrifying; it could grind White Night and the Holy Sovereign to death in a war of attrition.
When fighting a boss, the most terrifying thing was never high health or high attack, but a locked health bar that wouldn’t budge.
To damage this boss’s health bar, they had to lure it into this world, stripping it of the infinite health it possessed at the World Junction.
“Furthermore… the Holy Sovereign and Senior White Night are already struggling to hold the monster back,” Xia Mo continued to explain.
This was the reason the Magical Girls were forced to resort to this plan.
Their two top combatants were nearing their limits.
Now, they could only change the battlefield to allow the two top combatants to recover their fighting strength.
As for how strong the monster would be after descending into this world, that wouldn’t stop them from making this decision.
They couldn’t truly let White Night throw his life away, could they? Even if a life had to be lost, it should be lost here, where actual damage could be dealt to the monster.
“I’ll let Phantom Scythe stay behind to handle the Demonic Energy drawn in by the remaining monsters. Even if a little bit leaks through, the Mentors should be able to handle it.” Since the situation had reached this point, Luo Shuangyue no longer hesitated.
Leaving the task on this side to that little glutton, Phantom Scythe, she intended to focus all her energy on the Path Creature that was about to descend into this world.
“When will that Path Creature come over? Where will it appear?”
“I’m not sure. It might come through the Spatial Channel, or it might directly break through space to descend. Its current power is enough to tear through space on its own, so we can’t predict its movements,” Xia Mo shook her head. All the Magical Girls could do was tighten their monitoring so they could capture the Path Creature’s movements at the first possible moment.
This was a last resort.
The monster breaking through the obstruction was an inevitable reality.
Even if White Night and the Holy Sovereign risked their lives to stop it, they would only delay its arrival for a short while.
It was better to save their side’s two strongest fighters first and fight the monster again on their own home turf.
Previously, they had to prevent the Path Creature from descending because the fragmented black qi hadn’t been cleaned up yet; the Magical Girls wouldn’t have been able to handle both fronts at once.
Now, the first front of the two-front war had basically been won.
By concentrating their efforts on the other side, their chances of victory were not low, and the Magical Girls were naturally willing to take this gamble.
Blocking another attack from the monster, the Holy Sovereign withdrew her dimmed Silver Light Butterfly Wings behind her back and shouted to White Night, who was still intent on continuing the fight.
“We’re preparing to retreat.”
The Butterfly avatar she had left by the Space Fragment had already transmitted the Magic Department’s decision to lure this monster into the other side to finish it off.
“Retreat? But…”
“We can deal with it better on the other side. Little Yue is there now. Even if we can’t defeat this fellow, we can stall until we recover our strength.” The Holy Sovereign didn’t waste any words, grabbing White Night’s wrist and pulling him away from the battlefield.
The Path Creature did not pursue them.
In its eyes, there was no need to exterminate these two little bugs that had been blocking it.
It only needed to drive them away so they wouldn’t interfere with its descent into the other world.
It didn’t think about returning to its original location to invade the other world through that Spatial Channel, because it realized it didn’t need to be that complicated.
It could rely entirely on its own strength to tear through space and descend anywhere it wished.
Countless black threads extended from its body as the monster sensed the rhythm of space, searching for the most suitable coordinates for descent.
Without a doubt, the most perfect location for descent was the planet with the densest aura of life.
However, it discovered that the space around that planet was extremely firm and the coordinates were unstable, as if the information had been erased by a pair of invisible hands.
Unable to descend directly to the Surface, it could only settle for the next best thing: descending as close to the ground as possible.
While choosing a landing site, it also discovered a place where a large number of high-energy individuals were gathered.
Its companions were constantly disappearing there. Without almost any hesitation, it selected its landing spot.
That was the place! It would kill all those people and rescue its companions!
‘Wow, is this guy really that bold?’
Just a moment ago, Luo Shuangyue had been guessing where the Path Creature would descend.
Very quickly, the Path Creature provided its answer. It chose to confront the Magical Girls head-on and descend right here!
In the depths of the starry sky visible to the naked eye, the flat space cracked inch by inch.
Black qi tentacles probed out from the fractured space, bringing a terrifying psychological pressure.
These tentacles writhed constantly, shattering the surrounding space.
Endless Vast Power emerged from the void like a tide, surging toward that broken space.
As Luo Shuangyue expected, the amount of Demonic Energy this time exceeded the upper limit of what she could absorb.
She could only stop about half of it at most.
The remaining half was enough for this Path Creature to complete its evolution from a Path Creature to a Demon.
‘No wonder Mother couldn’t stop it. With this kind of strength plus the trait of immortality, who could possibly finish it off in that place?’
Luo Shuangyue felt it out slightly.
The strength of this Path Creature wasn’t actually stronger than White Night; it was even slightly inferior to him.
However, when fighting on its home turf, it suffered no consumption at all, so White Night naturally couldn’t defeat it.
Once it left its home turf and descended into this world, it would receive some enhancements from the Demonic Energy.
Although it lost that shameless immortality trait, its strength would increase significantly.
If it were only White Night alone, this Path Creature would indeed be a target he couldn’t handle.
But the current situation was not White Night fighting a lonely battle.
While he had temporarily lost his fighting strength, there was someone else who could take his place and continue to block this monster’s advance.
Crash!
The space that had been trampled for so long finally shattered completely.
Concentrated black aura poured out from the broken space, quickly rushing out of the Spatial Rift and arriving in this world destined to be destroyed by it.
Endless Demonic Energy surged toward the monster.
Although nearly half was swallowed by the other Demon present, the other half still landed upon it.
The black qi gradually solidified and shrank, transforming into the form of Original Magic Power that Luo Shuangyue was familiar with.
Wrapped in Demonic Energy, the monster would have considerable resistance to any attack with such a layer of skin.
The only weakness was perhaps the Magic Power of a Magical Girl? However, in the face of absolute mass, that Magic Power was nothing more than something that could be ignored.
After obtaining a brand-new body, the Demon felt its mind clear up significantly.
Those chaotic emotions had been completely unified.
Now, only one goal remained in its eyes, and that was to destroy—
Before the thought could fully form in its mind, a pair of massive scythe-like claws fell from above its head, piercing deeply into its not-yet-fully-formed skull.
The Demon finally realized that the path ahead was not smooth.
There was another opponent waiting for it here.
This opponent was different from the two it had encountered before.
She shared the same source as itself, yet it could clearly feel a deep killing intent toward her in its heart.
Eliminating this fellow kind was a task just as important as destroying this world.
The body composed of black qi reacted immediately.
It did not choose to pull out the scythe claws from its body. Instead, it cold-bloodedly chose to trade injury for injury.
Its body had transformed into the form it had recently discovered was most suitable for combat.
The countless writhing limbs and heads on its body challenged the limits of human sanity at every moment. But to Luo Shuangyue, who had seen the world, this was nothing.
Her own Phantom Scythe used to look like this in the past.
Wasn’t this guy just a larger version of Phantom Scythe? Even its form of composition was quite similar to Phantom Scythe’s.
They were both stitched-together Path Creatures; one was just stitched more than the other.
Luo Shuangyue suspected that the idea of creating Phantom Scythe hadn’t been thought up by the Thorn Demon Emperor herself, but was a little secret tip given to her by the World Consciousness of the other world.
But familiarity aside, Luo Shuangyue had to admit that when there was an overwhelming advantage in strength, this form of existence did have its disgusting aspects.
It had almost no weaknesses and an extremely rich variety of attack methods.
Combined with the Demon’s inherent trait of not fearing death, this Demon had completely become a weapon of destruction.
After Luo Shuangyue’s successful sneak attack, the Demon immediately launched its counterattack. Its claws tore through Luo Shuangyue’s skin, sinking deep into her body.
Luo Shuangyue was not in her familiar human form. In order to not fall behind in the clash with this monster, and because maintaining a human form after absorbing too much Demonic Energy required too much power, she was actually about the same size as the Demon right now.
However, compared to the hideous-looking Demon, she wasn’t so ugly after becoming a giant.
From a distance, she looked like a giant with a pair of massive wings on her back. The difference from a human was that she didn’t just have one pair of hands, and her hands weren’t in the shape of hands but were sharp, scythe-like blades.
Well, in a certain sense, she was also quite beautiful.
The battle between the two powerful Demons did not have the world-shaking commotion one might imagine.
Since the start of the fight, the distance between them had never increased.
Luo Shuangyue pierced her claws into the Demon’s body, and the Demon made the same choice.
Their claws were coated with their own Demonic Energy; once they entered the opponent’s body, they could cause immense damage.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t like this primitive, mad style of trading injuries at all, but after her opening attack, the opponent had responded this way, so she could only continue.
Otherwise, this round of engagement would end with her suffering a small loss.
“What a primitive and crazy battle…” After glancing at the fight between Luo Shuangyue and the Demon from afar, Cecilia, who had just been rotated out after using up all her Magic Power, couldn’t help but mutter.
There was no beauty in the fight, only extreme violence and madness.
The two monsters didn’t care about the wounds on their bodies at all, thinking only about how to land more stabs on the other.
This was completely different from the battles she had understood in the past, and even different from the battles between Demons she had seen before.
“Mentor, here is your recovery potion,” Xia Mo flew to Cecilia’s side and handed her a tube of medicine.
Taking the potion from Xia Mo, Cecilia drank it all in one gulp and then clicked her tongue. “It’s still so foul-tasting. Can’t Monice adjust the flavor to be a bit more normal?”
Xia Mo didn’t respond. She knew this Mentor was just casually complaining.
Everyone was under heavy pressure right now, and wanting to vent a little wasn’t a bad thing.
“Rosemary, do you think Dark Moth can win?” Sure enough, after her daily jab at Monice, Cecilia asked for Xia Mo’s opinion on the battle.
Could she win?
Xia Mo didn’t hesitate for a single moment and nodded very firmly.
“I believe in her!”
“Why?”
“There is no why.”
Belief required no reason.
Xia Mo believed that Luo Shuangyue wouldn’t lose.
She believed in her Mentors behind her who were united in purpose.
With everyone here, they certainly wouldn’t lose.
“Ha, reminds me of when I was younger. Once this battle is over, I’m definitely going to retire and enjoy my life,” the Vice Minister said, uttering words that weren’t exactly auspicious.
“Mentor, please don’t say things like that…” Xia Mo quickly tried to stop her.
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