After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 275

275~

"Fei..."

Just as she was lost in thought, the Little Princess suddenly tugged at her.

"Mo?"

"Um, you're lacking magic power, right?"

"Mm, lacking a lot. I want to create a Magic Circle that can instantly turn these things into magic power."

If the Little Princess could provide her with sufficient magic power, then it wouldn't be a problem.

"You can create one?"

"I'll try."

She didn't know what would happen after being swallowed by the shadow. She just didn't want to live under its shadow anymore.

"Then let's try."

The Empress squeezed out the remaining magic power to construct a Magic Circle in her hand, using it to temporarily resist this shadow and buy the Little Princess time to create magic power.

And the Little Princess, who had never truly come into contact with magic power, didn't really understand magic power's composition. She only knew the main component was free elemental energy.

Different from general energy, elemental energy, as the name suggested, was a type of element and possessed attributes.

The five elemental attributes, plus some special attributes. Beyond this, these elements were the "materials" needed when releasing magic. Without these materials, there was no way to use magic. This was the consensus of all mages.

Free elemental energy was non-attributed elements. Only after being dyed with attributes by mages could it be used to release magic. Otherwise, the effect of the released magic would be negligible.

Only some special magic didn't require attributed elemental energy as "materials" to be released.

After briefly reviewing magic power's main composition in her mind, the Little Princess immediately began invoking her control authority over the dream to construct it out of thin air.

Very quickly, a mass of magic power without any attributes condensed in her hand.

"Too little."

This amount of magic power, forget about filling the gaps between teeth, for her it was the same as having nothing.

You had to know that a Great Archmage's magic power storage capacity and the magic power normally consumed when releasing magic could only be supplied by nuclear power plants. Regular thermal power plants would need to burn continuously for a long time to reach the amount she needed.

"Don't rush me!"

The more she was rushed, the more anxious she became. The more anxious she was, the worse she did things!

"..."

Regarding this, the Empress could only pray that the magical barrier she had just constructed with her remaining magic power could hold on.

"Ugh... done!"

Rapidly taking shape in her hand, she finally used her control authority over the dream to pinch out a "singularity" that could continuously produce large quantities of magic power. For someone who had never truly come into contact with magic power to be able to pinch out this thing based on her understanding was already quite remarkable...

Empress: "..."

This "singularity" was far from meeting her requirements. Although it could continuously produce, it was even less than the magic power produced by the Magic Power Conversion Magic Circle with its ridiculously high loss rate that she had constructed in the island nation at that time.

However, it could still be barely used. At least it was enough for her to continuously strengthen this magical barrier.

"Still not enough, Mo. I need more!"

"Okay!"

Continuing to pinch out "singularities," but she discovered that after pinching out two more, she couldn't create any more.

"Mo, let's leave first."

The shadow had already completely covered the magical barrier. Even with her continuous supply of magic power, she couldn't hold on. She had to take the Little Princess and forcibly break through.

If they were swallowed by this thing...

Holding up the Little Princess, the Empress mobilized all her magic power and cast magic at her feet. An instantly generated ice pillar sent the two of them skyward, then she dispelled the magic barrier and used Wind-attribute magic to deflect the magical barrier fragments covered with shadow.

"Mo, hold on tight."

She was going to fly outward. To avoid being caught by the shadow on the ground, she needed to speed up.

The shadow on the ground formed tentacles that continuously approached them in mid-air. It didn't allow any living thing to exist above it.

The three "singularities" the Little Princess had pinched out were still continuously providing her with magic power, so temporarily there was no worry about magic power shortage.

"Mo, try to continue creating magic power. Don't stop."

She absolutely needed large quantities of magic power.

Under these few attacks, she had roughly figured out the characteristics of this thing. It couldn't be harmed? But it could only adhere to objects to devour them. It still wasn't so abnormal that it could spread directly without any medium.

"Okay..."

Continuing to try creating magic power, she still couldn't. Seeing this, the Empress had no choice but to give up temporarily for now, comforting the Little Princess while searching for a foothold.

"Miss Mo! Miss Fei! Over here!"

Suddenly, she heard a call. Despite being at high altitude with the risk of falling at any moment, she adjusted her body to look toward the source of the voice.

"Chen Ze?"

Chen Ze was driving his beloved car, holding a megaphone and calling out to them from a distance of several hundred meters from the shadow.

He didn't know what this shadow was, but from the oncoming oppressive and despairing feeling, he knew it wasn't anything good, so he didn't dare approach.

"Go to Chen Ze's side!"

"Mm."

The Empress followed the Little Princess's suggestion and began descending toward where Chen Ze was.

"Miss Mo, Miss Fei, get in the car quickly!"

As soon as they got in, Chen Ze immediately floored the gas pedal, pulling the speed to 250 km/h and speeding away.

And the shadow behind them, as if dissatisfied that its prey was escaping, also began accelerating its expansion in this direction, but the speed was still too slow compared to the vehicle.

Ultimately, it could only give up on its prey and slow its expansion in this direction.

As long as it could swallow the entire city, it would eventually be able to eat its prey.

......

......

"Mo."

"Mm?"

The three people who had already escaped far away were slumped in the car.

"Let's prepare to return to reality. I'll prepare. Right here."

"Return to reality? How do we go back? If you had this method to return to reality, why didn't you use it from the start!?"

"The method? The method is for either you or me to die in the dream. But I only know that after dying, we can exit. I don't know the specific exit method."

"I was worried that if we tried it on the spot and it required time, we might be swallowed by that thing."

Little Princess: "..."

Either one of them dies... wasn't this the method the Empress had mentioned to her before? What kind of method was this?

"Is there no other way?"

The Little Princess continued asking.

She didn't believe the Empress only had this one method to exit the dream.

"There is. That would be to let the dream completely collapse. But perhaps before the dream completely collapses, we'll be swallowed first. But with this method, you'll also have problems. The collapsing dream will impact your spirit."

"Is this really the only way?"

"This is the only way."

"..."

The Empress's decisive tone already explained everything. There was no other way.

"Forget it, then let's do it."

The Little Princess spread her arms.

"...What are you doing? I never said you had to bear this..."