Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

Chapter 166: Corrupted Shion

"Yiyi!"

When Keke finally woke from her slumber and rushed out of her room, she saw the captain clearing away the Disaster Beasts around them.

Silver Lotus, who was over there, finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Keke awake. "You're finally awake. We've drilled the response to the white fog with the Disaster Control Bureau so many times, and you still got caught."

Keke, who immediately transformed, gave an embarrassed smile. "I, I was asleep at the time."

"You should have drawn in mana the moment you sensed something was wrong. The white fog's first reaction is so obvious, what kind of training did you even do..."

"I know, I know. It's just... I just had such a nice dream that I didn't react in time..."

After all, she had dreamed that Teacher Shion apologized to her, saying she wouldn't take her brother to dangerous places anymore, that she would move in to live with them, become her brother's perfect wife, and make her rice snow honey cakes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner...

But of course, she didn't dare tell Li Yi about that kind of dream.

While blasting away a Disaster Beast with one shot, Keke stole a glance at Li Yi.

Even though her relationship with Teacher Shion had improved, she still didn't plan to support her brother being with Shion.She was going to continue supporting Yiyi.

After all, the risk of losing her brother was still there. Keke couldn't just stand by and do nothing. No matter how good Teacher Shion was, she couldn't let Jiang Si be in danger...

"Wow, why are there so many Disaster Beasts? Are other places okay, Captain?"

"No problems. Everyone at the Disaster Control Bureau was awake, except for you, dummy."

"No need to be so harsh..."

"But the Magical Girl Hunter who released the Disaster Beasts is still out there. Be careful. Her target seems to be you."

Keke frowned. "Why is it me again?"

Last time during the white fog, the captain's target was her. This time with the white fog, the target is her again.

Could it be related to the captain?

"Who knows? Maybe you really are just that special."

Silver Lotus looked at her friend, hesitating slightly. "Keke."

Keke, who had just crushed two Disaster Beasts with a single finger, turned her head to look at her. "What is it, Captain?"

"Do you know what Shion's true form is?"

"True form?" Keke was stunned. "What true form?"

"...What a Magical Girl looks like when she's not transformed!" Silver Lotus was speechless. "You're so close to her, you haven't seen it?"

Somewhat flustered, Keke stomped on a Disaster Beast, watching as more and more of the Disaster Beast horde converged on their location. "Uh, Teacher Shion is always in her transformed state whenever she comes. I never got her to undo her transformation."

"But..."

Red flames gathered again, forming five fingers, but not exactly five fingers.

The modified Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Palm, composed of five fingers, slammed down, instantly flattening a large group of Disaster Beasts in front of her. "Actually, I have seen it. Yiyi has seen it too."

"Huh?" This time it was Silver Lotus's turn to be stunned. "Have we?"

"Captain, are you lucid?" Keke was exasperated. Why was Yiyi becoming more and more scatterbrained after regaining her transformation?

"Before the last white fog, when my brother and Shion were on a date, didn't we all see? The gym operation. Come to think of it, there was also that time when we brought An Shiyu to find my brother."

"Weren't those both in transformed states?" Silver Lotus thought back. "Even though she was in casual clothes, a Magical Girl can change her Magical Outfit however she wants."

"But she wasn't that short."

Any more would be impolite...

"But that might just be an illusion, Keke." As a veteran Magical Girl, Silver Lotus immediately spotted the flaw in Shion's impression. "The seniors said that if you don't figure out a Magical Girl's situation clearly, you'll get kicked by a horse."

"So it's possible Teacher Shion isn't human."

"...That makes sense."

Silver Lotus didn't know how to respond to that for a moment.

Your most respected teacher is actually a Disaster Beast?

After all, Silver Lotus didn't know that someone could transform into a Disaster Beast. Within the Disaster Control Bureau, all transformations into Disaster Beasts were considered irreversible.

It was basically equivalent to becoming a monster.

But that monster had transformed into Shion...

If Shion and the Magical Girl Killer hadn't fought their way outside the city district, and if the Disaster Beast horde hadn't suddenly surged over, Silver Lotus would probably still be lost in shock and confusion.

She had never heard of a Disaster Beast being able to transform into a Magical Girl.

But there's a legend that the Magical Girl Killer is actually a transformed Disaster Beast. But the Magical Girl Killer should be on the other side, right? Or was it a mistake? Maybe Shion is actually the legendary Magical Girl Killer...

Anyway, it's a complete mess. She's about to faint.

"Why are these Disaster Beasts endless!"

"No idea."

"Damn it! Even if they're not strong, there are just too many!"

Keke took a deep breath. Polluted Magic, her own Pure Mana, and Teacher Shion's purple mana.

When gathered together, they continuously fused, reacted, forming a beautiful, magnificent lotus...

Then it dissipated.

Gritting her teeth, Keke gathered the three types of mana again.

Although Silver Lotus didn't know what she was doing, she knew her friend was probably concocting some destructive ultimate move again.

Her ability had evolved now. All Disaster Beasts would become her Pure Mana. The more she fought, the stronger she became, and she wouldn't even get exhausted.

But the problem was she didn't have any super-large-scale destructive moves.

Having just regained her Magical Girl powers, she hadn't had time to practice any Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Fingers yet. For now, she could only engage in a tug-of-war with the Disaster Beast tide.

And when Keke's tri-colored lotus successfully coalesced, Silver Lotus knew it was over.

The terrifying power made her heart skip a beat. "Will the surrounding buildings be okay?"

Keke was also stunned for a moment. "No idea..."

"...If only Senior Iris were here."

With a Mental Landscape, you could blow things up freely.

Then Beihai wouldn't be all broken and patched up with construction work.

Holding the Buddha's Fury Lotus, Keke was momentarily unsure whether to throw it or not. If she threw this, this entire street would probably be gone.

Even though the neighbors had been relocated at some unknown time, the surrounding Disaster Beasts weren't giving her time to think.

Just as hundreds of Disaster Beasts pounced together, and Keke gritted her teeth, deciding to blow them up first and think later...

Suddenly, all the Disaster Beasts began to melt.

Even Silver Lotus was startled. Although her ability could extract Polluted Magic, she couldn't make Disaster Beasts melt directly like this.

Not just the Disaster Beasts in front of them. On the streets, in every corner of the city, all the Disaster Beasts, even the negative emotions on ordinary people, were forcibly converted into Polluted Magic!

Beihai was enveloped in pitch-black Polluted Magic!

Even Silver Lotus and Keke felt intense negative emotions surging in their hearts: pain, sorrow, anxiety, anger...

The Disaster Beast tide that had given the two of them a headache moments ago now completely turned to dust and rose into the sky.

Thick Polluted Magic gathered like storm clouds, a dark, oppressive mass floating above Beihai, once again blotting out the stars and moon. Just looking up at it gave a sense of terrifying pressure.

And that maddening negative emotion.

Immediately after, the clouds covering the sky began to flow.

They surged towards the northern suburbs of the city. Above the northern part of the city, they condensed into a massive vortex. The vortex spun, descending towards the ground, connecting heaven and earth!

That mana tornado connecting heaven and earth, like a funnel, continuously poured downwards, as if being absorbed by something!

Silver Lotus and Keke exchanged a look, both seeing shock and unease in each other's eyes.

This couldn't be an S-class Disaster Beast, could it?

Rumored to be the final form of Disaster Beasts that only Full Bloom rank could handle, each one possessing world-destroying power—perhaps that's a bit exaggerated, but it's definitely not something an ordinary Magical Girl could deal with!

Before Silver Lotus could suggest going to check, she suddenly spotted the Magical Girl Hunter Helen trying to sneak away from the corner.

"Magical Girl Hunter!"

Helen shuddered and immediately raised her hands. "It's not related to me!"

She had prepared so many Disaster Beasts, practically going all-in on this wave with everything she could borrow, plus Mirror Kingdom technology. She originally wanted to surround Silver Lotus and take Keke away in the chaos.

But who knew some strange thing would suddenly appear over there, instantly converting all the Disaster Beasts into Polluted Magic!

She felt like crying but had no tears!

Silver Lotus trapped her with cherry blossoms, angrily shouting, "What kind of trick are you pulling again!"

"How would I know? I really don't know! I'm just a small pawn, a vanguard for the Magical Girl Killer. Isn't that where the Magical Girl Killer and Shion are? Maybe... maybe the Magical Girl Killer did something to Shion? Shouldn't you go check? Shion might get killed, you know."

"Teacher Shion... No, Shion won't be taken down that easily." Keke immediately corrected herself. "Stop trying to scare us!"

Helen quickly said, "The Magical Girl Killer has never failed before. I'm not lying to you. Go see for yourselves."

Silver Lotus snorted coldly. "I know you're trying to trap us."

Even as she said that, looking back at Keke's hesitant expression, Silver Lotus knew they couldn't just ignore it. "Keke, let's be careful. We'll take a look from far away. If there's any danger, we return to the Disaster Control Bureau immediately and contact the Azure Cloud Sect."

"Okay."

Keke hugged her fire lotus—she had finally managed to coalesce it successfully once and was reluctant to disperse it. Although she wasn't worried about Teacher Shion, she was also very curious about the Magical Girl Killer.

Silver Lotus dragged the now powerless Helen and flew towards the spectacle with Keke.

The originally dense, impenetrable Polluted Magic in the sky had now mostly disappeared, the backflow speed getting faster and faster!

As they got closer, both Silver Lotus and Keke felt it hard to breathe.

Even the lotus in Keke's hand quickly extinguished!

The sheer volume of mana just leaking out made the two feel as if they had been struck hard, almost causing them to lose their transformations!

Silver Lotus suddenly realized the Magical Girl Hunter had slipped away at some point. She felt a moment of annoyance and wanted to go look, but the mana storm ahead was too powerful, preventing her from moving. She could only give up for now.

Shielding her face from the mana storm ahead, Keke, finding it hard to breathe, tightly gripped Silver Lotus's hand. Then she suddenly sensed a trace of coldness.

She instinctively glanced to the side. On a tall building not far away, an ice-blue Magical Girl was still holding an umbrella. Next to her was a Magical Girl in a white hood, crouching down, holding a small rabbit in her arms.

They were watching from afar.

Noticing Keke looking over, the ice-blue Magical Girl smiled and nodded, as if greeting her.

Dandelion also shyly waved with just the tip of her hand peeking out.

Of course. With such a huge commotion, how could the Azure Cloud Sect not react?

Winter, and Dandelion.

With these two powerful Magical Girls here, for some reason, Keke felt a bit more at ease—probably because she knew that if any danger arose, they wouldn't just stand by and watch.

So, taking Silver Lotus, she moved forward a bit more, finally able to see where the Polluted Magic was pouring into.

All the surrounding buildings, trees, even the road surface had been completely flattened. In the massive, empty crater, terrifying Polluted Magic was still continuously pouring in and condensing.

"Susan!"

Silver Lotus, with her sharp eyes, immediately spotted a girl lying unconscious on the ground nearby. It was Susan, whom the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau had sent to pick up Jincha and Camellia. Standing beside her was Jincha, who had crouched down.

Although she hadn't fainted, Jincha's condition was clearly not good either. This usually elegant senior was panting heavily, looking utterly disheveled.

And there was another girl standing firm in the Polluted Magic storm, shielding the already unconscious Qingluán behind her. Now, she opened her eyes.

Those star-like, brilliant pupils held not a single trace of corruption.

Even though her figure was slender, standing there she was like an immovable mountain, giving a sense of solid, unshakable security.

Aside from that, the only transformed Magical Girl in the area was ash-white.

She was currently standing opposite the heaven-and-earth-pouring Polluted Magic, continuously releasing pale mana in the form of various weapons from her hands. However, she couldn't harm the Polluted Magic storm in the slightest.

Silver Lotus immediately landed beside Jincha, picked up Susan, and reached out to support Jincha.

Keke also hurried over to help. Jincha looked at the two and smiled weakly, as if wanting to say something.

But chaotic negative emotions surged in her pupils, and she soon fainted. Keke had no choice but to pick her up.

"Be careful, that's the Magical Girl Killer!"

Silver Lotus immediately warned Keke, then looked puzzled. "Shion... where did Shion go?"

Keke, holding Miss Jincha, kept her gaze fixed intently on the center of the Polluted Magic.

Until the last strand of Polluted Magic from the funnel-like descent in the sky poured in.

The storm that had been about to blow everyone away finally stopped.

Boom!

Immediately after, a terrifying mana shockwave spread out! Both Silver Lotus and Keke staggered, almost unable to stay standing.

They saw the white-clad girl ahead open her eyes, form her fingers into a sword, and gently draw a line in front of her.

The fierce wind made her white dress flap wildly.

A faint flash of mana, a sword energy sharpened to its extreme, split the wave-like mana shockwave in two.

It parted from her sides, scattering towards both directions.

Silver Lotus and Keke were both dumbfounded.

How could someone do this without even transforming...

But soon, an even more shocking scene appeared before their eyes.

At the center of all the phenomena, the endpoint of all the Polluted Magic, as the dense corrupted magic power dispersed, a petite and pretty girl appeared there.

Without a doubt, it was Shion.

Judging by her appearance, even the style of her Magical Outfit, it was definitely Shion. However, the original purple had all turned ink-black!

Black hair, with trailing ends that seemed to burn. The beautiful purple bow had now turned black. Her pupils had become golden.

That purple-gold long dress had also turned black-gold. The dress style had changed slightly too;

the hemline burned like her hair.

The fluttering ribbons were so black they seemed to blend into the night.

When the moonlight fell upon her, it gave that originally dignified, cute face a somewhat cold, fierce aura.

Her entire body exuded a disturbing, sinister strangeness. Just looking at her made waves of irritability and fear rise in one's heart.

The girl stretched out her hand, clenched it, then slightly curled the corner of her mouth.

A faint smile appeared, instantly making people feel frantic. "So this is it. This is the power of a Complete Witch."

Keke's mouth moved slightly, her mind in complete chaos.

She turned... into a witch. Teacher Shion...

Silver Lotus was somewhat better off. Having personally witnessed Shion transform from the Calamity Dragon, it actually made sense to her.

It's just that this power was truly... too unsettling...

It felt like it could go out of control at any moment, a restless, terrifying power!

In the quiet, Witch Shion slightly raised her head. Her fair, small chin lifted like that of a proud swan. "It really is a power that would drive ordinary people mad. But, this is precisely the path I seek."

"Disintegration Moment."

The ash-white Magical Girl's feet once again unfolded a clock beneath them.

The moment the hands overlapped.

Silver Lotus's transformation instantly dissolved. The girl was stunned for a moment, then turned to look. Keke's transformation hadn't been canceled.

Keke also looked utterly bewildered, not knowing what had happened. Bai Mei ahead looked somewhat surprised and glanced back.

Her eyes held a bit more appreciation.

Witch Shion also tilted her head to look over. Her golden pupils showed little surprise, instead holding a hint of understanding.

The next second, the ash-white Magical Girl charged at Shion again!

Keke immediately wanted to shout a warning, but before she could speak.

Witch Shion, without even turning her head, reached back and grabbed the other's head. Her small hand gripped the lower half of the Magical Girl's face. However, the Magical Girl Killer showed no fear. Ash-white mana instantly enveloped Witch Shion.

Even Polluted Magic would be bleached into residue!

But the ash-white mana soaked Witch Shion's Magical Outfit, utterly unable to change the dense Polluted Magic in the slightest!

"The same trick, used once, is about enough."

Squeezing the other's cheek slightly harder, the restless Polluted Magic on her body surged, instead dyeing the ash-white mana on the Magical Girl Killer pitch black!

"Dyeing things." The golden pupils were full of arrogance and disdain. Witch Shion tilted her head slightly, looking down at the ash-white Magical Girl. "That's a game for children."

The emotionless, mindless ash-white Magical Girl soon had her entire Magical Outfit turn black. Even her ash-white pupils were dyed black.

Only residue remained. The Magical Girl Killer, who should have had no emotions, after being dyed black...

Actually showed fear and pain in her eyes!

She even struggled frantically!

It was as if a machine had suddenly gained feelings!

"You... did... what..."

A dry, hoarse voice full of panic and unease.

But Witch Shion's beautiful, sinister face only showed a cruel and dangerous smile. "I have no interest in tormenting a sandbag. It's only fun if it can... scream a little. Don't you think?"

Nails that still retained a hint of purple pressed against the left eye of the now pitch-black Magical Girl. Amidst the Magical Girl Killer's struggles, her fingertip dug into the eye socket and grasped her eyeball.

"Just now... were you looking at me with this eye?"

She ripped the eyeball out with a sickening squelch!

A piercing, agonized scream tore through the silent air. Both Silver Lotus and Keke trembled in fright.

The empty eye socket continuously oozed ash-white mana, like blood. Then more Polluted Magic poured into it, making the Magical Girl Killer's voice grow weaker and weaker.

Holding the eyeball, Witch Shion examined it, brought it to her mouth, and stuck out her tongue to lick it. Seeming to taste something, she slowly put it into her mouth and ate it.

Overflowing ash-white fluid trickled from the corner of her mouth, which she then licked away. She then showed a satisfied expression. "So... that's how it is."

She stomped on the Magical Girl Killer's head, crushing it. Perhaps she grew just a tiny bit taller—or maybe it was an illusion. Witch Shion turned her head, looking at the distant Keke and Silver Lotus, then smiled and beckoned. "Come here, Keke."

Keke trembled, plopping down onto the ground.