novelraw Chapter 34
Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Borrowing Your Account for Some Fun
In the second before the ritual was activated, Lina was still immersed in shock.
My soul… no, to put it another way, my account ID is still Lavinia?
But my panel is still ‘Lina’… what exactly happened to me…?
However, before she could think further, the scenery before her eyes immediately changed. Red, blue, green… her consciousness seemed to fall into a chaotic vat of dye, dazzling colors filling every corner of the world—this was the ‘daze’ during consciousness exchange.
Lina steadied her mind and controlled her consciousness to drill into ‘the deepest part of the dye vat’.
Not long after, she felt as if she saw a ‘door’, and without hesitation, she rushed into it.
The chaotic colors rapidly faded. Accompanied by a ringing in her ears and a slight sense of dizziness, Lina opened her eyes again.
A mourning bird flew past the charred branches outside the window, leaving behind a string of hoarse, eerie cries. Harsh sunlight pierced through the cracks in the roof into the room, scattering across the dust-covered wooden floor.
And in front of Lina, a massive hole over two meters in diameter, piercing straight through the entire house and still emitting sparks, was letting in gusts of wind.
What the hell is going on?
Lina lowered her head to look at ‘her’ hands. The pale, slender fingers still carried a trace of warmth. She turned again and found the mirror that had sent Euphemia here, and in it, she saw her current appearance—
Golden hair, crimson eyes, a petite and adorable vampire girl.
And she was even wearing Yunque’s Daoist robe.
Looks like the consciousness swap really succeeded… this big hole was made by that little girl… oh, that three- to four-hundred-year-old underage girl?
What exactly did she go through?
Might as well ask her directly…
After the exchange of consciousness, the two parties of the contract simultaneously established a certain kind of two-way mental link, allowing for simple communication.
Put simply, it was like in-team voice chat after forming a party.
“Hey, hey, Euphemia, can you hear me?” Lina called out in her mind.
“Whoa, what the heck, Seriel, why did you tie this so tight… wait, why did I get taller? Huh, my voice changed too? Did I evolve or something… what? I turned into Lina? Where did she go? Don’t tell me… wuwuwu, Lina, I’ll remember you, ah, my best partner…”
The noisy chatter coming from the other end gave Lina a headache. Fortunately, Lina’s voice was also successfully transmitted over.
“Huh? Who’s talking? Why does it sound like my voice? Y-you-you, who are you?!”
“I’m Lina. We’ve swapped bodies.”
“Oh.”
Euphemia went silent.
“…I thought you’d make a bigger fuss,” Lina sighed. “What did you just go through over there? This big hole… was it your doing?”
“Oh, after I got dragged in by the mirror, I saw a pitch-black shadow wandering around in front of me, with a bunch of keys hanging at its waist.”
“Then you were pretty lucky,” Lina let out a slight breath of relief. “That was an ‘anomaly’ generated by the mirror world. As long as you got the keys on it, you could leave… where did it go?”
“…” After a second of silence, the voice on the other end sounded a bit embarrassed. “I blasted it away with a Blood Magic Cannon…”
Lina jumped up in anger on the spot: “You idiot, the only way out is gone just like that! This is a D-rank anomaly! That guard is a friendly unit! Otherwise, this thing’s danger level would shoot straight up to B-rank or higher!”
“So… what happens next?” Euphemia seemed to realize she had caused trouble, her voice sounding a bit guilty as she added softly, “I was really scared at the time… I mean, it was so big…”
Lina didn’t respond immediately. A heavy set of footsteps came from beneath the house.
The sound of footsteps drew closer and closer, and Lina’s expression grew increasingly grave.
“So tell me, if you beat up a prison guard… what happens?”
“…Oh my?”
"Bang!"
The door on the other end was violently smashed open. A shadowy humanoid creature over two meters tall, its features indistinct and wielding a massive hammer, charged fiercely toward Lina!
Lina instinctively leapt upward!
“Whoosh!” In almost an instant, her body shot out through the hole above her head, her feet landing steadily on the rooftop.
The base physical abilities of Euphemia’s body were even stronger than she had imagined.
However, what lay before her made her scalp tingle.
In the courtyard, inside the house—everything was already packed to the brim with monsters formed from black shadows.
The D-rank anomaly ‘Mirror World’ had mutated into the B-rank anomaly ‘Mirror Nightmare’.
There was only one way for Lina to get out—wait until the anomaly’s power was completely exhausted.
If it dissipated naturally, it would take at least three to five days. But fortunately, killing these ‘guards’ could accelerate the depletion of its remaining power.
“Come on, you bunch of trash!”
Lina tensed every muscle in her body and leapt down!
“Boom!”
The impact of her landing sent a shockwave that knocked over a circle of shadow guards. Seizing the opportunity, Lina dashed forward and swept through the air!
“Bang!”
A guard’s head exploded on impact, ink-black liquid splattering everywhere. Its body collapsed limply and dissipated into black smoke.
More guards reacted, raising various weapons formed from condensed shadows and charging toward Lina.
“Perfect… let me try out a vampire’s way of fighting!” The blonde girl curled her lips into a smile, her crimson eyes gleaming with bloodthirsty light.
Blood flowed down along her arms, gathering in her palms into a pair of dark red twin swords radiating danger. At the same time, a pair of black bat wings unfurled from her waist with a “whoosh,” stirring up a gust of wind.
Lina wielded her twin swords like a streaking blood-red meteor, plunging straight into the impenetrable mass of monsters.
In her hands, the blades became a ruthless meat grinder, shredding the endless stream of monsters into scattered black smoke.
A storm of crimson danced within the black sea. Scarlet afterimages mixed with flying dust and severed limbs, forming a grotesque yet strangely beautiful scene.
With each monster she killed, Lina felt a surge of power flow from the blades into her body—this was one of the vampire race’s innate talents, ‘Bloodsucking’.
This was not bloodsucking in the traditional sense, but a powerful ability that converted inflicted damage directly into her own strength. As Lina reveled in this sensation of ‘growing stronger with every battle’, she also began plotting how to obtain this ability for herself.
However, ‘Bloodsucking’ was not without its drawbacks. Lina felt her mind entering an extremely excited state, as if some force was constantly urging her to kill… to kill more…
“Yes, that’s it… kill to your heart’s content… slaughter them all…”
Gradually, Lina felt as if those pitch-black monsters had gained flesh and blood. What splattered was no longer shadow, but gore and organs…
She tasted the flavor of blood…
She wanted more…
Ah… how delicious…
“Swish!”
Lina suddenly soared into the air. The two straight swords in her hands melted back into blood, then reformed into a terrifying giant scythe.
She spun the scythe one-handed, the whistling sound of it cutting through the air mixed with the sweet, metallic scent of blood entering her nose.
“Hehehe… I’ve taken so many beatings in this second life. Now that I finally ‘borrowed’ an account, I’ve got to enjoy it properly!” Lina laughed darkly as she suddenly hurled the blood-red scythe!
As if it possessed a will of its own, the scythe spun and sliced through the horde of monsters, cutting them down like wheat.
“Display simplified panel,” Lina muttered inwardly.
Line after line of text appeared in her mind.
Username: Euphemia Elizabeth Lilith (Lavinia Astra)
Magic Level: LV59
Magic Attributes: Blood, Spirit
Magic: Blood Manipulation, Mental Interference, Mental Pierce, Bloodsucking (Passive), Blood Magic Cannon, Transformation, Bloodstained Feast (Unavailable), Imaginary Manifestation (Unavailable)
Overall Combat Power Rating: 8987 (A-)
Damn it, two skills that clearly look powerful can’t be used… can’t be helped, it’s only a shallow contract—anything involving the soul can’t be used…
Wait, even though magic involving Euphemia’s soul can’t be used…
Right now, the soul inside this body is ‘Lavinia’!
A bold idea suddenly surfaced in Lina’s mind!
She raised her right hand. Blood flowed before her, sketching out layer upon layer of magic circles. Yet within that crimson, faint starlight flickered.
The guards seemed to notice the anomaly here. They suddenly began devouring each other. Gradually, a massive entity—far more threatening than the previous guards—took shape.
The spinning scythe was slowed down by the swarm of monsters. Just as it was about to cut into that enormous mass of shadow, it was suddenly blocked by an invisible barrier.
“Clang!”
The scythe was deflected by the barrier. The massive shadow rapidly collapsed and condensed, eventually forming a black silhouette identical to Euphemia.
It raised its hand as well. Black mist gathered at its fingertips, and circles of dark magic formations appeared one after another, mirroring Lina’s.
“Oh? Interesting…” Lina narrowed her eyes. “Want to trade blasts with me?”
The shadow didn’t answer—
It struck first. A black beam of destructive light erupted from the center of its formation, surging toward Lina with unprecedented violent magic power.
At the same time, the magic circle at Lina’s fingertips shone brilliantly. Crimson light entwined with specks of starlight surged forward, colliding head-on with the black beam!
The black beam collapsed and dissipated the instant it made contact. The crimson light engulfed the ‘shadow version’ of Euphemia.
Yet the light did not stop there. The starlight mixed within the crimson glow suddenly brightened. Dragging long trails behind them, they rose one after another into the sky.
The sky quickly darkened. The sun lost its brilliance, and the only light remaining between heaven and earth was those ascending stars.
At the same time, fine cracking sounds echoed from all directions. The remaining shadow monsters collapsed one by one, and the scenery at the edges of the world blurred—the Mirror World was about to dissipate.
When the starlight reached a certain height, it suddenly stopped. Lina looked up thoughtfully.
“So that’s the ‘boundary’…”
She waved her hand lightly, and the entire sky began to descend slowly.
The unstable boundary ceased collapsing. Points of starlight shimmered, spreading invisible power to every corner of the night. The order of the entire world was gradually being taken over by the ‘starry sky’.
Where Lavinia walked, the starry sky would not forget.
Even just this name was enough to pry open the power of the stars.
Lina slowly closed her eyes. Her perception spread and grew through every corner of space. The entire Mirror World was melting into the starry sky, gradually becoming a part of her.
Suddenly, her perception touched something extremely strange. That object seemed to instinctively ‘resist’ her assimilation.
Oh? Interesting…
Lina did not continue to ‘dissolve’ that object. Instead, with curiosity, she retrieved it from within the house that had already been mostly swallowed by the starry sky.
However, the moment she saw that thing, confusion instantly filled her mind.