Chapter 5

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"Isis, Isis." The girls sighed.

"Osiris, Osiris!" The men roared.

"Horus! Horus!"

They chanted together.

A squelching sound rang out. But it was not the sound of birth; it was the corpse of Magical Girl Wen Lan, unable to bear the massive infusion of divine power any longer, bursting into a puddle of blood and water amidst the chanting of the crowd.

At the same time, the mummy placed before the throne spontaneously combusted. In just a few seconds, the entire body burned into ash, leaving behind only billowing smoke and rotting bones.

It seemed their summoning had not succeeded.

"Dammit, another failure!"

Professor Vanstra was clearly deeply disappointed and annoyed. In his anger, he struck the ashes hard with his curved staff.

"Failure, failure again! What exactly is going wrong?! How can I get this thing to grow back?"

The hypnotized handmaidens were not afraid of his rage and meekly offered a suggestion: "Perhaps it is because the person playing the goddess is not good enough?"

"Maybe a real wife is needed to play Isis for Osiris to be resurrected," another handmaiden suggested.

"Where would one find a young girl who is just married and also has magical talent?" Professor Vanstra gritted his teeth, unsatisfied.

"Just now at Tokyo Port, a young couple from Greece just boarded the ship," the third handmaiden said gently. "Shall we try using the wife?"

Elaine, who was hiding in the shadows watching, was now breaking out in a cold sweat.

006: I won't just throw my life away!

As an exorcist nun assigned to The Society, Elaine had been working with Qi Xing to exorcise demons for two years.

Two years couldn't be called particularly rich in combat experience, but just by playing support beside Qi Xing and seeing various great demons and monsters come and go, she was no longer an inexperienced rookie.

Even so, despite having seen many powerful enemies, she couldn't help but tremble now. An incomparable fear gripped her heart tightly.

Exorcists live side-by-side with death, and Elaine was not actually that afraid of dying. It is an ending that will inevitably visit everyone, and for believers, it is also the gate to heaven. If one is too afraid, one will accomplish nothing. Furthermore, an exorcist is a profession that treats one's own life as light as a feather, sacrificing oneself for the peace of others, so it goes without saying.

However, this Professor Vanstra was likely the strongest psychic she had ever encountered in her life. Ordinary people would be hypnotized just by making eye contact with him; ordinary exorcists would likely fall into a mental breakdown and madness if they stared for too long.

She knew very well that some things are more painful than death.

(His file from a year ago only listed him as an average expert, at best [Adeptus Exemptus (5=6)]. It's impossible to have cultivated to this level in just one year.)

But no matter how afraid she was, Elaine could still force herself to keep thinking. This aptitude was the reason why, despite having second-rate combat power, she could still play support beside the strongest.

(Strengthened by a holy relic? But the Holy Spear shouldn't be used like that… After he dug out Magical Girl Wen Lan's heart, did he put something else inside?)

Sometimes raw power cannot solve everything. Someone must rack their brains to collect intelligence, formulate plans, and prepare backups so that there is a way out when it matters most.

(The ritual has been seen, the meaning understood, there's a rough guess about the key points, and I know where half of the children were taken.)

Now you have a ridiculously strong demon before your eyes; what should you do?

According to common sense, the Magical Girl should just go up and throw her life away.

But Elaine chose to hold her breath, conceal her presence, turn around, and slowly run away.

Much key intelligence had already been collected. At this point, if she didn't run away quickly and go back to call Qi Xing to fight the boss, or worse, if she foolishly rushed in to save people, she would truly be an idiot.

Although there were too many Magical Girls in this world with substandard intelligence who just threw their lives away, Elaine at least had been dragged up to a passing level of 60 by Qi Xing.

"Young couple? Don't talk nonsense!"

In the distance, Professor Vanstra flared up in anger.

"That kind of second-hand goods that have definitely been used until worn out, how could they become the Mother of God and make me whole again?!"

After cursing, he turned to look at the Mysterious Little Girls kneeling around. His gaze was like a desperate middle-aged man looking at an advertisement for male health treatment on a utility pole.

"Only these pure children, these unpolluted young girls, might have a slight chance of curing me…"

Elaine, who was a 100% virgin, secretly shivered and hurriedly continued to slip away.

However, the next moment, she found herself unable to move.

A powerful psychic energy had already forced her to stand frozen in place, unable to move a muscle.

"Quiet, everyone!"

Professor Vanstra's annoyed voice suddenly changed tone, becoming serious and grave.

"There is an extra guest among us. A pure and fearful guest… who is watching."

At the same time, Elaine felt a sharp pain in her head. A vicious, bone-piercing burning sensation—Professor Vanstra was using his terrifyingly powerful mind to scan and search for her.

Although Elaine immediately erected a mental barrier in her mind to block his thoughts, this could not stop the hypnotizing old man from discovering her existence.

"Come out, little exorcist girl."

He sneered, his voice full of barely concealed glee.

"I thought it was second-hand goods, but I didn't expect a rare virgin wife! This is truly the miracle most suitable to become the Mother of God. Come out!"

One had to admit, he was well-versed in this, and his massive psychic power could not be underestimated. Even though she had prepared herself mentally, Elaine's legs couldn't help but twitch, and the sharp pain in her brain became even more intense.

"You can't escape, miss. Show yourself obediently."

Perhaps he was right.

Elaine took a deep breath and began to prepare. She pulled a slip of paper from her clothes and pressed it gently against the bulkhead.

She was very afraid. But theoretically, even if she ended up wishing she were dead, as long as she could transmit the enemy's key intelligence to Qi Xing, she would not consider her life a total failure.

Qi Xing himself might be tired and weary, complaining that his ten years of exorcising demons had yielded no results, but Elaine scoffed at this. Because she never felt that way.

Because she truly believed that as long as the demon was dragged onto a fair playing field, Qi Xing would definitely have a way to slay the demon and break the evil—on this matter alone, Elaine absolutely believed in Qi Xing, believed in his [Strength].

So Elaine never intended to just throw her life away.

Deeply inhaling and exhaling, her heart beat violently in her chest. Two revolvers dropped from her sleeves into her hands, which she grasped firmly.

"[O Lord, my God, you will make my lamp shine; you will light up my darkness.]"

Even if she had been afraid the second before, only when she began to pray did the fear dissipate from Elaine's heart, and confidence overflowed from her chest, as if a flame had been ignited within her.

"[By your aid I run against the enemy. Your light shall be like the dawn. The glory of the Lord shall be my rear guard!]"

Sing!

The blessed maiden prayed aloud. In an instant, streaks of white light like sharp swords seemed to pierce through a shell, exploding in this darkness that was like the belly of a monster, radiating a brilliance even greater than the sun!

"Aaaah?!"

Dozens of worshippers and handmaidens were pierced by the unbridled light. The holy light bestowed by the merciful God burned their eyes without any mercy.

"Trying to be clever."

Only Professor Vanstra was unaffected; he just clicked his tongue in annoyance and raised the staff in his hand.

But Elaine had already pulled the trigger.

The ammunition was sanctified .45 caliber pure silver bullets, human weapons theoretically capable of killing demons. Twelve bullets flew towards the professor, several handmaidens, and the black throne—for some reason, she even specifically targeted the puddle of Magical Girl flesh and blood on the ground!

The professor snorted coldly. The bullets flying toward him were torn apart by space distorted by telekinesis; the three bullets flying toward the flesh and blood on the ground were frozen in mid-air.

On the contrary, he didn't care about the other bullets at all, letting the sanctified bullets hit the black throne and tear open the throats of several handmaidens.

The holy bullets were useless against him. But this exactly confirmed Elaine's guess—the professor must have put something important inside the Magical Girl's corpse, not even daring to let the nun take a shot at it. The importance of the object he cared about was now clear at a glance.

This intelligence was enough to give Qi Xing an advantage in the battle.

Silently apologizing to the victims in her heart, without a word—Elaine turned and ran for her life!

The depths of the [Inner Realm] are an otherworldly dimension where the creator is like a god. But such powerful authority usually requires a price, such as conditions or weaknesses, for example, the creator needs mental energy to maintain the existence of the [Inner Realm], or that as long as one escapes into a passage and returns to the shallow layer or even the [Outer Realm], the ruler's influence will be significantly reduced.

Every layer of every [Inner Realm] has at least one passage leading to another layer or another world. Elaine only needed to take one more step!

"Stop!"

Unfortunately, her feet were just a split second too slow.

Just a moment short, accompanied by the professor's roar, a chill that made the nun's whole body cold pierced into her spine like an ice blade. In the second before her foot was about to step into the exit, her body was frozen once again.

This was a physical hypnosis used on those with firm wills who were difficult to hypnotize mentally; it only affected the control of the body, with a uniquely humiliating way of playing!

"Still trying to be slippery!"

How could Professor Vanstra truly allow her to cause such a ruckus and then escape? Didn't he have a reputation to maintain?

At this moment, he had already concentrated all the mental energy scattered throughout the [Inner Realm]; his body was also pushed by his immense will to tear open space directly and teleport over.

"Don't be afraid. That Magical Girl died because her aptitude was insufficient and she couldn't fit the role of the goddess Isis. But you are a blessed virgin wife; you will definitely be able to live and give birth to the divine child."

He sneered, using invisible telekinesis to grab the nun, then opened his left hand—the one not holding the staff—and reached toward the nun's head—he was going to force a more powerful hypnosis directly into the nun's brain!

"I promise, as long as you cure me, I will definitely let you go back alive. If you resist again, I will kill your little man along with you."

This guarantee was something probably only the most naive Magical Girl would believe.

Elaine refused to yield, gritting her teeth, using all her strength to fight back desperately, to the point where her bones and joints were creaking. With such a desperate defense, the professor found it hard to proceed for the moment.

Precisely because of this, just before the professor's left hand was about to touch the nun, a light arrow blew his hand away.

"Ah?!"

The professor screamed and teleported back in a hurry, clutching his smoking severed limb, and looked in astonishment in the direction the light arrow had come from. He had been focusing all his mental energy on the nun and hadn't noticed at all that someone else had entered the [Inner Realm].

Elaine was immediately freed from the physical hypnosis, but she was equally astonished. She had indeed thought that Qi Xing might rush out to save her at the critical moment—after all, Qi Xing did this for other women every week. But Qi Xing couldn't shoot light arrows.

A cute girl appeared before their eyes; just looking at her was enough to make one's heart beat faster.

Her outfit was very peculiar, looking at first glance very much like a cosplay costume. The airy pleated skirt was decorated with many ribbons, her light blue hair shone in the darkness of the [Inner Realm], and on her head, she wore a pair of very cute dog ears that kept flapping about.

"Drop the staff! Let that girl go!"

She held in her hand a bow that didn't look like a weapon at all, with a very plastic texture. But its light was dazzling, and her posture of drawing the bow and nocking an arrow was full of heroic spirit.

Strictly speaking, it was indeed Qi Xing who saved Elaine at the critical moment.

Because she was none other than Magical Girl Artemina, whom he had rescued the night before last.

She had now learned to fire first and ask questions later.

007: Osiris without a █

Oh my! Why did Magical Girl Artemina appear here?!

The answer is actually very simple.

Because just like in eroge, just like in all the doujinshi, when one Magical Girl goes missing, naturally another Magical Girl will go to find her.

Singapore's chief Magical Girl, Wen Lan, was kidnapped by the hypnotizing old man and went missing. Naturally, the [Global Magical Girl Mutual Aid Association] couldn't send third-rate strays to throw their lives away, so they contacted the nearby top Magical Girl of Japan, Magical Girl Artemina.

Originally, Artemina might not have agreed to assist. After all, she had her own territory, and the demons in Tokyo were endless… But she had just been saved by [Master Leipu] the night before last, and her brain was still in an excited state. When she thought of another Magical Girl waiting for rescue, she agreed without a second thought.

These Magical Girls, they are born to conduct infiltration investigations!

Only now, after the guidance of [Master Leipu], Artemina already knew—blow off the bad guy's five limbs first, then ask questions!

As for who the bad guy is, honestly, most bad guys in this world look pretty obvious.

Probably no one could have predicted that precisely because Qi Xing went to save an unrelated Magical Girl the day before yesterday, a light arrow arrived in time today before the nun was hypnotized, blowing off Professor Vanstra's left hand.

"The silver moonlight illuminating the night sky, Magical Girl Artemina, arrives as promised tonight!"

After firing the first arrow, she elegantly spun her longbow and coolly announced her name.

Transforming heroes having to announce their names is taken for granted in this world.

"Magical Girl Artemina?!"

The professor screamed and retreated, clutching his smoking severed limb. His originally refined face was now twisted with pain and anger. He shouted an order: "Catch these two bitches! I will make them give birth!"

The four handmaidens who hadn't died yet immediately changed their forms upon the professor's order. They burst out of their skins, grew flesh and scales, and amidst their howls, transformed into four humanoid crocodiles.

Consequently, the Magical Girl's bow paused. She could see that these crocodiles were truly transformed from living people, and for a moment, she couldn't help but hesitate.

But Elaine did not hesitate at all. She immediately shook a P90 submachine gun from her sleeve—heaven knows how she fit it in there—and fired wildly! Dense bullets blasted into the crocodile men, but they still charged furiously at the girls, seemingly feeling no pain at all.

"Even their bodies have been completely hypnotized and mutated in the depths of the [Inner Realm]; they cannot be restored! Don't hesitate!"

While firing, she shouted at the Magical Girl's dog ears,

"Hit the hypnotist first!"