Starting with magical girls, I'll reign supreme for eternity.

Chapter 255 Mother and Daughter Snatch the Bride! (Seeking Monthly Tickets - 62000)
"It's just a smokescreen!"

Just as the magical girl Asakage was stunned by the magical girls who were like an army all by themselves,

The leader's voice reached her ears, finally bringing Qianying back to her senses.

The leaders of the Great Forest region had been communicating with her privately so that they could exchange intelligence at crucial moments.

For example, the sneak attack just now.

The covert communication technology, unique to the Great Forest Realm, is far more concealed than that of the Mirror Kingdom, and is absolutely undetectable to people in the Mirror Space.

She took a deep breath and looked at the group of magical girls.

A slight frenzy ran through him: "These are all magical girls at the Blooming Stage!"

"That's the biggest flaw!"

The leader's words calmed her down: "Think carefully, Qianying, the strongest magical girl in our Great Forest Realm, calm down and think about it! How could anyone create so many Blooming-level clones so quickly in one go!"

Qianying finally calmed down.

That's right, this situation is highly unlikely.

While using magic to dodge and neutralize the attacks coming from all directions, she began to think along with the leader's words.

Upon closer reflection, it was clear that the initial individual seedling possessed an exceptionally high level of precision in controlling the seedling's magical power.

Such precise control is impossible without daily use of seedling-level magic.

For example, after she herself ascends to the Blooming stage, if she were to use the magic of the New Seedling again after a while, it would be quite difficult for her to control it.

Even if the opponent is incredibly powerful, they wouldn't be able to control the magic power of a nascent seedling with such precision—comparable to my peak bloom, and even able to move freely within my masterpiece.

With this level of control precision, do you think you're Shion?

"Calm down, then find the flaw! One of these magical girls must be real, and the others must be fake! As long as we find the real one, we'll win!"

That's right. Calm down. Once we find the real one, we've won.

As long as we find the real one...

He unleashed his eighth masterpiece once again, this time disregarding the battle with Si Mo Tu and pouring all his magical power into it.

The thunder that instantly filled the entire isolated space left no gaps, but permeated every corner of the space.

There is nowhere left to hide!

The phantom couldn't withstand his full-force attack, so he cleared out all the illusions in one go!

"Let's see where you can hide..."

The confident, triumphant smile and pronouncement were all frozen in place when he looked up.

The sky was filled with magical girls, but not one of them was destroyed by its own thunder!

Each one unleashed magical power comparable to a magnificent bloom, and their control remained flawless. The lightning surrounding these magical girls was, in fact, manipulated by them.

She even turned her lightning into a lightning spear.

This means that the other person not only has strong control over their own magic, but also an extraordinary ability to control the unfamiliar magic of others—in short, her understanding of magic has reached its essence…

Most importantly, every magical girl in the sky did it!
Some people even grabbed two lightning spears, one on each side, and nearly a thousand of them were turned around and aimed at her.

"Didn't you say there was only one real one?! Where's the fake one?! I can't see it at all!"

With nowhere to hide, the shadowy figure roared inwardly, her defenses crumbling!

The leader who was being criticized was speechless for a moment.

I feel a little wronged.

Is this my fault?
Normally, if you see someone suddenly split into so many blooming magical girls, you would assume it's an illusion, right?
I was just making a general assumption. If she doesn't play by the rules, that's not my problem.
Just like watching a magic show, when you see someone being cut open, you're bound to wonder what kind of mechanism or illusion was used.

You tell me it really was cut in half and then glued back together!

It's not magic, it's sorcery!
Who the hell would have thought of that?

I was just thinking about how to find the real ones, but now... now I need to figure out how many of them are fake!

The leader, sitting in the conference room, watched the laughter, which was as dense as thunder, and felt a chill run through him.

The countless magical girls all spoke in unison:
"If you can prove my ultimate skill, then your death will have been worthwhile."

"This move is called: Three Thousand Thunderclaps!"

The lightning spears rained down like raindrops!

The constantly churning and splashing mud obscured the view, and as the ground continuously cracked open into abysses, the sky in that isolated space also began to shatter.

After all, as a temporary independent space for combat, it was not very stable. Under such a large-scale explosion, the entire space was quickly destroyed!
It was completely dispersed and disappeared by the spatial turbulence.

The entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.

The battle scene was no longer visible on the screen, so everyone—including Shui Shengquan—looked at Si Motu.

Si Motu himself is very strong, there's really nothing to say about that, everyone knows it, and everyone is mentally prepared for it.

Even if Si Motu went up and defeated Qianying, no one would be surprised; they would probably just think, "As expected."

However, Si Motu simply grabbed one of his subordinates at random—perhaps a student, or perhaps just a regular subordinate.

A magical girl willing to submit to Simotsu easily defeated Asakage, and clearly had spare strength, not using her full power.

This is far more intimidating to others than if Si Motu were to take action himself.

If it were just Si Motu alone, they could still find a way to avoid him or seal him away. Although it would be difficult, it wasn't impossible.

Now, Si Mo Tu has proven that he is not only outstanding in strength.

He even has a subordinate who can single-handedly command an army...

This is not good news for any of the old worlds.

With such a powerful alliance between them and the prince of the Mirror Kingdom, the old world will truly become a one-man show for this couple from the Mirror Kingdom...

Just as everyone fell silent, only the white fox remained, asking blankly, "Sir, is this what a challenge against a higher level is like? It's not quite the same as in the book..."

But Si Motu's voice was indifferent: "How is skipping a level by going down a level not skipping a level?"

"If you get promoted and then have to challenge enemies stronger than yourself, wouldn't that be a waste of promotion? Promotion is for downward compatibility, fighting against lower-level opponents, and challenging your past self. Essentially, it's a training exercise to quickly improve your skills, a gifted opportunity."

The white fox nodded cautiously and wrote down the contents.

“Remember, don’t just study by rote. That will only make you die from studying. You should learn more from your super white fox senior sister,” Si Motu added. “When the time comes, ask her for a set of the platinum edition of ‘Five Years of Tomatoes, Three Years of Potatoes’ practice questions to do.”

The white fox was stunned: "Sir, do I still need to do the questions?"

Si Motu snorted coldly: "If you don't do practice problems, how will you know how to be learned? If you don't do practice problems, how will you know how to use the word 'luck'? If you don't do practice problems, how can you reach the level of being a scholar who has mastered everything? If you don't do practice problems, your vast knowledge is nothing more than a single page of a book!"

"When I was your age, I never backed down or avoided learning. Only by reading ten thousand books can one become a match for ten thousand men!"

The white fox's pen trembled suddenly.

When Qinghua shattered the void, dragging the unconscious Qianying who had already deactivated her transformation, she waved her hand arrogantly, as if responding to her fans, and even threw a flying kiss towards the sect leader's position.

"Boss, Super White Fox has lived up to its mission!"

However, in response to Qinghua's overtures, Jiang Si coldly asked, "Why did the first puppet lose?"

Qinghua immediately broke out in a cold sweat, "This, this, this, the white fox did it on purpose, meow..."

"Go back and practice some more."

"No, boss, I really can't take it anymore..."

Seeing that the sect leader was too lazy to pay attention to her, Qinghua cried for a long time but found it was useless.

Enraged, she grabbed Qianying's face and slapped her several times.

Of course, she couldn't go to the sect leader and say that the other party had used underhanded tactics, which was why her new magic puppet had failed—in the Qingyun Sect, a loss is a loss, there are no excuses, there aren't that many underhanded tactics in battle, and no one will stop you from using your puppet.

However, it's true that she didn't pay attention. The New Seed Puppet was originally meant to play dumb to fool others, but unexpectedly, she actually ended up playing the fool herself...

The last-ditch effort was a complete failure; it didn't even affect the sect leader, and now I can't play the game again...

The leader of the Great Forest Realm, seeing Qianying in Qinghua's hand, his face swollen from being slapped so many times, finally couldn't sit still any longer and said, "That's enough, isn't it? We, the Great Forest Realm, have lost. We concede. Return Qianying to us, and we'll leave immediately..."

"When did I say you could leave?"

Jiang Si adjusted her mask. "You didn't think the challenge was free, did you?"

Qinghua snorted, and the more than nine hundred puppets that had disappeared reappeared from all directions of the conference room.

They walked toward the people of the old world.

Everyone's face was ashen, and Shui Shengquan's was especially grim. "Lord Si Motu, this meeting is to discuss countermeasures against Ziyuan..."

"Is that so?" Si Motu sneered. "I thought it was a denunciation meeting targeting me."

As they spoke, apart from the Great Forest Realm, the other three Old Worlds that had secured full quotas also dispatched their own guards.

All of them were magical girls at the peak of their bloom, and the three gray-white magical girls stood in front, ready for battle.

However, the blue-and-white puppet had already moved on.

"Excuse me, meow."

Before anyone could see anything clearly, the three gray-white magical girls simultaneously deactivated their transformations and instantly slammed into the wall!
Four blue-and-white porcelain dolls each grabbed a member of the Old World and lifted them up.

These were the four members of the Old World who took the full quota from the prince.

Even Shui Shengquan didn't dare to speak this time.

"The prince is still quite young, with white hair and a childlike demeanor. He lacks thoughtfulness and his actions are typical of a three-foot-tall child. The allocation of full quotas this time is somewhat unreasonable for you."

Si Motu sat in his chair, watching the four members of the Old World who had been grabbed by Qinghua and had their heads pressed against the table, unable to move.

"Hand over the full quota of openings, and I will allocate them fully."

"Si Mo Tu! You're crowing like a rooster at dawn!!" The leader of the Great Forest Realm grinned maliciously, raising his head abruptly. "This alliance belongs to the prince! You dare to act so wildly before you've even ridden on the prince's head! Do you think we'll submit..."

Bang!
A clean and decisive punch.

The leader of the Great Forest was smashed under the conference table, his head exploding open.

The white fox walked to the side, tore off her sleeve, and wiped the blood and filth from the gentleman's hands.

Jiang Si ignored her and simply took the Miracle Seed from the corpse of the leader of the Great Forest Realm.

It possesses a fully opened rank, a copy of Iris's Miracle Seed. Although it's currently blank, once filled with power, it can achieve the same things as Iris's Miracle Seed. Then it looked at the others.

"next."

……

The Central Region of the Land of Mirrors.

When the prince emerged from the bath, his clothes clung tightly to his body, almost revealing the color of his flesh.

She hadn't changed her clothes when she came in, and now her clothes were all wet and sticking to her body, which was naturally a bit uncomfortable.

Stepping out of the bath, the sound of water was incredibly clear, even a little ear-piercing. Stepping on the ground, the sensation of squeezing water through her shoes felt like stepping on soft, fluffy bubbles, to the point that her own consciousness felt as if it were floating on cotton.

Halfway there, I arrived at my bedroom.

Her bedroom wasn't very feminine; it was almost completely empty—just a bed, a table, a stool, a huge mirror, and nothing else.

It's like a giant prison cell.

She looked at herself in the mirror, her clothes and body soaked through, water dripping down her temples and sleeves.

It felt a little unfamiliar.

So she sat on the stool, gently pulling at her already soaked over-the-knee socks, pressing them against her skin. When she took them off, it felt like peeling them off, and her hands and feet felt strangely uncoordinated. She even had to struggle to pull the socks out of between her toes.

My body felt strange; when I touched my feet, I felt something that didn't belong to me.

[Reminder: Your fiancé is planning to redistribute the full quota of openings. Your Highness is requested to handle this... Wait, your brain signals are malfunctioning... Magical influence... Remove...]

The system voice in his ears began to become muffled, and the prince shook his head, feeling somewhat dizzy.

She remembered that she had encountered a magical girl from the Qingyun Sect before, and then she escaped.

Then, she entered the medical pod of the Mirror Kingdom to treat her brain. The other party's ability had affected her brain, and since she had no magic, she could only use technology to eliminate the influence.

In fact, in the end, it wasn't a serious problem; it only strengthened his dependence on Si Mo Tu, led him to share information with Si Mo Tu, and ultimately resulted in the annulment of the engagement.

Although she didn't know why the Qingyun Sect was so insistent on her annulment of the engagement, her relationship with Si Motu was far more than just a marriage contract; their feelings for each other...

"my daughter."

Suddenly, the reflection in the mirror began to speak.

She revealed a kind and gentle smile, a smile she would never normally show.

"Well done, my darling. You've worked so hard all this time."

"From this day forward, you will no longer be the prince of the Mirror Kingdom, but the king of the Mirror Kingdom."

Then the prince realized that he was not on the other side of the mirror.

It's inside the mirror.

She looked at the smile on that unfamiliar version of herself, and then slowly removed all her soaked clothes and changed her into new, gorgeous attire.

Those were magnificent clothes, the Mirror King's attire.

The platinum-gold trailing gown, along with the crown she always carried, made her appear regal and elegant, completely different from her usual self.

Or perhaps there were originally two people.

"Because, from this day forward, I am you, and we are the Mirror King."

[The system has entered silence.]

The Mirror Kingdom, which had been silent all along, seemed to come alive.

Alice, the installations, and the silent machines everywhere cheered together!
It was as if they were welcoming the king's return.

Only the main system remains silent.

The prince, trapped in the mirror, stared at his mother, who had taken over his body, and shook his head, trying to clear his mind.

My memory is always blurry, as if I've forgotten something important.

"You are my last insurance policy, my child."

The Mirror King sat in front of the mirror, looking at his young, exquisite, and beautiful face, and smiled with satisfaction. "I've known for a long time that the Mirror Kingdom will most likely lose the battle against the New World. Those little things are not so simple. Just like the technologies they gave us back then, their world must have a stronger force."

"So I had you with a man from the New World, child. You are a hybrid of the Old World and the New World. When all the people of the Mirror Kingdom were sealed away, you were able to escape because of your New World bloodline. You are the only Mirror Kingdom citizen who could possibly survive and live in the New World."

"But you're so stupid, my child."

The Mirror King let out a long sigh, "From beginning to end, you have never satisfied me. Compared to your brothers and sisters, you are more dull, slow, and not sensitive enough to emotions. You are almost flawed. Therefore, although you are the only one in the Mirror Kingdom who may survive, you are definitely not the one who can restore the kingdom."

"I've set up a final safety net in the medical pod. Whether you're here to become Alice, gain power, or recover from your injuries, as long as you lie in the medical pod, one day I will appear, take over your body, and restore the Mirror Kingdom..."

His groggy mind finally began to recover some of its memories. In the mirror, the still soaking wet prince awkwardly raised his head and finally saw his magnificent and noble self clearly.

Or rather, her mother.

“Look at you, how pathetic you are,” the woman sighed. “You have no kingly qualities, no strategy, no temperament. You have nothing but insignificant ambition. The Kingdom of Mirror will never rise in your hands.”

"You really are long-winded." The prince adjusted the mirror in front of him and gave a disdainful sneer.

Regardless, the prince maintained her arrogance.

The Mirror King outside paused slightly, seemingly somewhat surprised.

Have you obtained all the permissions?

Mirror King fiddled with the system interface, tilting his head slightly. "I thought you had some backup plan. All the permissions are in my hands..."

"What about this one?"

A red button was pressed.

The Mirror King's pupils contracted slightly; it wasn't the self-destruct system originally used by the Mirror Kingdom...

Was this one added by the prince recently?

The Mirror Kingdom devices, which had all come to life, all their machines and systems, were now flashing red light.

The main system also started flashing.

[Warning, warning: The system has entered self-destruct mode. Self-destruct mode countdown: 50 seconds.]

[Forty-nine seconds. 】

The Mirror King's previously frivolous expression finally turned serious. "Do you know what you're doing?"

"If you don't return the body, I'll destroy the entire Mirror Kingdom."

"You think you can threaten me? As long as I live, the Mirror Kingdom will not perish..."

As she spoke, she saw the prince in the mirror smash the mirror with a punch!

In the shattered mirror, the prince reached out his bloodied hand, but only managed to grasp one of the shards.

Then the Mirror King discovered that his own body had involuntarily grabbed a shard of mirror.

“When did I ever say you could live? My mother.”

A shard of mirror suddenly pierced his temple, splattering blood. Both the prince inside the mirror and the mirror king outside knelt down simultaneously.

The Mirror King trembled all over as he struggled to lift his head. In the shattered glass, several disheveled reflections of himself were seen.

His face was contorted with pain, covered in blood, and even showed signs of fear and confusion.

Do you really know what you're doing?

"Either return the body, or we die together and let the Mirror Kingdom disappear from history forever."

"You have no reason to take such a risk."

"Because I didn't take any risks."

The prince gave a cold smile, revealing a deep-seated pride and contempt as he looked at his mother.

"Look at yourself now, Mother. You are so ugly. It is your hands that have led to the destruction of the Mirror Kingdom."

Once back inside her body outside the mirror, her mother's consciousness data also returned to the mirror, staring intently at her.

The prince casually removed the shard of mirror from his temple, and the self-destruct system of all systems stopped.

Then a robot brought her gauze and medicine to bandage her wound.

“From the very beginning, it was a 100% victory for me, my mother.”

"You can't bear to leave the Kingdom of Mirrors, and you can't bear to leave yourself."

The prince used his blood-stained fingers to apply lipstick to his own lips, then gently applied it to his mother's lips in the mirror. "And I, I can give up anything."

“You’re a madman,” Mirror King murmured. “I underestimated you, Itaan.”

"Thank you for your recognition, but unfortunately, you have overestimated me."

Mirror King snorted coldly, "If it were the old you, you would never have been able to do this. What exactly happened?"

He smiled, then used the main system's permissions to lock the mirror, forever imprisoning his mother's last data.

The prince, having bandaged his wound, got up and went outside.

The Mirror Kingdom, now revived, still possesses the true authority belonging to the Mirror King.

Everything has been received.

She picked up her crown and sat on the throne.

To give myself a final crown.

[Congratulations: You are now entitled to be emperor!]

Sitting quietly on his throne, the prince merely gazed indifferently at everything beneath the Mirror Kingdom, at the transparent glass artifacts.

All those machines, Alice, including those devices that had never obeyed her commands, started up at that moment.

The Mirror Kingdom, which has been dormant for so long, is finally beginning its true revival!

Gently licking the bright red of his lips with the tip of his tongue, the prince, recalling his mother's last question, tilted his head, propped his head and crown with his right hand, and smiled faintly:
"Why did we have to go this far..."

"We can't let him marry an old woman, can we?"

"If I can't produce a dowry befitting my status, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold my head up in front of him, since the first child will eventually take my surname..."

(End of this chapter)