She was being hunted down, so she became a magical girl.

Karma Flame is a very special innate magic.

It possesses a judgment mechanism that disregards its master's subjective will. If the enemy is a heinous criminal, Karma Flame can be extremely effective. However, if the enemy is innocent, even if the user intends to kill them, Karma Flame cannot cause them any harm.

For example, Jiang Chenglian would not be affected by Ye Yan.

So the question is, is Xu Ting an innocent person?

Xu Ting and Crow both disagreed.

Xu Ting couldn't guarantee that all the people he killed during his time as a mercenary were evil, and he also understood that he must have had a negative impact on innocent people during his missions.

Therefore, the crow chose to bear Xu Ting's sins, thus granting Xu Ting immunity to the karmic flames.

But now Xu Ting has taken the initiative to release Ye Yan, and Ye Yan has started burning Zhan Ye and himself at the same time.

Can the simulated karmic flame revealed by the old method be judged as the original karmic flame and thus be borne by the crow?

The answer is...

negative.

The sources of magic are different, and the nature of magic is different. Even if there are similar spells, they cannot be identified as the same spell.

Therefore, Xu Ting began to confront his sins.

The stolen Illusionary Light had its hands burned off, and the Gray Raven, who had slaughtered innocents without knowing it, was torn to pieces.

Given Xu Ting's crimes, what kind of punishment will she receive?

The black flames gently enveloped Xu Ting's entire body, licking every inch of his skin.

Subsequently, Xu Ting's body was completely set ablaze.

In that instant, Xu Ting saw most of the city of He.

She saw people frantically selling everything they had.

Some people sell their own children just to gain a fleeting glimpse of happiness;

Some people sell their morals just to eke out a living in this world in an ugly manner;

Someone sold their own flesh and blood just to cover up a lie that was about to collapse at any moment;

Some people betrayed their justice and courage, turning into walking corpses beneath the Tower of Babel;

Some people even put a price tag on their lives, only to receive countless insults, ridicule, and accusations in return.

This is all your sin, and mine as well.

Xu Ting vaguely heard his own voice.

If you wish to carry it, take a step forward.

If you want to turn a blind eye, close your eyes.

Her voice was clear and cold, like a judge's merciless pronouncement.

"Is this my sin?" Xu Ting regained his senses and immediately asked in return.

"How could this be my crime?"

"This is a gang, a giant corporation, the Tianyi Group, a magical girl, the sin of this world!"

She roared at the void, but received no response.

— [Step forward, close your eyes, and choose one]

That's all my voice said.

Pain ferments in the body, anger burns in the heart.

What a joke! How can these crimes be pinned on Xu Ting?!

Some things are destined to be done by someone.

Some sins are destined to be borne by someone.

"What exactly do you mean?" Xu Ting asked his own voice. "Who are you? Is this just my imagination?"

"How could the Blazing Inflame have such an effect? ​​It should only cause a burning sensation in the body."

— [Step forward, close your eyes, and choose one]

His own voice repeated what he had just said.

Clearly, Xu Ting had no way of communicating with the voice.

All she could do was choose between stepping forward to take responsibility for her sins and turning a blind eye to them.

"Ignoring sins is definitely a wrong choice."

But bearing the burden of sin is not necessarily the right thing to do.

Taking on sins that are not one's own is such a foolish choice that it's almost like—

"Holy Son," Xu Ting uttered the word in a daze.

"He was hung on the tree and bore our sins in his own body...and you were healed by his wounds."

She suddenly understood everything before her eyes, and she understood the meaning of that voice.

The choice that voice gave her was actually quite simple.

"Will you take a step forward and become the savior who bears the sins of the City of Hell in exchange for redemption...?"

"How could I—"

She suddenly remembered many, many things.

"I want to heal this terminally ill city, but only a magical girl can do that."

She remembered the words of the prophecy.

Xu Ting fell silent.

"I really don't want to be some kind of savior. I don't think I can save this city of He." She muttered to herself.

"However... saving the people I care about, and then incidentally saving some people I find pleasing to the eye, isn't out of the question."

She took a step forward.

The images of sin rushed toward her in an instant, as if to devour her completely.

Xu Ting stared directly at these sins, his eyes never closing.

This is your choice, remember it.

His own voice rang out again.

Then, all the scenes before my eyes faded away.

Xu Ting opened her eyes. The sword that had cleaved her karma was still stuck in her heart, but the black karmic flames had completely faded from her body.

Meanwhile, Zhan Ye, who was just one step away, was cruelly burned by the karmic flames and let out a painful howl.

"Why, why? Why is Ye Yan convicting me again?!"

Her expression was filled with pain and despair.

"I've already tried so hard, sacrificed my physical body, given everything, slept only two hours in three days, and worked my life away for Tianyi Group."

"I killed enemies of the Tianyi Group, all of them were evil people."

"But Ye Yan, why do you always judge me guilty!"

Even though she was on the verge of a mental breakdown, Ye Yan was not enough to kill Zhan Ye.

Zhan Ye once said that karmic flames cannot kill a person, which is why Xu Ting has never used the old method to reveal the simulated karmic flames. She was worried that the simulated karmic flames would not have a decisive effect and would instead burn her.

But now there's no need to worry.

She has transcended the so-called Karma Flame.

"Sever karma." Xu Ting uttered the other person's name.

"Your magical girl codename is a really good name."

Xu Ting's words stopped Zhan Ye from wallowing in self-pity.

She stared blankly at Xu Ting, and said incredulously:

"You're not dead?"

"Yes, I'm not dead." Xu Ting pulled the longsword from his heart, and the gushing blood stained the mountain grass red.

"For a magical girl in the coloring stage, having her heart pierced is indeed a fatal wound."

"But I didn't die."

She released her longsword, opened her arms, and said:

So the answer is simple.

"This means I have achieved [ascension]."

Ascension signifies the sublimation of will, the transcendence of spirit, and a leap in the level of life.

When Xu Ting chose to bear all the sins, her will was completely sublimated, and her ascension was completed silently.

No, perhaps it wasn't so quiet after all.

Xu Ting activated the magic power within his body, and slowly rose from the ground.

She flew down into the night sky, her expanding magic overflowing from behind her, drawing brilliant stripes across the dark night.

The first thing to appear is the cruel red, which leaves a bloody trail in the night sky, like an eye looking down on the world.

Then came a clear blue, which lit up a patch of night sky, like a bright blue mirror.

Unable to contain itself, the vibrant greenery turned the night into its own flower field, planting blades of grass.

The indifferent white is reluctant to exist; it merely exists in the sky, like a bright, round moon, silent and still.

In the end, all four colors converged behind Xu Ting, transforming into two symmetrical pairs of wings.

"So this is what ascension to immortality is."

Xu Ting looked behind him and said,

"I never imagined that the process of metamorphosis would actually result in the growth of wings."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two pairs of wings disappeared, leaving Xu Ting alone, awkwardly flying in the air.

"...Never mind, it doesn't matter."

She looked down at Zhan Ye, who stood frozen on the ground, and made a declaration:

"Zhanye, you have no chance left."