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

"The power of divine will? Is it normal to see it in a witch?"

Xu Ting asked.

"This is very abnormal."

The crow said solemnly:

"The power of will is also a very precious thing to the four divine messengers. Even their followers rarely receive the power of will as a reward."

"It's like this: you are a messenger of God, and the people you control with your eyes of fear are believers. Willpower is a very expensive prosthetic body."

"Would you easily hand over your prosthetic body to those mere tools?"

"Moreover, whether or not to grant wishes requires the approval of the divine messenger."

"The Lord of the Night is already the most active of the four divine messengers, and He rarely bestows any power of will upon his followers."

"And the [Starry Night Divine Servant] is the divine messenger who least likes to communicate with believers, apart from the [Mirror Master].

"Except when a witch is reborn, He will not respond to any witch, nor will He give any commands to any witch."

Xu Ting slapped his thigh: "Isn't that right?"

"This vow was given to Gray Raven by the Star Goddess when he committed suicide."

The crow refuted Xu Ting's guess:

"Impossible, why would the Star Servant do such a thing?"

"Grey Raven refused to become a witch, and the Starry Night Goddess gave her the power of her will, which was to aid the enemy."

"Didn't you say that the Star Goddess loves all the witches?" Xu Ting retorted.

The raven retorted, "But He only loves witches. Do you think the gray raven is a witch?"

Xu Ting didn't want to argue with the crow anymore; she decided to trust her own judgment.

It is a fact that the power of the Star Servant's wish appeared on the witch Gray Raven.

This willpower is preventing her from shattering the witch Gray Raven and curing Gray Raven's symptoms; this is her current predicament.

"Crow, forget about all that nonsense."

"The divine servant's will prevented me from attacking the Gray Raven's spirit body. Is there a way to resolve this?"

"You can try using the power of your own will," the crow replied helplessly. "Or you can just grab it with your hand; maybe that power of will will willingly enter your body?"

Xu Ting ignored the second half of the crow's words.

Using the power of her own will... But right now she can only summon her own red magic from the core of magic, she can't bring out the dark red power of her own will.

But since the crow said so, there must be a way that works.

During her interaction with the crow, the witch Gray Crow also harassed Xu Ting with low-intensity attacks.

The miniature doll, which bore a striking resemblance to Xu Ting, would occasionally sprout several threads that attacked Xu Ting, attempting to regain control over him.

Although he lost his military knife, Xu Ting could easily use magic to create another one.

With a military knife in hand, it's not difficult to defend against those threads.

Xu Ting repeatedly mobilized the magic power within his body, trying to pick out the dark red part.

Despite putting in a lot of effort, it didn't work.

It wasn't until she had a sudden inspiration and used the fluctuations of the divine servant's power as a blueprint to search for similar fluctuations within her own body that she was able to pick out the dark red part from a pile of red magic.

With the power of will in hand, everything becomes much easier.

The power of will is also magic, so Xu Ting naturally attached it to the knife according to the usage of magic.

The Lord's will power flew out from the blade and merged with the green divine servant's will power in the air.

The two were supposed to clash violently—but none of that happened.

On the contrary, the dark red and green wishes only stayed on for a short while.

Then, the Lord's power of will returned with the power of the divine servant's will.

Yes, we're back.

The reason for this is that the green divine servant's power entered Xu Ting's body uninvited, just like the Venerable Lord's power back then.

Even the divine servant with thick eyebrows and big eyes has betrayed us!

Upon seeing this, the witch Gray Raven closed her eyes.

"Since we're colleagues, why fight each other?"

"Wait, I'm not some colleague! This thing crawled in by itself!" Xu Ting quickly explained.

The witch Gray Raven opened her eyes and stared at Xu Ting expressionlessly.

Xu Ting felt a little uneasy under that kind of gaze.

"Don't be modest."

The witch Gray Raven closed her eyes.

"If you were not a maidservant, how could my lord's will have been obeyed?"

A maidservant? The will of my lord?

Seeing that the witch Gray Raven was no longer trying to attack him and seemed to regard him as an ally, Xu Ting tentatively asked:

"Who are you? Are you really Gray Raven?"

"I am not the person you speak of," the witch truly answered Xu Ting's question. "I am merely a spellcaster."

Then, the witch recounted her origins.

After translating her long, obscure statement, the truth of the matter became clear.

Back then, Gray Raven's transformation into a witch was in its final stages. Even though shattering the magic core halted the process, her transformation still profoundly affected her mind.

Ninety percent of her spirit has been corrupted.

Even if she shatters her own core, she will still become the evil being she doesn't want to be.

But the Star God Servant made his move.

He shattered the gray raven's spirit, collected the corrupted parts, erased its mind, and entrusted it to a magical vessel.

The witch Gray Raven before them was the corrupted part entrusted to magic.

Furthermore, the Star Servant also said this:

"Please wait here; a maid will come."

"At that time, you can end your duties."

After listening, Xu Ting nodded thoughtfully.

She was about to speak when she saw the witch Gray Raven's body begin to disintegrate.

Damn it, the witch Gray Raven is preparing to "end her duties".

"Wait a minute, I'm not the maid you're talking about. You've mistaken me for someone else!"

Xu Ting was terrified. She hurriedly reached out to try to stop the witch Gray Raven from dissipating, but it was too late.

The witch Gray Raven vanished cleanly from Xu Ting's sight, and the surrounding buildings disappeared with her.

The mental world returned to its final darkness, but this time only Xu Ting remained.

"Raven," Xu Ting cried out in anguish to her only ally, "the spiritual form of the Gray Raven has vanished."

"What?" the crow exclaimed in surprise.

"You hit me so hard?"

"Damn it, even if you can't control your strength, you'd better leave a few fragments, otherwise if all that's left is powder, it'll be very difficult for me to rebuild Gray Raven's spirit..."

"There's no powder," Xu Ting corrected the crow's misunderstanding.

"...My God, you fucking killed the gray crow?" the crow cried out sharply.

Xu Ting quickly recounted everything that had just happened to Crow, who then breathed a sigh of relief:

"So it was suicide. Then the murder charge won't fall on you."

Seeing the crow's attitude, Xu Ting became anxious:

"Is the focus on assigning blame? The focus should be on what to do about the Grey Crow?"

"You promised to treat Gray Raven, but you ended up killing him. If Mi Yan finds out, won't he kill me?"

The crow, however, remained calm and composed, saying:

"Don't rush."

"Didn't they say that when the Star Servant shattered the Gray Raven's spirit body, it was exactly what you originally planned to do?"

"Then, He forged the corrupted part into the spiritual body you just fought, and eventually disappeared."

"But the uncontaminated part obviously still exists."

"The Gray Raven's spiritual world has lost its master, and she will fall into a long slumber. You only need to find her lost healthy spiritual body, and she can be resurrected."

"Take your time searching. The girl who accidentally killed her friend."

"These kinds of plot points are timeless."

"At most, after a few dozen or a hundred chapters, or a dozen or twenty episodes, you'll eventually find the lost spirit of the Gray Raven after all the hardships, and wake up Sleeping Beauty."

The crow's last words turned into a complete sarcasm.

That's why Xu Ting immediately knew that this guy was teasing him.

She closed her eyes, thought for a few minutes, and then said:

"The healthy spiritual entity of Gray Raven is the doll she always carries with her, isn't it?"

"The doll appeared at the exact time that the Gray Raven Witch transformed, and also at the exact time that the Starry Servant made his move."

"Furthermore, the puppet possesses empathy and goes out of control when Gray Raven is in a bad state... This is probably because the puppet is equivalent to Gray Raven's spiritual body."

"Absolutely right." The crow stopped teasing her.

"The Starry Night Servant has already completed the most difficult step for us."

"I can strip the doll of her magical girl status simply by returning her to Gray Raven's spiritual world."