Inner Destroyer

　This is used for those who are determined and difficult to hypnotize their minds. It only affects the control of the body and is a kind of physical hypnosis with a unique way of humiliating!

　"Still trying to be cunning!"

　How could Professor Vanstra really allow her to make such a scene and then get away with it? Doesn't he have any respect for himself?

　At this moment, he has gathered all the mental power scattered throughout the "inner world"; his body, driven by his extremely strong will, directly tore through space and teleported over.

　"Don't be afraid. That magical girl died because she wasn't qualified enough to play the role of Goddess Isis. But you are the blessed virgin bride. You will definitely live to give birth to the Son of God."

　He sneered, grabbed the nun with his invisible telekinesis, then stretched out his left hand that was not holding the staff and reached towards the nun's head - he wanted to stuff a more powerful hypnosis directly into the nun's brain!

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

　This is a promise that only the dumbest and most adorable magical girls would believe.

　Elaine refused to obey, gritting her teeth and struggling with all her might, her bones and joints creaking. With such a desperate resistance, the professor found it difficult to attack her.

　Because of this, just before the professor's left hand could touch the nun, an arrow of light blew his hand off.

　"what?!"

　The professor screamed and teleported back, clutching his smoking limb and looking in astonishment in the direction of the arrow of light. He had been so focused on the nun that he hadn't noticed anyone else entering the "inner world."

　Elaine was immediately freed from the physical hypnosis, but she was also surprised. She had indeed thought that Qi Xing might come to the rescue at the last moment - after all, Qi Xing did this to other women every week. But Qi Xing did not shoot light arrows.

　A cute girl came into their sight, and the mere sight of her was enough to make one's heart race.

　Her outfit was peculiar, reminiscent of a cosplay costume at first glance. Her flowing pleated skirt was adorned with ribbons, her light blue hair shimmered in the darkness of the "inner world," and she sported a pair of adorable, fluttering dog ears.

　"Drop the staff! Let go of the girl!"

　In her hand, she held a bow that looked nothing like a weapon, rather plastic, yet its brilliance was dazzling, and the way she bent the bow and drew the arrow was full of heroic spirit.

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

　Because she was the magical girl Artemina who was rescued by him the night before.

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

　007: Osiris without █

　Oops! Why is Magical Girl Artemina here?!

　The answer is actually very simple.

　Because just like Xiao Huangyou, just like all books, when a magical girl disappears, there will naturally be another magical girl to look for her.

　Singapore's top magical girl, Wenlan, was kidnapped by a hypnotist and disappeared. The "Global Magical Girls Mutual Aid Association" naturally couldn't send third-rate cats and dogs over for free, so they contacted Japan's top magical girl, Artemina, who was relatively close.

　Originally, Artemina hadn't necessarily agreed to help. After all, she had her own territory, and there were countless demons in Tokyo to slay... But she had just been saved by "Rep" the night before, and her mind was still in a state of excitement. When she thought of another magical girl waiting to be rescued, she agreed without hesitation.

　These magical girls were born to conduct undercover investigations!

　But now, after being instructed by Master Leipu, Artemina already knew that she had to break the bad guys’ limbs first before questioning them!

　As for who the bad guys are, honestly, most of the bad guys in this world seem pretty obvious.

　Probably no one could have expected that, because Qi Xing went to save an unrelated magical girl the day before yesterday, the light arrow arrived in time today before the nun was hypnotized and blew away Professor Vanstra's left hand.

　"Silver moonlight illuminates the night sky, magical girl Artemina, please shine as promised tonight!"

　Shoot the first arrow first

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　, she turned the longbow gracefully and sang the name in a cool manner.

　It is a matter of course in this world that transformed heroes need to be called out.

　"Magical Girl Artemina?!"

　The professor screamed and retreated, clutching his smoking limb. His once gentle face was twisted with pain and anger as he shouted, "Catch these two bitches! I'm going to make them give birth!"

　The four remaining maids immediately changed shape at the professor's command. They tore free from their skins, flesh and scales bulging out, and with a howl, they transformed into four humanoid crocodiles.

　The magical girl's bow stopped. She could see that these crocodiles were really transformed from living people, and for a moment she hesitated.

　But Elaine didn't hesitate. She immediately pulled out a P90 submachine gun from her sleeve. No one knew how she had stuffed it in there, and she fired fiercely! A dense barrage of bullets bombarded the crocodile men, but they still charged towards the girls furiously, seemingly feeling no pain at all.

　"Even their bodies have been completely hypnotized and mutated deep within the 'Inner Realm'. Recovery is impossible! Don't hesitate!"

　While firing, she also shouted at the magical girl's dog ears,

　"Hit the hypnotist first!"

　While the victim might hesitate to implicate him, there was no need to hesitate about killing the hypnotist! Artemina plucked the bowstring, and immediately three or five more bolts of light pelted the professor, each powerful enough to melt a tank. Unfortunately, the professor was prepared this time. He raised his crooked staff and imposed his will on space. All three bolts were twisted and deflected by his telekinesis.

　Moonlight couldn't penetrate the mind of this world's ruler. But a first-rate magical girl could at least hold her own against the hypnotist. Artemina's arrows of light and the professor's telekinesis clashed and clashed in the black stone hall, back and forth, waves of light radiating, exploding, and shattering, like a veritable artillery battle!

　The stalemate in the artillery battle is an opportunity for others to take action.

　One of the crocodiles was finally decapitated by a submachine gun when it was only two steps away from Elaine. The remaining three crocodiles were still in pursuit. Elaine dropped her gun, unhooked her ammunition belt, and unscrewed a grenade. She dodged left and right, slipping between two crocodiles. She feigned to avoid the crocodiles' claws, but then, taking advantage of their surprise, she leaped high and stepped over one of them's shoulders.

　She put the ammunition belt over an alligator's head.

　"Hallelujah!"

　A whole pack of holy grenades exploded with a beautiful stereo organ sound, blasting the three-headed monster into pieces. Without even turning back, Elaine rode the shockwave to land beside Artemina, shaking her dusty hair expressionlessly.

　Even the magical girl was shocked by this fighting method: "Is this how all church exorcists fight?"

　"I don't have the destructive power of you magical girls, so of course I can only rely on props." Elaine didn't care. "Don't be distracted, be careful of the professor."

　Only then did Artemina realize that, during the pauses between the blows, the professor had been staring intently at her from afar. Just being held by his hypnotic gaze sent a sudden, intense turmoil through her heart. Her body involuntarily froze, and her vision went blank. From her brain to her spinal cord, she felt paralyzed, with only waves of ecstasy washing over her.

　——No. It's overflowing——

　——My head is going to break, if this continues——

　But Elaine immediately pulled out a piece of paper and stuck it on Artemina's belly. Instantly, the magical girl screamed in pain, suddenly woke up, and for some reason her face turned red.

　"What's going on? How can you break the hypnosis?"

　The professor who tried so hard to control the magical girl finally felt incredible.

　"If the Roman Catholic Church's carefully trained ace exorcist nun can temporarily resist my hypnosis with her unwavering faith, I'll accept it. But how come you can even break the hypnosis of a magical girl?"

　So Elaine silently picked up the note.

　The small slip of paper was handwritten in fine Latin, and anyone with knowledge could tell at a glance that it was a precious medieval manuscript Bible, its torn pages at least a thousand years old. Inscribed on it was a verse from the New Testament: "Let marriage be honored among all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will be judged by God."

　Elaine flipped the note over again. This time, the professor looked closely at the contents and nearly vomited blood—because on the reverse side of this ancient Bible, written were the five characters "Lei Lei Lei" (thunder) and the autograph of Qi Xing, the "Master Lei Pu"!

　"How could a nun like you do such a thing? This is also a holy object, right?!"

　"A sacred object that can't save people is worthless, even less than a hair." Elaine disagreed and explained calmly, "Prayers and spells to prevent couples from cheating can temporarily work, even if he and I are just pretending to be married."

　"You underestimated us, Professor Vanstra. Without absolute confidence that we wouldn't be hypnotized, how could we have dared to conduct separate searches? It's a shame we underestimated you, too. We didn't expect you to have already established an 'Inner Realm'."

　Together with Qi Xing, they prepared for hypnosis, but they didn't expect the hypnotist to be so powerful that he could hypnotize the world and create his own little world—this was a major mistake for Elaine on this mission. Furthermore, this talisman only worked on mental hypnosis; they were truly unable to resist hypnosis that interfered with physical things.

　If Professor Fan only had the ability to hypnotize people, it would not be impossible for Elaine to hunt him down alone even if there was a difference in realm.

　As for why this note also works on the magical girl Artemina, Elaine is just trying to save her life.

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　Artemina was just rescued by "Master Leipu" the day before yesterday, and her head is still full of pink bubbles with single arrows. Now she is stimulated by the thunder talisman, so the hypnosis of the hypnotist can no longer satisfy her?

　This cause and effect is truly amazing. If Qi Xing hadn't gone to save the magical girl the day before yesterday, none of these miraculous coincidences would have happened.

　in other words,

　"Why can't I be hypnotized? Is there even a need to ask? You're playing the god Osiris in this 'other world.' Although you were once the wife of your brother's wife, the god of fertility who fathered children with another man's wife, you were assassinated by your brother for this, and your body was chopped off and fed to crocodiles."

　After saying that, Elaine snorted coldly.

　"How could Osiris, who already has no chickens, marry someone else's wife? You idiot bastard."

　For a moment, the air around them was as cold as dry ice.

　The magical girl was speechless.

　Professor Vanstra finally exploded with anger.

　"I! I'm going to kill you, you filthy nun who's full of dirty jokes! I'm definitely going to kill you!"

　The awkward silence lasted less than a second before the professor's uncontrolled screams shook the entire "Inner World." Elaine and Artemina felt as if the core of their world had been ripped apart by rage, sending a shiver down their spines.

　Elaine immediately opened fire, and Artemina also reacted and continued to shoot arrows, but the enraged professor simply blocked their attacks with a jet of telekinesis.

　From within his fury, a long, red-black object wriggled out. The protrusion at the front resembled the head of a reptile, and the way it crouched, twisting, and moving forward resembled a snake—but it was huge, incredibly huge, as tall as a two-story building, like a giant snake, standing erect in anger, its curved head raised, and spewing venom. Only its tail was different from a snake's, with two particularly large tumors.

　The "Inner World" is the world reflected from the heart of the Creator. In other words, this is Professor Vanstra's deep conscious anger manifested, this is what he calls "the God in the heart of the self."

　A huge █.

　Such a brazen and stinking evil god, filled with ugliness and madness. Ordinary people would go mad and collapse just by looking at it. That's how awesome it is.

　"Is this a psychological compensation phenomenon for the loss of █?"

　The nun was not afraid at all and sneered at the sight.

　"Don't mock him anymore!"

　The magical girl was genuinely frightened. It was obvious that her flat-shooting Moonlight Arrow wasn't powerful enough to penetrate the six-meter-long giant. If they continued fighting like this, the situation would be extremely disturbing.

　Elaine cursed bitterly, but she also knew that it was unwise to fight the Creator's █ in the depths of the "Inner World" with only herself and the magical girl who happened to come aboard. Although the two of them wouldn't be killed instantly, they could probably only hold out.

　Either fight a retreat and try to retreat to the shallows, or hold out here, waiting for Qi Xing to arrive in time, but who knows if he can come to my aid in time... Which side should I choose? Or should I adapt to the situation?

　"Artemina, besides this flat-shooting light arrow, what other abilities do you have? Tell me."

　The nun asked the magical girl,

　"Don't be afraid. I'm the assistant of Master Leipu, and I'm the one who makes the battle plans. I know all the secrets of myth and magic. I'll teach you how to deal with a mere fool."

　At least she acted confident.

　-

　Let’s go back to the shallow layer of the “inner world” and Qi Xing’s side.

　He looked at the people in the cruise ship lobby who were exchanging wine and bread for chickens, and couldn't help falling into deep thought.

　This act of cutting a chicken and exchanging it for wine is obviously a sacrificial ritual.

　It is not offered for the calling, but for the resurrection of the dead.

　That being said, Qi Xing's knowledge of the occult wasn't particularly profound. Even when he saw the priestesses singing, dancing, and cutting people, he could only grasp the general idea. How the ritual was conducted, how to stop it, and what its core lay—Qi Xing had no idea.

　As far as Qi Xing knew, generally speaking, all "inner realms" were pocket dimensions that existed outside of reality. However, they could be entered from the physical world, and there were at least three levels.

　The shallow layer is very similar to the real world; at first glance, there's not much difference. An average person caught in it might not even be able to tell the difference. The cruise ship lobby, with its singing, dancing, and chicken-cutting, is a clear example of the shallow "inner world." While human behavior has become frantic, the laws of physics remain relatively normal.

　As for the deeper levels of the "Inner World," they become a distinctly alien world. Even the common laws of physics can be rewritten there. Therefore, battling the ruler of the "Inner World" is often incredibly difficult. Because they themselves determine the rules of this alien world, they can, of course, create environments, objects, and soldiers out of thin air, and transform captured humans into monsters.

　Finally, there's the so-called "Inner World" core, which, as far as Qi Xing knows, is often referred to as the "Ventricular." It's said that destroying the "Ventricular" can cause the entire "Inner World" to collapse. However, to enter the "Ventricular," one must first traverse deeper layers; they can't simply force their way through the real world.

　Qi Xing had a very ominous premonition about the current difficulty in moving forward: in this world of butter, simply "waiting" would be too suicidal. He had to take the initiative and act first, otherwise something would definitely happen elsewhere.

　“Tsk, I have a feeling that Elaine may have found the deeper level and is fighting over there.”

　Although Qi Xing has not obtained the true Dharma and has not realized the great way of the golden elixir, he is still a half-immortal who lives in the world forever and is immortal. He will also have a flash of inspiration and feel something.

　Thinking about it

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　, he couldn't help but complain after sensing something: "Although we entered the maze together, my teammates immediately reached the bottom, and I'm still climbing the map - what kind of lousy game design is this?"

　Yet a lot of butter is like that. Don't complain, Rip!

　Qi Xing calmed down and continued to watch the chicken-cutting ceremony carefully. If he could understand the symbolism of this ritual, he should be able to enter deeper levels—this is how the "Inner Realm" generally operates.

　but……

　“Who can understand this?”