Chapter 189: The Slash That Erases the World

Almost instantly.

They had already displayed the momentum befitting the most perfect form they had achieved in past cycles.

Here, the magic power, whose purity and concentration had both reached their peak, coiled upward in response to their will and resonance, transforming into four pillars of light that enveloped them.

Blue, red, pink, purple.

As if they could tear apart the endless night of this place.

Even the massive golden Sacred Tree seemed to flicker faintly, as if responding to them.

However, Airwen merely stood calmly in place.

She reached into her suit pocket, pulled her hand out, closed her five fingers, held them across her chest, and gripped something within her fist.

The moment Airwen assumed this stance.

The liquid magic surface beneath her feet, which had been as still as a mirror, rippled with strange, layered waves. Black fog rose gracefully from the reflection below, carrying the high-purity magic as it converged toward Airwen’s palm.

The darkness coalesced in her hand, solidifying into a pitch-black sword devoid of any luster.

In that instant.

Everyone’s eyes widened uncontrollably.

It was indeed a weapon everyone was intimately familiar with, belonging to the young girl before them.

The Phantom Sword.

But now, the Soul Gem at the hilt, which had almost completely turned pure black, carried an indescribable sense of strangeness.

The outward appearance of the Soul Gem represented the magical girl’s soul state.

Didn’t that mean Airwen had already…

Zihan blurted out instinctively, “Hey! Silver of Judgment, your Soul Gem—”

Faster than her words was Airwen’s sword light.

Whoosh—

They had never seen Airwen wield her sword so fast, as if it were lonely slicing through time itself.

The sword seemed like a phantom, dissipating into nothingness as it swung.

But…

“!!!”

Su Fang, Tang Keren, and Zihan, who had been charging up, tensed up instantly.

A massive, bottomless darkness with an impossibly smooth edge silently appeared on the magic-condensed water surface ten meters in front of them, as if that section of space, along with the matter within it, had been erased by something.

The space slowly rebounded, as if trying to recover, but it was excruciatingly slow, as though it had left behind a scar that was difficult to remove.

“!!!” *3

Lin Guang, meanwhile, took a deep breath.

She had managed to “see” the trajectory and effect of that strike just now through her perception.

It was an almost invisible, illusory sword light.

Before that sword light, it seemed as if everything in existence, even the theoretically most authentic Origin Realm Space beneath their feet, was nothing more than a dreamlike illusion under this single slash.

This sword was like an eraser held in the creator’s hand, capable of casually wiping away superfluous lines on a canvas.

There was no doubt. Lin Guang had seen something like this before.

—It was the nothingness that erased everything during the world’s restart.

Although the color representation was slightly different, in essence, this sword aura was identical to the blackness that had erased everything when the world was reset last time.

The erasure power of the restart?!

And Zihan, staring at Airwen, who seemed to have expended no energy at all, murmured, “How is that possible…”

It wasn’t just her. Su Fang and Tang Keren were equally shaken to their core.

This slash was clearly a warning shot Airwen had deliberately aimed wide.

If she had actually swung that sword at them, without Full Bloom, never mind Lin Guang, at the very least, the three of them wouldn’t have had time to react before being utterly annihilated by this unobservable Phantom Sword Aura.

And this feeling, they had experienced it before.

It was the same as when they faced the Abyss King, fully charged and in his prime.

But even the Abyss King needed to rely on the immense scale of the entire Abyss to strengthen his charge, supported by endless black fog, to unleash a blow capable of severing the Sacred Tree Barrier.

Yet Airwen had only swung her sword so casually just now.

This meant that Airwen’s normal combat strength at this moment had already surpassed a B-Rank superhuman, or rather, the Abyss King himself, an [Infernal Species].

Could it be that Airwen truly was, as Phoenix said, the real master of this authority, and that was why she could wield it so effortlessly?

What was her true identity, after all—

Tang Keren gritted her teeth, thousands of thoughts coalescing into a single sentence:

“But she hasn’t even transformed yet!”

How could a magical girl be this powerful without transforming?!

“No.”

The crimson magical girl said softly, “She hasn’t not transformed.”

“?! ” *3

At this moment, Airwen slowly sheathed her sword, making no further moves, seemingly focusing most of her attention on corrupting the Sacred Tree.

The black fog spreading upward from beneath the water and entwining the Sacred Tree rose slightly higher.

Lin Guang spoke softly:

“This outfit is her Spirit Outfit.”

For Su Fang and the other two, Airwen’s aura was like a non-existent void. They couldn’t detect any trace of magic power, and only their eyes could confirm her presence.

But for Lin Guang, who possessed the [Precision Operation Engine] and [Soul Link]…

There was another way to interpret it.

Because she was too vast, her scale couldn’t be sensed.

Because she was too [Real], her very existence couldn’t be perceived.

Great sound is silent; great form is formless.

The information Phoenix and Amber had provided flowed through Lin Guang’s mind.

In this world, a magical girl’s Full Bloom was precisely the attempt and rehearsal for condensing the [True Transformation Element] needed to break through to B-Rank.

And the so-called authority, in essence, was the origin of [Utopia], which was the [True Transformation Element] within that Soul Gem.

And the strength of that former magical girl was definitely not limited to B-Rank.

This likely meant that this origin was far more powerful than ordinary B-Rank entities.

Therefore…

“The Spirit Outfit after Full Bloom changes according to the wearer’s will.”

Lin Guang said softly, “So this form is probably her Full Bloom.”

For Airwen, who had obtained the authority and the full support of the Abyss… maintaining the Full Bloom form at will didn’t seem impossible.

At this moment, from the distant Airwen, the calm voice beneath the mask came again.

“This is indeed my Full Bloom, my Spirit Outfit.”

Her voice echoed through the silent space, her tone containing only sheer emptiness: “It is merely a past determination.”

“The determination of a foolish, ignorant illusion that believed it truly existed, to return to the outside world.”

“But, as you must know by now.”

She said softly, “For me, neither hope nor the past exists.”

“All I have to do is face my own essence.”

Yet in the next instant.

As her words fell, four brilliant rays of light suddenly erupted in the dark space.

Four meteors dragged forth a mighty torrent of magic, streaking across the boundless darkness, scattering light along their path as they tried to illuminate the endless night.

“The hell you will!”