My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

“Huff…”

But she quickly snapped back to her senses.

At this moment, there was no more time to dwell in that feeling.

“Miss Amber, what exactly is Senior Airwen's current situation?”

Su Fang tightened her grip on the sniper rifle, her gaze fixed on the black-haired girl high above who remained completely unaffected by anything: “And why aren't our all-out attacks working on Her at all?”

“Tch, I admit I'm a little moved too… but this isn't the time to be sentimental, is it!”

Tang Keren couldn't help but cut in from the side, her pink twin ponytails swaying restlessly behind her head. “At a time like this, we should just all gang up on Her! We've got five Full Blooms right here!”

“No, ordinary attacks really are useless.”

Lin Guang stared at the black-haired girl in the sky, her left hand clenched tightly over the Soul Gem on her chest, feeling its searing heat.

Her talent and an instinct deep within both told her just how terrifying the Witch King before her truly was.

It was an existence born from endless accumulated karma, devouring boundless despair and screams, gestated by over a hundred witches… a being beyond the imagination of anything mortal.

And that wasn't all.

At this very moment, almost the entire world was already held firmly in Her grasp.

Against an existence with such a massive gap in scale, normal attacks were completely ineffective.

Tang Keren's eyes went wide: “For real?”

“Mengmengxiang is right. She's already extremely close to being fully born.”

Amber's expression also grew serious.

She gently shook her head, her usually seductive eyes now stern as she looked at the group: “In our current state, just attacking… even if we drain all our magic power and burn out our souls, we simply can't stop Her.”

“If we don't first figure out the nature of Her Domain and the ritual, all our attacks are just wasted effort.”

Tang Keren bit her lip.

As anxious as she was, she knew the crimson girl's judgment was never wrong, so she could only patiently listen to Amber's words.

“Whether it's the witches born from devouring those magical girls, or these three thousand three hundred thirty-three reset cycles, or the endless karma and despair accumulated over that long, long time… it's all just part of a single grand ritual.”

“A Forbidden Species… or an A-Rank Transcendent, even in the outside world, is no different from a god.”

“So, it's not wrong to call this ritual a so-called [Divine Ascension Ritual].”

“She is the Abyss Will within the Soul Gem, likely formed from the endless despair in the heart of that former magical girl, combined with the Abyss that has been eroding from the outside.”

Amber's voice flowed calmly through the space: “And the end point of this ritual… besides unifying Her Domain, she must also plunge the remnant of the original owner of that Soul Gem—that is, her other half, Airwen—into utter despair, thereby completing the final witch transformation.”

“In the end, they will merge into one, devouring all the people and things in Utopia, along with all the despair and hope. Using that as a springboard, they will truly leave this world, being born into existence.”

“Thus fulfilling that prophecy.”

“Su Jingyan has already told us what happened back then.”

The Phoenix beside them also picked up the thread.

In her white-haired girl form, she tilted her head up slightly, looking at the Fragments of Hope still shining with various colors in the sky, her expression grave:

“The Sacred Tree, as the foundation that maintains this world, its power simply cannot be taken so easily.”

“Theoretically speaking, the Sacred Tree was born from the last sliver of hope within this Soul Gem, symbolizing the part the Abyss could never erode.”

“So… the entire ritual needs a catalyst.”

“And that was the trap She laid from the very beginning.”

The Phoenix withdrew her gaze, her look becoming heavy: “After She used the efforts of Su Jingyan and us to create this world, the Abyss power that had originally appeared to be dormant went into chaos, gravely wounding the Sacred Tree.”

“And before we entered this world, She created another remnant, a twin born from Herself. She created its memories and also altered our perceptions.”

“That remnant was naturally a replica of that original Soul Gem owner's appearance and personality. Thus, it instinctively drew close to the Sacred Tree. Even though it was born from the Abyss's power, it could still forge a contract with the Sacred Tree and could even bear its authority.”

Zihan murmured: “…So, that was the Silver of Judgment.”

“She deliberately shaped Airwen, the only one to awaken combat arts, into a senior and guide for past magical girls. She even gave her the portion of Su Jingyan's authority that could go to the outside world and manage the Sacred Tree's blessings. She Herself, not yet born, was hidden inside Airwen, sleeping.”

“In every cycle, every single fragment the magical girls worked so hard to collect passed through Airwen's hands without exception.”

“That means…”

“These Fragments of Hope meant to save the Sacred Tree had already passed through the hands of a witch. They were quietly contaminated long, long ago.”

“And the last few large, special fragments were repeatedly contaminated during the collection efforts of the eighth and ninth generations of magical girls.”

The Phoenix's tone carried a hint of helplessness: “That's why Her erosion of the Sacred Tree's foundation is happening so abnormally fast right now.”

Lin Guang frowned slightly, a flicker of fire in her eyes, as if she had caught onto some key element.

— On the Fragments of Hope… traces were left behind?

“Wait.”

Tang Keren suddenly furrowed her brow and looked at Amber, “You just said Airwen was a remnant She created to imitate the original Soul Gem owner?”

“But Airwen… her soul actually exists, right? Otherwise, she couldn't have undergone witchification, and she couldn't have stayed in Full Bloom just now.”

“Are you saying a remnant can turn the tables and become something truly real?”

“Normally, of course, that's impossible. But Domains are just that kind of unbelievable thing.”

“She is the Witch King representing Pride. After being gestated and born, the Domain She controls is naturally Pride itself.”

Amber's eyes reflected the figure of the black-haired girl high in the sky, and she spoke each word with deliberate clarity:

“So-called Pride means ignoring everything other than oneself, taking oneself as the absolute center.”

“In other words, as long as She deems something as real, then it is real. Conversely, anything She judges to be an illusion can only be a meaningless illusion.”

Su Fang's eyes lit up with sudden realization: “So, those all-out attacks we just launched were, in Her eyes…”

“Illusions?”