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Bai Shimo stared blankly at the figure before her, her lips half-parted, murmuring as if in a trance.
“Why are you here… and why… are you saving me…”
She seemed to have completely forgotten the danger she was still in—the black tentacles still coiled around her, the raging mud still lurking beyond the barrier.
All she could see was the beautiful woman in front of her.
“That doesn’t matter right now.”
Su Yuan waved her hand, and the thorny vine coiled around her palm transformed into a bladed whip.
She focused on slicing through the slimy tentacles still wrapped around Bai Shimo’s limbs, one by one.
“You’re right.
It doesn’t matter.
As long as you’re back.”
Bai Shimo let out a dazed, blissful laugh.
The moment the last major tentacle was severed with a sharp rip—
Bai Shimo’s body suddenly lost all support and collapsed forward.
Su Yuan had already opened her arms, catching her securely.
The girl’s body was light, trembling slightly, her cheek pressed against the warmth of Su Yuan’s neck.
“You’re so kind…”
She nestled in Su Yuan’s embrace, her voice muffled but carrying a smile of complete trust.
But the tender moment lasted less than two seconds.
Boom—!
A sickening crack sounded from above!
Su Yuan’s pupils contracted as she jerked her head up.
The dome of the thorn-woven barrier was beginning to collapse—large chunks of vines breaking apart as if crushed by an invisible force.
Then, the ground beneath them shook violently!
The tall buildings on either side, which had stood as still as backdrops, suddenly split open with countless dark fissures.
Like toppled blocks, they began collapsing one row after another onto the narrow street where they stood!
“Shimo, hold tight!”
Su Yuan shouted.
She didn’t have time to think.
She tightened her arm around Bai Shimo’s waist, burst mana from her feet, and lunged forward with all her strength!
BOOM—!!!
A deafening roar erupted from behind them.
Brick, steel, glass, and nameless dark matter—mixed with dust and smoke—crashed down like a tidal wave onto the spot where they had just been standing.
Shards of rock and foul mud rained down on them!
Su Yuan twisted mid-air, using her vines to deflect most of the impact while shielding the girl in her arms.
“Fool!
Do you really think these little tricks can match me?
I can’t believe you’re wasting your mana on such useless moves.”
From the darkness above, that hoarse, mocking voice echoed again, relishing the cat-and-mouse game.
Su Yuan knelt on one knee, holding Bai Shimo close to her side.
Her back ached from the impact, and her mana was running low from the continuous spellcasting.
But her face showed no panic.
She only tightened her grip on Bai Shimo’s cold hand.
“Miss Succubus… are you… are you hurt?”
Bai Shimo blinked, reaching up to gently brush the dust from Su Yuan’s cheek, her eyes full of tenderness.
Maybe it was instinct, maybe it was just a spur-of-the-moment thing.
In her older-sister form, Su Yuan smiled softly and held the hand pressed against her cheek.
“As long as it’s for you, I don’t mind getting hurt.”
At those words, Bai Shimo’s eyes lit up.
Her gaze clung to Su Yuan’s face, as if this person were the only savior in this false world.
“Miss Succubus… I…”
But Su Yuan didn’t respond to her.
She turned her attention back to the surging, encroaching mud ahead.
Her gaze slowly steadied.
What a nuisance.
As a low-rank demon, her power was inherently far below that of a high-rank one.
And now she was inside the enemy’s barrier.
Winning on her own was nearly impossible.
But right now, she couldn’t afford to retreat.
The red-haired woman channeled her mana.
New thorny vines burst from the ground, their sharp tips rearing like serpents, lunging fiercely at the tide of mud.
But this time, the mud seemed even more sinister.
The moment the vines wrapped around it, they were completely engulfed by the viscous sludge—unable to find any purchase.
Above, the hoarse laugh echoed again, cruel and amused: “Fool!
You think these little tricks can match me?
I never expected you to waste your mana on such useless moves—”
Before it could finish, a tentacle ensnared in the mud suddenly shriveled at a visible rate.
The mucus on its surface evaporated rapidly, as if drained of all moisture.
Then, the entire mud flow slowed—the thrashing tentacles grew sluggish, as if someone had pressed slow-motion.
And the vines that had been buried in the mud burst forth again from the dried clods!
They absorbed the moisture and energy from the mud, growing at an astonishing speed!
Within moments, the thorny vines under Su Yuan’s control had grown so massive they overwhelmed the attacking tentacles!
Now!
Su Yuan chanted the spell she used most often.
[Breaker Spell – Pierce]
Hundreds of thick vine tips sharpened into piercing spikes, striking the tentacle swarm hidden in the mud.
In an instant, the tentacles were stripped and pierced, their origins revealed.
The mud, now without its support, seemed drained of all vitality—no longer surging, it dried into loose, crumbling clods that scattered from the air.
“How is this possible…
Who taught you that spell?!”
The voice from above was filled with disbelief.
It had assumed Su Yuan’s vines were nothing more than brute-force resistance.
It had never expected that Su Yuan had used entanglement as a lure—lying in wait to absorb power—before delivering the fatal strike with Pierce!
“No… no!
Do you think this means you’ve won?!”
The voice above trembled with rage, as if trying to forcibly revive the remaining mud.
But by now, the vines had grown immensely strong from the nourishment.
As long as the damage remained within acceptable limits, Su Yuan’s counter-spell could store the mana from the enemy’s attacks within her thorn vines.
Then, once the storage cap was reached, she could seize the moment and strike back with the enemy’s own power all at once!
The demon above had been so focused on attacking that it had never noticed its own mana flowing steadily into Su Yuan’s hands!
Now, having “fattened” her with its own power, trying to defeat her in one blow was impossible!
“Fool… you damned fool of a succubus!!
I’ll—”
Crack!
A clear, sharp sound split the sky.
Then, the Security Bureau-issue communicator at Bai Shimo’s waist flashed red.
“Crackle… crackle…”
Amidst the heavy static, a middle-aged male voice broke through intermittently:
“Molly!
Respond…
District A crisis resolved… reinforcements en route… Star Vault squad ready…
“…External barrier is under… heavy magical artillery saturation… structural cracks detected… we will breach momentarily… crackle… report your internal status immediately… crackle…”
The transmission cut off.
In an instant, the voice from above began to panic.
“What?
Reinforcements?
They’ve damaged the barrier from the outside!?”
“Those useless fools… I spent so much effort on preparations, and all they could do was buy this little time—worthless!”
It screeched and struggled, letting out a miserable wail.
But the sound of the barrier shattering kept coming, and in the distance, the faint rumble of heavy firepower could still be heard.
Su Yuan guessed that because Bai Shimo had been trapped in the illusion for too long, the Security Bureau had finally decided to act decisively.
What surprised her, though, was this:
Though the external barrier was breaking, the illusion within the door seemed completely unaffected.
The scenery remained the same.
The sky still hung frozen.
Apart from the unseen demon above, which had let out a few shrieks and fled, nothing seemed to have changed.
After a long while, when she was certain that the dead mud would not stir again and no new threats lurked nearby—
Su Yuan finally let her tense nerves relax, letting out a long breath.
Thankfully, with the Security Bureau’s external support, they were finally safe.
But for some reason, this illusion—sundered from time and space by mana—had not dissipated along with the barrier.
Now, in this perfectly still world,
Only she—in her older-sister form—and Bai Shimo remained.
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