60: the truth

The next morning, sunlight filtered through the gaps in the curtains, gently spilling into the room.

Xiang Yan slowly opened his eyes, the amorous memories of last night flooding his mind like a tide.

The person in his arms was still fast asleep, her skin as white as snow, and her green hair emitting a faint scent of nature.

He couldn't help but gently stroke her smooth back, the texture delicate and soft, like fine silk.

If one had to summarize it, it could only be said: luscious!

It could only be said that she was truly worthy of being a Magical Girl, especially since he had Emerald Star maintain her Magical Girl form the entire time, and then engaged in all sorts of play—it was incredibly satisfying!

"NICE!"

While Xiang Yan was still reminiscing, he suddenly felt movement beside him and saw Emerald Star slowly open her eyes, looking around in confusion.

Her face flushed with crimson, and she immediately shrank back under the covers, wrapping herself up tightly.

Seeing this adorable sight, Xiang Yan's good brother applied to enter the battlefield once again.

Xiang Yan approved it instantly.

Amidst Emerald Star's exclamation.

The intense battle began once more.

Just like that, time passed quickly in the six months of Xiang Yan and Amatsuki Futaba's intimacy.

During these six months, Xiang Yan had tried every kind of play—the ones that could be spoken of, the ones that couldn't, the healthy ones, the unhealthy ones, the perverted ones, and the non-perverted ones.

It made him so happy he forgot to go home, drowning in this gentle trap, and even creating the thought that "this isn't bad either."

Unfortunately, Xiang Yan was a bad seed, and his nature as a pervert woke him up; compared to hanging from a single crooked tree, he still wanted to possess the entire forest.

To avoid the thought of hanging himself on a single crooked tree again, he decided it was time to "release" Amatsuki Futaba and Snow Rabbit.

With this thought in mind, Xiang Yan took Amatsuki Futaba and left Mingyu City, arriving deep in an uninhabited forest.

He found a random spot, dug a hole, tossed Snow Rabbit inside, covered it with about 20 meters of dirt, reinforced it a little, and the job was done.

Then, he intercepted a small portion of the information previously transmitted by the Ring of Truth, added a bit of insignificant stuff himself, just to scare it.

He then attached the aura of the Ring of Truth to this information to ensure the rabbit wouldn't think this was another round of torture for it.

After finishing all this, Xiang Yan clapped his hands and returned to Mingyu City.

Not long after, the Snow Rabbit buried in the dirt finally woke up.

It struggled to crawl out of the dirt, shook the soil off its body, its head still a bit dizzy, but that didn't stop it from muttering to itself.

"God-damned bastard! Pervert! Burying me over 20 meters underground—if it weren't for my special life form, I'd probably be done for this time."

But soon, it felt some unfamiliar information appearing in its mind, mixed with an aura that made it feel incredibly familiar—it was the aura of the great Ring of Truth, which every creature in Sacred Hall Heaven had a chance to feel.

It quickly browsed through the information in its mind, knowing that this attack was actually related to this newly descended "Evil" Your Highness; if the Ring of Truth hadn't spoken personally, both it and Meng Yu would likely have been done for.

Fortunately, it had managed to keep its life for now. As for Meng Yu, it would burn more paper money for her next year, but the most important thing now was to hurry up and take its Shuangye-chan and run; after all, the information said it only had 4 days, and if it couldn't do it, it could forget about leaving.

Realizing this, Snow Rabbit didn't dare to delay in the slightest. It immediately followed the faint connection in the contract with Amatsuki Futaba and rushed toward Mingyu City.

It completely disregarded the consumption of energy within its body, constantly increasing its speed.

A day later, inside the villa in Mingyu City, Xiang Yan was sitting on the sofa, holding Amatsuki Futaba in his arms.

He could clearly feel Snow Rabbit's aura approaching quickly, and the corners of his mouth curled up involuntarily.

He lowered his head and kissed Amatsuki Futaba's lips gently, the movement soft and lingering.

Xiang Yan felt Snow Rabbit's aura getting closer and closer; in a few minutes, it would step through the apartment door.

He gently stroked Amatsuki Futaba's soft long hair, kissed her forehead, and said softly: "I'm going back to the room to get something, I'll be back soon."

A flush of crimson flew onto Amatsuki Futaba's cheeks, her eyes unfocused, and she gave a soft "Mn."

Her mind flashed with memories of the past half-year, where Xiang Yan would often grab her without warning to engage in incredibly intense battles. She shyly lowered her head, her heart pounding.

Xiang Yan stood up with an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth and walked upstairs with steady steps. His footsteps echoed on the stairs, one by one, as if stepping on the tip of Amatsuki Futaba's heart.

After Xiang Yan went upstairs, Amatsuki Futaba consciously transformed, then sat on the sofa, waiting obediently.

Two minutes later, a fluffy, snow-white rabbit appeared out of thin air in front of Amatsuki Futaba, just like when they first met.

Emerald Star was incredibly pleasantly surprised after seeing the thing that suddenly appeared before her.

"Snow Rabbit, you're back?!" Amatsuki Futaba cried out in surprise, her eyes sparkling with joy.

Snow Rabbit, however, looked anxious and spoke in a rush: "Futaba, there's no time to explain, hurry and come with me!"

Amatsuki Futaba was stunned and asked in confusion: "What happened? Why..."

Before she could finish, Snow Rabbit suddenly pulled a large handful of snow-white fur from its body.

That fur seemed to have a life of its own; it drifted onto the floor, quickly arranged itself, and formed a Magic Circle emitting a faint glow.

Before Amatsuki Futaba could react, the light of the Magic Circle suddenly intensified, instantly enveloping her and Snow Rabbit.

The next second, their figures vanished from the spot, leaving only a pile of rabbit fur that had turned to ash on the floor.

Xiang Yan strolled downstairs, looked at the remaining ash on the floor, and a playful smile curled the corners of his mouth.

"A wily rabbit has three burrows—the ancestors truly didn't deceive me..." He chuckled. During the year he caught this damn rabbit, he had almost examined every inch of Snow Rabbit's body, yet he hadn't expected this little thing to hide such a trick, and hide it so well. It seemed this was another life-saving trump card given to it by its so-called "Sister Bing Lan."

However, none of that mattered now.

He walked toward the floor-to-ceiling window, cast his gaze into the distance, and his eyes gradually became profound and filled with anticipation.

It was time for him to start his "great cause"—striving for the rise of Monsters!

Speaking of this cause, one had to mention what happened after the rabbit gave in.

After the rabbit surrendered, Xiang Yan kept asking it questions based on the knowledge he had obtained from Yin.

Before asking, Xiang Yan set a requirement: for every question he asked, the rabbit had to answer immediately. If there was even the slightest hesitation, he would increase the intensity for it, letting it test its own limits.

Surprisingly, even after he had messed with the rabbit for so long, this guy was saying it surrendered, but its actual actions were still dishonest, attempting to mislead him with ambiguous answers and dig traps for him.

Ultimately, after comparing the knowledge given by the three—the rabbit, Meng Yu, and Yin—both the rabbit and Meng Yu, who had been tortured by him, were trying to dig traps for him.

On the contrary, Yin was the most honest one!

Although after comparing, he discovered that the knowledge obtained from Yin was all castrated and not high-level, it couldn't be helped that she was honest; she didn't have a single bit of malicious intent!

No wonder she could become an existence that managed the rules, while you two guys could only be repeatedly humiliated and rubbed by him—when it comes to vision, this is the gap!

That said, after Yin's knowledge was verified, combined with the massive wave of intelligence Nelson had previously filled him with, he finally understood what path this world's Transcendent system was actually taking.

At first, he thought that, like many other worlds, this place followed a traditional magic system.

It was just that the people of this world had pointed their skill and class trees in the wrong direction.

At the same time, he had another doubt at the time: why was there no presence of Transcendent power factors in the air?

Could it be that this world had a Spirit Gathering Array similar to those in the Immortal Realm, but this "Spirit Gathering Array" was too fierce and had drained the entire world dry?

It wasn't until the rabbit arrived and performed a flashy operation that it slightly lifted the veil of this world's Transcendent system for him. He had some guesses, but it was still like looking at flowers through fog.

It wasn't until he caught Meng Yu and the rabbit and obtained that knowledge, combined with his Legacy memories, that the puzzle was finally complete, and he finally knew what this Transcendent system was.

This world followed a path similar to achieving godhood through faith; to be precise, it was a lower-level variant branch of achieving godhood through faith, which he called the path of 【Ascension through Emotion】.

This Transcendent path made Xiang Yan attach great importance to it.

In Xiang Yan's view, this was a Transcendent system that took benefiting oneself at the expense of others to the extreme, an extremely terrifying one that could be called a natural disaster.

So-called faith accepts everything regardless of good or bad; for example, I believe in a god, and whether I believe in him because I love him or because I fear him, he will accept it all.

But it was different here; the Transcendents here had split people's emotions, dividing them into a binary opposition of good and evil.

Magical Girls only needed the good aspects, only absorbing positive emotions to constantly increase their own power, and this would also cause Magical Girls to constantly move toward true truth, goodness, and beauty.

Hearing this, do you think this system is very beautiful? After all, this is a system that can truly shape a perfect person.

Now there is a question: the good has been accepted, so where did the discarded evil go?

The answer is that it constantly piles up, piles up, and piles up again, until one day, quantitative change produces qualitative change, giving birth to terrible disasters.

These disasters don't just refer to the forces of nature—that's only a part of it—but will also give birth to some other uncontrollable existences.

In fact, when it reaches this step, there is still a way to solve it, which is for the Transcendents to be ruthless enough and let these born uncontrollable existences slaughter the ordinary people.

Without ordinary people emitting evil, there is no support, and because killing all ordinary people allows a large amount of evil to be vented, these existences will all perish in self-consumption.

And the Transcendents only need to keep some seeds; after all the uncontrollable existences are done for, they can spread the seeds again, and a perfect cycle can be achieved.

But this cycle is impossible to achieve because the Magical Girls who have accepted goodness cannot just watch ordinary people be slaughtered; they will only stand up to protect the ordinary people.

This also causes another more serious consequence: disasters appear, and heroes emerge.

The hero saves the world and gains worship and admiration, but this hero is not some hypocrite, nor is she a villain; she is truly bathing in blood fighting for the people, a truly righteous, glorious, and correct image, plus her looks are also very impressive.

Hmm...

The number of people who treat her as a goddess—simps, ah no, people who worship and admire this goddess—will increase.

Correspondingly, the goodness contributed to her will also be greater, and the disaster will also be greater.

Going back and forth like this, the more people worship this hero named Magical Girl, the more they hope she will protect them, and the more they regard her as a guardian deity...

The more goodness, hope, worship, and emotions people split off, the more there are.

And the disaster becomes more powerful, people need protection more, are increasingly unable to resist, and are increasingly unable to escape the protection of the Magical Girls, only able to live under their shelter.

And Magical Girls will also, because of the increasing power and number of disasters, cause ordinary people to accelerate their reproduction to allow more Magical Girls to be born.

This is a terrible cycle.

Over time, Magical Girls will eventually die at the hands of the disasters they created, and civilization will be completely extinguished.

At that time, the world will will step in to recreate civilization and sow this Transcendent path again.

Why would the world will allow this disaster-level system to continue?

As for the reason, Xiang Yan also understood: because the biggest characteristic of the faith system is fast growth speed and strong combat power; as long as there are enough people, it's even hard to die.

For a world, the most important thing is its own growth; what it needs is enough, sufficiently powerful warriors.

Even if this civilization is finished and there are no warriors to protect it, that doesn't matter; it actually can't wait for you to hurry up and invade.

Only in this way can new heroes be created; the more people you bring, the harder you fight, the faster the warriors here will grow.

As the fighting goes on, the enemy will discover that although they are clearly the invaders, they don't know when they started to become the invaded.

At the same time, because of the nature of this system, the invaded party will soon be dragged into this never-ending cycle, and in the end, they won't even know how they died.

The original normal situation should have developed like this, but unfortunately, a truly capable person appeared in this world—the World Proxy "Ring of Truth."

This guy improved this system and created the two creatures "Monsters" and "Magical Pet." Monsters are used to guide and consume negative energy, and at the same time, they can achieve the effect of training the Magical Girls, thereby ensuring that the Magical Girls' power always maintains an advantage, avoiding the ending of self-destruction.

As for the Magical Pet side, he didn't know much about it; after all, it wasn't in the data, and he didn't dare to guess randomly. As for the results obtained after studying the rabbit, he could only say it was better than nothing.

The reason why this system can truly be called a natural disaster and extremely selfish lies in another point: in this new system, after Magical Girls grow to a certain level, they possess the ability to autonomously cut off good and evil.

But these Magical Girls do not have the ability to consume this evil.

Once they step onto the stage of the Main Universe, when facing opponents, as long as the Ring of Truth is ruthless enough, its methods are hard enough, and its operations are flashy enough, one Magical Girl destroying one, or even multiple civilizations, is not a dream!

Happy Minor New Year to all you readers!