88: Chapter 88 Chanting, a Reckless Forbidden Spell!

Deep within its throat, a dark purple ball of light began to condense once more.

It was larger than before.

Brighter.

Closer to detonation.

Chu Yin's fingers froze in mid-air.

The sea of swords behind her was still there—thirty thousand swords, not a single one missing.

But she suddenly felt those swords were so small.

Before Demon Lord Xuangu's thirty-plus-meter stature, every sword looked like a toothpick.

Thirty thousand toothpicks, stabbing at a bone dragon capable of soaring through the heavens and traversing the earth.

Swords shattered and reformed.

Reformed and shattered again.

It was like an endless, futile, doomed-to-fail rain that couldn't pierce the opponent.

The crowd on the ground could see it too.

The cheers died down bit by bit.

The [Chu Yin!!!!] in the live stream comments turned into [...are they still fighting?], then [They can't pierce it, right?], and then silence.

A silence more terrifying than screaming.

Chu Yin bit her lip.

She bit until it bled.

She felt the soul gem on her chest heating up slightly—not because her magic power was exhausted.

It was because of something else.

Because of some ultimate skill that was constantly flickering, needing only one final step to be activated.

She looked down.

The fourth card in her deck—[Ultimate Move · Explosion Magic of the End]—was glowing.

It wasn't the ghostly blue fluorescent light of magic.

It was pink.

That extremely dazzling, extremely ominous, lace-trimmed shade of pink.

A line of small text appeared on the card face: [Activate by chanting. (Kyubey's note: This magic carries your wish; in addition to its base power, it will also carry the power of your wish, increasing its power by another 100%)]

Below that was an even smaller line of text: [Note: The incantation has been automatically matched to the user's native language. Please recite it aloud.]

Chu Yin stared at that line of text.

Silence.

Three seconds.

In the sky, the ball of light in Demon Lord Xuangu's mouth had expanded to the size of the entire plaza.

The black mist of Shadow One and Shadow Two had already seeped into the edges of the crowd.

Su Bai's voice came from the other side of the plaza.

[Chu Yin! The fourth card!]

[I can see it!!]

[Then hurry up and chant it!!]

"I—"

Chu Yin's face flushed.

Not out of excitement.

It was because she clearly saw the lines of large golden characters appearing on the card.

The words were arranged vertically.

They were embossed in gold.

They were written in some extremely flashy, chuunibyou-style font.

Each line was more toe-curling than the last.

She opened her mouth.

"Darker—"

She closed it.

No.

It was too embarrassing.

There were four billion people watching the live stream.

She didn't know if her master was still alive over by the Canglan Strait.

Su Bai was staring at her from across the plaza.

The cameras of the entire world were pointed at her.

To make her recite something like this in such a situation—

"Chu Yin, just chant any spell! The one engraved there is just something I scribbled; in reality, you just need to chant something long and chuunibyou enough to activate the magic, you don't have to memorize it!"

Su Bai shouted until his voice cracked.

Chu Yin closed her eyes.

Then she opened them.

Forget it, she had already lost all face anyway.

From the time she tried to rob Su Bai on the street, only to be one-shot and left kneeling on the ground crying, to just a moment ago when she was kneeling and shedding tears at the convention plaza while being live-streamed to the entire internet—her dignity had long since ceased to belong to her.

She took a deep breath.

She raised her right hand.

Then she shouted.

"Darker than the abyss—!!"

Her voice exploded over the ruins.

Demon Lord Xuangu's ball of light paused for a moment.

"More dusky than the twilight—!!"

Chu Yin's body began to glow.

Not the ghostly blue of the sea of swords—but pink.

An extremely dazzling pink.

The light surged out from the soul gem on her chest, wrapping around her limbs, wrapping around her torso, proliferating wildly within the magic storm.

She felt herself becoming elegant.

As she chanted, it was as if a Magical Girl named Mami Tomoe had bestowed power upon her; she saw yellow ribbon gloves wrapping around her arms, and magic high heels forming on her feet; immediately after, another girl named Megumin also began to exert her power...

Was this an illusion?

She felt as if they truly existed...

Meanwhile—the music started.

It wasn't ordinary BGM.

It was an extremely upbeat, extremely catchy, extremely out-of-place idol dance song that didn't fit the current battlefield atmosphere at all.

The lyrics were singing in a loop [Magic ♪ Magic ♪ Miracles and Magic ♪].

The volume was immense.

So loud that even Demon Lord Xuangu's bone armor was vibrating and humming.

Comments: [??????] [BGM????] [Playing an idol song on the battlefield??] [What is this sudden change in art style] [Did I switch to the wrong channel]

Chu Yin didn't care.

Since she had already humiliated herself, she might as well go all the way.

The staff was in her right hand.

She gripped that red magic staff, which was taller than she was.

The crimson magic crystal embedded in the staff flickered on and off to the beat of the BGM.

"Residing in my right arm, boiling in my soul—!"

A pink ball of magic light exploded from the tip of the staff.

The ball of light expanded, rotated, and frantically devoured the surrounding magic power amidst the rhythm of lace skirts.

"I swear in the name of causality—"

The ball of light expanded to three meters.

"Using shame as fuel—"

The ball of light expanded to ten meters.

The dark purple ball of light in Demon Lord Xuangu's mouth was already aimed at Chu Yin.

Two balls of light—one dark purple, one pink—confronted each other in mid-air.

The energy index of the dark purple ball of light had gone off the charts.

The energy index of the pink ball of light—the monitor couldn't read it.

It wasn't off the charts.

It was that the instrument didn't know how to classify this energy.

It wasn't in any known magic spectrum.

"Devour the light—tear the heavens—burn everything to ashes—!!"

The pink ball of light expanded to thirty meters.

Chu Yin's voice grew higher and higher, more and more excited.

She suddenly discovered something—as she chanted, it didn't seem so embarrassing anymore.

No, that wasn't it; it was too embarrassing, and instead, it produced a strange sense of satisfaction.

That feeling of opening the door to a new world after breaking through a certain bottom line.

"I am the spokesperson of the end—!"

The ball of light expanded to one hundred meters.

Demon Lord Xuangu's vertical mouth twisted.

It felt it.

The core of that pink ball of light was entwined with a certain law it had never encountered since its birth.

Causality.

It was not any of the seven major law systems.

It didn't belong to elements.

It didn't belong to time.

It didn't belong to space.

It didn't belong to soul.

It was brand new.

It was provided by the system.

It was from another dimension—an absolute law.

"I hereby declare—"

Chu Yin raised her staff.

The ball of light expanded to three hundred meters.

The entire city was dyed pink.

All the monsters still flying in the sky stopped moving simultaneously.

It wasn't that they wanted to stop—it was that the mass of the causality ball of light had become so large that it distorted the surrounding space-time curvature.

The black mist of Shadow One and Shadow Two began to be uncontrollably sucked toward the ball of light.

The two shadow demons struggled desperately in the opposite direction.

It was useless.

In the face of causality, the very concept of escaping did not exist.

"Explode—!!!!"