The Dark Witch rose to fame overnight!

“Dark Witch?”

“Is she a magical girl?”

“It’s already said she’s the Dark Witch, can’t you hear—”

Luo You curled her lips into a wide, carefree grin, pointing her thumb at herself as she declared:

“Remember this well—the one killing you is the powerful rival of the Aurora Witch.”

The Dark Witch Ellie, who vows to slay the Aurora Witch Herrera beneath her very blade.

Swoosh!

Quei didn’t waste a single word, his figure darting out like a phantom as his limbs—

His arms whipped through the air, generating wind pressure akin to large-caliber bullets firing from the barrel.

Boom!

The next second, Quei flew backward at an even greater speed, crashing miserably—

Into the wall behind him.

“!?”

Allen didn’t dare to be careless; vast spiritual energy whipped up a miniature storm indoors, countless invisible blades stabbing fiercely toward Luo You.

This was a grandmaster’s exquisite application of spiritual energy, not a display of a grandmaster’s—

Core strength; it was merely probing Luo You’s response.

This wave of assault was effortlessly dissipated by the rippling gray-black waves around Luo You.

Quei rose to his feet at that moment, his two arms transforming into sharp blades made of nanomaterial capable of easily slicing through metal, his eyes exploding with infinite light.

Boom!

He flew backward once more.

Quei still hadn’t seen clearly; he only knew that the moment he approached Luo You, his body—

Suddenly retreated, as if pulled back by some unknown force.

“Mr. Quei, what the hell are you doing!?” Allen demanded.

“What do you mean?” Quei shot him a glance.

“You charge out and then rush back in a panic—what for? Even if I wanted to coordinate with you, I couldn’t!”

Quei’s pupils contracted instantly, disbelief washing over him.

“…Did I retreat on my own?”

He lowered his head to look at his legs, noticing a faint tremor.

Then he jerked his head up to stare at Luo You, only to see the woman calling herself the Dark Witch Ellie—

Surrounded by dancing, silky, semi-transparent liquid like gray ink, her face turning ashen.

In the face of the opponent’s mysterious power, he actually felt a shivering fear!

Allen’s expression grew grave as he asked, “What is that? Is it magic power!?”

“No, that’s not magic power!”

Quei said with utmost wariness.

It was normal to mistake it for magic power; after all, aside from magic power, only spiritual energy could achieve such transformations, but the opponent’s was clearly not spiritual energy.

“Could it be Herrera!?”

“Impossible; this doesn’t match any of the abilities she’s mastered! Unless she’s awakened a new one!”

“Combat personnel! Prepare!”

Quei roared with a explosive shout.

From the moment the fight broke out, most of the dignitaries outside had already fled, leaving only a few confident in their own strength lingering in place.

To see what was happening.

The security personnel outside surged in all at once.

These were specially selected elite troops, immensely powerful; though not quite the ace unit of the Inhuman Organization—like Zero Group, where nearly all were in the grandmaster realm—their combined force could overwhelm even a grandmaster.

“No use~”

Luo You pressed her index finger to her lips, smiling seductively. “At this level of combat power, no matter how many small fry come, they’ll only add unnecessary noise.”

The gray ink-like liquid suddenly spread open.

The sounds of over a dozen bodies being pierced rang out almost simultaneously; the gray ink-like liquid completely ignored their spiritual energy defenses, piercing through them with devastating ease, after which their bodies grayed, whitened, and decayed at an astonishing speed.

This scene made Allen’s scalp tingle—yes! This absolutely couldn’t be magic power!

“Desperate times!”

His fighting spirit surged; a burst of intense light exploded from his back, shattering the wall as he turned, sprinted, and fled.

That bastard!

Quei gritted his teeth; he wanted to run too, but Luo You’s killing intent remained locked on him, leaving no opening!

Luo You ignored Allen—a mere small fry; the only one she intended to kill today was Quei.

“Did Herrera send you to kill me?” Quei asked darkly.

“I already said I’m Herrera’s powerful rival—how could she have sent me?”

Luo You shook her head.

“You must not lay a hand on Herrera; she can only be defeated by me, and I will prove to the world that whatever Herrera can do, I can do too!”

“Then I’ll give up being enemies with Herrera and ally with you instead? If you want to defeat Herrera, find me from the Inhuman Organization—”

“No way! I’m the witch who will defeat Herrera single-handedly! In this world, only one person can call herself a witch!”

Luo You attacked using her origin substance.

The gray ink-like substance secreted several quail-egg-sized black dots, which brought Quei an intensely thick sense of crisis.

[Looks like I can’t hide it anymore!]

Quei’s eyes gleamed with ferocious light.

In his view, though this Dark Witch was indeed far stronger than a grandmaster, she was still worlds apart from Herrera herself!

Her expressiveness wasn’t even on par with some magical girls.

[Magical girls can handle ghost-level or even king-level dimensional beasts—can you?]

Quei’s eyes flowed with red killing intent.

His body suddenly swelled by a full circle; millions of pores on his body exuded ominous deep-sea substance, his limbs thickening into even more terrifying ferocious claws, his aura instantly multiplying several times over from before.

“Let me show you what true power is…

Regret your arrogance, then die.”

Quei’s killing intent swept over like a storm.

At the same time, not far away at the Magical Alliance branch, they detected a reaction from a dimensional beast’s appearance.

Alarms blared immediately, urging nearby residents to evacuate.

“A dimensional beast!? When did it sneak in?”

In the city, a girl transformed into a magical girl and approached the location of the star-rated hotel.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At the star-rated hotel’s position, an entire floor exploded, debris flying hundreds of meters away!

“This commotion! It’s at least ghost-level peak!”

The local magical girls’ captain—Bai Liu—grimly picked up the intercom.

“Request reinforcements immediately!”

The plea for aid was sent out at once; Folded-Wing Butterfly, hundreds of kilometers away, received the request.

“Ghost-level peak?”

Folded-Wing Butterfly didn’t hesitate, telling the Magical Alliance personnel:

“Activate the teleportation array; I’m heading over.”

Dongjian City was an inland city; the magical girls stationed there were second- or third-rate at best, with most of their time spent without opportunities to fight dimensional beasts.

They could at most handle mortal-level dimensional beasts—that was their limit; facing a ghost-level peak would likely result in heavy casualties!

Seeking aid from surrounding cities was useless; ghost-level peak exceeded the scope of second- and third-rate magical girls.

They had to call in from the front lines—at least two first-rate magical girls to reliably kill a ghost-level peak dimensional beast; otherwise, it would only add more deaths.

At the same time, Folded-Wing Butterfly frowned.

“There’s no issue with our Sea of Realms’ super-large star ring here, or is it… your Equatorial-level super-large star ring having problems?”

“It can’t be that even the Equatorial-level super-large star ring has issues…”

…

Constructing a teleportation magic over such a distance would take seven to eight minutes, but she hoped the magical girls in Dongjian City could hold out.

…

However, by the time Folded-Wing Butterfly arrived, the dimensional beast subjugation in Dongjian City had already ended.

Large numbers of firefighters entered the scene for extinguishing fires and rescue, along with massive security teams isolating the area and maintaining order.

The site was a cacophony of chaos.

Below the disaster relief scene, Allen had returned, concealing his appearance, surveying the site.

Standing with him was another dignitary, Shen Peng.

He had stayed to watch the excitement and thus witnessed the entire process.

“Truly unbelievable…” Allen stared blankly at everything before him, muttering to himself:

“They say ghost-level peak dimensional beasts are extremely powerful, capable of turning a thousand-meter radius into ruins in two minutes, but—”

Shen Peng, equally dazed, picked up his words, staring blankly at the scene as he said:

“Yeah, completely outmatched…”

Quei, who possessed the power of a ghost-level peak dimensional beast—one of the world’s top masters, second-in-command of the Inhuman Organization—

“Was utterly crushed!”

Half of the star-rated hotel ahead had collapsed; Quei lay quietly amid the rubble, his once robust body decayed and sunken, eyes bulging with bloodshot veins.

Looking at Quei’s expression, one could almost physically feel the terror he experienced in that moment.

The two of them hadn’t witnessed the entire battle but had seen most of it.

The woman who called herself the Dark Witch Ellie forcefully killed Quei and then swaggered away; no one could stop her.

“Dark Witch Ellie—this suddenly emerging existence, just who is she?”

The same question was on Folded-Wing Butterfly’s mind.

She had already learned of this person’s existence from the Dongjian City magical girls’ accounts.

Not a magical girl, yet she crushingly killed a ghost-level peak dimensional beast—where do spiritual ability users get that kind of power?

“Is it Herrera?” Folded-Wing Butterfly muttered with dark energy in her eyes.

“No, I don’t think so…”

A Dongjian City magical girl cautiously clarified:

“We all witnessed that battle earlier; the power used by that Dark Witch was completely different from Herrera’s, but extraordinarily strong—we couldn’t intervene at all, only passively rescuing people and preventing the aftermath from spreading…”

Folded-Wing Butterfly grew interested.

Not Herrera—then who in the world today could do such a thing?

She asked: “What else do you know?”

“Lady Folded-Wing Butterfly, I know, I know!”

One of Folded-Wing Butterfly’s little fangirls jumped up, raising her hand.

“I just heard from people who escaped that the Dark Witch Ellie claimed to be the powerful rival of the Aurora Witch Herrera, saying there can only be one who calls herself a witch in this world, and whatever Herrera can do, she can do too! Her attitude was super arrogant!”

Hearing this, Folded-Wing Butterfly slightly clenched her knuckles, her face darkening.

Following the Aurora Witch Herrera, another witch had appeared.

“Could she be yet another female pervert who preys on magical girls?” Folded-Wing Butterfly grumbled.

Who would’ve thought Herrera now had a follower, even calling herself a witch.

If this isn’t suppressed, in the future, anyone with extraordinary abilities might get corrupted by Herrera—everyone trying to imitate her by sleeping with one or two magical girls to prove themselves.

In that case, where would the Magical Alliance’s prestige be?

Where would the magical girls’ prestige be?

“I need to crush her arrogance.” Killing intent swirled around Folded-Wing Butterfly.

“I can’t handle the Aurora Witch, but surely I can handle a mere Dark Witch who popped out of nowhere?

“Dark Witch Ellie, I hope you live up to the title of ‘witch’….”