My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

“It’s just that an anomaly occurred, the Abyss erupted, and its origin split apart. So in essence, it’s probably correct that it and the Sacred Tree are two sides of the same coin.”

“And the current situation is also very simple.”

“If we say the entire world’s origin, the share representing ‘Truth,’ is 1, then the entanglement and struggle between the Sacred Tree and the Abyss is essentially a fight over the proportion each holds.”

“No matter how much nourishment the outside world provides, the total amount of this origin is fixed. If the Sacred Tree gains a little more, then the Abyss loses a little more, and vice versa.”

“So even if the Abyss can’t use something itself, it will instinctively seal it away, preventing the Sacred Tree from reclaiming it.”

Zihan looked thoughtful. “So, what you’re saying is that we’ve been gathering the scattered Fragments of Hope all this time precisely to increase the Sacred Tree’s origin…”

Phoenix nodded. “That’s right. Exactly.”

She picked up the thread. “But you can also see that the Abyss holds absolute initiative and advantage in this world. Even those five special Fragments of Hope—even if we manage to gather them, when the world resets, the Abyss will forcefully take them back.”

“So… it’s obvious. As the Abyss’s Executor and puppet, as long as Su Jingyan accumulates enough magic power through the Abyss’s support, he has an overwhelming advantage when facing us, the Sacred Tree’s Executors.”

“But he can’t truly kill us either, because the Sacred Tree’s authority has locked our soul state, preventing our souls from wearing down through the cycles.”

“This is authority—the battle for the ‘Truth’ that both sides hold.”

“Even though we Executors merely hold this authority without understanding how it works or functions, it still grants us a measure of transcendence over this world.”

“Beyond that, no matter how much magic power you have or how strong you appear on paper, it’s useless. You can’t harm us.”

“Because the magic power here is itself a false creation, built by the Sacred Tree and the Abyss using this origin, imitating the magic power of that outside world.”

“False things cannot harm real things. It’s like a character in a writer’s story being unable to turn around and harm the writer themselves.”

Amber said softly, “Except… for external truth.”

“That is, a magical girl’s Full Bloom—the rehearsal for ‘True Transformation.’”

The girls’ eyes sharpened.

“In this world, the only thing that can deal effective damage to Su Jingyan, enough to kill him and kick him out of the current cycle, is something that also touches upon truth—a magical girl in the Full Bloom state.”

“There is no other method.”

“Since the authority is at a disadvantage, and Airwen—like us—has her soul state locked by the Sacred Tree’s authority and cannot Full Bloom… then naturally, she can’t kill the Abyss King to reclaim that fragment either.”

Phoenix sighed softly. “And this is already the best situation we have after gathering most of the fragments.”

“At the very beginning, Airwen had already led the First Generation Magical Girls, who could all Full Bloom, to try and subdue the Abyss King at his fixed position.”

“But back then, because the Sacred Tree was in too poor a state, even though every First Generation Magical Girl Airwen led could Full Bloom, when facing the Abyss King, they still…”

“Later generations tried too. Some even won… But the result was always the same as the time before last. Even when we retrieved the largest Fragment of Hope, the entire world still restarted.”

“……”

The room suddenly fell silent. Even Tang Keren was lost in thought.

The conversation had hit a dead end.

Discussing back and forth, it seemed like no conclusion useful for the current situation could be drawn.

A hint of confusion flickered in everyone’s eyes.

Phoenix and Amber found it hard to leave the Sacred Tree’s domain, so they hadn’t experienced the outside world firsthand.

As for Su Fang, Tang Keren, and Zihan, today was the first time they had pieced everything together. The information they received, the memories they awakened—it all seemed to turn into a chaotic storm inside their minds.

The fact that they could maintain clear thinking, even keep up with the pace of reasoning, was already a testament to how much they had grown and how brightly their resolve had been polished.

To try and sort out the threads from all this… it was indeed a bit much to ask.

But then.

In that moment.

Only Lin Guang’s eyes had a fierce red flame flickering within them, slowly emerging.

From the Soul Gem pressed against her heart, the burning sensation and foreboding suddenly surged again.

That faint, elusive sense of dissonance in her subconscious—that key element she had been unable to grasp ever since the world restarted due to one unexpected situation after another…

Right now, it seemed to have finally been caught by the chain connecting all things.

The next moment, everyone in the room heard her words.

“Phoenix.”

“At the longest, the earliest cycles lasted over two months. Now, it’s at most just over ten days. This means the time this world has left is running out… That’s what you said, right?”

Phoenix tilted her head, not understanding why she suddenly brought this up. “Yeah, that’s right. What’s the matter?”

“So then, the conditions of the cycle.”

“…?”

Lin Guang raised her head and repeated, with utmost seriousness: “What exactly are the conditions that trigger this world’s cycle?”

………………

At the same time.

At the edge of the world.

The wall of black fog that pierced the heavens.

Lifeless, gray-white branches silently extended from within the wall toward that starless sky. The withered branches intertwined at the world’s peak, forming a massive platform.

A black throne stood at the very center of the platform, faintly emitting a terrifying aura.

The armored king sat there, like a weapon, radiating supreme majesty.

But in that moment.

At some unknown time, the slender, silver-haired girl had already arrived here.

Behind her, a pair of wings formed from silver sword energy spread open. She looked like a silver angel, hovering at the top of the giant tree.

Yet at this very moment, her eyes held an extremely eerie daze, as if she were deeply trapped in a bizarre and fantastical dream.

“……”

— I… why…?

A violent tremor came from deep within her chest.

It felt like something incredibly viscous was frantically swelling and churning there, with past intense emotions and all her memories mixed together, making it impossible for her to discern what she was thinking or feeling.

This overwhelming, almost twisted sense of unreality occupied nearly all of her conscious thought.

But the Abyss King had already sensed her presence.

The next moment, endless black fog poured out from the gaps between the withered branches at the tree’s top.

In the tidal wave, an overwhelming horde of demon beasts condensed, then lunged ferociously toward the silver-haired girl floating mid-air, whose expression was vacant and completely defenseless.

It was a tide of destruction, containing massive Nightmare Seeds and endless dangerous species within it.

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