Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

"Witch transformation..."

Black Keke's expression was filled with utter disbelief.

"Correct answer!"

Keke's smile looked somewhat manic. She patted her chest, letting her corrupted magic spread unchecked. Her mana reserves, comparable to Shion's, threatened to blanket the entire Chongxu in corrupted magic!

"All I had to do was accept the negative emotions. The captain and Teacher Shion had already prepared everything for my witch transformation long ago. It's just that before this, I kept running away from it myself. I'd almost forgotten it entirely. Your defeat lies in not killing me when you had the chance—leaving me alone in that pile of corpses overflowing with negative emotions!"

Fully amped up, Keke's voice sounded more excited than usual. She fidgeted with more small gestures.

Even though she was talking to Black Keke, her gaze never landed on her. It looked like a conversation.

But in reality, it was nothing more than Keke talking to herself.

Black Keke took out her red Miracle Seed and shrugged. "The pros and cons of Witches versus Magical Girls were settled long ago. Aside from the original Witch, no Witch can rival a Magical Girl. Same goes for Disaster Beasts except for the Beast of Eternity. The pinnacle of this world is the Magical Girl—the embodiment of miracles. You threw away your good habits for scraps, and that makes you this smug?"

"Oh, is that so? Maybe. Who knows?"

In her heightened state, Keke's expression even turned somewhat frenzied. The pitch-black magic erupted like earth spikes as she stomped hard on the ground. A forest of magic spikes burst forth from the earth!

Even though Black Keke transformed in that instant.

Those magic spikes still broke through the transformation's invincibility frames, piercing Black Keke's body and launching her into the sky!

Her crimson Magical Outfit clashed against the corrupted magic, like a fireworks display. Large chunks of Magical Outfit fragments and red magic scattered everywhere, blooming into brilliant explosions across the sky!

"This monster..."

Black Keke grabbed the black magic that had pierced through her body, charging almost to the heavens' peak—level with the Celestial Factory—before finally stopping.

She used her own magic to completely digest the corrupted magic inside her.

By the time she finished transforming and covered her wounds, she heard the sounds rising from Chongxu below.

Gasps and furious shouts.

"Miss Magical Girl Ruri!"

"What's that evil Witch doing here?!"

"Don't lose, Magical Girl Ruri!"

"Go, Magical Girl Ruri, go!"

The moment she was knocked flying, many Chongxu residents had already spotted her—especially when she completed her transformation at the highest point above.

Numerous Chongxu residents spontaneously rushed into the streets, abandoning their work, and began cheering for her.

Even at Hogwarts Academy, crowds of students in magical robes flew out, even wanting to reach her side and help her fight.

"Magical Girl Ruri protected us before."

"Now it's our turn to protect Magical Boy Ruri!"

"I may be old, but my cheering game is still strong!"

"Oooohhh!"

With all this support and goodwill directed her way, the Chongxu residents had no problem hurling the most vicious words at the dark Witch.

"Whoever dares invade Chongxu's territory, Ruri will crush them!"

"Damn Witch, daring to disguise herself as Ruri!"

...As a result, this actually boosted the other side's magic power even more.

These idiots.

Black Keke helplessly pressed her forehead, then reluctantly forced a professional smile. "Thank you all for your support, but this place is very dangerous. Please stay back a little..."

"For Miss Magical Girl Ruri, we would rather die than retreat!"

"We're willing to offer our hearts for Magical Girl Ru—"

"I told you all to get lost and stop getting in the way! Can't you understand?! Useless trash who only causes trouble!"

A harsh, savage curse suddenly erupted from Magical Girl Ruri's mouth.

The entire crowd of Chongxu fans fell silent.

Black Keke sneered and looked down at Keke, who hadn't moved.

And just like that, your fan base is gone—

"That's so cool! Magical Girl Ruri!"

"So awesome..."

Instead, the crowd's gazes seemed even more infatuated.

A girl at the front waved her cheer stick. "Everyone, let's leave quickly and not cause trouble for Lady Magical Girl Ruri. We just need to silently support her!"

"Don't waste Magical Girl Ruri's kindness!"

"Oooohhh!"

Amid the shouting, the fans quickly dispersed, leaving the block they were on silent.

Black Keke touched her forehead and smiled. "Helped you purify and consolidate your fans, huh."

Witch Keke tilted her head. "Do you want me to thank you for that?"

"That's not necessary. Just go easy on me later."

As Black Keke spoke, she winked at a distant camera, flashing a brilliant smile. "Everyone, cheer hard for me, okay?"

Overwhelming, tsunami-like cheers engulfed the entire Chongxu!

From the outer layer to the inner layer, every screen seemed infected by a virus, turning into a personal broadcast of Magical Girl Ruri.

Even giant steel statues rose from the ground—a statue of Ruri, resembling the Statue of Liberty, with flames blazing from various parts of its body. It spread its hands toward the sky, then slowly knelt, cupping its hands as if offering a battle hymn to Black Keke in the heavens!

Everywhere, the standoff between Magical Girl Ruri and Witch Keke was being streamed live.

Even Jiang Si and the Prince, who had been conversing, found all surrounding screens switched to the one-on-one duel between the two girls.

The Prince immediately raised an eyebrow, her tone full of dissatisfaction and complaint.

"Look at the mess you've caused."

Jiang Si watched as Magical Girl Ruri's magic grew more abundant amid the crowd's cheers, shining brilliantly above Chongxu like a blazing sun. "Isn't this a good thing?"

"What's good about it? Not only has Keke's power been stolen from her, but now her identity has been completely usurped. I've wanted to say this for a while now—do you have any idea how much damage this does to a child? Becoming strangers with friends, having all the support and cheers that were rightfully hers turned into her enemy's... If she wasn't mentally strong enough, she would have already broken down, you know!"

Thousand-Pinweed stared at the Prince, dumbfounded.

"Dude, that's not what you said before. Now that the Sect Mast—now that Jiang Si is here, you're putting on an act? And that voice, why are you even faking a cute tone?! And what's with that attitude? Talking like Keke is your child or something. Sure, Lady Bingtang does it too, but you're nowhere near her level..."

Itaen just coldly stared at her. "I've always been like this. What's your problem?"

Thousand-Pinweed, who had no more allies—her two true-transmission sisters both thrown into the wall-facing punishment—could only rely on her to develop Hogwarts. She shut her mouth.

Jiang Si never responded to the Prince's question. He just silently watched the duel between the two Kekes on the screen.

Above, the great sun simply waved its hand, and countless arrows filled the entire sky above Chongxu!

Black Keke stared intently at the still-hyper Keke below. Even she was astonished by the sheer amount of mana leaking out.

For a Witch, Keke's strength could almost rank in the top three.

Aside from the original Witch, Witch Shion, she was the strongest among Witches.

All familiar faces, basically.

But the limitations of Witches still lay here.

No matter how overwhelming her magic power, when it came to output, she simply couldn't compare to a Magical Girl.

Even if a Magical Girl had no other spells, she could still use the simplest Mana Cannon. As a Magical Girl's basic ability, the Mana Cannon's output conversion rate was extremely high. Even with poor magic control, a small amount of mana could cause massive destruction.

But a Witch's corrupted magic? Its conversion efficiency was terrifyingly low.

At the very least, the Mana Cannon's conversion efficiency was several times higher.

And most Witch abilities rarely directly enhanced destructive power. The main reason was that corrupted magic was fundamentally the power used by Disaster Beasts—it didn't suit humans well.

So Black Keke's strategy was simple.

Keep distance, and compete in mana reserves and output conversion.

Countless arrows, each condensed with all her magic, rained down on Keke!

As long as she could maintain an advantage in mana consumption and output conversion, victory was inevitable...

But Witch Keke only bent down slightly, touching the ground.

The entire Chongxu came alive.

Chongxu was a Mental Landscape Space built from the Personal Realities of countless Chongxu residents and former Magical Girls. Although outsiders like Keke, Jiang Si, even Thousand-Pinweed and the Prince could enter physically.

Most Chongxu residents maintained Chongxu's existence by lying in gaming-pod-like devices. Even though many residents had left, many old-worlders and even people from other worlds had voluntarily entered the pods to continue maintaining the Mental Landscape Space.

After all, once inside the pod—except when work required them to come out—they could live in their dream world at all other times. They could even see deceased family members and their destroyed homelands.

As a result, as more people joined, Chongxu as a Mental Landscape Space grew larger. Now it not only had two layers but had also begun developing a third.

And when Witch Keke touched the ground, her corrupted magic instantly spread through all the local and foreign Chongxu residents still resting!

Their beautiful dream lives shattered instantly. Worse, the negative emotions of the corrupted magic—waves of regret and pain—forced them to confront reality over and over!

Beauty, happiness, love—these were indeed very important things, indispensable in life.

But if you constantly escape from negative emotions, ignoring and forgetting those painful, regretful, despairing memories—that was just as unhealthy!

The Magical Girl who once saved Chongxu had now become a Witch, ruthlessly dragging the Chongxu residents out of their illusory dream worlds!

"Open your damn eyes!"

With Witch Keke's furious shout, Chongxu—which had been filled with cries of "Magical Girl Ruri!"—suddenly plunged into an ocean of agony.

Weeping and heart-wrenching wails echoed throughout Chongxu. Even Black Keke's magic above wavered!

Just as the great sun above dimmed, on the ground where Witch Keke touched, even more vines, arrows, and weapons surged from the earth!

Chongxu split in half along its central axis—one half a blazing inferno in the sky, the other a pitch-black ocean below.

As a Mental Landscape Space, Chongxu cracked beneath their feet. Before their magic could even clash head-on, the competing forces had already begun shaking Chongxu to its core.

Black Keke stared grimly at the increasingly terrifying Witch below. Then she spread her arms, and countless fiery meteors rained down like a storm!

The black tide surged upward, crashing against them!

Blinding auroras robbed the world of sound for a moment.

Then, a massive explosion ripped through Chongxu's Mental Landscape Space, radiating outward in waves into the boundless void!

By all appearances, Black Keke had the advantage.

Each fiery arrow required thousands of Witch Keke's magic particles to neutralize. In terms of output conversion, Black Keke was indeed ahead, as she had judged.

But the problem was that the entire Chongxu had become Keke's magic reserve.

The residents' wails of pain and hatred, directly aimed at Keke who had awakened them—resentment and suffering had completely overwritten their earlier support for Magical Girl Ruri.

Even on the live streams, the content had shifted from adoration and cheers for Magical Girl Ruri.

To condemnation, curses, and criticism of Witch Keke.

The Prince watched Keke's situation, snorted coldly, and recorded every single person cursing Keke.

Directly linked to the Chongxu database.

Not one of them was getting away!

Jiang Si had already withdrawn his gaze and turned to the Prince. "Give me the Void Mirror."

Seeing that Keke had the upper hand, the Prince also pulled her gaze away and looked at Jiang Si. "I told you. I have no reason to help you."

Thousand-Pinweed glanced at her Sect Master.

She could visibly see his patience wearing thin.

From the start, their conversation had been going in circles. The Sect Master wanted the Void Mirror, and the Prince kept saying she had no reason.

And then they'd just gotten stuck—two robots, neither willing to move the conversation forward.

Seeing her Sect Master's impatience, Thousand-Pinweed finally couldn't hold back anymore.

The Prince was a specially invited teacher at Hogwarts. If she really ended up in a full-blown conflict with the Sect Master, she'd have to find new helpers all over again.

"Chi, is there perhaps a possibility that we could, you know, talk about terms a little bit?"

So Thousand-Pinweed painfully nudged the conversation forward for them.

Both the Prince and Jiang Si looked surprised, then one nodded while the other said, "Fine."

Then the two of them just quietly stared at her, waiting for her to make the next move.

She really couldn't stand these fake humans.

This was their business, damn it!

Thousand-Pinweed felt utterly cursed. If this kept up, she couldn't guarantee that one day she wouldn't really become a world-subduing Demon...

"Chi, how about we discuss it a little? For example, Prince, you could name a condition for Jiang Si to fulfill, or make a promise—lend him the Void Mirror. You need helpers right now too, don't you?"

A flicker of relief passed through the Prince's glass-like pupils. She nodded. "Well said, Vice-Principal."

"I'm the Principal! You're the Vice-Principal! I will never give up Albus Dumbledore's position to anyone!"

Who wouldn't want to be the strongest? But she was thwarted at every turn, destined to die a ridiculous, unexplained death, only to salvage some dignity in the afterlife by claiming it was all part of her plan—so that even in death, she wouldn't lose face, and everyone would still adore her?

Compared to Harry Potter, in terms of status and story, Thousand-Pinweed actually aspired more to that position...

Thousand-Pinweed's mind wandered for a long time. Meanwhile, the duel between Black Keke and Keke was nearing its end.

And yet, the Prince and Jiang Si still remained silent.

Like elementary school kids holding a grudge—you won't talk, so I won't talk either.

Thousand-Pinweed scratched her head, feeling a little drained. "Can one of you just take the initiative and state a condition already? Miss Prince, what do you want Jiang Si to do in exchange for borrowing the Void Mirror?"

After a long pause, Thousand-Pinweed heard the Prince say:

"I want you to reject the marriage ceremony with Bingtang."

That would cost quite a bit of lifespan, miss...

In that instant, Thousand-Pinweed felt nothing but regret.

If Lady Bingtang ever found out that she was the one who brought this up—

Just thinking about it made Thousand-Pinweed shiver. "Wait, wait, wait! Let's pick something else—"

"No."

Thousand-Pinweed blinked and turned to look at her Sect Master.

Wait, had the Sect Master finally wised up? Actually refusing...

"But you can come to the wedding." After a moment's thought, Jiang Si quickly found the plot point. "Han Ancestor once crashed a wedding to save Nangong Wa—"

"The roles don't even match! Which character are you supposed to be?!"

Thousand-Pinweed immediately cut off her Sect Master. "And even if you don't reject it, you can't just crash a wedding like that. It would make the girl feel humiliated..."

Before she could finish, the Prince had already let out a cold laugh. "Oh, so you do understand."

With that, she still handed the Void Mirror to Jiang Si, her gaze indifferent.

"Let me be the emcee."

"No problem."

Thousand-Pinweed covered her face in despair with her witch hat.

This is a disaster, Lady Bingtang.

The wedding you planned is about to turn into a complete mess...

Far away, Witch Keke had completely shattered Black Keke's fiery rainstorm using the negative emotions of the entire Chongxu.

Teacher Shion once said that no gap couldn't be filled with enough quantity.

If it couldn't be filled, it meant the quantity wasn't enough yet.

As it turned out, Teacher Shion's words were absolute truth.

Even with such a massive gap in output efficiency, at a ten-to-one ratio, Keke still bridged it using the corrupted magic of the entire Chongxu.

Just as Magical Girl Ruri's sky-filling flames were completely swallowed by the pitch-black sludge, Keke suddenly leaped!

Like a cannonball, she appeared behind Black Keke.

The moment Black Keke turned her head, her face was caught by a small hand.

"You're the one who should be down there, rookie."

A wild, manic grin—a chaotic aura completely unlike the usual Keke.

One hit, and the blazing sun in the sky came crashing down!

Head whipping through the howling wind, she was brutally smashed into the building below!

Sparks and debris flew everywhere. Dazed and disoriented, Black Keke had just looked up when she saw the black corrupted magic long spear condensing in Witch Keke's hand above.

Already pressed right against her forehead.

The massive magic spear was raised high, as if it wasn't meant to pierce just Black Keke.

But the entire Chongxu itself!

Black Keke scrambled backward!

"Save me! Big Brother!"

Just as the magic spear descended, Black Keke closed her eyes and raised her arms over her head.

Suddenly, mirror light flashed!

A vast amount of corrupted magic was reflected back. The spear reversed direction, flying straight toward Witch Keke herself!

It slammed Witch Keke straight out of the sky, crashing like a meteor into another heap of Chongxu ruins.

"That should be enough."

Walking up to Black Keke, Jiang Si felt the power of the Void Mirror in his hands, caressing its surface with deep affection.

This was a Supreme Emperor's Weapon. No extra thought required.

Just holding it was enough to continuously counterattack the opponent. Unmatched defensive power, the ability to copy any magic as an attack.

It even simulated combat and provided the optimal solution at every step.

No thinking needed. Just follow the Void Mirror's simulation, and victory was perfectly achieved.

It had a certain brain-massaging beauty to it.

He pulled Black Keke up. "Let's go—"

Before he could finish, from the ruins, black magic shot into the sky as Witch Keke reappeared.

Black Keke immediately clung to Jiang Si and shouted at Witch Keke, "With Big Brother here, you still dare to bully me?! Big Brother has abandoned you!"

Witch Keke fell silent for a moment.

Before Black Keke could celebrate her successful counterattack.

The Witch Keke on the other side grinned again, still wearing that crazed, manic smile.

"Sorry, Big Brother. I can't seem to feel sad about you abandoning me anymore."

She walked right up to Jiang Si in a single step.

Even Jiang Si was somewhat surprised. As he tried to activate the Void Mirror, Keke grabbed his wrist.

With a fierce yank, she punched her own big brother right in the forehead!

"Right now, I only want to beat you to death—or be beaten to death by you!"

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