“Is that silver-haired girl a god? A god you could solo?”
Holding a steaming mug of milk with both hands, the white-haired, red-eyed girl showed a look of disbelief. She poked the girl’s cheek with her finger, her eyes conveying a clear “Are you perhaps bragging?”.
“Why would I lie to you? Although she was a bit weak, how else could an ordinary person possess such powerful spatial abilities?” Bai Ling’s doubt caused Ledycia to raise an eyebrow. While the silver-haired girl was indeed weak, if it hadn’t been for Ledycia facing her, that large truck would likely have been instantly annihilated by the girl’s spatial magic.
The reason for her failure was actually very simple: she encountered Ledycia, an enemy who, like her, mastered spatial magic.
“In that situation, anyone else would have been useless. Only I could have saved that truck.” Ledycia was lazily scrolling through her phone, and then, a hint of displeasure appeared on her face. “Hmph, you’re in the news again.”
Today’s headline was naturally the brilliant river of stars that suddenly appeared in the night sky last night. Everyone was speculating about what could have happened to make the long-dormant Sword Saint make a move. However, due to the excellent secrecy work, almost all speculations were miles away from the truth.
However, this incident did bring a sense of joy to the people of Central City because they learned one thing: the Sword Saint was still in Central City, still protecting this city.
“It’s fine, I didn’t show my face anyway.” Miss Bai wasn’t too concerned about this matter. She had only done some cleanup work last night and hadn’t even shown her face the entire time. Not showing her face meant there was no risk of exposure. Everyone’s perception of the Sword Saint remained that of a righteous male figure, with no one knowing that the true Sword Saint was enjoying breakfast at the home of her arch-nemesis.
“So, what was inside that truck? None of those enemies were easy to deal with.”
“Inside that truck? There was nothing. It was just bait.” Miss Bai replied nonchalantly. “In fact, it wouldn’t have mattered even if the truck was destroyed. The items that needed to be transported had already reached their destination.”
“Huh?”
“Using a conspicuous target to attract the enemy’s attention. While their attention was fully focused there, the items that needed to be transported had already silently reached their intended destination.” Miss Bai chuckled with a hint of mystery on her face. “While you guys were fighting, I had just delivered that item to the Central District.”
Good heavens, Ledycia’s eyes widened. So, all that fighting was just to attract attention? Then why did she try so hard before? She could have just slacked off, as it wouldn’t have mattered if the truck was blown up.
However, something that Miss Bai could transport single-handedly must be very small in size.
“What were you transporting?” Ledycia asked curiously.
“That’s classified.” This time, Miss Bai did not satisfy Ledycia’s curiosity. She shook her head, indicating that she couldn’t tell Ledycia. “It won’t do any harm to either you or me anyway.”
Seeing Miss Bai’s attitude, Ledycia knew that she couldn’t find out what the item was through normal means. Since she couldn’t ask what the item was, she could ask about something else, right?
For example, the silver-haired girl who was taken back by the Hero Association after the battle.
“What did you do with that silver-haired girl? Locked her up?”
“She’s dead.” Bai Ling lowered her head and took a sip of milk, speaking in a voice devoid of any inflection. “Almost all the healing ability users in the Hero Association participated in her treatment, but in the end, it only prolonged her life for half an hour.”
“According to those healing ability users, her internal organs were almost completely damaged, and it was a type of damage that couldn’t be healed. Most importantly, they discovered that her age… was less than one year old.”
Less than a year old… Ledycia’s eyes flickered slightly. She knew very well what this meant. That silver-haired girl was not a normal person at all. She was most likely just a vessel to contain a divine consciousness.
No wonder her performance during the fight was so poor. There was actually a reason for it.
“With your technology, doing something like this shouldn’t be difficult, right?” Ledycia asked, resting her chin on her hand. Creating someone out of thin air was quite simple; she had done it before. A classic example was the body she created for Lord Youming.
However, that used a specific demonic technique. She didn’t know if humans had anything similar.
Bai Ling nodded, then shook her head. “It’s true that we can create something similar, but consciousness transfer has always been a dead end.”
A long, long time ago, humans began exploring artificial humans. Ethics and morals were completely abandoned in the face of an extinction crisis. But unfortunately, even abandoning those things, humans ultimately failed to develop any practically useful artificial human technology.
“Moreover, the ‘people’ created, although their growth can be accelerated with potions, it also drastically shortens their lifespan, and their average physical strength is inferior to that of ordinary people. Spending so much resources to create such flawed individuals is quite a loss.” Miss Bai, after learning that the silver-haired girl was an artificial human, immediately checked the information, so she could now say some relatively superficial things.
Frankly, when she saw the sealed research data, she felt a surge of indignation. Those researchers were like demons. Humans were no different from other experimental animals in their eyes. If they hadn’t been hired by the human government at the time, Bai Ling didn’t doubt that these people would have transformed into mad scientists from the movies at some point.
“Now, only pure electronic data remains of that experiment. The researchers involved in that experiment had their memories wiped by heroes dispatched from the Hero Association after the research was halted, so this technology will not be leaked from our side.” Bai Ling paused, then looked up at Ledycia with a strange gaze. “And, according to the autopsy results, the technology used to create that silver-haired girl has a very strong connection to demons.”
“Uh…” Ledycia’s expression stiffened for a moment. She hadn’t expected things to involve demons.
But how to put it, it had a little connection with demons, but not a lot. Demons had many techniques for creating puppets and golems, and it wasn’t impossible for a few demons who mastered these techniques to earn some side income.
“But the resources required to create such a body would not be small…” As a Demon Lord, Ledycia was aware of the pros and cons of such magic. Even she couldn’t cast this magic easily, let alone others.
At the very least, it would require a high-level alchemy workshop, and sufficient materials. Otherwise, Ledycia wouldn’t be able to conjure a person out of nothing.
“Of course, I know this has nothing to do with you, don’t worry.” Miss Bai patted her not-so-small chest, indicating that her trust in Ledycia was 100%.
“Heh, I would find it strange if you didn’t blame me for this.” However, this reassurance didn’t move Ledycia. Wasn’t this what Bai Ling should do? Was there a need to be moved by such a necessary action? Ledycia, with her hardened heart, wouldn’t be moved to tears like an ordinary young girl.
However, if it was just a manufactured body, then it meant she hadn’t completely defeated that god yet.
“No wonder I felt so relaxed fighting her. Turns out I was just fighting a defective product. To think I was happy for a whole night, thinking I could actually solo a god.” Ledycia sighed and took a sip of the now completely cold tea with a melancholic expression.
Of course, the melancholy was feigned.
After defeating that girl, she felt that a god’s strength shouldn’t just be like that. Why would her fight be so easy?
If a god was really that weak… Impossible, impossible. Where would such a weak god exist? Even the dream god, who was ridiculously weak and already six feet under, required a genuine tough battle to defeat.
When fighting the Dream God, Ledycia recalled that feeling of energy surging within her. Conservatively estimated, at that time, she could fight two or three of her current self.
Yes, two or three, meaning if the Dream God got serious, she could fight two or three Ledycias. In other words, she could still hold the upper hand against the combined attacks of Ledycia and Bai Ling. If she hadn’t been solely focused on performing her ritual, Ledycia and Bai Ling might not have been able to defeat her so easily.
So, she wasn’t really weak, it was truly a matter of coincidence. No god was to be trifled with.
Take this current silver-haired spatial god as an example. Even though her frontal combat power wasn’t much, the body she used was expendable. Looking at her completely reckless fighting style, that body was cheap. And even if the body died, it wouldn’t affect her true self.
What did this mean?
This meant Ledycia had no idea how many times she would have to defeat that god to finally kill her. And she was a god of space, so escaping would truly be a simple matter.
For instance, last night, if that girl had genuinely wanted to escape, Ledycia wouldn’t have been able to stop her. Spatial confinement was very powerful, but Ledycia didn’t believe that god truly had no way to deal with the spell of spatial confinement, otherwise, as a god of space, wouldn’t that be a bit of a demerit?
The reason she didn’t try to escape at that time was probably because she felt it was unnecessary. Since that body was already nearing its end, escaping or not made no difference. Ledycia even suspected that the girl never intended to take this body back from the beginning.
“Speaking of which, that girl was quite good-looking. Silver hair, silver eyes, and a good figure too.” Ledycia’s gaze drifted. Such “kuudere” blonde girls truly hit her preferences.
And the other white-haired girl, who also strongly hit her preferences, was not happy to hear this. She reached out, stroked her white hair, and narrowed her eyes, saying, “What, you want to go find a new love?”
How long had they been together? Ledycia was already thinking about finding a new lover. It was too annoying! She had to punish this little vixen properly.
Ledycia immediately coughed guiltily. “Don’t talk nonsense. I’m a very pure person!”
Isn’t it normal to find other girls good-looking? Can’t she even compliment other girls now?
What’s wrong with saying a word of praise? Can’t she like silver-haired girls?
“So, pure Miss Ledycia, can we do something very pure now?” Miss Bai put down the empty milk cup and licked her lips with a faint white tongue. “I worked all day yesterday, and I’m almost collapsing.”
“Then go to sleep. Your futon is always there for you.” Ledycia rolled her eyes. It was nine in the morning, and she had slept soundly last night, so she wasn’t sleepy at all.
But Miss Bai didn’t want this answer. She smiled and stood up, walked behind Ledycia, and leaned down to whisper in her ear, “But I want to have a beautiful dream, you know? A super beautiful dream.”
Oh, so she wanted her to do something little in her dream. Ledycia blushed and shifted her head slightly to the side, then nodded. “You go to sleep first, I’ll enter your dream later.”
This answer still didn’t satisfy Miss Bai. She reached out and lifted Ledycia from the chair. “What I mean is, why don’t we just sleep together?”
“I only woke up less than two hours ago!” Ledycia widened her eyes.
“Just think of it as going back to sleep.” Miss Bai completely ignored Ledycia’s resistance, hugged her tightly, and walked towards the bedroom.
It seemed she intended to sleep here today.
“You haven’t showered yet, you smell. At least take a shower first!” Ledycia continued her resistance. In reality, Bai Ling didn’t smell at all. Unless it was a serious battle, Bai Ling generally didn’t sweat, so there was no body odor.
But that’s what she said, Ledycia still felt that showering before sleeping was the normal thing to do.
Look at Ledycia, the Demon Lord didn’t need to shower either, but didn’t she still shower diligently every day?
“That’s true, but I’m so tired, too tired to even want to shower.” Miss Bai revealed a triumphant expression, as if she had been waiting for Ledycia’s words. “So, you help me wash.”
