Volume 6, Chapter 75 – Oh No — Back to Being Clueless Again.

After the dark-purple motes of light and white flames from the two dissipating evil gods had fully dissolved into the night wind, all that remained in the central battlefield of The Veiled Domain was the pale blue glow radiating from the ice lotus, and the faint chill that lingered in the air.

Ailiya drew a slow, deep breath and pressed down the complicated feelings still stirring in her chest.

Then the silver-haired girl raised her hand and swept it through the air. The two dispersing energy signatures condensed once more — a purple orb and a white orb — and drifted gently down to rest in her palm.

——”My lady, what are you——”——

Luolin, still inhabiting the rabbit ear pendant, sent her voice into Ailiya’s mind, puzzled.

Ailiya didn’t explain much. She simply gave a brief, measured reply.

“I have my own plans.”

——”Understood.”——

After tucking the two orbs away, the silver-haired girl walked quickly back to the ice lotus, crouched down, and began carefully examining Bai Lianyue’s condition.

“Lianyue? Mm…… not going to wake up that quickly, are you.”

Murmuring to herself, Ailiya reached out two fingers and pressed them lightly to Bai Lianyue’s wrist. Her Divine Graced Realm Augury Force crept gently into the other girl’s body.

What she found there surprised her considerably.

There were no raging curse power fluctuations. No residual traces of Corruption’s aura. Not even the faintest ember of leftover energy could be found. The immense, suffocating evil god power that had once filled this body to overflowing was gone — as though it had never existed at all.

All that remained inside Bai Lianyue was the faint, steady life force of an ordinary person — calm and slow, as if she had never been the Terran Malevolence who could overturn seas and command Corrupted Beasts. As if she were simply an ordinary elf girl, sleeping.

“The curse power…… all of it is gone?”

Ailiya’s brow pulled tight. Her cherry-colored eyes were full of worry. She raised her hand and pressed it gently to Bai Lianyue’s forehead — the lily-of-the-valley mark had vanished completely. Her skin was cool and smooth, and aside from her still-pale complexion, there was nothing visibly wrong.

And it was precisely that “nothing wrong” that made Ailiya feel worse and worse.

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Without curse power to sustain her, could she even keep living? Could there be hidden aftereffects lurking somewhere?

No, wait — that’s not right……

Hadn’t Lianyue’s body itself been constructed from the Terran Malevolence’s curse power, a simulation built from that power?

And Valerdis had disappeared……

So why was this body still here?

The body remained — but what about the consciousness within it?

In an instant, a flood of unsettling questions rose up in the silver-haired girl’s mind one after another, and her expression grew heavier by the second.

“Lianyue……”

But just as Ailiya was settling into her spiral of dread, the eyelashes of the elf girl lying within the ice lotus gave the slightest tremble.

——!!

Hm?!

The instant she caught that tiny detail, Ailiya’s heart clenched. She immediately held her breath, eyes locked unblinking on the elf girl in the snow-white lotus.

The next second——

Under Ailiya’s tense, unblinking gaze, the elf girl’s eyes slowly opened.

They were a pair of eyes that looked completely different from before — those dark-red pupils were still clear, but every trace of the cold detachment, fierce resolve, and bone-chilling killing intent she had carried while fighting the two evil gods and Valerdis was gone. What remained was pure, unguarded innocence — like a child who had just woken from sleep, with a thread of drowsy confusion and something almost dependent in them, reflecting the pale blue glow of the ice lotus.

She blinked. Her gaze drifted slowly into focus on Ailiya’s face.

Facing Bai Lianyue’s gaze, Ailiya was urgently ready to ask how she was doing.

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“Lian——”

But before she could get the words out, the elf girl reacted first.

Because after a few seconds of looking, Bai Lianyue’s mouth curved into a soft, gentle little smile. Her cheeks flushed faintly. Her voice carried the huskiness of someone just roused from sleep, along with a level of adorableness Ailiya had never quite heard before.

“Ai’er…… baby…… hug……”

As she said it, she spread her arms open toward Ailiya with a smile.

“Eh?!!!”

Ailiya’s brow twitched. She froze in place on the spot. Every word she’d been about to say got swallowed back down, and her cherry-colored eyes were full of sheer disbelief.

Baby?

Hug?

This…… this is……

She’s back in Clueless Mode again??!!

And just as Ailiya stood there, mildly at a loss for what to do with this situation——

On the other side of things, it seemed the battle outside Clavino was also approaching its end.

At this moment——

Little Xing Wu — who had temporarily entered her Divine Graced Realm state by drinking milk — stood gripping her violet scythe on a stretch of scorched, devastated earth. Her silver-white hair streamed in the night wind. The Divine Graced Realm aura around her hadn’t fully settled yet. Violet Augury Force swept outward like a tide, completely purifying the curse cores of the last few black-robed figures.

The reanimated First Celestial Augur Knight puppets that Polarvitan had controlled with her curse power, deprived of their curse cores, could no longer regenerate. Their bodies crumbled to ash and dissolved completely into the air.

At the same time——

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As though Polarvitan’s death had cut every string at once, the remaining Vassals of Sea Corrupted Beasts went slack and lifeless on the spot. One by one they collapsed where they stood, bodies shriveling and disintegrating at a rapid pace, until they crumbled into black powder and scattered on the wind.

The Vassals of Sea’s second-in-command — who had been pinned to the scorched earth, half-dead — also lost all remaining power and reverted to an ordinary elderly sea folk member. No combat ability remained in him whatsoever.

In the space of a breath——

Not a single trace of the Vassals of Sea could be found anywhere around Clavino.

Once she confirmed that everything was suppressed, little Xing Wu put away her scythe and turned to look at Xi Xuan — bound to the ground by three violet crosses.

Faced with someone who had been her father’s comrade in arms, Xing Wu had of course held back.

Aside from punching his nose swollen and his face beyond recognition, she hadn’t inflicted any damage that was too irreversible.

Of course, after absorbing a thorough beating from a Divine Graced Realm fighter, Xi Xuan had long since lost consciousness, stars in his eyes, sprawled pitifully on the ground.

“That should be enough, right?”

Xing Wu frowned slightly and raised her hand, condensing a thread of pure Heart of the World power. She pressed it lightly to Xi Xuan’s forehead.

Violet light spread from the point of contact, seeping into his body and beginning to examine his internal condition.

“Mm…… should be undone. Once he wakes up, he ought to be back to normal. Phew~ Uncle Xi Xuan, honestly, you are such a handful, phew~”

Xing Wu let out a relieved breath.

For someone who had only just gotten the hang of controlling a new body and new power, keeping Xi Xuan restrained without seriously injuring him had not exactly been easy.

Hehe——

I’m so impressive~

Maybe I can go brag to awful Mom about it later~

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But……

As though something had occurred to her, Xing Wu’s brow furrowed slightly. She swept a thoughtful gaze around her surroundings.

The sea folk had collapsed and vanished so suddenly……

Also — she had just been purifying the power Ulutiel had left inside Uncle Xi Xuan’s body…… but that power? It seemed like in the end, it had simply dissolved on its own?

Thinking back to what Bai Lianyue had been murmuring to herself at her bedside earlier, a flicker of unease surfaced in Xing Wu’s chest.

——”The thing is…… awful Mom should be fine, right? I’d have felt it if she weren’t…… But the Celestial Blight and the Abyssal Lord’s power…… what happened there?”——

Guided by that unease, Xing Wu turned her head slightly, and her sharp gaze fell on the green-haired young man not far away — pinned to the ground by three violet crosses through his body.

“What exactly happened out there? You should know something.”

Faced with the question——

The suppressed green-haired young man — Renoval — gave no answer.

He only bit down hard on his lip, head bowed, face dark enough to wring water from.

He had maintained a covert contract connection with Polarvitan and Ulutiel. Through that link, he could sense the state of both evil gods at any time.

But just moments ago, that link had snapped — severed as cleanly as if by a blade — and collapsed entirely. Not even a whisper of either presence remained.

“Impossible……”

Renoval’s eyes trembled. His voice carried a faint, involuntary shake. His dark-green eyes were flooded with disbelieving fury.

“You have got to be joking?!! Those two…… they failed?!!”