I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 2.2. Your strength is mine!

The empire is divided into fifty-one administrative regions, each of which is independent and autonomous. Under normal circumstances, the "Imperial Court," which governs the entire empire, will not interfere with the autonomous governance of the administrative regions.

In District 51, where Xia Feng lives, the most powerful noble family is the Lister family, whose emblem is the hydrangea.

Lord Lister had a trusted faction called the Six-Tailed Society, and Xia Feng was a member of the Six-Tailed Society.

The marriage certificate that Chana gave him was with the consent of Duke Lister, so if he wanted to annul the engagement, he would have to see if the Duke would allow it.

Of course, he has no intention of breaking off the engagement now.

[Remaining activity time: 50 minutes]

Looking at the rapidly receding traffic outside the window, Xia Feng's heart tightened. "Master, can you go any faster?"

According to previous information, Mu Qingtong should be attending a noble ball held at the Royal Manor at this moment.

After escaping the hospital, he rushed to the manor as fast as he could, but the distance was indeed a bit far.

Time passes minute by minute.

"Hurry up, bro, are you in such a hurry to be reincarnated?"

Seeing the driver's growing impatience, Xia Feng gazed out the window, pursed his lips, and remained silent for a moment. Suddenly, his mood turned somber, and he sighed dejectedly, as if talking to himself, "My wife is about to give birth. The doctor said she might have a difficult delivery and told me to prepare myself. I...sigh."

Seeing the young man with black hair looking anxious, sad, and regretful in the rearview mirror, the driver was slightly taken aback. He tightened his grip on the steering wheel and suddenly felt like slapping himself.

I really deserve to die.
Taking a deep breath, the driver's eyes suddenly hardened. "Alright, buckle up, young man! Today I'll show you what a true racing legend of Mount Akina looks like!"

With a sudden acceleration, the driver seemed to be draped in a golden coat, like a hero facing death without fear!

"Driver, you're my god!"

After transferring a large sum of money to the driver, Xia Feng arrived outside the Hydrangea Manor.

[Remaining activity time: 30 minutes]

He simply showed his Six-Tailed Society identification mark and entered the manor without any hindrance.

I ran through the corridor, quickly passed through the huge double doors with gold-framed borders, and arrived at the dazzling gilded hall.

Classical, soothing court music echoed throughout the hall.

Gentlemen and ladies dressed in gorgeous gowns strolled through every corner of the vast ballroom, dancing in pairs or chatting quietly around the luxurious salon. The ladies would occasionally giggle, their mouths agape, at the witty and humorous young noblemen.

Xia Feng glanced around; the crowd was bustling, and he couldn't see Mu Qingtong anywhere.

Fortunately, there were still about twenty minutes left, so there was plenty of time. I must say, the driver's driving skills were excellent!

Xia Feng took a deep breath and quickly went up to the second floor.

There weren't many people on the second floor. After searching quickly, he still couldn't find Mu Qingtong. He leaned on the railing and looked down at the hall from the second floor. He could clearly see the prince's son, dressed in an elegant tailcoat, sitting on the central platform playing Moonlight Sonata.

"If all else fails, we'll have to make a contract with this guy."

After quickly finalizing the backup plan, Xia Feng focused his attention and continued searching the vast ballroom.

[Remaining activity time: 20 minutes]

Unfortunately, there was no sign of Mu Qingtong in the entire hall.

Perhaps this world-destroying witch isn't in the hall, but is strolling in the back garden or admiring the moon in some secluded courtyard.

There's still plenty of time, let's go outside and look around. Xia Feng glanced at the courtyard outside the window:

"Mu Qingtong, oh Mu Qingtong, where are you?"

"Ok?"

A cool, melancholic female voice suddenly sounded from behind, "Are you looking for me?"

"!" Xia Feng's shoulders trembled in fright, and he turned around stiffly.

In a dimly lit corner sofa, a woman dressed in an elegant and understated black lace dress had a thick book lying open on the hem of her dress as she crossed her legs.

She seemed to be about to turn the page, but then she looked up. Her mature face, framed by long, silver-white hair, was adorned with a pair of elegant, intellectual half-rimmed gold-rimmed glasses, and her pale gold pupils gazed at him intently from behind the frames.

Xia Feng's dark eyes widened slightly, almost imperceptibly.

The image of the woman before him instantly overlapped with the image of the world-destroying witch he remembered.

He instinctively wanted to back away, but he held back. This woman was terrifying! When did she get here? She looked like a ghost.
But that's perfect!

"World-destroying witch, your power is mine!" Xia Feng thought to himself.

The demonic heart in his left chest pounded rapidly, a mysterious aura swirling around him, and an invisible wave instantly emanated from his heart and spread outwards.

A dark chain flashed between him and the woman in the black dress.

[Objective: Mu Qingtong ※ Contract Successfully Completed——]

[Activity extension successfully achieved]

[Remaining activity: 19 minutes → 3 days]

[Strengths begin to synchronize—]

Your spiritual pressure has increased significantly!

[Your cultivation level has advanced from Apprentice Spirit Master to First-Tier Spirit Master!]

Your understanding of martial arts has improved.

[Your physical abilities are comprehensively enhanced (sense of smell, hearing, vision, neural reflexes, combat awareness).]

[Your understanding of Spirit Garments has improved, and you have successfully mastered six N-level Spirit Garments (Illumination Garment, Fireball Flash, Ice Blade, Messenger Spirit, Eye of Reconnaissance, Bronze Mask)]

[Your understanding of spirit garments has improved; you have successfully mastered a D-rank spirit garment (concealment spirit garment)]

[You're right.]

I lost
"I'm so shocked! I'm so shocked!!" Xia Feng forgot to breathe, so shocked that he almost wanted to hug the Demoness of Annihilation's leg and call her daddy.

Spirit Clothing, also known as Spirit Energy Clothing, is called martial arts techniques in Xianxia dramas and magic circuits in fantasy dramas.

Originally, he was just a minor apprentice spirit master, and the only spirit garment he possessed was a flawed illumination garment. When learning about the illumination garment, the complex spiritual particle structure dazzled him and made learning difficult.

But to my surprise, in just a moment, I not only learned the complete version of the Light Cloak, but also learned five more N-level spirit robes and one D-level spirit robe.

His spiritual pressure level has even broken through to the first-tier spiritual master level. Keep in mind, he's only in his second semester of freshman year, and a first-tier spiritual master is already a level sufficient to graduate from Weiyang Academy!
The elegant woman looked at the student in the Weiyang school uniform with her pale gold eyes, feeling a strange sense of familiarity.

Suddenly, a photo of her fiancé, which the family head had shown her, flashed through her mind. "You are... Xia Feng?"

She smiled, closed the book in her hands, and gently gestured, "Please sit down."

Xia Feng composed himself, and the inexplicable fear he felt upon first seeing Mu Qingtong, as if he had encountered a natural enemy, vanished completely.

In a one-sided game, I'm all thumbs and hesitant; in a 50/50 game, I go all out!
She's just a world-destroying witch, what's there to worry about?
Of course, he still politely bowed and sat down in the center of the dimly lit sofa opposite her.

"What brings you here, Mr. Xia?"

The woman in the black dress elegantly crossed her legs, her slender fingers deftly stirring her coffee with a small spoon. The creamy white latte art swirled into the brown vortex. Xia Feng, slightly distracted, stared blankly at the rapidly spinning coffee vortex, about to speak that he had come to synchronize his strength...
"!!" He suddenly snapped out of his daze, his pupils contracted, he blinked rapidly, and looked up with a light laugh:
“Miss Mu, since you know me, let me get straight to the point.”

"Old silver coin, trying to hypnotize me the moment we met, no wonder he's a future world-destroying villain!" Xia Feng thought to himself while smiling faintly.

"As far as I know, the Mu family of Taicang has gradually declined in recent years. Therefore, the head of the Mu family has always wanted to establish a relationship with Prince Lister through marriage in order to regain a foothold in District 51."

"But unfortunately, Miss Mu's fiancé—who was also the Duke's adopted son—died unexpectedly a few days ago, which means that the fiancé must be re-selected."

Xia Feng glanced at the elegant book cover folded on the woman's lap—"The Eagle in the Cage"—he paused, then continued:

"I suppose Miss Mu doesn't like this kind of family marriage. Coincidentally, I don't like it either."

"Oh?"

Mu Qingtong stopped stirring her coffee with the silver spoon, her beautiful eyes behind the elegant gold-rimmed glasses curving slightly as she spoke softly, "So, Mr. Xia means...?"

"My meaning is simple: we don't need to consummate our marriage after we get married. You live your life, I live mine, and we'll both be fine, how about that?" Xia Feng remembered very clearly that her ex-husband, who was Mu Qingtong's first fiancé, was mentioned in the anime's prologue. This was the person Mu Qingtong secretly assassinated!

The kind where someone dies with their entire head cut off and their eyes wide open.
However, what Mu Qingtong didn't expect was that by assassinating one of her fiancés, her elders could arrange a new fiancé for her.

Xia Feng had reason to believe that if he harbored any interest in this world-destroying witch, he'd be sent to meet his ex-husband tonight—

He didn't want to die yet, after all, he still had his unborn wife to meet—even though it was a strange dream that left him completely baffled.
The woman in the black dress sat upright on the sofa, her golden eyes fixed on Xia Feng for a while. Her eyes curved gently, and she nodded slightly, saying, "Okay."

After speaking, the two looked at each other for a moment and fell silent.

"I'm going to continue reading my novel. Is there anything else, Mr. Xia?" Mu Qingtong asked, puzzled.

Reading novels? Xia Feng glanced at the books on her lap and felt a pang of heartache.

You world-destroying witch! At your age, instead of focusing on cultivation, you're reading novels! How can you even concentrate on them?! How can you sleep at night?!
Xia Feng wanted to advise Mu Qingtong to study hard, cultivate every day, and become an invincible powerhouse standing high in the world as soon as possible!
But he also knew the saying that you can't rush things, since they weren't familiar with each other yet.

"Then I won't disturb Miss Mu any longer. Farewell." Xia Feng stood up briskly.

Watching Xia Feng's departing figure, the woman in the black dress picked up her coffee cup and leisurely took a sip.

"Should we get rid of him?"

A little girl dressed as a maid emerged from the shadows, her cute face framed by short, rose-red hair, and looked down at the young man who was walking out of the gate downstairs.

"No need," the woman in the black dress shook her head.

“But Master, I have a feeling that he has already discovered that you killed the adopted son of the Duke.”

"There is no perfect crime in the world, it's normal to be caught."

Mu Qingtong gently placed the cup on the coffee table and said softly, "However, this Mr. Xia could not possibly be a detective. His fear and wariness of me is probably just because he discovered that I was hypnotizing him. From this point of view, he is still quite capable."

"But that's all there is to it, nothing to worry about."

As she spoke, the woman in the black dress put down her crossed legs and stood up briskly. "Alright, Fei, I hate these kinds of parties that are all about courtship. From now on, I'll refuse all invitations like this."

"Yes!"

*
Xia Feng glanced back at the brightly lit manor, lost in thought.

[Remaining activity: 3 days]

Although they had synchronized their strength with that terrifying woman, the danger of death was still not over.

He sensed his physical condition and found that his spiritual pressure had indeed become much more stable and solid, reaching the first-tier spiritual master realm.

But with only three days left to live, he dared not slack off easily.

Therefore, the next goal is to find a way to absorb the evil energy, thereby increasing the heart's active time. Ideally, it would be to add ten or twenty years once and for all.

Speaking of devouring evil forces, we must mention another race that exists in this world.

The Nightmare Clan, also known as the Nightmare Beasts.

The so-called Evil Force is the source of power for these evil beasts. It manifests as a black mist, and if humans inhale it, they may become ill or even die.

However, according to the information from the Demon Heart, it seems that because of this heart, his physique is different from that of ordinary people. He is no longer afraid of the erosion of evil power, but can instead absorb the evil power for his own use and prolong the activity of his heart.

Therefore, if he wants to extend the time, he must kill the monsters, but the problem is that the meager evil power of the low-level monsters is simply a drop in the ocean for him.

Although District 51 is not very safe, there are indeed not that many low-level monsters that can be killed at will.

"We need to find a way to obtain a large and continuous supply of Eerite."

Xia Feng stroked his chin, gazing thoughtfully at the sparsely starry night sky to the north.

A flash of inspiration!
To the north of District 51 lies a deserted area called the Evil Dragon Forest, where it is said that an extremely evil demonic dragon is sealed, its entire body filled with terrifying evil power. Anyone who gets close to it will be devoured by the evil power and die instantly!

According to the scenes he had seen in the prologue of the anime in his previous life, this evil dragon was actually a god-level being, but it was sealed in the center of the World Tree's flower sea in the form of a girl and slept for ten thousand years.

In the image, the girl was indeed shrouded in a thick black mist, which was probably Eri.

If he could find this evil dragon, he would have a continuous source of evil energy!
But this method is indeed somewhat risky.

After all, this sealed evil dragon is a being comparable to a god, and from some perspectives, it is even more terrifying than the world-destroying witch in her prime!
Trying to fleece this evil dragon is indeed a bit crazy; what if she wakes up while we're doing it?
Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, every few years, adventure teams would venture into the depths of the Evil Dragon Forest in an attempt to find the so-called Evil Dragon Treasure. But without exception, the depths of the Evil Dragon Forest caused all these adventure teams to perish, with no one surviving!

As a result, the depths of the forest have gradually become known as forbidden territory, and in recent years no adventure groups have dared to explore them further.

To prevent the evil energy of the Evil Dragon Forest from overflowing, the forest entrance is only opened once a year, and entry is restricted to soldiers and members of adventure teams.

Xia Feng happens to be the adopted son of the vice president of the adventure group, Six-Tailed Society, so he is qualified to enter the forest.

"The day after tomorrow is this year's Forest Open Day." Xia Feng looked up at the lonely moon in the night sky. "It seems I need to go back to the club and ask about the specifics."

*World-Destroying Witch* (AI image, for reference only)
(End of this chapter)