Witch Special

By the time the spiritual power monster was completely still and became like an ice sculpture, the magic pattern of the All-Seeing Eye had consumed its last bit of magic power and completely dimmed, turning into a simple scratch.

And immediately afterwards, Lin Zhenxi's figure appeared in the room that seemed to have been swept by a tornado.

Besides sharing vision and transmitting sound, the All-Seeing Eye's magic pattern also has another hidden function: providing coordinates to Hayashi Maki. After all, it carries Hayashi Maki's magical aura, so of course, she can sense its location. This is why Hayashi Maki left the All-Seeing Eye on Saitama's clothes, allowing her to quickly Apparate to Saitama's side.

However, accidents are always one step faster than expected. No one could have anticipated the existence of the psychic monster. In order to deal with this dangerous monster, Lin Zhenxi had to use the "Dementor's Wail", a powerful move that could freeze the soul.

According to the conventions of this world, no one can resist the "Wail of Dementors", a soul attack that is half a level higher than magic attacks. Even someone as strong as Saitama would not be much better off if he came into close contact with the "Wail of Dementors".

Lin Zhenxi didn't want to face a depressed, melancholic, or even evil Saitama, so she asked Saitama to leave quickly, turn around and walk away, the farther the better.

And now, it is time for Lin Zhenxi to reap the fruits of victory.

The essence of the psychic monster is a mass of psychic energy distorted by emotions. This psychic energy is so powerful that it has even reached the point of solidifying into a physical entity, existing independently. The external image of a baby is actually just an initial manifestation of that psychic core, symbolizing the naive state of this psychic core, just like that of a baby.

But young children are also the most terrifying beings. They have no sense of good and evil and can do cruel things according to their preferences without any psychological barriers. For example, they can pierce a caterpillar's body with a branch and watch the caterpillar struggle to death under the piercing of the branch with a smile; or touch a group of fighting ants with a burning match and then count how many charred ant corpses are stuck on their matchsticks.

While doing these things, they had no compassion or guilt in their hearts, and only thought about "novelty" and "fun".

The psychic monster was in a similar situation. Its attacks weren't due to any inherent evil, but rather to its inability to adapt to its own power, leading to its crying and throwing things in pain. However, there was no point in discussing this now, as Lin Zhenxi was about to remove the psychic monster's core and utterly kill it.

Even a psychic monster currently frozen in time couldn't be easily killed. As the core materialized, a psychic force field formed around it, repelling anything approaching, including attacks.

It is not easy to break through this layer of mental force field and touch the core. What's more, the shell of the baby image has become quite hard due to freezing, making it even more difficult to obtain the core.

The combination of the baby-image shell and the mental force field is like inserting steel bars into concrete. The overall structural strength is instantly increased several times, and it has suddenly changed from being hard to being indestructible.

All in all, it's very troublesome. Without a particularly good piercing attack (such as a certain electromagnetic cannon), it is difficult to break the shell of the psychic monster and attack the core that has finally appeared.

Lin Zhenxi's magic cannon was unlikely to work. A single shot would likely only dent the infant-like shell of the psychic monster, but there was little hope of piercing it. Unless she could bring her own floating city and, using the vast reserves of magic power in the magic pool, accelerate matter directly into plasma like the octopus, firing it as a plasma cannon, there would be a hope of piercing the shell.

So, the octopus that could only rub the plasma cannon with its hands was actually very scary, but unfortunately it met an even more terrifying bald devil, so it had to die in regret, and left behind such a big parting gift as the spiritual power monster to Lin Zhenxi.

Although Lin Zhenxi couldn't break the psychic monster's shell, it didn't mean that Lin Zhenxi was helpless against the now frozen psychic monster. After all... even with the outer shell, its size wasn't that big.

She hadn't previously placed the infinitely regenerating energy points of the five aliens into the dimensional cube because she was concerned that the infinite regeneration attribute originated from the five aliens' souls. If she placed it into the dimensional cube, it would erase the spirituality within, potentially rendering the infinite regeneration feature useless. But the situation with the psychic monster before her was completely different. Its essence was simply a ball of spiritual energy, and it became violent, unstable, and aggressive due to the interference of emotions. To utilize it, she needed to eliminate the remaining spirituality within its core and return it to its pure state.

Great, the Space Cube is specifically designed for this.

However, the nature of the Space Cube is that neither storage nor retrieval is entirely without loss. The more energetic an object, the more energy is required to alter its spatial phase. This psychic monster possesses considerable energy. Lin Zhenxi wanted to pack it into the Space Cube and take it away, but she wasn't sure if the magic essence she carried with her would be enough.

Fortunately, the energy exchange ratio when storing and taking out the space cube has not reached the outrageous level of 1:1. It is equivalent to that the energy that Lin Zhenxi can mobilize in his hands is added with a large-multiplier lever, so that more energy can be leveraged with less energy.

So now, Lin Zhenxi needs to take out the Space Cube and charge it in advance to prevent it from directly consuming Lin Zhenxi's own magic power when it is stored in the core. Speaking of which, it seems that something like this has happened once before today...

As company-issued soul weapons, the Space Cube and the Elder Wand are two completely different types. The Elder Wand is a weapon that must be held in the hand to be effective, while the Space Cube is like a unique multi-layered space opened up within the body, ready to be used at any time with just a thought.

But this does not mean that Lin Zhenxi cannot take it out. The weapons issued by the company are used to help special envoys survive in the other world and there are not so many restrictions.

The independent Space Cube looked like a light blue, translucent block, with a cloud of mysterious particles swirling inside. Lin Zhenxi held the Space Cube in one hand and, with the other, produced several vials of magical essence. He twisted the wooden stoppers on top and then thrust them onto the surface of the Space Cube.

This is the correct way to open these small bottles. As the cork begins to slide into the bottle mouth, the pressure in the bottle begins to drop steadily. The magic essence that can only exist stably under high-pressure environment also begins to decompose into pure magic power and is absorbed by the space cube.

The Space Cube itself is also a big energy consumer, no matter whether it is electricity, mental power, magic or solar energy, all of them can recharge it.

When the energy channel between the small bottle and the space cube was stably established, the magic essence in the small bottle was no longer in danger of exploding. Lin Zhenxi pressed the bottom of the bottle and screwed the cork at the mouth of the bottle directly into the bottle. Then the magic essence in the bottle was instantly decomposed into magic power and absorbed by the space cube.

After absorbing a drop of magic essence, the brightness of the space cube increased a bit, and the speed of the particles inside also became a little faster.

Lin Zhenxi did the same thing again, feeding the remaining few drops of magic essence to the Space Cube. Then, holding the Space Cube that was already lit like a blue warm light, he aimed it at the spiritual power monster in front.

Collect it for me!

With his eyes fixed on the core that appeared inside the spiritual power monster, Lin Zhenxi gave instructions to the space cube in his mind.

The brightness of the light bulb in his hand... oh no, it was the space cube, suddenly dropped from a warm light to the level of a bedside night light. At the same time, the ruby-like core in the psychic power monster's body also disappeared.

"Yay, it worked!" Lin Zhenxi cheered inwardly, then stuffed the seemingly lifeless Space Cube back into his chest. Then, Lin Zhenxi felt his source of magic power suddenly drop by about a quarter. It seemed that those few drops of magic essence were not enough to offset the energy required to install the core into the Space Cube.

The more energy required to contain it, the more spiritual power it contained, which meant it was more valuable. Next, Lin Zhenxi only needed to figure out how to utilize the spiritual power within the core to make up for her relative lack of spiritual power.

If this psychic monster is really the psychic version of Obscurus, then the psychic power in this core should also be able to recover on its own, as long as the amount extracted is controlled and not overdrawn too much at one time.

In a nutshell, it’s a huge profit!

After losing the core, the baby-like shell in front of him was like a house with its supporting pillars knocked out. Although it remained intact due to the freezing, a large number of cracks had already begun to spread from the gap in the core to the surrounding area.

It was pointless to use fire to warm a frozen soul. The low temperature here could freeze even flames. But happiness and sunshine could dispel this coldness, so Lin Zhenxi took out his wand and recalled the happy things he had experienced.

"Call the gods to protect you."

The magic power Lin Zhenxi invested was only enough to summon a ball of milky white light, which was not enough to summon his own patronus, but the warmth brought by this ball of light was enough to dispel the soul-freezing effect caused by the howling of the Dementors.

Then the outer shell of the baby image disappeared at an extremely fast speed, like an ice cube thrown into hot water.