Witch Special

The overturned teacup, the round table and wooden chairs growing from the ground, and the white tablecloth, whose traces of tea were spreading, all collapsed to the ground like white sand. Lin Zhenxi stood up just in time before the chair's structure completely collapsed, leaving the small area affected by the transformation.

The explosion, 1,500 meters underground, had minimal impact on the ground, shaking only slightly before fading. Unbeknownst to anyone, it was the final sigh of the S-class hero, Wildhammer.

Hayashi Maki even planned a eulogy for Wildhammer. If the Monster Association were to be exposed, she would reveal Wildhammer's true cause of death, letting everyone know he died while trying to uncover the truth within the Monster Association. Then, when the Hero Association held Wildhammer's funeral, she would engrave the words "From humble beginnings, blossoming branches, to dust." on his tombstone, a tribute to this sturdy, bald man who came from a lowly gang but contributed to her otherworldly exploration.

Well, that's fine. He's not a significant character anyway. Or, more accurately, someone like Wildhammer, a later-stage, enhanced version. Lin Zhenxi can slowly create as many as she wants. At most, it'll be a little more troublesome when drawing the magic patterns. As for the constant supply of mana required during that time, isn't that something that can be replenished automatically by stopping to drink water and catch your breath?

Magic power, how can it be such an inconvenient thing!

Thinking this way, Lin Zhenxi completely forgot how she looked when she was worried about the lack of magic power before the magic power conversion was completed.

The situation of the Monster Association has been understood. The next step is to wait for the subordinates to pull the cables over, and then we can start the construction of the signal amplification tower. Of course, in order to prevent the Monster Association from causing trouble at this time, Lin Zhenxi will pull the bald strongman on his side... ahem, the bald strongman who violated the rules to act as his bodyguard.

For now, she felt she should focus on the whereabouts of the blood rats that the water monster had thrown into the underground river. Those rats had been completely transformed by the Kinos factor into extremely dangerous creatures. The underground water certainly couldn't drown them, as they no longer needed to breathe. Incredibly bloodthirsty, infinitely evolving, and imbued with Kinos, their claws and teeth were deadly weapons. Lin Zhenxi felt that if such a group of creatures were to appear in society, it would be an absolute disaster for all life.

After all, this world had no knowledge of the occult, so naturally, there were no attacks targeting the soul. However, the blood rats, aside from their fragile souls that shattered at the slightest touch, had even overcome their only weakness, their short lifespan.

Although Lin Zhenxi wasn't the direct operator, the creation of the Blood Rat bears a clear causal relationship to her. Cause and effect are real, and sin can be quantified. Lin Zhenxi doesn't want to leave this world burdened with sin. While the people of this world might not be able to discern it, in other worlds, a special being can clearly discern a person's sins, and the severity of their sins. Carrying enormous sins and still claiming to be a good person, proving one's innocence is no easy task.

Therefore, those blood rats must die or be returned to Lin Zhenxi's management before they cause any casualties to innocent people. After all, although she had never experienced it herself, Lin Zhenxi didn't want to know what it felt like to be hit on the head with a repentance stick by the green-haired Great Enma mentioned by the Great Witch Master.

A long-range killing curse wasn't out of the question, but it was a last resort. While Lin Zhenxi and the blood rats had a causal connection, locating them along that causal line (not their location, but their precise target) would be easy, a killing curse didn't work on a large group of targets; it was always a one-on-one attack. It was a magical ritual that killed people, unlike ordinary curses. Therefore, if a killing curse was used, Lin Zhenxi would have to perform it as many times as there were blood rats. Putting aside the question of whether she had enough mana and mental strength, the killing curse was a high-level ritual, not something that could be achieved with a simple magic circle. Setting up a killing curse required certain magical materials, which would be fine if they could be purchased directly, but in a world devoid of mystery, where would Lin Zhenxi even begin to buy them? And if she had to create it herself, it was a dirty, tiring, and technically demanding task that she simply didn't want to undertake.

Well, I believe Yanyan doesn't want to do that either, and she will definitely be scolded and blamed, and maybe even scratched, if Lin Zhenxi asks Yanyan to bleed the big rooster. So Lin Zhenxi simply didn't even mention it and directly rejected this plan.

Rather than using a curse to kill all the blood rats from a distance, it was better to use divination to locate their approximate location and then personally visit them. As soon as the blood rats returned to Lin Zhenxi's range, she could remotely activate the mind bombs she had planted within them, shattering their already fragile souls. Without the restraint of their souls, the Kinos factor within the blood rats would enter a self-destructive, disorderly expansion, devouring each other and even themselves at the cellular level, before melting into a vast pool of red blood at a visible speed.

While a wand can be used to divine a general direction for this type of location-based divination, more accurate location information requires the use of a magic item with map properties. The Liuli Altar is the perfect auxiliary tool for performing location-based divination.

The main body of the Glazed Altar has always been well preserved by Lin Zhenxi in the magic formation. Although Lin Zhenxi can retrieve a small part of the Glazed Altar anytime and anywhere as his own portable map, if he wants to see it in more detail, more accurately and more comprehensively, he still needs to be next to the main body of the Glazed Altar.

Let’s set a small goal. Before my brothers lay the cables, we must first eliminate the hidden danger of blood rats!

Lin Zhenxi gently waved her wand, and with a crisp "pop" sound, her body instantly disappeared from the spot.

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Leveraging his causal connection with the blood rats, Lin Zhenxi easily located all of them. Fortunately, fate was not against Lin Zhenxi; the underground river didn't flow directly away from City Z. Instead, it meandered around the city, flowing slowly. Furthermore, the range of the Glazed Altar had been expanding since Lin Zhenxi completed his magical transformation. By the time Lin Zhenxi finished preparing the divination ritual and located the blood rats through divination, they hadn't yet left the Glazed Altar's range.

But then again, the Liuli Altar's expansion has been steady and unwavering. Over such a long period of time, the Liuli Altar has evolved from a regional map covering only the abandoned city area to a behemoth encompassing tens of thousands of square kilometers. Standing beside the Liuli Altar, gazing at the illusory peaks and mountains before him, Lin Zhenxi always feels a sense of satisfaction, a sense of "the mountains and rivers are under his control."

In the main world, this is already larger than the area of ​​a normal prefecture-level city. How long has Lin Zhenxi completed the magic transformation? In just over two weeks, the Glazed Altar has expanded dozens of times.

Is it a waste of talent to use such a precise and massive 3D projection solely for positioning? Or, is there a magic trick whereby, simply by tapping on the map, divine retribution would descend upon the corresponding location in reality, annihilating any enemies located there?

It must be said that this was a truly wonderful intellectual storm. The Glazed Altar wasn't a magical item that could only be used in one world. As soon as Lin Zhenxi settled in a new world, her first priority was to place this precious item in her possession, allowing her to quickly gather essential information about the terrain surrounding her location. If nothing unexpected happened, the Glazed Altar would accompany Lin Zhenxi throughout her career, becoming even more powerful as she grew stronger. Therefore, developing a new magic specifically for the Glazed Altar was a highly valuable undertaking, a surefire way to profit.

Of course, this idea remained merely a thought. Lin Zhenxi didn't possess the ability to conceive a new spell from start to finish on a whim. That required a master of magic, a daughter of the elements... oh no, a biological parent. Lin Zhenxi didn't even have a single idea at the moment; at most, it was just a passing thought. Anyway, now that the magic power conversion was complete and Lin Zhenxi had mastered her own great magic, the next step was to consider developing new features for the Liuli Altar.

Of course, that would only happen after Lin Zhenxi found a way to awaken this world's will. Of all things, home was the greatest. If he couldn't return to the main world, then there was no point in Lin Zhenxi developing any more magic.

Having discussed the fortunate aspect, namely that all the blood rats were still within the range displayed on the Liuli Altar map, now it was time to discuss the unfortunate situation. The underground river carrying the blood rats seemed to have no intention of turning towards the surface, remaining deep underground, far from the surface.

They were still moving at such a depth, and because of the tributaries, the blood rats had already begun to disperse. The combination of these two factors made Lin Zhenxi's task of eliminating the blood rats extremely difficult. Just looking at the small red dots scattered deep underground in the glass altar and still moving slowly, Lin Zhenxi had a strong urge to strike.

This job can't be done. Either change the method or change the person.