I dug up the magical girl's corpse.

Chapter 69 Tyrant

Chen Mu opened his eyes!

However, to outsiders, it appeared as if Lin Chaojing had suddenly opened his eyes!

A sudden night wind swept up the ashes and acrid smell of the burning garden, but it couldn't dispel the oppressive feeling emanating from the figure slowly rising upstairs.

Lin Chaojing, or rather Chen Mu who was currently occupying this body, stood up straight.

She was still wearing that thin, light-colored nightgown, slightly dusty, the soft fabric outlining the girl's slender yet upright figure. The night wind howled, blowing her waist-length black hair, the strands dancing wildly behind her like splashed ink, or a silent flag announcing the arrival of something.

She stood there on the edge of the breach on the second floor, with burning ruins and scorched earth beneath her feet, and the destructive fireball of the kapok tree, like a small sun, about to fall, above her head.

The hem of her pajamas fluttered in the wind, revealing slender ankles and a small section of her fair calves. She stood barefoot on the rough concrete surface, yet seemed to stand on a throne in the clouds. The burning flames cast long, swaying shadows behind her, creating an eerie confrontation with the oppressive light of destruction overhead.

The intense red light shone on her pale cheeks, but it could not dispel the sudden, cold, and majestic aura emanating from her.

She slowly raised her head.

Those eyes, which had been tightly closed, were now open. A pale golden halo around the edge of the pupils burned quietly, like molten gold, or like a setting sun sinking into an abyss. The light was not dazzling, but it carried a penetrating power that pierced the soul. It calmly gazed at the ball of flame in the air, and the cotton tree floating behind it, its face filled with horror.

She is a queen who has returned from death and ruins, a tyrant who wields power.

Chen Mu transmigrated into Lin Chaojing's body, and in that instant, an incomprehensible change occurred. His soul seemed to enter this long-dormant corpse!

"What happened?"

Although she had many questions, she didn't forget that she was still in the midst of a battle, and looked up.

The intense fireball that was right in front of her suddenly exploded, seemingly blasted away by the light from her contract, and disappeared before her eyes without causing any damage!

Through the light of the flames, she saw the kapok tree in mid-air display a look of astonishment and fear:

"How...how is this possible? You are...?"

She couldn't even speak properly anymore; she was frozen in place, completely unable to move!

Chen Mu instantly realized that this person had probably mistaken him for someone else, perhaps thinking that the dead [Dawn] had been resurrected, and was therefore extremely shocked.

Great, she doesn't intend to clarify this misunderstanding, which is perfect for us to take advantage of.

She glanced at it and saw "herself" beside her, which was "Chen Mu's" real male body, now limp and powerless on the ground, as if it had become a real corpse.

Although I still don't know what exactly happened, how my body is currently, or whether it can turn back.

There's no need to think about anything else right now! Take down the opponent first!

Using Lin Chaojing's body, Chen Mu leaped high into the air, his eyes filled with arrogant coldness, and uttered:

"Get out of here."

As soon as those two words were uttered, Kapok immediately felt a powerful pressure coming down from above!

It seemed like an irresistible force of gravity; she couldn't hold on and staggered, only to be suddenly slammed to the ground in the garden, raising a cloud of dust!

The [Strong Sun High Crown] magic above her head was also dispersed, and when the smoke and dust cleared, only her kneeling body could be seen!

At that moment, Chen Mu was above her head, his long hair fluttering in the night breeze.

The situation has reversed!

"At that moment, it wasn't Asakage who issued the contract to me, but rather the other way around; Asakage issued the contract to me. Why?"

"Is the path of the contract 'sunset' rather than 'dawn' or 'sun'? Why? Is 'sunset' something beautiful?"

"Regardless, I have indeed become a witch now, but was it my soul that entered and manipulated Lin Chaojing's body to transform into her?"

Chen Mu's many questions remained unanswered, but at this moment, a lot of new information flooded into her mind.

This is an introduction to the power of witches:

"The witch system is different from the magical girl system. The first tier isn't called 'Seed,' but rather 'Secret Contract.' But it seems I skipped that stage and went straight to the second tier."

"The second tier is the [Seed], equivalent to the [Bud] level of a magical girl, but the way the power is manifested is completely different and quite strange. My [Seed] seems to be called—"

The girl's thoughts raced, but her expression remained stern as she slowly uttered those four words:

"【The Golden Crow Carries the Mountain】".

boom! !

As these four words were uttered, the pressure on Mu Mian suddenly increased exponentially, and she was once again pressed to the bottom of the pit, causing dust to rise from the surrounding land once more!

"Ugh!" She stared wide-eyed in disbelief, realizing that even in her [Gem Body] form, she couldn't easily resist this gravity!

Chen Mu's destiny seat, [Golden Crow Holding a Mountain], has the ability to apply gravity.

Gravity can force the kapok tree to fall from the sky, even pressing it down so that it cannot move.

This sounds like a kind of "magic," but only she knows that the principles behind the two are completely different, even diametrically opposed.

When a witch's [Constellation] is activated, it does not use or consume magical power.

It is activated entirely through its own contractual connection, much like "borrowing the power of a higher-level witch," without consuming any energy.

Furthermore, a witch only has one "Constellation," unlike magicians who can research and develop a wide variety of spells.

From this perspective, the witch's power is more like a "superpower"...

Chen Mu thought to herself that she wanted to do more experiments to fully master the technique.

At that moment, she landed beside the kneeling Kapok tree and said coldly, with excellent acting skills:

"I heard you're going to burn my house down?"

"No, I wouldn't dare... I'm sorry... It was my fault, I was wrong, Lord Dawn!"

Kapok was sweating profusely, kneeling on the ground trembling uncontrollably, unsure whether it was from the pressure of gravity or from fear.

What terrified her most was that she couldn't detect even the slightest bit of magic from the girl in front of her!

It was still empty, as if it were still that corpse.

But this heavy pressure is a fact!

Without relying on magic or spells, can those few words alone render me immobile? What kind of power is this, and how did it happen?!

Mu Mian was terrified, but given her low strength, she could only attribute it to the superior methods and techniques of Lord Dawn.

"As expected... the gap is too large, not just a little bit, it's impossible for me to see through it based on my understanding!"

After all, Kapok is a magical girl stationed in Miyuki City. She had met Dawn several times before, but at the time she only thought of her as a gentle, approachable, and even somewhat mischievous and romantic girl. She couldn't see any of the arrogance and aloofness that a Flower-level character should have. But tonight, she made up for all of that. She never expected that there was such a hidden side behind her!

The girl before him was like a tyrant, not even allowed to raise her head to look at him, forcing her to kowtow on the ground, begging for mercy and apologizing.

"Please, please let me go! I'm willing to pay any price to compensate for the losses; I'll do anything!"

"If I saw this, would I die?!"

All that remained in her heart was despair.

Could it be that Dawn's death was just a fake one, or did she have some other scheme in mind?

Yes, I was so stupid. Why would I have thought that a [Flower] level expert would fall so mysteriously? There must be some secret behind this, a secret that I should never have pried into!

"Isn't it too late to apologize now?"

Chen Mu didn't give her a chance to think any further. He raised his leg high and stomped on the back of her head, pressing her entire cheek into the scorching, blackened mud!

"Ugh!" Before Kapok could even react, she crashed hard into the mud, her mouth full of dirt, her face contorted in pain.

However, this is just the beginning.

Chen Mu did not let Mu Mian off so easily. He raised his foot again and kicked Mu Mian hard in the side waist!

boom!

Kapok was kicked and rolled sideways, carving a furrow in the pit. She groaned in pain and tried to struggle, but the invisible, overwhelming force of gravity descended again, pinning her to the spot. Chen Mu walked slowly closer, each step carrying a chilling pressure. He bent down, grabbed Kapok's short, bright red hair, and lifted half of her body up.

Chen Mu never felt that she was "cruel". Since it was a life-or-death relationship between them, she would not have any pity.

Not to mention that this woman burned down her house and yard, injured Lin Yongxi, and said so many damned things.

boom!

Another punch landed squarely on Kapok's abdomen.

Click...

A crisp cracking sound rang out, not from bones, but from more red garnet crystals being shattered and falling to the ground with a clattering sound. Her body trembled violently, and her face grew even paler. The properties of her [Gemstone Body] prevented her from bleeding; she only experienced the rapid loss of magic caused by the shattering of gemstones.

"It worked!"

Chen Mu let go, allowing Mu Mian to collapse to the ground again. She looked down at her fist, which was covered with some red gemstone powder.

Although in theory her power was insufficient to penetrate the defenses of the gemstone body, she came up with a good application: applying the power of the [Golden Crow Holding a Mountain] to her own fists and feet.

This means that the force of these punches and kicks is combined with the effect of gravity, and this double effect can cause multiple times the damage!

Even the kapok tree, with its "jewel-like body," could not withstand it!

She flicked her hand, and the powder scattered.

"Lord Dawn... have... have mercy..."

Kapok's voice was distorted by pain and fear, pleading intermittently, "I...I'll leave Miyuki City immediately...and never come back..."

She didn't even dare to resist or fight back, but Chen Mu ignored her.

She treated it like a piece of overly hard object that needed to be disassembled, or like testing the performance of a new toy. She punched and kicked, constantly dismantling the magical girl.

Fortunately, this wasn't Chen Mu's first time using a "girl's" body, so she didn't need any special time to adapt and quickly became completely natural. She didn't even use any decent moves; she just used the simplest and most brutal punches and kicks, combined with gravity suppression, to beat up the [Sprout]-level magical girl, Mu Mian, like a punching bag, kicking her around in the deep pit.

boom! boom! boom!

Slowly, bit by bit, they shattered her [Gemstone Body].

"Are you... are you humiliating me?!"

At that moment, Mu Mian suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with bloodshot veins and a frenzied hatred. "Why did you use such a light punch? Are you trying to torture me little by little?!"

She'd been beaten for so long, and finally, she couldn't take it anymore! She could clearly feel that the beatings weren't at all what a [Flower] level beating should be like! The other party was doing it on purpose! Damn it!

Long-suppressed resentment, fear of failure, bitterness over the gap, and the madness ignited at this moment finally overwhelmed her last shred of awe for "Lord Dawn".

Damn it! Damn it! I'm going to die anyway!

Rather than being slowly tortured like this, it's better to...

"Aaaaaahh ...

Kapok let out a final, most frantic roar, the remaining magic within her boiling over recklessly! She forcefully resisted the terrifying gravity, the crimson magic on her body burning fiercely like a final burst of light! Her broken hands suddenly rose, with a resolute determination to perish together, and viciously grabbed at Chen Mu's calf, which was inches away!

However, Chen Mu had just finished his experiments.

"【The Golden Crow Carries the Mountain】".

She went straight to the head and grabbed the head that Kapok was desperately raising.

There was no earth-shattering noise.

Click.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

Then, centered on the point of contact, the kapok tree, like a piece of glass art struck by an invisible giant hammer, was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

She had already reached her limit, and with the injuries Lin Yongxi had inflicted before, how could her body continue to function?

From within the crack, there was no splattering of blood and flesh, only countless tiny, large and small, blood-red garnet fragments, shooting out like a fountain, tracing poignant yet cruel arcs in the moonlight, clattering and scattering across the ground. Her magic, like a candle flame snapped, suddenly went out, and her hands fell limply to her sides.

The [Gemstone Body] began to disintegrate, without uttering any last words, and its magic completely dissipated, returning to the night sky.

A night breeze blew by, brushing against Chen Mu's standing figure. She slowly straightened up and tucked her slightly disheveled hair back behind her back.

"This is truly the end."

She looked down at her slender arms and petite body, still feeling a little uncomfortable.

The witch's power is indeed very strange and amazing.

But, does occupying Lin Chaojing's body mean it has to continue like this forever?

Chen Mu frowned and closed his eyes, but the next second, his consciousness woke up again from "his own" body.

The man was still sitting on the broken wall of his house, looking down at the devastation of the battlefield and the soulless corpse of the girl lying in the deep pit.

In his confusion, it took him a long time to come to his senses, to sort out the situation, and to touch his hair:

"It seems I can still transfer it back. If I want to use the power of the [Witch], I can borrow that body again."

"Does this... count as a transformation?"