The Grotesque Miss’s End Story v3c48

Chapter 48: The Heavenly Woman Ba Reappears

The surrounding Doomsday storm roared hysterically, faint wails and cries echoing within. An unspeakable despair filled the world, stemming from the sorrow of the deceased.

Luo Ling slowly extended her hand, reaching beyond the Witch’s protection, slightly touching this all-encompassing grief, and sighed softly.

The previous Doomsday storm had been relatively calm, its danger level only slightly higher than the Realm of Nothingness. Experts like Xuanyuan Linglong, with appropriate Sacred Tools, could traverse it without much issue.

But now, as if something had been triggered, everything that had perished within the Doomsday storm began to riot.

Almost no one in the world could cross this storm, except Luo Ling.

But… even Luo Ling, when directly touching this astonishing storm, couldn’t help but lose focus for a moment, slightly sinking into the remnants of the world that had perished due to Doomsday.

After all, that was the doomsday of an entire world.

Even now, in the world saved by Transcendence’s sacrifice, the threat of Doomsday hadn’t vanished. Humanity was merely well-protected by the bravest among them.

The Emperor, who willingly became mortal after death, the successive generations of the Xuanyuan clan, and so on…

“White…”

Elsa tugged worriedly at Luo Ling’s clothes. As someone on the Nightmare path, she noticed Luo Ling’s momentary lapse in focus when her soul touched the Doomsday storm and couldn’t help but worry.

“I’m fine.” Luo Ling regained her composure and looked at Elsa, a warm smile appearing on her usually cold and indifferent face. “Next, it’s up to you, Elsa.”

Hunting the Fairy wasn’t a simple task, and it was also very important.

However, there were many equally important matters, so Luo Ling had no choice but to come as an avatar.

But Luo Ling’s avatar could summon her main body at any time to intervene in critical moments.

What happened to Stasha before was enough. Luo Ling would never let the same thing happen again.

Although Elsa was still the same as before, naive and innocent, like a little girl who only knew how to smile, Luo Ling knew that Elsa was probably the strongest in the family, besides herself and her sister, even surpassing Fiona.

The most important reason was Elsa’s right eye, which had been transformed into a Sacred Tool.

Luo Ling had studied this mysterious Sacred Tool, but unfortunately, she hadn’t found any answers. Even Fiona, who crafted it, didn’t know why Elsa possessed such a powerful Sacred Tool, almost capable of connecting to the source of the Nightmare path.

But regardless, it was useful, and the price was small, which was enough.

Almost all of Elsa’s strength came from this Sacred Tool, but possessing it meant having power comparable to, or even exceeding, an Authority.

As for Luo Ling’s avatar here…

She had strength, of course, but definitely not comparable to Elsa.

An avatar was just an avatar, especially the White Witch, whose direct combat abilities were weaker.

“Yes, yes!” Elsa nodded, waving her small pink fist. “I’ll defeat the bad guys! Just you wait and see, humph!”

“…Still, be careful.” Luo Ling’s expression turned serious.

They were currently crossing this terrifying Doomsday storm, heading towards the Fairy’s hiding place.

Luo Ling was being carried by Elsa. She was currently multitasking, dealing with the worried Iris and Xuanyuan Linglong, who had just returned home, while also investigating the specific location, leaving no mental energy to control her avatar.

Honestly, only Luo Ling could handle this. Anyone else would have probably suffered a mental breakdown.

Shortly after entering the Doomsday storm, the surrounding storm suddenly weakened considerably.

The surroundings were filled with scattered remnants of the world, covered in shocking debris. Even a fleeting glance seemed to carry the scent of the previous world’s deep despair before its collapse.

Seeing these scenes, Luo Ling remained silent. Having witnessed similar scenes before, she could understand.

“White, I think… I found her?” Elsa frowned slightly. Her perception of souls was incredibly sharp, and her black right pupil twitched uneasily. “She seems to be injured…”

“Injured… It seems my guess was correct. She wasn’t unscathed in the last battle either. Let’s go and meet this… individual who even Sister Linglong finds troublesome.”

Hearing this, Luo Ling immediately refocused. After finally appeasing the other two sides, it was time to concentrate on dealing with the Fairy.

At this moment, Luo Ling’s positive feelings towards Linna increased considerably. What a good Miss Knight! She just needed to leave an avatar there, and Linna could handle everything efficiently, greatly reducing her burden. Luo Ling was almost moved to tears.

Of course, this wasn’t a criticism of Elsa. Little Elsa was still young, a true twelve-year-old little sister. Being as sensible as she was now was already enough; she couldn’t ask for too much.

However, at this moment, Elsa had only one thought in mind.

“Who is Sister Linglong?”

Why did Miss Luo Ling always meet new older and younger sisters every time she went out…

Soon, the two left the area enveloped by the Doomsday storm. This terrifying disaster, considered taboo by most beings, was just a trivial area for Luo Ling to pass through.

“This is…”

When Luo Ling and Elsa stepped onto this remnant at the edge of the world, they were surprised to find that everything here looked quite familiar.

The sky was covered by the grayish Doomsday storm. The scarred earth still showed signs of greenery, but it had all withered. As far as the eye could see, there was cracked earth and collapsed ruins.

“The Burial Ground?”

Luo Ling’s pupils constricted, but she quickly dismissed the idea.

This wasn’t the Burial Ground she had visited before, but it had experienced the same disaster.

“Ahem…”

A weak cough suddenly echoed in the eerily silent surroundings. Luo Ling and Elsa quickly looked over and saw a ragged woman leaning against a pile of rubble.

Her once magnificent and flowing immortal robes were now dusty and gray, torn strips of cloth entangled together, her exposed skin covered in large patches of dried blood. Despite some treatment, the wounds hadn’t healed—even the Fairy, skilled in alchemy, couldn’t heal them. These were wounds inflicted by Doomsday.

Luo Ling had seen the Fairy before. Although it was just a fleeting glimpse in the sky, it was hard to connect her with this beggar-like woman.

“It’s you, little girl.” The Fairy smiled faintly, and only at this moment could one barely discern her former breathtaking beauty. “Or, I should call you the White Witch. It’s a pity I didn’t recognize you at that time.”

The name “White Witch” was also quite famous in other origin points. After all, she was currently the only known being to replace another in the Sequence, and more than once. It was hard not to remember her.

However, the Fairy had only glanced at her briefly, and the situation was urgent, so she didn’t recall it immediately.

Only after careful recollection did she confirm that this little sister, the only one to escape her grasp, was the infamous White Witch.

“It seems crossing the Doomsday storm took quite a toll on you.” Luo Ling looked at the disheveled Fairy and gestured for Elsa to retreat and hide within the Witch’s protection.

She wasn’t sure if the Fairy, in such dire straits, would desperately unleash a self-destructive trump card, unnecessarily endangering Elsa.

“But even so, you still found me.”

The Fairy sighed and said, “I even risked summoning the most terrifying ‘past’ of this place, further intensifying the Doomsday storm to a level that even the Doomsday Messengers couldn’t cross, but I didn’t expect you to appear before me unscathed… I’ve never truly lost in my life. Now it seems I’ll have to break that precedent.”

She stared intently at Luo Ling, as if trying to see through her.

After escaping Zhuolu’s Battlefield at the Final Hour, the Fairy had chosen the most unlikely hiding place, but her intuition from the “This Life” path of “Other Shore” kept warning her, the feeling intensifying over time.

Until the Fairy made up her mind to summon the “past” of this world remnant, recreating the Doomsday storm, almost reaching its former intensity.

Her current injuries were the price she paid in this process. Initially, she was just slightly weakened.

However, even after exhausting all her effort, the warning in her heart never disappeared, but intensified.

The Fairy then realized that she had ultimately failed.

Because this time, the opponent before her far surpassed any she had encountered in the past.

“Aren’t you going to ask me anything?” The Fairy smiled gently, her frail appearance making her seem pitiful.

The dust couldn’t conceal her beauty but added a touch of fragility.

Unfortunately, Luo Ling wasn’t swayed by this. She shook her head and said, “No need.”

With the Puppet Ballad ability, Luo Ling wasn’t concerned about interrogation methods. Even if the Fairy chose to lock her memories, Omniscience could break through. Below the level of Taboo, Omniscience was invincible.

Even the chaotic nature of Chaos didn’t matter. She was using it against an enemy, not an ally. The chaotic deterioration was a weapon to Luo Ling.

“What a heartless little sister.” The Fairy sighed, seemingly accepting her fate.

But Luo Ling knew it wasn’t that simple.

She stepped forward, and countless spores dispersed.

The spores, not released by her main body, were quickly detected by the Fairy. She chuckled softly, a hint of determination flashing in her eyes.

The Fairy was intelligent. Even if she didn’t know the purpose of these beings between reality and illusion, they were at least related to the White Witch’s indifference towards interrogation.

The reason the White Witch didn’t need to ask questions was probably because she had more effective methods than soul-searching.

Soul-searching was already commonplace in Great Xia Imperial City, and there were many ways to avoid it. The Fairy had at least a thousand or eight hundred methods at her disposal.

“In that case…”

She had no choice but to take this path.

“Have you… heard of the ‘path to godhood’?”

The Fairy suddenly looked up, her previously pitiful and fragile demeanor vanishing, replaced by a gentle composure.

Saying this, the Fairy suddenly found her own words amusing and shook her head.

“Right, you’re the White Witch, the recognized first successful traveler of the ‘path to godhood.'”

The so-called path to godhood was about ascending in rank.

Ordinary humans and Awakened Ones, Awakened Ones and Grotesqueries, Grotesqueries and Sequence Grotesqueries, Sequence Grotesqueries and Taboos…

Each step up the ranks meant progressing further on the path.

Only those who reached the level of Sequence Grotesquery or above could be called “gods,” although true experts knew that “gods” defined this way were just “false gods.”

However, even “false gods” were still far beyond reach in terms of rank, difficult to surpass.

The White Witch was practically the only known being to have truly achieved this feat.

“You have your methods, and I have mine.”

The Fairy stood up shakily, her loneliness intensifying.

She took out a seed and threw it on the ground. It quickly sprouted, and soon a vine-like plant appeared.

The next moment, all the leaves on the vine opened their eyes, countless eyes covering the entire plant.

Luo Ling was no stranger to this strange plant.

“The transaction is complete, Harbinger of Auspicious Timing,” the Fairy said softly.

“Thank goodness, old fairy, you finally agreed.” The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing swayed its leaves, then saw the White Witch beside her and instantly understood. “So you ran into her. No wonder… tsk tsk, how unlucky.”

The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing was also quite familiar with Luo Ling, the White Witch. Not to mention that her two colleagues had interacted with Luo Ling many times, even she herself had made a deal with Luo Ling, providing her with information about the taboo stone tablet.

The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing naturally knew what happened afterward. Her attitude was similar to her two colleagues’: avoid her as much as possible.

“Indeed, how unlucky.” The Fairy smiled wryly.

A flawless plan had run into a unique variable.

“I hope you can escape from Miss White Witch,” the Harbinger of Auspicious Timing said, then all its eyes turned to Luo Ling. “I hope you can take down this old fairy.”

…She covered all her bases.

Luo Ling’s mouth twitched, but she wouldn’t give the Fairy much time.

“Let’s do this.”

Luo Ling said calmly.

Elsa, who had been ready from the start, immediately stepped forward.

Her “Eye of Fear and Envy” emitted powerful mental waves. A mere glance from it caused an unspeakable fear to rise from the depths of one’s heart, the only thought being to escape.

Although this time, it didn’t summon the phantom of any being like last time, its power was undiminished.

The Fairy and the Harbinger of Auspicious Timing were both stunned, their minds momentarily captivated.

Seizing this opportunity, Luo Ling lunged forward, her gray-white pupils tinged with a shocking blood-red hue, even her morbidly pale hair had a few crimson streaks.

The domain of the Authority, Kingdom of Ember, unfolded.

“I don’t have the habit of waiting for others to reveal their trump cards.”

Luo Ling exhaled. “Blood Frenzy” and “Blood Sacrifice Demon God” were released simultaneously, adding a touch of brutality to her petite frame.

Congealing blood into a sword, she thrust it directly towards the Fairy’s forehead.

…No fancy techniques, just pure power.

“This is a disaster.”

Perhaps due to her recent injuries, the Harbinger of Auspicious Timing recovered before the Fairy.

She sighed softly, then spread all her vines, forcibly blocking Luo Ling’s attack.

Since these plants had no blood, Luo Ling’s Kingdom of Ember had no effect. Moreover, as it was just an avatar, its power was limited.

“Are the Speakers trying to become my enemy?” Luo Ling said calmly.

“We wouldn’t dare, Miss White Witch.” The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing’s tone remained lighthearted. “This is just my personal action. Sigh… I’m forced by circumstances, please forgive me.

After my transaction with the old fairy is complete, you can do whatever you want. I won’t interfere… As for now, just consider me owing you a favor.”

Despite her words of surrender, the Harbinger of Auspicious Timing’s actions didn’t weaken at all.

Countless vines bloomed, surging towards Luo Ling’s petite body, trying to bind her in place.

Just then, Elsa charged from the side, her strange heterochromatic eyes opening again, appearing directly in the minds of the Harbinger of Auspicious Timing and the Fairy.

At the same time, a small, elf-like creature appeared from the other side, letting out strange cries while using the “Beautiful Illusion” ability of the Nightmare Grotesquery to influence the two before her, luring them into a terrifyingly gentle dream.

“…Sigh, why go to such lengths.” The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing sighed helplessly, but her words of weakness didn’t affect her efforts to stop Luo Ling and the others.

All the vines and branches went berserk, spreading and almost covering the entire remnant, resisting Luo Ling’s Kingdom of Ember and the combined attack of Elsa and Bella.

Finally, after exhausting all her vines, they broke through. The Harbinger of Auspicious Timing retreated helplessly, leaving only an ethereal sigh.

“Old fairy, I can only help you this much.”

“It’s fine, it’s enough.”

The Fairy’s ethereal voice sounded. Luo Ling looked up, her pupils constricting.

“This is…”

A faint, teal, mournful phantom appeared on the Fairy.

“—The Heavenly Woman Ba.”