Volume Three: The Academy's Complete Rampage - Maiden's Saint Domain

"Aren't you going to obediently die?"

With a piercing roar, countless tiny feather swords rained down, piercing through the projections. The buildings below suffered devastating damage, but Black Crystal didn't care about the casualties.

There were too many unexpected situations.

Xiao saw through his true colors, and he thought he could kill her immediately, but her vitality exceeded his expectations. Finally, he steeled himself and used his ultimate move Wing of Plundering the Heavens, to finish her off, but then Givinia, an even more troublesome obstacle, appeared! And Xiao had disappeared again!

"How many illusions can she create... it's endless!"

Countless identical girls appeared around her, laughing and joking, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake. To be on the safe side, she had to unleash her attacks on each illusion—after all, if Givinia wanted to attack, she would have to approach them in kind.

On the other side--

"Come on, Black Crystal! I'm here!"

"Oh?"

The black feather instantly pierced through space and shot towards Givinia. In the instant before switching into projection, she left behind a small Air Bomb, which collided and exploded with the black feather! The Black Crystal immediately gathered a large number of black feathers around itself—based on previous experience, she was first drawing her attention to a distance, and then appearing beside her in the next instant to deliver a painful blow with the air bomb. Although her black feather armor could withstand the brief vacuum and explosion, pain still continuously transmitted through the armor to her body, so she could not be careless!

However--

"... What is she doing?"

Givinia did indeed teleport by swapping positions with the projection, but the location she teleported to was only about ten meters away from where she originally was! Although Black Crystal was a little confused, she still released Black Feathers to attack again.

In the alleyways on the ground--

"...

The girls gathered in the flower room.

A girl sings joyfully under a rainbow.

The girls sat around the dining table,

For an elegant and lovely tea party.

The fair-skinned girl picked up her teacup.

A beautiful young girl gently smells the roses.

A blonde girl blends spices.

A black-haired girl sang a nursery rhyme.

..."

Xiao still squinted her eyes, her hand resting on the book as she continued her seemingly endless chanting. As the chanting progressed, the pages gradually emitted light, like a flowing rainbow, as beautiful as a young girl's dream.

Whoosh!!! Another black feather missile grazed past Givinia's physical form, tearing a large piece of her clothes and nearly injuring her flesh. Sweating profusely, she immediately swapped positions with the projection on the other side and simultaneously launched a new Air Bomb! However, the Air Bomb's attack power was no match for Daikon's black feather missile; it could only neutralize the shockwave generated by the black feather!

The enormous Black Wings suddenly closed, enveloping her, and thousands of black feathers shot towards her! She escaped the encirclement a millisecond before being hit, instantly appearing behind the Black Crystal—

However, it still couldn't break through her armor! Black feathers shot out from her back, forcing Givinia to quickly create distance.

The only saving grace was that the Black Crystal's ability to "randomly deprive the hit person of one of their senses" was a mental attack, and Givinia had extremely high resistance to mental attacks, so she would not suffer from loss of sensation for a short period of time.

That being said...

"Hurry, hurry, Miss Xiao, I don't know how much longer we can hold out..."

Waves of air emanated from the book, causing Xiao's long purple hair to dance wildly, and the iridescent light grew increasingly dazzling, finally bringing the chanting to its climax.

"...

Let's hold hands and spin around.

None of the ten villains survived.

Who killed the robin?

Lizzie Borden with an axe

A fallen angel with broken wings plummeted from the blue sky.

The shade soaks in the morning glow,

Thorns around flowers

A young girl dreams amidst the flowers.

There is no point in living, no point in dying.

Dwelling in the sacred realm,

I wish to lock my heart away.

May purity endure forever.

Its name is --

Eternal Kingdom: Maiden's Saint Domain!

Black Crystal and Givinia, who were fiercely exchanging fire in the sky, suddenly stopped and looked down at the same time.

"What...?"

Black Crystal was stunned.

"The chant is finally over!"

Givinia breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately tensed up again, observing the situation.

A vibrant fountain of light erupted from a point on the ground, reaching a height of over two hundred meters, and showing no sign of stopping! The splashing rainbow light continuously transformed into a colorful mist that spread, instantly filling the entire sky—and this was just the beginning. Gradually, strange objects emerged from the colorful mist; they were—

"... Greenhouse... no, garden?"

Countless glass walls stretched across the sky, seemingly randomly distributed, yet they clearly enclosed an area with a diameter of one kilometer. Following the glass walls, vast flowerbeds appeared, with roses, Yuri, lilacs, daisies... tens of thousands of bouquets blooming in the sky, even the fragrance seemed so real!

"I remember, in Shen Xiaoyue's memory, Si Nan Xiao had a secret, top-secret skill..."

"What exactly did Miss Xiao summon...?"

Their questions were quickly answered.

Beyond the flowerbeds appeared countless small and adorable tea tables, each laden with floral tea and pastries. Around each table sat two to four young women. These "girls" all wore luxurious Gothic-style gowns adorned with lace and frills, possessing dreamlike beauty; each one was an absolutely stunning beauty that would drive anyone wild.

--If their joints weren't ball-shaped.

"... doll."

Indeed, these countless beautiful girls were all inorganic dolls, yet each one was so lifelike that they were indistinguishable from the real thing. The dolls sipped their tea elegantly, each with a serene smile, as if all the pain and darkness of the world were irrelevant to them. The tea party proceeded in an orderly fashion, as if the Black Crystal and Givinia present here had no connection to them whatsoever.

What's going on? Givinia was stunned. Without any attack or special ability, what was the point of this "special technique"?

"Givinia ...Miss Givinia ..."

A strangely drawn bird landed on Givinia's shoulder, and Xiao's voice came from its beak.

"What's wrong?"

"Quick... get out of here now! The Maiden's Saint Domain only activates when attacked, annihilating all living things within its range, friend or foe!"

"Eh?!"

"Run!"

Givinia immediately switched places with the projection next to Xiao, escaping the range of the Maiden's Saint Domain. In the instant she escaped—

"--Although I don't know what kind of trick it is, let's try attacking first."

Then, a black feather, hundreds of meters long, stretched across the entire field.

It pierced through the glass wall, through the flowerbed, through the tea table, and through the girl dolls.

However, it did not cause any damage.

It's not that the Maiden's Saint Domain is an illusion. Both the Black Crystal's Black Feather and the Maiden's Saint Domain exude a strong presence, but they are like trains speeding on different tracks, seemingly overlapping but never touching.

"They are all 'actually existing,' yet they don't interfere with each other?"

Black Crystal frowned; even she had never seen such a bizarre move before.

Just as she was thinking this,

Crack. Crack, crack.

Clack clack clack clack clack clack--

The noise produced by the joints of a single doll turning is very small, but if all the dolls turn in one direction at the same time, the combined sound is enough to drive a person mad. All the dolls, regardless of their appearance, all turned their heads toward the Black Crystal, and countless inorganic, emotionless glass, ceramic, and gelatinous eyeballs stared straight at her.

"Intruders..."

The blonde doll in the red dress closest to her opened and closed her mouth slightly, making mechanical, chattering sounds.

"Intruders..." "Intruders?" "It's intruders..."

Starting from this point, all the puppets began to open and close their mouths, their mechanical jaws moving back and forth, the grinding sound of countless gears piercing the eardrums.

"An intruder!" "An intruder into the Holy Land..." "A person who defiles the Holy Land..." "How terrifying!" "How pitiful!" "How tragic!" "It's infuriating!" "It's heartbreaking!" "What should we do?" "Eliminate her!" "Eliminate her!" "The Holy Land does not allow foreign objects!" "It does not allow intrusion!" "So we must eliminate her!" "Let's do it!" "It's necessary!" "Kill her!" "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!" "She must be killed!" "Gouge out her heart!" "Tear out her lungs!" "Dismember her!" "Tear her apart!" "Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!"

The dolls came to life, emerging from under the table, from the flowerbeds, from the teapot, from under their skirts, from their hair, and from all sorts of unexpected places, pulling out various kinds of cold weapons. From small forks, pins, and paper cutters to medium-sized swords, axes, and chainsaws, to large guillotines, hammers, and Greatsword, the dolls moved with an eerie grace, as if passing through a thin membrane, bridging the gap between the fantasy world and reality...

"--Die!!!"

A massive army of puppets surged toward the Black Crystal.

"Miss Xiao! Miss Xiao! Are you alright?"

"To be honest, not really... cough cough!"

In the alley, Xiao knelt in the corner, hugging herself tightly, a large, thick book spread out beside her. Her body trembled slightly, her face ashen, like a famine victim.

"Miss Xiao, is it really too much to exert yourself?"

"I'm afraid so. Four minutes—no, three minutes is the limit... Forcibly extending it would probably burn through my lifespan... The Maiden's Saint Domain is a product of my innocent yet cruel fantasy of summoning the maiden in the book... Huff... Huff... To kill the enemy dolls... I must come to the side of reality, but the Sanctuary and reality are isolated from each other. The Black Crystal cannot destroy the Sanctuary... And as long as the Sanctuary is not destroyed, the dolls will... regenerate infinitely!"

"Merely a created being!!!"

With a sweep of the Wing of Plundering the Heavens, thousands more puppets were instantly shattered, but even more puppets surged forth from the Holy Land! The seemingly weak and powerless girl puppets actually possessed mobility close to the limits of ordinary people. Although destroying such minions was a matter of a single thought for Black Crystal, the problem was their sheer numbers.

There are just too many!

No matter how they are repelled or destroyed, new puppets will be continuously replenished, and even the previously repelled puppets will regenerate on their own! Such combat power cannot be represented by numbers; this is truly an unlimited force!

"Si Nan Xiao!!!!"

She was careless! Too careless!! Black Crystal never imagined that Si Nan Xiao, whom she had always considered harmless, would be so troublesome, let alone that she would be ruined by her! But no matter how angry she was, the fact that she was surrounded by the dolls would not change!

"Roll!"

Dozens of black feathers shot out, instantly shattering nearly a thousand puppets. New troops immediately came in to reinforce them, but some gaps were still created.

Taking this opportunity, Black Crystal sorted out her chaotic thoughts.

There are now four options.

First: Use the strongest killing move originally used against the pink-haired Fallen Feather —to annihilate them all in one fell swoop.

Second: Summon Black Crow's men.

Third: Forcefully create a path to escape.

Fourth: Ignore the puppets and directly kill Si Nan Xiao.

She immediately rejected the first and second options. She only used the Fallen Feather in truly urgent situations, and it was of no use to the other Black Crow members in such circumstances.

Needless to say, escaping was out of the question. She had already escaped once when she encountered that monster last time, and her pride wouldn't allow her to escape a second time.

As for the fourth... there is a way.

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