Chapter 377
Avery took a deep breath and exhaled, "Actually, I'm a little unwilling right now. Why should we have planned for so long and made so much effort, only to have it all fall apart because of the Sky Screen?"
"But there's no way around it. The power of magic... is beyond our comprehension right now. Once I was certain that you possessed the power to find us and utterly destroy us, I knew our end was near."
"So..."
Avery's gaze shifted to the corpses on the ground, a hint of disgust in his expression, and he continued:
"... I killed them, I killed those stubborn, unrepentant bastards. Do you know what they were planning to do? They wanted to plant nuclear bombs all over the world and tie their lives to them, just to make you Magical Girls hesitate to act against them."
"Heh, if they actually did that..."
"It seems you've forgotten about me?" Stella suddenly spoke up.
Avery grinned and said, "They forgot, I didn't. Of course I knew this method was impossible, which is why I did it this way. I guess you could say we preserved our last shred of dignity."
"Ha, dignity." Xiao Bai looked at Avery with a mocking gaze. "You who create monsters, who would rather become Demons than not cause trouble for this world, what face do you have to talk about 'dignity'?"
Only humans have the right to talk about dignity.
The people in the Aurora Society are no longer 'human'.
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Avery remained silent.
He looked at the sickle in Xiao Bai's hand and understood what Xiao Bai was thinking.
He grinned and said:
"Okay, you're right, we don't really have any dignity to speak of, but the result is still the same."
As Avery spoke, he raised his pistol, pointed it at himself, and said to Xiao Bai:
"Considering I helped you resolve the last problem, let me treat myself with some dignity. As a reward, you can go to the control room and retrieve my experimental log later. It contains my research records on magic, which might... be of help to you."
"..."
Xiao Bai didn't say anything.
If she could, she would rather torture Avery, so he could experience the Pain and despair of the experimental subjects they had kidnapped.
But to avoid things getting too complicated and to prevent any unforeseen complications, Avery has decided to commit suicide, and Xiao Bai has no intention of stopping him.
After Avery finished speaking, he gazed deeply at Xiao Bai, then, as if regretting something, gave a self-deprecating laugh, raised his gun to his temple, and then... pulled the trigger.
Bang!!
The bullet pierced his brain, and his unmodified body collapsed in a pool of blood, piled on top of the corpses of the Aurora Society's high-ranking members at his feet.
Xiao Bai stared at Avery's corpse for a while before asking Stella:
"Is he really dead?"
"Yes, if this is his true form, then he is indeed dead. I can no longer sense his mental fluctuations."
"... Burn this place down. Don't just watch it turn to ashes. I'm going to check the control room."
Xiao Bai gave Stella a final task.
Burn everything here to the ground, reduce Avery to ashes.
This is also just to be on the safe side.
After all, Avery appears to be dead, but who knows if he had modified his body?
What if he's actually become a freak, and wouldn't be hurt even if he were shot in the forehead?
Only when it's burned to ashes and the ashes are scattered can it be considered safe.
Surely Avery can't possibly survive after turning to ashes, right?
In fact, Avery here did not make any modifications to himself; the Avery he exists here is really just an ordinary person.
Nothing unexpected happened until his body turned to ashes.
Knowing this, Xiao Bai finally felt relieved and went to read the experimental log that Avery had mentioned.
This is the Aurora Society's main base, its true base, similar to the Umbrella Corporation's base in Wanda City in the Resident Evil film series.
Therefore, it is only natural that this place brings together research data from all the laboratories.
Of course, this is research data from before the Severing ties with major laboratories.
The materials contained a lot of information, but most of it was repetitive. Avery categorized them and condensed the information into a document of several dozen pages.
These dozens of pages are all about research on magic.
The research mainly focuses on the transformation of humans into monsters, with a small portion related to Demons.
But the most crucial point of research, which is also what Avery wants to show to Xiao Bai, is what he wants to highlight.
The relationship between Magical Creatures and magic... this is a topic of research.
Upon seeing this research project, Xiao Bai couldn't help but sit up straight and read on intently.
The Aurora Society's magic actually comes from the Magical Creatures bound to Luna, namely Lien.
The magical flesh and blood separated from Lien were cloned to form a Magic Seed, which was then fused with animal genes to create a monster.
This is a complete experimental logic.
The experimental report also mentioned that the reason for fusing animal genes with magic was that these flesh and blood seeds had the highest compatibility with animals and the lowest compatibility with human genes.
Monsters are created by fusing animal genes, and then these monsters absorb despair and transform into Demons.
This is also the method currently used by the Aurora Society to create Demons.
The Aging Demon was born from this.
If this method becomes more sophisticated, the Aurora Society might be able to mass-produce Demons, just like in the Sky Screen Curtain.
Of course, these mass-produced Demons have now been confirmed to be beings that could be controlled by Upper Demon at any time, but putting that aside for now, there is no doubt that the Aurora Society has the ability to create Demons.
All of the above is known information; what follows is the key point.
When Avery was fusing Lien's magic with the Demons's magic, he made a surprising discovery.
That's Lien's magic, and it seems to have a very high compatibility with the Demons's magic!
Or rather, the magical power of Magical Creatures is extremely compatible with that of Demons!
However, given that Lien had been captured and experimented on by Demons, it's quite normal for her magic to be compatible with Demons.
But don't forget, Lien and Luna are now partners who are of one mind and one body!
If Lien's magic is truly highly compatible with that of Demons, then logically Luna should easily carry the aura of Demons now!
However, judging from Luna's performance on the Sky Screen, apart from being a bit weaker, she is a completely orthodox Magical Girls in every other aspect!
It's even more authentic than Aurora, who transforms using a mobile phone!
Let alone becoming Demons, you can't even sense the slightest trace of Demons power on him!
Avery mentioned this in the archives, so he began to study it more thoroughly.
At the same time, he was searching for something else.
The origins of Magical Girls, Magical Creatures, and Demons!
The Sky Screen never mentioned when Magical Creatures and Magical Girls began to exist; it seemed that Magical Creatures had existed since the very first generation.
However, it is not difficult to infer from the words of Kelly and others that there was no historical record of Magical Creatures before the appearance of the First-Generation Magical Girls.
It seems that Magical Creatures and Magical Girls appeared at the same time.
The same applies to Demons.
Next, let's examine the social structure of Magical Creatures.
From their past conversations, Avery deduced that the world inhabited by the Magical Creatures must be a very small world.
Furthermore, there are no leader roles like 'king' or 'chieftain' in the Magical Creatures world.
If one had to name a leader, only the headmaster of the Magical Creature Academy could be considered a leader among Magical Creatures.
But that's precisely where the problem lies.
Magical Creatures... and there are so many from just one academy?
Or perhaps the true core of Magical Creatures is actually their academy?
There is no stable social structure, no 'family' that normal people can understand, and it seems that everything about Magical Creatures is in service of the Magical Creature Academy.
After graduation, Magical Creatures will travel to other worlds to form contracts with Magical Girls, while a small number of Magical Creatures will stay at the school to serve as teachers.
Besides, there is no such thing as a 'world' in the world of Magical Creatures.
The world of Magical Creatures is essentially an academy for Magical Creatures.
Avery mentioned this in his report because he couldn't ask the Magical Creatures about the structure of their world; he could only deduce the overall structure of the Magical Creatures through reasoning.
After seeing the report, Xiao Bai immediately asked Kelly about it.
Kelly, however, retorted with a puzzled look, "What's so strange about it? We Magical Creatures have always been like this!"
"... Have you always focused on the academy?"
"Yes, is there a problem with that?"
Kelly's question silenced Xiao Bai.
After a moment's thought, Xiao Bai asked Kelly, "How are Magical Creatures born?"
"Within the Magic Academy lies a World Tree, the core of our Magical Creatures world. Every year, it bears several fruits; when these fruits ripen and fall, they form new Magical Creatures..."
Kelly said with a complicated expression, "But now this tree has also been destroyed by the Demons, so... that's why I said we are the last Magical Creatures."
The birth of Magical Creatures is actually similar to that of elves in some fantasy novels—they both grow out of trees?
This surprised Xiao Bai a bit.
She had never paid attention to these things before. After all, Magical Creatures were already in such a miserable state; bringing them up would only reopen old wounds.
Moreover, this matter had nothing to do with exorcising Demons; it was all just trivial stuff, so Xiao Bai didn't ask any further questions.
However, judging from Avery's report, there is indeed some inseparable connection between Demons, Magical Creatures, and Magical Girls.
Tsk, are they going to pull some kind of "enemy and friend share the same origin" theory in the end?
No... it seems that they do indeed share a common origin...
Xiao Bai turned his gaze to his skill panel.
The magical skills belonging to Magical Girls, after merging with the magic of Demons and Magical Creatures, unexpectedly became 'Magic Source'.
Its meaning is quite obvious; it means 'the Source of Magic'.
From this perspective, the energy of Magical Girls, Magical Creatures, and Demons clearly originates from the same source!
But if that's really the case...
Xiao Bai's gaze shifted to his unlocked [??? form].
After the magic skill is upgraded to Magic Source Skill, three special skills are derived from this skill.
[Shining Form], [Demon Form], and [??? Form].
Xiao Bai initially thought that the [??? form] was likely an advanced form of some other form.
However, after awakening [Shining Form] and seeing the [Dawn Shining Form] skill bar appear after [Dawn Form], Xiao Bai became certain that this question mark form was definitely very different from Shining Form and Demon Form!
At first, Xiao Bai couldn't quite figure out what this was, but now...
"... No way?"
Staring at the question mark shape for a long time, Xiao Bai fell into deep thought, then suddenly asked Kelly, "Do you Magical Creatures also have your own way of circulating magic...?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Tell me how your magic works.
Xiao Bai spoke up.
Although Kelly found it strange, she still explained to Xiao Bai how Magical Creatures circulated their magic, just as Xiao Bai had instructed.
Magical Creatures operate their magic in a unique way, using methods specifically designed to enhance it.
Because Magical Creatures cannot increase their magical power when they are emotionally agitated like Magical Girls, they can only use this method to increase their magical power.