(Proxy)
Ha, I really had lost to myself.
The weak person I had been in the past had become stronger than even a witch.
"Whew, then I'll head down and help too!"
I got up, stretched my limbs, and shoved my idiot daughter into Aldebaran's care.
"Unlike those magical girls, I'm still a witch. A witch fighting another witch should at least stand a chance... And my magic might just be able to stop that darkness from crashing down."
The sky over the New World was about to collapse.
It was like a rubber tent on a rainy day. The darkness was the water pooling on its roof, and once it collapsed, everything beneath the tent would be done for.
SpiCa asked again through the Thought Network, "So, is there no way to evacuate first? At least get the consciousnesses at risk out of the New World?"
"Evacuating takes time too. Forcibly extracting people would only damage their consciousnesses, and things haven't become irreversible yet... We still can't abandon the New World."
Ceruno still refused to let people withdraw from the New World into the Earth Crystal.
Evacuating was like logging out of a game server, except this time, they might never be able to log back in. The more people logged out, the greater that possibility became, so Ceruno didn't dare give the order lightly.
"Then I'm off."
Despite saying that, I merely closed my eyes on the couch.
Since the New World was virtual, only my consciousness could enter it. My body would remain asleep in reality.
But if my consciousness died, my real body might end up brain-dead.
Putting that absurd speculation out of my mind, I entered the New World, where darkness was spreading.
The outskirts.
It was a desolate wilderness without even an animal magical