She Really Was a Freak

"Such a tiny human, yet so bold."

"In all these long, endless ages, individuals like you have been quite rare."

The burning clock and crescent moon marks grew increasingly prominent in her beautiful crimson eyes.

The mysterious woman before him, who had yet to utter a word aloud, raised her brows slightly.

She gazed quietly at Lin Chen with an utterly indescribable look.

A somewhat grating sound of twisting space rang out.

The alloy floors and walls of Herta Space Station's master control zone.

Bent and warped beneath the spreading black ripples...

Countless shattered metal modules drifted like snowflakes floating through space.

What the hell is this woman?

She can tear Herta Space Station apart and dismantle it in an instant...

Has she reached the level of an Emanator?

Lin Chen frowned slightly, his arms folded across his chest.

Questions ran through his mind.

Yet that terrifying power, strong enough to warp space.

Had neither affected nor injured him in the slightest.

Presumably, once the universal countermeasure card activated.

The system had nullified all the pressure for him.

"Interesting... Hahaha..."

"It seems I've found myself a new toy this time."

A somewhat arrogant female voice rang in his ears.

It carried a hint of madness and mockery.

Leaving Lin Chen rather perplexed.

As her intent reached him, the black, tearing ripples flashed and vanished.

The mysterious woman in a pure black dress.

Had appeared before Lin Chen, a step above him.

She raised one long, snow-white leg slightly.

Her tall, high-heeled boot with its black buckle.

Came down toward Lin Chen's forehead.

"Little uncanny creature, you've got some pretty unusual tastes..."

"By the way, that style doesn't suit you."

His lips spread into a somewhat brazen grin.

Lin Chen slowly raised his head.

And lightly flicked away the descending high-heeled boot with a fingertip.

Then spoke in a tone of amused interest.

"Also... who gave you the right."

"To stand above my head and talk down to me!"

After those cold words, a dazzling shimmer flashed.

Lin Chen was already standing higher in space.

His feet rested on an isolated, silver-white fragment of Herta Space Station.

As he looked down imperiously at the mysterious woman before him.

From an angle that would have earned a photographer a bonus.

Lin Chen could clearly see.

At the upper opening of the uncanny demon woman's gothic dress.

The magnificent curves and cleavage of her full, snow-white peaks.

Hmm... so white it almost hurts to look.

Those seemingly boundless curves pack even more firepower than Himeko's.

In a certain sense.

The source of the uncanny before him was a truly peerless beauty.

Both her face and figure were flawlessly perfect.

Her beautiful, wickedly alluring eyes held a charm that bewitched the heart.

Of course... Lin Chen remained completely clearheaded.

He would not be deceived by her appearance.

For an uncanny existence beyond comprehension like this.

Changing her appearance and features.

Seemed to be a trivial matter.

Lin Chen suspected that if this thing revealed her true form.

She would probably be even more indescribable than [Deep-Sea Nightmare].

"Hmm? Finished admiring me yet..."

"It seems you're quite interested in this god's body."

"Following your instinctive human desires."

"Wouldn't you love to... breed offspring with this god?"

"Reshape, forge, ascend, transform, corrupt, devour..."

"And ultimately turn this entire starry expanse into a sacrificial ground of night."

She gently caught a slender, white-jade finger between her rose-colored lips.

The uncanny demon licked her lips.

The mockery in her beautiful crimson eyes deepened.

Countless disordered syllables reverberated through Lin Chen's mind.

Leaving him rather bewildered.

This woman really was outrageously insane.

Clearly, her thought processes could not be judged by human ethics.

"Unfortunately... you're merely a lowly ant beneath the vast starry sky."

"You cannot even glimpse the truth of the world."

"You'd best abandon those baseless delusions..."

"Though I don't know what means you used to withstand my blessing."

"That's all you amount to. Know your place in the hierarchy..."

Their pure meaning continued to echo through his mind.

Lin Chen felt that the uncanny being before him was not really speaking.

It was more like she was reciting some long, convoluted scripture.

"Finished yet? It's all meaningless drivel."

"Tell me, what exactly did you come here to do?"

"And... where did you take my friends and the people on Herta Space Station?"

With his arms folded across his chest, Lin Chen spoke aloud, cutting off the witch's rambling telepathic transmission.

Although all the surrounding space had been torn apart.

And the whole of Herta Space Station had become countless fragments drifting through the stars.

Lin Chen did not believe.

That everything before his eyes was real in any conventional sense.

With this witch's terrifying power, killing the humans on Herta Space Station would have been effortless.

But she had not done so.

Clearly, she had another purpose.

"Friends? Do you mean your familiars? Those few?"

"Hmm... they're all humans who have absorbed Chaos Power, a little stronger than ordinary ants."

"One of them in particular is especially interesting. An excellent collectible."

The witch floating beneath the stars snapped her fingers.

Pure black ripples spread, and several familiar figures appeared before Lin Chen.

March 7th, Asta, and Arlan.

All wore expressions of horror and shock as they stared at the wreckage scattered through the space before them.

"Lin Chen..."

"Mr. Lin Chen..."

"Senior Lin Chen..."

Familiar voices sounded nearby.

Lin Chen realized that this witch, who seemed to defy all convention.

Had not erased the consciousness of March 7th or the others.

Both Asta and March 7th were stunned by the sight before them.

Herta Space Station had been completely shattered.

Lin Chen stood on a tiny, isolated fragment in space.

Conversing with a black vortex whose true nature was impossible to discern.

Everything happening before their eyes.

Had surpassed any conventional understanding.

Perhaps such things existed only in myths.

"Since you weren't completely stupid and didn't take their lives."

"I'll consider leaving your corpse intact in a moment."

"Turning a freak like you into a specimen for my collection."

"Should be somewhat entertaining."

His lips spread into a somewhat brazen grin.

Facing the mad, utterly unreasonable witch, Lin Chen found himself in a playful mood too.

A contest to see who's more twisted, huh? I can play that game.

Of course, Lin Chen was only making an offhand remark.

As for this terrifyingly powerful source of the uncanny before him.

Lin Chen only wanted to contain her, then hit her with Field Decomposition.

According to the system's rules.

It seemed that the stronger an uncanny being was, the more gold it dropped.

How many Conquest Points would this witch, who seemed to control dreams and space, yield?

Just thinking about it made Lin Chen a little excited.

Getting rich in one fell swoop was right around the corner!