The same goal

The endless darkness all around seemed frozen, while the drifting starlight made the illusory Tunnel appear as if it were flowing with fluid, helping Lumian navigate through it without losing his way.

In just over ten seconds, Lumian arrived at a region of Gloom, heavy void that had formed a giant eggshell.

As he arrived, the guiding starlight coalesced on the eggshell, forming a dreamlike doorway.

As soon as Lumian stepped through the door, he saw a familiar figure.

That was him, in his Men form.

His handsome face was covered in blood, and his blue Eyes revealed undisguised resentment and Pain.

"Great, having Angel to help makes all the difference!" Lumian's "Person in the Mirror" gave a thumbs up, full of sarcasm.

"Wouldn't it be foolish not to use an Angel's promise to help?" Lumian scoffed habitually.

Lumian's "Person in the Mirror" stared intently at her Women self, and after a few seconds asked, "What are you doing here?"

Lumian replied, "I want to reconcile with you."

"If you're not willing, I'll beat you until you are, Fascination you until you are."

Lumian's "Person in the Mirror" gave a self-deprecating laugh, then said, "Okay."

"That simple?" Lumian raised an eyebrow that was much softer than the Person in the Mirror.

His "Person in the Mirror" chuckled and said, "I'd rather replace you, but you have to agree first."

"If there's no other way, it's not something we can't consider." Lumian smiled, her face seemingly reflecting a touch of starlight.

His "Person in the Mirror" paused for a moment, then said, "We are essentially the same, the me as I am now."

"Me now?" Lumian was worried that the person in the mirror had other schemes, and also wanted to help Franca, who was about to hold the Ritual, to explore more knowledge about the "Person in the Mirror," so he was not in a hurry to go forward and make peace.

"After consuming ' Witch ' Potion or higher, the stable birth of the ' Person in the Mirror ' is essentially a split of the self during the ascension process, dividing into the 'me in the mirror' and the 'me outside the mirror,' the 'me of the original gender' and the 'me of the current gender.' When you became the ' Witch of Despair,' you also possessed the Gift of Fate, which caused a slight Change in the split. The 'me in the mirror' is the 'me of the original gender,' and also the 'me of the Past,' while the 'me outside the mirror' is the 'me of the current gender,' and also the 'me of the present.'" Lumian's face in the mirror Distortion slightly. "This is my personal experience and feeling; it may not be entirely accurate."

"If we reconcile, we will together form my Future self?" Lumian asked thoughtfully.

"Perhaps," Lumian scoffed in the mirror, "Who has any experience with this? Hurry up, don't waste time."

Seeing that Lumian was looking at her without speaking, Lumian in the mirror clicked her lips and said, "If I replace you, the Ritual will inevitably fail because the gender of the soul will be different. After that, I will be stuck in the ' Witch of Despair ' Sequence forever, unless I jump to the ' War Bishop '. That is one path, but in the current situation, it will take too much time."

"Sisters, time waits for no one. Becoming the ' Witch of Unaging ' is a crucial step in Resurrection Aurora. The sooner you take that step, the better!"

Lumian paused for a few seconds before saying, "You want to reconcile because Resurrection Aurora is more important?"

"Otherwise what? Because you have personal Charm?" Lumian in the mirror sneered.

He paused, composed himself, and said in a deep voice, "We are the same kind of people. Apart from hating you, Curse you, and wanting to replace you, I am no different from you."

"But none of that matters."

"Yes, none of that matters." Lumian finally smiled and Past towards her reflection in the mirror.

He extended his fair, slender hand, with skin as smooth as jade.

He smiled in the mirror too:

Since replacing you isn't the most important thing, between reconciliation, being enslaved, and being infatuated with you, I will definitely choose reconciliation.

As he spoke, he extended his right palm.

Large, powerful hands with a bronze complexion.

Two hands, slightly different in size, clasped together.

Lumian suddenly felt that the Mysticism connection between them had become tangible, as if it had formed a rope, a spider web that wrapped around them.

In his eyes, his reflection in the mirror suddenly Distortion.

The Person in the Mirror cursed loudly:

"You sow! Do you know that every time you use ' Mirror Substitute,' I die once and then split off from you?"

"You piece of Dog Shit, let's switch to someone else, and you'll experience it for yourself, then you'll know how Pain it is!"

"Being locked up in this dark place every day, with no one to talk to and no one to communicate with, I'm fucking going crazy. I might as well just die, but Aurora hasn't been Resurrection yet!"

Haha, I'm always happy when you're in Pain. You have those moments too!

"Damn, but I'm Pain at the same time, because what you 'Pain is what I also feel Pain from. When you're in Despair, I'm in Despair too!"

Sometimes I think, it would be better to die a few more times than to have to face all of this for you!

"Little Cabbage, can't you be a little happier, enjoy yourself a bit more? Are you trying to make me jealous, to make me desperately want to replace you?"

"..."

As Lumian listened to his own reflection cursing in the mirror, he didn't suppress his inner emotional turmoil, as if he himself were making a similar roar and venting.

The two people, who were shaking hands, seemed to be getting closer and closer even though they weren't moving forward.

At that moment, Lumian in the mirror stopped cursing.

He looked at Lumian, his expression serious, and said in a low voice, "Aurora must be Resurrection."

He paused, then gritted his teeth and shouted, "Otherwise, I'll haunt you even as a ghost!"

"I won't let myself off the hook either," Lumian replied in a deep voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt as if his perspective had Change.

He saw himself as Women with Eyes as clear as Plateau Lake, a bright and dignified appearance, and a strange sharpness; he also saw himself with a face covered in blood and a less Distortion expression.

At that moment, Lumian had an epiphany.

With the help of the "Witch's " Spider Silk, he took out with one hand the Beyonder Characteristic of the "Witch of Unaging" that resembled a transparent Traveler's Bag, different parts of a rotting corpse that replaced the Mirror God's Fragment and the blood of the Gorgon, the lung droplets of Drowned collected in the past two days, and an antique Mirror left over from the early Fifth Epoch from his "traveler's bag".

Guided by Unseen Spider Silk, first, a little yellowish blood was poured into a glass, a full 80 milliliters. Then, Crystal -like springs, glass shards, blackish droplets of pus, and a bronze mirror with damaged decorations were placed into the blood.

In an instant, the glass turned Gray-White, and all the objects inside rapidly Fusion, gradually becoming ethereal.

Soon, a glass of Gray-White liquid, clearly reflecting the Mirror World, appeared before Lumian's eyes.

The "Unaging" Potion!

Having two perspectives simultaneously, Lumian raised his left hand, brought the transparent Gray-White cup to his lips, and drank the Potion inside.

He first tasted the mixture of soil and stone, and then his senses were Paralysis.

Wherever the Potion passed, his tongue, mouth, esophagus, and Stomach lost sensation and turned Gray-White.

This Gray-White was still seeping into his soul.

Just then, Lumian felt her spirit float into the air and arrive at her Self in the Mirror, watching her Witch- like self gradually Petrification, seemingly turning into Statues.

His reflection in the mirror also underwent a corresponding Change, only much slower and more deliberate.

Lumian's spirit swiftly descended, using the reflection of himself in the mirror to maintain his consciousness and prevent himself from being completely Petrification.

He suddenly understood why the "Witch of Unaging's" Ritual was to enslave his Person in the Mirror, make him obsessed with himself, or reconcile with him. If he didn't do this, when he took the Potion, his physical body would Petrification, and when his spirit wandered toward his mirror image, he would encounter strong resistance from the "Person in the Mirror." At this time, his own strength would be quite limited, and the situation would be extremely dangerous.

Once the "Person in the Mirror" had also become severely Petrification, Lumian's spirit floated up again and returned to his original body.

By this time, his body had adapted to the Potion, and driven by the return of consciousness, he gradually shed his Petrification state.

Then, he saw himself in the mirror Change, becoming more Women, and not far away, one after another of himself emerged from the darkness: the him when he first became the "Witch of Despair," the him when he was still the "Pyromaniac," the him when he first arrived in Cordou Village, the him when he was still a wanderer, the him in his childhood...

Every time I look in the Mirror, it leaves a certain mark on the Mirror World, and now it's all revealed!

You can choose one version of yourself and remain in that state...

"This is the secret to the ' Witch of Unaging ' regaining her youth..."

"Regardless of which state you choose, you will inevitably Women-ization in the end..."

"The reflection in the mirror has turned me into a woman... Is this because I chose reconciliation, not enslavement, or to make him infatuated?"

"You can do that...?"

As Lumian gradually recovers from her Petrification state, she sees her reflection in the Mirror becoming more and more beautiful and resembling herself, yet subtly imbued with Aurora's aura.

Just as he was feeling a surge of joy, a scene suddenly appeared before his eyes:

In the endless darkness, an indistinct figure suddenly turned in this direction.

In the blink of an eye, the figure arrived at the edge of that dark place, silently looking down at Lumian.

This is similar to the gaze of the "Primordial Witch" when Lumian ascended to the "Witch of Despair," but there are also some differences.

Under such gaze, Lumian instantly lost most of her senses, leaving only a vague awareness as she struggled to keep from succumbing to the overwhelming force.

A short time later, he opened his eyes and found himself enveloped in layers of Gray-White spider webs, like prey stored up by a spider, or like Rebirth in an egg.

The next second, the spider web silently collapsed and fell to the ground. Lumian's ordinary clothes, which had become extremely fragile due to the previous Petrification and the current recovery, quickly turned into powder and drifted away, revealing her smooth and delicate white skin.

As Lumian took clothes from the "Traveler’s Bag" to change, he looked around.

He then saw his reflection in the mirror in his Witch form.

He smiled, and the "Person in the Mirror" smiled too.

They are no longer separate; Lumian is both the self outside the mirror and the Mirror Self, both the self of the Past and the self of the present.

This is the "Witch of Unaging".