"What... what happened?"
"The Herrscher of Corruption has infiltrated the Elysian Realm through some unknown channel. Mobius has been killed."
The early bird gets the worm.
Eden and Elysia, being the closest to Brian, had thought that the little girl Rin had appeared here because she saw their hard work and wanted to share some of the firepower.
They never expected that as soon as this lawless little girl appeared, she would bring such heavy bad news.
Mobius, the mistress of the Elysian Realm, was suspected to have been attacked by the Herrscher of Corruption. Not only was her laboratory in a mess, but her own body was also gone without a trace.
If even the mistress of this land, who had been studying the Herrscher of Corruption for a long time, was gone without a trace, then the others in the Elysian Realm would have even less of a chance to fight back against the Herrscher of Corruption.
"Then..." The pure and flawless girl's body was still weak and limp, but she still wanted to do her duty to protect her friends.
But!
"Eli, Rin and I have discussed it. The form of your existence in the Elysian Realm puts you at too much of a disadvantage when facing the Herrscher of Corruption. Leave the rest to us."
"We will use the power of Jizo Mitama to build a safe zone here. As long as you don't go out, there shouldn't be any major problems."
His and Rin's forms of existence were different from everyone else's here. Even if the Herrscher of Corruption attacked them, it couldn't do anything to them.
The Herrscher of Reason's ability could recreate Jizo Mitama, and the spirit residing in Jizo Mitama could also mobilize the power of Jizo Mitama.
There was no better choice than them to deal with the Herrscher of Corruption that had invaded the Elysian Realm.
"..." Her cherry-like mouth opened slightly, and the understanding Elysia finally had to sigh. "Then... I'll leave it to you."
Not to be foolhardy when you can't do something is the resolve of a warrior.
When facing the Herrscher of Corruption, their sacrifices would not have any positive effect, and might even have the opposite effect.
Rather than holding back their companions, it was better to obediently accept the arrangement.
The somewhat sad and sorrowful Elysia squeezed some strength out of her body and hugged the small, cherry-pink-haired girl: "You must come back safely."
Her full bosom squashed Rin's delicate little face into a distorted shape. The Herrscher girl, who had always been good at saying no to self-righteous women, was about to push this shameless woman away.
But a scent of almonds she had never smelled before entered the girl's nostrils, and in an instant, Rin subconsciously took a few deep breaths: "What's that smell? It's bitter and sweet?"
"Did you take a milk bath, you bastard?"
Elysia: "..."
Good children shouldn't say such vulgar things!
But considering that this little girl hadn't entered the adult world yet, it was better not to tell her the truth.
"Rin, if you want Sister Eli, we can all enjoy a milk bath together."
She blinked, her face full of mischief.
The Herrscher girl, realizing what was happening, quickly pushed away the pink Fatso hugging her, feeling that her whole body was not very clean.
Despicable!
To actually smear the smell of that stuff on her body!
The once purest and most beautiful woman in the Elysian Realm had been turned into this by this Inner World Protagonist with a brain full of white pulp. How fickle the world is, it's a world of hot dogs.
"Who wants to be with a shameless woman like you!"
"Hmph!" With a push of her hands and a toss of her head, Rin showed no mercy to this pink Fatso.
"I'm going to start mobilizing the power of Jizo Mitama to build the safe zone. Don't bother me if you don't have anything important to do."
"Mmm, mmm, our lovely Rin is the best." Filled with emotional value, Elysia's admiring gaze made Rin feel smug, instantly forgetting about this person who had just smeared something that smelled like milk on her.
The power of the Divine Key was mobilized. Every piece of data centered here was analyzed and checked to ensure that there was no power of the Herrscher of Corruption or other abnormalities mixed in.
Before long, a vast safe zone was constructed.
At the same time, she welcomed in the first person Rin needed to keep safe.
"Big Sis, the Herrscher of Corruption is causing trouble in the Elysian Realm. You guys just stay here and don't move. I'll go out with that guy and take care of him, then come back."
With that, Brian and Rin went their separate ways to deal with the uninvited Herrscher of Corruption.
And back where they were, the pink-haired, donkey-eared assassin girl looked at Elysia, who was enthusiastically waving at her, and also showed a gentle smile.
"Elysia, long time no see."
"Sakura, you've been smiling a lot more recently."
"Really? Maybe it's because my little sister has become more sensible."
The last time Rin came to the Elysian Realm, it was almost as chaotic as heaven and earth being turned upside down.
This time, Rin had even learned to protect their family and friends in the face of danger.
As her younger sister gradually grew up, Sakura was also very gratified, but this troublesome sister had always been unwilling to accept her arrangements as the older sister, which was a bit frustrating.
Walking up to Elysia, Sakura pulled out a chair and was about to sit down, but the glittering reflection on it made the attentive girl pause.
"What is this?"
Her fingertip gently brushed across it, and a glittering, viscous thread was pulled up between Elysia and Eden's somewhat embarrassed expressions.
The two girls hesitated, thinking about whether they should stop her.
But Sakura had already put the sugar-syrup-like substance into her red lips.
Elysia: "..."
Eden: "..."
Perhaps this was fate.
"A bit bitter, sweet, fishy, and salty." Her taste buds transmitted the sensation to the girl's senses, and Sakura made a faint judgment.
"Is this a new pastry you made? The taste is a bit strange."
Before Sakura could discover the truth, Elysia quickly put on her friendly smile to smooth things over: "Sakura, this is a pastry Eden specially made to celebrate my weight returning to normal. It's already finished."
"If you want some, we can enjoy it together when he comes back."
"That's fine too. The current situation is not suitable for these things."
With that, a cold wind blew gently.
The girl with exquisite swordsmanship sheathed her sword. The long chair in front of her had been cleaned anew by her single strike.
And the expressions of Elysia and Eden remained unchanged.
Sakura: "After receiving Rin's notification, I arrived here as quickly as possible. I don't really understand the situation yet."
"Elysia, Eden, you were with him. Did you get any useful information?"
"No, we only found out what was going on after Rin appeared. We don't know what the situation is with everyone outside either."
Elysia's eyes were full of worry.
Everyone in the Elysian Realm was her good friend, and she didn't want anyone to get hurt because of this.
But just as she couldn't do this before, she could only pray in this safe zone under the threat of the Herrscher of Corruption.
"Is that so?" Sakura was not surprised.
The situation happened very suddenly, and no one knew what was going on; they only knew that something had happened to Mobius, and it was most likely the work of the Herrscher of Corruption who had infiltrated through some unknown channel.
On this point, both her sister and another genius scientist, Vill-V, were very sure.
"On the way here, I met Dr. Vill-V. She left me a gift, saying it might be helpful to us."
"..."
A gift?
It's not another hat trick, is it?
Hopefully, it's not something left by that great magician Vill-V.
The pink-haired, donkey-eared assassin girl placed the item she received from Vill-V in front of her.
It was a card. The moment it left Sakura's palm, it unfolded like a compressed file being unzipped, turning into a gift box about half a meter square, tied with a purple ribbon.
"This is... the gift Vill-V left for us?"
"Let's open it and see."
Pulling the ribbon, the gift box opened, revealing its contents to the girls.
It was an exquisite little doll.
Cloud-like wings, a star-shaped magic wand, a cute little face very similar to Elysia's...
Except for the light blue hair and the pink Honeysuckle Crest on its stomach, everything else was identical to the ELF Elysia everyone knew.
"This is the gift Vill-V gave us? Another model of ELF Elysia?"
The three girls were puzzled.
Before they could figure out what Vill-V was up to, the light-blue-haired ELF Elysia, as if receiving a startup command, stretched its three-head-tall body.
"Mmm~~~, that was a good sleep."
Her voice was almost identical to Elysia's, but it had an annoying hoarseness to it.
It was as if this thing was not an original, but a shoddily made counterfeit.
The little doll, whose aura had suddenly darkened, flapped its wings and hovered in the air, giving the three adults in front of it a 'cute' smile.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Elysia♬"
"Your future good friend."
"Of course, I prefer you to call me by another title..."
An abyssal light enveloped their vision, and the witch from the abyss gently brushed the purple hair by her ear.
"The beautiful Faded Fairy!"
"Watch out!"
----------------------------------
The neat and tidy hall once again welcomed the uninvited guest who had once dyed this place a searing white.
"You've come."
"You've seen it?"
"I saw that the color of the future has changed, but there has been no major change."
The holy nun knelt in the center of the chapel as always, her exquisite face full of mercy and holiness.
Only the high-slit nun's habit and the faintly visible black lace on her chest filled people with the irresistible temptation to defile her.
For a man like Brian, who had once made a nun kneel before him, the temptation of such a gesture was even heavier.
But thinking is one thing, doing is another.
This time he came for serious business, not to carry Aponia back to have a friendly rice bowl with her good sisters.
Brian: "Rin and I have already made arrangements. We will now partition the Elysian Realm's server to ensure that the parts that have not been damaged or invaded by the Herrscher of Corruption are safe, and solve this problem with the least cost."
"What about Mobius?"
Mobius was the first victim, but everyone believed that this genius scientist who pursued 『Infinity』 could not die so easily.
She was either hiding somewhere, watching the fight between them and the Herrscher of Corruption; or she had already used her research results to infiltrate the enemy camp and was planning a counterattack.
"Her situation is temporarily uncertain. Let's just assume she has been eaten by the Herrscher of Corruption."
"Is that so?"
The nun finished her prayer and stood up from the ground.
Aponia released her clasped hands and placed them on her lower abdomen, making her feel extra holy.
"I'll take care of those children. I'll leave the rest to you."
"Okay."
With the command completed, the Elysian Realm was divided into individual, unrelated data partitions.
The power of Jizo Mitama rose in the data world, creating an insurmountable wall that even a Herrscher of the same kind, the Herrscher of Corruption, would find difficult to cross easily.
Undoubtedly, once this guy made a rash move, it would immediately be met with a thunderous blow, and the area it was in would be destroyed along with it.
Somewhere, the punk-styled genius scientist was experiencing the normal world for the first time in a long while.
"My, my, I didn't expect the reaction to be so decisive and swift."
In front of her stood a towering wall that reached the heavens, completely trapping her in this area.
To them, the Simulacra, the power of Jizo Mitama was nothing short of divine. Other than dragging the Elysian Realm down with them, it was difficult to find a second way to break the situation.
That was also why she chose to cooperate when she realized the nature of that thing.
Survival! Revenge! Remove the ten-fold Little toy!
However...
"This thing... even the Herrscher of Corruption can't do anything about it?"
Vill-V frowned and touched her abdomen, she could even feel the Honeysuckle Crest beating like a heart.
She knew it was an illusion, but that didn't stop her from imagining it.
This thing was like a mark anchored to her from another dimension. Even the power of the Herrscher of Corruption could only modify its parameters, not completely eliminate it.
And the most terrifying thing wasn't here...
"After eating Mobius, the Honeysuckle Crest transferred to that person."
Vill-V: "..."
If she didn't have no way back now, she would have wanted to study this thing properly.
So strange! So magical!
It can even transfer its host.
This unknown mystery was as addictive as a drug, attracting her and making her want to explore its secrets.
But she didn't expect that man to be so decisive, turning this data space into her personal cage.
"What a fascinating man!"
However... she was no pushover.
A Faded ELF Elysia flew out from the area behind her and landed on the magician's shoulder.
"Do you need my help? With my help, you can definitely go to other places."
This was a split individual created by the Herrscher of Corruption after choosing its form.
When Vill-V didn't need it, this little thing would attach itself to her in the form of compressed data; when expanded, it would be this Faded ELF Elysia full of deep and eerie feeling.
It was equivalent to her carrying a Herrscher of Corruption with her at all times, able to obtain support equivalent to the power of Jizo Mitama anytime, anywhere.
And because this guy abandoned the ability to control organic matter, its performance in data processing was even better than Jizo Mitama.
After all, the output of the two eras' Herrschers of Corruption was similar. The current generation's Herrscher of Corruption, which specialized in one area, would have great weaknesses, but its ability in data processing was far superior to Rin, a predecessor who developed comprehensively.
The same skill points, the former went all in on one path, the latter spread them out.
Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, that's all.
"Let's go, let's go see our other friends."
The giant wall that divided the heavens and the earth rippled under the power of the Faded ELF Elysia. Vill-V easily crossed it and went to the next area to continue her revenge.
However...
"Long time no see, my dear Miss Vill-V."
Vill-V: "..."
Oh no, I've only taken revenge on two or three people, and I've already run into the Inner World Protagonist!