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Subspace channels are not channels that ordinary organisms or matter can pass through, but they can connect to the outside of the solar system, allowing imaginary energy from outside the solar system to enter Earth.

This doesn't actually increase the speed of the Cocoon of the End, since it's just a few small holes in the bucket leading to the seawater outside. But who says only the Cocoon of the End can absorb imaginary energy? Those Herrscher cores that Alicia calls Witch Gems can absorb and convert that imaginary energy into Honkai energy.

In fact, Alicia herself can absorb other energies and convert them into magic/imaginary energy, but Alicia doesn't know how to do that yet.

city ​​centre

Sirin sipped her milk tea listlessly, mentally counting down the time it would take for the Cocoon of the End to release Honkai energy.

"5, 4, 3, 2"

As she counted down, she happened to raise her hand.

"1"

It is expected that all the Honkai energy released into the city will be controlled by Sirin, and this Honkai energy will then converge into an energy ball the size of a basketball.

The End Cocoon on the moon is also about to completely shut down; what about its Honkai energy?

Unfortunately, the Cocoon of the End is just a machine with no brain.

After obtaining this wave of Honkai energy, Sirin quickly identified the location and prepared to open the entrance to the subspace passage. She casually tossed it aside and added some protective netting to prevent those country bumpkins from outside Earth from trying to enter the planet.

but

"Boom!!!" A terrifying shockwave, invisible to the naked eye, suddenly erupted from the center of Sirin, and then spread outwards at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

Everything was instantly annihilated in this invisible tremor.

The people of this city didn't even have a moment to react before they were all reduced to mere souls.

"Oops☆"

Sirin blinked gently in her golden eyes, which had the distinctive beauty of a Herrscher. She tilted her head, her long purple hair swaying in the wind, her gaze fixed on the city that had been completely annihilated by the shockwave in less than a ten-thousandth of a second.

"Oops, I accidentally caused a bit of a commotion."

Sirin glanced at the subspace passage in front of her, slightly surprised.

She just used Honkai energy and her own power to create a subspace channel, but because her operation was too rough and forceful, it caused a terrifying spatial compression and tremor to occur on the spot.

Xilin felt like she might have thrown it a little too hard.

The spatial tremor happened so fast that Sirin was caught off guard and most of the city she was in was wiped out, leaving only a large crater and a subspace passage invisible to the naked eye.

Imaginary energy from outside the solar system is flowing into Earth through this subspace channel. Although the channel is not large and the flow rate is not fast, there is now a channel to replenish imaginary energy or Honkai energy, so we no longer have to rely entirely on the Cocoon of the End.

Of course, the price was the destruction of a city, and the humans there, were they dead? Or not dead? It's hard to say, anyway, Sirin collected all the souls of the dead humans in this city into her current Herrscher of the Void core.

The core is something she created at will using her powers, and it can also be used to directly absorb imaginary energy.

"Hmm, this move is pretty good, let's call it Spacequake☆"

Xilin's eyes curved into crescent moons as she looked at everything before her that had been annihilated by the terrifying spatial tremor, her delicate and lovely face filled with joy.

Although she copied the name from a phenomenon in a universe she had once passed through, those girls couldn't come to Sirin to ask for copyright.

The speed of the spacequake exceeded the speed of light. After all, space is not matter, and once it expands, compresses, or vibrates, it all happens at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

Therefore, Sirin felt that Spacequake seemed quite suitable for her to play around with. It had a wide-range AOE, terrifying power, and the power could be adjusted at will. Moreover, this move was instantaneous and did not require too much imaginary energy or collapse. It purely relied on the power to compress space and indirectly trigger Spacequake to cause damage.

At that moment, Sirin sensed three magical girls rushing towards her menacingly.

However, Sirin has no interest in fighting Alicia right now; her priority is to quickly create more subspace portals.

"Hmm, bye-bye☆" Sirin looked up, not caring whether the magical girls like Alicia who were landing could see her, and greeted them with a smile before walking into the subspace and disappearing.

Chapter 381 The Second Great Collapse (3) Rescue

This is a grave.

Alicia once again perceived the deaths of millions of people so clearly, their bewilderment, fear, and despair as they died.

She can sense the emotions of the living, and she can also sense the lingering emotions of the dead.

Just like when the first witch appeared, the second witch also began an indiscriminate slaughter of humans the moment she appeared.

There were no traces of blood, no remains, only what could be called an efficient cleanup.

Just like humans killing insects, there is no pity and no concern.

"Alicia..."

Seeing Alicia frozen in mid-air, Muirse flew forward and took her hand.

"I'm fine," Alicia managed a weak smile, but the once enthusiastic smile now looked incredibly stiff and strained.

“Let’s check if there are any survivors,” Emilia said, flying over as well.

The unknown attack method unleashed by the Second Witch did not completely destroy the city and its inhabitants; some people still survived.

However, when Alicia and the others hurriedly flew to find the survivors, Alicia was stunned.

This Russian city had a population of about 1.2 million. More than 1 million people were wiped out by the attack of the second witch. Most of the city was also destroyed. There are now about 100,000 survivors.

However, many of the survivors who witnessed the attack, which was beyond human comprehension, and were greatly shocked, have gone insane.

In that fraction of a second, many survivors suddenly saw the area in front of them instantly turn into a terrifying crater, and everything in front of them was annihilated. No one knew what had happened.

This scene drove many survivors into a frenzy, because they simply couldn't comprehend it.

What Alicia and the others saw was a population of over 100,000 people, most of whom had gone mad.

A considerable number of people did not see the situation clearly at the time, but because they saw the huge crater formed by the attack that annihilated everything, and found that many people around them had gone mad, they began to attack indiscriminately in a state of extreme panic to vent their fear of the unknown.

The Second Witch's attack did not cause much bloodshed or corpses, but those who were in a state of extreme tension and fear suffered many deaths and injuries from the indiscriminate attack.

These people haven't gone mad, but they're not much different from being mad.

"Stop immediately!" Alicia immediately used her magic to create handcuffs to stop the crazed man's attack.

But no one listened to her; the city's survivors continued to vent their fears in various ways.

Muirsey and Emilia also joined forces to restrain the frenzied people.

The only saving grace is that the city's high-rise buildings are concentrated in the city center, and the Second Witch's attack annihilated everything within range, so there's not too much worry about buildings collapsing and causing more harm to the survivors.

However, there were only three of them, Alicia and her companions, and it was impossible for them to control the hundreds of thousands of survivors in a short period of time. They only affected about ten thousand people in the surrounding area.

Alicia and the others had been busy for half a day, trying to be careful not to hurt these people and to keep them from going crazy again. Although they hadn't used up much of their magic and physical strength, it still took a lot of their energy.

"Has the nearest rescue team not arrived yet?" Muirsey glanced at the satellite communicator with the Firemoth.

"Miss Muirsey, the situation in Russia is still in a state of semi-collapse. The only rescue team that can arrive quickly is the Chinese. They have already set off. Please hold on for a while longer," came the reply from the satellite communicator.

The First Witch has only been around for a short time, but the effects she has had are still ongoing. Russia has not completely collapsed because various countries have joined forces to take over major cities, but they can only barely maintain order in the cities.

In remote cities and regions, the situation was one of chaos and warlordism.

Rebuilding the Russian government is not something that can be done overnight.

Under these circumstances, no Russian official force could help the city attacked by the Second Witch; the only rescue team that could arrive at the moment was China.

Upon hearing the answer, Muirsey almost wanted Rhine Lab to come and help, but unfortunately, Rhine Lab's technology had not yet completely shaken off the traces of the First Witch, and appearing in the eyes of humans would easily cause misunderstandings. Moreover, they were far away in the United States, and it would not be possible for them to arrive in a short time.

"By the way, have you found any trace of the Second Witch?" Muelses asked again.

"Nothing has been found. All countries have mobilized all their reconnaissance satellites for a full-scale search for the Second Witch, but so far nothing has been found."

"Furthermore, our research into magic is not deep enough, and satellites may not even be able to find witches."

The sound from the satellite communicator silenced Muirsay; it wasn't just insufficient, it was still purely theoretical.

In fact, Alicia has been very lenient with scientists from various countries. She not only gave them a small portion of both evil and pure magic for research, but she even gave them some of her own DNA information and blood samples.

In addition, the first girl who was found to have magical girl talent but did not choose to become a magical girl, and three other girls who were later found to be magical girls and trained at the Firemoth Base, were all actually being studied.

And there is also the Witch of Reason's Gem.

However, the scientific team studying the fire-chasing moths has yet to make any discoveries or achieve any results.

"You... really didn't get any results?" Muirsey asked again, still unwilling to give up.

The satellite communicator was silent for a moment, but the voice that came through again was that of an elderly scientist leading the Moth of Fire scientific team.

"I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do," the old scientist said, his voice filled with helplessness and dejection.

The Fire Moth scientific team, which brings together top scientists from around the world, is still at the theoretical stage in its research on magic. They cannot control magic, nor can they measure its detailed information.

The scientists even found test subjects and injected the pure magic power given by Alicia into their bodies for further research, but it was still of little use. They simply couldn't measure the detailed information about the magic power.

For those scientists, no matter how they studied it, that magic was just like a ball of light; no matter how they measured it, it was just light. Heaven knows why this light produced such strange uses.

“What about the Witch of Reason Gem? It could be used to make all sorts of things,” Muirsey sighed.

"..." But all I got was silence.

The Witch of Reason's Gem can consume magic to create various objects, but only if the scientists know how to make them. However, it should be possible to make them by simply copying information.

Although only magic can make greater use of the Witch of Reason's Gem, the research on magic by the Fire Moth is still in the theoretical stage.

Even so, the use of the Witch of Reason's Gem by the Fire Moth should not still be in a very simple state.

Muirse was starting to lose her composure. Although she had taken command of the Witch of Reason's army, she could still access the data in the Witch of Reason's Gem and then use the gem's power to create whatever she wanted.

What exactly is going on?

"What about those new magical girls?" Muirse asked, frowning.

It's difficult for someone without magic to fully utilize the Witch of Reason's Gem, but aren't there three new magical girls? They can use it, right?

Even if they don't understand the principles, they can still use the Witch of Reason's Gem to make various instruments and equipment by simply copying the information from the textbook.

"...You know that," the old scientist replied after a moment of silence, utterly helpless.

As for letting girls who become magical girls try out the Witch of Reason's Jewel, that will have to wait until more magical girls appear and it becomes possible to artificially transform them into magical girls.

Because girls who become magical girls are fundamentally different from humans.

The presence of Alicia and the other two powerful magical girls is already a major headache and source of fear for many countries. Some people have a darker view, and they encourage others to think that if the magical girls were to obtain the power of witches, wouldn't humanity be completely reduced to the magical girls' vassals and slaves?

"Are you serious?!"

Muirsey immediately understood what the old scientist meant, but that's why she questioned him. She really wished she could take back the Witch of Reason's Gem and plant those mentally ill guys in the ground as fertilizer.

What's the point of just leaving it there if you can't even study it? Magical girls aren't invincible. The first witch failed simply because she was stupid, but the second witch is a different story.

Muirse didn't think she could survive the Second Witch's terrifying, unknown attack, which wasn't caused by magic at all.

"You are good people," the old scientist said, his aged voice tinged with bitterness and sorrow.

Alicia and her friends will not ignore the witch's threat. They are kind-hearted and will use their own power to save people. All the girls with magical girl talents are kind-hearted good kids like this.

The old scientist certainly liked and loved these good kids, and he did his best to help and take care of the three new magical girls in Flame Chaser. But Flame Chaser wasn't something he could control alone.

"A good person? Does being a good person mean having a gun pointed at your head?!"

Muirsey gritted her teeth, looking at the many survivors they had rescued, and hearing the old scientist say that they were good people.

She felt a little tired at that moment.

Emilia, who was not far away, overheard the conversation between Muirsey and the old scientist, and then silently solidified her own thoughts.

However, at that moment, Muirsey and the other survivors, along with the local survivors, all heard the roar of engines in the sky.

Dozens of large transport planes are flying in from the distant sky in an orderly formation.

Then the rear doors of the transport planes opened, and one box after another was pushed out and dropped, followed by the deployment of parachutes from each box. However, some of those dropped from the transport planes were not boxes, but people.

The clusters of snow-white parachutes created a spectacular scene.

"The rescue team from China has arrived!" The old scientist, his earlier helplessness and frustration gone, smiled happily.

"At least, there are still many good people like you."

Chapter 382 The Second Great Collapse (4) Despair and Hope

"Sia, we should go."

After handing everything over to the Shenzhou Rescue Team, Muirsey planned to leave. The Second Witch is still alive and could attack any city at any time.

"Um"

Alicia watched the Shenzhou Rescue Team rescuing local survivors and then nodded slightly.

"Ladies, our transport plane is waiting." At this moment, the captain of the Shenzhou Rescue Team also came to contact Alicia.

Muelseth has told Alicia that they need to use the Witch of Reason's Gem to create equipment that can detect and deal with witches, otherwise, with the Second Witch's suspected ability to teleport, human civilization will be driven to its death sooner or later.