Bad Girl Workshop

"Now that I think about it, I was really quite laughable back then. To avoid being left behind, I wore my claws bloody during training, my whole body covered in bruises. Even then, I could only grow at a snail's pace, watching helplessly as your back faded into the distance."

Xu Xiaoyou didn't speak. Angelina leaned heavily against her while she used her rose rifle to pick off the approaching fish-men.

Angelina's eyes were playful, her brows arched slightly. "Hundreds of years felt so long to me, yet in just a few moments, you've made those memories blur."

"Truly sorry. After hundreds of years of tempering, I’ve only grown to this extent. I suppose I can only let you down now."

"Deep down, you must be blaming me for why I couldn't hold out just a little longer to buy you more time, right?"

"Anya?"

Angelina didn't respond. She had fallen unconscious in Xu Xiaoyou's arms due to her heavy injuries. Xu Xiaoyou’s gaze was fixed intently on the die spinning frantically beside her. After drawing 【Calamity】, she was granted the 【Fortune and Misfortune】 buff, which significantly increased the probability of rolling a value over fifty.

This meant the probability of rolling a value below 50 was only 1.98%. The Siren King screeched as it appeared from the other end of the corridor, crawling toward her at high speed.

As early as ten minutes ago, she had already rolled the destiny points that increased the probability of the next roll being over 50. But back then, there was still a one-fifth risk. She had to make a rational choice; every use of 【Death's Boundary】 was vital. She couldn't afford to waste her remaining two uses on this island, so she had chosen to re-roll.

The spinning die came to a halt. Without surprise, the rolled value was greater than 50.

The prerequisite for triggering Death's Boundary was successfully met!

Xu Xiaoyou stood up and spent the remaining third of the assets in her bank account on draws. A massive amount of light merged into her body. She ignored all the scattered low-grade skill cards and selected all the powerful skill cards remaining in her card slots to be used together.

Seven copies of 【Torch Dragon Storm】, four of 【Wrath of Thunder】, two of 【Roaring Sea】, two of 【Green Fairy's Dream】, and five of 【Bloody Slaughterhouse】 were all merged into a single 【Bad Girl Workshop】.

These were all the limited-grade skill cards she had accumulated over this period. She had bet everything. Just the thought of her long-term accumulation going down the drain made Xu Xiaoyou's eyes burn with rage. Within the single hit-judgment of Death's Boundary, she would pin the Siren King to the gallows of judgment!

The Siren King lunged toward her direction in a frenzy. Xu Xiaoyou snapped her fingers, and an invisible black gallows restricted the Siren King's massive body in place. Intense pressure instantly crushed the floor beneath the Siren King into an oval-shaped crater.

In her hands, she held two Green Fairy blades entwined with vines. Like an angel of punishment sent from the heavens, she whispered obscure and difficult fairy incantations. A lush, vibrant forest formed around the Siren King. The long blades, covered in vine patterns, carved out a lethal arc, and dark green blade light swept across the sky, slashing toward the Siren King on the gallows.

The massive monster roared and struggled. Its countless distorted faces were filled with panic and disbelief, seemingly unable to comprehend why this body of its was being wounded. The girl who had been weak just moments ago was now judging its life, her golden pupils radiating majesty.

The green fairies of the forest drew their bowstrings as invisible currents of air spiraled into sharp arrows. The longbows stretched infinitely as the magic of fairy dust was poured into the storm-surging arrows. A rain of golden arrows poured down, pinning the Siren King's raised head back onto the gallows.

Xu Xiaoyou snapped her fingers a second time. The surrounding Green Fairy forest vanished, replaced by a molten purgatory. Six statues of the Torch Dragon rose from the boiling, flowing lava. The flaming gold in their vertical pupils grew brighter. Tiny, sharp dragon scales grew at the corners of her eyes as her Gaze of Spiritual Vision snapped open, and she chanted in the Ancient Dragon tongue.

The dual fairy blades in her hands merged into a single giant scarlet flame blade. The six Torch Dragon statues spat out flames that scorched the soul. As the giant blade swept across, it left a shocking red chasm in the earth. The Siren King let out a shrill, miserable wail.

A third snap of her fingers, and the scene shifted again. This time, they were in an undersea palace where a giant statue of Poseidon rose from the ground. The Siren King was impaled to the floor by a massive stone halberd. Xu Xiaoyou chanted in Ancient Atlantean. Lightning danced along the golden trident in her hand as ocean currents hammered against the Siren King's body. Water was gentle, yet when enraged, it was the sharpest of blades. The Siren King’s massive, pale body was sliced until it was drenched in blood.

Xu Xiaoyou's mind was nearly tearing apart. Her Gaze of Spiritual Vision trembled so violently it felt like it would jump out of her face, and her body was overclocked to its limit. She wanted to snap her fingers a fourth time, but her consciousness was inevitably sinking toward the deep sea. With her current physical constitution, she couldn't support the full activation of this 【Bad Girl Workshop】. The price of a forced activation was the collapse of her body.

Just as her consciousness drifted and the Siren King began to roar and break free from the gallows, three runic star-rings expanded beneath her feet. Xu Xiaoyou's eyes widened slowly. This... was Tang Xin's buff?

Using her last bit of strength, she successfully snapped her fingers for the fourth time. The scene shifted to a precision-engineered workshop. The six walls of the workshop rotated continuously, with numbers fluctuating and shifting across the bronze-colored surfaces.

"Execution Time MaMize, Rose Workshop!"

The Siren King's body was shrunk infinitely, imprisoned within a tiny music box like a lamb in a slaughterhouse. Gear blades sliced its body tens of thousands of times per second, carving away its flesh. It let out agonizing screams from within, while the music box played pleasant, warm, and beautiful notes.

She held two black longblades, her golden hair fluttering behind her like a steward walking through the dark night. Her long blades landed repeatedly and densely on the previous slashes. The blade light was thick as a web; every strike tore through space. Spiderweb-like white cracks covered the music box, slicing the Siren King inside into hundreds of thousands of pieces.

Finally, white steam billowed from the top of the workshop. Hundreds of iron chains entwined with roses pierced through and lifted the music box. Mechanical hammers collided repeatedly, striking out flying sparks. Two gear-edged broadswords crossed into a crucifix, and at the most heartwarming moment of the music box's melody, they slashed down diagonally!

The grey-haired girl who had been hiding in the shadows was drawn by the commotion not long ago. She had arrived just in time to witness this scene. Deeply shocked by the powerful and beautiful figure of the dark gold silhouette, she quietly recorded everything, murmuring incessantly, "Dark Gold Rose..."

"Is this the Dark Gold Rose? It's simply too beautiful."

A sharp, invisible gale carved countless marks into the passage beside her. The grey-haired girl cried out in surprise and stumbled back several steps, nearly being sliced in half by the aftershock. She gently touched the deep marks on the wall, her gaze showing not just admiration, but a kind of intoxication.

"I will unveil your mystery. I'll let everyone know this moving side of you."

"Yes, I have to survive... I have to let everyone see it."

The girl talked to herself, quickening her pace to leave the area.

An unknown amount of time passed. The 【Bad Girl Workshop】 ended, and the Siren King lay on the ground, on the verge of death.

Xu Xiaoyou stepped forward, attempting to deliver the final blow. Her attack sank into the Siren King's skull, but no sensation of hitting a physical object followed. The guaranteed-hit judgment of 【Death's Boundary】 had already ended; she could no longer harm the Siren King....

A deep sense of helplessness surged into Xu Xiaoyou's heart as a mess of negative emotions overwhelmed her.

The monster suddenly jerked its head up as if in a final burst of energy. Within its chest, which had been carved into a bloody hole, a girl's body was sunken inside, a strand of dark red hair fluttering.

Xu Xiaoyou saw another vision. In the vast, boundless universe, a figure shrouded in brilliant, holy light lay amidst the flowing Milky Way and star clusters. It possessed three eyes that rose and set with the twelve hours. Its silhouette was wrapped in a white halo.

Densely packed, minute arcs of light curved and trailed within the halo's silhouette; looking closely, they appeared like countless pairs of insect appendages....

"The Garden... Lord of the Pole Star?" Xu Xiaoyou subconsciously murmured the last few words. Her consciousness was instantly scattered by the massive, contaminated knowledge, and she fell into a coma.

The awakened Angelina caught the swaying, falling girl. She glanced back at the Siren King, whose vitality was rapidly recovering. Her brows furrowed and then relaxed as she carried Xu Xiaoyou away from the place.