Chapter 2245: World Invasion

Although Fang Zheng was quite upset about the title “Little Bai,” he quickly found he had no time to dwell on it.

Because according to Princess Aimino, something big was really happening in this world!

Initially, Princess Aimino did indeed start praying following Fang Zheng’s guidance. As the “pillar” of Cifilo, she was certainly supposed to comprehensively and intuitively feel the current situation of Cifilo. However, during this process, Princess Aimino noticed a problem—certain parts of Cifilo seemed to be eroded by something.

At first, Princess Aimino thought it was due to her recent immersion in pain, which led to her not praying for Cifilo. So she hurriedly calmed herself, trying to dispel this strange erosion.

But… it was at this moment that the problem arose.

The parts eroding the Cifilo world seemed to have self-awareness and launched a counterattack against Princess Aimino!

This startled Princess Aimino because, as Cifilo’s pillar, every flower, every tree, and every blade of grass existed by her will. It was simply impossible for anything to defy her!

Then, at that moment, her head began to throb violently. Simultaneously, Princess Aimino also sensed that something had invaded her soul!!

No, it should be said… it had long been inside her body.

“Only now do I understand… what actually happened…”

Holding the white wolf, Princess Aimino mumbled to herself.

“Now I think I understand everything. At that time, I seemed abnormal, as if… as if manipulated by something. I love Shagatu the most, but I also love this world. These two should not conflict, but I was like bewitched, as if I could only choose one… I don’t know what was wrong then…”

“How could this happen?”

After listening to Princess Aimino’s account, everyone, including Precia and the three main characters, and even the Magitech Mentor Gurev, who had hurried over upon Precia’s notice, were stunned.

“It’s chaos corruption.”

Fang Zheng appeared quite calm, having seen too many things like chaos corruption. People corrupted by chaos typically exhibit extreme mental symptoms. Like Princess Aimino and Shagatu here, what was originally not contradictory was twisted into a choice of one over the other, which from a normal intelligence standpoint doesn’t make any sense at all.

After all, look, Princess Aimino and Shagatu were in love with no obstacles. Princess Aimino as the pillar of Cifilo, had utmost authority, and her teacher Gurev didn’t oppose her pursuing her happiness. It was Princess Aimino herself who couldn’t let it go, creating this mess.

This is why Fang Zheng isolated the Third Coordinate Point. People there had similar situations, like Megumin’s unusual passion for Burst Magic and Meiyin’s obsession with books… but these are not too outrageous or harmful, so they’re shrugged off.

But Princess Aimino is a different story.

Due to this, Fang Zheng figured out the whole progression of events.

Princess Aimino was in love with Shagatu and troubled by it. At this time, chaos took advantage, corrupting her spirit. Certainly, if Princess Aimino was a strong woman, she might have really destroyed the world for love. Luckily, Princess Aimino’s character was relatively weak, so even when corrupted by chaos, she only chose to be reclusive, and ultimately had the idea of “summoning a magic knight to kill herself.”

And because Princess Aimino fell into recluse, chaos naturally commenced its erosion of the entire Cifilo. After all, everyone thought it was the evil priest Shagatu who kidnapped Princess Aimino, causing unrest in Cifilo, and even the Grand Archmage Gurev, who knew the truth, believed it was Princess Aimino’s thoughts that led to the world’s collapse.

So as long as it continued this way, chaos could freely erode the world. As long as Princess Aimino remained withdrawn, no one would discover the problem.

But what chaos did not expect was Princess Aimino, under Fang Zheng’s “instigation,” attempted to pray once more.

This attempt uncovered the problem.

Since Princess Aimino essentially is the Cifilo world, others couldn’t see the issue, but she spotted it instantly!

Having been discovered suddenly, chaos boldly went from covert to overt aggression, directly attacking!

Luckily, Fang Zheng immediately sensed something amiss and divided it using the Primordial Fire. Otherwise, the situation might have been much worse.

However, even now, it’s not much better. According to Princess Aimino, the portion Fang Zheng “cut off” was precisely their demon god—meaning, chaos has now completely eroded their demon god, and the state of both are less than ideal. While Princess Aimino possesses great power, Shagatu is her protective cleric, but both are like recovering from a major illness, unable even to exert a tenth of their original strength.

As for Fang Zheng himself, he wasn’t any better. Although he decisively noticed something was wrong and immediately fled with them, setting fire to where they came from, Fang Zheng found that in this world, his powers recovered very slowly, somewhat like Red Ponytail in Kamihama City—forget about gigabit fiber, even basic broadband wasn’t fast enough—a mere dial-up 56K modem at best…

Well, this certainly brings back the good old days; back then the internet speed was just like that.

So……

“We still need to trouble the three legendary Magic Knights…”

Gazing at the three girls in front of her, Princess Aimino awkwardly lowered her head, while the three girls looked baffled—the night’s plot twists were simply too numerous to take in.

“But you all managed to get out safely, so shouldn’t you send us back to our world now?”

The blue-haired girl was evidently displeased, while Princess Aimino apologized, bowing her head.

“I am truly sorry, but I no longer have that kind of power… ah!”

At this point, Princess Aimino seemed to recall something.

“Oh right, when I was praying before, I saw… that your world… seems to have merged with Cifilo!”

“What?!”

“How could something like this happen?”

Hearing Princess Aimino’s words, the three girls were naturally shocked, and the Magitech Mentor Gurev was equally astonished.

“This, this is really troubling now!”

“What’s wrong? Why is it bad?”

At this moment, the red-haired girl among the three girls looked at Gurev, curiously asking, while Fang Zheng gave a response.

“Because Cifilo is the world of will; simply put, it’s the Psychic World, while the world you are in is the Material World.”

“…Don’t understand.”

The three girls looked at each other, then shook their heads.

“Let me put it this way.”

Fang Zheng changed his explanation.

“Cifilo is like the dream in your world. Dreams are insubstantial and not real, while the Material World truly exists. Fundamentally, there should be no interaction, like the earth and the clouds, but because of Chaos’s erosion, these two worlds are gradually merging now.”

“Will there be a problem?”

At this time, the quiet-looking girl with short yellow hair and glasses among the three girls uneasily asked, and Fang Zheng nodded.

“Certainly. In simple terms, either the Material World destroys the Psychic World, or the Psychic World destroys the Material World. Of course, it is more likely that both will be destroyed together… If you don’t understand, you can imagine it’s basically equivalent to two planets colliding, then you might get a sense of it.”

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the three girls changed.

“Then, what should we do!!”

The blue-haired girl from before screamed again, looking at Princess Aimino.

“You should have a way!”

“I… I’ve already lost my strength and can no longer control everything…”

“Furthermore, the Demon God of mine and the Princess has also been controlled by that strange thing.”

At this moment, Shagatu also stood out to speak for Princess Aimino, and hearing this, the three girls were stunned again.

“So…?”

“It means…”

And Fang Zheng, sitting next to them, spoke.

“The task of punishing evil and maintaining world peace is up to you guys now.”

Saying this, Fang Zheng glanced around, his eyes showing a puzzled expression. Although the plot had collapsed, logically, Morgana should also be here, right? He thought that if he could chat with this Creator God, it might solve the problem, but now… Where’s Morgana?

At this moment, Princess Aimino also asked Gurev the same question.

“Mentor Gurev, where’s Morgana?”

“Morgana?”

Hearing Princess Aimino’s question, Gurev froze for a moment.

“Who’s that?”

“…Eh?”

Morgana has disappeared.

Not only disappeared, but it seemed that except for Princess Aimino, no one else remembered such an existence. This startled and worried Princess Aimino; although she said nothing, the unease between her brows was very clear to see. Fang Zheng understood that in this world, Princess Aimino was likely the only one who knew Morgana’s true identity.

Because in the comic, Gurev had once revealed to the three girls that he also didn’t know what existence Morgana was; only that Morgana was specially entrusted to him by Princess Aimino before her withdrawal. That is to say, Princess Aimino absolutely knows Morgana’s real identity.

But now, Morgana has mysteriously disappeared, and no one remembers it… This situation is very dangerous.

Moreover, Princess Aimino previously disclosed another piece of information.

That is, the world where the three main characters are located is actually merging with this world!

As for CLAMP’s works, Fang Zheng was quite familiar with them and knew they often liked playing this kind of thing. For example, the modern world has several versions.

Among them, “X” and “Tokyo Babylon,” as well as the world of “CLAMP School Detectives,” are the same, while “Cardcaptor Sakura” is another one—the reason for making this judgment is simple; if Little Sakura was also in the world of “X,” it would be impossible for her to sit by and watch the world be destroyed.

However, Fang Zheng didn’t know which version the world of “Magic Knight” belonged to because the world of “Magic Knight” is relatively peaceful, and from a chronological perspective, he inclined towards “Magic Knight” and “Cardcaptor Sakura” being in the same world.

But just now, Fang Zheng had already used a large account through his personal terminal to specifically contact Little Sakura, Shisei, Nanoha, and Fate, only to be told that Japan on their end was completely peaceful, without any problem at all.

So the question arises, which background is the modern Japan that’s merging with Cifilo?

If it’s the background world of “X”… isn’t it going to be thoroughly doomed?!

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng was not calm anymore.