Since there was nothing much to look at on her body, Morningstar simply started fiddling with that black substance again.
At her thought, the black substance seeped out from her skin. In the end, it turned into a pair of black leather gloves that wrapped around her slender hands, fitting them perfectly.
“I can actually sense this thing too? It feels like... a part of my body.”
Morningstar could feel that black substance as if it were part of herself. She could feel it wrapping around her palm after changing shape, and she could also feel what it was like for her palm to be wrapped by it.
She rubbed it with her other hand and found that this thing was sensitive too. Compared to her own skin, it was even more so. In other words, under normal circumstances, a Dark Sorceress standing outside wasn’t much different from running around naked.
If a cool breeze blew by, she could probably even feel that chilly little tingle down there...
Uh, right now, she apparently didn’t have balls anymore.
“Does a Dark Sorceress have some kind of exhibitionist streak? Otherwise why make something like this? It feels so weird...”
“But... honestly, this feeling isn’t bad.”
After the initial awkwardness faded, Morningstar stopped minding it so much. She was curious about every part of her body now, so she had basically explored all of it.
What she hadn’t expected was that a Dark Sorceress’s skin was far more sensitive than she had imagined.
“Why does a Dark Sorceress have so many sensitive spots? If someone punched her, she’d probably cry for ages. But this really is like Venom... If I turned it into a skintight suit and wore it all over, it’d be sexy and evil at the same time.”
Morningstar suddenly had the urge. She wanted to turn the black substance on her body into a skintight suit that wrapped her up tightly, and then admire...
But she quickly realized that thought was way too perverted, so she hurriedly thought about something else to distract herself.
“I wonder how that Holy Maiden is doing. Little Dragoness didn’t torture her, did she?”
“O great and holy God of Light, please tell your faithful believer what I should do at a time like this. How can I defeat that demon? Please, tell me.”
Holy Maiden Freya knelt devoutly on the ground, her hands clenched as she prayed in silence. She could feel that the darkness and light inside her had reached a delicate balance. The two forces canceled each other out, leaving her unable to use any magic at all.
Now that she was no longer maintaining the seal, the darkness’s erosion would not continue. But she didn’t know whether that hateful Dark Sorceress would inject darkness into her body again.
She had thought about suicide, but doctrine forbade it. Besides, even if she killed herself, what would it change? Wouldn’t her soul still be enslaved?
So she had to fight evil to the very last moment!
But Freya also knew that with her current power, she couldn’t kill the Dark Sorceress. However, the sword before her might be able to.
The blade radiated a sinister aura from top to bottom. Freya had heard of its great name before. Anyone slain by this sword would have their soul devoured by it.
Because of that, this sword was especially effective against the undead. Whether it was spirits or demons with immortal flesh, their souls would be swallowed by this blade.
Would the immortal Dark Sorceress be the same?
The sword had been deliberately placed in front of her by the dragon girl. She had said that if Freya wanted to leave, then she should pick up the sword and defeat her fair and square.
But Freya ignored her, so Little Dragoness set down the Demonblade and left.
“Pick up this sword, and you will gain the power to defeat the Dark Sorceress.”
As Freya stared at the sword before her, a voice seemed to appear in her mind. It was like a demon’s whisper, tempting and guiding her.
“The power to defeat the Dark Sorceress? Defeat the Dark Sorceress...”
Freya murmured. Her golden eyes had clearly dimmed compared to before.
“That’s right. Isn’t this what you’ve always wanted? Defeat the Dark Sorceress, drive out evil, and become the hero who saves the world.”
“Yes... I will... defeat the Dark Sorceress...”
As if possessed, Freya slowly raised her hand and reached toward the evil-radiating sword.
At that very moment, in another room, the dragon girl was watching the surveillance image on a crystal stone. Seeing this, she couldn’t help but laugh.
“That’s right, that’s right. Go on, pick up that sword.”
Her body had already been eroded halfway by dark evil energy. On top of that, she had spent a hundred years alone in darkness. Deep inside, something in Freya had long since become abnormal, though perhaps she herself had yet to notice.
But after being affected by the sword’s evil aura, her dark side began to surface.
“That’s right. Defeat the Dark Sorceress. Then your little sister won’t suffer the same fate as you.”
“My sister...”
Just before Freya touched the sword, she suddenly stopped. A little light returned to her dulled eyes.
“My sister. My little sister.”
Her sister was Freya’s greatest concern, and also the reason she had endured alone in the darkness for so long.
She had been born with a holy body that strongly suppressed evil aura and darkness, so she had been chosen to serve as the seal. Freya’s younger sister possessed the same constitution. If Freya failed, then the next candidate for the seal would be her sister.
To keep her sister from ending up like her, Freya had always gritted her teeth and endured. She hoped to hold on longer, so her sister could have more time that truly belonged to her.
And it was her sister who awakened her heart. She realized that if she grasped this sword, she would be doomed beyond redemption!
She could not fall into evil, and she could not let her sister become someone others mocked!
“Stop trying to tempt me! I won’t fall for it!”
Freya shouted, then retreated to the farthest corner by the wall, keeping her distance from the Demonblade.
“Damn it! Her willpower’s stronger than I expected.”
Seeing this, the dragon girl’s face was full of displeasure. Still, she wasn’t furious. She had plenty of time to take it slow.
Sooner or later, this Holy Maiden would fall and become one of her own. If her master was going to conquer the world and the Divine Clan, doing it alone would be too exhausting. Her master needed helpers.
Just like before.
“A girl’s body really is amazing...”
Wrapped in a bath towel, Morningstar walked out of the bathroom. Maybe the bathroom had been a little too warm. A faint blush colored the skin of her cheeks.
“Mhm, this bed’s even bigger than my old bedroom. It’s definitely gotta be comfy to lie on.”
She picked up the fruit platter that had somehow been placed on the stand, kicked off her slippers, and lazily flopped onto the bed. As she ate the unfamiliar fruit, she crossed her legs in comfort.
At this moment, Chen Chen really didn’t want to go back to her original world. Compared to being a corporate slave, wasn’t this emperor-like life so much better?
