"W-What... what do you... mean...?"

The princess quickly understood what Selina meant. As the corruption deepened, that thing had already seeped into her internal organs.

At first, only the skin all over her body could feel that melting sensation. Now, every single organ inside her was feeling the same thing.

The sudden flood of stronger sensations slammed into the princess's brain. Her eyes flew wide open, and her pupils shrank tight.

"My stomach... my insides... they're melting."

Her exterior was melting away, and now her interior was also becoming part of the darkness. The princess had formed a link with those evil substances, and she could feel everything within them.

The darkness, the fear, the evil she once loathed, had now become her body.

"Ah... AAAAAAHHHH!"

The princess's body began to tremble violently. Her five fingers twisted and tensed. Her eyes rolled white, and drool spilled from her gaping mouth.

"I'm so jealous of you~ You get to slowly enjoy the whole process. Back then, I was too weak. Master swallowed me up in one go. It was over before I even had time to feel it."

Selina cupped her face and said it with a writhing sway of her body. Then her gaze changed, replaced by a completely different expression.

Morningstar's consciousness entered this body through the link. She wanted to see how far the princess had fallen.

From the looks of it, it was almost over.

The black substance had already writhed past her neck. Little by little, it wrapped around the princess's twisted face. Those beautiful eyes had long since lost their clear pale blue, replaced by a murky black-violet.

"Oh! My brain... it's becoming... strange. Something... something is getting into my thoughts... my brain..."

The black substance crawling over her face had already burrowed into the princess through her ears and nose, entering her brain. Once this organ that controlled thought was assimilated, there would be no turning back for her.

The brain itself felt no pain, but it possessed the richest network of nerves. When every single nerve was dissolved and assimilated into that black substance, the violent trembling it brought left the princess utterly unable to think. Her mind went completely blank.

"My brain... it's breaking... it's breaking..."

Because the nerves in her brain were being invaded, the princess's tongue lolled out uncontrollably. Her body suddenly went rigid as if struck by electricity, then bent backward into a bow.

As her brain was dissolved by darkness, her human consciousness was destroyed. Her thoughts could no longer hold together. Human morality, her old wishes, the person she once cared about most in her heart, all of it was cast behind her and ceased to matter.

She had already taken the shape of darkness. Only one thought remained in her mind: the Master of Darkness was her everything. She had to become darkness's servant and devote herself to the Master of Darkness.

"Well, Princess, have you decided to become a servant of darkness?"

"I... I want to become a servant of darkness. Fill me with darkness. Hurry... fill every part of me with darkness."

The princess could no longer resist the darkness. The instant she gave up resisting, the dark substance completely wrapped around her. At last, even the pair of eyes still exposed were covered by darkness.

After her vision lost all light, the princess's final shred of consciousness quietly said, "I'm sorry, Sister... your little sister can't go back anymore."

Darkness and the princess became one. Every inch of her flesh was assimilated by darkness and turned into part of evil.

Now she looked like a black humanoid mannequin. Her whole body was unnaturally smooth and delicate, like a newborn's skin.

From beginning to end, the princess had resisted for nearly three hours. If she hadn't used magic power to fight Selina, she might have lasted even longer.

That also reminded Morningstar of something. Someone around level fifty like the princess really did have the ability to resist direct corruption. They wouldn't melt right away. But as long as they were tainted by darkness and enough time passed, they would still fall in the end.

"Mm, not bad."

Morningstar nodded in satisfaction. In her sight, the black layer covering the princess slowly receded, writhing into a pitch-black princess gown.

Her long ice-blue hair remained the same as before. Only now, the princess's eyes had turned into a strange black-violet.

Morningstar's consciousness left Selina's body. Once Selina took control again, she stepped forward and offered the princess her congratulations.

"Congratulations on becoming one of darkness. From now on, we can serve our noble and holy Master together."

The princess did not answer Selina. After slowly opening her eyes, she first looked down at her own body. She could feel every inch of herself brimming with inexhaustible power. This was the strength darkness brought.

"Hehehehe... hahahahaha... this feels so wonderful~"

The princess laughed foolishly. Even after darkening and falling, she still kept that same silly, airheaded look from before.

"How does it feel, becoming one of darkness?"

"I've never felt anything so wonderful. It's like being reborn. Now my mind is filled with nothing but Master. There's no room for anything else. Master~ ah, Master~"

As a servant of darkness, her mind was naturally occupied by her Master. The princess, now fully fallen, had also connected to Morningstar's hive network.

There, she could sense the presence of every dark servant. Selina, and Leticia...

With permission, they could even link up and share the thoughts of other servants, seeing what others saw.

After all, in a sense, they were all the same kind of existence. Their bodies were all formed from Morningstar's Dark Essence. Only their souls still belonged to themselves, though they had already been corrupted beyond recognition by darkness.

"Master has too few servants. How can someone so supremely noble allow herself to be served by so few?"

Sensing that aside from herself, there were only two other servants, the princess sounded a little surprised. How could the Master of Darkness have so few servants?

Back when she had still been a princess, she herself had dozens, even hundreds of servants.

"Don't worry. This is only the beginning. In the future, Master's servants will only grow more numerous. Eventually, everyone in this world will become a servant of Master's darkness. Until then, we need to serve Master well."

"I know~"

"Good. Did you feel what I passed on to you?"

"Mm." The princess nodded. Through the Dark Sorceress's hive network, Selina had transmitted part of her consciousness to the princess. After receiving the princess's permission, she accepted that portion of consciousness, or rather, memory.

It was memory related to dark magic.

"You're ice-aligned. After becoming Master's servant, the power of darkness is now under your control as well. So I've passed on all the dark magic I know to you. If you follow what I just taught you, you'll be able to use dark magic from now on."

Selina had once been a dark mage of an evil cult. The dark magic she knew wasn't on the Dark Sorceress's level, but it was still fairly good.

By directly passing those spell incantations to the princess, she could help her master more magic as quickly as possible, grow stronger, and serve their Master better.