Chapter 244: The Beginning of a Long Journey

Her instincts drove the spell, and golden flames ignited across her entire body, evaporating the lingering liquid on her clothes before she looked around.

Hiss-

Rows upon rows of cryo-chambers around her began opening on their own, and silhouettes of girls in immersion suits crawled out one by one, coughing violently.

Among them were two who looked noticeably older...

It was Su Jingyan and Mogong Ma.

Everyone had just crawled out of their cryo-chambers, and before any exchange of words, their gazes were already drawn to the radiance at the very center.

There, following that golden light, figures began to coalesce beside the Soul Gem.

A silver-haired girl named Airwen, along with many, many other young people, materialized out of thin air amid a surge of magic power fluctuations, gaining real, supple flesh before stumbling to the ground, looking somewhat dazed.

"......"

"We... succeeded...?"

Hythesla's gaze blurred as she took a deep breath, savoring the scent of nutrient fluid she hadn't tasted in centuries. Her toes curled slightly.

The unmistakable sensation of touching the ground traveled from her ankle, up her calf, all the way to her brain and soul-a feeling ordinary people experienced every single day, yet one she had never known.

This was a healthy body, one capable of bearing her soul and her spell.

That excitement lasted less than a second.

When she looked up and saw the cryo-chambers around her, rage instantly flooded her face.

"Damn it all!!"

Hythesla roared.

Hum-

Over a dozen virtual screens glowing with soft blue light unfolded around the girl's body, and cascading torrents of data streamed through her eyes at lightning speed.

Spell Release!

The next instant, her consciousness forcibly embedded itself into L Corp's local network through her spell.

Not only that, to prevent the local network from being severed, she even forced a connection to the external internet through a backdoor she had left behind long ago.

Then-

Within a mere 0.1 seconds, over three thousand different accounts began sending emails to L Corp's entire system through various channels at inconceivable speed.

The letters meticulously laid out the truth of this project with airtight logic, complete with all the evidence of someone using their position to privately embezzle and siphon off massive amounts of the company's core strategic assets, along with the memories and information she had long since organized.

This wasn't because her reaction speed had reached such heights. Rather, she had rehearsed this reporting process and content countless times while still in Utopia. She had even asked Amber to process and compress the memories long ago. Now, she only needed to copy and paste.

She even had time to look at the information about the mastermind behind the scenes who had finally surfaced.

"Kalma?"

"So it was you, you old bastard, scheming behind our backs all along."

And merely three seconds after the reports were sent, the vice chairman's response arrived.

[Report verified. Entering review process.]

Attached was a private message.

[You've worked hard. We will not let you down.]

With the chairman of L Corp currently absent, the vice chairman effectively served as acting chairman.

Once he spoke, it meant the matter was settled.

L Corp, that colossal Universal Megacorp, bared its razor-sharp fangs under the intervention of its highest authority.

Hythesla could even imagine countless auditing and enforcement departments being awakened at this very moment, springing into action. A smile of vindication curled at the corner of her lips.

-The scheme to birth the Witch King had been exposed. Kalma was undoubtedly doomed.

But the next moment, she forcefully shook her head, banishing that thrill of revenge from her mind.

No.

There were more important things to do right now.

In the hall, the first batch of companions to emerge from Utopia were gradually regaining their senses.

Hythesla turned around, casting her gaze over the comrades who had fought side by side with her, a mixture of grief and joy flickering in her eyes.

Not all chamber doors had opened. In fact, most remained closed.

Because nearly seventy magical girls had remained forever in that world.

But...

At the very least, their efforts had not been in vain.

Those familiar figures appeared in her field of vision.

Su Fang stood rooted in place, her eyes somewhat dazed.

Zihan awkwardly tugged at her drenched clothes.

And Tang Keren, just like her, was numbly touching her own shoulders-she had once been covered in severe burns from the corrosive magic flames that had ignited her entire body, where even breathing was agony. But now, like herself, she was completely unharmed.

Their bodies still shimmered with the radiance of their Soul Gems.

This meant their power hadn't disappeared. They had carried their transformation abilities back to the outside world.

Not just them.

The Previous Magical Girls, whose souls had not been completely worn away through the cycles, were also looking down at their own hands.

They had returned to their original young bodies in the outside world, now even more complete than before, without any of their past imperfections.

And the people the girls loved, those who had once been nothing but illusory data, had also received true souls and bodies.

Even the silver-haired girl, who had once become a ghost, had obtained a real body in this world.

And on the platform.

The Soul Gem was nowhere to be seen, replaced by a smooth crystal orb, within which familiar streets and buildings could be seen.

Within it were inscribed the traces of the Sacred Tree and Kazenari Town. It was also their contract, the source of their power, and the resting place of countless citizens' souls waiting to be freed.

Though the journey ahead would surely be rocky, one day, this city would be rebuilt in the outside world.

All the magical girls had given everything to defeat the Witch King, enduring over three thousand three hundred cycles, three hundred years of struggle and sacrifice-not meaningless.

With the help of the Sacred Tree, they had finally broken that damned cycle and emerged together into the Outer Realm.

This was truly...

An indescribable miracle.

-It was rare for reality, this shitty game full of exploitation and oppression, to actually contain such a proper Happy End.

Hythesla couldn't help but think this.

However, her expression immediately turned serious.

But this was merely the end of that virtual game, and it also represented the beginning of a long journey to revive Kazenari Town.

After this battle, not only were there already several magical girl seeds qualified to break through to B-Rank in reality, but the Previous Magical Girls could also easily recover to the level of C-Rank superhumans, lofty in the eyes of ordinary people, given suitable opportunities and resources.

The Kazenari Town within the light orb was also a rare Second Sequence artifact.

Even for a Universal Megacorp, this was a force powerful enough to establish a branch company and build a brand new city.