“Looks like I’ll have to purify her soul.
I absolutely can’t let anyone find out about this.”
Chen Xing didn’t want her powerful image to be ruined, so she planned to erase the princess’s memory.
After she tamed the queen later, the queen’s memory of this would have to go too.
She had to keep up her fierce image in front of her subordinates.
“But seriously, I didn’t expect the witch to have such a submissive side.
No wonder Little Dragon Girl said her previous masters were always the dominant ones.”
Now Chen Xing understood why the witch was like that—she’d just experienced firsthand how sensitive the witch really was.
And it seemed like the witch wasn’t too bright either, easily corrupted into a fool.
“If the witch gets corrupted by her own subordinates and turns into an idiot, that’d be hilarious.
I almost lost control this time—if I run into a real expert next time, I’ll be done for.
I can’t let this happen again.
I’d better stick to being the dominant one.”
Chen Xing never expected the usually dominant witch to have this side to her.
It was like high offense, low defense—no, actually, zero defense at all! “Forget it, time to get back to business.” She withdrew from the princess’s perspective and focused her attention outside.
“It hurts! No, please, Your Majesty! It hurts so much!” Chen Xing was putting on an act, pretending to be in pain and crying out.
Her writhing body was locked in place by ice, leaving only her mouth free to make noise.
“Damn! Can the queen really not feel pain?” Seeing what was happening outside, Chen Xing couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
She’d always thought the queen had just shut off her emotions, but from the start of this, Chen Xing realized the queen’s sense of touch seemed to be gone too.
Her body didn’t react to anything—she wouldn’t even know if she was being pinched.
So, people like the queen could never be corrupted in any story.
She’d cut off the possibility at the root! Even if a succubus drew those runes on her, it wouldn’t matter—without touch, there’s no desire, and without desire, there’s no way to fall.
“What a headache.” The only good news was that the queen hadn’t noticed Chen Xing’s darkness.
She’d stabbed her vines into Chen Xing’s darkness, sucking it out like a straw.
Through her magic eye, Chen Xing could see the queen’s once-pure body was now full of filth.
If it were anyone else, their mind would have been influenced by the darkness and they’d have submitted to Chen Xing by now.
But it didn’t work on the queen—her soul was completely frozen, and changes to her body couldn’t affect her mind.
“Your Majesty… do you, um, feel good?” The queen was like a heartless machine, mechanically repeating the same motion.
Chen Xing was glad she’d hidden her real body in the darkness—if her real body had been treated like this by the queen, she couldn’t imagine what would’ve happened…
“I’ve frozen my sense of touch,” the queen said, not bothering to hide something so trivial.
“I knew it,” Chen Xing thought to herself, then continued, “Why?”
“Feeling pain, pleasure, cold, heat… would make me more human.”
“Your Majesty, um… don’t you want to be human?” Chen Xing’s performance was less resistant than before.
She wasn’t sure if the queen would notice anything off, but probably not—after all, the queen didn’t know what a normal reaction would be in this situation.
“This country doesn’t need a human to run it.”
“Hopeless! This woman is completely hopeless.” That was Chen Xing’s honest thought.
She couldn’t sense a shred of warmth from the queen—inside or out, she was nothing but cold.
“Then you could just… rule this country forever.
Why bother reproducing?”
“Because of the queen’s bloodline.”
The queen didn’t elaborate, but Chen Xing could pretty much guess.
According to the princess’s memories, their mother—or rather, every queen—would pass everything on to the next generation.
The queen would extract all the man’s essence and inject it into the child, but that was just the beginning, because the child born that way wasn’t complete.
When the child grew up and had a strong magical foundation, the queen would pass on all her magic essence to her.
That was the real magic.
They didn’t do it during pregnancy because the queen had to protect the country—without her essence, she’d lose her fighting power.
So only when the child was strong enough could she pass it on.
That’s why every queen lived so long, but never had a mother.
Every queen’s body contained all the magic essence of her parents, and that power would keep being passed down, stacking up with each generation.
That’s why the queen kept getting stronger.
“I really can’t wait for our child…” Chen Xing brushed aside her damp bangs, then wrapped her long white legs around the queen’s waist, sitting up and hugging the queen’s soft, delicate body.
She comforted the queen with her words, but where the queen couldn’t see—on her back—Chen Xing’s hands were at work.
Her pale hands quickly turned as black as ink, morphing into a sticky liquid that clung to the queen’s snowy skin.
The queen had already absorbed enough darkness, so Chen Xing was ready to act.
“Mm!” The queen immediately sensed something was wrong.
An intense cold burst from her, and for a moment it felt like the air itself had frozen.
Chen Xing’s body was instantly encased in ice, frozen solid from the inside out.
The next second, the queen’s aura erupted, and Chen Xing’s frozen body shattered like a brittle cookie and was blown away.
“Darkness.” The queen floated in midair, retreating.
She didn’t show the slightest emotional reaction to the sudden change.
“Hehehe… As expected of the queen.
You’re the first human I’ve met who can’t be assimilated directly~” A sinister voice echoed from all directions.
The shattered powder turned into drops of black liquid, then reformed in midair.
It was like molding clay into a perfect human shape, and Chen Xing’s face emerged from it—she was completely restored.
“Dark Witch.”
Actually, the queen had already sensed something was off.
Chen Xing had way too much magic essence in her body—normally, someone who’d had that much drained would barely be able to speak, but Chen Xing was still full of energy.
But even so, the chance to endlessly extract essence was too tempting.
For the sake of a stronger heir, the queen didn’t want to give it up.
“Your Majesty, I’m here to save you~” Chen Xing was still pretending to be evil, but then she remembered the queen had no emotions, so there was no point in acting.
After all, you can’t put on a show for a robot, right? So with that thought, Chen Xing dropped the act and spoke in her usual tone.
It was no different from her usual laid-back self.
“I don’t want to make a big scene, so I’ll just dissolve your body first.
As for your mind, I’ll take my time corrupting it~” Chen Xing wanted to end this quickly.
She stared at the queen’s body, and the next second, the queen’s mouth opened uncontrollably.
Countless dark substances poured out, instantly covering her entire face.
Her face became perfectly smooth, all her features swallowed by the black substance, like she was wearing a seamless mask stuck tightly to her skin.
At the same time, the rest of her body was going through the same thing.
The darkness inside her kept pouring out, trying to wrap her up completely.
To make the queen fall to darkness, she had to be corrupted first.
But Chen Xing had underestimated the queen.
She thought she could control the queen’s body, but the queen’s hands broke free from the darkness and pressed against her own head.
A blast of cold erupted from her palms, and the darkness instantly stopped spreading.
Like frozen water, it shattered with a tap, and the queen’s beautiful face reappeared.
Absolute cold—so intense that even the darkness could be frozen.
“Tsk tsk, not bad.”
Chen Xing had already guessed this would happen.
Back then, the princess’s cold aura could seal off the dark matter that existed outside her own body, let alone the queen, who was much stronger.
That meant she’d have to take the queen down first.
It was just like catching Pokémon—if you tried to use a Poké Ball on a full-health Pokémon, it wouldn’t work.
You had to wear them down first.
Dealing with the queen would be the same.
While Chen Xing was thinking about how to handle the queen, the ground of the palace started to tremble, and the magic power radiating from the queen grew even stronger.
The queen wasn’t about to waste words with Chen Xing.
Against an enemy of this level, she had to go all out from the start.
An ancient magic circle beneath the ice activated, and in an instant, the entire capital of the kingdom was pulled into some kind of magical domain.
This magic barrier had existed for a long time—maybe since the kingdom was first founded.
It seemed to be the last line of defense against foreign invaders.
Inside this space, the queen’s magic could be unleashed to its fullest, so she went straight for her strongest spell.
“Freeze.”
With the queen at the center, icy blue spread out fast, and in the blink of an eye, the whole area was swallowed up by that strange blue.
Everything stopped moving.
Even space and time were frozen.
Chen Xing’s expression froze in place, her beautiful big eyes looking at the queen in confusion.
“Huff…” The queen’s breathing grew rapid; casting a spell like this took a lot out of her.
But even though she could seal the witch in time, she couldn’t kill her.
She knew that as long as evil and darkness existed in the world, the witch could never be truly destroyed.
So this was her final move: trap the witch here, in this eternally frozen moment.
