Rise of the Dark Witch

"The trolley problem of whether to sacrifice one person or save five people has been discussed by countless people since it was proposed. From philosophers to ordinary people, no one can give a convincing answer."

"Choose one person or save five people. The choice is so difficult."

“But what if we scaled it up a little bit?”

"Sacrifice one person to save a hundred people? This needs to be discussed."

"What if one person is sacrificed to save ten thousand people? The balance begins to tilt obviously."

"So what if one person is sacrificed to save a million? In this case, most people can make a choice, right?"

Clang.

Roja threw the black sword in front of the girl.

"There are 10 billion people in this world, and I only need 10,000."

"Use your prophecy ability to find 10,000 pure people who are willing to sacrifice themselves to save the world, and let them personally pierce their hearts with this sword. You can't force it, you can't hide it, and you can't make mistakes."

"If you can complete this task before the rock star beast comes, then I will save the world."

Many people are willing to risk their lives and fight for their families and their country.

But risking one's life to fight is completely different from piercing one's heart with a long sword for the sake of the world.

If you want to find ten thousand such people, I'm afraid only those with prophecy can do it, right?

The girl silently picked up the black sword on the ground, with a tragic look on her face that could not be described in words, "Is this your great will, Lord God?"

The girl left.

Roja stood on the top of the tower and continued to overlook the world as if nothing had happened.

As time goes by.

As the rock star beast continues to approach.

As the day of destruction draws closer and closer.

People are getting even crazier.

In just one month, the world's population has dropped by one-third.

One-third of the population of 10 billion is 3.3 billion!

The world war has been going on for more than ten years, with only hundreds of millions of casualties!

this day.

clatter.

Crisp footsteps sounded behind Roja.

A woman with messy, naturally curly black hair and a mysterious aura stood behind him, holding a black long sword in her hands.

It was the girl with the power of prophecy who appeared half a month ago.

Compared to half a month ago, the girl looked more haggard, her skin paler, her eyes seemed to have witnessed the vicissitudes of life, dry but with unshakable determination.

The girl knelt down behind Roja, "Almighty, omniscient, and benevolent god, according to your great will, I have found ten thousand pure and kind people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for this world."

As she spoke, the girl slowly raised the sword in her hand, pointing the tip of the sword at her chest.

Then--

Phew!

The black sword broke open her chest, penetrated her heart, and stabbed out from her back.

"I am the 10,000th person."

After saying the last words, the girl fell down and closed her eyes forever.

Roya didn't look back.

He stretched out his hand, and the black sword in the girl's hand flew into his hand.

He held up the black sword in his hand and stared intently with his eyes. After looking at it for a long time, he smiled and said, "The emotional transformation... was it successful?"

When they were in the golem world on the first floor of the Endless Tower, they got the technology to convert emotions into energy in that world.

The power of emotion, also known as the power of faith and belief, transforms this nihilistic and idealistic power into real energy. This is something that only a fourth-level wizard with half a foot in the realm of the true god can do.

That world that only made a third-order golem by luck, unexpectedly developed an emotion-transforming device that only gods can master?

He was shocked when he learned the news.

He obtained the technology to create an emotion transformation device from the golem researcher Sid Yalefu. During the past year or so, while breaking through the Endless Tower, he would also spend time researching the emotion transformation device.

It's a pity that there is no solution after all.

I only know what is happening but not why.

Why does this turn emotions into energy? Don't understand, don't understand, don't know.

This was his first time to conduct a prototype experiment. Looking at the strange power transformed from the power of faith on the black long sword in his hand, he considered this experiment a success.

But even if he succeeded, he still couldn't understand it.

"What is the principle of converting belief into energy?"

“Can my beliefs also be converted into energy?”

"How about saying I've already done it?"

A black spider exuding chilling evil thoughts appeared out of thin air on Roja's shoulder.

Level 5 witchcraft - Dark Evil Spider King.

The Dark Spider King is a creature from the world of mind. The existence of the Dark Spider King will not consume his magic and mental power. He can live without consuming any energy. He is like a perpetual motion machine.

There is no perpetual motion machine in this world!

Even a ninth-level wizard cannot create a perpetual motion machine!

The existence of the Dark Spider King does not seem to consume any magic and mental power. In fact, there must be some energy that he cannot sense yet to make the Dark Spider King operate.

That energy is the power of belief, also known as the power of faith.

"Ding--"

He flicked the blade lightly with his fingertips.

The crisp sound of swords echoed in the air.

Lying on the ground behind him, the originally lifeless prophetic girl's body trembled and she slowly opened her eyes.

"I am..." The girl looked at her hands in disbelief, "Am I still alive?"

In the scene she saw with her prophecy, she and the other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people should have died because the sword penetrated their hearts, right?

"Lord God..."

The prophecy girl looked at Roja's back with emotion, and her eyes, which had become dry due to shedding too many tears, were filled with tears.

"Leave."

"yes."

The prophecy girl kowtowed heavily to Roja a few times, and then left full of emotion and excitement.

Roja put the black sword back into the space ring.

He spent a lot of effort to prevent the prophecy girl from knowing that the person who pierced the heart with the sword would not die.

Although he can't block the prophetic girl's ability to predict, there are obvious limits to the girl's prophetic ability, and she cannot predict the future infinitely. As long as they are sure to "die" within the scope of the prophetic girl's ability, he can deceive the prophetic girl. That's it.

This is not because he is kind.

He didn't care about the life or death of those ten thousand people.

The real reason is that he must not let the blood of those ten thousand people interfere with this experiment!

If a human being has a strong obsession when he dies, there is a certain probability that the mental fragments will mutate and become undead, or attached to an object.

After some weapons kill too many people, they will be stained with the resentment of the dead. This is one of the evil ways to strengthen weapons.

The problem is that his purpose this time is to collect the power of emotions and convert emotions into energy, not to kill people. What should we do if the opponent's mental fragments attached to the black sword due to his deep obsession before death and affected the experiment?

He didn't care about the lives of ten thousand people.

But if the death of these ten thousand people causes errors in the experiment, then the gain outweighs the loss.

The success of this experiment gave Roja another trump card.

"Emotional transformation device?"

"Although I still don't understand the principle, I don't know why the idealistic power of emotion can be converted into real energy. But as long as you master this technology, you won't be afraid of losing magic power even if you go to a world without magic."

"This is the real reason why only level five wizards can travel across the universe!"

Some particularly powerful fourth-level wizards even have the power to destroy stars, and have combat capabilities that many true gods do not have.

But no matter how powerful the fourth-level wizard is, he is still a fourth-level wizard, which is fundamentally different from the fifth-level true god!

In a magic-free environment, a fourth-level wizard's magic power will not be fully replenished, and his strength will become weaker and weaker.

Facing the void of the universe where most places are filled with nothingness and no magic exists at all, it is almost impossible for a fourth-level wizard to cross.

Only fifth-level wizards who can convert their emotions, beliefs, faith, fighting spirit, anger... and other idealistic powers into magic power can fly freely in the void of the universe without worrying about the inability to replenish magic power from the outside world and the exhaustion of magic power.

Now, Roja, who is still at the third level, has also mastered this technology!

However, this technology is not perfect yet, and many experiments are needed before it can be used in practice.

…

A month passed by in a flash.

The rock star beast arrived in this world across a distance of 300 million kilometers!

Looking at the terrifying giant beast with a diameter of a thousand kilometers that appeared in the sky above their heads, like an asteroid, deep despair emerged in people's hearts.

The rock star beast is not only huge in size and hard in body, but also extremely fast, with a top speed of nearly 500 times the speed of sound!

A huge body with a diameter of a thousand kilometers hits their planet at 500 times the speed of sound. Is it possible for them to survive? Is there any hope that this planet will not be shattered?

After a month of indulgence, at the moment before death, everyone was just waiting quietly for death.

Someone was lying in the ruins, looking at the sky and giggling.

Some people embrace each other with their loved ones, promising to be together if there is an afterlife.

Some people opened their arms to the sky, facing the divine punishment with a crazy look on their faces.

There are also people kneeling on the ground praying, hoping that God can save them and save the world.

However, there are still some people who have not given up and are still making their last human efforts.

They used the last human power to deploy tens of thousands of anti-matter missiles and fusion missiles on the path of the Rock Star Behemoth. They sent heroic soldiers to drive spaceships towards the Rock Star Behemoth.

boom--

boom--

boom--

Violent explosions continued to sound.

Humanity's final struggle in front of the giant rock star is nothing more than a gorgeous fireworks.

"Is there no other way?"

"We've done our best."

"This is the limit of human beings!"

Those who originally held on to a one-in-a-billion hope, after the earth's last line of defense was mercilessly broken by the rock star monster, no matter how strong-willed the people were, they could only collapse to the ground and had to accept the reality.

The only thing they can do now is to raise their heads, wait for the rock star beast to come, and witness the demise of mankind at the last moment of their lives.

At the five hundred times the speed of sound of the rock star behemoth, it only takes less than ten minutes to reach the planet, and humans only have the last ten minutes left.

Officials decided to broadcast the arrival of the Rock Star Behemoth globally.

Humanity is doomed anyway, so do we still need to hide it now? It would be better to let people clearly see what is destroying them.

In the skies around the world, projection screens showing space scenes appeared. Through the screens, people could clearly see the giant rock star flying towards them quickly over the wreckage of the spacecraft.

When everyone is desperate.

Observers who used space telescopes to observe the giant rock star suddenly exclaimed.

"ah?"

"how come?"

"That is?"

The camera, which originally focused all its attention on the rock star beast, suddenly turned around, and three humanoid figures in black robes and hoods appeared in the camera.

Why would anyone be there?

Does it have any special significance to play these three people at this time?

Everyone who was confused at first suddenly changed their expressions after noticing the background of the three people.

Their faces, which had no expression other than despair, actually showed shocked expressions.

Those three people were floating in the void of the universe out of thin air!

And isn't the position where they are standing exactly in the direction of the Rock Star behemoth? Could it be that he plans to challenge the Rock Star behemoth and save the world?

"What is going on with those three people? How is it possible for humans to fly in space with their bodies? Is this a scene that can only appear in superhero movies?"

"Could it be that the authorities saw that we were so desperate and decided to give us a little hope at the end of our lives? Let us die with hope?"

"Since there are unscientific and unscientific monsters like rock star monsters in this world, why can't there be humans with the power to fight against them? Maybe the gods in myths and legends actually exist?"

"At a time when our human existence is at stake, the savior in the scriptures finally appears!"

Both religious people and atheists who believe in gods are going crazy at this moment.

…

For these crazy people, Roja, Leo and Bellica, who were suspended in the void of the universe, didn't care at all. Their attention was focused on the rock star beast in front of them.

"Leo, the important task of destroying the rock star beast is left to you."

"Um."

Leo nodded heavily.

As a thunder wizard, Leo is the most destructive among the three of them. If you want to kill the rock star beast as quickly as possible, it must be Leo.

Regardless of how powerful Roja is, he is far more powerful than Leo.

But if he wants to kill the rock star beast, he can only do it slowly. If it is fast, it will take ten days and a half, if it is slow, it may take more than half a year.

It is impossible to destroy the rock star beast by relying on Leo alone.

Because Leo doesn't have enough magic power!

If there is magic power in this world, or the power of earth veins, Leo can accumulate enough magic power to annihilate the rock star beast in one go.

Unfortunately not.

So he could only ask Roja to help provide magic power.

As a plant wizard, Roja has far more magic power than ordinary wizards. Even so, is the magic power really enough?

But Leo wasn't worried at all.

If Roja's magic power is not enough, isn't there a living sacrifice ceremony?

Leo took a deep breath and took action.

"Source type, true bloodline body!"

He transformed into a terrifying thunder beast hundreds of meters tall.

"Witchcraft, elemental clone!"

His body split into two, and the two split into four, turning into four thunder beasts of equal strength.

"Witch weapon, Sky Pact Thunder Staff!"

On his forehead, a sharp horn appeared.

The Sky Contract Thunder Staff is Leo's witchcraft. It is an extremely rare dual-system witchcraft of space and thunder systems. Its ability is to make the thunder and lightning released through the Sky Contract Thunder Staff have a space contract.

Many wizards, especially those from the elemental systems such as thunder, fire, light, etc., face a problem.

That is, after the attack is released, it is no longer possible to control and inject magic power.

For example, thunder wizards use thunder and lightning to attack enemies. The speed of thunder is the speed of light. After the thunder and lightning are released, if they want to continue to strengthen the thunder and lightning, they need to continuously inject magic power into the thunder and lightning, but they simply cannot make the magic power catch up with the thunder and lightning at super-light speed!

Therefore, most of the attacks released by elemental wizards such as thunder and light are one-time.

The moment the attack is released, it is the strongest!

After that, as the magic power is consumed, the attack power will become weaker and weaker until it finally dissipates completely!

It is simply impossible to be like Roja, a plant wizard, who can continuously inject magic power into plants, strengthen them and control them. Not only will the plants not become weaker and weaker, but they will also become weaker due to the superimposed resistance of the withered vines in the witchcraft. Get stronger and stronger.

But this shortcoming is not insurmountable!

The way to overcome it is - the Sky Pact Thunder Staff!

The thunder released by the Thunder Rod will have a space contract attached to it. The owner of the Thunder Rod can use the space contract to inject magic power into the thunder and lightning in the distance or use mental power to control it.

"Witch Realm, Void Witch Realm!"

Source type, witchcraft, witchcraft, witchcraft domain... Leo, who had brought out all his abilities, opened his mouth and sprayed the four thunder beasts fiercely at the rock star beast.

Kaka——

Kaka——

Four gray thunderbolts hundreds of meters in diameter ejected from his mouth, instantly crossing the void of the distant universe at the speed of light to hit the body of the rock star beast.

Crackling——

The gray thunder that can ignore any defense continues to spread on the rock star beast.

The rock star beast opened its huge mouth and roared in pain.

"Hoo-o-o-"

The painful roar of the rock star beast turned into waves of energy waves that were like substance and spread out in all directions.

When this energy wave acted on a planet with tens of billions of people living on it, the planet's atmosphere deformed violently like a balloon being squeezed by people, as if it was about to explode in the next second.

The atmosphere was shaking violently.

The screams of the rock star beasts echoed in the air.

Amidst the deafening screams of the rock star beast, people were no longer in the mood to pay attention to the battle between Roja and others and the rock star beast. They all covered their ears and screamed in pain.

One after another, people screamed and died forever.

Even before the giant rock star beast came, just the painful roar from a distance caused hundreds of thousands of people to die every second in the entire world!

Crackling——

Leo gritted his teeth and continued to inject magic power into the thunder and lightning through the Sky Pact Thunder Staff.

He consumes tens of millions of magic units per second!

His own magic power is only tens of millions of units, and the output of tens of millions of units per second is not only extremely taxing on the body, but also very short-lasting.

He was supposed to be able to hold on for only a few seconds, but under Roja's magic sacrifice, he seemed to have endless magic power, which actually gave him the illusion that he was in the earth's veins and could continuously draw on the power of the earth's veins. .

Although he was in a fierce battle, he couldn't help but wonder, "How much magic power does this Roja have? Even if the magic power of a plant wizard is deeper than that of an ordinary wizard, is it too much?"

He used his mental power to try to ask Roja, "How long can your magic power last?"

After getting the reply from Roja, "Don't worry, it won't be a problem if you stick to it for a few days and nights." He was completely speechless.

He knew that Roja was not a person who liked to joke. Since Roja said he could persist for a few days and nights, it must be a few days and nights.

It consumes 10 million units of magic power every second, and how many days and nights can it last?

Could it be said that Roja has trillions of units of magic power?

Although I don’t know why Roja can possess so much magic power, but since Roja’s magic power is still very sufficient, can he...

"Whoaaah——"

Leo roared, increasing his magic output.

This time, he increased the output dozens of times in one breath, from consuming 10 million units of magic power per second to consuming nearly 500 million units of magic power per second!

"Crackling——"

The huge body of the rock star beast was entangled by countless thunderbolts.

It roared in pain, and its body continued to crack and evaporate.

Its huge body with a diameter of a thousand kilometers is getting smaller little by little.

Finally, after several hours of thunderous attacks, the rock star beast was completely reduced to ashes and dissipated.

"Hahu, hahu, hahu——"

Leo gasped for air.

After hours of high-intensity fighting, he felt like every cell in his body was being hollowed out. It was very difficult for him to even expand the Witch Realm and continue to float in the air.

"Haha, if I had known you had so much magic power, there would be no need to waste a month." Leo said with emotion: "I need to take a good rest when I go back this time. I'm really tired."

Now that they have dealt with the Rock Star Behemoth and successfully cleared the tenth floor of the Endless Tower, it is time for them to leave.

Before leaving, Roja looked back at the planet behind him.

Huh?

Roja's sight actually collided with that of the prophecy girl across a distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

With the prophecy girl's mortal eyes, her eyesight should not be able to see him hundreds of thousands of kilometers in the air, right?

Looking at the clear eyes of the prophecy girl, Roja thought for a while and waved his hand.

Billions of green light spots floated from his hands and fell on everyone on the planet.

Due to the aftermath of the battle, more than a billion people died in the entire world and billions of people were injured. If left unchecked, there is no question whether 100 million people will survive in the end.

But under the green light released by Roja.

The person who was seriously injured and on the verge of death one second was completely healed the next moment.

Like a miracle, billions of people survived. No matter how seriously injured they were in one second, they were all healed in the next second, and their bodies returned to their peak condition.

"As a reward for helping me with my experiments."

Regardless of whether the prophecy girl heard it or not, after saying this, Roja, Leo, and Bellica disappeared from the world. (End of chapter)