Oh no, I have become a character in the card pool?

Chapter 12: Signs of Ripples
"Yes, in the E-026 area, the [Demon's Ghost Domain] is now experiencing a phenomenon of 'erosion and collapse'."

"There are a small number of civilians and a spirit master trapped in the area, and they need rescue urgently!"

Mu Yuqing did not delay and explained the current situation quickly.

Although this was also her first time to see the "Mirror Soul Fox", one of the legendary spirit contracts.

It was also the first time I stepped into this strange space.

It is impossible not to be interested in that day, that light, that water, which was a visual feast like 4K high-resolution image quality.

For anyone born in the Broken Age.

What was the world like in the past?

This comes from the soul, the strongest desire for knowledge about this fragmented wasteland world.

But Mu Yuqing remembered her identity and she would not waste time on such things.

Until this moment, there are still spirit masters fighting bravely on the front line.

How could she waste time here!
"Cleaning homework?"

The girl with fox ears and long blue hair tied into a braid with hair hanging down on both sides seemed a little surprised by Mu Yuqing's request.

She turned her head once again, and this time her previously unfocused golden eyes took a good look at the young woman in the clothes of a spirit master.

It was like a different emotion flashed across her.

She whispered softly.

"Region E-026, I haven't heard this name for a long time."

Half an hour later.

Mirror Spirit Fox nodded and said calmly: "Okay, just tell me the specific coordinates."

"I will drive out all the broken entities in that area until you send people to take over and restore order in the area."

"Is this all right?"

After hearing this, Mu Yuqing raised her head with surprise.

Not only did he agree to help clean up.

It's not even a perfunctory cleanup. After all the monsters on the map are dealt with, it's like a hands-off task to complete the task.

Instead, he directly agreed to stay there until reinforcements from the [Demon's Netherworld] arrived!

To know.

As far as Mu Yuqing knows about the modern branch of the Spirit Contract Envoy, most people are used to living in a comfortable situation.

From the emergency report, to the approval of recruitment, to the final formation of a large-scale mopping-up team, the process will take at least a week.

Not only did he agree, but he was also willing to work at least one more week.
What a trustworthy sense of security!

It seems that this Mirror Spirit Fox is not as difficult to communicate with as others said?

"Okay, here are the exact coordinates."

Mu Yuqing immediately took out the information she had prepared long ago, and then took out the paper talisman in her arms, ready to inform the people outside of the good news.

This is talisman paper that is unique to this space and was created by Mirror Spirit Fox himself.

Whether entering, leaving, or communicating with the outside world, it can all be accomplished with this paper man.

Mu Yuqing said solemnly.

"Then, the fast mobile vehicle to area E-026 is ready. Please follow me out and rush to the front line immediately!"

However, the blue-haired fox-eared girl shook her head. This time she did not interrupt the other person.

"That's not necessary."

She smiled faintly.

This was the first time that Mu Yuqing saw an expression other than calm and ethereal on the face of this 17-year-old fox-eared girl since she entered this space.

Mirror Spirit Fox smiled and said, "I have a way to get there by myself."

The words fell.

The fox-eared girl took a step out of the shrine with her feet wearing wooden clogs and white silk knee-high socks.

In the moment of calm.

The surroundings seemed like a fairy tale scene, and then there was a sound like a clear mirror breaking.

All I could see was her feet.

There appeared an upside-down city, a sky without light in perpetual darkness, demon dogs running on the land, and ugly-looking White Walkers.

——That was a scene from the outside world, from a wasteland thousands of miles away.

"Well then, Miss Manager, I'll be leaving first."

The ethereal voice said politely.

Immediately.

The entire dreamlike world of rice fields in Mu Yuqing's eyes was like a lake with ripples, and the picture was shattered and cracked inch by inch.

Disappeared from her sight.

The sudden change of venue caused the woman to stagger and she almost fell.

"Are you okay?"

A hand that seemed to have been prepared supported her, and a woman asked in a concerned and urgent tone: "That fox, did she hurt you?!"

"I'm sorry, as your soulmate, I should have gone in with you."

"Yeah, I'm fine, Makio."

Mu Yuqing stood up with a shaky step, showing a comforting smile, and said to her spirit beside her: "She didn't hurt me."

There was a pause.

"Rather," Mu Yuqing said in a puzzled tone, "I feel like she's easy to talk to, not as scary as you said before?"

The person who was talking to her was a young Qi Ling.

The crow-like black wings and the faint evil aura lingering around her showed that she was from the Tengu race.

This is a humanoid "youkai".

It is also the most common type of contracted spirit that can be summoned by most people in the [Demon and Netherworld] war zone.

With the fusion of the broken time and space and this world, the conditions for summoning the spirit contract no longer require large-scale deeds on a world scale as in the beginning.

Basically, as long as you have had the strength.

Even to the extent of being famous only in a small country and known by everyone in a certain area.

It is possible to be summoned.

Thanks to this, those contracted spirits whose personal styles are not strong enough rarely refuse the opportunity for a second life and generally agree to the contract.

otherwise.

The graduation examination of the Spirit Contract Academy will probably make many young boys and girls cry on the spot.

This Tengu named Zhen Ling is the strongest contracted spirit summoned by Mu Yuqing so far. It is also the reason why she was sent to the [Demon Nether Ghost Domain] war zone.

"No, her origins are not something that can be simply expressed in words."

"Due to some reasons, I can't go into details."

Shinryo said with an apologetic look.

There was an involuntary flash of fear in her eyes, like an animal encountering its natural enemy.

Even though the "mirror" that served as a passage had been closed, her wings were still trembling violently.

This horror.

It is an instinct that is branded in her blood and soul, and is something that she cannot go against as a monster.

"Is it part of the 'rules' in the space and time of the Demonic Realm?"

Mu Yuqing nodded, "I understand."

In each [broken time and space], there is a corresponding world view and rules.

It’s like the dark and eternal night in the underworld of demons and ghosts.

In this war zone, a curse that cannot be perceived in any way exists in the form of rules.

That may be a distortion of common sense, or a close friend may have unknowingly become a ghost because of touching a taboo.

Even some knowledge.

As long as you know it, you may be cursed.

"This situation is not uncommon. You don't have to feel like you're hiding something from me."

Mu Yuqing smiled and comforted her own spirit, "In other war zones, similar taboos also exist to a greater or lesser extent."

"If there hadn't been this restriction, humanity's current understanding of broken time and space wouldn't have stopped making progress more than a hundred years ago."

The most obvious commonality of this restriction is this.

So far, no matter which time and space, whichever spirit was summoned to the world.

No one can tell, or even remember.
Those [broken time and space].

The reason why it "broken" and fell in a destructive posture.

"Um"

Tengu Qi Ling nodded, still seeming unable to let it go.

She murmured, "In fact, I still can't believe it until now. That demon, that fox, was summoned to this world a hundred years ago."

"Not only that, is there actually someone who can become her soul bond?"

In the true vision.

What emerged was not something she herself knew, but a scene remembered from her bloodline from a longer time ago.

Just like humans are afraid of heights, fire, sharp objects, and enclosed spaces.

Passed down from generation to generation.

Only those memories that are engraved in the deepest part of the soul and cannot be forgotten even in death can become instincts that future generations are born with.

In that picture.

A fox-eared girl wearing a shrine maiden's costume, without a speck of dust on her body.

Sitting calmly on the steps of her own shrine.

And all around her, there were thousands of miles of corpses of monsters lying in pools of blood, their bodies and limbs like broken mirrors, shattered at the foot of the shrine.

But the fox just looked up at the sky, and no human figure was reflected in its light golden eyes.

She is a monster.

This is the only point that should be an indisputable fact in any world.

"You have to be careful with her."

Zhen Ling suppressed the instinctive fear in his blood and his expression became serious again.

She said seriously: "Although, it seems that she once fought on the front line for this world more than a hundred years ago."

"But now it seems that you haven't kept many records of that year."

"The most important point is that the soul-binding envoy who was able to subdue her back then is no longer with us."

This was not out of jealousy of the demon clan, or out of fear of blood, but a subconscious desire to curb the other party's impulse.

Rather, it was advice from the heart of this Tengu girl.

She was a spirit summoned five years ago.

Although, most monsters have a gap with humans due to their natural blood relationship, most of them are purely contractual relationships.

But she belongs to the "relatives" faction.

When the contracted spirits were holding combat meetings, she would often restrict the other monster contracted spirits' inappropriate words and deeds from a human perspective.

So at this moment.

Zhen Ling looked into the distance - that was the area that had been eroded by the [Demon and Netherworld] and completely turned into a part of broken time and space.

Ever since the broken time and space around the world stopped spreading more than forty years ago.

These areas have been eroded and completely turned into different dimensions. No human has ever set foot there again, and no one knows what the current situation of those places is.

Tengu's eyes were blank for a moment.

It was like some kind of sound, echoing in her ears, forming a certain temptation for her.

"more importantly"

Zhen Ling pulled his gaze back and whispered with a frown: "Recently, I always have some bad premonitions."

"Perhaps, the world you call [Broken Time and Space], our former home, has stopped spreading."

“The reason is not that simple.”

Hear this.

Mu Yuqing had previously relaxed her vigilance a little because of Mirror Spirit Fox's easy-going attitude and harmless girl's appearance.

She also perked up again and frowned.

"Okay, I will report this matter to the headquarters as soon as possible and learn about the relevant situations in various places."

If.

If it is really as my own spirit said, and the broken time and space in various places change -

Then, there are those "original spirits" who are most closely connected with those time and space, and in a sense, their existence itself is equivalent to the inscriptions on civilization.

Will there really be some changes?
“I hope things don’t get out of control.”

The young spirit contract user looked towards the E-026 area where the Mirror Spirit Fox had already rushed to.

Suddenly he murmured in a low voice with some worry.

(End of this chapter)