The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

"Your luck is bad too?"

Maginus became interested, and Primia nodded helplessly. Well, it was indeed rare for two unlucky people to get together, so it was true that the possibility of encountering bad things had greatly increased.

The light draws in the surrounding shadows, which erode the meager life force that Maginus radiates.

She will definitely be able to leave, but the remaining caravan members are not so sure, so it's best to escort them into the city first.

Looking up at Mirror City, Maginus expanded her life force perception range again, confirming that there were still many living people inside, although the atmosphere was somewhat oppressive.

"Let's go. It looks like we have no choice but to make a trip to Mirror City."

Everyone who rushed over, except for Maginus, was terrified. Rotten flesh lay on the road, and the closer they got to the city gate, the more there were. Some looked like they were trying to escape, while others looked like they were trying to escape into the city, but none of them could escape their tragic fate.

The guards instinctively looked at Maginus, but she didn't take credit: "It was the light from the magic lamp that kept you from being swallowed up; it has little to do with me."

They rushed as fast as they could and finally arrived at the city gate before the magic lantern went out. A faintly glowing energy barrier protected Mirror City from the corruption of shadow elements. The guards, carrying the nearly extinguished lanterns, stepped forward and urgently shouted towards the top of the city gate:

"Open the door! We're alive!"

Soon, people peeked out from the city wall, then retreated back to watch the magic lamps that were about to go out. Arguments could be heard coming from inside. When Maginus saw this, he stomped his leg lightly, and a terrifying aura emanated from his body.

"My advice is to open the gates quickly. A high-ranking player can easily smash the city gates and walls to pieces. Oh, I'm a warrior."

Maginus had made himself perfectly clear, and at the same time, he placed his hand on the hilt of his sword, his aura coalescing into a surge that rushed forward.

"Wait! We'll open it right away!"

The threatened defenders, far from being afraid or angry, shouted with some delight, while Maginus also sensed a great deal of malice.

She had no intention of hiding her identity. Her gaze fell on the locations that exuded malice, and she used her tracking ability to deduce who was watching her. She then raised her hand and gently pinched them.

One explosion after another rang out, and people inside the city walls and gates cried out in alarm. Maginus shouted impatiently, "I did it. They are hostile to me, a high-ranking outsider."

The city gates were opened in just three minutes, and Maginus followed the caravan into the gates. The guards of Mirror City nervously placed their hands on their swords while watching Maginus, who was soaked to the bone.

She had no intention of watching the city guards. She jumped down from the carriage, walked to the city gate, and, watching the slowly closing gate, revealed a long-lost malicious smile:

"Nothing else is allowed to come in through the door I opened."

He raised his hand again and gently clenched it. Something in the thick shadow exploded. Before they died, they revealed their forms. Most of them looked like faceless and wingless "demons". Their long, narrow bone claws were covered with dark shadows. Half of them were bones and the other half were a dense darkness that seemed to be a substance.

Shadow lizards, native inhabitants of the Shadow Plane, are naturally otherworldly creatures here, having just crossed over from the Shadow Plane.

After dealing with the rest of the group, Maginus clapped his hands and, in a superior manner, instructed Primia: "Go and explain to them that I'm going to scout the surroundings."

This was also agreed upon beforehand. In order to prevent Primia from causing trouble and being unable to help him later, the current setting is that Maginus forces Primia to go to a certain town together.

Even if others knew that Primia was cooperating with her, they would only assume it was because of Maginos's oppression.

Looking at her reflection overhead, Maginus turned and leaped over the city wall, landing and walking into the shadows.

Watching his ancestor depart alone, Primia patted his chest, looked at the city guard captain, and revealed the truth that chilled him to the bone:

"You must have heard of that person's name: Maginus Imperius, the Goddess of Slaughter and Fear."

Chapter 452 Replacement

Strange darkness and shadows.

As Maginus walked into the darkness, she made this judgment: with her extremely strong life force and psychic energy, she was not afraid of the elemental erosion at all. She walked freely in the night, but her life force was difficult to spread out, as the almost materialized elements blocked it.

However, she still noticed some clues. The area near the Mirror Kingdom seemed to be connected to the Shadow Dimension, which was probably where those Shadow Lizards came from. There were also many monsters from the Shadow Dimension in the surrounding area.

She quickened her pace and sprinted straight ahead, running for about twenty kilometers before finally emerging from the shadows. She glanced back at the darkness that shrouded the area and continued on her way back to the town closest to Mirror City.

Here they found members of the Church of the Victims, and Maginus told him about the strangeness of Mirror City, urging him to send a message quickly. Maginus then rushed back into the shadows to conduct a large-scale search.

After circling around Mirror City, Maginus found nothing suspicious outside, so he could be fairly certain that the problem with the Shadow Curtain was inside Mirror City.

Oh, not only that, but they haven't checked the heavens either.

She looked up at the increasingly realistic mirror image, and huge dragon wings unfurled behind her, whipping up a gale that shot straight into the sky as she rushed toward the mirror image above her.

A blood-red line was drawn across the dark night sky. The personnel from various forces inside Mirror City who were observing the mirrored sky were immediately shocked, wondering who was so bold as to rush over directly.

Some people in the city knew what had happened. An old man shouted loudly from below, telling Maginus not to go over, without explaining why.

But she wouldn't listen. She flapped her dragon wings to fly over the top of the tower, made eye contact with another old man guarding the tower, and continued to swoop forward, curiously reaching out to touch the mirrored spire.

To Maginus's surprise, the Mirror Tower was actually a physical object, and it felt no different from a normal object when touched.

Wait, could this Mirror City also be entirely real? What about the people in Mirror City? Have they all been replaced one-to-one?

Maginus glanced back and discovered something even more surprising: a shadow twisted along the same line as her, falling toward Mirror City in the opposite direction. The shadow itself was writhing, as if trying to replicate her appearance.

Perhaps it's not just about appearance; since it's a shadow, its abilities might also be replicable.

"Can someone with divine qualities like me be copied?"

Maginus was very curious about this. Unlike the outside world, which was shrouded in shadow elements, Mirror City was easily locked onto by her life force. She decided to see what would happen next.

As she flew toward the mirror city, she keenly sensed a problem with gravity; the closer she got to the mirror city, the more the gravity reversed.

She was originally flying upwards, but now the gravity made her feel like she was falling towards the ground.

Adjusting her flight posture, Maginus landed in the mirror city and looked around with interest in her eyes: "Interesting."

In the city, which is a one-to-one replica, a large number of faceless "shadow people" move around like living people, completely replicating the individuals in this mirror city who are the same as them.

They suddenly looked at Maginus, the uninvited guest, and then retreated in fear. Maginus separated her perspective to observe the shadows in the Shadow City that were imitating her, and found that the thing was still unable to take shape, just like the slime, wriggling softly, trying to become her.

But just as it was about to take human form, Maginus immediately sensed that something wanted to make some kind of contact with her, or steal something from her.

Before she could take any protective measures, the divinity within her body emitted a dazzling light, and the nascent shadow collapsed directly, completely dissipating into shadow elements.

Hmm, it seems there's no way to replicate her. Speaking of which, what would happen to the citizens below if I killed the shadow here?

Maginus stroked his chin and snapped his fingers at a shadowy figure. Bloodthorn grazed its skin, while in Mirror City, a merchant cried out in pain, discovering a strange wound on his arm.

Is it conductive? If your own shadow were formed, it would probably be like this too.

Through experiments, Maginus basically understood that Mirror City was now completely connected to the mirror image in the sky. Whether it was a person or an object, once the mirror image was damaged, the original body would also experience the same situation.

Meanwhile, these shadows were replacing the original body below, and Maginus could already sense the life force emanating from them.

As for how they did it, I don't know; you'd have to ask the locals.

The current situation is a bit troublesome. It's not easy to take action without figuring out the problem. Maginus spread her wings and flew back to Mirror City. She swung her ponytail and found the location of the Primmia caravan and went there.

I believe someone will come looking for her. Even high-level professionals will be copied, and only spellcasters have a way to fight back. It seems they desperately need Maginus's help.

Upon finding Primia, he was speaking respectfully to an old woman, whose clothing strongly suggested she was a member of the Church of the Moon.

"Your Excellency Maggie, you've arrived."

When Primia saw Maginus walk in from outside the inn, she breathed a sigh of relief. The warriors, servants, and priests around her instinctively put their hands on their weapons, fearing Maginus's presence.

"lay down your weapon."

The woman said coldly, then turned to look at Maginus and bowed slightly to her: "Your Excellency Maginus, welcome to Mirror City. I'm sorry to have dragged you into this."

"It's nothing. Just tell me the situation and how you can get out. I'm not interested in your conflict with the Lady of the Night, but they're blocking my way. I don't mind helping you, but I'll ask for payment."

Maginus waved to show her stance. Seeing that she was not as bloodthirsty as rumored, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, while feeling a sense of awe.

If what she said when she turned into a lake of blood was true, then Maginus has already broken free from the control of the two evil gods, and now, given time, she will surely become a god in the end.

"Let's sit down and talk. Here's what happened..."

The woman and Maginus sat facing each other, and she explained what had happened in the City of Mirrors.

This city is primarily inhabited by the Church of the Moon, and the reflections in the sky are actually a natural phenomenon. This area is close to the shadow space, which is why the reflections appear.

Generally speaking, even if someone rushes into the reflection, they won't touch anything; what's there is just a mirage formed by shadow elements.

However, after the Church of the Night launched a surprise attack, they stole a treasure from the Church of the Moon and used it to create a resonance effect in the Shadow Plane and the area around Mirror City.

With the help of numerous shadow elements and the guidance of the Night Priest, the reflections in the air gradually become real, and the shadows even threaten to replace the real people.

If they are truly replaced, the Church of the Night doesn't know what it will do with the people of this city.

Chapter 453 The Power to Spread Faith

After hearing the general information, Maginus was mainly interested in the treasures of the Church of the Moon, and raised her hand to tap the table:

"So what exactly is the treasure that the church lost? It can actually connect the mirror image in the sky with the city on the ground."

"The Moon's Reflection is a mirror. It can cast a spell-like ability similar to simulation once a day, creating three clones that obey the user's commands at once. The clones are almost exactly the same strength as the user and contain the divine power of us gods."

"Legendary equipment?"

The priest nodded to him, and Maginus looked up at his reflection in the sky, lost in thought: "Why not unite the entire city to search for the existence of members of the Church of the Night?"

"We can't find them. They vanished without a trace after stealing the Moon's Reflection."

"The entire city has been searched?"

"Yes, I've searched for them all."

"Hmph, so it seems you're not in the city. What would you have done if I hadn't come?"

"Organize people to take two cages of Wu?g wine*x durian N Spirit Alliance magic lamps and fluorescent spells to go out and search."

Maginus waved his hand, indicating that there was no sign of native life outside. This made the chief priest look up, his eyes becoming even more serious: "They're all in the mirror."

Maginus, who had already been up there to see the reflection, was quite clear about this. He pointed to the sky and said, "The gravity in the sky has been reversed. They may have already gone up there."

Just as a hider in the sky is not easily noticed, no one would first think that the members of the Dark Night Church were hiding in a strange town full of shadows.

"...That's true, they should have ways to avoid or even manipulate the shadows."

The priest reached out and stroked the back of her hand. Maginus could see dark shadows flashing across her skin, the shadows constantly replacing the real person. The Church of the Night would never act without profit; once someone was completely replaced, a major problem was bound to occur.

"So why don't you send someone to the reflection?"

"There aren't many people in the city who can use flight magic, and some people have even planned to go up and investigate..."

A shadow crossed the woman's eyes as she recalled: "However, the biggest problem is that as soon as those who go to explore pass the top of the tower, the clone will run into them."

"Even if they forcibly cross paths, as the distance increases, the shadow of the clone will become less and less, while the shadow of the original will become more and more. Some people realize something is wrong and return in time, but the dim color on their bodies cannot be eliminated."

Some even went to the Mirror City and completely transformed into a shadow, while the original shadow became themselves. This left the Church of the Moon completely confused as to whether the transformed people were the original people or the shadow itself.

"And what about the soul?"

This is the biggest problem: the person formed from the shadow has no soul. The person who formed the shadow should have been in the Mirror City, but he can see and react to things in the Mirror City.

Chaos ensued, and the entire Mirror City descended into chaos and disarray. The Church of the Moon dared not allow the Shadow Man to act arbitrarily, so after explaining the situation, they temporarily imprisoned him.

Most people would be affected, but Maginot's uniqueness makes her completely uncontrollable, which is a very advantageous point.

After reviewing the current intelligence, there are several points that can be basically confirmed about Maginus.

1. The closer a normal person gets to the city's reflection, the faster they will exchange places with the reflection.

2. The shadow of a person has no soul, and the normal person who goes to the City of Reflections has a deeper connection with the shadow.

3. She is independent of the strange phenomena and is unaffected by them.

Well, for Maginus, breaking the deadlock is actually quite simple: just kill or destroy the reflected city. The entire city hanging in the sky doesn't include the land, so destroying it all will likely cause any plan to fall apart.

"pity."

Maginus shook her head, interlacing her fingers into a fist and placing it between her legs: "What can the Church of the Moon offer me?"

"Whatever you need, money, equipment, or land, we'll provide it..."

"No, I don't want these."

Maginus shook her finger to indicate that she didn't want these things, and made a request that made the priest slam his fist on the table and stand up: "I want my faith to be spread openly and honestly in Mirror City."

"This is impossible!"

The woman stood up abruptly, staring at Maginus with a sharp expression: "We can talk about anything, except this. Don't forget you are an evil god. The great Moon Maiden will not allow your faith to spread openly in Mirror City!"

"Isn't it the best option to let my faith spread here rather than let the Church of the Night completely destroy this city?"

"Absolutely not, that's the bottom line. We will never allow the belief in evil gods to spread."

“Does that mean there’s nothing to discuss?” Maginus sighed slightly. “Never mind, I really shouldn’t have talked to the church people; I should have gone to the city officials.”

At this point, the Church of the Moon finally realized that Maginus was not seeking their opinions at all, but merely informing them.

Although the Church of the Moon is the mainstream, the city's ruler does not worship the Moon Maiden. He is a general believer and would probably not mind having an extra low-key and weak deity in the city as long as it is beneficial to the town.

"you……"

The woman frowned, and the other guards cast unfriendly glances at her before turning and walking away. Maginus paid no attention, even calling after her: