Living with a magical girl, but a weirdo cadre

　[Alien homeroom teacher: Weren't you kidnapped by the Calamity Committee? You escaped on your own?]

　[Cong Yu: No, I'll join them.]

　[Cong Yu: This place is quite interesting.]

　[Alien homeroom teacher: But those are all Calamity Races! According to my father, they're an organization destined to perish in their struggle.]

　[Cong Yu: Actually, I am also a calamity-type.]

　When Cong Yu sent out those words, the alien homeroom teacher on the other end of the terminal fell into a very long silence.

　[Alien homeroom teacher: Sorry.]

　[Alien homeroom teacher: So, the calamity on Planet Arka was indeed something you ordered? You used calamity to fight calamity?]

　[Cong Yu: Almost.]

　[Cong Yu: But you don't need to worry. Our civilization has always lived in peace with calamities. The Calamity Committee is learning from me and my civilization, and trying to master methods to avoid being devoured by calamities.]

　[Alien homeroom teacher: Ah...]

　[Alien homeroom teacher: Is that even possible?]

　The other party remained silent for a short while.

　[Alien homeroom teacher: Okay, sorry... So, is there anything I can do to help?]

　[Cong Yu: Thank you, but it's nothing.]

　[Cong Yu: No, that's not right either. Could you help me investigate the "Thorns of Cronus"? Information about the namer and discoverer.]

　[Alien Homeroom Teacher: Kronos Thorns? No problem, investigating is a piece of cake. I'll have someone find out and contact you again later.]

　……

　For the outside

　Cong Yu nodded in satisfaction at her homeroom teacher's words, then turned off the terminal and embarked on the Jormungandr train, heading towards the vast starry sky...

　Checking through the alien homeroom teacher's connections seems safer than checking through the president's connections.

　That's what Cong Yu thought.

　Chapter 981 The Power of Faith is Invincible (laughs)

　In the core area of ​​the Star Alliance, in a place where no one can find... cough cough, a place where outsiders are not allowed to enter at will, is the location of the Calamity Countermeasures Department.

　This is a building heavily protected by steel and electronics, housing both the "Planetary Traction Observation Device" and the "Calamity Jump Device," making it a highly classified place.

　Within it, there is also a calamity database, which stores all known records of calamities.

　From unclaimed calamities to calamity species controlled by calamities, every piece of data from the investigation is a valuable asset to the Star Alliance.

　This will help Starlink quickly identify the nature of the disaster and its observation reports, and make judgments on the impact and severity of the disaster.

　"In five days, other leaders from Star Alliance will be visiting. Everyone, please finish cleaning today and go home."

　The person speaking was the head of the database, an elderly man who looked quite kind.

　His words were met with immediate cheers from all the employees.

　"Okay! I'll go home early!"

　"Awesome! Just thinking about it makes me excited!"

　"Wa hahaha!"

　The warehouse manager chuckled and stroked his beard as he addressed the group of people laughing heartily: "Alright, alright, stop fooling around and get started packing!"

　After the warehouse manager finished speaking and left, everyone started tidying up the table and then began the routine cleaning.

　but……

　While everyone was saying goodbye and going home to rest, the Chief of the Archives did not leave the data department where the Cataclysmic Data Archive was located.

　In fact, the Chief received a secret order today from the Star Alliance senators, instructing him to look up information on the calamity of "Chronos Thorns".

　Whether it's the disaster itself, or the providers of the information, the time of provision, descriptions, and experimental records, all are important.

　This is undoubtedly a violation of regulations.

　If anything goes wrong, he will definitely be held responsible, but... he is a member of that pink-haired senator's faction.

　It's hard to refuse what they're saying.

　"Ugh……"

　With a soft sigh, the warehouse manager walked through the dimly lit corridor of the archives, where the power had been turned off.

　The surroundings were so dark that even the light seemed unwilling to pry into the "secrets" of this place, and his heart pounded deafeningly in the silence.

　However, the warehouse manager soon stopped in his tracks.

　Because, in the archives, a young archivist was sitting in front of a query terminal.

　He rested his chin on his left hand, his glasses fixed on the terminal screen.

　"..." The warehouse manager's heart tightened. He didn't know why the other party was still here when everyone else had gone home.

　Moreover, according to standard procedures, the archivist must operate the database under the supervision of the person in charge of the main server.

　At that moment, the archivist noticed something, looked up, and gazed at the warehouse manager in the corridor outside the door.

　In an instant, the archivist lowered his right hand deeply, using the table and the database terminal screen to cover the flashing Rick-5 personal terminal on his right hand.

　The archivist's eyes swept over the transfer progress bar on the desktop, then he nodded calmly to the warehouse manager outside the door.

　He felt guilty, and the warehouse manager felt even more guilty. He cleared his throat and said, "Leon, go home when you're done."

　The archivist, known as Leon, looked up, visibly relieved: "Okay, thank you, Chief Archivist."

　It seems the warehouse manager has become senile and forgotten the standard operating procedures... That's great.

　With this in mind, Leon watched as the progress bar on the database terminal reached 100%.

　He quickly disconnected from the database on his terminal and then removed the inconspicuous key that had been used to connect to the database in a special way.

　I glanced at the warehouse manager and saw that he had already left at the other end of the corridor... It was probably just a routine patrol.

　After the patrol, the warehouse manager should go home.

　"call……"

　Leon breathed a sigh of relief, then left the Calamity Database room with a terminal containing countless Calamity data, including data on "Chronos Thorns".

　Then, Leon happened to run into Chief Ku, who was slowly returning from his patrol in the distance. The two smiled at each other and pretended to be nonchalant.

　Leon cleared his throat and said goodbye to the warehouse manager: "Warehouse manager, I've finished my work, I'm going home now."

　The warehouse manager nodded kindly, but his steps slowed even further: "Alright, you go first, I'm going home too."

　As he said this, the Chief watched Leon walk quickly away from the darkened corridor, watching his figure disappear into the darkness.

　"..."

　"..." In the silence, the warehouse manager's steps slowed down and finally stopped completely... Then, he checked his surroundings.

　After realizing that no one was there, he turned his gaze to the door of the room behind him where the database mainframe was located.

　-

　"The Thorns of Cronus"

　As Cong Yu spoke, she looked out the window of the Jormungandr train at the dark gray planet.

　Upon getting closer, Cong Yu discovered that the situation was exactly as he had imagined.

　The dark gray planet wasn't originally dark gray; it was covered by layers of thorns.

　The planet's original color was overwritten by the black and gray of the Chronos Thorns...

　Even though the thorns appear somewhat ethereal and translucent, beneath their layers lies a pure, dark color.

　[Source Darkness Apophis: This feels dangerous.]

　[Source Darkness Apophis: That is indeed an extinction spell, but it doesn't seem to be a simple extinction spell...]

　What do you mean?

　Cong Yu was stunned for a moment. He could sense that "Chronos Thorns" was definitely an extermination spell.

　[Source Darkness Apophis: This means that the "strength" of that thing has already somewhat "broken the limits."]

　"Limit Breakthrough - Extinction Technique?"

　Cong Yu asked this question, but Yuan An Apophis, who peeked out from behind his neck, didn't respond cheerfully; instead, he remained serious.

　[Source Darkness Apophis: Pretty much, you know... the strength of an extinction spell generally scales with the host's obsession.]

　[Source Darkness Apophis: In your words, it's "the more insane, the stronger," but the strength of unclaimed annihilation spells is harder to assess.]

　"Just like Warcraft?"

　[Source Darkness Apophis: Yes, just like Warcraft.]

　[Source Darkness Apophis: However, this extermination spell is different... If I had to describe it, the obsession of these thorns is terrifying.]

　[Source Darkness Apophis: Can you feel it? That terrifying aura that would even wipe out its own kind.]

　"..." Perhaps because Cong Yu wasn't an extinction technique, he couldn't quite sense any terrifying aura.

　In Cong Yu's eyes, those thorns were nothing more than ordinary extermination spells created by someone who "didn't think things through."

　It is filled with malice, extinction, pain, viciousness, despair, killing, destruction, and end—a series of unpleasant and unfriendly things.

　"So, you can't beat them?"

　Cong Yu asked this question, and then shrugged indifferently in response to Yuan An Apophis's speechless reply, "Even if the opponent isn't special and has already developed to this level, I still can't beat them."

　"In other words, it's time for the power of faith to make its move!"

　Chapter 982 The Serpent's Remains

　To be honest, Cong Yu felt like she was almost obsessed with Moirai... though not to an extreme degree.

　But the longer Cong Yu wielded the power of faith, the more she felt that Moira had been holding back when fighting them...

　Or rather, it wasn't about releasing water.

　Cong Yu found it hard to understand why Moirai was so fixated on him, and on those scattered on the ground, those people whose lives had been frozen in time.

　I don't know why the other person is so fixated on people like Noah, Lan Tianzhu, Miss Lin, and Xian Kui...

　Only after everyone had fled did Moirai activate an AOE attack that was essentially useless... To put it strangely, it made her seem like a madwoman.

　Not some super villain.

　If it were Cong Yu, it would definitely explode the moment it arrived on Earth, killing as many ordinary people as possible.

　This is the most reasonable choice.

　If Moirai were willing, it would be a simple and quick matter to infuse the power of faith into the core of a planet and then detonate it directly.

　The consumption of faith power should not be more than when she condensed various light spears and lances there and fought until the sky darkened.

　But I just don't know why she doesn't do that.

　Cong Yu found it difficult to guess what Moira was thinking, and he didn't even want to think about it, but unfortunately, these things kept flooding into his mind.

　It even got to the point where it was impossible to get rid of.

　Why doesn't Moirai just blow up the Earth?

　Even if they didn't directly bomb the Earth, it would have been better to just start that massive, destructive act of bombing everywhere...

　With these doubts in mind, Cong Yu decided to try using the power of faith to blast the planet covered by the thorns of Kronos.

　"boom!!!!!"

　In an instant, amidst the sudden explosion after the darkness, countless thorns were blasted to pieces, bursting forth in the planet's atmosphere.

　The thorns seemed to be getting a little irritable too, and their movements started to quicken...

　No, it doesn't seem to be getting faster either.

　I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I feel like the thorns are moving at different speeds...

　Yes, those thorns that intertwine with each other, like waves converging into a giant serpent, seem to move at alternating speeds, which is somewhat counterintuitive.