CHAPTER 504: CHAPTER 496: [WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE SAVIOR GOD.]

When she woke up again, the little girl was already at the Bright Orphanage.

The army arrived late, the Demon Vine had been shattered to mere ashes, and no trace of spiritual power could be found on site. They took the only surviving girl to the rescue center, but after an examination, they found she had no Awakened Skills, so they handed her over to the local orphanage.

The local orphanage found her unlucky and secretly threw her out again. She walked aimlessly through the ruins, heading in the direction where her parents had died, and was eventually picked up by Xiang Wen Yun, who was there to collect orphans from the battlefield.

This gentle woman felt sorry for her plight. Coincidentally, she was of school age, so Xiang Wen Yun sponsored her to attend school.

However, "Qian Qi" was not happy during her school days.

The classmates bullied her, resenting her for getting good grades and blocking their way, for being poor and undeserving of education, for her unpredictable temperament that always drew attention.

She often woke up from nightmares, where she repeatedly witnessed her parents being brutally killed by Magic Plants, and a familiar yet cold voice constantly told her: Slaughter them, slaughter all Demons, avenge your parents.

Her mental state fluctuated, and she sometimes lost memory, as if another personality had inhabited her body, gradually assimilating, devouring, and replacing her, making it increasingly difficult for her to control her temper.

She began to not only hate Magic Plants but also started to resent humans. She became irritable, violent, trying hard to control her emotions, yet the malevolent thoughts continued to corrode her.

She dared not return to the orphanage, so she would sneak into instances under the cover of night, venting the chaotic spiritual power within her, using bloodshed and violence to quell the inner turmoil, seeking a moment of peace.

But she knew, this was useless, only worsening the condition.

And she could only muddle along like this.

Until she reached her third year of high school.

Under the moonlight, the second personality flared up again, fully engulfing her reason, and like a mad wolf, she howled towards the moon. The red, raging spiritual power overflowed from her body, clamoring to kill all Demons, at all costs.

At that moment, her world-destroying determination attracted a beam of light searching for a new master.

[Hello Host, detection shows your determination to kill Demons has reached its peak. This system will now bind to you to lend a helping hand.]

[Detected that the host’s primary personality still exists. A Golden Finger can be enabled once, activating "Cleanse." "Cleanse" activation failed. Detected that the secondary personality is a special Awakened Skill and cannot be cleansed.]

[Enabling Golden Finger "Symbiosis." Successfully enabled, the primary personality will coexist with the secondary personality. If the primary personality dies, the secondary personality will perish as well.]

[Welcome to the Savior’s world.]

In a daze, "Qian Qi" woke up again.

She found that a system had bound to her, claiming to be the Savior System, stating she couldn’t consciously control her Awakened Skills, only enhance herself in other ways, such as—

By cultivating Magic Plants and creating various Magic Potions to enhance her physique.

But she loathed Magic Plants, the very culprits responsible for her parents’ deaths.

"I don’t want to cultivate Magic Plants," Qian Qi said with a frown.

[Know your enemy to win every battle.]

"My spiritual power is enough to kill any Magic Plant."

[But your spiritual power is only temporarily suppressed by "Symbiosis." If you continue to use it, the outcome will be mutual destruction with this system.]

"You’re useless, just like me."

System: ???

[Do you believe I could choose to perish with you right now?!]

"Aren’t you the Savior System? Why would you want to perish with me? I think you’re bluffing."

[... You’re so annoying.]

"Suddenly, I feel like I could cultivate Magic Plants."

"Qian Qi," said, for some reason feeling a duality within her—a madness urging her to slaughter Demons, and another that found joy in cultivating Magic Plants.

How strange.

How could she feel happy?

Obviously, Magic Plants killed her parents.

"Qian Qi" had no time to think further; she traded hunted Magic Beasts for money and successfully concocted a Magic Potion with the system’s help.

[You have great talent,] said the system. [Let your light shine along the path of Magic Plants.]

"I already said I hate Magic Plants, would like nothing more than to tear them apart." The girl said while fiddling with a small Magic Plant.

Utterly peculiar.

Good times didn’t last long. As her physical strength was enhanced, the secondary personality also grew stronger. "Qian Qi" could sense that the extremely murderous red spiritual power was spiraling out of control, "Symbiosis" could no longer suppress it, and her consciousness was being eroded further.

She simply couldn’t complete the Savior’s tasks.

Even without a secondary personality, she loathed Magic Plants and even more so, loathed using the Magic Plants that killed her parents to save ignorant humans.

If the world didn’t love her, she didn’t need to save it.

But she couldn’t not save it; at the very least, she didn’t want innocent children to lose their parents and be left alone, like her.

Nor did she want that gentle woman to die under the claws of Demons.

"System," during another episode of spiritual power loss of control, "Qian Qi" looked up, half-crying and half-smiling, her face returning to a normal yet deathly pale color.

She asked, "Is there no other way? As I am now, I can’t complete the Savior’s task."

"Do you know, every time I touch a Magic Plant, all I see is blood."

The blood of her parents and the erosion of that red spiritual power.

She was on the brink of collapse.

[...There is a way, but I can substitute another soul, and you will cease to exist.]

"As long as she can complete the task for me." "Qian Qi" said, crouching on the ground, her face full of despair. "I’m sorry, I’m a failure, please forgive me for escaping like this."

[...Are you really not going to try anymore?]

"Some things can’t be achieved through effort," she pointed to the red veins creeping across the whites of her eyes. "Even your Golden Finger can’t control it, so let it die with me."

"Find another Savior willing to protect the children."

[Even if she lives well in the original world?]

"...," "Qian Qi" smirked bitterly, "Yes."

She was just this selfish.

She wanted someone to replace her to eliminate Demons, avenge her parents.

[Fine, I will find a soul matching your soul’s attributes in another world,] said the system, [but just in case, we need to stage an act, making "her" believe in the reasonableness of coming here.]

Countless names floated across the system’s interface, and "Qian Qi’s" hand skimmed over the screen, finally locking onto a girl of the same name and similar experience from an Otherworld.