117 Queen of the Underworld

Aida cracked her knuckles and approached. She laughed ironically to herself, she looked exactly like a modern mobster, bullying the old and young.

Shaking away all unnecessary thoughts, she went into battle. The old grandpa would be the first priority. Dashing forward, she watched as the grandpa continued to try to dodge her attacks. Having read a number of novels on precognition, she understood that the future isn't perfectly set in stone. There were many variations of the future depending on what choices a person decides to make. For this reason, Aida decided to act purely on instinct. She would only make decisions a split second before acting on them.

Relying on her instincts in her nothingness state, she gradually became shrouded with an intangible dark haze. Aida didn't notice it at all as she continued to fight. The grandpa had remarkable agility in combination with the precognition, he was able to continue running around the tiny encirclement that she made, surviving her lethal attacks with just minor cuts.

As Aida's eyes reached peak redness, her normal consciousness had almost disappeared and she was operating purely on instinct. A sinister smile appeared on her face that seemed to stop the grandpa in his tracks. He began to instinctively shudder in fear.

Aida's body was on autopilot mode, driven purely by instinct. In this mode, she had an immense love for blood and destruction. She had also unknowingly generated a reaper's scythe made of pure electricity. Instead of approaching the grandpa aggressively as she had before, she walked slowly towards him like a predator stalking its prey. Seeming to savor the grandpa's fear, she soaked it in as she moved towards the Reaper.

Up where Xiao Ai was spectating, she muttered to herself, "Eh~~ Mama lost herself again in that state, looks like Xiao Ai will have to go down after all. The scythe looks pretty cool though, Xiao Ai is going to make one too!"

The grandpa who had been frozen in fear wasn't able to resist at all. The scythe swifty reached the grandpa and chopped his head off with one clean sweeping motion. The blood flew onto the scythe which seemed to absorb it all, dyeing the originally electric blue colored scythe with a shade of red.

Aida then turned her attention towards the baby Reaper that was curled up in a ball, unable to run away. It's body hadn't fully developed yet so it was only capable of crawling. Without batting an eye, she ruthlessly chopped it in half as she licked her lips as though savoring the scene.

Her eyes turned crescent shaped as her smile further widened. It was both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Some blood had splattered onto her face and lips, creating a very large contrast against her clean, pale face. She had a habit of wearing black clothes which further brought out the contrast of the blood.

Contrary to her typical reaction, Aida stood before the two dead Reapers, making no movement to retrieve the Reaper gems. Instead, she seemed to be waiting for something.

Sure enough, within a minute, more prey had arrived. As though hearing her request, a number of Reapers appeared before her, attracted by the scent of the gems. She waited indifferently at the center, allowing the Reapers to approach and surround her.

As soon as they got close, she gripped her scythe and sliced it through the air. Each slice represented multiple dead Reapers. The scythe which was now pure red in color was created through Aida compressing lightning to the extreme and then reshaping it into a weapon. To create something like this took extreme control over one's ability. It's significantly harder than for Rose to make something similar because lightning is one of the most difficult elements to control of all time. It is naturally volatile. Aida, in her normal state, probably wouldn't be able to create something like this.

She continued to slice up the endless Reapers volunteering their own lives. Soon the entire street was strewn with dead Reapers and the blood seemed enough to form a river. At the center of it was Aida, who stood tall with a graceful smile. She looked exactly like the Queen of the Underworld.

Xiao Ai, who had long noticed that something felt wrong with her Mama's mentality, noticed that there were no more Reapers coming their way. It seems Aida's aura had grown so powerful, every infected instinctively avoided the area.

Xiao Ai hopped down from atop the building and floated towards Aida with no fear. She called out in her youthful voice, "Mama Mama, wake up! It's time to go eat dinner. There's yummy food tonight! Remember? "

Xiao Ai seemed completely unaffected by the bloody and gory scene before her nor was she intimidated by Aida's change in temperament, instead she focused on reminding her Mama about the time and yummy food.

Hearing this, Aida turned towards Xiao Ai with her blood red eyes that seemed to feel nothing and only crave death. She lifted the scythe and pointed it towards Xiao Ai.

Despite this, Xiao Ai had no hesitation at all as she continued to approach. "Mama! Let's go eat hotpot now!"

Right as the scythe was inches from hitting Xiao Ai, it disintegrated into pieces and the redness in Aida's eyes slowly began to fade. Aida froze for a good minute before she started blinking and observing her surroundings, "It happened again didn't it?"

It seems that Aida had no recollection of what occurred when she lost herself in the nothingness state.

Xiao Ai nodded as she bounced up to Aida and sat on her head. "Uh huh! Mama disappeared again for a little bit, but Mama's other state was so cool!!"

Patting the little bun on her head as she sighed, entirely disregarding Xiao Ai's comment. Then she went to work collecting the gems.

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