Chapter 415: The Day of Goodbye, Birthday Song, Calamity God Mode

Donghong Federation.

Daxia, Mountain City.

On September 13th, the sky was dark and the moonlight was soft and hazy.

At Hongya Cave, by the side of the Jialing River, a gentle breeze blew, and the sparkling waves broke up the colorful lights, reflecting the old town in the distance.

Chu Wang Shu looked at the scene, seeing the stilt houses built along the slope, shining with bright red colors. The old archways, hanging wooden flowers, cantilever beams, carved balconies, half-mountain market streets, and stone paths all displayed the charm of the ancient city.

But if she looked up, she could see tall modern skyscrapers far behind, creating a wonderful mix of old and new.

With little time, after finishing their tour in the mountain city with her team, they only had time to visit the antique street of Paper Salt River, the old workshop street of Tiancheng Alley, and part of Hongya Cave before it was almost midnight.

The girl glanced at the painting-like boat on the river. This was Xihe Entertainment, the company owned by Sister Xie’s family, which was starting new activities in the mountain city.

The ancient-style boat, level with the bridge, had five floors filled with Daxia-style clothes, making it a unique specialty mall.

When Pure White first arrived in the mountain city, Xihe Entertainment invited them to cooperate, specifically to promote this new brand that was still in operation.

Even though magical girls didn’t lack money, after officially joining the Countermeasures Bureau, their monthly salary was 200,000 at Diandeng, which could double at “Fully Blooming,” and reach one million at “Full Bloom.” Most of their expenses could be reimbursed.

Not to mention, there were rewards and honor points for defeating disaster beasts.

But the entertainment circle clearly made much more money. As one of the top entertainment companies in the country, Xihe would need more than a hundred million just to secure a long-term endorsement for the entire Pure White group.

Even for other partnerships and performances, the fees often reached hundreds of millions.

So, after nearly exploring all of Mountain City, Sister Xie took Sister Miyuki, Liuli, and their assistant to the painting boat to talk business.

Of course, saying it was to talk business was more like an excuse to have fun.

Xie Qingxuan and Tang Liuli were already rich ladies.

Although Chu Wang Shu and Kirimi Miyuki were quite poor, the share of profits from several tours, divided among the four of them, was an unbelievably large sum — so large that she hardly felt it was real, enough to buy a villa in the inner ring of Sea City and be financially free.

Sadly, she had just received a call from Charlotte and didn’t go along.

Chu Wang Shu smiled warmly, feeling her mother’s love through the phone, but also had some doubts. She looked up at the sky, her pupils darkening with hints of twinkling colors, and sighed softly:

“Mom, you are hiding something from me.”

The words fell silent.

Deep within the sea of divine sense, the lotus mark shimmered faintly.

In the next moment, the shimmering riverside, the large painted boat, the ancient town, the tall buildings, and everything in sight beyond the horizon all suddenly lost their colors, becoming perfectly still.

At that moment, the whole mountain city’s space and time stopped, twisting into a never-ending circle.

The girl controlled the power of the Son of Mankind. Thirteen lines formed into shining crystals, building one holy, wide wing behind her. She tore through the air, flew high, and looked down at the world below.

Chu Wang Shu breathed softly. Recently, the magic energy had grown to the level of the Sea, covering the land and sky. Golden firelight, like misty colored glass, wrapped the whole city. Using the power of the Calamity God, she swept the land clean, killing all the filthy evil, and whispered:

“After the tour, there are still 781 Calamity Seeds and 71 disaster beasts. The cleaning work is still too slow.”

Even sweeping with magic energy could only make the disaster aura weaker. To find all the leftover dangers, she still had to rely on the Calamity God’s natural sensing.

Chu Wang Shu frowned slightly, feeling a bit reluctant, but she still gathered her magic energy and let the Magic Armor break apart, turning into a skirt woven like the Milky Way.

The girl shed her magical girl form. Inside her body grew a dense disaster source like a star’s core. She carried a few strands of the Shadow of the Masses and controlled a disaster aura boiling like a tsunami, transforming closer to the state of the Calamity God, becoming… the Son of Mankind.

In a daze, the world shook, and the sky trembled.

Many dimensions, eroded by the Disaster group, began roaring and stirring, ready to transmit a massive energy powerful enough to easily shatter stars.

Had it not been for the fact that the Son of Mankind held some of the Calamity God’s authority, allowing her to wield a bit of the Tathagata’s power, this terrifying turmoil would have been enough to shake the entire Donghong and draw the gaze of the other Calamity Gods.

Chu Wang Shu waved her hand to block the link, preventing the Disaster group’s instinctual flow of power. If she accepted the gift, the other Calamity Gods would surely notice afterward, and she was not eager to attract their attention yet.

Thus, she whispered softly, letting the command spread throughout the mountain city.

In the next moment, black mist rose and rushed from all parts of the city; many disaster beasts obeyed the command, and even the sleeping Calamity Seeds began to stir, expressing their willingness to come and pay their respects.

Chu Wang Shu was very familiar with this process and was too lazy to care about the appearances of the incoming disaster beasts. Her one-sided wing behind her expanded and stretched, transforming into a sea of shadows that enveloped them all, leaving the entire city clean and clear.

—[Shade Throne].

This power was constructed when [Khaos] merged with the strength of [Son of Mankind]. It could turn disaster beasts into her own shadows, augmenting her own power.

Its nature was akin to that of the [Valkyrie] and [Silver Law].

It is worth mentioning that [Valkyrie] had now upgraded to [Heroic Spirit Throne]. If she wished, she could utilize those disaster beasts as material to mold several female Martial God bosses as her subordinates.

“Now it’s clean.”

Chu Wang Shu glanced at the entire city again and nodded with satisfaction.

Then, as the [Son of Mankind] and [Calamity God] gradually faded, golden magic filled her body, and the magical girl version of [Son of Mankind] reemerged, like two sides of a coin.

Chu Wang Shu removed her Magic Armor and slowly descended.

The lotus mark in the sea of divine sense vanished once more.

From that point, time resumed flowing as if nothing had happened.

The girl let out a long breath, feeling somewhat fatigued. After a month of testing, she discovered that becoming the Calamity God, aside from easily drawing the Disaster group’s attention, didn’t have any side effects.

Whether as the Calamity God or the witch, she could freely switch and utilize the powers of either identity.

It was as if all that belonged to the Son of Mankind had become harmless inheritances, granting her various fantastic powers that did not belong to a magical girl.

Moreover, two mutually exclusive powers could coexist within her. After frequent use, they even began to merge and transform without showing any signs of damaging her.

This unique quality might be what the sunflower referred to as the Sovereign Lord.

Chu Wang Shu was not entirely sure, but she felt it was not a bad thing.

Recently, the Son of Mankind had revived the sequence related to the Tathagata—the Lotus Realm.

It allowed her to freely control space and time within a certain range.

Since then, she had begun to test using the Lotus Realm as a cover to enter Calamity God mode, assisting the Countermeasures Bureau with the authority of the Master of Disaster Group, freely eliminating disaster auras, disaster beasts, and Calamity Seeds wherever she went.

In a sense, every city that had the Pure White tour had incurred a hefty protection fee owed to her.

Chu Wang Shu leaned on the railing, murmuring with a touch of confusion:

“So, what exactly has Mom been hiding from me?”

After pondering for a while, Chu Wang Shu set her worries aside. She was now very strong—strong enough that few captain-level witches could pose a challenge to her.

The power of the Son of Mankind was boundless. Whenever she entered Calamity God mode and contained an area filled with disaster beasts and disaster auras, she could sense this authority awakening and increasing, akin to a character in an animation gradually unlocking their power, from 1% to 10%, and then reaching the full form of a boss.

To avoid any accidents, she was deliberately slowing down this process.

Even so, Calamity God mode was now 50% stronger than before.

On the other hand, she had recently reached full bloom, but her soul quality, magic energy limit, and body strength were still climbing without end.

This was partly due to the Shine Meditation Method, but it felt more like, as the Calamity God mode grew stronger, the witch part also ascended alongside it.

In other words, if one day her Calamity God mode became as strong as the peak Son of Mankind, the witch side of her would also grow close to that power.

So, no matter what troubles Mom had, she would soon be strong enough to crush all those worries.

And that was indeed what happened.

The peak Son of Mankind was a monster created by the Disaster group to defeat the savior. If Chu Wang Shu perfectly inherited this power and raised the magical girl’s limit to the same level, she could even take on the Disaster group alone.

The most important thing was, right now, while Pure White suppressed the Disaster group, Chu Wang Shu, chosen as Pure White’s successor, was not affected. She grew freely ahead of the other twelve Calamity Gods.

This was because the lovely daughter’s growth time was too short.

If she could hold on for a few more months, when she truly grew up, she could easily raid the twelve Calamity God forbidden zones for disaster aura, grab followers on this side, steal powers back and forth, and when Pure White collapsed, the Disaster group might as well change their name.

Chu Wang Shu was quite down to earth and never thought, “I am the Disaster group.” But after realizing that swallowing disaster aura strengthened her Calamity God mode and could not stop her own thinking, she had started to ponder how to consume all the disaster aura outside the forbidden zones.

“Maybe I should have a talk with Esther?”

This was a good plan. The only problem was that her relationship with the Sunflower was very complicated. If she appeared too much like the Calamity God, and with that always empty forbidden zone, the officials might easily think she was the secret thirteenth Calamity God.

And also…

In some way, this was the real truth, but it was hard to explain.

Chu Wang Shu never explained the Son of Mankind to Charlotte over the phone because she felt that communication through electronic devices was not safe, and she did not want that super AI to know her secret just yet.

Revealing everything and negotiating was risky. What if she was seen as the enemy, and her mom and teammates were also blamed as part of the Disaster group? What would she do then?

Chu Wang Shu pushed the thought aside. She wanted to find a place where no one could eavesdrop and talk with Charlotte before making any decisions.

No matter what, her mom would definitely believe her.

But strangely, even though she believed this deeply, her heart still felt lonely and sad, like… she had no one to truly talk to.

And oddly enough, today felt like something was missing.

Chu Wang Shu held back her feelings and pushed away these thoughts. She looked toward the painted boat by the river. Tang Liuli, Xie Qingxuan, and Kirimi Miyuki had gone up to the top deck. They were all dressed in old-fashioned Daxia clothes and were waving gently this way.

The girl looked a little surprised but smiled back.

Speaking of which, discussing with Sister Miyuki and the others might be a good choice, right?

Chu Wang Shu thought about these things and wanted to fly to the painted boat. But before she could move, a clear, sharp voice sounded in her ear:

“Big sister?”

Chu Wang Shu’s thoughts were interrupted. She looked back in surprise. The voice came from a boy wearing a red scarf and carrying a small backpack, with a young mother holding his hand.

The boy handed something from his arms to the stunned Chu Wang Shu and said:

“This is a gift from a sister for you.”

She told you, “The moon is very beautiful tonight. Make sure to be happy.”

This was a very childish plastic toy. It looked like a sunflower that had walked out of a cartoon. Its color appeared dull and dark under the faraway neon lights, cheap and strange.

Chu Wang Shu could not articulate her feelings at that moment. Her throat felt constricted, as if she was waiting for something, or perhaps it was just a simple surprise. Her fingertips touched the switch behind and she gently pressed it.

Suddenly, the sunflower lit up brightly. Its shining light filled the plastic, illuminating a small world within her heart. It swung back and forth, facing the cool river breeze, releasing many bubbles that danced with the wind.

That strange but pleasant sound resembled clear spring water, flowing from the toy’s substandard speaker. It sang a familiar song, a simple and lovely melody that, along with the colorful bubbles, touched her soul deeply.

“Happy birthday to you…”

“Happy birthday to you…”

The girl stared blankly at the sunflower in her hand. Inside her heart, something was filled with each falling note, while something else shattered as the bubbles burst.

How could she express the feelings she had at this moment?

Chu Wang Shu did not know; her eyes were blurred by tears.

Sadness, regret, longing, joy, confusion—so many emotions burned on their own, then evaporated like sand slipping through her fingers, disappearing swiftly.

The sunflower remained radiant, and the birthday song was approaching its end.

At the very end, there was a short recording, where she said:

“Little Moon, be happy on your birthday.”