It was a strange, incredible, even frightening feeling.

Is it a pain? No, apparently not. Alice did not feel any discomfort, either mentally or physically. There was not a single scar on her body, which meant she didn't have any external injuries, she was just ...... I'm getting tired.

His eyelids deepened, and his knees unconsciously bent down, and he fell to his knees. It's like lying in the soft velvet after 24 hours of overtime, like an unborn baby, sleeping peacefully in the mother's body, how warm and reassuring. What is this feeling......

That's what "death" feels like.

The subconscious sense of crisis pulled Alice back from the edge of the abyss. As if she had woken up from a nap and then lost her sleepiness, Alice's consciousness suddenly returned. She raised her hand and, with all her might, gave herself a resounding slap in the face. This slap reddened her white and tender face, and at the same time, it also completely woke up the shaky consciousness.

"Marisa!"

Alice got back to her feet and yelled at her partner for the first time. At that time, the black and white was lying lazily on the cold ground, sleeping very peacefully, like a dead dog. Seeing this, Alice was anxious, and grabbed Marisa by the collar, and "snapped" two big mouths and fanned them, left and right, and completely woke Marisa up.

"Huh, what's going on?"

As soon as Marisa was excited, she jumped up, looking left and right, and was so stunned that she heard Alice on the side roar angrily:

"You guy, do you want to die, sleep so soundly?"

"What? I'm asleep?" Marisa tilted her neck and scratched the back of her head, "Something is wrong, wasn't I just about to make a big move?"

"You can do it in your dreams!"

Alice punched Marisa hard in the shoulder and said loudly:

"Listen to Marisa, if you want to survive this battle, you must fight quickly, don't sleep again!"

Because, the next time you close your eyes, you will sleep forever.

"Ah, I see. ”

Marisa nodded, lifted the brim of her hat a little, and looked at Catherine Pagos, who was standing not far ahead. At this point, she had deeply felt the power of this ancient bloodline, and its horror.

The snow and ice on the ground are constantly melting and evaporating, and with Catherine as the center, a circular "snowless belt" is gradually spreading. Alice knew very well that the temperature in the vicinity had not risen in the slightest, and that the snow had not melted, but that under the influence of that force, it had lost the energy to maintain its existence, decomposed into gas, and evaporated.

This is the "depleted" power that wipes out all energy. The so-called "death" does not only mean reaching the end of life, if you go backwards from the end point and finally return to the original state before birth, it is also another level of "death". Before and after "life", they are both "not born", and "not born" means "death". Catherine's power is to make everything in the world lose its "life" and return to the embrace of the most primitive "death".

Facing this beautiful, cold girl, Alice felt an indescribable fear. The battle hadn't started yet, but she had already vaguely predicted her defeat. Within seconds, the ominous "snowless belt" had touched Alice's toes, and she knew she had run out of time for hesitation. Next, she has no choice but to act, either fight or die.

"Tibetan puppets of reincarnation!"

"Spring Kyoto Doll!"

"Magical Shanghai dolls!"

"The hanging Penglai doll!"

A walker in a robe, a geisha wearing spring flowers, and a blonde twin in black and red dresses, Alice's final, and at the same time, the four strongest dolls, attack Catherine Pagos from four directions. With all her might, without reservation, as she said, this battle must be "quickly resolved".

"Eat me, a radius of twenty meters, and the quadruple puppets dance!" Alice shouted, pointing at Catherine.

With her words, lasers, magic bullets, and sharp blades surrounded Catherine tightly in an instant. Without mercy, without gaps, Alice could conclude that it was an impossible task to get out of such a dense network of firepower, and that was exactly what she wanted.

However, the effect she pursued was, in Catherine's view, very incomprehensible.

Why dodge?

Catherine looked up at the dizzying glow and shook her head in disappointment.

"Weak, weak, fragile, poor......"

"What should I do with such a weak magic, aimed at my head?"

"Sure enough, let's do nothing!"

So, she didn't do anything.

No dodge, no defense, stand still, motionless.

The magic roared, bursting and dissipating in front of her like a bubble, and not a single projectile could touch her. No, let alone touch, you can't even get close to her. Alice's all-out attack, like Icarus's pair of wax wings, disintegrates the closer it gets to the "sun", and finally it is impossible to reach.

The last bullet shattered, turning into dust in the air and drifting away. The four dolls had all run out of oil and fell to the ground like kites with broken strings, and the splendor of the living in their eyes gradually dimmed, turning back into the most ordinary stained glass beads. Unlike the previous manipulative figures, these new figures are automatic, with independent energy cores, which can act alone, without the need for Alice to be constantly powered. The downside is that you need to take a long break after each attack to replenish your mana, otherwise you will lose momentum and become a more delicate piece of wood.

Alice carried a total of eight automata and six manipulators on her trip, and in the battle with Red Misuzu, she sacrificed one manipulator and drained the magic of four automata, and now uses up four more automatons. Theoretically, she still has five manipulative figures to use, but ......

What's the point?

You must know that the magic power stored in the energy core in each automaton is almost equal to the total magic power in Alice's body. This is also the biggest advantage of these automata, that is, in a short period of time, they burst out several times more powerful than Alice herself. Right now, even the full siege of four times the magic power has not been able to hurt Catherine's hair, what can Alice do with the strength of Alice alone, and the strength of a person who is close to exhaustion?

"Can't win...... Alice fell to her knees, her pale lips trembling slightly, "the gap is really ...... It's too big. ”

Her power has been flowing and has never been interrupted for a moment. Before, she could still rely on fighting spirit and perseverance to hold on, but now, what is left of her?

It's just the residue of a burned out.

In front of Alice is a desperate situation in the true sense of the word, and even the last shred of hope has been crushed into dust and sprinkled in the wind. She was lighting the night with a lantern, dispelling the cold winter with a torch, and fending off the storm with a sail, and only when she was exhausted did she realize how innocent and ridiculous her actions were.

"Is that the level? It's a pity. ”

Catherine's face remained unchanged, and her words did not fluctuate, although they were words that could have pierced the haughty heart of the magician once and for all.

"I was counting on you to be better, but, obviously, I was overly concerned. ”

She spoke, disarming the invisible force. Alice was suddenly much lighter, and she had the strength to be ashamed of this failure. Her face turned pale, her head bowed, her lower lip bitten, and she finally failed to say a word. She knows very well that only the winner has the right to speak, and no matter what the loser says, it is self-inflicted, so she chooses to remain silent.

Marisa, however, disagrees.

"Hey, hey, glittering little kid, look here, look here!"

Alice looked up at Marisa beside her. This guy's face is not lustful, and it is obviously used up by Catherine's strength. But her attitude is exaggerated to the extreme, just like the characters in the comics, she looks like a fake.

"I'll be very sad to ignore me, the number one magician in Gensokyo, Miss Kate...... I can call it that, right?"

Marisa uncharacteristically pretends to be a fairly mature, almost flawless smile, and behaves like a capable and cynical boy.

"That's really rude, Your Excellency the First Magician of Gensokyo. Catherine said, "Yes, you can call me that." ”

Her expression remained unmoved, and it was impossible to tell whether she was sarcastic or flattering.

"That scene just now is really wonderful, but, personally, I think that taking over Alice's three-legged cat kung fu does not prove how strong you are, it only shows how good Alice is. ”

"What do you say, Marisa!"

Alice stood up in a fit of rage and pinched the flesh on Marisa's arm, with enough force to pinch out the bruises. But Marisa didn't even look back at her, just rubbed her arm casually, and continued to smile and say:

"Next move, I bet you won't be able to catch it. ”

"Do you think so?" said Catherine, moving her lips very calmly, "then prove yourself." ”

In other words, she also made a "please" gesture, which in Alice's opinion was simply Sven's provocation.

"Okay, look at the move!"

Marisa let out a loud shout and put on several exaggerated tricks one after another, from "Golden Rooster Independence" to "Black Tiger Digging Heart" to "Crow Flying". Then, she took a big stride, closed her eyes tightly, raised her hands flat, and concentrated on her internal force in a toilet squatting pit-like posture...... Although she has never had any internal strength.

"Huh...... Hah

Then this guy roared louder and louder, as if he had been constipated for fifty years and couldn't bear it to the death. This posture, let alone Alice, even Catherine was dumbfounded, and she didn't know what to say - you know, this was the first time today, and there was a different look on her stiff poker face.

"Genre!

Marisa snapped her eyes open, her fists clenched, and the screams that erupted from her mouth startled Catherine like a frightened white cat. Marisa's eyes widened angrily, her brows furrowed, and her sweating profusely appeared, and with that constipation-like expression, she yelled:

"Wind of Kings!New Series!Stone Break!Onslaught!"

"Look at the move! Bloodstained Oriental!1.Piece.Red...... Hey, hey, you-"

As soon as he read this, this guy suddenly rolled his eyes, stuck out his tongue and spurted blood, and fell to the ground. Catherine, who watched the whole process from the sidelines, was directly stunned - she had lived for more than 10,000 years, and she really had never seen this kind of operation.

Seriously? This is not a nonsensical funny comic!

"Well done...... Beautiful...... Kazami...... Fragrance ......"

Marisa lay on the ground, her face pale and the corners of her mouth bloodied, and smiled wryly, saying this with difficulty.