Anime Crossover: The Small Workshop System's Aggressive Feeding

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This reason is impeccable.

Rias opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't find a reason to refute it.

They all do have more important "work" to do.

The three people Zhou Ye chose had clear roles and were practically an exploration team tailor-made for that world.

"Okay, it's settled."

Zhou Ye did not give them a chance to continue protesting.

"This is the first stop on our family honeymoon. Once I've finished building the safe house over there, I'll bring you over. Be good and wait for me at home."

He walked up to Saeko and the others.

"Ready?"

“Anytime, Master,” Jill replied readily.

“My pen is itching for more, Master,” Kasumigaoka Utaha’s reply was full of personal style.

Yotsuya Miko simply nodded heavily and gripped the straps of her schoolbag tightly.

Zhou Ye waved his hand with satisfaction, and a portal made of pure data opened in the center of the reception room.

On the other side of the door was a completely unfamiliar, oppressive modern urban landscape.

"Then, let's set off."

Zhou Ye took Yotsuya Miko's hand, and with Jill and Shiwa leading them, stepped into the vortex that led to a new world.

Chapter 333 First Encounter in the World of Spells

Tokyo, the top floor of an abandoned commercial building.

The air was thick with rust, dust, and a faint, pungent stench. Zhou Ye and his group of four appeared silently amidst the devastation after the distorted data stream's light faded. Unlike the pure magic or divine aura of the underworld, the air in this world was filled with a viscous, chilling negative energy, like the compressed resentment of countless dying people filtered through a moldy rag—utterly nauseating.

"Hmm... this smell is like the resentment of ten thousand internet trolls materialized and then stuffed into the sewer to ferment for a hundred years."

Kasumigaoka Utaha fanned her nose with her hand, her delicate eyebrows furrowing tightly. Her first instinct wasn't fear, but rather to devise the most vicious language to describe this horrible experience. The tablet in her hand had automatically powered on, beginning to scan and record data about the surrounding environment, lines of analysis reports scrolling rapidly across the screen.

Gil Valentine, on the other hand, displayed a completely different demeanor. The instant she landed, her body tensed like a bowstring taut. Her gaze, sharp as a hawk's, swept across every dark corner, her right hand already instinctively resting on the tactical holster at her waist. The artificial artifact Zhou Ye had crafted for her, [Omnipotent Weapon], lay there silently in pistol form, but with a mere thought, it could transform into any weapon she desired in a fraction of a second.

Yotsuya Miko was the one who reacted the most violently.

The moment she regained her footing, her body involuntarily stiffened, and her pupils instantly contracted to their maximum size. In her vision, the world was far more "lively" than what Shiyu and Jill had seen.

Those twisted, hideous monsters, made of pure malice, seeped from the cracks in the walls and hung upside down from the holes in the ceiling. Some had countless weeping faces, others resembled a haphazardly sewn-together pile of animal entrails, still writhing incessantly. The sounds they emitted were not sound waves on the physical level, but rather curses and hateful murmurs that pierced directly into the brain.

This was a hundred times more terrifying than any "ghost" she had ever seen in her own world. Most of those ghosts were just mindlessly repeating the behaviors they had in life, but these... they were alive, hungry, and existed purely to spread pain.

"So...so many..."

Her voice trembled uncontrollably, and her face was as pale as paper.

"Don't be afraid. See your son."

Zhou Ye's voice rang in her ears, and a warm hand gently pressed on the top of her head. A gentle stream of data instantly flooded into her consciousness, shielding her from the filthy ramblings and calming her violently beating heart.

"Remember what I said, you are radar, and you are also a hunter. Your eyes can see their weaknesses; this is your talent, and it is also your weapon."

Just then, a dull thud came from downstairs, followed by a girl's muffled groan of suppressed pain.

"coming."

Jill said in a low voice, her eyes already fixed on the direction of the stairwell.

Zhou Ye and his group walked to the edge of the top floor and looked down.

In the open space on the next floor, a girl with short, dark green hair, tied in a high ponytail and wearing glasses, was fiercely fighting three cursed spirits of different shapes, wielding a long-handled naginata. The girl's movements were clean and swift, each strike containing astonishing explosive power, clearly indicating she was a highly skilled martial artist honed through countless trials. However, she seemed to lack effective offensive methods; the naginata's strikes against the cursed spirits were like cutting into sticky glue, causing some delay but failing to inflict fatal damage.

One of the cursed spirits, resembling a giant centipede, suddenly rammed into the girl from the side while she was distracted by the other two. The girl reacted extremely quickly, parrying with her sword, but was still sent flying by the immense force, her back slamming heavily against a load-bearing pillar, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth.

"Tsk, that's really troublesome."

The girl, Zenin Maki, spat out a mouthful of blood, her eyes growing even more ferocious. She possessed no magical power and could only fight using weapons imbued with it, making it particularly difficult to deal with such thick-skinned creatures.

"Master, do you need to help her?"

Jill had already raised the [Omnipotent Weapon], and the muzzle instantly extended, transforming into a futuristic-looking sniper rifle, with pale blue energy gathering inside the barrel.

"Let's help."

Zhou Ye spoke as casually as if he were deciding what to have for dinner.

"After all, we still need a local guide to explain the basic rules of this world. It's a good opportunity for you to stretch your muscles as well."

He looked at the three girls beside him and gave them instructions.

"This world is the best training ground for you. Jianzi, use your bow and arrow to aim at the core of their energy, that's their Achilles' heel. Shiyu, your spells are incredibly effective against these energy entities, try the purification and binding spells. Jill, go for it, turn them into pixels."

"Yes!" the three women answered in unison.

Zenin Maki was preparing to risk injury to eliminate a cursed spirit when she suddenly felt several distinct energy fluctuations above her. She looked up abruptly and saw three girls with very different styles standing on the edge of the broken floor, looking down at her.

Before she could even utter a question, the attack had already begun.

The first to make a move was Yotsuya Miko.

She took a deep breath, trying to suppress her fear, and following Zhou Ye's instructions, drew a longbow constructed of data from behind her back. As she drew back the bowstring, a pure white arrow of light materialized out of thin air. In her vision, the most filthy and core energy nodes within the three cursed spirits were clearly visible, like searchlights in the night.

"That's it..."

call out--!

The arrow of light shot out silently, tracing a straight, holy trajectory through the air. It pierced precisely through the head of the centipede-like cursed spirit without encountering any resistance. The next second, a burst of white light erupted, and the cursed spirit that had been giving Maki such a headache, before it could even utter a wail, began to disintegrate from its core, turning into countless black particles that scattered across the sky and vanished completely.

One hit kill!

Maki's pupils contracted sharply. What kind of technique was this? She had never seen it before!

Immediately after, Kasumigaoka Utaha made her move. She curled her lip in disgust, as if dealing with something dirty. With a casual wave of her hand, three talismans shimmering with a faint purple light flew out and accurately affixed to the other two cursed spirits.

"Bound by law."

The mysterious patterns on the talisman lit up instantly, forming purple data chains that bound the two cursed spirits tightly, preventing them from moving an inch no matter how much they struggled.

“The law is explained.”

With Shi Yu's second soft chant, the bodies of the two cursed spirits seemed to be injected with some kind of decomposition program, and began to disintegrate uncontrollably, emitting painful hissing, and ultimately following in the footsteps of the first one.

The whole process was smooth and elegant, like an art performance.

"The efficiency is too low."

Jill's voice was cold and professional. She didn't even use a scope; the sniper rifle in her hand spat out a dazzling blue beam of light.

boom! boom! boom!

Three shots were fired in quick succession, each hitting the other three cursed spirits that were trying to approach from the shadows in the distance. It was a pure, high-energy physical attack that blasted the cursed spirits and the wall they were hiding into dust.

Violent, but effective.

In just over ten seconds, the originally difficult battle situation was completely reversed.

Zenin Maki, gripping her naginata, stood frozen in place, momentarily at a loss for how to react. Who exactly were these three people? The power they wielded was neither like cursed power nor any known technique. It felt more like… some higher-dimensional law, striking from a lower dimension.

Especially the girl who shoots arrows; she clearly doesn't seem to have any magical power, yet she can easily see through the weaknesses of the cursed spirits.

"Hey, who are you?"

Maki asked warily, while secretly tightening her grip on the weapon in her hand.

"we are……"

Kasumigaoka Utaha was about to say something when Zhou Ye interrupted her.

He strolled down the stairs as if taking a walk in his own backyard. He glanced at the disheveled Maki, then at the naginata in her hand, and a playful smile appeared on his lips.

"Heaven and curse... In exchange for innate cursed power, one gains superhuman physical talent. An interesting deal. You're that runaway loser from the Zen family."

"Right, Zen-in Maki?"

One sentence caused Maki's expression to change drastically.

"How do you know?!"

Her identity, her deepest secret, was revealed to her by this stranger. This shocked and unsettled her even more than the battle they had just fought.

Zhou Ye didn't answer her, but simply raised his chin, gesturing for her to look around.

"Don't rush to ask questions. Your troubles aren't over yet."

As soon as the words were spoken, the entire building began to shake violently. An aura, more powerful and malevolent than all the cursed spirits combined, suddenly erupted from the building's basement. Countless pained faces appeared on the walls, and black viscous liquid seeped from the floor.

A gigantic monster, at least three stories tall, with eight arms and a massive mouth, crashed through several floors and charged up from below. The magical energy emanating from its body was so dense that it almost solidified the air.

"A near-Level One Cursed Spirit!"

Maki's expression turned extremely serious.

"How could I possibly end up in a place like this..."

This level of monster is beyond what she can handle alone.

"Master, leave it to me."

Jill's sniper rifle quickly transformed, with auxiliary barrels extending from both sides of the gun, turning it into a small, shoulder-fired energy cannon.

"Need not."

Zhou Ye waved his hand, took a step forward, and stood in front of the near-level one curse spirit.

He didn't even look at the roaring monster that lunged at him; he simply raised his right hand and snapped his fingers lightly.

*Snap.* 1.9

A clear voice sounded.

The next second, time seemed to stand still.

The menacing near-level one cursed spirit, along with the space around it, was instantly enveloped by a cube composed of countless blue data codes. It remained in its lunging posture, completely imprisoned within this "data cage."

"Analyze...deconstruct...delete".

Zhou Ye softly uttered three words.