Although the enemy in front of her was her own sister,
Il didn’t show any mercy.
After tearing through her sister’s defensive spell again, an arm laced with blue electrical arcs mercilessly chopped down in the next second.
The short and muffled sound vanished in a flash.
Different from the reaction of ordinary animals being electrocuted, starting from where Il struck, the current left a vivid trace on the wooden monster’s body before immediately grounding itself.
— The wooden structure of the body was still quite telling.
— Victory was almost within sight.
It was just a moment.
Blackened cracks appeared on Il’s sister.
Charred scars that ran through the entire body, along with countless tiny offshoots, made her once complete form tragically wrecked.
"Sister, you’ve lost."
Il declared the outcome in her voice.
Her expression was somewhat lonesome as she watched her sister, who collapsed to the ground completely exhausted.
This time, the body’s fracture was different from the previous deliberate splits.
Il’s lightning had destroyed several vital organs in her body, which would undoubtedly require a considerable amount of time to heal.
— Il’s sister had already lost.
The enemy still maintained a complete posture, but she herself had become a wreck. Faced with such a situation, anyone would see no hope of victory, or even of surviving.
"Sister, is this your trump card?"
At that moment, the fallen wooden monster also spoke.
There was no despair or anger in her defeated tone, but rather a sense of detachment:
"I don’t truly understand your strength."
Il was silent for a few seconds, then she said:
"Sister, remember the elongated land fish we hunted in the central part of the forest after we gained the ability to move?"
The wooden monster clearly remembered what Il was referring to, and thus immediately countered:
"The electric shock of that prey wasn’t this strong."
Il explained in an even tone:
"Sister, the path of self-evolution is not necessarily wrong."
"This powerful ability to discharge actually evolved from capturing that type of fish for several months. I then analyzed the gene and transplanted it into myself to obtain it."
Upon hearing Il’s explanation,
Her sister’s wooden body relaxed somewhat.
At least in the end, Il had comforted her defeated sister in her own way, perhaps...
The wooden monster’s thought process was abruptly cut off.
After explaining the source of her abilities, Il didn’t continue to speak but instead stepped directly onto her sister’s body. Although appearing to be just a slender girl, the force she contained was nothing to be underestimated.
Il crushed part of her sister’s body.
The sisters knew each other well.
The spot Il chose at that moment was actually the organ her sister used for thinking.
Her sister in front of her had lost all autonomous thinking abilities, with only the natural reflexive capacity of her body remaining.
If she hoped to rely on the plant’s inherent healing ability to turn the tide,
Such injuries... would at least require rooting in the ground and growing for a month to heal.
Il’s actions did not halt.
Confirming that her sister had thoroughly lost the ability to think, she inserted her hand into the blackened crack on her body and violently yanked out a wooden sphere core within two seconds.
"Goodbye forever, my sister."
Il muttered a quiet farewell to the other party after completing this step.
Then, rubbing her empty hand, she scattered some silver powder on the dead wood in front of her.
The effect of the powder was simple and direct.
Upon contact with Il’s sister’s wooden body, the powder immediately ignited, conducting heat to the wood below.
Although Il’s sister’s body had already undergone an essential change with the plants,
against the pure high heat of roasting, the organic body quickly turned black, and the breath of life disappeared within it.
Watching her sister who was now truly dead,
Il waited a few seconds before turning and walking towards Ronald.
"This is the ’Organic Encyclopedia’ my sister possessed, sir."
While explaining, Il exerted force in her hand and crushed the wooden core retrieved from her sister’s body. Part of the ’Organic Encyclopedia’ crystals was inside this core, which had the property of blocking Magic Power.
"Il, you’ve worked hard."
Ronald took over the crystal of the ’Organic Encyclopedia’ to return it to its main body while observing the girl’s reaction in front of him.
Il, who had just personally killed her sister, showed no change in expression.
Even after handing over the original text to Ronald, there was a hint of seeking approval on her face.
Ronald’s expression was complicated.
He understood the girl with the beautiful appearance in front of him was quite different from humans, but the nature of visual animals made him overlook this factor beforehand.
Now, multiple details were laid out in front of him.
Only then did Ronald seem to confirm something in his heart.
Seeing Ronald’s expression, Il also understood some of the thoughts contained within it and immediately spoke:
"Our concepts differ from those of humans."
"After a dispute becomes irreconcilable, mutual killing is often the most efficient choice."
Costate added a comment from the side:
"Sir, do you think the efficiency Il speaks of contradicts the moral concepts that humans advocate for social progress?"
"Don’t corrupt Helle!"
Ronald glared sternly at Costate.
But after preparing himself to work on Helle’s mentality, he seriously shared his thoughts with the maid:
"Costate, morality and efficiency don’t have a direct causal relationship."
"The former changes constantly with the environment and society, while the latter is firmly rooted in real data. The hidden relationship between them can only be discovered through your personal experience on the scene to find the most direct and true realization."
"Mere theoretical deductions are filled with one-sidedness and subjective thinking."
Costate nodded thoughtfully.
And beside them, Il’s expression was more complex.
During the months living in Yizi Forest, whether it was combat, genetics, or development, Il had experienced and learned progress firsthand.
But as for what Ronald was talking about now,
Il had absolutely no contact, nor any thought of learning or delving deeper into it.
She couldn’t help but speculate—
Did the powerful being in front of her derive his strength from this unknown?
"Il, you mentioned a few mysterious human forces in the forest before, right?"
"Where’s the closest one to us?"
Before she could continue to contemplate this question, Ronald’s inquiry rang out again.
Il immediately broke off her thoughts to answer:
"Alright," Ronald confirmed the direction and then said, "We’ll head east first, to see the human forces’ area of influence."