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The Great Black Crow Canopy shrouded heaven and earth, its ends unseen even by those who looked as far as the eye could see.

It seemed as if the entire wilderness had been stripped away, leaving the trapped strongmen lost.

Above Duo Lai's head, the Ever-changing Badge resembling a hairpin flew out, transforming into a Staff with a large red gem encased at the tip, flanked by a pair of small wings.

Grasping the Staff, he pointed it toward the faraway darkness, "Let me tear it apart~!"

"No, let me do it."

Sophia stepped forward and said.

She certainly believed that with Duo Lai's abilities, he could penetrate and tear the Great Black Crow Canopy, and the whole process might not even take much effort, but...

She had also glimpsed some of its secrets.

"This Great Black Crow Canopy has stripped heaven and earth, forming an independent space. If we use brute force to shred this canopy, the enemy might directly detonate the entire space, causing a widespread spatial collapse and triggering spatial turbulence when the two forces overlap."

If she were the enemy, and her goal was to stall the targets before her, she would definitely do so.

Shattering artifacts to create opportunities.

By then, even if they had the ability to survive in the spatial turbulence, there was a certain chance they would be swept far away by the chaotic currents.

This was unacceptable.

Sophia touched her arm, smooth and fair, without a trace of Crow Feathers, "The power of the Dark Crow Bloodline flows within me; I am somewhat familiar with this Great Black Crow Canopy, leave it to me."

——

Opening her eyes, the girl stared blankly at her arm, where a patch of Crow Feathers was indelibly imprinted. This deep black stood out jarringly against her normally fair skin.

"Black Feather, Miss has grown many black feathers like a crow's!"

"She is a Witch, her body courses with the filthy Blood of Monsters!"

"Monster! Monster!"

"To have black feathers upon one's flesh, the visage of a Black Crow, what an ill omen!"

"A stain! Truly, a stain upon our Casarte Family!"

"Pfft——"

The girl's hand gripped tightly onto the mottled Black Feather; her palm trembled, and after a few seconds of shaking, she fiercely decided to pull, yanking the whole feather out with force.

In the dim room resembling a warehouse, the girl curled up in the corner, her hand clutching the black feather now crimson with blood.

She trembled, convulsed, blood flowing down her arm, drip by drip, pooling into a puddle of blood.

She had plucked out the Black Feather.

But more Black Feathers grew back.

She was an omen of bad luck, cursed from birth.

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Above the wilderness, lay the bodies of several ferocious beasts.

A Black Crow with mottled feathers flew down, staring blankly at the corpses and blood before her.

After a while, she mumbled to a skinny deer not far away, "Tell me, why have we contracted the Witch's disease, and what is our purpose of being born into this world?"

The deer was gaunt, its fur dull and gray, yet it moved with a graceful gait.

"Perhaps it's for the next life."

"Will there be a next life?"

"There will be," the deer said gently, "You must believe. That is the meaning of our struggle for survival."

——

Their struggle for survival now had meaning.

The Dark Crow Bloodline, which she once saw as venomous and despised and feared, was now a cause for Sophia's gratitude.

Everything had meaning.

Her eyes shone bright, like two night pearls in the darkness.

Her hands spread wide, as if embracing heaven and earth.

The next moment, her slight figure gently lifted off the ground, her black hair extending with each breath. Thick and long, the hair strands formed a massive net, a forest, a canopy. Crimson eyes opened amidst the hair's veil, numerous, in the dozens, in the hundreds.

Hundreds of glossy, black Nether Ravens flew out, thousands upon thousands of Black Feathers danced.

A black storm arose in an instant, spreading quickly into the distance.

A hundred meters, a thousand meters, ten thousand meters...

Black Crows kept flying; each image of a crow within the black canopy seemed to take the form of Sophia's Nether Ravens.

Black trees grew buds, swaying with the rhythm of the storm.

Though they were beneath the black canopy, Duo Lai, Xi Liu, and the others felt as if they saw a Night Raven Canopy expanding rapidly beneath the black one.

It was Sophia's crows.

The Outside.

The black barren trees rustled, and the Great Elder of the Black Crow Clan's expression altered slightly.

The next moment,

"Flutter flutter——"

Black Feathers, like floodgates opening, cascaded from the barren trees, shaking the whole tree continuously.

Amidst the Black Feather storm, a group of crows appeared, guarding.

Guarding Sophia, who emerged from their midst.

"Now, it's my turn," she declared.

...

"Phew, it's over."

After disengaging, Sophia immediately counteracted the remnants of the Black Crow Clan with her Night Raven Canopy.

In a few seconds, Duo Lai and the others hurried over.

General Duo Lai struck with fury.

The surrounding space shattered repeatedly, and soon all that was left were the tattered remains of the Black Crow Clan's remnants, along with...

A barren tree that no longer swayed, rooted firmly in the ground.

Duo Lai stared at this barren tree, "As expected, it's a treasure. You take it."

Sophia picked up the artifact.

Her hero status swiftly granted her the basic information about the artifact.

'Great Black Crow Canopy'

'Tier: Epic'

'Description: An artifact requiring Black Crow-related powers to be effective; it can trap, strip heaven and earth, and also hide our traces within the Canopy's Enchantment. Once the Great Black Crow Canopy is deployed, it is difficult to move, and if its use is interrupted, it cannot be reactivated for a short period.'

"It's an Epic Treasure."