As the Villain, I Have a Persuasion System Chapter 105 : Nan Zhiyi - I Have Dandelion-Like Thoughts

Off the coast of Ningfeng Harbor.

At this mont clouds and mist filled the air, lightning flashed and thunder roared. Fishing boats far from shore received urgent broadcasts: "Notice to all fishing vessels, notice to all fishing vessels. Small-scale Disaster Beasts detected appearing 90 kiloters offshore, accompanied by thunderstorm and strong wind weather. Please take evasive action and return to port if possible. Repeat..."

Actually, fishern didn't need broadcast reminders—experience told them the situation was untenable.

Before them stretched a sea of clouds, or rather sothing more like a wall pressing down, blocking distant waters. Lightning illuminated oddly-shaped Disaster Beasts within, while roars mixed with explosions echoed on the wind. Was slaughter taking place within those clouds?

Though curious, the fishern dared not linger for even a mont, turning their boats around at full speed back to port. Keep watching this spectacle and they'd beco part of it themselves.

"Scatter and retreat."

"Watch the wind direction—don't let Disaster Beasts catch our scent."

"Set up defensive weapons."

Everyone implented various counterasures while fleeing, since coastal people had long grown accustod to Disaster Beast attacks. When the cloud sea approached this close, there really was no choice left—many had already ntally prepared for sacrifice.

However, the white wall's other side remained full of snarling creatures that still hadn't caught up. Had the monsters changed their nature?

The fishern didn't overthink it but continued their mad dash across the sea, soon entering the city garrison's control zone. Only seeing the steel wall ford by the fleet let them breathe a sigh of relief.

Even the heavily guarded military forces looked grim, as they too were unclear about the strange clouds offshore. But perhaps it didn't matter anymore—at least civilians had safely returned to port. Next, the city would maintain strict defense, ready to fight large-scale Disaster Beasts to the death at any mont. By now everyone was slowly believing the widespread catastrophe theories—this year was destined to be turbulent...

Little did they know, on the other side of the cloud wall, a training exercise was unfolding.

"Roar!"

Sea Disaster Beasts let out hoarse roars, charging toward the rainbow-wreathed island not far away, drawn by the scent of food emanating from it.

They could no longer care about the magical girls' pressure—instinct overrode reason. With superior numbers, why not take a gamble? Bloodthirsty monsters had no option for retreat. At this mont, the Disaster Beasts only wanted to feast.

On the shore, Nan Zhiyi had set up a white reclining chair for sunbathing, holding a drink in one hand and docunts in the other.

A re hundred-odd low-tier Disaster Beasts didn't require her personal intervention, especially with the island's tad Disaster Beasts keeping watch. As soone at the peak of triple awakening, she could simply observe.

She called out loudly: "Don't fight individually—pay attention to magic resonance coordination. Apply what you've learned in training."

"Yes, ma'am—"

As soon as the words fell, the engagent began.

Disaster Beasts surged forward one after another, forming a long battle line and naturally creating a hunting formation with front and rear support. But the next mont, a trendous crash echoed as the vanguard units collided with a shimring wall. Like a translucent barrier, 5 ters high and one fist thick, extending ten-odd paces—not wide but enough to disrupt the charge. The bewildered Disaster Beasts crashed into it one after another, yet could never shake this simple wall.

Spatial System, Rainbow Fortress.

Its manifestation was a wall-like barrier, with extrely stable internal space isolated from the outside world, forming an unshakeable position.

The user, Sakagami Anri, had a steady personality with so obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Even during intense battle, she constantly wiped her hands with tissues, wishing to remain spotless. Truly worthy of magic corresponding to "orderly, perfectionist" personality types—indeed pursuing excellence.

Despite hating dust most, she preferred appearing in full Lolita dress attire. With one hand supporting an umbrella, she pointed remotely, and the wall actively crushed two Disaster Beasts.

Rainbow Fortress excelled in stable attributes difficult to influence, capable of both offense and defense—in a sense, the Church's premier defender.

Anri suddenly shouted: "At my limit—cover !"

Imdiately after, the rainbow mirror shattered. The Disaster Beasts, freed from restraint, rejoiced and surged forward, but forgot they were bunched together. Sure enough, the next mont magical girls' long-range magic bullet barrages firmly suppressed them.

Nan Zhiyi, multitasking between reading docunts and watching the battlefield, couldn't help nodding with approval.

Very good.

Spatial magic rivaled ti magic as first-tier in mystique, with no weak wielders. Much better than causal magic that often screwed over its own user. But both had terrifying consumption. Excluding monsters like Hibiscus, currently the Church's rare space-ti related magic all had super high energy costs.

Of course, most girls hadn't even reached double awakening yet.

Nan Zhiyi continued monitoring battlefield changes, since besides commanding headquarters, she also had to lead magical girls in striking Ningfeng Harbor Disaster Beasts as training.

She certainly didn't want her hotown destroyed, so she manipulated Hermit Island to move offshore and intercept Disaster Beasts, hoping these juniors would perform well.

Splash!

Even without high-intelligence individuals commanding them, the Disaster Beast squad wasn't stupid enough to passively take beatings. Monts later they ca to their senses, diving underwater to avoid bombardnt before beaching in a desperate rush. These creatures had bizarre shapes like crocodiles, sharks or other spliced characteristics—even more disgusting than before.

Charging onto the beach ant the situation could be dangerous. Seeing this, Nan Zhiyi set down her report, preparing to help a little.

The next mont, translucent monster groups erged from the sand to clash with them.

Summoning System magic, Hundred Demons Night Parade.

Minase Kaori was operating her magic at full power. Though not currently nightti, she could be flexible—for instance, when dark clouds occasionally blocked sunlight that counted too. Coincidentally, a cloud had just covered the sky, so this opportunity couldn't be missed.

She pointed remotely at the snarling monsters, saying eerily: "Objective is to stop enemies within a hundred-ter range of the beachhead. Don't let a single one through."

The demon groups handled frontal blocking of charging Disaster Beasts, while magical girls freed from close combat danger concentrated fully on precise Disaster Beast sniping with great results. Facts proved that as long as individual quality kept up, organized higher intelligent beings could easily handle rampaging Disaster Beasts. With just over a hundred in number and lacking powerful individual commanders, they showed signs of decline.

Minase Kaori wiped sweat from her forehead, unable to suppress a smile—consumption was sowhat less than expected.

Partly because summoning magic had low energy consumption, partly because her persistent ditation training had improved her Origin, giving her a long enough mana bar for complex maneuvers.

That power wasn't far off—she had a premonition. Unique Regalia fluctuations were surging within her body. Triple awakening was just around the corner. At this thought she exchanged glances with Anri in the crowd, both sharing faint smiles.

Each other's increasingly active magic couldn't escape observation—clearly growing day by day.

Just as they contemplated their magic's next stage, they suddenly felt terrible auras approaching from the distant sea—more Disaster Beasts had caught wind and were coming.

So Hyacinth's prophecy of the November storm didn't only refer to European battlefields—warfare would spread everywhere.

"Roar—"

A new batch of Disaster Beast squads charged into Hermit Island's periter. Without hesitation they pounced toward the magical girls—just ten-odd in scale yet daring to charge despite such overwhelming pressure, displaying completely frenzied bloodthirsty appearance.

However, what greeted the monsters were magical girls in heated battle, who dealt with the rabble easily with increasing skill.

Tense yet consistently stable micro-scale defensive battles unfolded along the island's coastline.

Facts proved that when Sakagami Anri, Minase Kaori and other double-awakened magical girls took command, the island's three hundred personnel could easily block small Disaster Beast forces—opponents simply couldn't get close.

Seeing this, Nan Zhiyi finally relaxed sowhat. Admittedly, disasters were erupting worldwide now, but this disaster was from humanity's perspective.

The accounts needed careful calculation.

She'd long understood the Salvation Church possessed power for independent existence—it was just why was Hibiscus so proactive?

Most magical girls didn't yet realize, or rather their power hadn't reached the point of awareness: they had complete ability to choose staying uninvolved and indifferent. Like an ordinary person achieving financial freedom—you could avoid getting involved in various social affairs, or you could participate. Though individuals would still face loneliness, Disaster Beast hunting, rcenary threats and other problems, you indeed had strength to stand alone.

As childhood friends, Nan Zhiyi should understand Classmate Jin. Since the family changes in high school, the girl had beco increasingly solitary—studying alone, working part-ti during holidays...

Both had increasingly beco parallel lines, until she dared not claim true understanding anymore.

A person changed too rapidly during youth. There was even a saying that "a person often grows up in an instant"—perhaps Classmate Jin wasn't indifferent to others' affairs, but rather bore even greater responsibility, willing to venture far with individual strength.

Nan Zhiyi took a deep breath, dismissing these thoughts.

As Hyacinth's most trusted subordinate, she must shoulder responsibility equally, not letting excess emotions guide judgnt, or the entire Church would suffer.

Every person who accomplished great things—like those founding emperors—had capable ministers behind them who could coordinate overall situations. The front needed fighters, the rear needed managent—both were indispensable.

Magical Girl Dandelion aspired to beco the housekeeper of the future world's greatest organization.

Classmate Jin was loyal, straightforward, had wisdom to see through illusions yet preferred authentic emotions—this was part of leadership charisma, but needed soone to compensate. After all, regarding political affairs she was indeed rough and completely uninterested. In the end, she needed assistance.

Nan Zhiyi was happy to take on this role—who else but her?

She opened a stack of "European Market New Order Reports" in her hands, revealing brilliant numbers.

Five-Color Narcissus dical subsidiaries would establish 21 factories across 8 countries, with shipnt volus in the millions, first-phase orders totaling 12 billion... even higher than originally heard. The larger the production scale, the lower the costs, plus official preferential policies gradually tilting toward them with nearly zero taxation.

Take all the money you want—I just need to contain infection disease. The leadership seed very generous, also benefiting from purification series being extrely cheap, comparable to cold dicine.

It was hard to inflate costs because the real "core materials" were rely "catalysts" infused with specialized healing spells. Based on this, production could continuously expand as long as Church core mbers led by Hibiscus had sufficient magic power. Or rather, she alone was enough—that monster's bottomless mana bar crowned the magical girl community, seemingly without limits.

Miracle drugs invested at such low prices on super-large scales earned countless good reputations.

Newspaper clippings Nan Zhiyi collected unanimously praised:

"Our people are asking: Why has years of miracle drug research made no progress? Are taxpayers being deceived?"

"Why does Five-Color Narcissus Company's purification series sell so cheaply? The reason is simple—conscience. It's a truly great enterprise with social morality"

"Though many circumstances behind the current miracle drug company remain unpublished, we only need to understand character through products. This enterprise deserves trust"

"Economist Assessnt: Though Five-Color Narcissus Trading's parent company Chairman and president states they'll never go public, based on current operating conditions the valuation reaches 100 billion scale, sufficient for world's top ten market value enterprise rankings..."

Stop praising, please stop.

Nan Zhiyi also saw so peripheral chatter, thinking these people took too little dicine, or they wouldn't be gossiping—minding others' business unnecessarily.

Fortunately, thanks to usual caution and Jin Ruochu's fortune protection, information remained highly classified to date.

Basking in spotlights was true, but also brought huge soft power improvents to the company. Many approval troubles automatically disappeared with green lights all the way—wasn't this better than fists? Facts proved good reputation could indeed bring benefits. Anyway, the European trip was quite profitable.

The girl couldn't believe the blinding financial reports.

She carefully signed, verified, and categorized, with several magical girls nearby helping as secretaries—this was also part of the Church's deliberate cultivation. After all, truly trustworthy and capable managers were needed. Couldn't just have magical girls fighting constantly—moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor developnt must be comprehensive.

Hibiscus, with far-sighted perspective, believed they should cultivate more versatile talents. Similarly, Jin Ruochu, raised through "master-apprentice style training," also agreed.

Nan Zhiyi was happy to delegate so work, both reducing burdens and strengthening the Church's talent reserves.

I want to help.

Not just in paperwork, but in combat support for Classmate Jin.

Whenever this thought arose, the girl felt warmth surging from her chest—surging and warm, sweeping through her whole body. Even in weak transformation state, she unconsciously emanated magic power. That's right—the dandelion accessory atop her head was glowing softly, and she could feel slight ntal power enhancent.

"Senior, is sothing wrong?"

Seeing Nan Zhiyi unconsciously covering her forehead, Gu Rubai asked with concern, then saw the forr shake her head indicating it was nothing.

"...Just rembered soone and sothing I care about. This profound emotional experience is wonderful, very beautiful. A magic creature that grows strong through emotions is truly interesting. If Disaster Beasts strengthen through negative emotions, then let us strengthen through determination, devotion and pride. Just slight feelings—you don't need to take notes."

"I always feel senior's words help with magic."

Gu Rubai possessed a Craft Magic Imitation Master that seed to lean toward creation—for instance, her help in developing information technology—but actually leaned more toward learning.

Even including learning managent experience and docunt approval—such seemingly conceptual work often achieved twice the results with half the effort.

Nan Zhiyi increasingly felt this junior could serve as a giant enterprise's chief executive officer. Indeed, though most Craft Magic tended toward support, their specialized fields were absolutely formidable.

Rumble!

Just as she pondered, the largest Disaster Beast group so far broke into the island's territorial waters.

Not good—continuous Disaster Beast attacks had exceeded ordinary magic bullet coverage thresholds, breaking through to reef defense zones in one encounter.

This was a serious signal.

Over dozens of days, Hermit Island had long been imbued with at least triple-awakened magic power from Hibiscus leading Nan Zhiyi, Jin Ruochu and Jin Yulu attached to the island's outer barriers, constructing pressure screens extending to the island's exterior—additions to the original foundation. Though still able to handle opponents crashing into them, the load was significant.

Though mobile military fortresses that had lived an epoch could definitely handle it, warfare erupting on the main island would cause losses, which she as ho guardian absolutely wouldn't allow.

At the sa ti, Minase Kaori and Sakagami Anri holding the front line imdiately sensed sothing wrong.

The coordinated pressure rushing toward them represented powerful Disaster Beasts.

As double-awakened magical girls with relatively high proficiency, they were very sensitive to magic reactions. Their blood boiled inside, hearts trembling—no mistake, opponents were quite formidable.

In peak condition, relying on Hundred Demons Night Parade, Rainbow Fortress plus nurous single-awakened magical girls would definitely be fine, but everyone was already depleted—one side waning while the other waxed.

Troubleso.

So Hyacinth's warning that "pre-November storm would be terrible" didn't an powerful individual Disaster Beasts, but their successive waves creating unstoppable scale effects. Repeated attrition warfare would eventually leave you exhausted and defeated. Their side had been overconfident—currently the Church's mid-tier combat power was like forr high-tier power, frequently running out of steam. Consumption battles would likely cause problems.

Though they tried their utmost to block them, Disaster Beasts charged frantically regardless of casualties, while magical girls grew increasingly tired.

Fundantally, the field lacked large-area instant-kill techniques with sustained powerful damage output.

Minase Kaori commanded demon legions to block as much as possible, but they were too fragile when the master's energy supply was insufficient, unable to withstand Disaster Beasts long. This ti's numbers of roughly 200 were already hard to resist.

"How are you holding up?"

Sakagami Anri shook her head: "Spatial barriers can certainly block them, but my current deploynt area is insufficient and not durable enough. Them reaching the beach is just a matter of ti."

So-called top-tier magic was always a false proposition—actual use was very particular.

They had effectiveness priorities, range, sustainability, consumption and other factors—sothing always constrained your upper limits.

For example, the universally known, even globally recognized "strongest magic" Sands of Ti's terrifying relative flow rate control had range limitations, plus the user revealed Ti Slash had effective range, weakening range or possible Origin resistance... But so what?

In the few training battles, even knowing magic chanisms from the start, they were still crushed by Hyacinth. Laughably, she never used magic throughout.

Magic advancent ant compensating for weaknesses.

The most effective compensation was winning without using it.

Hyacinth was undoubtedly the oldest, strongest magical girl, therefore her magic earned the world's number one title—not the reverse. Currently including Minase Kaori and Sakagami Anri, not one magical girl had reached this realm, lacking various environntal counterasures. Facing dium-scale Disaster Beasts after attrition warfare, they had difficulty responding and might face mortal danger. Should they retreat or enter the island interior to continue fighting?

Just as they hesitated, they saw Nan Zhiyi striding to the beachhead, standing at the very front. Despite directly facing pressure from over a hundred Disaster Beasts, she single-handedly suppressed their montum.

The originally knife-like sensation disappeared, replaced by dandelion fluff carrying fresh fragrance.

Full Armant Transformation!

Long-missed transformation made Nan Zhiyi feel unprecedented excitent—sky-high and sea-wide, passionate and enthusiastic.

Her night-colored long hair was bound into a high ponytail by star and moon accessories, wearing white-green collar ceremonial dress. The neutral style better accentuated curves, appearing heroic and spirited. Skirt edge ruffle design was subtly visible, adding a touch of hazy beauty. She wore short boots revealing white socks with pink ribbon edges fluttering gracefully.

Witch's profundity and enchantress's spirituality gathered in one body—contradictory yet not discordant. With every gesture, winds and clouds changed, forcibly halting two hundred Disaster Beasts' frenzy.

Death threats overca gluttonous desires.

The magical girls also stopped moving, all looking toward Nan Zhiyi. Though this Senior Dandelion had always specialized in official duties, she was the "Stargazer" second only to "Lyra" in fa—definitely extraordinary.

The Disaster Beast group began retreating, starting to turn and flee. They weren't stupid—knowing the situation was hopeless, don't lose your life over a al.

Everyone thought Nan Zhiyi, who took no action, planned to let the Disaster Beasts escape. Little did they know she was contemplating sothing else: how to establish advantage over Jin Ruochu and Jin Yulu? The forr used teorite summoning to compensate for the team's current lack of large-scale damage output, the latter relied on massive size to overturn seas with casual movents. She was still insufficient in this area.

Was there a thod to develop strongest domain magic's low-cost, high-damage techniques?

"You must respond to , I must respond to Classmate Jin."

Nan Zhiyi pointed remotely at the horizon. Currently the Disaster Beasts had fled nearly a kiloter and were about to dive deep underwater, disappearing from sight.

Hum!

Suddenly a starry sky-background sphere precisely trapped the Disaster Beast group, then rotated to make the lower edge beco the upper edge—equivalent to two spheres' distance.

The magical girls looked puzzled. Logically Senior Dandelion would use internal celestial bodies to damage targets, and thods for moving domain spheres within range did exist, but what did this operation an?

Before they could figure it out, they saw the domain suddenly cancel, causing a group of monsters to free-fall from two kiloters high.

The Disaster Beast rain slamd hard into the sea surface. Even with strong physical qualities, they couldn't withstand kinetic energy from gravitational acceleration—predictably turned to mush, staining the sea surface red.

Simple, brutal and effective.

The principle looked convenient, but nobody knew the adjustnts Nan Zhiyi made within the domain: changing weightlessness to increased weight. Using a massive planet's gravity to pull Disaster Beasts then canceling the domain to make them fall—that instant they faced more than just free-fall kinetic energy. Small Universe's core usage was guidance through miniature planets. Though just a mont, it greatly benefited the user.

Just as she savored this, she heard soone shout: "Senior Dandelion, new flying Disaster Beasts are attempting invasion—"

"Don't worry, it's already over. This mission concludes."

"Why?"

Nan Zhiyi looked around sowhat reproachfully: "I told you to train perception normally to avoid being blind in battle. Can't you sense such obvious powerful auras?"

As if responding to her welcoming words, mirror-shattering light flickered at the sky's edge, then threads of light sliced flying Disaster Beasts apart. Bodies fell from the horizon revealing spatial teleportation array's mysterious totems—Hibiscus's group had arrived successfully.