Ningfeng Port, Changfeng Group headquarters building office.
"Cancel all my appointnts." After speaking to his secretary in an unquestionable tone, Jin Changfeng turned on the morning television. "Today is when all expeditionary forces complete their first phase mission—extrely significant. I suggest you watch too."
"Boss, you can watch by yourself. Actually, younger generations aren't that focused on war anymore."
"Indeed."
Even he only paid attention because his daughter was at the storm's eye center, and of course Hyacinth was also worth noting—they charged at the most dangerous frontlines.
Turning on the TV, the scene showed President Bull conducting a press conference. This guy's overflowing desire for attention made Jin Changfeng raise an eyebrow, but seeing familiar people in the shot, he forgave it.
The pink-haired girl had her arms crossed, nodding off bit by bit, seemingly wanting to sleep right after a great battle, not giving the caras any face.
Seeing this, the old father couldn't hold back—where was proper deportnt? Where was the image? Such performance simply negated Jin Changfeng's past education. His blood pressure shot up severely. But thinking of Salvation Church's narrow escape from death, he felt relieved.
Hyacinth beside Manjusaka patted the forr, finally making her sowhat alert.
Bull didn't notice the interaction behind him, continuing: "We've achieved breakthrough progress far exceeding expectations, recently completing Fallen Zone base construction."
"Thanks to everyone who contributed to this cause. Let us rember heroes who sacrificed in war, and we won't forget our mission continues. Though New Allied Forces achieved victory, enemies are also evolving. Without Salvation Church resisting this intelligent subspecies' Disaster Beast attack, consequences would be unthinkable. So the next round of recapture wars will be more intense. Correspondingly, we'll crush enemies with even stronger power."
"Certain victory!"
The scene erupted in waves of applause.
Jin Changfeng wasn't interested in this repetitive rhetoric—knowing his foolish daughter was safe and sound was enough.
On another hand, it also ant military supply provision would rise. The group cutting into the infection disease special dicine business instead gained new affiliations—ordinary dicine also had profits.
"Salvation Church's deterrence has reached new levels. Perhaps the group needn't be so secretive anymore. Might as well directly enter the Managent Bureau Foundation—anyway, they left it there for convenience."
He outlined a grand blueprint in his mind, accumulating as much power as possible.
Jin Changfeng had already received inside information. Tactically speaking, humanity won big—this was undeniable. But magic revival trends remained unchanged.
According to Hyacinth's statent, "delaying rapid expansion of high-concentration magic environnts led by the Fallen Zone" was achieved. But scaling up to decades or centuries, the world would inevitably change completely—couldn't ignore this. Moreover, there would definitely be complications during this period. Just thinking with your feet, you'd know that with fairy descent, Magical Girl proliferation, Ancient Holy Relic returns, and other factors, the process would only accelerate.
The group should consider longer-term goals, like resource complentarity binding with Salvation Church's controlled resources.
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Washington, the bustling parliant concluded another round of voting.
The Speaker surveyed the room then banged his gavel announcing: "Majority votes support the 'New Allied Forces and Salvation Church Military Cooperation Agreent'—officially passed. We will fulfill contents including but not limited to intelligence sharing, high-level hotlines, military procurent..."
"Hooray!" Beatrice below excitedly cheered. Everyone ignored such slightly improper behavior.
Kelly beside her patted her partner's shoulder: "I know you're excited—calm down."
"Wasn't our trip in vain."
Parliantary voting began almost as soon as the Fallen Zone war was decided. According to Miller's information, Salvation Church had better send representatives on site—at least providing a foothold. If anything went wrong, at least soone would be there. The faster the better.
Local people, temporarily not needed on frontline battlefields, first batch veterans, two Magical Girls with political-business experience arrived by military aircraft. Also for magical reasons:
Beatrice possessed a summoning type, Encyclopedia. Resisting Knowledge Poison was actually a secondary chanism—mainly for rapidly digesting, understanding, and organizing knowledge. Most suitable for dealing with paperwork mountains and legal technicalities, imdiately spotting buried traps or backdoors.
Kelly possessed the domain type, Eternal Classroom. Also capable of processing large amounts of information, plus controlling Domain Projection made escape convenient.
The two as partners sufficiently handled such situations.
For parliant, this also sent a signal: you're actively courting, not that I value this much.
Reception standards were far inferior.
Publicly recognized "4 giants core tier"—none ca. Others like Elsa and Minase Kaori, whose identities were disclosed multiple tis for managent activities, were treated as invisible.
Through a Fallen Zone depths chaotic killing spree record, Salvation Church entered world-class giant rankings, not far from Holy City Association's combat reserves. New Allied Forces that even Ancient Holy Relics couldn't suppress—how could they suppress them? Tis changed too fast. They needed supernatural forces maintaining friendship, joining Anti-Disaster Beast fronts together through cooperation.
Moreover, this organization's rise process was worthy of prophet Hyacinth's leadership—step by step, almost making every right choice.
They bound too many forces forming massive interest groups. It was difficult to target them with coordinated sieges. Since they couldn't win, might as well court and recruit them.
After voting concluded, Miller approached Beatrice and Kelly. As party whip, he naturally had parliant offices, openly inviting Church representatives inside, not hiding his stakeholder stance.
"Congratulations."
Fine wine in tall glasses was handed to guests.
"Though everyone's safe and sound, I'll still ask redundantly: was it dangerous?"
Facing the question, Beatrice said: "I'm a non-combat personnel who wasn't on frontlines. Plus I fainted when the intelligent subspecies appeared—better let you explain."
"Purely regarding Fallen Zone depths in military strength, the Church had advantages. Even facing so ergencies, wasn't there Hyacinth? Incidentally, Miss Elsa suffered no serious harm. She and Minase coordinated to contain high-tier Disaster Beasts without difficulty, not getting involved in maximum intensity areas."
Miller breathed a long sigh of relief: "The military showed so battle footage—truly thrilling."
"Dangerous but no disasters."
"Since you answered my question, I should share so news. Like the Holy City Association's lunar base returning to the surface."
His tone was quite serious, combined with solemn expressions counting as intelligence. Couldn't say more—anyway, a group of troubleso guys representing Holy Relics are beginning to fully activate and influence official institutions.
Hearing this, both Magical Girls nodded solemnly. They would relay the ssage.
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Hermit Island.
Over 72 hours had passed since the first round of Fallen Zone recapture wars ended. Various post-war cleanup around New Zealand temporary bases remained incomplete, with dical units receiving wounded being busiest.
Salvation Church naturally joined treatnt ranks, reenacting core zone Base No. 1 events, harvesting another wave of shock.
With piles of related magic providing escort, casualty numbers plumted.
As leader, Hibiscus was instead free. At this mont she sat in a beach lounge chair holding a folder, casually looking through it while feeling sea breezes and slling flower fragrances. In her peripheral vision, Tulip and Yeta occasionally raced. Jin Yulu, clearly not speed-type but still joining in—seems the battle with Obsidian put Protea into new competitive cycles. Thanks to their commotion, the island was quite lively.
Thunder rolled constantly.
She finally had ti to handle trivial matters like the Five-Color Narcissus Company, including news Jin Ruochu brought about Changfeng Group investing in Managent Bureau Foundation.
Jin Ruochu proudly placed a stack of applications on the small table beside the lounge chair.
"Dr. Mu, Changfeng Group finally relented and decided to fully inject funds." The pink-haired girl smiled: "Previously he kept saying we were ssing with unprofitable things. Now he knows what the new era is..."
Suddenly strong winds blew the applications into the air. Worse, several passing seagulls carried them off.
"My dad will definitely beat ." She imdiately covered her face like the famous painting "The Scream."
Hibiscus was accustod to this, murmuring: "Regarding business news, your father definitely knows more than us. Money is the best weather vane. Seems many people think even real estate isn't safe, so they're researching other investnt fields."
"After all, these days even aftershocks can tear down houses. Speaking of which, don't Magical Girls have restoration magic? Why can't they one-click restore entire buildings?"
"They can, but only fairies know specific thods."
"A bunch of mysterious guys. Though they helped us several tis, I always feel they're hiding more." Jin Ruochu scratched her head. "Must have good chats when we et later."
"Not far off."
Netizens repeatedly ntioned how Magical Girl Manjusaka attracted fairies like bees to flowers—she had affinity for talents and should get along happily with Erald Court. Moreover, fairies counted as one of the few gentle elents in the light magic worldview, generally trustworthy and would beco powerful helpers.
Only the original plot had them descending after Fallen Zone battle setbacks, thus gaining huge influence. Now not necessarily.
Unknowingly, Hibiscus changed too much history. Ultimately had to feel her way across the river stone by stone.
"Everyone, good news."
Nan Zhiyi ran over quickly, placing a thick stack of docunts on the table. The beginning showed national emblem symbols—the full text of "Military Cooperation" t her eyes. But with Magical Girl perception, a glance read seventy to eighty percent. Very sincere.
She continued: "Seems Beatrice and Kelly's oversight was quite satisfactory. Everything went smoothly. Though we didn't push for it, they sent an additional bonus."
Hibiscus smiled: "As long as you're capable enough, everything becos convenient. Troubles without qualifications will make their way themselves. But we must acknowledge Senator Miller's efforts—worthy of him, consistently seasoned. Of course, can't rule out him representing the official introduction of another force for balance, because calculating ti, it's about ti for Holy City Association's return voyage..."
"What I'm about to say is exactly this. You anticipated everything. Can you intermittently foresee things anyti, anywhere?"
Compared to Nan Zhiyi's interest, Jin Ruochu beside her showed exaggerated shock.
"Nothing impressive—just deduction."
"Anyway, news from Washington indicates Ancient Holy Relics might increase garrison strength in various theaters. Moreover, guys on the moon seem unwelcoming to Magical Girls—should be more careful. Actually, I'm more concerned that their numbers exceed my imagination. Do you know specifically how many there are?"
"Around 20."
"...Heard so Ancient Holy Relics are semi-permanently dormant or extrely unstable. Even excluding all of them, they still surpass the Church's high-end combat power."
Jin Ruochu said confidently: "We few should practice harder, catch up to Dr. Mu early. Once reaching Blooming Stage, we needn't fear those guys. Moreover, Magical Girls keep increasing—nurical advantage will eventually belong to the Church."
"Unlucky young lady, you're still as optimistic. But I agree. Taking advantage of now, I'm going to train. Want to co?"
With Nan Zhiyi's active invitation, the two left Hermit Island's beach.
Watching their retreating figures, Hibiscus seed to foresee very lively commotions occurring in New Zealand's outer seas. Then Bull should regret his showoff actions to demonstrate military might.
Magical Girls would stay a while longer because the repeatedly overworked Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror needed maintenance, conveniently selling so Disaster Beast materials on site.
What military cooperation?
Legal docunts ca too late. Everyone had long been allies with aligned interests—no need for reminders.
Taking advantage of free ti, Hibiscus finally opened the system attribute panel. Since advancing to the Blooming Stage, she hadn't had ti to study carefully. Now she had an important hypothesis needing verification—attribute points would clearly indicate.
[Constitution: 3100]
[Magic Power: 3300]
[Spirit: 3090]
[Speed: 3202]
[Strength: 3050]
Sure enough, reached average three thousand points. From Growth Stage peak to Blooming Stage directly jumped five hundred distance, and from Hibiscus's feeling judgnt, this was far from the end. This level should range from three thousand to five thousand, slower than past Growth Stages. In so sense, it also represented value—future Blooming Stage peak performance would be more exaggerated. Don't forget Magical Girls had high upper limits—later stages developed more explosively.
Previously each level-gate equaled about one thousand. Now it was different—growth would accelerate increasingly.
The silver-haired girl clenched her fist, taking a deep breath to feel increasingly dense magic factors in the wind. Even without deliberate guidance, her body actively accepted energy for training improvent.
Originally she worried reaching Stage 3 might make previous training thods ineffective. Facts proved they still worked, and more easily—often with half the effort for double results.
The system panel intuitively answered Hibiscus's questions through data.
Basic attribute improvents brought maximum benefits. No wonder she could suppress high-tier Disaster Beasts in physical qualities. Adding Regalia and origin enhancent, she was extrely threatening even without magic. Now ordinary high-tier Disaster Beasts couldn't handle her.
Of course, external factors had to be considered, closely related to magic environnts. At this mont she increasingly felt like lacking oxygen outside the Fallen Zones.
The stronger the power, the clearer the sensation. So Disaster Beasts instinctively hoped to expand environnts.
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