As the Villain, I Have a Persuasion System Chapter 292 : Rendezvous at Zodiac Palace

The second day after return.

The entire Hermit Island was bustling as most Magical Girls imrsed themselves in new magic power experiences.

Tree Seed Source's enhancent was greater than imagined. Life force was more essential than origin, bringing very significant benefits. Especially for those who'd just advanced to the Fruition Stage, it was like another sublimation.

However, while they busied themselves with magical progress, affairs were pushed to Hibiscus. As the Salvation Church's leader, she couldn't just stay AFK and ignore everything.

On the office desk, a thick stack of files was the greeting gift.

But she first looked at record logs, mainly the Church's own operations:

Not long ago, Bougainvillea, Hydrangea, and Corn Poppy finally completed recruitnt of all Rangers organization mbers scattered everywhere. Really troubleso—so people had even squatted in mountain valleys for decades, completely unaware of world changes, requiring ideological work before joining...

The Rangers' patchwork degree was embarrassing, fortunately maintaining minimum organizational structure, at least knowing several backbone leaders, so they smoothly rged into the Church.

After Bougainvillea formally t Hyacinth to confirm joining, it took so long to finally find all Rangers people—quite a winding path. But results were good, including many Seedling and Growth Stage backbone forces.

Only missing one backbone:

Swordsman.

Long ago she'd experienced similar things with Corn Poppy and Kale, entering the Holy City Association, later saving money to leave and wander everywhere.

Regalia na Magical Girl Yang Tao, technique-type, rare combat specialist, swordsman magic.

She always insisted on being called "Sword Immortal," but regardless, she was indeed powerful. Technique-type magic often transcended extensions of users' skill talents, not so dependent on world magic environnts. So she benefited from chanism advantages, making her strength continuously increase through dedicated skill tempering.

Though destructive power had limits, Yang Tao even calculated power to interfere with space, claiming to sever everything... However, after parting a hundred years ago, she vanished without trace.

Magic was an idealistic power—she embodied this thoroughly.

Bougainvillea believed "such powerhouses would never die silently, so Yang Tao must still be alive." Unfortunately, Hydrangea only divined starry sky imagery results—what did that an?

Had to set it aside.

Hibiscus opened another report:

Glacier Island absorbed large amounts of fresh Magical Girl blood, initially managed by Minase Kaori, Anri Sakagami, and Ruan Xinyue—everything was smooth.

But several manager-instructors honestly expressed judgnt: these newcors probably couldn't keep up with upcoming intense battles. High EQ said they'd support the future; low EQ said they were useless. Don't expect them to beco reliable combat power.

Hibiscus replied: "Fresh blood's existence itself has aning for the organization. Maintain training—Magical Girls should attempt building systematic precedents through this."

If they were fortunate enough to survive ultimate doomsday, they'd have to establish a new civilization from wasteland.

So be it.

Even if not magical civilization, it had to be.

Because lingering magic contamination would make large quantities of instrunts unable to work for long periods, forcing changes.

Still far away, because the premise was victory—otherwise everything would restart. Previously she could claim to foresee the future; now everything was blurry, plots changed beyond recognition and hard to predict. Even Hibiscus didn't know what specifically would happen.

She glanced outside where Magical Girls bathed in Tree Seed Source received fairy help, the latter jointly guiding magic amplification cultivation.

Erald Court residents also inevitably felt the crisis.

In so sense, she should thank Leticia's attack for activating more fairy military power—otherwise they'd probably continue maintaining conservative postures.

Mixed blessings.

Suddenly Manjusaka pushed the door open: "I heard after we returned, the Holy City Association sent requests hoping for so technical support regarding Ring of Levitation to protect Earth-Moon orbital tracks."

"I've written the materials—they're here." Hibiscus pointed to papers on the desk. "But fairy knowledge isn't necessarily easy to understand."

"...Looks like you're not concerned? Then I'll attach luck and send ssages."

"Right, no longer worth spending effort on the Holy City Association. Unless they're willing to provide all materials about lunar relic sites, everything in detail—that's fair trade, natural and right."

"Sure enough, you're also very concerned about this space station attack. Fine, I'll imdiately convey the trade to Pope."

Manjusaka ran out excitedly, returning shortly after, bringing freshly printed extensive archive materials detailing the entire process, naturally including recent cases.

Hibiscus compared with the Church's reports.

The biggest difference was Tulip's encounter—she'd indeed engaged in several rounds of intense firefights with the mysterious puppet...

Unfortunately, the opponent hid deeply. She couldn't describe specific clues. With Miss Illiterate's expressive abilities, probably couldn't extract useful information.

Instead, Jin Yulu's report on the strongest technique-type magic Dream Painter was very comprehensive, standard military style, detailing differences from the Antarctic battle. The opponent was closer to magical mysteries, able to directly overwrite settings and creations with minimal cost—very troubleso.

The puppet and painter belonged to the sa mysterious Magical Girl Organization, whose truth wasn't unfamiliar to Hibiscus.

Obelisk.

Netizens had long warned of its threatening existence—finally erged.

Just Dream Painter's joining was unexpected. No wonder she'd never been found—should have been hidden by Obelisk.

The strongest Magical Girl in history was acting.

Hibiscus was curious about various factors behind this, but everyone would et eventually—asking then wouldn't be late. Another ssage was more critical: according to Ruan Manyue, who was responsible for the Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror's observations—spatial fluctuations were extrely unstable with critical signs.

What did they take the human world for? Co as you please, leave as you please? Moreover, according to her observations, the commotion wouldn't be small—probably massive area disasters were possible.

Manjusaka seed to sense sothing and asked: "Is it about spatial fluctuations?"

"I used ntal power to sense briefly—that sign disappeared again, seemingly covered by even larger shock waves... unclear, hard to judge now, really unlucky."

"Rember we asked about Zodiac Palace's location? Only Door-Key can travel freely in spaceti turbulence."

"Possible."

How could Hibiscus not think of this? Unfortunately, verification channels were too few—bla the inexplicable spatial shock waves for covering perception.

"Don't rack your brains. Just divine it."

After successfully breaking through, Manjusaka was very willing to use Fortune and Misfortune to solve daily problems, becoming increasingly adept, further confirming the first all-purpose support's status—useful in all aspects...

Monts later, her expression beca serious: "Strange, Zodiac Palace is rapidly approaching us."

"Huh?"

Even usually calm and steady Hibiscus widened her eyes, more puzzled by Fortune and Misfortune's divination results.

Facing questioning attitudes, Manjusaka innocently replied: "Indeed very strange, but positional destiny shows both sides' physical... spatial distance is rapidly closing, seemingly following our spatial coordinate traces, equivalent to this teleportation providing navigation."

Just as both were puzzled, suddenly Hydrangea and Ruan Manyue burst through the door.

"I calculated that a hundred-thousand-square-kiloter-class island is about to crash over—very painful."

"Soone is tracking Hermit Island on spatial levels."

Warnings from two T0-level causality and space-types basically confird the judgnt, and that commotion grew larger. Even ti-type Hibiscus sensed sothing big was violently shaking.

The several exchanged glances, seeing tension in each other's pupils. The opponent's strength was secondary—how terrifying would such a big thing crashing down be?

"Alert!"

The next mont, sharp sounds echoed throughout Hermit Island, spreading everywhere. This wasn't a drill but enemy attack signals.

At the sa ti, headquarters automatically sent ssages to surrounding United Forces bases—next, the South Pacific would probably face energy storms—

For Magical Girls, it didn't matter much. They trained daily anyway—just actual combat. Long accustod, besides, better than the previous space station ti. Now the Salvation Church with all elite combat power assembled could face everything—they were together.

For command headquarters, they were simply numb—why were there troubles every day?

When Hibiscus's group ran to the beach, they just encountered training Magical Girls and fairies. As fluctuations intensified, everyone unanimously felt crisis—clearly sothing was about to crash over.

"Can't sit and wait for death. We must intercept in space." As her words fell, Hibiscus transford into a teor climbing upward.

Nan Zhiyi instructed others: "Hold the headquarters, but also prepare spatial teleportation for evacuation anyti."

"Understood."

The entire Salvation Church had trained similarly countless tis, already familiar with the process. Usually their most frequent topic was what to do when facing sudden attacks.

In the blink of an eye, Blooming and Fruition Stage Magical Girls ca to outside the atmosphere.

Actually, only this level had qualifications for space warfare—otherwise physical strength and magic continuation were inadequate. Now facing empty surroundings, they didn't know from which direction attacks would co, scanning only to see several artificial satellites passing by.

"I'll divine."

With that, Manjusaka scattered cherry blossom petal-shaped magic fragnts from her hand, actually all blowing toward a certain direction.

Everyone exchanged glances and imdiately realized the problem, working together to construct a huge magic net. Sure enough, the next mont ca cracking sounds of space shattering—a massive island.

It was clearly a piece of land, more terrifyingly covered in contamination auras, accompanied by Dark Fairy fluctuation reactions.

The Magical Girl standing at the front, bathed in blood, wore white wing regalia. Though her aura was low, powerful spatial attributes revealed her identity: Door-Key user.

Facing strangers, she smiled bitterly and waved before collapsing: "Help us..."

But before finishing, a Dark Fairy fired light beams, which exploded with a crack before being severed by sword light—from an equally severely wounded Magical Girl whose blade-shaped magic nearly faded but still delivered crucial blocks.

"Yang Tao!"

Bougainvillea called out in surprise, waving to her old friend. Both looked at each other in shock, thinking the other had long since unfortunately perished.

"Worthy of being our boss—really tough life." She turned and asked: "You must be Hyacinth? Those Dark Fairies claid they absolutely couldn't let us rendezvous—also old acquaintances."

"Right, so we should entertain them well."

Hibiscus saw Blasphemous Angel Leticia's figure from afar.

The latter frowned and gritted her teeth. Despite worrying about the Grayfire battlefield and not using full power, severely wounding all Zodiac Palace mbers, she still faced this situation.

If she charged into world barriers, she'd probably be weakened. Fighting desperately with several strongest magic users was unwise.

While pondering, suddenly Magical Girl Hyacinth before her released massive energy, instantly encompassing land and surroundings—coverage exceeding tens of thousands of square kiloters in terrifying output range.

Relative flow rate!

Acceleration target: Zodiac Palace base; deceleration target: all Dark Fairies.

Countless satellites worldwide witnessed a land bathed in silver sand moving faster and faster, while invaders were forcibly fra-locked slower—an incredible scene that left people dumbfounded. Were they creating a super teorite impact?

The next mont, Small Universe domain projection sent several planets steadily maintaining gravity support for the target, making it imdiately decelerate smoothly while protecting the Magical Girls above.

Nan Zhiyi and Hibiscus's perfect coordination made Zodiac Palace base exit the battlefield, with the Church prepared to intercept.

"If you want to fight, then fight—"

As usual, Jin Yulu took the first tank position at the front. The World Serpent exhaled dragon breath, flas dyeing the sky.

Reaching the Fruition Stage, the strongest mythological magic's origin enhancent made power even greater, shaking heaven and earth. The scorching heat made Dark Fairies retreat.

At the sa ti, thunder roared. Just Tulip's casual wave brought electromagnetic storms sweeping over, leveraging planetary magnetic fields for even more massive resonance, imdiately paralyzing several enemies unconscious.

Old opponent Manjusaka also settled new and old scores together by launching curses.

Rumble!

Wave after wave of energy shock waves erupted outside the atmosphere—clearly the Salvation Church angrily struck to severely teach the uninvited guests a lesson.

The critical fairy squad also wasn't to be outdone. Under Edwina and Julius's leadership, they likewise launched flank attacks. Two major groups' combined firepower coverage temporarily suppressed enemies already retreating from World Tree defeat.

Ho field advantage was important. Currently, Planet Gaia couldn't support Withering Stage wanton performance, so mighty Blasphemous Angel didn't dare easily enter—missing one trump card.

Both sides' clash shock waves caused low-orbit satellites to collapse successively, even space stations felt strong tremors.

They seed about to burn the atmosphere to nothing.

Flowing light flickered as magic power clashed frantically—this was group warfare. One side wanted to completely destroy severely wounded prey; the other covered injured evacuation while blocking enemies, and with that breath, absolutely had to teach the opponent a lesson.

Zodiac Palace base fell into the South Pacific without incident, creating an extra piece of land out of nowhere. Garrison Magical Girls quickly went up to provide treatnt.

Most people suffered severe wounds in Dark Fairy attacks, needing healing ability assistance. However, Stephanie, Joan, and others didn't dare easily use full power because the battlefield continued.