Hermit Island coastline.
Peony stands on the beach outlining a door toward the outside, light streaming out a massive ark.
If letting it sail over step by step would be too slow—opening teleportation midway.
Anemone standing at bow manipulates the super relic slowly leaping through the door. Massive shadow covers coastal area—too exaggerated, probably 500,000-ton displacent, ridiculous data.
Moreover, entirely special wood materials—unit weight definitely doesn't match carrier alloy steel, so actual volu more terrifying, like teor descent.
The ark docked in harbor directly blocks light.
Training Magical Girls frequently glance, losing attention. Jin Yulu and Tulip announce rest, sparring themselves.
Gothic dress girl elegantly descends, toes lightly touching beach, standing steadily.
"Hyacinth, heard you possess full relic compatibility qualifications. Can you try starting it? At least need knowing what probability helps us survive Great Catastrophe—give it a try."
"Fine."
While speaking, silver-haired girl was still in office watching news, next mont appearing on beach responding.
re Hermit Island area insufficient for Withering Stage Magical Girls' activities. Physical movent speed rivals low-tier teleportation—seamless displacent within island limits, on-call, more effective than any defense asures.
Hibiscus actually uncertain about so-called ark principles, can only first use ntal power linking with it, unexpectedly smoothly forming energy resonance...
"Any problems?"
"Even if you've filled with magic power, it's still insufficient for activation. Add one catastrophic disaster crystal."
Just as words fade, she already flicks super energy entity, imdiately fusing into relic main body blooming light endlessly. The entire hull begins shaking and humming, sounds continuous, growing stronger.
Next mont its surface raises barrier shields, abnormally solid, plus ti flow slowing power.
Powerful defense plus ti attribute enhancent indeed might survive Great Catastrophe. Though no one experinted, principles should work. This point, Magical Girls with slight transcendent knowledge understand—at least so possibility exists.
"Interesting. I now confirm it received ti magic user blessings, unfortunately not strongest tier—worse than you."
"Already set—I can't further enhance."
"Normal."
"Preserving as insurance should work, but expecting to survive Great Catastrophe is demanding too much. Because blessing-giver's magic intensity lacks."
Top Magical Girls' perception slightly scanning understands crafting techniques are immature.
Naturally, using materials to amplify and strengthen magic permanent effects is indeed a viable approach—simply genius ingenuity. Being able to create this probably exhausted civilization's power, containing massive crystals.
Moreover, it indeed only optimally activates during doomsday. Great Catastrophe brings maximum energy tide resonance enhancent.
So current judgnts are speculation.
Good news, not disappointing—counts as stimulant. For ordinary Magical Girls, adds protection layer, buying peace of mind. Can't expect everyone like Hyacinth and Anemone preparing with death resolve—leaving escape routes is fine.
Beach crowd curiously approaches observing, imdiately discussing:
"Such a big ship!"
"Feels like it could carry entire island population with room to spare—simply mobile city, wonderful!"
"Definitely works, must work—I have premonition it's reliable."
But so think resistance is more reliable, unwilling to place hope on unknown-age broken relic. Overall, everyone gets along well. Regardless of tendency, at least adds possibility—better than dim hope.
Magical Girls are very happy, especially newcors' ntal pillars solidify sowhat. Whether offense or defense, both are paths to next era.
"This psychology is unhealthy." Jin Yulu walking beside Hibiscus comnts.
"You made a cognitive error: not all Magical Girls are combat personnel. Must differentiate civilians requiring protection."
"Every additional one counts."
"No, this is absolutely elite battle—unfair but rational. Stake minority strongest as chips suffices."
Discussing this, Jin Yulu easily accepts.
She understands preserving fresh blood reasoning, just feels failure ans everything zeros—better go all-in. Since now having ark second option, simply let so choose.
Boom!
Suddenly massive sound rises from underground, spreading ripples centered on island forming 10-ter high waves. Tsunami completes in seconds—world spinning.
Beach weak Magical Girls and city ordinary people imdiately topple. Monitoring stations issue earthquake warnings, but no progressive movent—more like massive ground subsidence collapse, indeed correct.
Next mont several figures gather at island's rear mountain ancient ruins village. Surface buildings gone, only large pit remains.
Pit edge has pink-haired girl who fell face-first, lying straight down embarrassedly. Shy emotional fluctuations under nurous strong perception are obvious, full of cody.
"Your fall isn't cheap."
Nan Zhiyi smilingly offers clean towel.
Unlucky miss wipes face while complaining: "I always felt magic fluctuations here so ca investigating. Result—bad luck ca, fell creating teor crater."
"Treasure-seeking episodes often have ordinary beginnings. Miss Manjusaka, you triggered plot." Inspired Erina takes a sketch pad rapidly outlining huge cave...
Hmm?
She suddenly realizes everyone watches her painting, especially interested in settlent traces at subsidence layer edges.
Anemone says eerily: "Strange—only your eyes show ancient building traces. Our perspective shows simple large pit."
"My god, so protagonist-like!"
"It's cognitive obstruction causality permanent effects, so I resonated creating bad luck, while Dream Painter magic has hidden copying chanisms, perfectly breaking causality concealnt."
"Jin Ruochu, we trust your combat intuition."
After sensing, Hibiscus also discovers strong cognitive obstruction distorting vision.
Actually, with full-elent Magical Girl Origin-enhanced eyes, it's much clearer. Probably Anemone's consistent small mischief teasing everyone. Look—strange phenona unexpectedly shake Peony completely, absolute perfectionist worrying about completely unexpected things.
"Don't panic everyone." Julius hurriedly flies over: "Her Majesty asked to relay ssage—"
Fairy recounts intelligence from Lilith.
During Julius's explanation, beside her Edwina manifests three-dinsional map—layers of hollow structures symbolizing multiple ruin levels.
Magical Girls previously knew amazing secrets buried beneath Hermit Island, but didn't expect such remoteness, unknown how many grudges sealed. Just sleeping here for several eras...
No wonder so much permanent magic—even Disaster Beasts can't completely destroy.
But they're uninterested in unverifiable history—key is magic information existence.
Anemone nods:
"Workable. If massive permanent magic exists, then certain resonance effects on sa types, perhaps enhancing one or two elents. Because Withering Stage magic chanisms cover broadly, nourishing entire classifications even cross-classifications."
This isn't theory—after all recently practiced. In so sense, she counts as ark preserving magic intelligence.
Unfortunately, most she manages already invalid or inferior to before. Everyone's breakthrough basically relies on themselves. Now having opportunities for more information naturally goes all-out.
Hibiscus states: "No reason to disagree. Julius, so you an having us descend investigating, then opening so magic-ford sedint seals releasing those information essences, right?"
"You understand quickly—completely correct."
"About what I guessed. Previously I definitely wouldn't agree."
"Why?"
"Permanent magic-level energy dispersion would further raise magic concentration causing infection. Now life-or-death monts can't consider this."
Pollution matters wait until surviving to address. Current forward-and-backward thinking is luxury.
She gives Jin Ruochu a look. The latter smilingly blesses everyone with luck. With Fortune and Misfortune's current performance, even sufficient to guarantee everyone possesses world-protection conceptual blessings.
Next, Erena provides series of positive enhancent bonuses. This gold dal support better stays on surface.
Peony gives everyone spatial marks as return teleport signals, so she must stay on stable spatial fluctuation surface, avoiding chaotic losses.
Another staying guard is Tulip—personally understands nothing, uninterested, plus magic unsuitable for narrow environnt combat.
So team decided: Hibiscus, Anemone, Jin Ruochu, Nan Zhiyi and Jin Yulu. Magic performance and experience also mutually coordinate. As complete adventure party, comprehensive in all aspects, plus surface support.
Naturally, Guardian Knight Julius also follows.
Descending.
Several leap into void falling.
Imdiately they frown, because instantly sky is underfoot, sunlight shooting from below echoing and refracting in void clouds.
"Gravity ability permanent magic, applying upside-down effects, also certain ti interference." Hibiscus murmurs: "Though useless to now, Ruan Xinyue staying longer should benefit greatly—prerequisite is confirming safety."
Even she wary of suddenly changed gravity direction, inevitably affecting normal magic output ability.
This permanent magic scale quite amazing, continuous, rooted in world magic itself yet self-contained. Worthy of Withering Stage—indeed magic mystery level, making miracles eternally endure.
Anemone says eerily: "11-elent ones like you still struggle creating permanent magic—after all just breakthrough. 12 elents more reliable."
"If dying, can leave permanent relics for yourself."
Her voice through magic also reaches surface guard group ears. Everyone's mouths twitch uncontrollably.
Really knows how to talk.
Everyone turns their attention to the surrounding environnt.
Must admit upside-down environnt creates peerless beautiful scenery. Staggered sensation makes one seem in a three-dinsional portrait gallery.
Paintings show different era layered ruins and ancient buildings—magnificent dreamlike beauty. Various era aesthetics, in cloud-wind drifting appearing and disappearing, even deep valleys have bright illumination.
Jin Ruochu exclaims: "Also permanent magic—elental cloud maintaining light refraction making every corner clearly visible, eliminating cognitive obstruction suffices."
Nan Zhiyi carefully samples studying, quite scientific spirit.
Permanent magic's strange phenona worth research, but finding truly preserved magic information requires deeper ancient places—in other words, continuously going up.
Up?
After gravity direction reversal, above swirls with massive magic, even frequent lightning—
World Serpent suddenly leaps out bathing in thunder, helping everyone resist attacks. Just one encounter leaves flesh torn.
"Don't worry—already regenerated. But these energies are annoying, obviously rejecting explorers. Clearly everyone's Magical Girls yet not producing resonance—large pit ford self-ecosystem."
As embodint of one world, Jin Yulu indeed qualified to comnt. According to current situation, they simply arrived at new world.
"Indeed magic energy very special." Julius agrees.
Fortunately her map still useful.
Though years ancient and remote, mory from Fairy Queen isn't wrong, sufficient to guide everyone forward. After climbing—also descending—one thousand ters, new changes appear:
Intimidation.
Past powerful Magical Girls' remaining auras continuously tornt this space, swirling strong ntal power causing discomfort. Even strong sa-level Withering Stage feel weighted throughout, occasionally producing headaches—very uncomfortable.
Hibiscus gestures: "Be careful—next intimidation will grow stronger, directly targeting Origin."
Strongest present senses most clearly. This isn't just deliberately left defense asures—that would be fine. Essentially great battles caused spatial shattering eternally leaving world wounds—belongs to battlefield-level intimidation. Even Anemone uncomfortably shrugs.
"Her Majesty ntioned past battles had ti and space type strongn, developnt directions also differing from today's Sands of Ti and Door-Key..."
"But opening and creating brand new regions."
Julius looks at scene before her shockingly: "So spaceti gaps might still contain past shadows."
Boom!
Overhead increasingly brilliant, light refraction even clearly showing surface—how possible? Clearly regalia Magical Girls and Disaster Beasts interlacing continuously causing explosion scenes, vivid—no, happening. That power even disperses outward.
No life aura sensed—those past things long destroyed by Great Catastrophe, yet domineering power still collides, buried beneath Hermit Island for years.
They are the world's most determined vengeful spirits.
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