As the Villain, I Have a Persuasion System Chapter 58 : Identification Code - Lyra

Pasha commanded the still-combat-capable forces to easily deal with the scattered Disaster Beasts.

Having lost the Abyssal White Whale as the "strategic core" and the commander Disaster Beasts as "tactical executors," the army had no combat capability—like a giant with severed arms, unable to pose a threat. The rabble without organization was quickly swept away and completely eliminated.

The easier it beca now, the more they recognized the disruptive change powerful Disaster Beasts brought to the battlefield. That pure oppressive aura targeting ordinary life forms was too much of a cheat.

Weapons always needed people to operate them. When people fainted, warships beca big toys. As for long-range firepower, they could also interfere with that magical energy—researchers even called it "magic power" and studied its incredible properties. Pasha faintly suspected the mysterious ally and the team behind her had a deeper understanding of magic power.

It should be called magic.

What followed wasn't for the rcenary group to worry about—local officials and international organizations would handle reconstruction.

Over the years, humanity had developed a complete social system around fighting Disaster Beasts, including rescue, construction, and material sales, solving massive employnt while serving as a pressure valve for conflicts. Many politicians welcod Disaster Beasts enthusiastically—after all, having an absolutely politically correct common enemy to attack was very convenient. In short, new disasters would spawn new interest groups. Whether good or bad was hard to say, but at least it played a positive role regarding the events themselves.

The East Continental ocean archipelago would sweep away the old and undergo renewal and upgrading. The strong resilience and tenacious spirit of human civilization surprised even contemporaries.

Pasha returned to the headquarters building on land.

A post-war remote eting was currently being held, with stakeholders including but not limited to head leaders, military high command, corporate giants, and regional managers like herself.

"Let us all offer congratulations for Miss Pasha's triumphant return."

After thunderous applause, everyone discussed post-disaster reconstruction and other work according to procedure. Everyone was already well-practiced, after all, Disaster Beast counterasures were world-class public affairs that everyone had genuinely experienced threats from.

After the basic procedures ended, they had to discuss an additional topic: How to view the so-called Salvation Church?

"Shouldn't we first give the huntress a code na? That would be interesting." One Pasha suddenly interrupted, causing the eting-attending Pasha to kick her.

"There are many proposals, like Black Cot and such, but considering this is the first case in human history of successfully subjugating a Boss Disaster Beast in one round, we lean toward a more positive designation. She has gaseous matter resembling butterfly wings behind her, and when flying at high speed, she trails streamlines like a harp. In that case, it's simple."

"Identification code: Lyra."

"Of course we'd be happy to use her self-proclaid designation, but this lady showed no intention of introducing herself."

"Let's move to the next topic—how to establish relations with the Salvation Church? Social activist groups claiming to support it have already appeared..."

Pasha wasn't interested in decision-making and simply listened as a witness to the entire process. Facts proved that most people were wary and even in awe of Miss Lyra's displayed combat power. No one wanted to provoke soone more formidable than Boss Disaster Beasts, so they simply treated her as an equal power.

Actually, she always had one doubt: wasn't Lyra just made up on the spot?

However, it couldn't be disproven. The nature of those in power made them imdiately guard against new forces, but seeing the opponent wielded completely unreasonable might, they gritted their teeth and accepted it.

Pasha looked down on such small-minded nonsense exchange etings, never understanding from start to finish how to contact them or what to discuss. In her view, the most crucial thing was the reconstruction work itself.

One day later.

Hibiscus turned over and got up from the bed in the luxury hotel suite, refreshed after 24 hours of continuous rest.

Sleeping shorter than expected showed her physical attributes had improved slightly.

Although the Abyssal White Whale battle wasn't quite a brush with death, it was absolutely extrely dangerous. For the first ti, she encountered an enemy with the worst possible compatibility. Large size naturally diluted attack power, being in the ocean provided ho field advantage that prevented her from exerting full strength, and high HP, high defense, high regeneration were needless to ntion—having all "three highs" was deadly. Actually, even at the final mont, Hibiscus hadn't changed the fact of poor compatibility—she purely relied on overwhelming force to defeat the opponent.

Netizens once said "there are no two abilities with poor compatibility, only idiots whose developnt isn't comprehensive enough," so her magic still needed improvent.

But absolutely no subject bias.

Hibiscus learned the importance of Origin through a life-and-death battle. If stacked with debuffs like magic restrictions, low condition, and surrounded by enemies, even Sands of Ti would have difficulty breaking the deadlock—not because it wasn't strong enough, but because it was too consuming. At such tis, the most reliable high cost-performance thod was only Origin.

The final decisive move relied not only on ti acceleration but also magic power internal detonation techniques.

She had only grasped half-baked internal energy techniques yet could ignore the big guy's defenses. Future attacks would be stronger, even capable of triggering natural environntal changes like Boss Disaster Beasts.

The Regalia wasn't to be underestimated either. Without the built-in "armor" layer, she would have died several tis already. Thanks to these clothes offsetting partial damage.

Hibiscus discovered that Magical Girls' most gorgeous elents were concentrated in Regalia design. For example, when she flew at high speed, the silver trail lines she dragged were quite high-profile—truly worthy of the original work's identification code "Lyra." Similarly, Jin Ruochu had pink petal-like effects, so the identification code "Cherry Blossoms Everywhere" was indeed fitting.

Regalia was in a sense weaponry.

For instance, when she used magic, her hair ornant hairpin would glow to amplify effects. The 11-second pause on the airplane earlier was thanks to Regalia enhancent. Besides the hair ornant, it had 4 other parts: top, gloves, skirt, and boots, each representing a leap-forward ability amplification. As the final awakening of the three elents, it actually represented a Magical Girl's comprehensive strength. It was said so people had extrely strong Regalia developnt talent—this skill alone was comparable to the strongest magic. Hibiscus currently only awakened the hair ornant's amplification effect, still far from triggering the power of one Regalia component.

When Origin, magic, and Regalia each entered the next stage, it could be called the "seedling period," symbolizing a Magical Girl's entirely new level.

Hibiscus couldn't consider that long-term for now—she had just barely evolved her magic.

She believed the relative flow rate skill had great potential for deep developnt, even worthy of being called infinitely useful, directly compensating for speed shortcomings.

Future point allocation would emphasize magic power.

Sands of Ti indeed had more than just ti stop effects—truly worthy of being called "the most comprehensive in the ti system" by netizens. Looking at it from another angle: freezing the world represented "implenting forced states on ultra-large ranges," while the current relative flow rate represented "control skills"—for example, making the Abyssal White Whale unable to escape.

Offense, defense, and strong control all in one—very much to Hibiscus's taste.

Ti magic was precious because it was difficult to counter. The first skill was self-protection, the second was control. Although output and damage immunity skills for these two ecological niches hadn't appeared yet, one could see the steady, thodical design philosophy—full of logic.

Hibiscus temporarily had no leisure ti to experint. Having been offline for a whole day, she should understand the outside world's news about the Battle of Edo.