All along, Hibiscus had been thinking about how to deal with high defense, high HP, high regeneration enemies before Sands of Ti developed output skills. The Battle of Edo made her suddenly realize—the answer had been announced long ago. The most versatile ability of Magical Girls was Origin itself.
When necessary, even the strongest magic should be set aside without hesitation to play support. So she paused for the limit of 11 seconds, gathering power for one punch that penetrated Gallup's body.
Magic Power Internal Compression.
This strike using a special attack she hadn't yet mastered skillfully also relied on luck.
Hibiscus withdrew her arm to see every joint twisted, even with bones piercing through skin and hanging down. The desperate strike that penetrated the alloy body also crippled her right arm. Just looking at it hurt, making the three observing girls admire this ruthless spirit—truly making good use of Magical Girls' regeneration ability.
She showed no change in expression as she shook her right arm to set the bones, enhanced with Healing Technique for rapid recovery. Thanks to that tiny bit of force application technique, at least she reduced so damage to herself.
Thud!
Gallup fell to his knees and lowered his head, but ultimately still had a breath left. Spitting blood foam, he asked: "Aren't Disaster Beasts your enemies?"
"Forever and always. That's one of our fundantal principles."
"Then this is just settling personal grudges between us. I'll leave you a complete corpse." Almost simultaneously, his ghost mask lted and suddenly burst out an even deadlier gas cloud, corroding even his own alloy body—the toxicity was unimaginable.
Ti Acceleration.
Before the three girls' faces could turn to surprise, this space beca sluggish in all phenona. Even the gas cloud that erupted at zero distance, despite all its efforts, couldn't touch Hibiscus herself. Before absolute confinent's sluggishness, even 1 centiter was an eternal shore. Therefore, this final strike seed comical instead. Gallup's face already showed so self-mockery, but he still launched the attack, declaring he would never surrender.
Hibiscus raised her staff preparing to deliver the final blow from a distance, but suddenly alarm bells rang in her heart, making her cautiously retreat.
The mont sluggishness made contact, the toxic gas exploded and filled the space. Its intensity was so high that even she felt a trace of paralysis. Could the previous attack have been insufficient?
Looking closely, she saw Gallup's body interior was also trending toward alloy-like luster.
Ti to fight desperately.
Only 120 seconds remained before the Small Universe domain could reopen.
Having been pulled into the closed domain earlier, he had experienced the vastness of starry sky and that unfathomable stellar power. If there was a second ti, the odds would be against him. So he had to finish off the silver-haired girl with the strongest comprehensive ability within two minutes. Fortunately, the opponent had very poor compatibility with him.
"I admit you made contributions in fighting Disaster Beasts, but we don't accept monsters whose bodies are almost entirely composed of magic power. You should be eliminated."
"Well said." Hibiscus nonchalantly spread her hands: "This way we can also eliminate you without hesitation."
The undisguised malice collision between the two made the three girls' faces darken.
The next mont, Gallup rushed forward with a grapple, but Hibiscus easily dodged. After several consecutive pursuit rounds, he still couldn't touch her. As long as it wasn't close contact, the toxin effect was relatively weak. This performance gradually made him anxious.
The silver-haired girl remained light as a swallow with flexible positioning, neither engaging in close combat nor prolonging battles, her footwork wandering like a dance.
This was bad.
Whenever Gallup wanted to seize an opening to attack the two recovering wounded and one protector in the distance, the opponent would definitely activate miraculous power to slow his movents, then maintain distance and emit magic power beams. Although it didn't cause fatal damage temporarily, the control skills were indeed disgusting.
This guy lacked high-intensity output capability, but that didn't an she couldn't deliver one-hit kills—otherwise how did the Abyssal White Whale beco sashimi? Defense must be raised as much as possible.
The consequence was decreased mobility, completely unable to touch the enemy. Continuing like this would lead to complications.
"But the ti has co."
He stomped hard on the ground, causing even the entire warehouse to tremble, support pillars collapsing one after another. Debris fell like rain, huge concrete blocks crashing down with thunderous noise. In the rising dust, the man's figure quickly flashed toward the surface.
Halfway through his escape, Gallup felt increasingly wrong—why hadn't the enemy with ti miracles caught up?
Screech!
The mont this thought arose, his foot slipped and he crashed face-first into a broken concrete block. Weighing dozens of tons with incomparable force, what was more terrifying was the twisted steel bars covering it like vines, trapping his body. Unfortunately, his alloy body lacked flexibility and was hard to break free from, yet he didn't dare cancel it or even the warehouse collapse would be deadly. How was this possible? Had he suddenly fallen into a desperate situation?
"Misfortune has targeted you. You can't escape." Jin Ruochu made a gun gesture with her hand.
Beside her, Jin Yulu and Nan Zhiyi blinked their big eyes in confusion. Although they didn't understand the principle, it should be so control skill that locked onto the enemy, right?
Understanding without words, Hibiscus imdiately kicked a broken steel bar to stick beside Gallup, one after another firmly fixing the target.
The toxin kept corroding the tal but couldn't match the replenishnt speed.
"Big help."
The silver-haired girl took out a blood-red staff, lting and recasting it into a sharp blade—edge gleaming, reflecting light like snow. The rolling magic power contained within seed to leap and roar, eager to tear apart enemies. The relic from Disaster Beast bloodthirstiness craved flesh and blood.
After a crisp clang, only a white mark remained on Gallup's throat, wrapped in layers of steel bar jungle.
He sneered: "Useless. Soon I'll corrode these steel bars and kill you."
Hibiscus said nothing and struck again—still no use.
Clang!
Clang!
The sound of hamring iron continued endlessly, and the speed grew faster and faster. Her hand movents beca afterimages bringing up a string of sparks, the struck area actually glowing red like forging steel. Even so, the silver-haired girl had no intention of stopping, swinging hundreds and thousands of strikes swift as lightning, with 3x ti acceleration infused throughout her body.
Gallup, who had been calmly making threats just now, changed color dramatically, obviously feeling his skin surface cracking with wounds. What to do? The relic was also reaching its limit.
"Stop, you stop right now——"
Hibiscus paid no attention and continued her sweaty iron-hamring work, each strike falling on the sa spot, forcibly using strength and friction to gradually lt through the alloy surface. Her Magic Power Internal Compression grew more skillful, a smile appearing on her face that made Gallup feel like falling into an ice cellar.
At this mont, only fear remained on his face. Having always relied on relic power to remain invincible, he truly felt death approaching. What was more torturous was that the opponent was actually using his neck as a whetstone, each strike fiercer than the last. The blade's excitent almost made Gallup suspect he'd encountered a madman. It was over—he really shouldn't have waded into muddy waters. Ningfeng Harbor was indeed dangerous, but unfortunately the world never offered chances for regret.
"You're an excellent punching bag, really durable. Unfortunately, ti's up."
119th second.
Hibiscus raised her blade and struck, severing a head that rolled to one side. At the sa ti, the pervading toxic fog completely dissipated, and the underground warehouse returned to quiet.
Even though the enemy was already dead, the alloy transformation and toxic fog on the body didn't dissipate. Seeing this, Hibiscus allocated more magic power to her Regalia to strengthen defense before daring to loot the corpse, but unfortunately found nothing.
The fusion relic was gloves, the toxin relic was a mask, but both disappeared upon slight contact.
Jin Yulu struggled to gather her spirits and said with difficulty: "Relics are precious property of the entire civilization and generally aren't taken out. During missions, they use the highest classified level of relic copying to imprint effects and carry them. The effects are slightly inferior to the original version and can't be fully unleashed. Another flaw is the very short duration. But it maximally avoids seizure after defeat."
"You don't even know this?"
The Special Attack Forces captain's words stumped everyone, who unconsciously shook their heads. This scene made her doubt how much substance the Salvation Church actually had.
However, Jin Yulu couldn't think about it anymore. The scalding sensation from the anesthesia throughout her body was still raging, a force about to burst from her body—violent and fierce. Once she let it lose control, sothing would definitely happen, so she was doing her utmost to suppress it.
All of Hibiscus's attention was on Gallup's corpse. The system prompt confird the suggestion was completed, proving he was indeed dead. Unfortunately, no gold coins dropped—too stingy, what a miser.
She instructed: "The relic effects have residue. Handle it thoroughly."
"Domain Closure."
Small Universe space eroded reality, then a miniature sun completely devoured the corpse, ensuring harmless cleanup.
Jin Ruochu suddenly asked: "Speaking of which, do you two know each other? Could it be that Dr. Mu's true appearance is soone my age? No wonder it's called Magical Girl!"
At this point, Hibiscus didn't hide it either. She released her full transformation state, revealing a black-haired girl appearance. Compared to the flamboyant Hyacinth form, she appeared more restrained and composed, with maturity beyond her age hidden between her brows. In terms of charm, the forr was naturally slightly superior, but her true face gave a sense of trustworthiness—one could feel the weight of years, having seen all sails yet still following the sea and sky, possessing a unique elegance.
"Nan Zhiyi and I are childhood friends who've been working together recently. Sorry for hiding it until today, but now we can indeed be more straightforward."
"Actually, I only learned about Jin Ruochu's connection with Hibiscus a few hours ago."
The girl at the center of events was stunned for a mont, then smiled lightly, putting her arms around the shoulders of the two senior Magical Girls, overjoyed. "So we already had fate connecting us. Worthy of causal magic—I'm so lucky."
Her hugging behavior in the weightless environnt caused the three of them to fumble around, while the only one left out sighed deeply.
"I can't go anywhere now..."
"To be honest, Miss Jin Yulu, one of my purposes in coming here was to invite you to join." Hibiscus said sincerely. "Your talent shouldn't be buried like this."
With the keen minds of the girls present, they imdiately understood.
"So the Salvation Church is just sothing you established verbally, yet it made the whole world practically want to dig three feet underground to investigate. They're worried sick thinking the order is about to be overturned—too ridiculous. You put on a great show deceiving the entire world. Those who don't know the truth are losing sleep over it. But it doesn't matter—as long as you're strong enough, they'd rather believe what they want to believe. After all, a ti manipulator with organizational backing and constraints is better than a lone wolf who can act recklessly."
"Honestly, it's hard to refuse when the hero of the Boss Disaster Beast subjugation battle extends an olive branch to , and I have many questions I want to ask you all... But I need to say goodbye to the Counterasure Bureau, and my current physical condition is very troubleso."
As Jin Yulu spoke, magic power uncontrollably leaked from her body, her eyes turning to golden vertical pupils.
"This is a sign of magic losing control. Without effective early guidance, it's easy to go berserk. Quickly transfer to an open area." Hibiscus ordered decisively.
"Domain release."
At the sa ti, she and Nan Zhiyi re-covered their forms with magic power concealnt. Although they weren't afraid of trouble and had Jin Changfeng's full support promise, attracting less attention was still convenient. The urgent matter was leaving the underground warehouse.
The two cooperated tacitly to quickly clear debris and open a path.
Without special instructions, Jin Ruochu entered the state, carrying Jin Yulu on her back to prepare for retreat. With Disaster Beast fusion technology and Magical Girl power, she had completely dispelled the paralysis—a few syringes of muscle relaxant were no better than glucose. Don't underestimate a dicine bottle girl's drug resistance.
Moreover, possessing the strongest causal magic ant high trial-and-error rates. Being with her could avoid direct harm, and Jin Ruochu wasn't afraid of losing control—perfect.
"They called for reinforcents!"
Hibiscus suddenly shouted and activated ti stop, instantly pushing the three people away from the underground warehouse ceiling opening.
Boom!
A rocket exploded, creating a fla cloud that made everyone feel heat brush their cheeks. Oxygen burned rapidly, making them feel slight lung constriction, while helicopter rotors gradually approached.
"These guys, relying on their boss being bulletproof, just shoot randomly." Jin Ruochu crouched defensively.
Before she finished speaking, a hail of bullets covered the surroundings. Machine gun fire wasn't sothing re Levitation Technique could withstand—in an instant, concrete pillars collapsed and swayed everywhere.
In terms of defense alone, she could bathe in ard helicopter barrages, but with three fragile teammates behind her counting on protection, Hibiscus was montarily indecisive about whether to directly use ti acceleration.
But it was too characteristic—practically a signature skill. She didn't want to be too high-profile.
"Leave it to ."
As soon as Nan Zhiyi spoke, magic power rose around her body, weaving into threads that covered her skin. A star and moon hair ornant appeared above her head, shining brightly. Her upper body wore a dress-style crossed collar in white and green, dotted with floral wreaths that emanated youthful vitality like the scent of flowers. Her skirt was lace ruffle design, fitted yet appropriately covering the upper thighs. A pair of slender long legs were covered in white short socks tied with pink ribbons, wearing short boots carved with night sky gradient colors. The girl brushed through her long hair—night-colored with light purple highlights—scattering stardust like a witch from deep space.
Triple Awakening Regalia, Magical Girl Dandelion. After diligent basic training, she had naturally progressed to a new realm.
"So this is full transformation state?" Nan Zhiyi clenched her fists with a light smile. "Worthy of comprehensive enhancent. Hibiscus, I'm one step closer to you, right?"
"Of course, congratulations." The appearance of a new complete Magical Girl filled Hibiscus with joy.
"No need to clash with them head-on. I'll safely bring everyone out."
Nan Zhiyi interlaced her fingers and pressed them together, then said lightly: "Domain Closure maximized——"
Whoosh!
The spherical starry sky background rapidly expanded from the underground warehouse while rejecting all external objects. The aggressive ard helicopters were actually squeezed out and had to make ergency landings. Other rcenaries also didn't dare approach, watching helplessly as it expanded to a hundred-ter range, becoming a massive object.
The Small Universe domain's exterior treated ard helicopters and rcenaries as objects to resist absorption, forcibly squeezing them out of the underground warehouse area.
So bold ones curiously touched it—the texture was viscous, between solid and liquid but indestructible. The starry sky reflected on the shell felt very real and imrsive, but glancing at it briefly caused dizziness and confusion.
The rcenary group had to retreat—they couldn't chew this tough nut and had to give up.
Such a massive object imdiately attracted much attention. Even ordinary people witnessed an arc of starry sky appearing, shocking them with this spectacle.
Suddenly the starry sky sphere began moving on its own!
Using its edge as boundary, left beca right and right beca left, moving in 100-ter units like a yin-yang Taiji ball rotating. After several rotations, it disappeared into suburban forests and wild mountains without a trace. This bizarre evacuation thod made everyone afraid to act rashly. Looking back at the underground warehouse burning with roaring flas that eliminated all traces, no one could figure out what exactly happened today.
Only one thing was certain—Eagle rcenary Group had probably encountered the miraculous Salvation Church.
Inside the domain.
Nan Zhiyi ford a dharma seal with her right index finger and thumb, concentrating fully on controlling the Small Universe for rapid border-crossing movent. After a mont, she sighed in relief.
This ti the magic duration far exceeded before—worthy of the Triple Awakening stage.
She explained: "Now I can screen to so extent what objects the domain can accept—for example, allowing humans to enter while excluding weapons. If used inside buildings with exclusion, it would damage the exterior. The specific implentation thod uses gravity, so it can serve as an attack thod."
"Also, you've experienced domain movent, which is equivalent to group high-mobility ans. If we encounter situations requiring rapid battlefield departure in the future, we have guarantees."
Nan Zhiyi described the parts beneficial to team combat in this evolution, temporarily reserving so personal applications.
After all, she couldn't confirm Jin Yulu's thoughts yet, and Jin Ruochu still needed further recruitnt. As for Hibiscus, there was no need for explanation—this world's oldest Magical Girl seed to master all magic intelligence, having ntioned these upgrade effects beforehand.
"Too convenient, and your outfit is very beautiful." Jin Ruochu's eyes lit up. "When can I unlock my Regalia..."
"Your current appearance is beautiful—really like a dandelion with a sense of freedom."
Hibiscus's sincere praise made Nan Zhiyi beam with joy.
As they spoke, the Small Universe stopped moving. Although currently in closed mode, the master hadn't deliberately blocked perception, so everyone knew they were in a wilderness environnt. Perfect timing as dusk fell for safe movent.
"Domain release."
After Nan Zhiyi closed the magic, she panted heavily and sat directly on the grass. Domain magic's closed usage was often high-consumption. Even having just completed Triple Awakening with perfect state, she felt deeply exhausted. After all, transporting four Magical Girls, one of whom was much stronger than herself, the magic chanism treated them as enemies requiring vigilance, so she consud far more than appeared on the surface.
Jin Ruochu also sprawled on the ground. Whether the office battle or underground warehouse fight, she had maintained magic operation multiple tis for assistance, finally draining her stamina.
Watching the two magic-consumption heavyweights collapse one after another, Hibiscus remained nonchalant, still full of energy.
System point allocation was equivalent to extra cultivation of all her aspects, especially magic power attributes far exceeding normal people. This level was nothing. She looked at Jin Yulu, who had been drowsily sleeping since earlier.
"You all stay away. I'll first channel her magic power flow."
There was no normal treatnt thod for Magical Girl berserk loss of control—nothing but letting magic power completely discharge, or helping release part of it beforehand rather than suppression.
The mont Hibiscus grasped the unconscious girl's right hand, the other party grabbed back with such force that bones creaked.
"Too late!"
Jin Yulu reopened her eyes with pupils showing only killing wildness without a trace of rationality. Sohow a tail appeared beneath her, stabbing at Hibiscus from behind. With a ding, she instantly manifested a small area of Regalia, using her hourglass hair ornant to actively lean back and et it. The tail was deflected while she also retreated several steps to maintain distance.
The brief exchange made Jin Ruochu and Nan Zhiyi watching from afar break into cold sweats. They admitted that if they encountered this sneak attack, they'd probably be dood.
In terms of reaction speed, stamina, and magic power, indeed only Hibiscus could handle the suppression.
At the sa ti, Jin Yulu gradually retracted her too-obvious characteristics, becoming a form with tail, twin horns on her head, golden eyes, and scales on hands, feet, and neck. Her body was full of streamlined beauty with the oppressive presence of an apex predator.
Fortunately, there were no ordinary people present, or just the Origin now would be enough to knock out dozens or hundreds.
"Roar!"
Unconscious roaring accompanied lightning-fast charging. In 0.1 seconds of pause, both sides passed each other. Hibiscus held a blood-colored short blade emanating toxic mist—the relic that had absorbed part of Gallup's blood and flesh could restore temporarily.
Jin Yulu's shoulder opened with a wound spreading anesthetic toxic fog. Seeing this, the two girls in the distance thought victory was decided, but the opponent imdiately recovered with no effect whatsoever.
On the contrary, her montum increased further.
At the sa ti, Magic Power Release stirred up strong winds—obviously her Origin wasn't lacking either.
Hibiscus raised her vigilance. After all, coming from military background, Jin Yulu was much stronger than pampered modern sub-healthy people. Combined with Magical Girl power, she was definitely formidable. Moreover, this performance sohow matched a certain magic in her mory. Although she had no ti to ask netizens now, she should have heard of this magic before and had to be careful of its chanism or risk being half-effective with double effort.
Just as she was recalling, Jin Yulu let out another low roar, filling her entire body with black air like a giant python coiling around herself, hissing and flicking its tongue.
"Is this girl the Little Dragon Maiden?" Jin Ruochu was astonished.
"...Much worse than that. It's the strongest mythology series magic: World Serpent." Hibiscus frowned deeply.
Nan Zhiyi educated the still-confused girl beside her: "Many cultures worldwide have legends of serpents as large as the world, like our Torch Dragon and Norse Jormungandr... But this snake is actually swallowing its own tail—indeed strange..."
"Self-fertilization?"
Jin Ruochu's words broke the serious atmosphere, leaving her two companions speechless.
Hibiscus murmured: "It's the Ouroboros—head and tail connected, yin-yang harmonized, symbolizing completeness and reincarnation, aning the world's endless cycles. This magic can adapt to all forces, even achieving an inviolable body, allegedly surviving even world's end, almost impossible to completely eliminate."
She had another half-sentence unsaid, because it was intelligence from another world line: the magic possessed by the Magical Girl known as the strongest.
Indisputably first in the mythology series.
Identification code: Golden Dragon Emperor. Regalia na: Imperial Flower.
The Ti Priestess had been wary for years, and later indeed proved to be the most consuming powerful enemy.
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