What does it feel like to undergo two ultra-long-distance spatial teleportations in a short ti?
Anyway, Hibiscus felt dizzy and disoriented, the world spinning, her internal organs churning as if about to spill from her throat. The first ti was normal, but the second spatial pull made her extrely uncomfortable, nearly fainting. Fortunately, when she reached her limit, she finally saw a beach under dim skies.
Bang!
The silver-haired girl appeared from void ripples and fell into a sand pile, startling several hermit crabs nearby and snapping the anxious girls in the distance back to attention.
She raised her hand weakly in greeting with unclear consciousness: "I'm here, don't worry—nothing serious..."
Seeing this, Jin Yulu maintained ard vigilance around the area while continuing to collect stones and wood. Just confirming Hibiscus was fine made her breathe easier. Her way of showing care was completing missions and fulfilling duties—that's how she helped the instructor.
anwhile, Nan Zhiyi and Jin Ruochu gathered around, checking her forehead temperature and pulse to confirm she was generally fine before calming down.
"I knew girls who love to smile wouldn't have bad luck."
"Hibiscus, you were so late we were worried sick. Did sothing go wrong with the teleportation array?"
"Nothing too serious—everything went smoothly."
Hibiscus lacked energy for lengthy explanations about fairy knowledge. If it triggered so infection, she'd be even more miserable. The urgent priority was adjusting her condition. Others at most got motion sickness or airsickness—she had space sickness, which was truly uncomfortable, like being stuffed in a washing machine tumbler for a bath.
Too torturous. She had to obtain spatial relics, or recruit the strongest spatial magic Door of Keys user later. Unfortunately, that person was truly rare...
Wait!
The silver-haired girl was slightly stunned, widening her eyes to look up and down at her companions. Sohow, everyone had changed outfits:
Nan Zhiyi in front had released her Regalia state. Logically she should be wearing a wetsuit, but underneath was a complete set of white underwear with decorative lace and ruffles—nothing else. Perhaps because of exposed skin making her shy, her flawless white face showed a trace of blush, eyes flickering, wanting to speak but stopping—this expression was captivating.
Similarly, Jin Ruochu, who started catching crabs after seeing she was fine, wore rather bold, mature-style purple openwork underwear.
Jin Yulu wore her usual close-fitting sports underwear, displaying crisp efficiency suitable for movent, consistent with her personal style.
"...What's everyone's situation?"
Though she wasn't male, Hibiscus still felt she was getting quite an eyeful. Beautiful things—who didn't like them? But how did they suddenly switch to swimsuit fanservice?
She asked while distributing her shirt, jacket, and wetsuit to her companions. Fortunately, she'd worn extra layers for warmth, so there was enough to share. Otherwise, four people in full beach swimwear would be embarrassing.
Nan Zhiyi felt reassured wearing the shirt with Hibiscus's residual body warmth.
"Actually, after teleporting we were unconscious for a while. When we woke up, our Regalia had been released and wetsuits were mostly rotted away—only this appearance remained for moving around. We don't know how long passed during unconsciousness, and no one helped us during that ti... Anyway, there's no explanation for why clothes rotted away."
"We have no map and must prepare for long-term battle. Current status is finding fresh water, food, and shelter first. Do you know the reason?"
Dandelion's question drew companions' attention, hoping their anchor knew sothing to stabilize morale.
Hibiscus pondered briefly.
Speak slowly so everyone could accept it.
She walked around the beach several tis, finally picking up a straight branch and sighing: "What a fine sword—our primitive ancestors 100,000 years ago must have used it to achieve great things."
Lines gradually connected, outlined, and converged in the sand—clearly a map marking ruined villages, underground city entrances, Disaster Beast territories, safe zones, fresh water areas, even deep-water good harbor sites... With magical girls' superior mory, she drew with increasing enthusiasm.
Hibiscus squeezed her high school geography knowledge, ultimately depicting topographic maps, climate maps, and terrain maps—perfectly complete.
Such miraculous performance shocked the three.
Besides this, she thoughtfully provided explanations, saying intelligence showed relics were in villages, requiring passage through Disaster Beast settlents, so before that they'd camp in safe zones to rest and recover, first ensuring food, clothing, and shelter. As for underground cities, directly excluded—late-ga dungeons were untouchable. The remaining harbor area would be useful later. Area 1,100 square kiloters, equivalent to Okinawa Island—relatively abundant resources that could support developnt. For safety, hide first.
"...Anyway, that's the situation. We'll take it step by step and maintain rhythm."
Even Jin Yulu, who'd seen military maps, couldn't find much fault. For them, lost in unfamiliar environnt like headless flies, this was a godsend.
"I knew once the instructor returned, these problems would be easily solved."
"Nothing can stump Dr. Mu." Jin Ruochu never changed her address to show their special relationship. She held up a large crab: "Ningfeng Harbor five-star hotels could sell this for thousands—today we'll eat our fill as celebration for landing."
Nan Zhiyi crouched studying the map with sincere admiration: "Traveling with you feels so secure—it really spoils people."
"You handling so many company matters is what really spoiled ."
She and the silver-haired girl exchanged smiles. All four breathed easier—the tense atmosphere dissipated considerably.
Hibiscus thought: The amazing one isn't , but the netizens' vast connections. Thanks to accidentally entering fairyland avoiding knowledge poison, they could transmit more high-value information. Good start.
Full map unlocked—proceed with main quest confidently.
"...Speaking of which, you still haven't explained why clothes disappeared. Don't tell there's intel you can't reveal?"
"Nothing that must be kept secret. The answer's simple: soil layers on the island house microorganisms called 'magic-devouring worms.' As the na suggests, they consu magic power—smaller than paracia but nurous and well-hidden. Regalia composed entirely of magic power would naturally be decomposed, other clothes suffered collateral damage..."
As Hibiscus spoke, she saw the girls' faces darken, legs nervously pressed together, arms crossed, looking pitiful—clearly very resistant.
Understandable.
"That's why I wanted to tell you later. But don't worry—magic-devouring worms move very slowly and won't appear again temporarily."
"We should be grateful, because magical girls have external things to feed them. If ordinary people wandered in, that scene wouldn't be pretty."
Hibiscus reached into the sand layer, then under fearful gazes pulled out a skull.
Hermit Island's entrance was never limited to the volcano teleportation array. Over the years, people occasionally stumbled in but rarely brought back information—the truth was here. The girls stood on a man-eating beach that had devoured countless lives. Danger was just beginning.
Though the Salvation Church team was very uncomfortable with magic-devouring worm microorganisms, life had to go on.
The urgent priority was establishing shelter.
Hibiscus gave the first rule of "Hermit Island Pioneering Guidelines": avoid using magic power when possible. After the lesson of dissolved clothing, they had to proceed carefully. Fortunately, magical girls' superhuman physical abilities alone were enough for easy work.
Need trees? Kick one down. Need at? Go fishing in the sea—coastal city natives weren't strangers to this. In no ti they had various catches.
Of course, all this was based on trivial but important work like making fire and collecting fresh water, which Jin Yulu handled completely.
The professionally trained forr counterasure unit leader handled wilderness survival with ease.
Jin Yulu naturally beca "tactical advisor" for this island exploration project, issuing orders to build simple wooden huts, campfire spots, at-drying racks, and other facilities—quite like a wilderness survival show atmosphere.
She was happy to take this responsibility.
Commanding magical girls with mountain-moving, world-conquering strength was much more convenient than managing fragile humans.
Thanks to energetic Jin Ruochu's hunting with nowhere to vent, everyone even ate shark fin. That's right—the young lady claid "precisely because we're stranded with low morale, we must improve our diet" and actually brought back large crabs, sea cucumber, squid, and shark. Logically inconsistent with her status, but after explanation everyone understood—Jin Ruochu often took her family yacht fishing. Rich people's pleasures were unimaginable.
Five-star hotel ingredients secured—still needed a chef.
Hibiscus counted as the team's top culinary talent. Thanks to years of living alone, she'd never neglected cooking skills, even gradually improving—perfect timing to use them.
But even skillful won struggled without proper tools—they couldn't avoid using pots, pans, and utensils entirely, right?
Nan Zhiyi volunteered, processing wood, weaving bamboo baskets, even roasting and extracting sea salt, fully demonstrating "skillful hands and clever mind" to companions. For nightti survival comprehensive ability, she ranked second only to Jin Yulu. But the girl's reason was simply having read books on the subject.
Fine, impressed.
Hibiscus finally understood—everyone in the team was talented.
Under normal circumstances, gathering four girls averaging 18 years old on a deserted island would result in helplessness. But these four had similar ages yet completely non-overlapping experiences.
They covered different occupations, classes, families, education levels, and other social identities, displaying both literary and athletic versatility.
She'd been slow to realize this. Earlier, netizens said they'd "assembled a galactic battleship team"—originally referring not just combat power. For building influence, Jin Yulu, Jin Ruochu, and Nan Zhiyi were equally first-rate talents. Gold always shines. Everyone was uncut jade—after polishing, they'd radiate brilliance. In other words, the Salvation Church's initial 4 founding mbers weren't just fighters—they could accomplish great things.
Hibiscus had to admit strong people were full of surprises everywhere—don't bla the environnt if you're not capable.
Clearly Manjusaka, Dandelion, and Protea had developed completely differently from their original historical trajectories. You could say "without those hardships they might not succeed," but fact was, strong people without psychological shadows from suffering were instead unrestrained, reaching higher levels. Their achievents would definitely exceed the original.
Decided.
Hermit Island had to be completely captured—the kind with minimal remaining hidden dangers.
With such high team ceiling, they deserved an adequate foundation. Absolutely couldn't shortchange comrades, Hibiscus thought.
Everyone busied themselves for half the day.
They built temporary bases while barbecuing, enjoying it imnsely until stars and moon hung high, tides gradually changed, beach covered in silver light, sea breeze bringing slight coolness.
If ordinary people were stranded on a deserted island without even finding a way out, they'd definitely panic. But the Salvation Church adventure team remained cheerful throughout, without half a trace of tension. After all, Hibiscus's intelligence gave everyone full map vision. Human fear stems from the unknown—when Hermit Island's general situation was within grasp, they didn't need to worry. Intelligence could stabilize morale—priceless. More importantly, magic power was gradually recovering, bodies filling with strength, adding confidence. Admittedly, the island's interior held dangers, but the four strongest magic series weren't pushovers either—at worst, they'd clash.
Bang!
Suddenly a coconut hit Jin Ruochu who was gnawing crab legs. Before she could cry out, several more thuds followed.
Coconuts were ripe coconuts, heads were good heads.
But the girl, accustod to bad luck, imdiately reacted by drilling holes in them all and distributing them, then smiled: "I've never had outdoor picnic barbecues with peers in my life. This is a mont worth commorating—even fate is happy for ."
Jin Yulu drank sweet coconut juice, savoring it carefully before laughing heartily, full of relief and openness, warmth surging in her chest.
"...Sa here. Actually, I'd always thought my ending would be dying to Disaster Beasts. Thanks to you all for letting realize myself, like truly living. Strange—why is that?"
"It's belonging."
Nan Zhiyi hit the nail on the head, then added: "I once imagined situations without eting Hibiscus—I'd continue as a lonely magical girl for a long ti."
"Don't exaggerate my role—you all are naturally gifted and would shine sooner or later. Actually, I'm the one without any special talent, nothing particularly notable about my background or experiences. Being on stage with you all makes feel very honored..."
Hibiscus spoke sincerely but drew looks full of teasing from everyone. Modesty also had limits.
If Magical Girl Hyacinth claid to be ordinary, then no genius existed.
In any case, the first person in history was destined to be rembered forever.
Jin Yulu was the first to disagree, imdiately standing up: "You are our commander, founder of the Salvation Church, the strongest magical girl. Others may pressure you, but you must never retreat. You must show a hundred tis more dignity and power than ordinary people, otherwise the organization cannot continue."
Hearing this, Hibiscus's eyes lit up and she nodded. Worthy of being Magical Girl Protea—in the original storyline, she relied on this awareness to single-handedly turn the tide several tis.
Unfortunately, there was always a limit.
Fortunately, in the new worldline, Jin Yulu didn't need to bear so much. The one standing at the front to support heaven and earth had beco herself. Really exhausting...
Nan Zhiyi kept putting food in Hibiscus's bowl, interrupting her thoughts. She heard her say:
"Don't take pressure to heart—there's always a way forward. Actually, I'm worried about your ti magic precognitive ability. Don't burden yourself with tragedies that haven't happened yet. Be freer, more carefree—haven't we co this far smoothly?"
"Right, every difficult pass gets passed."
Jin Ruochu raised her coconut and shouted: "You people are just too sensitive. Learn from to be more thick-skinned and happy. Co, cheers—here's to our smooth journey."
"Cheers——"
Under the night sky, by the beach campfire, four girls toasted this mont.
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