As the Villain, I Have a Persuasion System Chapter 94 : Victory's Aftermath

The Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror's teleportation was more stable than previous tis.

In the blink of an eye, Hibiscus arrived at the hillside villa estate. At the sa ti, system notification sounds rang in her mind, rewards had been distributed:

[Jin Yulu's affection system activated, Minase Kaori's affection system activated, new technique data: Presence Reduction, Magical Girl Training Knowledge: Regalia Section, organizational cohesion greatly improved]

This indirectly proved the matter was truly over—the four-person squad had rescued all magical girls trapped by Eagle Company.

Most of them were still fast asleep due to anesthetic effects. Even Jin Yulu, Nan Zhiyi, and Jin Ruochu, who had stronger physical constitution, imdiately lay down, not wanting to move.

Too exhausting.

Eagle Company wasn't weak. The reason they fought so cleanly was because everyone had taken mana recovery potions and enhancent potions in advance to barely hold on, otherwise they couldn't have waited for Hibiscus to advance to Seedling Stage using causal relic clues.

Jin Yulu imdiately curled up to hibernate upon returning, scales all over her body shedding while radiating heat—obviously World Serpent magic was rapidly recovering.

Hibiscus brought a blanket to wrap around the girl, then carried her to the sofa. Warm and soft as jade, fragrant—couldn't see the intimidating power of fighting three opponents alone, rather cute.

She was about to leave when the other party pounced over demanding a lap pillow.

Smiling helplessly, Hibiscus sat with legs together, letting Jin Yulu pillow her thighs while gently stroking her forehead. After a few strokes, the girl fell fast asleep.

As for Jin Ruochu, she was still excitedly shouting: "So cool! I declare teorite summoning is a super ultimate move——"

Before finishing, she slipped and hit the back of her head on the coffee table edge with a thud—enough to paralyze or kill an ordinary person, conversely proving this misfortune's price was quite high. Fortunately, a Triple Awakened magical girl's constitution could wrestle with Disaster Beasts—just light damage. But it imdiately made the pink-haired girl, already in poor condition, see stars and fall unconscious. The living room finally quieted down a bit.

Fortune and Misfortune magic emphasized balance—an iron rule.

Hibiscus asked the yawning Dandelion girl: "Were you so calm in the trap because you still had so ans in reserve?"

"No, at least at that ti I had no magic power left." Nan Zhiyi told the truth.

"So you were gambling?"

"It was believing. I firmly believed you would definitely co save us. Even if I was captured and even put on the operating table, you'd still have a way, right? How could a little wind and waves shake my trust in Hibiscus? I would be safe and sound, the enemy would definitely lose—that's all."

Saying this, Nan Zhiyi smiled even more, her gentle gaze fixed on the silver-haired girl, making the latter's heart tighten as she nodded and laughed it off. Such firm trust was really hard to evaluate.

"Thank you..."

"But I was equally scared." Nan Zhiyi suddenly pounced into Hibiscus's embrace, her pretty face buried in her chest, rapid breathing patting her skin and causing a blush. "Let feel your companionship like this mont. Also, I need to apologize to you. Actually, I could have run the teleportation circle relay faster later, but I wanted to personally witness your safety and your victory."

"Not allowed in the future. Adapting is fine, but ensure the plan is stable first." Hibiscus couldn't speak words of bla and just tapped the girl's forehead.

"In the end, Miss Jin was confused about whether to directly wage war with officials, I was worried about you and delayed teleportation—only Captain Jin was most dutiful and responsible. She's a warrior worth entrusting one's life to. We're not quite qualified enough."

"Don't say that about yourselves. Strong emotions are one source of magical girls' power. Precisely because we're not rule-following machines, we could completely win the battle."

The silver-haired girl tightly hugged Nan Zhiyi's delicate body and patted her slender back.

What could repay the childhood friend was only not letting her down. From now on, she had to adopt more stable tactics—ultimately, she needed to beco stronger.

Hibiscus had successfully reached Seedling Stage according to plan. As the first major grade for magical girls, the effect was simple and brutal: "All attributes leap forward in improvent." Now re anesthetics, tear gas, stun grenades and other small toys were aningless, and magic, Regalia, and Origin all had huge improvents.

It could be called a sudden major leap in comprehensive strength.

For example, Sands of Ti pause, relative flow rate change range and other aspects were enhanced. Telekinesis could lift heavier things, Origin's Magic Power Release pressure expanded...

She'd experint with specifics later. Actually, her current condition couldn't be called good either.

"Cough cough!"

Hibiscus felt heart pain, then wiped blood from her mouth corner. Her mouth spread a bloody sll, face pale with disordered breathing. This scene scared Nan Zhiyi at a loss, nearly tearful.

"It's fine—it's the destructive sound wave's effect. His most troubleso aspect is that the more you fight, the more hidden injuries accumulate for opponents. I'll be fine after resting."

No Holy Relic could be underestimated. The human faction had plenty of hidden power—arrogance was absolutely inadvisable.

Fortunately, Hibiscus understood Eagle Company's entire plan and directly destroyed causal relic interference to create psychological effects. Otherwise, a fully fighting powerful Holy Relic would be enough to contend with Seedling Stage magical girls. Moreover, Planet Gaia was in a sense a dharma-ending age now. After this year passed, aning the low magic tide era from the previous epoch to now would end, and after the new era's curtain opened, everyone would welco a wave of version benefits.

"Sister Hyacinth!"

Second Awakening stage Minase Kaori quickly woke up. Seeing the familiar silver-haired figure, she tearfully pounced over, resulting in two people hugging her.

Hibiscus, caught in the middle, could only pretend to ignore Nan Zhiyi's sharp gaze toward the newcor.

She encouraged: "You did very well this ti, Kaori, even helped us. Now you can be considered a magical girl capable of standing on her own. Truly, after three days apart, one should look at soone with new eyes."

"It's nothing. Actually I just had the monsters chat—the key was still you sisters."

The girl's sweet words and cleverness eased the atmosphere.

Nan Zhiyi couldn't raise much vigilance toward a re middle schooler. Thinking of the other's fright made her feel sympathetic—these girls were more unfortunate than everyone in Ningfeng Harbor.

She suggested: "Let's wake everyone up quickly, get to know each other first, then discuss whether to go to Hermit Island, since so might be worried."

Minase Kaori asserted: "Please rest assured. During imprisonnt I kept pretending to sleep but communicated with everyone through monsters, saying the Salvation Church would definitely rescue us and hoping they'd consider joining... To be honest, their backgrounds aren't good, but they're quite self-reliant. Their families don't need imdiate concern—they can completely spend ti with you all first. We've already voted unanimously to join the Salvation Church and hope you'll approve."

These words left Nan Zhiyi and Hibiscus shocked, looking at each other in amazent at how the student had surpassed the teacher.

So she was Commissar Miss—developing so many connections in just a few days. Such talent.

Facing Minase Kaori's hopeful gaze, the Hyacinth girl cleared her throat: "It's a bit complex to explain, but I think I can represent the Church in accepting your mbership. Welco to the magical girl association. So without delay, we'll depart for headquarters tomorrow morning."

What followed was much easier.

After everyone rested and woke up, Hibiscus announced they would go to Hermit Island. Though they allowed leaving now, the magical girls still wanted to make the trip. One had to admit Minase Kaori's advance groundwork was greatly ritorious, plus the Salvation Church's long-standing reputation convinced them. Communication went smoothly.

More importantly, magical girls were mutually attracted—staying together made their bodies and minds comfortable, an experience no environnt could provide.

Finally everyone unanimously decided to go to Hermit Island—they trusted the Church squad.

Even after considerable ti under magic suppression and anesthetics, don't think magical girls didn't know what happened. Just magic power trace perception explained many problems, not to ntion similar functional magic existed.

Facts spoke louder than words.

The efforts of the four led by Hibiscus—Jin Yulu, Jin Ruochu, and Nan Zhiyi—were clear to see. Not hesitating to wage war with rcenary groups showed their sincerity.

These new magical girls were young with little experience—a few kind words easily convinced them to listen.

They discussed until late night before sleeping together on floor mats. The vast villa living room had girls lying scattered everywhere in peaceful tranquility under bright moonlight.

The strongest Hibiscus was responsible for night watch, or rather only she still had energy. The others, after intense battle, were exhausted and continued sleeping soundly to recover. They had to adjust their condition, otherwise a single spatial teleportation would be enough to make first-tirs dizzy.

With free ti, she finally had a chance to check system rewards:

She skipped descriptive rewards like affection and organizational cohesion, focusing on the other two.

[Regalia Enhancent Knowledge]

Precisely speaking, more like guidance thods that could let magical girls learn to maintain magic power enhancent of Regalia to improve basic strength, also facilitating later developnt of different Regalia parts' attributes. For Hibiscus's type with vast magic power, it was perfect for daily Regalia experience accumulation. Regular magical girls lacked spare energy but could improve defense or choose this path. Good—at least it enriched abilities and covered shortcomings.

[Presence Reduction Technique]

This was Hibiscus's most satisfying reward—from now on, these girls whose data had been recorded by Eagle Company could safely return to normal lives without attracting attention. Regular missions would also reduce disturbance, plus restoration spells made it possible for magical girls to go on field missions worldwide fighting Disaster Beasts.

She had gathered so prerequisites for establishing the magical girl managent bureau from the original story, but the core was the Salvation Church—now the two had rged.

In summary, the harvest was quite abundant, not to ntion various magic beneficial for technological developnt. The company would advance by leaps and bounds.

Additionally, Jin Ruochu's arranged asset acquisitions also profited greatly.

War profiteering was too lucrative—Eagle Company fell, Salvation Church ate its fill, equivalent to Quincy's years of hard work delivered to Hibiscus's palm in one wave.

The silver-haired girl stretched and looked out the window. From the hillside villa she could perfectly overlook the nearby suburban laboratory—despite being late at night, it remained brightly lit and noisy, with dozens of excavators busy clearing ruins, the air filled with bloody sll from Disaster Beasts.

They didn't know the two locations were so close, and even if they knew, they probably wouldn't dare disturb.

Eagle Company was severely damaged, which to so extent also ant human combat power was temporarily weakened, adding variables to the year-end catastrophe war, but it had to be this way.

Internal strife never ceased.

Hibiscus took photos and attached selected video clips from dayti to update her status, as usual reporting safety to dear netizens: "Thanks everyone for your strong support. The Los Angeles rescue battle has concluded successfully."

Though just unedited and unprocessed photos, they imdiately sparked heated discussion, after all the images looked like special effects piled on.

【How much special effects did this fucking use】

【Completely matches my ntal image of Ti Slash's performance】

【@Hyacinth, can we understand this as a super long video preview? Heavy hints】

"Of course I'll upload a long video, but it'll take so ti. After all, the priority is settling the rescued magical girls well, and Hermit Island needs expansion too."

Hibiscus's credibility needed no further explanation—everyone understood a major production was coming, or rather this level of special effects definitely required careful polishing and processing, making it more convincing. Little did they know the person involved had countless materials but was purely being lazy after the great battle.

【Waiting for updates】

【Really want to discuss this battle, but no, must hold back. When the video cos out I'll definitely update a combat analysis post】

【Looking at those stone blocks with neat cross-sections, you can tell—worthy of Boss Mu, developing Sands of Ti's next stage as planned. Should have reached Seedling Stage too—the first first-tier magical girl of this epoch, another new record】

【Why not completely cut Quincy into minceat? Now Hyacinth's damage level ans even ntal backup can't resurrect】

【Leave a line in conduct, easier to et in future】

【Such actions do more harm than good. This is a ga between humans and magical girls, unrelated to personal preferences】

【I understand your hatred for that scumbag in the original, but there are reasons—many comrades died in magical girl rampage incidents, creating that obsessed person. It's mutual harm from both sides. New worldline Quincy's abilities can't cause too much damage, and he hasn't made too many enemies. Most likely he'll be on the sa front line later. Of course Boss Mu holding back is fact. She's not the Ti Priestess after all, or should be called...】

【White Hyacinth】

【I get it. The so-called new worldline life simulation is actually what would happen if Hyacinth hadn't gone dark? Tearful, dreams fulfilled now. OP, you're my hero】

【Damn, literature party is taking the high ground】

【Where's the Imperial Flower? In dreams, then no problem, very in character】

【Childhood friend party can't stand it. Dandelion, quickly trap Hyacinth in your domain for harsh education. If it's you, you can definitely succeed with a sneak attack】

The comnt section even had related fan art: the image showed a silver-haired girl in transford state but with torn ceremonial dress, covered in wounds, tearful in battle damage, wrists bound with red ribbons and hung high, boots removed, white knee-high socks wrapping feet locked in heavy shackles. Before her, a black-haired girl reached out to pinch her cheeks...

Hibiscus herself looked and really couldn't keep composure, thinking how did Nan Zhiyi give everyone this impression?

Though she'd sowhat noticed those feelings, the other party shouldn't go that far.

From her perspective, she was clearly a quiet, well-behaved girl—at most a bit clingy. Bla the fan creators for leading this improper trend that absolutely shouldn't be encouraged.

She stiffly changed topics: "Can you post so data on magical girls from Eagle Company's detention list? If there's a lot of data, just magic-related is fine. I want to prevent rampage first-sight kills and such—better safe than sorry."

【There is so】

【Not necessarily comprehensive, but let look first...】

Hibiscus thus spent the night after the Los Angeles battle's conclusion surfing online alone.

...

Ningfeng Harbor, Changfeng Group Headquarters building.

After costly repairs, it appeared even more glamorous with golden, brilliant interior decorations, especially the top-floor chairman's office. At this mont, Pasha and Jin Changfeng sat facing each other in the reception room, with several large screens before them showing news broadcasts and real-ti stock market information.

Indices representing Eagle Company plumted—not just due to Salvation Church attacks, but peers falling over themselves to kick them while down.

Capital gas emphasized beating drowned dogs then extracting every ounce of value—everyone would never "mistreat" losers.

Pasha crossed her legs, admiring Eagle's downfall, with revenge proceeding smoothly. Since parting with that Lord Hyacinth, she'd bet the Church would win, pouring all funds into short positions while rallying allies to form a wolf pack. Result after result hit walls—either getting warnings from above to hold position or firmly believing rcenaries would win. In the end, only old partner Jin Changfeng would help.

A bunch of cowards—without guts you deserve not to make money.

After asking around, only one conglorate was willing to inject all funds for this gamble. To show sincerity, Pasha took a private jet to et up, with both deciding to jointly launch a fatal strike.

Rumble!

Even though the evening battle had ended, night news kept replaying the impactful scenes of infinite cutting and heavenly teorites. Even current film industry couldn't achieve such visual shock—truly morable scenes.

Jin Changfeng stared fixedly at the screen, having watched many tis without getting bored, practically treating that teorite like treasure...

Pasha withdrew her gaze from stock charts to watch TV, currently showing the pink-haired girl single-handedly deterring garrison forces from advancing.

"I've always been curious—what made you bet the Church would definitely win?"

"Intuition."

"Just that?"

"There are other reasons too."

Jin Changfeng chose to conceal, or rather he wasn't too certain either. Previously watching Island 24 broadcasts, he felt it was like... Seeing this ti made it even more similar. Why did the one codenad Manjusaka seem to have exactly the sa temperant as his daughter—silly, crazy yet clever. But appearances didn't match—strange, too strange.

Once he delved deeper, his mind hazed and mories blurred, a phenonon similar to knowledge poison—very eerie.

As a father, he already had vague suspicions but would never tell outsiders. Therefore Jin Changfeng would only say intuition, not revealing any extra information.

Pasha always felt her partner had a proud, showing-off feeling—what are you so proud of?

She got straight to the point: "Actually you have so connection with the Salvation Church, right? So eager to board the new era's ship, not considering more? From what I understand, you're not this reckless type."

"Connection? If there really was connection, you'd definitely investigate it. Fact is none exists—at most mutual cooperation, sa as what you're doing."

Jin Changfeng was also an old fox who wouldn't be interrogated, easily writing off the inquiry with casual deflection.

Hard to distinguish superiority.

"...That said, I learned about so unusual fund flows in your company, like that rising star special dicine's backing company." Pasha said aningfully: "People can lie, but money won't. Of course, my investigation stops there—I won't probe further. Respecting others' secrets is life's secret, 50 years of experience."

"Worthy of being the rcenary world's evergreen tree—working with you gives peace of mind."

Both exchanged pleasantries briefly before continuing to watch news. The screen switched to so-called broadcast studio guests' comntary—rambling about this and that, having learned not to ntion Church matters.

Magical girls' repeated large-scale wars combined with mysterious veils established an authoritative aura that silenced people. Even if they dared act, these people were truly willing to take action—screw what public opinion protection you think you have. Quite the opposite, the more you played with public opinion against them, the faster you died. Councilman as precedent.

The Salvation Church was not to be provoked.

Everyone had ford consensus—after all, their behavior style had a crazy edge while being unbound by rules, truly frightening normal people.

Officials obviously favored minimizing major issues, not discussing this matter excessively.

They didn't want to antagonize completely visible ard violent groups, especially when the Church displayed ti miracles and spatial teleportation that made even hardliners abandon bad intentions.

Seek common ground while reserving differences—everyone shared the sa stance on fighting Disaster Beasts anyway. As for Eagle Company, pushed forward as a probe, it naturally beca a sacrifice. Supposed protective umbrella bosses all cut ties, with walls falling and everyone pushing.

North Arica War Zone's second largest private military company wouldn't easily collapse but definitely couldn't stir up trouble again.

Beyond this, officials unexpectedly issued new statents: "Willing to cooperate with the Salvation Church on magical girl and other issues, welcoming the organization's active opinions. Currently, out of privacy protection, Eagle Company's database is completely erased with no pursuit of related magical girls. Future awakening rampage incidents will adopt appeasent policies and seek full coordination with the Church for solutions..."

Ordinary people were quite confused.

But insiders Jin Changfeng and Pasha exchanged glances, imdiately understanding higher-ups had reached conclusions—they decided to let professionals handle professional matters.

Actually, Eagle Company had shared valuable basic magical girl knowledge so far, like awakening rampage, magic biological intelligence...

Many higher-ups were quite satisfied with this. To please all parties, Quincy had calculated further experints, but unfortunately died midway, defeated by Hyacinth before thousands—this battle had serious implications, crushing many sches.

Since you have no value, just sell out directly.

Soone had to manage magical girls. With Quincy fallen, why couldn't it be the Salvation Church?

Pasha murmured: "From rcenary perspective, we welco new forces joining unified front lines, but they've always seed unhurried, apparently waiting for so opportunity? Mr. Jin, what chance do you think is worth ambitious people waiting for?"

"World chaos, overthrowing natural order."

"...Defeating Prophecy Book plus Oracle Book combinations, I believe the Church keeps similar treasures, like that spatial relic, so they have so judgnt about the future."

Jin Changfeng said calmly: "Corporate power will only grow stronger in future, with politicians completely becoming big stewards pushed to the front. No matter what happens later, it won't change the general trend. I admit, I have connections with the Church, so I'm quite confident. Your current goodwill gestures are correct, Pasha. Mastering violence will beco the era's main the."

"I want to beat up Gallup again—that guy made you pursue force while hating rcenaries, resulting in joining the Church camp."

Both looked at each other and laughed heartily, completing division of Eagle Company in just a few words.

Far from enough—the upcoming feast would be even more delicious.