Admittedly, the Los Angeles battle was fought satisfyingly and thrillingly, but one thing must be noted:
Hibiscus had once again changed the course of history. Unlike previous tis, the price would soon be paid at year's end. Could the rcenary alliance and joint military forces, having suffered attacks and lost several strengthening opportunities, defeat the Catastrophic Disaster Beasts? It was quite questionable—they might engage in internal strife until the very last mont.
She admitted wanting to profit from war, thinking to take advantage of the new epoch's arrival to rapidly expand her forces enough to openly step onto the stage without fear.
The premise was that Disaster Beasts couldn't rampage too severely, or leaving behind devastation would be no good for magical girls.
anwhile, the discussion continued:
【A bunch of trash fish. Even if they got strengthened and ended up in that pathetic state, their original performance was just as terrible】
【Undeniably, that cooperation completely unified humanity's various military forces. Iron and blood forged civilization, and from then on humanity welcod the magic-rich era with entirely new organization and long-term suppression of magical girls. This logical chain is very important】
【Historical events never exist independently. We've at least changed two major nodes—Island 24's offensive-defensive battle and the Los Angeles battle. Many things will change accordingly】
【My stance is with magical girls. It's fine if humans are a bit weaker】
【A bunch of brainless guys—competent at civil war, incompetent at foreign war】
【No matter how brainless, they still withstood the catastrophic offensive. Though in a sense it was conventional combat power's swan song, they left behind a legacy of unity that greatly influenced later Managent Bureau and Salvation Church actions... Well, these conflicts among magical girls barely exist in the new worldline】
【No worries, don't worry they can't beat Aurora. There are still so old guys keeping their strength in reserve. Doesn't matter—Holy City Association will take action】
【If humans perform too poorly, they won't bother moving. Can't count on them at all】
【Actually I'd suggest hiding from Disaster Beasts】
Beep!
The system chanically generated suggestions and corresponding rewards as usual, but the silver-haired girl barely glanced at them, ignoring them.
Hibiscus had long guessed hidden combat power existed in the human faction. From netizens' tone, this was indeed the case, but she'd never considered this option from the start. First, Catastrophic Disaster Beasts were equivalent to super bosses before version updates, with strength that crushed everything—didn't matter if you had hidden masters or not. Second, magical girls needed their remains to rapidly improve or make their power controllable—endless benefits that absolutely couldn't be given to others.
Seedling Stage magical girls were also combat power that shouldn't appear in the current era. Might as well clash with catastrophic leaders—at least to contain the disaster from rampaging too much.
She actually wasn't confident, but it wasn't just her alone bearing the burden—the Salvation Church was full of talent.
More importantly, the organization couldn't avoid battle. Setting aside utilitarian reasons like Disaster Beasts actively hunting prey and magical girls needing materials, the key was the organization's philosophy of opposing Disaster Beasts—the Church had taken the Managent Bureau's purpose and gone public with it.
Hibiscus spoke honestly: "Regardless, I won't flee. I must participate in the Catastrophic Disaster Beast battle. It would be good if everyone has intelligence."
【Expected answer】
【Boss Mu has never been cowardly. Her new worldline rise to power could be called pure aggression all the way】
【Future phantom god-level combat power, undergraduate Ti Priestess】
【Can't give intelligence. Catastrophic Disaster Beasts count as a core node in the entire Magical Girl of Light worldview's history. Massive information volu, knowledge poison curse hard to estimate. Providing codenas and landing tis/locations is our limit】
Hibiscus sighed—indeed so. When she first heard intelligence, knowledge contamination was severe, and she felt unwell for several days afterward. Complete intelligence would be even more terrifying.
【Don't worry, chanisms are ant to be bypassed. Though we can't directly reveal Aurora's information, we can weaken it in advance. Planet Gaia is now late October. Starting November, large-scale Cluster Disaster Beasts will erge everywhere as ons or advance teams. Similarly, magical girls will continue expanding greatly, interacting with each other. In the original storyline, the rcenary alliance didn't clean up thoroughly, resulting in even more chaos after the catastrophe occurred. So the Church might as well actively attack—press one to death as they co】
【In that case, supplenting combat power is most important. Key cards must be held in hand—need to recruit powerful magical girls in advance】
【No, before that should avoid rampage first, or it'll evolve into humans simultaneously stopping rampage incidents while dealing with "November Disaster Beast Storm" events】
【Is there going to be rivers of blood?】
"Everyone can rest assured about this point. I've already made counterasures—actually not difficult..."
Hibiscus proactively explained her plan: advertising investnt. Relying on abundant funds to create functional drinks and health products, so naturally promoting fitness routines and TV programs was normal, right? Actually, these so-called fitness routines mixed in magical girl Origin training thods.
You didn't even need to try—just a glance would make you understand, because it matched your own magic power flow operation. Any magical girl would understand—equivalent to a code.
Additionally, Five-Color Narcissus Company remained deeply hidden, staying behind the scenes through shell companies, legal trustees, and tax haven shells.
After all, Hibiscus currently didn't expect to recruit heroes from across the world—she knew her own capabilities and couldn't bear it. No need for magical girls to contact her—first solve the magic power rampage problem.
As long as they didn't plan to make contact, it was hard to leave traces.
Broadcasting advertisents worldwide was actually for one thing: spreading the code.
【There's even this move】
【Too strong, I never thought of it. This ti the person involved sees clearly while observers are confused】
【Boss Mu generously spends money just to help compatriots. Magical girls across Planet Gaia will rember this kindness】
【For an ordinary magical girl, she might be suffering from magic power disorder and awakening stage symptoms, but accidentally sees an advertisent and grasps a lifeline, gradually stabilizing magic flow to get through the crisis. She understands so power is helping her and easily associates it with the famous Salvation Church, forming a good connection. Even if rampage numbers just decrease, it's a big profit. Worthy of high-IQ big villain】
Hibiscus said: "Actually I don't seek repaynt of favors. Just like how everyone helped stabilize magic power to get through college entrance exams at the beginning—you taught generosity."
She arranged for Jin Ruochu to handle the advertising project, hoping for good fortune, and didn't expect anything beyond that.
【Worthy of you, Hyacinth】
【What a terrifying woman, flirting through the screen. What ti magic—you're succubus magic】
【Whether original or current new worldline, unchanged is Hyacinth's innate charisma. I originally worried she wouldn't be mature enough without experiencing hardships, but she developed even faster】
【What "heaven assigns great responsibility to this person"—feudal PUA nonsense. Real genius doesn't need suffering. Give her a better environnt and she soars directly】
【Back to business, since it's confird we're fighting team battles, it's ti to collect the Salvation Church's Seven Apostles】
【@Hyacinth, rember my earlier suggestion about striking Catastrophic Disaster Beast advance teams? That's one aspect. Also can recruit powerful magical girls, especially so whose magic has good compatibility with Aurora—counts as a wild card】
【Though it sounds harsh, ability to avoid Eagle Company capture counts as one indicator of magical girl comprehensive strength】
【Indeed, even Quincy wasn't always invincible. He encountered several tough nuts, including future Managent Bureau and Church first-batch backbone mbers】
Hibiscus's eyes lit up.
She'd heard about this before—for example, besides herself as leader and Nan Zhiyi as General Manager, the Salvation Church leadership also had Seven Apostles, all first-class magical girls with powerful strength and rich experience. After all, being able to successively wage war against rcenary alliances, Managent Bureau, Disaster Beasts, fairies and other forces was definitely not simple. Any ordinary organization would have died countless tis, but they could energetically jump around until the finale as the final boss, showing abundant strength.
So the Seven Apostles were like a Four Heavenly Kings setting? There should be rotation and replacent.
Original storyline powerful magical girls often concentrated in the original first generation and first batch of awakened, but that didn't an successors were inferior—they also got quite a few backbone positions, with so gifted individuals reaching first-class ranks. In other words, among currently appearing magical girl mbers existed many potential stocks.
Without Hibiscus asking, comnts provided intelligence:
What appeared was a short video, probably similar to the previous "Manjusaka's Breaking Point" type. The scene showed a spacious conference room.
At the head seat was clearly a silver-haired girl in black-red military ceremonial dress. Though identical in appearance to herself, the weariness, depth, and killing intent between her brows were completely different—one glance could distinguish between Ti Priestess and Hyacinth.
Around her were 8 chairs total, not complete—only half still had people, unfortunately in shadows so their faces couldn't be seen clearly.
First to reveal herself was actually Nan Zhiyi, leaving angrily. Her gaze showed a trace of reluctance yet she followed arrangents and departed silently, her back full of curtain-fall feeling.
Then two more people left, never showing their true faces throughout.
The last to step into the light was Minase Kaori, wearing shrine maiden-style red and white ceremonial dress, long hair tied with a care mask, short sword at her waist, wooden clogs on her feet. Magical Girl Lycoris, though during this period she'd long shed her green naivety, mature and steady with full spirit.
At the video's end, Minase Kaori bowed deeply yet still chose to leave with Ti Priestess. They rushed to the battlefield—a path of no return they might not even be certain of.
The plot was on the eve of "The Strongest's Fall Battle."
Though Hibiscus hadn't seen the original, it didn't prevent her from understanding the tiline combined with netizens' comnts. The reason for forcibly disbanding and cutting ties was because this battle was destined to be devastating no matter what, and even Ti Priestess didn't want those close to her involved, so she practically drove Nan Zhiyi away. Didn't she understand her childhood friend's feelings? It was also a kind of fulfillnt, or rather her own fear of witnessing her beloved's death, more afraid of forced intervention causing Ti Priestess's disgust.
As one of the top magical girls at that ti, Dandelion understood that when such thoughts appeared and shook her heart, she was unworthy of ascending to the peak battle competing for strongest.
The other two apostles chose to follow arrangents with similar psychology—after all, they were even less capable of participating in this battle.
Minase Kaori was the exception.
The girl in the original storyline suffered torture from rcenaries, later rescued by Ti Priestess in one attack, and from then on served with utter devotion.
She didn't fear being disliked, and knew she'd never reach a position where being in danger would affect Ti Priestess's judgnt... This was better, so she could boldly accompany her admired person to the most deadly battlefield.
If Ti Priestess faced Golden Dragon Emperor, then Ghost Apostle would face everyone else.
...The short video stopped abruptly amid various tearful emoji.
【Please don't play any more】
【@Hyacinth, you've already mastered one of the Seven Apostles. You must treat her well—ah no, don't treat her well to avoid flirting, let her be more independent】
【Broken, nothing feels right. Who made Lycoris have that troubleso personality—the more obsessed and emotionally intense magical girls are, the stronger they beco】
【You're overthinking. Distinguish the difference. Original storyline Minase Kaori was already broken in experints, so stubborn, crazy and violent. Unfortunately she never understood, or refused to understand—so-called admiration is the emotion most distant from understanding】
【Quoting that previous netizen's words, genius without difficulties only becos stronger. Anyway, OP should focus on training her—Hundred Demons Night Parade is very good at legion battles】
【Pity, clearly T1-level summoning system. If she didn't intervene in the Second Decisive Battle, she might have grown more】
【My silly child, you already completed the mission beyond expectations by blocking official magical girls wanting to support. Why insist on supporting yourself? Don't you understand how outrageous those two monsters are?】
【Suicide? It's actively embracing the ending】
【She couldn't survive that battle. When I was following the series, I wondered how Minase Kaori strengthened enough to block together with Jin Ruochu. Turns out she sacrificed everything, burning her life essence. Ghost Apostle chose her burial ground. In such a world, this freedom counted as fortune. I want you to witness this final withering beauty, so I recklessly intervened in the duel】
【In summary, Minase Kaori will be very useful in the upcoming catastrophic battle. Focus on training her to be helpful first】
Hibiscus agreed, treating it as making up for a trace of guilt...
No!
Guilt about what? If anyone should be blad, bla Ti Priestess. Must make a clear separation and draw boundaries. After so ntal work, the girl set aside her emotions, looking with complex eyes at Minase Kaori practicing with Jin Yulu on the distant beach.
From another perspective, it proved the dominance of strongest-tier magical girls. Who would have thought Lycoris girl actually died from being involved in Ti Priestess and Golden Dragon Emperor's duel.
In the original, "herself" probably wasn't confident about defeating peak Imperial Flower—no wonder she drove away Nan Zhiyi.
Hibiscus would indeed do this. For example, in the previous Island 24 and Los Angeles battles, without sufficient intelligence she would never take risks. Should say being slightly superior didn't represent hard strength differences between both sides. Worthy of being the strongest magic holder—quite formidable. The new Salvation Church's future looked promising.
【Just the cards in hand aren't enough. Next, proceed according to plan. I'll mark out several small-scale attacks before Catastrophic Disaster Beasts】
【I rember there was a map】
【Aurora can fly, very troubleso. Air combat can rely on Imperial Flower as transport, but that guy is also very fast—difficult】
【In the original, 12 nuclear bombs barely restricted its mobility, and even that caused super-large disaster area damage. Current stage can't create traps with firepower output—must think of other thods】
【I have a proposal: find T1-level elental system, Swift Thunder】
【Let's not rush. Make plans first. @Hyacinth, OP wait a mont】
Hibiscus gladly accepted.
Magical girl developnt couldn't rely entirely on otherworld support.
Besides netizens' opinions, Hibiscus was also preparing. She had one card she hadn't even shared with them—system-provided potion resources. The magical girls on the beach had entered special training mode. Once consumption was excessive, they used diluted potions to supplent, plus occasionally finding Disaster Beasts for sparring—progress was quite fast.
As instructor, Jin Yulu was experienced and had knowledge summarized from previous intensive training, making training new recruits easy.
On another front.
Nan Zhiyi handled company operations, purchasing large batches of military equipnt, even including fusion warrior technology that flowed out from Eagle Company. Perfect for exchanging experience with Changfeng Group, breaking through technical barriers between human companies counted as helping them, not to ntion having magical girl reference opinions.
Jin Ruochu continued testing the Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror's various performance aspects, striving for early practical application.
Admittedly, the current Salvation Church was very immature, but steadily progressing. The makeshift setup was built—everything else depended on step-by-step developnt according to plan.
Hibiscus got many suggestions from the recent chat:
[Complete "Train Minase Kaori's Magic To New Stage, Naly Overco Sunlight's Impact On Demon Legion Morale Depression" Reward: Magic Advancent Stone Fragnt ×1, Free Attribute Points 20]
[Complete "Avoid Battle And Hide From Disaster Beasts" suggestion, reward…]
Directly excluded.
[Complete "Proactive Containnt Based On Predicted Disaster Beast Small-Scale Attack Map" Reward: Free Exchange Points 800]
Hibiscus could foresee the Catastrophic Disaster Beast battle would have enormous potion demands. Exchange points could all beco potions, so this last suggestion was especially crucial. Moreover, it very likely belonged to a series type that could be done in installnts, with total revenue only higher. Fortunately it wasn't difficult.
She currently accumulated large amounts of exchange points that could beco potions anyti, just for so day of large-scale combat when she definitely couldn't hold back and had to give everything.
But from the information just received, the catastrophic battle was a long-term process. Late November to December was the concentrated outbreak period, with ons rampaging throughout October—for example, Vanguard Disaster Beasts, Boss Disaster Beasts and communities would massively invade. Current stage had more magical girls than the original storyline, aning they would definitely co frantically seeking prey. Even Hermit Island might not be safe—had to find ways to take initiative...
Boom!
The beach training ground suddenly erupted with magic shockwaves. Several girls looked regretful and shook their heads with sighs.
Failed again—still couldn't awaken magic.
Jin Yulu's tone was gentle but content horrifying: "Like paratroopers need real airdrops to learn parachuting skills, you need combat..."
Using her service experience of years fighting Disaster Beasts, she easily concluded magic awakening was closely related to Disaster Beast magic power—indeed correct, hitting the nail on the head. But her personality would directly define it as life-or-death mont tests. As soon as she spoke, the girls worried greatly.
"Don't worry, I'll accompany you to find Disaster Beasts. You kill one, I kill five."
"Instructor, the problem isn't there."
"I think we can wait."
Hibiscus quickly ran forward to stop Jin Yulu's pressure behavior, imdiately announcing training suspension—the teaching research group had to re-discuss plans.
"Your thinking direction isn't wrong, but not entirely right. Accelerating magical girls' magic awakening is indeed related to Disaster Beast remains, but doesn't an combat is necessary. We can completely collect materials to help them—much less risky."
"We few all experienced contacting Disaster Beasts... No wonder you attacked Storm Gang to seize materials then. Wait, you knew before awakening magic!"
Jin Yulu was dumbfounded, just realizing many key magical girl intelligence wasn't secret to Hyacinth.
Eagle Company struggled bitterly and searched worldwide just to summarize that little, yet still couldn't catch up to the Salvation Church founder. Both sides had vast differences in intelligence and knowledge reserves. The seemingly makeshift Church could always produce corresponding information at appropriate monts—more useful than predicting the future.
She looked admiringly at the silver-haired girl and asked: "I want everyone to quickly awaken magic, so we need large amounts of Disaster Beast materials, right?"
"This matter can't be rushed."
"A few days ago Nan Zhiyi said miracle drug sales in Europe progressed slowly and even lost big money because Disaster Beast attack intensity surged there."
"Losing money is indeed painful, but victory and defeat are normal in war. Don't look so eager to try." Hibiscus supported her chin thinking. "rcenary alliance supre headquarters and Disaster Beast Counterasure Organization headquarters are both there. Not our turn to act—casually showing presence isn't good either."
"Besides Europe, there's temporarily nowhere to get large amounts of materials." Jin Yulu spread her hands.
"I'm just saying consider it more. You do your thing. Whether to participate in Disaster Beast extermination, we'll discuss later."
Hibiscus pondered alone after being left to herself.
Company expansion hit obstacles, fund circulation problems. What should have been thrown into new markets for profit was ruined by Disaster Beasts, losing thoroughly. Thanks to Nan Zhiyi as helmsman barely stopping losses from expanding further. On the other side, wanting magical girls to transform into at least double-awakened with combat power required large amounts of materials—unavoidable. Moreover, they actually secretly anticipated the Church clashing with Disaster Beasts.
Seedling Stage magical girls could detect weak emotional fluctuations in Origin reactions. Despite appearing tired on the surface, everyone didn't completely reject Jin Yulu's invitation to battle.
Magic power was violent energy—arrogant and unrestrained, so they would never be content being spectators, or hoped the Church would take action.
Wait first.
Hibiscus turned on the radio to Disaster Beast report frequency:
"Bulletin from European frontlines: This Disaster Beast leader is siren-type with cluster reactions, suspected appearance of rare flying Disaster Beast Blackwind Wing, currently affecting over 8 countries"
"Large amounts of corporate assets damaged, forced to consider withdrawal or business suspension, economic impact continuing to expand"
"Eagle Company confird bankruptcy reorganization, forr chairman and CEO Quincy's remains transferred to headquarters, attending physician Pasha rushing to handle this matter"
"Infection disease large-scale outbreak ongoing, confird patient numbers breaking 100,000..."
Hibiscus was never one to follow news, but since entering this profession developed the habit of daily intelligence collection. Who knew that after Hermit Island's day-and-night busyness, the outside world changed so much? No wonder company operations suffered setbacks—after all, when everyone's losing money, it's hard to remain unaffected.
But wasn't this also an opportunity?
Perhaps she could try helping—after all, couldn't let pre-catastrophe waves weaken humanity too severely. Just as she pondered, comnts reappeared:
【@Hyacinth, OP, the late 1990 Disaster Beast attack wave map you wanted is all organized】
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