Xingxuan had never imagined that her card could be so powerful.
Because her magic—no, her soul skills—had always been characterized by low consumption and fast recovery. Back at the Central Bureau, her seniors had planned her developnt path exactly like this.
Continuously cycling through small skills, combining and matching them as her usual ans of engaging enemies, while also preparing one devastatingly powerful trump card. Or, simply advancing to the Blooming Magical Girl rank and learning a ntal Landscape to serve as her trump card.
But without two ten-thousand-year soul rings, Xingxuan was unwilling to advance so recklessly.
She did have one powerful trump card, but unfortunately, its power was so imnse she couldn't use it casually...
And while her Butterfly God's Light was considered quite powerful among her four minor soul skills, in reality, it was completely incomparable to her true trump card.
However.
The pitch-black magic covering half the city transford into a new sky.
An endless stream of pitch-black teors fell from the sky, charging straight toward Red Crane!
Yet Red Crane, as a Complete Witch, was not comparable to ordinary Witch Association mbers.
Her longsword danced with ferocious power. Tens of thousands of teors were cleaved apart under her blade. The flashes of her sword crisscrossed before her, weaving into a dense net. She actually managed to push forward against the bombardnt of countless teors, charging straight toward Jiang the Demon Butcher!
Xingxuan's heart tightened. This strength was almost reaching the Blooming level!
Even without relying on sneak attacks, in a real fight, she might not be a match for this Complete Witch. So why had she been forced to her knees by the soul beast earlier...
And what was with that expression she made just now? That look in her eyes? Those pleading tears?
Could it be?
Was all of that an act put on by that witch?!
Thoughts surged through her mind one after another. Xingxuan, well-versed in "Battle Demon Continent," suddenly understood everything—it was all acting!
Yes, it was all acting.
Aren't all the corrupted soul masters of the Witch Association like this? They'll pretend to be anything to achieve their goals.
She knew this all too well. Even though her idol, Bai Family's Third Sister, had repeatedly emphasized the cunning of corrupted soul masters in "Battle Demon Continent 2," she had still fallen for it.
What a bitter pill to swallow! Witnessing such treachery, even a dignified Soul Sect mber like her closed her eyes!
What had she been protecting...?
"Jiang the Demon Butcher!"
Red Crane let out a sinister voice that seed squeezed through gritted teeth, snapping Xingxuan back to reality. Her body involuntarily trembled, and she glanced back at the fox-masked man.
But he wasn't even looking at his opponent.
He had been staring at the clock on the TV tower behind them the whole ti.
There was nothing special on it, was there? Or was he in a hurry?
"Careful!"
Seeing Red Crane charging down while withstanding the teors, Xingxuan couldn't help but urgently call out a warning.
Yet the young man still didn't turn his head. He just casually extended his left index finger and pressed downward.
The pitch-black sky rotated. The previously scattered teors rapidly gathered together.
Forming a gigantic teorite, it smashed toward Red Crane!
Xingxuan watched, dumbfounded.
Of course, she knew what the Butterfly God's Light skill was. Each teor light cluster could actually be made with slight differences in both shape and nature—that was the characteristic of Butterfly God's Light!
Including forming this kind of solid-like teorite.
However, the difficulty lay precisely here. Managing one or two teor light clusters with different natures and shapes was fine, but once the variations increased, simultaneously rging teorite entities with different shapes and natures like he was doing now required precise control over every gap and variation at the edges of each teorite.
Finding matching parts to lock together like puzzle pieces, or else ticulously manipulating the edge variations oneself...
Whichever way, it was sothing fantastical, sothing that should be impossible!
That's why she mostly used pure magic light clusters with only one or two natures.
Moreover, this guy was using Polluted Magic, which was inherently more volatile and harder to control than pure magic...
Unbelievable!
"Jiang the Demon Butcher!"
Over there, Red Crane's eyes were wide with fury. The teorite smashed down fast and urgently. She had originally been charging toward the fox-masked man, and now there was no retreat. With a fierce shout, she gripped her sword and charged straight at the massive teorite!
Boom!
Unexpectedly, she was truly forced to tap into her potential. That single slash almost cleaved away more than half of the massive teorite. However, the remaining half was unavoidable. With a massive eruption of Polluted Magic all over her body, she instantly held up the teorite that was almost crushing her to death.
"Is this all!"
Red Crane roared, "Is this all you dare to touch my Disaster Beast babies! Protecting them is my duty, damn it! I'll definitely slice you into a thousand piec—"
Bam!
Another teorite instantly smashed onto the top of that half teorite.
The massive shockwave sent Xingxuan tumbling two or three sorsaults. "Ouch!" she cried, crashing into a telephone pole behind her before stopping.
Clutching the telephone pole tightly, she looked up.
A huge circular crater appeared ahead.
Red Crane was imdiately smashed so hard that Polluted Magic spurted from her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. Her chest heaved violently, unable to utter a single word anymore.
She looked like a fierce and wretched evil spirit, yet also utterly miserable. Her straight back was forcibly bent, half her body buried in the dirt, like an old man carrying a mountain, finally unable to move.
Xingxuan, clinging to the telephone pole like an octopus, turned her head dazedly to look back.
The fox-masked youth was still looking at the clock. After a long while, he shook his head.
"This clock is inaccurate."
Xingxuan, choked by the dust and unable to speak, felt her cheeks flush a little when she rembered how she had thought she could capture Jiang the Demon Butcher after finishing off the Disaster Beasts...
She glanced back again at Red Crane, who was being crushed breathless by one and a half teorites.
You didn't protect anything either, did you...
Thinking it was finally over, she didn't expect Red Crane to actually stand up while supporting two—no, to be precise, one and a half—teorites!
She thrust her sword into the teorite. Terrifying magic power flowed across the teorite, causing cracks to spread wildly across it. She was actually going to shatter the one-and-a-half teorites!
"You think, this is enough to defeat ?"
Red Crane gasped heavily, then fiercely cleaved apart the teorite on her body!
"I am, I am their mother!"
The opponent was strong, far stronger than Red Crane had anticipated. Probably even a Blooming Magical Girl would be about this strong.
But, so what!
Red Crane's eyes were red. Although she was sowhat dazed from being smashed a few tis, her originally chaotic and frenzied mind had cleared up a lot.
But that anger in her heart, that fla of vengeance, would give her infinite power.
This is, maternal love!
For the sake of her children, she could even break through her limits! The current her could even defeat a Blooming Magical Girl if one ca!
She would not lose!
She finally understood now.
Witch Association cadre, evil person, Perfect Witch, Disaster Beast Emperor... These were the status and prestige she held in the eyes of everyone in Hulin City...
Her codena was Red Crane, not the strongest person in the Witch Association, but none of that mattered. She had discarded all of that now.
What mattered was her babies, the Disaster Beast babies who had entrusted their future to her. Because they had chosen her.
Her boundless maternal love transford into the power to charge forward at this mont. That was hope.
Now, she held the future in her hands!
That's why she could stand here!
Behind her were countless wrongfully killed Disaster Beasts, countless children who were controlled yet forced to beco her enemies!
Nothing could stop a mother's vengeance!
The anger of a hoarder whose twenty years of savings were destroyed in an instant.
The hoarder descends from the heavens, wrathful and ferocious!
It could burn the entire world!
Gripping her longsword with both hands, Red Crane let out a piercing roar!
"Jiang the Demon Butcher!"
Countless tis she shouted this na, as if wanting to chew it up and grind it to pieces!
Witches were monsters created in imitation of Magical Girls, creatures of Polluted Magic.
Similarly, intense emotions could also bring them terrifying power!
"Jiang the Demon Butcher! You have already lost! At this mont, you absolutely cannot defeat !"
The magic power in her longsword instantly pierced through the pitch-black sky, stabbing through the covering Polluted Magic!
When moonlight leaked in from outside, it shone on Red Crane's face.
On that wretched, filthy, and dirty face, a trace of satisfaction and a cold sneer finally appeared. "Die!"
Then she heard an extrely soft mutter.
"Three hours and one second."
Hesitating for a mont, her swinging motion didn't stop. But before the swinging longsword could touch the masked youth, it emitted cracking and shattering sounds!
By the ti Red Crane regained her senses, the large sword in her hand was already broken, with only half remaining.
She stared blankly at the power ford from her maternal love, the resentnt of the hoarder, and the support of many Disaster Beast babies, now completely shattered. Her mouth opened and closed unconsciously. Then she looked up.
The sky was descending once more.
The Polluted Magic that constituted the pitch-black sky transford into the largest teorite, crashing down toward her with overwhelming force!
With a "thud," she knelt on the ground, just crying out, "Spare..."
The next second, the pitch-black sky landed.
An Shiyu watched the terrifying teorite land, originally thinking the TV tower and surrounding buildings would be dood.
But they weren't.
When the teorite landed, although it created a massive crater, most of the Polluted Magic didn't spread outward. Instead, it shot skyward!
The pitch-black Polluted Magic dissipated into the night sky. If one weren't a Magical Girl, being even slightly too far away, they wouldn't be able to tell what had happened.
But the dispersing gale still blew to the surroundings.
By the ti Jiang Si casually tossed the card back to Xingxuan, the senior was still in a dazed state, completely unable to react.
An Shiyu had hidden to the side, actually thinking that if there was any danger, she would secretly take Jiang Si away.
If Jiang Si was more powerful, she would try to rescue Senior Xingxuan.
After all, both Jiang Si and Senior Xingxuan had shown her kindness.
If she were on the scene, she wouldn't know who to help, so she could only hide and watch the situation first.
But Jiang Si's subsequent performance made her montarily forget what she was supposed to do.
So, Jiang Si was this powerful...
Although she had been saved by Jiang Si before and witnessed the youth tearing open Scorpio's skull with her own eyes—she didn't know how powerful Scorpio was.
Nor did she know how Jiang Si had gotten in or what his actual combat power was.
Especially after her own transformation, she had killed many Disaster Beasts along the way. Although still very unskilled, it gradually gave her so confidence.
She was quite strong as a Magical Girl.
Senior Xingxuan had also said she had so ability, plus she could fly, making her stronger than the average Sprout Magical Girl.
Actually, she had fantasized that if Jiang Si ever encountered danger, she would imdiately appear and rescue him.
On one hand, she could repay so of Jiang Si's kindness. Just being able to help Jiang Si would make her happy. On the other hand...
It would also make Jiang Si rember her more deeply, just like she had such a deep impression of him...
The fantasy was terminated along with the dissipating Polluted Magic. After recognizing Jiang Si's true strength, An Shiyu naturally wouldn't indulge in wild thoughts anymore.
The gap in strength was too vast...
Even after becoming a Magical Girl, there were still things she couldn't do.
Watching Jiang Si's retreating figure, An Shiyu deeply understood this point.
Soon, police and so related personnel approached. A massive number of helicopter searchlights illuminated the area. Although Senior Xingxuan was still sitting dazedly in front of the huge crater, seemingly unable to stand up due to weak legs,
Sorry, Senior, I have sothing more important to do...
Apologizing in her heart, An Shiyu imdiately spread her wings and flew after Jiang Si!
Jiang Si's speed was fast, but he wasn't flying. Instead, he was leaping by stepping on sothing in the air.
An Shiyu couldn't quite understand how Jiang Si could double-jump in mid-air...
He was both agile and fast. An Shiyu pushed herself to the limit just to barely keep up behind him.
Struggling to follow behind Jiang Si, she almost crashed into taller buildings several tis. Fortunately, she gradually adapted to these wings, flying faster and more agilely, finally managing not to be shaken off.
After leaving Hulin City, she saw Jiang Si leap into the nearby mountain forest.
The mountain forests near Hulin City were famously dense, considered a pillar industry. Once he dove in there, just flying above would definitely make it impossible to keep up.
She had to descend and enter the forest on foot—even if she was familiar with the wings, flying in such a place in the middle of the night was really asking too much.
However, soon, in the silent and pitch-black forest, she beca sowhat lost. Jiang Si's figure also disappeared.
The most critical thing was that her Magical Girl form was about to beco unsustainable.
All the fighting along the way, plus constantly chasing Jiang Si in flight, ant that as a newly transford Magical Girl, she had already maintained her form for a very long ti.
Now, her magic power was finally depleted here, and her stamina was nearing its limit.
After being tripped by a vine from who-knows-where, she fell to the ground and naturally canceled her transformation.
Clutching her Miracle Seed tightly, looking around at the sky-blocking trees, An Shiyu sniffled, feeling like crying for a mont.
She just, she just wanted to talk to Jiang Si...
Completely lost.
Groping her way up, she looked at her seed.
She couldn't transform for now.
But how to transform again, Xingxuan had told her. She just needed to wait a while, until the seed's transformation cooldown was over, and she could transform again.
Then, fly up and leave.
Looking up at the sky, scattered starlight fell down.
Even after becoming a Magical Girl, many things wouldn't go so smoothly...
And, Jiang Si probably didn't want to see her either.
He probably didn't recognize her anymore. He didn't seem to recognize her before.
Although her red hair was quite striking. After all, truly red hair was very, very rare.
Touching her hair, An Shiyu tried her best to tidy her sowhat ssy strands.
Co to think of it, she didn't even know what she looked like now. Probably dirty and ssy.
If only she had a mirror.
She wanted to tidy up her appearance, not wanting Jiang Si to see her looking ugly.
No, she couldn't find him anyway. Maybe she might never see him again...
Thinking this, An Shiyu suddenly felt a sour ache in her heart, an empty feeling.
Holding her Miracle Seed, she spoke as if making a wish, "Can you let see Jiang Si again? If, Magical Girls are miracles that can grant wishes, then my wish!..."
"What are you doing?"
A cold inquiry startled An Shiyu so much she almost threw her seed. After a long mont, she gripped the seed tightly and looked up. The fox mask under the moonlight was staring straight at her.
"I, I, I'm lost..."
"I can see that."
An Shiyu instinctively brushed her hair, wanting to improve her less-than-presentable appearance, then said softly, "I wanted to talk to you."
"Why?"
"Back then, back then on the bus, you saved . At the orphanage, you saved again. But I haven't told you my na yet."
An Shiyu leaned on a nearby tree to stand up. "My na is An Shiyu. You can call Shiyu. The 'shi' from poetry, the 'yu' from rain."
That slender figure, though not tall, brought an unparalleled sense of security.
All those rustling sounds that had made her anxious before now beca just sowhat annoying background noise.
"Oh."
The response was flat, but An Shiyu didn't feel discouraged.
As long as there was a response, it was enough.
She didn't know what would happen in the future. Maybe they wouldn't et again. Maybe they would, but there would never be another chance to chat like this.
So, no matter what, seize every opportunity. Say what you want to say.
Gather your courage. Absolutely, do not be cowardly!
"Jiang Si, I..."
"My na is Jiang the Demon Butcher."
She was interrupted.
Her montum was broken too, but An Shiyu wasn't such a fragile girl.
She took a breath, holding the Miracle Seed against her chest.
As a Magical Girl, you must, you must be strong!
"Jiang the Demon Butcher... You might not rember anymore, but back on the bus, we t before."
"Mhm."
Although Jiang Si didn't rember, he still nodded.
Anyway, just go through the motions to make her leave.
He was still waiting for information from Twins.
"Back then, when you confessed to on the bus, I, I didn't react in ti. I didn't give you a response. But now I've thought it through." An Shiyu took a short, quick breath, quickly calming herself down.
Co on, you must, you must speak your mind!
"I hope you can listen to my answer and thoughts."
Anyway, just handle it perfunctorily to make her leave.
An Shiyu raised her head, her clear eyes eting Jiang Si's pupils directly. The youth's pupils were dark, ancient, and without ripples.
Face Jiang Si directly. Face your own heart directly. Then, gather your courage!
"I want to know more about you. I also want you to know more about . I want to know your likes and dislikes. I want to know what you usually do. I want to stay by your side. I want..."
So hard-to-utter words paused at her lips, but An Shiyu still took a step forward, her eyes sparkling brightly as she looked at the youth. "I want to be with you."
The long wait felt like the silence before a sentence is pronounced. The sound of her heartbeat drowned out everything else.
When she realized what she had said, the hand holding the Miracle Seed also began to tremble. A burning sense of shyness spread from the depths of her heart all the way to her ears, making her head feel sowhat dizzy.
She instinctively wanted to press down on her heartbeat, to stop it from being so loud, afraid the youth right in front of her would hear it.
Even her exhaled breaths beca sowhat agitated.
She didn't know how long she waited, until the fox mask across from her nodded.
It was like a judge's gavel striking her heart, making An Shiyu feel breathless for a mont.
She heard the youth reply indifferently:
"Then keep wanting. No one said you couldn't."
User Comments
0 comments from readers