Dense petals covered the Disaster Beast's body. This giant creature, nearly as tall as a three-story building, roared loudly, continuously stomping the ground while frantically releasing magical energy. Countless petals shattered into starlight, falling in showers.
"Yueji!"
Seeing the Disaster Beast about to break through the petal encirclent again, Silver Lotus called out. Yueji, who had been hovering above, descended and raised her magic wand beside Silver Lotus. A faint yellow hazy glow enveloped the entire body of the Disaster Beast.
It couldn't actually harm the Disaster Beast.
Instead, it caused every petal to change from pink to crimson red, with the petals swelling and enlarging as if their weight had increased, pressing the beast's head down to crash violently against the ground, its massive body now hunched over.
Yueji's ability was to amplify the power of Magical Girls. In terms of pure destructive force, her ability wasn't ranked highly, but when cooperating with other Magical Girls, she could provide massive enhancents to their abilities.
Like Silver Lotus's petals right now—they couldn't suppress this Disaster Beast earlier, but after Yueji's amplification, the fiery red petals pinned the Disaster Beast firmly in the massive trench on the ground, making it unable to move.
However, the beast's nostrils continued to spew black, polluted magical energy. The red petals covering its body pulsated rhythmically with its breathing-like magical surges.
They were already showing signs of withering.
"Keke!"
Silver Lotus controlled the petals with one hand, keeping them tightly pressed against the beast's body without letting any fall, while supporting Yueji with her other hand as Yueji held up her magic wand, her magical energy beginning to drain rapidly. "Hurry up!"
Keke, who had been sitting on her broom above the beast, took a deep breath.
The turbulent polluted magical energy surged below like waves, making her palms sweat as she gripped her magic wand.
This was her first ti confronting such a terrifying Disaster Beast at such close range.
Yet, she didn't feel much fear.
The previous magical bombardnt hadn't been very effective, only causing minor damage and enraging the Disaster Beast.
So she needed a more powerful magical cannon...
Silver Lotus's original plan was for her to control the Disaster Beast while Yueji amplified her magical power to eliminate it. However, this Disaster Beast's power kept increasing, almost reaching B-grade level in a short ti, and it was still growing stronger.
To the point where Silver Lotus's petals couldn't suppress it anymore, forcing them to change plans temporarily and have Yueji reinforce the petals instead. Now everything depended on whether Keke's own output would be sufficient.
She desperately squeezed out her magical energy, gathering it into a new magical cannon, but it never felt like enough.
Keke knew in her heart that if she failed, this Disaster Beast would cause even greater destruction.
Broken pipes underground sprayed water everywhere, severed electrical wires sparked around them, broken glass, mud, dust, rocks, ruins...
The urgency of the environnt pressed down on her, making Keke's wand-holding hand tremble slightly.
She rembered the scene where Teacher Shion transford magical energy into arrows that pierced through the Disaster Beast's defenses. But that required extrely fine control over magical energy—she had tried it before and simply couldn't do it.
Anyone could simply discharge magical energy, but significantly altering the freely flowing magical energy like water and fixing its form was quite difficult.
As she clenched her magic wand, Keke suddenly rembered that Magical Girl called Dandelion.
She transford her magic wand into wind...
Using the magic wand to assist in shaping the magical energy?
Closing her eyes, Keke stopped delaying and imdiately gathered all her magical energy into the magic wand. Then, bit by bit, she began shaping it according to the wand's contours.
"Keke!"
Following Silver Lotus's anxious shout, the Disaster Beast's head had already broken free from the red petals. One of its horns had been blasted off by Keke's earlier magical bombardnt, dripping with black blood. Now its eyes were blood-red and ferocious as it stared up at Keke sitting on her broom.
Keke finally opened her eyes, her magic wand now molded into the shape of a spear.
But the form was unstable, its outline constantly shifting as if it might collapse at any mont.
"Whatever!"
Gritting her teeth, Keke grabbed the magical spear ford from all her gathered energy. As the Disaster Beast continued struggling against the red petals covering it, she suddenly shot forward!
The beast snarled as it raised its head, roaring once more. The surging magical energy blew Keke right off her broom!
The magical spear shaped with the help of her wand also paused montarily amidst the polluted magical energy surge.
But it still descended. Compared to the Disaster Beast, the relatively small magical spear pierced through the beast's skin with a "thud" sound, completely embedding itself in the beast's head.
One mont the Disaster Beast was roaring at the sky, the next it fell silent, its body frozen like a sculpture, maintaining its roaring posture without movent.
Then, its head began to swell and distort, with large amounts of fla starting to pour from its nostrils, mouth, and eyes.
Finally, it exploded with a trendous blast!
Silver Lotus flew up and caught Keke who had been blown away and was falling. Then she looked down in stunned silence at the Disaster Beast's massive body collapsing to the ground after losing its head.
Gentle breezes swept through the air, dispersing the surrounding smoke and dust along with the stench from the Disaster Beast. The wind felt so tender, like it was caressing her cheeks. Feeling the tickling sensation, Keke touched her face and looked around.
It sohow felt similar to the wind when Dandelion had stopped her and Silver Lotus earlier...
"Keke, how... how did you do that?"
Hearing Silver Lotus's sowhat shocked voice, Keke felt a little proud inside, but still pretended to be embarrassed. "I just suddenly rembered Teacher Shion's thod of using magical energy, and Dandelion using her magic wand to assist in shaping it. So I tried it, and surprisingly succeeded on the first attempt."
Yueji had already canceled her transformation nearby, plopping down onto the ground and sitting in the dirt while staring at the Disaster Beast's corpse and gasping in shock. "Captain, did we... really recruit a genius?"
Regardless of whether she used magical shaping or not, having such terrifying magical energy during the Sprout stage was truly rare.
Silver Lotus also recalled that during the previous test at the Disaster Control Bureau, Keke's magical energy capacity hadn't been particularly outstanding.
Her growth speed was too fast—would she eventually surpass ?...
Feeling a small worry and sense of crisis, Silver Lotus still smiled for now, patting Keke's head. "Keke, you're amazing! You might beco the strongest Magical Girl in our Disaster Control Bureau soday!"
"Captain, please don't make fun of ..."
After putting down the exhausted Keke, Silver Lotus scanned the surroundings again. The other Disaster Beasts that had appeared earlier had basically been dealt with by the Azure Cloud Sect.
When it ca to handling Disaster Beasts, the Azure Cloud Sect's Magical Girls were always reliably trustworthy.
"Stay here and keep watch," Silver Lotus said while flying up. "It seems like Disaster Beasts have appeared at the Disaster Control Bureau too. I need to go back imdiately to check. If there's any danger, don't try to handle it alone—contact right away!"
"Don't worry, Captain!" Yueji patted her chest. "We have the Azure Cloud Sect's Magical Girls here too, no need to worry. Go quickly!"
She originally wanted to say they should rely less on the Azure Cloud Sect, but looking at the current situation, those words were hard to say.
She could only wave her hand, transforming into a shooting star heading straight for the Disaster Control Bureau!
...
"You're still the sa as before, Susan."
In the darkness, Susan gasped for breath, leaning against the wall as she tore off her sleeve to bandage her ankle.
Although she had known that Yinluo would definitely have so sinister thods from the Witch Association and had made many preparations.
She still miscalculated.
Because she never could have imagined that soone would be crazy enough to raise a Disaster Beast inside their own body.
Peeking slightly from behind cover, the small Disaster Beast perched on Yinluo's shoulder imdiately spat a mouthful of venom in her direction.
Pulling back behind cover, Susan glanced toward the distant Disaster Control Bureau location.
The two of them had fought their way out from the Disaster Control Bureau's safe room, using the Disaster Beasts as cover—they probably hadn't been discovered.
The Incubators in the Disaster Control Bureau were busy maintaining the magical barrier. As the purest magical crystals, they would be the Disaster Beasts' primary targets once the barrier was broken.
So they couldn't possibly pay attention to them right now, let alone anyone else.
The security teams had almost all been dispatched to fight the Disaster Beasts, and administrative staff wouldn't dare to stop them either.
Anyway, they successfully let the Witch Association mber take out the Miracle Seed.
The remaining problem was how to get the Miracle Seed back to the Azure Cloud Sect. Bingtang said there would be soone to et them, but she hadn't detected anyone nearby yet...
"When you were still in the Magical Combat Team, I truly admired you. As a Magical Girl, your combat style was rough and reckless, never retreating, as if you were afraid of nothing. You firmly believed in your own strength and inevitable victory—powerful, brave."
"Just a newborn calf unafraid of tigers."
Removing the magazine, she quietly took out one bullet, silently borrowing so magical energy from the Miracle Seed.
She imperceptibly infused magical energy into the bullet, then reloaded it into the magazine, pushing the magazine into the gun until she heard the click of engagent before continuing: "That wasn't because I was brave, but because I was ignorant."
"Don't be so modest. Compared to Hyacinth, compared to Peony, compared to Yueji—you were the Magical Girl I admired most. I wanted to beco a Magical Girl like you, forging ahead courageously, confident and powerful."
"That's truly an honor."
The small Disaster Beast's venom corroded the wall, and Susan quickly rolled away to avoid the next spit of venom.
Imdiately standing up, chambering a round, aiming, and pulling the trigger!
"Bang!"
Her firing angle was quite tricky, simultaneously targeting both the Disaster Beast and Yinluo's head.
The bullet enhanced with magical energy accurately hit and finally exploded the rat-like Disaster Beast's head. But when it shot toward Yinluo, there was a "clang" sound as it was deflected.
It was as if Yinluo was surrounded by so invisible, impenetrable wall.
"Speaking of which, you who lost your transformation ability should understand best of all."
Ignoring Susan's attack, Yinluo took a Miracle Seed from the box and raised it, bathing both herself and the seed in sunlight.
The happiness and excitent overflowing on Yinluo's face even touched Susan, despite her disgust for Yinluo.
"I wanted to beco a Magical Girl but didn't even have the qualification. Since childhood, my dream was to beco a Magical Girl. Although BH City had blocked news about Magical Girls back then, with no relevant information even available online, I still firmly believed in the existence of Magical Girls and was convinced that I would beco one when I grew up."
The Disaster Beast on her shoulder lted, sliding off her body like mud. Yinluo's gaze beca sowhat distant, as if rembering sothing from long, long ago.
"Back then, when I said at school and at ho that I wanted to beco a Magical Girl, everyone laughed at , thinking I was dreaming. Even Silver Lotus didn't really believe —she just comforted , saying she wanted to beco a Magical Girl with , but she never actually believed Magical Girls existed."
"So do you know how excited and thrilled I was three years ago, when Disaster Beasts appeared in BH City and Senior Kingfisher appeared in the sky?"
Yinluo clenched the seed tightly. "Even the first heart can be shaken by environnt and doubt. I was almost ready to give up back then, but then Magical Girls truly appeared, allowing to persist in my dream. I searched everywhere for ways to beco a Magical Girl, for thods to enter the Disaster Control Bureau. Those two years, I gave everything I had."
"Exams, studying, interviews, exams, studying, interviews, constantly facing Disaster Beasts, seeking hope amidst despair. I did everything, everything! Every possible way to beco a Magical Girl!"
Yinluo grew more agitated as she spoke, her expression even becoming sowhat distorted. "But I was never chosen! I couldn't obtain a Miracle Seed, I couldn't beco a Magical Girl! No matter how much effort I put in, even after struggling through countless hardships to join the Disaster Control Bureau, to get close to you all, I still, I still couldn't beco a Magical Girl!"
"But Silver Lotus achieved it so easily."
Putting away her pistol, Susan sighed, her gaze carrying so pity. "It's not too late yet, Yinluo. Turn back."
But Yinluo wasn't listening to her at all, just continuing on her own. "She did nothing! When BH City was blocking news about Magical Girls, she never believed in their existence. After learning about Magical Girls, she never tried to beco one. Silver Lotus, she! Did nothing!"
Speaking word by word, Yinluo stomped her foot heavily. "Just because she wanted to save when I faced a Disaster Beast, she obtained a Miracle Seed. Just because of that! I wish she hadn't saved !"
"Why!"
Yinluo took out a syringe from her chest, violently injecting it into her neck and pushing all the liquid into her body. "Why can you! Why only you! Why am I the only one who can't succeed no matter what I do!"
Large amounts of magical energy began seeping from her body. Yinluo took the Miracle Seed and, stroke by stroke, carved a bloody cross on her forehead, locking in the overflowing magical energy.
The polluted magical energy awakened the Miracle Seed in her hand. Yinluo's originally distorted and ferocious face gradually cald.
Then she smiled again, looking at the Magical Girl she had once admired.
"I wish to sleep eternally in beautiful dreams, please grant the sweet poison I crave."
Like a waterfall, polluted magical energy instantly poured down from above, drenching Yinluo's entire body!
"Transformation."
When the magical energy dispersed, the black Magical Girl—no, it should be said the black Witch—let out a long sigh, filled with endless satisfaction and emotion.
"The unbearable despair has finally ended, Susan."
Yinluo reached out her hand to Susan. "Co with , beco a Magical Girl."
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