Chapter 139 Under the Light Column
In the center of Fangting City, under the purple-black light curtain, the battle between the magical girls has been going on for a long time and has entered a white-hot stage.
A huge, cocoon-like flesh mass was suspended in the light curtain. A gigantic beast head poked out from the top of the flesh mass, continuously spewing purple-black magic breath toward the surrounding ground.
This magic is so corrosive that it will corrupt the surface of a building if it touches it. The blocks in the city center have become a mess, and there is no trace of their former prosperity.
The only thing to be thankful for was that on the night of the Full Moon Festival, there were not too many people gathered in the commercial district in the city center, and the very few people who did choose to flee after sensing something was wrong, so not many people were affected at the scene.
In the sky above the scorched earth city block, light blue, purple, and light green magic were entangled with the crippled beast.
"Xiao Lu, this beast is completely different from your previous opponents. It is an enemy you have never encountered before. Its evolutionary level should have reached the pupa stage!"
Lying on Lin Xiaolu's shoulder, Mo Ke raised his voice against the wind pressure and said, "The pupa stage is different from the ordinary beasts we usually encounter. There is a structure called pupa shell on their body surface. If the magic output cannot exceed its upper limit, it will never be possible to cause harm to it!"
"You also know knowledge about the crippled beasts?" Lin Xiaolu narrowly escaped from a purple-black magical power, but there was no sign of nervousness on her face.
"Now you're questioning this?" Mo Ke raised his voice.
"No, how should I put it? I just feel... a little surprised?"
"Now is not the time to be talking about these things! If you keep going on like this, you won't be able to hurt it even if you use up all your magic power!"
"Okay, I know, I know!"
While flying in the air at high speed, Lin Xiaolu responded loudly: "Anyway, we should just blow up its shell, right? Just like that annoying old man we met in the welfare home before!"
"This guy is much stronger than that brutal thug!" Mo Ke corrected.
"Never mind. We are totally different now than before! We have carefully considered the relevant plans!"
Lin Xiaolu raised her hand and gestured to Xia Liang: "Xia Liang!"
"I know!"
As Lin Xiaolu shouted and Xia Liang responded, several mirrors flashed with light, rotating and moving to surround the remaining beast in the center. Magic powers of different colors gathered on the mirrors from the hands of the three magical girls, and after a brief circulation, they were aimed at the head of the remaining beast.
"Bai Jingxuan!"
"OK!"
The magical girl with a green ponytail opened her arms, and the small box that she had been holding in her hands suddenly opened. Light and lively music sounded, making the already powerful flow of magic power transmitted to the mirror suddenly become more surging.
This is Bai Jingxuan’s magic costume, its name is Tianyin.
Its ability is to play different music through the resonance manipulation of magic, and depending on the differences in elements such as the rhythm, melody and timbre of the music, it will have different effects on the surrounding things.
Because the time of awakening and development is still short, Bai Jingxuan has only developed two uses for it: activating limbs and activating magic power.
The former can accelerate the body's self-healing ability, and can also consume a certain amount of energy to improve a person's athletic ability; the latter, just like what she is doing now, using the most unpretentious way to drive the magic suit to play music, can activate magic power and make it more active and restless.
It is also because of this that she can make the magic power originally gathered in the mirror of Xia Liang's magic suit become more turbulent.
A week ago, under the joint guidance of Hong Siyu and Xia Liang, Bai Jingxuan completed the bud-level blossoming of her abilities and obtained her own magic outfit.
At that time, she had not figured out the capabilities of her magic suit, nor had she mastered how to use it, so she kept it to herself and put the matter aside without telling Delphinium.
According to her original idea, she actually wanted to wait for Delphinium to come back and then tell this matter in person, giving Delphinium a surprise and letting her praise her.
Everyone else also guessed Bai Jingxuan's little thoughts, so they deliberately did not expose her, and coincidentally did not mention this matter to Cuique.
However, no one expected that the power of this magic suit would be used on the battlefield before Delphinium returned.
A surging beam of magic power was emitted from the surface of Xia Liang's magic armor. Light blue, purple, and light green magic powers gathered together and bombarded the remaining beast in the distance.
The torrent of magic power arrived in an instant, concentrated at one point, and exploded at the head of the remnant beast. At first, there was a kind of skin-like structure on the surface of the remnant beast's body that was wrinkled and blocked the impact of the magic power. But soon, this structure was broken under the combined attack of the three people, and then suddenly split into a huge gap.
The three-colored magic beams passed through the gap in its skin and hit the beast's head solidly.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
A deafening cry rang out in the sky above the city center. The beast twisted its body in its flesh cocoon in pain, and let out a cry of unknown meaning. Then, it increased the frequency of its attacks and once again spewed out corrosive magic breath at the magical girls.
The three new magical girls, or the three new generation magical girls, had already been prepared. They had dodged the moment the crippled beast exhaled, and the crippled beast's attack had no effect.
“Success!”
Seeing that the effect of this attack achieved or even exceeded his imagination, Xia Liang couldn't help but clench his fist and cheered softly.
"The Pupa Stage is just like this!"
Lin Xiaolu retreated to her side, with a smug look on her face: "As long as we can break through the defense the first time, we will definitely be able to break through it the second time. There will be no problem in wearing this big guy out!"
"It has nothing to do with you, right?"
Mo Ke, who was lying on her shoulder, couldn't help but pour a bucket of cold water on her: "It's obviously the magic suits of the other two that are working, why is there a class-level person talking nonsense here?"
"Huh? A fairy who can't even keep up with the flying speed and can only lie on others has the right to criticize me?"
Lin Xiaolu glared at it unhappily: "The progress of ability development can't explain everything, right? My magic power has not stopped growing in the past few months, and now it is definitely much stronger than the average species!"
"Isn't that still a species level..."
Mo Ke muttered to himself, but did not refute Lin Xiaolu's statement.
Because what Lin Xiaolu said was true. In the past few months, although she had never reached the limit of her ability, her magic power had never stopped growing.
At the beginning, her magic power was almost the same as that of an average species, but as she grew since then, especially after the battle in the welfare home, it has now reached a level far beyond her species level.
If Lin Xiaolu had not yet completed her Kaihua and obtained her own magic outfit, no one would have thought that she was just a species.
"You two, stop arguing at this time."
Xia Liang smiled helplessly and re-activated his magic suit: "Let's concentrate on knocking this big guy down now, shall we?"
“…That’s true.”
Lin Xiaolu, who originally wanted to argue with Mo Ke, immediately stopped thinking about it, looked at the increasingly frantic beast not far away, and tightened her wand again: "The battle has not been won yet, it's a little too early to celebrate now."
Bai Jingxuan on the side did not interrupt, but silently released her magic and played the music of the music box.
The battle thus resumed.
The biggest advantage of pupa-level beasts over lower-level beasts is that they have their own nests and pupa shells with naturally high defensive power.
And now this pupa, for some reason, appeared alone in the center of the city, without its own nest space around it. This also means that there are no eggs or larvae around it for it to command and drive, and its combat capability is greatly weakened.
The magical girls found a way to crack the remnant beast's defense, which was equivalent to finding the key to defeating it, enough to eliminate all the advantages of the remnant beast in the evolutionary level. Therefore, the battle inevitably became one-sided.
Xia Liang was in the lead, Bai Jingxuan provided the amplification, and Lin Xiaolu provided the magic power. The three of them worked together to shoot out one magic beam after another through the transformation of the magic equipment - such a strong impact could not even be called a magic beam, it was more appropriate to call it a bombardment.
The continuous bombardment forced the pupa in the air to retreat step by step. It kept wailing and screaming, with more and more wounds on its body and its movements becoming weaker and weaker.
Obviously, it couldn't hold out much longer.
"Moko! Take my phone!"
After finishing another round of bombardment, Lin Xiaolu took out her cell phone from the pocket of her apron and handed it to Mo Ke: "After we get rid of this big guy, remember to take a picture for Delphinium to see!"
"...Are you too excited?"
Mo Ke took the phone helplessly: "You treat the battle so frivolously, be careful not to show the photos to the patrol officer and get criticized."
"Delphinium would never do that." Lin Xiaolu did not comment.
"I think it's better for me to tell the young senior the whole story first, right?"
Xia Liang suggested, "Although we rashly challenged the Pupa-level beast and won by taking advantage of the time and place, she will still be worried when she finds out, right?"
"It's better not to let the teacher get scared." Bai Jingxuan also added in a low voice.
"Hmm... That's true."
Lin Xiaolu floated in the air and thought for a while, then raised her wand again: "Well, let's discuss how to report the rest later, but now..."
She stopped mid-sentence.
Not only her, Bai Jingxuan and Xia Liang beside her also stopped suddenly. The three of them looked at the ground not far away at the same time.
The purple-black light column in the center of the block emitted a dazzling light, which naturally cast shadows on objects in the air, reflecting them on the ground and stretching them infinitely.
And at this moment, at some unknown moment, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of the three of them.
This is an extremely long and thin shadow that was projected from the air. It was very faint at first, but as it spread to the feet of the magical girl, it turned into a dark color as thick as ink.
Judging from its shape and outline, the shadow looked like an extremely huge moth.
At this moment, the owner of the shadow was quietly floating in front of the remnant beast. Compared with the huge remnant beast, its body was not worth mentioning, just like an ant compared to an elephant. But the shadow under its feet almost covered the entire block in front of it, far exceeding the size of the pupa-level remnant beast.
Surrounded by the dark shadow beneath him, the huge sense of oppression and crisis washed over the nerves of several magical girls. Without a doubt, everyone could sense that he was not a good person.
Just facing the owner of the shadow from a distance, Lin Xiaolu felt difficulty breathing, the magic power around her became extremely slow, even her heartbeat began to accelerate, and her body was tense as if she had met her natural enemy.
She widened her eyes slightly, quickened her breathing, stared at the figure in the distance, and silently clenched the wand in her hand.
She felt extremely familiar with this feeling of tension and oppression. In fact, she had experienced this feeling more than once, so she could easily tell its essence: it was the premonition of death when facing a fatal threat.
The owner of the shadow did not move at all, as if he was observing several magical girls in the distance, floating motionlessly like a sculpture.
After a brief stalemate, the unknown existence flickered slightly.
When his figure flashed and reappeared, he was already less than a few meters away from the magic girls. This frightened the magic girls who were already on high alert, and Lin Xiaolu seemed to react to the attack and fired a magic bullet with her hand.
However, this magic bullet did not have any effect. It could not even reach the mysterious figure in front of it. When it was about to get close to the other party, it inexplicably disappeared.
The girls then saw the face of the person clearly - it was a man in a black robe.
The other person had a slender body, and his whole body was covered by a black robe, so no features could be seen. And the magical girls present actually had an impression of that black robe - the last time they saw this style of clothing was on the man called "Bingchu San" in the welfare home.
“…Dawn of Darkness.”
Lin Xiaolu read out the name she heard at that time.
The black-robed man in front of him was also very different from the man at that time.
The surface of the other party's black robe had more complex and delicate dark golden patterns. The image formed was still evil, but its outline could be clearly identified: it was a golden moth with its wings spread.
The other person's black robe was topped with a tall hat, which replaced the hood of the robe. The long brim of the hat was pulled down very low, covering the face underneath and hiding his features.
“You guys really exceeded my expectations.”
The black-robed man suddenly spoke, and a hoarse female voice came out from under his hat: "It only took five months to grow to this point, and even be able to suppress the remnant beasts of the Pupa stage. This is very rare among magical girls."
Her words seemed like a compliment, but none of the magical girls thought she was complimenting them.
"…Who are you?"
As the first person to regain his composure among the group, Xia Liang reached out to stop the somewhat nervous Lin Xiaolu and spoke first: "You are hiding your true identity, and you don't even dare to reveal your true identity when you do bad things?"
She was actually very nervous, so her voice was a little hoarse. But in this situation, she did not forget to provoke the other party and try to get information from him.
She thought very clearly: the mysterious man in black robe in front of her was probably not an enemy that the three of them could deal with. If something unexpected happened next, they had to at least find out the enemy's identity and spread it.
"An obvious thoughtfulness, what a lovely child."
Xia Liang's crude provocation obviously didn't work against the black-robed man, but he didn't seem angry. Instead, he said with a hint of smile, "Well, as supporters of the Lord, we have never bothered to hide our names."
She reached out, grabbed the hat on her head, and pulled it off. A somewhat old, aged face appeared in front of them.
She was a blonde, somewhat elderly woman with a peaceful smile on her face.
"Nice to meet you, kids from Fangting City. My name is Moss."
As she said this, she bowed slightly, as if she was greeting. "Or you can translate my name from the Western language and describe it in the language of your Donghua Province, calling me moth."
(End of this chapter)
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