Chapter 19 Things Falling Like Rain
The battle between the crippled beast and the magical girl was a process of one gaining and the other losing. After the two magical girls consumed a lot of physical strength and magic power due to low-level coordination errors, the crippled beast got a chance to catch its breath and gradually gained the upper hand.
The mucus on the surface of the cavity-dissolving beast and its amorphous body gave them a strong recovery ability, and they could slowly recover while being attacked. So although this beast was in a passive state, it had not suffered fatal damage.
When the magical girl's fire suppression gradually became less intense, it began its counterattack with its combat power still intact.
The sign was that Lin Xiaolu, who had been moving around the crippled beast, suddenly felt that the range of the crippled beast's slapping the ground had expanded. It was becoming difficult for her to dodge its attacks.
She looked up and saw that the beast had covered its claws with a lot of mucus to increase the contact area when it struck. Even if she was not hit by the claws, she would be stuck if the mucus touched her body.
In addition, as the attacks of the remnant beast frequently fell to the ground, the mucus quickly soaked the ground around it, causing it to crawl forward faster. Its huge body gradually began to show unusual maneuverability, making it difficult for Xia Liang, who had been conducting long-range fire suppression in the air, to hit the target.
If they had enough magic power, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang could have squandered their magic power wantonly and forced themselves to speed up to keep up with the movements of the crippled beast. But in this situation, wasting magic power in vain and failing to make a quick decision would only put the battle in a more disadvantageous situation.
Therefore, the two magical girls, who had been fighting on their own before, had to start thinking about plans for cooperation.
"Hey, that guy over there!"
While dodging the attacks of the remnant beast, Lin Xiaolu shouted to Xia Liang in the sky: "Do you have enough magic power?"
"magic?"
He fired another magic beam, which splashed on the head of the remnant beast. Xia Liang looked puzzled: "Yes, there is. Xiaolu, do you have any ideas?"
"Don't call me so intimately, we are not that close!"
Following the claws of the beast stuck in the asphalt, Lin Xiaolu ran back into the air: "If I have magic power, I will lead it to reveal its weakness, and you will find an opportunity to hit it with all your strength."
"Will you let me attack?"
Xia Liang blinked, then smiled knowingly: "Ah, so you mean that your magic power is not enough for attacking?"
"You are such a disgusting person!"
Lin Xiaolu retorted angrily, but she did not deny it. Although she disliked Xia Liang, she also knew that things had to be prioritized. Then she turned around and flew out of the range of the crippled beast.
The self-recovery ability of the cavity-dissolving beast is very strong, but it is not without weaknesses. Its common weaknesses are the mouth and abdomen. Because this kind of beast is usually in a prone position, it is not easy to attack the abdomen, so the most valuable operation is actually to attack the mouth.
The most direct way to lure it into revealing this weakness is to let it use the dissolution cavity to attack.
Once the cavity is used, because of the location of the cavity, it must be raised and opened, and stop moving.
With this in mind, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang restrained their use of magic power, reduced the frequency of attacks, and stopped wasting it. At the same time, they also induced the remaining beasts to attack more.
This strategy soon took effect. When the remaining beasts found that they were not likely to be hurt, they attacked more and more frequently and became more and more careless about their own protection.
Until it completely gave up its defense, and when Lin Xiaolu deliberately exposed its flaw, it chose to use the dissolution cavity.
With its head raised high, the cavity in the chest of the crippled beast also contracted, transporting the body fluids in its organs like a powerful water pump, mixed with a large amount of magic power, and converging to the jet outlet on its lower jaw.
"Goooooooooooooooooooo!"
Along with a violent roar, several huge liquid shells were fired from its lower jaw.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lin Xiaolu kept running near the ground, leaving the water cannon behind her. The empty shells hit the road and sidewalks around her, creating huge holes.
She turned her head and shouted to Xia Liang in mid-air:
"Now! Shoot the magic beam into its mouth!"
"I know! Um...but it feels a little hard to control?"
Xia Liang, who had already found a good position, raised her wand high. The magic power far exceeded that of an ordinary magical girl gathered in front of her, forming a ball of light that looked extremely unstable. "Anyway, let's give it a try."
Seizing the opportunity when the crippled beast was about to launch a water cannon, she pressed down her magic wand, and while the crippled beast had just finished attacking and its mouth was still wide open, she aimed at it and shot out the magic beam in front of her.
The attack speed of the purple magic beam was very fast. Before the crippled beast could react, it had already suddenly shot in front of it, and then hit it heavily.
Because of this, it was not until the moment the magic cannon hit that several people realized that the hit location was not right.
Their original plan was to hit the beast directly in the mouth, thereby damaging its internal tissues and causing irreversible damage.
But after the hit, several people discovered that this attack, which used up almost all of Xia Liang's magical power, did not seem to hit the expected location.
"Ah, it seems to have missed the target?"
Looking at his wand, Xia Liang smiled a little embarrassedly.
It’s off, but it’s not too far.
This was the judgment made by Delphinium on the side.
Because this beam of magic power hit near the dissolution cavity of the remaining beast.
The dissolution cavity of the remaining beast is covered with thick flesh like a tumor, and continuously secretes mucus to provide protection, so it is not the weakness of the remaining beast.
However, the location of this magic beam was very strange. It did not attack the outside of the dissolution cavity of the remaining beast, but finally hit the location of the ejection port.
The jet port of the dissolution cavity is not considered a conventional weakness because it is a small target and difficult to hit, but it is actually the most vulnerable part of its body.
So it died.
A violent flow of magic power poured directly into the crippled beast from the jet outlet on its lower jaw. The hibiscus purple magic power emitted a dazzling light and burst out from its body, completely piercing it.
The crippled beast didn't even have time to react before this beam of magic energy destroyed all of its tissues and killed it instantly.
There is no doubt that although it deviated from the original goal, the role it played was still very critical.
Delphinium, who was standing nearby, thought so.
Even if there were some accidents along the way, the beast was successfully defeated in the end, so it’s understandable that the shot missed... right?
Her thoughts suddenly stopped.
As the magic power completely penetrated the cavity of the remnant beast, she suddenly remembered something:
The liquid in the dissolution cavity is usually compressed within the body by the physiological activities of the dissolution cavity and the magic power of the remaining beast. Once the remaining beast dies, the dissolution cavity will be damaged and lose its original physiological function. What will happen next?
The pupils gradually contracted, and a look of disgust appeared on her face almost uncontrollably. She immediately shouted at the two magical girls in the air:
"Idiot, get out of the way!"
After she finished speaking, she did not stop, but scattered her magic power and jumped up. With a sound of breaking through the air, she retreated dozens of meters almost instantly.
But the two magical girls next to the crippled beast were not so lucky.
Xia Liang had just used up a large amount of magic power to launch a magic beam, and had not yet been able to reorganize his rhythm; Lin Xiaolu had been running on the ground, and not only did she not react to what Cuiqiao was saying, she also did not understand her current situation.
So, the next moment, the remaining beast that was pierced by Xia Liang exploded.
It literally exploded, its entire body exploding like fireworks.
What followed was the foul-smelling mucus that had been stored and compressed in its body, which also sprayed into the air and fell from the sky like a rainstorm.
This kind of mucus itself has no lethality. It can only form an effective attack after being compressed and ejected by the remnant beast. Therefore, even if it falls on the human body at this moment, it will not cause any harm.
The only problem is that this mucus is, after all, a mixture of undigested biological tissue and residual animal fluids, so it has one characteristic: it really stinks.
“Aaaaaaaaaaa——”
Under the scorching sun at noon, the foul-smelling slime splashed onto the two magical girls, causing miserable screams.
(End of this chapter)
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