Chapter 289 Melting
After restricting the movement of the crippled beast, Cornflower slightly sensed his current magical power usage, and stopped measuring, no longer using the ability of the ruler magic suit.
The creature she was facing at the moment was a half-metamorphosis, whose total magical power was far greater than that of an ordinary crippled beast, so the consumption of using its abilities was also increased a lot. Just the initial restriction of the opponent's movements had already taken up nearly 40% of her output.
She did not intend to add the remaining 60% of her strength to the ruler's ability, because the current level was enough. If this crippled beast could not come up with any other skills, it would be almost impossible for it to break free from the shackles of the magic suit.
So, will this half-moon be at the end of its rope?
A constant sense of danger told Cornflower that it was probably not going to happen.
Ever since she saw this crippled beast, she had always had this premonition. It was like this when the beast broke free from the cage, it was like this when the beast chased the two of them, and now, even though this crippled beast seemed to have fallen to its knees and seemed unable to fight back, it was still like this.
Perhaps due to this psychological pressure, Cornflower felt sweat dripping down her cheeks. She almost subconsciously reached out and wiped it away with the back of her hand, but then she was stunned.
Sweat?
She repeated the word in her mind and looked at the back of her hand. A slight burning sensation was now attached to her cheek and the back of her hand, and she could even see some tiny magic particles rising slowly from the place where the "sweat" was applied.
If you want to know whether magical girls sweat or not, the answer is yes. High-intensity activities and the use of magic power will inevitably increase the body temperature. In order to cool the body to a certain extent and to fit the physiological habits of magical girls as humans, magical girls will also sweat and shed tears.
However, on the other hand, in order to make the magical girl sweat, the intensity must be very high, and it must require an intense battle.
For Cornflower, the process of the game between the two sides since she saw the crippled beast was indeed thrilling. But up to now, she had not consumed too much magic power, or in other words, her body was not "tired" at the level of a magical girl, so there was no reason to sweat at this time.
So, what was this wet feeling all over her body? "Captain, I feel like something is wrong..."
Nina at the side also reminded him at this time. Cornflower looked in the direction of the other party and found that Nina's face was also shining with water and looked quite wet:
"I always feel like I'm being suffocated in water."
What Nina said was almost exactly how Cornflower felt at that moment.
Although the surroundings were still the streets of Runnore, Cornflower felt as if she was stepping into a swamp or even a pool of water, and was sinking deeper and deeper into the water. The damp and suffocating feeling began to spread upwards from her neck until her body was completely submerged.
We must get rid of this beast in front of us as soon as possible.
The next moment, she made the decision and unfolded the silk thread almost instantly. However, when she was about to take action against the trapped half-beast, she saw an extremely shocking scene.
——This crippled beast was constantly squirming, and the skin on its body was falling off as if it was molting.
The term "shedding" is actually not very rigorous, because when the layer of skin falls off its body, it can hardly be called "skin" or "shell", but a layer of solid-liquid mixture like mud.
Its funny wriggling just now was not a useless struggle, but an effort to "drill out" from this layer of skin. After getting rid of the layer of skin that locked it to the ground, it naturally regained the ability to move.
The mucus that had originally seeped out of its body was now like a faucet, continuously overflowing and flowing down from it. It stood up shakily like a broken water pipe that kept leaking water.
Seeing this, Cornflower could no longer allow it to make further moves, so she directly hooked the silk thread, hoping to turn it into a sharp blade to cut the beast that had lost the protection of the cocoon shell into pieces. But even this plan failed, because she found that her silk thread had become limp before it touched the body of the beast, like noodles soaked in water.
These noodle-like threads fell on the crippled beast, and were quickly thrown away by it, splashing onto the ground and merging with the mucus.
The silk thread failed.
This fact made Cornflower's heart sink.
The premonition of crisis that she had felt when she came here had almost solidified into reality, transforming into a series of alarms in Cornflower's mind. These alarms were desperately reminding her that something bad was happening, and seemed to want her to pay attention to something.
What did I miss? Cornflower kept forcing herself to think, her eyes moving rapidly, observing everything happening around her: the mucus splashing all over the streets and surrounding buildings, the remains of the beast that was constantly leaking liquid like a broken pipe, and herself and Nina who were becoming increasingly wet for some reason.
There seems to be a common keyword in this whole scene.
——become wet.
Yes, everything around is getting wet.
This process has been going on since the crippled beast escaped from the cage. While chasing the two magical girls, it has also been constantly spilling the mucus on its body around.
If this process of getting wet only affects itself and the surrounding environment, it would be fine, but now it seems to have affected the cornflower and Nina. Then, the nature of this behavior seems to have a corresponding answer.
——These are its rules.
Although the specific principle of this rule is still unknown, its effect seems to be to make things wet. Moreover, the liquid produced by this wetness is extremely similar to the mucus on its body, so both are very corrosive.
"Ahhhh, Captain, Captain, my clothes!"
Cornflower could already hear Nina's screams. She looked to her side and saw that Nina's whole body was getting wet. Amber magic points kept floating around her, indicating that her body was constantly emitting magic power, and these were obviously manifestations of the corrosion of her magic body.
Of course, what Nina was most concerned about at the moment was something else - her magic clothes were also corroded.
The witch-style dress that originally looked extremely thick began to become tattered. As water continued to drip, it began to collapse and develop more and more holes like a napkin that was pierced by water.
Seeing this scene, Cornflower silently turned her head away and did not continue to watch Nina's miserable condition. Instead, she raised her hand and looked at her clothes. Only then did she realize that her magic clothes, like Mo He's, showed signs of corrosion.
However, this perhaps "indecent" scene did not make Cornflower feel any sensational emotions, because she saw a more surprising and even very bad scene in her vision:
Her hands also melted.
The magical girl's body is mainly composed of magic power, so when there is a problem with the magic power, it will inevitably be reflected in the body. In the current situation, even the most dull person should react and gradually realize what the crippled beast in front of him has done.
——Convert magic power into corrosive slime.
This is the rule that belongs to the half-metamorphosis of this crippled beast.
It had already used its own rules, and even turned its own body and its pupa shell into mucus and food, just because it wanted to use this mucus to do something more beneficial to itself:
nest.
(End of this chapter)
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