Chapter 290 Reversal
Building nests among crippled animals is usually done in a safe environment.
In order to collect enough materials and provide sufficient magic power, most of the remaining beasts will choose a relatively hidden place with sufficient food before starting to build their own nests.
This is also the main basis for many magical girls to defeat pupa-level beasts. They will use this as a standard to check the locations where the pupae may build nests, and stay in ambush at these locations, so that they can defeat those pupae that have not had time to build nests and cannot fully exert their strength.
However, there are always exceptions.
When too many pupa-stage remnant beasts are attacked because they cannot build nests in time, when too many pupae are killed by magical girls or even other remnant beasts because they leave the nest, the law of natural selection will take effect, and most of the remnant beasts that survive and grow up successfully will have some extraordinary abilities.
And now, Cornflower realized that he was probably facing such a leader in the survival competition who survived the natural selection.
This crippled beast was using the slime it collected on site to build itself a makeshift nest.
In fact, this was the first time that Cornflower witnessed the formation process of a remnant beast's nest.
The liquids that flowed from the remnant beasts, rose from the buildings and the ground, and even dripped from her and Nina's bodies all began to flow in the same direction as if they had life. These liquids mixed with the dirt on the ground and turned into yellow-green pus that was hard to look at, swirling around the block and rising.
The surrounding space seemed to be stretched by the liquid that was constantly circling around it. The space that was supposed to be only a few dozen meters in radius began to become extremely vast. The clear street scenes also began to become blurry, as if covered by a filter. The color of the buildings turned into an uncomfortable blue-gray, and white foam and bubbles began to emerge from the gaps between the stone, wood, and bricks.
The entire space is melting.
Looking at the mucus wall that was still circling and rising, now more than ten meters high and even closing, Cornflower realized that when this space was completely closed, he and Nina would probably be in an extremely unfavorable situation.
Her magic silk thread suit could not cause any real damage to the beast's body, and the control she achieved with her ruler could be easily shaken off by it. So, the only option left was the last one.
She spread out all the unusable threads, and what she held in her hand turned into a pair of scissors.
This is the solution when there is no other solution.
If possible, she did not want to use her scissors at this time, because once she used the ability of separation, she would pay a huge amount of magic power in an instant and too much magic power would be occupied.
But if she allowed the nest to close, then even if she used this ability again, she would not be able to save the situation.
"Mo He, forget about your clothes for now, use your magic suit."
Using magic to heal her body, Cornflower tried to maintain her shape and ability to speak, and instructed Nina: "Use your power to fix an air wall on the path where the mucus spirals upward to stop them."
"Eh, eh? Fixed air?"
Nina was surprised for a moment by Cornflower's proposal, then nodded obediently: "Okay, I got it!"
She opened her hands and aimed her palms at the almost closed opening of the nest. While concentrating, she gradually brought together several sections of her finger sleeves that were also beginning to melt.
Cross.
“Wow!”
However, before she could complete this series of movements, her body became unstable and she fell down suddenly.
Because during this process, one section of her calf bent like melting ice, and the scattered magic particles fluttered in the air like snow.
Although this kind of injury is nothing to the magical girl's magical body, even if it is broken, it can be quickly healed with magic power, and there will be no loss. But in this situation, no matter how hard you try to repair the body, it will be useless, and even the magic power used to repair the body will melt under the influence of the rules.
Cornflower quickly supported Nina, but she didn't have time to say anything to comfort her, because if Nina didn't use her magic suit to stop the nest from closing, it would be too late.
"Get started!"
She could only shout this while extending her scissors forward.
The rules that this crippled beast had were too abnormal and too powerful for a half-metamorphosis. At the same time, Cornflower found it hard to believe that such a rule, which was almost equivalent to "depriving magical girls of their ability to move," would have no restrictions.
This melting that happened to her and Nina must have some overlooked limiting conditions. If this condition can be found and circumvented, the battle can continue.
But right now, there was no time for her to think about this.
Her fingers controlled the scissors to close, and she silently repeated the concept of "mucus" in her mind. However, when she tried to cut it, the blade in her hand seemed to touch a steel bar, and she couldn't do it at all.
The total amount of her magical power was no longer enough to completely separate the concept that was about to form an entire nest.
After realizing this, Cornflower quickly transformed the target of separation, turning this object into "magic", but the blade remained motionless.
This was natural, the magic power in her body was constantly lost in the form of melting into liquid, while the magic power controlled by this remnant beast was becoming stronger as it controlled more and more mucus. In fact, it was the magic power lost from her body that affected the balance of the separation ability at this moment.
There was no time for her to think too much, so Cornflower tried the branch concepts of "nest", "self-control" and "magic control" respectively, but she couldn't make any progress. Finally, she came up with a concept that could change the current situation.
——"Corrosion resistance!"
She suddenly shouted the word, and the scissors in her hand shone brightly at the same time. Even though the liquid dripping from her eyelids almost completely covered Cornflower's vision, it still couldn't block the dazzling light.
Crack.
With a slight cutting sound, the scissors in Cornflower's hand closed at this moment.
At the same time, at the same moment, Nina, who was already half lying on Cornflower and barely maintaining her center of gravity, finally concentrated her attention and magic power, and suddenly squeezed in the direction of the mucus at the opening.
"Hold... ugh... now."
Even liquid was constantly leaking out of her mouth, and Nina, like a drowning person, desperately chanted the name of the roll to activate her ability.
So, the blocked mucus finally stopped moving upwards at this moment.
The movements of the crippled beast in front of them suddenly stopped as Cornflower closed the scissors in his hand.
They could all hear a rumbling sound slowly emanating from within their bodies.
They could all hear a tearing sound echoing inside their flesh.
They could all see that cracks were appearing on the beast's body, which had been relatively intact.
"Cover your ears, Mo He."
Feeling that the melting of her body had finally slowed down, Cornflower had some free time to think and gave Nina this instruction. Then she raised her hands and covered her ears.
The crippled beast seemed to have heard her words and raised its twisted head.
——"Roar, roar, roar, roar, roar!"
After a while, it opened its mouthparts and let out the loudest roar since it met the magical girls.
Then, with liquid spurting out and splashing everywhere, the whole body completely rotted away.
(End of this chapter)
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