Chapter 81 Black Dawn (4k)
Wonderland is an ability that a magical girl can only master after reaching the bud level.
As a symbol of the true manifestation of the soul's will power, it is inextricably linked to the magic suit.
In Sparrow's imagination, as a magical girl who had blossomed and reached the bud level, Cornflower should undoubtedly have this ability.
And he has already demonstrated his ability to suppress her wonderland when she is not using it. In this situation, Cornflower has no reason not to unfold his own wonderland.
This undoubtedly confirmed a rumor she had heard before, that Cornflower used her power beyond her limits during the defense of the "Garden", causing damage to her Heart Gem, and she eventually chose to retire after fighting for another year. As for the place of retirement, it was the city she had once stationed in - Fangting City.
At first glance, this rumor does not sound very reliable: the damage to the Heart Gem should be almost disabling to the magical girl. If the damage to the source of magic power is too serious, she may even become a mentally retarded disabled person. How can she retire safely?
But if you follow this logic, you will find that the rumors have their rationale.
Because everyone knows that Cornflower's teammate, Sakura, who is also a lifelong magical girl and the "strongest flower card" magical girl, has also been active in Fangting City. If Cornflower must be hiding somewhere in the material world, Fangting City is undoubtedly the most likely place.
Now, every piece of the rumor Sparrow knew was gradually confirmed, making her begin to believe: Perhaps the last point, that Cornflower's heart gem was damaged, was also true!
When Sparrow came to Fangting City, his original purpose, in addition to collecting some information, was to make a deal with those crazy people who called themselves Black Cinder Dawn.
Because she learned before coming that a team of palace guards from the Black Dawn had arrived in Fangting City and planned to stay here for a while.
The Black Dawn is a strange organization that started to operate in the material world about ten years ago. Most of them are human magicians from the material world, and a few are aliens who defected from the kingdom or the world. They gathered together and refused to recognize the rule of the current king of the magic kingdom, while secretly studying the power of the remnant beasts.
In order to achieve the goal of rebelling against the royal court, they had no bottom line in their actions: be it the massacre or even torture of civilians, or terrorist attacks on urban public facilities and even the city government, or privately reselling all kinds of contraband items, which was commonplace. They had done all kinds of bad things.
Their behavior was so rampant that they naturally attracted the strong crackdown by the Investigation Bureau. However, they were like rats that could not be killed. No matter how many batches were caught, they came again and again, spreading all over the world and committing crimes.
Born as a magical girl, she prides herself on having a pure and authentic power system and has always disliked these freaks. However, she has to admit that, apart from the magical girls who are still in office, this group of lunatics possess the most rare magical materials in the material world.
If she was still in office before, she would not have needed to go through such gray channels to obtain materials. However, after defecting from the country for many years and joining Claw Mark, she had to seriously consider the issue of daily research expenses.
After arriving in Fangting City and collecting some local information, she suddenly remembered the rumors she had heard before.
This city is where the "cornflower" retreated.
Two years ago, the country's strongest karuta magical girl, Sakura, died of unknown reasons. This incident caused a strong shock to many magical girls on the magic side, and even a small group of people - Sakura's fans - went to Fangting City to investigate.
These visitors turned Fangting City upside down and killed all the remaining beasts around Fangting City. They also approached Ying's teammates and husband to inquire about the situation, but did not get any useful information.
Among them, there were people who believed the rumors and believed that Cornflower was living in seclusion in Fangting City, and wanted to question him about Sakura's death.
But no matter how hard they looked, no one had ever found where the cornflowers were.
It seems that the rumors are just rumors, as if they are some people's unrealistic imaginations.
When Sparrow arrived in this city, the craze had already faded. Both Sakura's teammates and her fans believed that the murderer had fled and went to other cities to track him down. After losing many elite magical girls in one go, Fangting City seemed to have entered a period of discontinuity in the magical side, and the magical girl team stationed here was in a state of lack of successors.
Under such circumstances, Sparrow came into contact with the local Black Ember Dawn team.
She didn't know why this group of lunatics chose to stay in Fangting City, nor did she know where they got the information. In short, regarding the transaction with Sparrow, they put forward an exchange request: that is, she had to eliminate the current magical girl team in Fangting City on a specific day.
It would be best if we could kill these magical girls, but if we can't kill them, we must hold them back. The key target among them is a magical girl wearing navy blue clothes and long blue hair.
According to them, this magical girl has shown the ability to use techniques, at least at the Leaf level, which is far beyond the capabilities of the other two rookies, so they must not let her disrupt their plans.
Sparrow had already defected from the kingdom a long time ago, and had turned swords against his former colleagues, so he had no objection to killing the magical girl, so he naturally agreed to their request.
Then, she began to observe the "Blue Magic Girl".
At first, she waited near the scene where the beast appeared and confirmed what the target looked like.
Because she was worried that the other party would sense her magic power and alert the enemy, she had the sparrows with her to observe from a distance. Then, based on the location where the remnant beast appeared, combined with the time and direction of the blue magic girl's appearance, she had the sparrows follow and figure out the other party's starting point.
In order to confirm the opponent's route of action, she specially led some remnants of beasts to attack the people she marked as suspicious. Then, during an attack on a light rail train, the blue magic girl really appeared.
She was therefore certain that the blue magic girl's daily activities must be in Luoming District of Fangting City.
As she tracked her in depth, she not only gradually determined the other party's usual place of activities - an office building; she also gradually discovered that this blue magical girl seemed to have many similarities with the rumored "Cornflower".
Without telling anyone else, she collected some photos from 20 years ago. Without even comparing them, she was able to confirm that the magical girl was Cornflower! So today's carefully prepared battle took place.
Sparrow's plan was to defeat Cornflower here, and preferably capture him alive. This would not only establish her own reputation, but also allow her to make a fortune: she remembered that someone in Claw Marks had said many years ago that they were very interested in this former legend.
And when she used her half-beast form, she even thought she was about to win.
She could penetrate Cornflower's magic barrier, knock him down from the air, and even attack his tortoise shell wrapped with silk threads like a punching bag. But as the battle dragged on, she discovered a serious problem: the opponent had not been injured from beginning to end.
Even because of the different levels of sophistication in magic planning strategies, even though her magic power had been greatly consumed, Cornflower still hid in her magic tortoise shell and was unwilling to show her head.
This wasn't going to work, she realized.
Although he was reluctant to admit it, if Cornflower continued to maintain a defensive posture, his magic power would definitely be exhausted before he could completely break its defense.
She had to force the other person to reveal himself from his defense.
"I don't mind, but do you really intend to stay behind your shell forever?"
So she spoke, waving her magic suit: "If you don't open the wonderland and keep delaying like this, your little companions may be in danger."
This sentence was actually made up. She was actually curious about where those rookies were. But as the saying goes, all is fair in war. If just making up a few random sentences can disrupt the opponent's position, it is undoubtedly a very cost-effective strategy.
The provocative words she made up produced unexpected results. As soon as she finished speaking, the Delphinium behind the masterpiece froze in expression.
When she heard what Sparrow said, she almost instantly remembered the previous phone call that she had not answered, and also remembered the whereabouts reported by Xia Liang and Lin Xiaolu not long ago.
They went to Lixing District to find Mo Ke. Could there really be something wrong with this? Although she knew that it might be a verbal deception, she still used part of her mind during the battle to sense her own spell. Then, she was shocked to find that the positioning spell she set on Mo Ke was invalid.
"Do you have any accomplices?" Her eyes began to become serious.
"Accomplice? Forget it. I am not an accomplice of those crazy freaks."
Sparrow laughed disdainfully and continued to challenge, "But you are right. Your friends are not here. They might be fighting a group of vicious guys. Can they really win without your help?"
Putting aside what she said before, this sentence was not a lie.
Although she didn't know what the Black Cinder Dawn group was looking for, once they found it, according to their habits, a bloody and brutal blood sacrifice would be inevitable. In this process, if the other rookies from Fangting City faced them, they would most likely be in danger.
"If you open the wonderland now, you might be able to defeat me and go to support them, okay?"
Feeling that her words did make the other person smile, she began to exaggerate, trying to further arouse the other person's emotions: "Of course, this is the best case scenario. If the situation develops too quickly, the seedlings you have worked so hard to grow may have died. Who knows?"
Then, I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the air around me seemed to suddenly freeze.
Then, it was as if the air pressure dropped, making it difficult to breathe.
"Indeed, it's almost time to end."
The tense fingers gradually loosened, and the masterpiece shield that had been gathered in front of the body dispersed into a network of magic threads again, and Delphinium just gave up all its defenses.
She shook her stiff hands and focused her cold gaze on Sparrow:
"The origin is probably unknown. The strange black magic is suspected to be the characteristic of the entire organization. The half-beast form seems to be a special state related to the residual beast. The purple-black magic gemstone has changed the source of the magic power... It seems that these are all."
As she talked to herself, the azure magic power around her, which had been declining, gradually faded away, like a flame that had lost its temperature.
"Oh? You came out like this? It seems that even though you have been retired for many years, you still have some courage."
The sudden calmness of the Delphinium made Sparrow feel a little strange, but she didn't know where this inexplicable feeling of disharmony came from. She was satisfied with her success in provoking the enemy, and then she said loudly: "But bluffing is useless. I can feel that your total magic power is not even as good as that of an ordinary bud-level!"
"Yes, you are right." Delphinium suddenly admitted calmly.
"Huh? What's wrong?" This frank attitude surprised Sparrow. "Are you crazy?"
"As you said, I'm in a very bad state now."
As if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her, Kuei-Jin said calmly, "Due to a variety of reasons, I must admit that I am no longer as strong as I was at my peak."
"You're saying this now? Are you admitting defeat?"
There was a sudden rush of emotion in his heart, and he even felt a little uneasy, but Sparrow couldn't figure out where this feeling of uneasiness came from: "Tell me you can't open the wonderland and defeat me. Are you trying to beg for mercy?"
"No, I just want to clarify something."
The long hair behind her head blew up without wind, and the soft strands of hair danced in the air. The sound of air currents rang out, and the magic threads around Delphinium also swayed, drawing soft waves as if chasing the traces of the wind.
Looking at the figure not far away whose half body was wrapped in dark magic, she said calmly and naturally, as if she was saying something that was a matter of course: "To defeat you, I don't need a wonderland at all."
The next moment, the azure magic power erupted again, but this time, it was the opposite of the previous momentum. Her magic power no longer appeared in a regular pattern, but instead spread out in all directions like overflowing, so strong that people could not open their eyes.
If the magic displayed by the delphinium before was just a trickle, now it is as surging as a rushing river, surging and majestic.
Delphinium raised its head, and its eyes were flashing with a deep blue light. The heart gem around its neck seemed to be filled with magic power and became extremely shining.
She stretched out a hand, and even the nails on her fingertips seemed to be painted with fluorescent nail polish, shining with a deep blue light: "It's almost done, let's make it quick."
It is still a merger of two chapters. The update at 11:00 pm is also 11:00 pm, which is about the same as the update at noon ()
(End of this chapter)
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