Chapter 291 Execution
"Solved... Ugh, has it been solved?"
Because one of her hands was still in a clenched fist position, Nina was unable to completely cover her ears. When she heard the howling of the crippled beast, she subconsciously opened her eyes wide, trying to see the crippled beast's condition through her blurred vision. She spat out a mouthful of liquid melted from magic power from her mouth and asked with a pale face.
"not yet."
Cornflower's condition was not good either, but compared to Nina, she had some extra magic power to repair her body, so she could still stand firmly at this moment: "The magic power is still melting, which means this guy hasn't given up yet."
After its corrosion resistance was separated, the remnant beast in front of the two was almost instantly injured by the liquid oozing from its body, and even its nest-building behavior became a desperate plan that hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt itself by eight hundred. However, even so, it still insisted on completing all this, so after being interrupted by Cornflower for a moment, it reactivated its own rules.
The beast's lack of intelligence made it unable to understand the reality that "its own body fluids were hurting itself", so it only thought that it was the magical girls in front of it that hurt it, and it had to eat these two magical girls to stop getting hurt.
There is no doubt that Cornflower's actions made the remnant beast's condition as bad as theirs, and the two sides can finally stand on the same starting line and continue to fight; however, if they continue to allow the remnant beast's rules to operate, the final result will probably be that the magical girl and the remnant beast will melt here together.
This is not the result that Cornflower wanted.
So, she had to go a step further.
She slightly adjusted the magic scissors in her hand, and with the silver-blue light flashing, the ruler and silk thread appeared in her hand again. The three forms of "Weaving Life" now existed in front of Cornflower at the same time.
She hooked her fingers and suspended a few of the magic threads in front of her, calmly observing the changes in these threads while silently counting the seconds in her mind. In the end, she came to the conclusion that it took "3 seconds" from the appearance of these threads to their melting.
"Captain, is there any other solution?"
Nina, who was leaning on Cornflower, couldn't help but gasp - this was a sign that the total amount of magic power in her body was on the verge of exhaustion. As a leaf-level magical girl, Nina's magic power was far less than that of Cornflower, a bud-level magical girl, and the half-molted girl in front of her. With a large amount of magic power melting her body, and continuing to use the magic suit, she was obviously about to collapse: "I, I feel like I can't control it for too long..."
The part of the slime wall that was blocked by Wu Jin's ability had begun to spread outwards, showing a tendency to bypass the stagnant air, so Nina could only continue to bring more air into the range of the magic suit. This also caused her magic power to be consumed more and more quickly.
"What should I do...I don't want to die yet." She squeezed out these words from her throat almost like a moan.
"Don't worry, you won't die."
Cornflower's voice, which sounded so calming, reached her ears.
Unhooking the thread with his fingers, he silently recited the number "3 seconds" he had observed. Cornflower raised the corners of his mouth slightly and held up the ruler in his hand: "3 seconds, that's enough. Next, it's time to execute this damn thing."
"Eh? What should I do?"
Nina looked at Cornflower almost subconsciously: "If you use magic equipment to attack it, it will melt. As for the spell, I just tried it, and even the runes turned into water... Is there any other way to attack it?"
Her worries were not without reason. Judging from the previous situation, all the attack methods of the two people became somewhat powerless under the strange rules of this crippled beast. Even if they rushed up and fought the crippled beast directly, they had to consider the huge size difference and the corrosive mucus all over the crippled beast.
In this situation, Cornflower said that he wanted to "execute" the crippled beast, which sounded like a fantasy to Nina.
However, Cornflower did not reply to Nina's question, because she had already started her own action.
Extending the slightly melted ruler forward, Cornflower narrowed one eye as if aiming to shoot an arrow, and aligned the "0" mark with the center of the crippled beast's body.
Then, she used her other hand to slightly open the other end of the ruler, as if pulling a bowstring, so that the silk thread was stuck at the "10" scale on the ruler.
Weaving destiny.
She silently chanted the name, and the power of the ruler was activated, fixing the distance between the silk thread and the body of the crippled beast to "10" on the ruler.
There is no need to calculate the units, nor is there a need to match the position in real space. Just measure it. For her magic suit, the distance between the two will always be "10".
Then, Cornflower released the hand that was controlling the silk thread and picked up the scissors beside him.
In order to free up her own magic power, she gave up the separation of the concept of "corrosion resistance" at this moment. The remnant beast in front of her had been corroded by the liquid and was seriously injured. Continuing to separate this concept would not cause too much damage in a short time, so she chose to pause.
Then, she fully mobilized the freed magic power and aimed the blade of the scissors at the ruler in her hand.
One second had passed since she condensed the thread.
“10.”
She whispered the number as if it were some kind of declaration.
The "click" sound of the scissors rang out along with the announcement, and the blade closed and cut straight across the ruler in her hand.
The silver-blue light bloomed from the blade of the scissors, then spread to the extended ruler, and finally, shone together with the silk thread.
Then, the distance between "0" and "10" on the ruler in Cornflower's hand disappeared.
At the same time, the silk thread that was supposed to be aligned with the "10" mark also disappeared. When the silk thread reappeared, it was already at the position where the "0" mark was aligned.
The "0" and "10" marks overlap.
The body of the remaining beast also overlapped with the silk thread.
Two seconds have passed, which means that there is only one second left before the silk thread melts.
But this is enough for cornflowers.
The scissors in her hand turned into scattered magical light spots. Cornflower touched her fingers to the silk thread again, and then pulled it down suddenly.
The blue light traced a light trajectory, leaving afterimages on the body of the crippled beast. The silk thread that originally overlapped with the crippled beast's body suddenly split into countless segments, and from the origin point in the crippled beast's body, it unfolded into a huge silk net.
The 3 seconds came to an end at this moment, but even though the time limit had been reached, the silk threads that had spread out into a net still showed no signs of melting for some reason.
Even the crippled beast itself didn't know what was happening. It stretched out its claws forward, still trying to get closer to the magical girls in front of it, because it needed food and it needed to stop itself from being hurt by the food.
However, the outstretched claws were destined to be unable to touch the "prey" in front of it.
Because, at the moment its claws were about to stretch out, they had already turned into countless scattered pieces of meat and fell to the ground.
(End of this chapter)
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