novelraw Chapter 165: The Fourth Stage, Witch Shion
Chapter 165: The Fourth Stage, Witch Shion
Susan was driving, looking at Jincha and Camellia who had fallen unconscious on the road, and let out a slight sigh of relief.
The Bai Mist, as a major disaster Beihai had experienced, had been reported to the Central Bureau, but actually getting Central Bureau Magical Girls who hadn't experienced it themselves to properly prepare defenses was still a bit difficult.
But it was a bit strange that these two didn't transform before entering.
Generally, they would transform to travel, so why did they walk in without transforming, and without a car either?
As a result, after entering the white mist, they fell unconscious just like ordinary people.
After stuffing the two important figures from the Central Bureau into the car, Susan got in and planned to take them back to the Disaster Control Bureau first.
However, when the Calamity Dragon flew into the sky, the terrifying aftershocks of the battle instantly reached this area!
Breath attacks, explosions, dragon scales, polluted magic, pure mana...
Like a natural disaster, they kept exploding above.
Susan knew there were true-transmission disciples from the Azure Cloud Sect protecting the city, but even so, even in this uninhabited area at the city's edge, the shockwaves from those terrifying clashes kept tearing up the ground and rubble.Susan drove, constantly avoiding those bombardments—she remembered scenes from movies of high-speed cars advancing through artillery fire.
Although it looked cool when watching movies, when it was her turn to experience it personally, she only felt unbearable agony.
The wildly bumping car made her feel like her internal organs were about to be jolted out, she really wanted to vomit, the smoke, dust, and all sorts of messy things stirred up by explosions ahead flooded the windshield, and cracks even began to appear.
If this shattered, wouldn't she get a face full of glass shards?
Fortunately, she still had mana.
Another huge tree smashed down ahead, Susan made a sharp turn, almost flipping over, barely dodging the falling tree.
Then when she looked up again, her scalp went numb.
Dense glass and gravel, all blown over!
What kind of disaster movie scene...
She slammed the accelerator to the floor, Susan accelerated frantically!
The true-transmission disciple protecting the city was Yumo, she should be able to sense she was here.
Could it be a test? She did barely pass the last inner sect assessment because Miss Yumo went easy on her...
Is this a new assessment for her now?
Another dragon breath was slapped over, exploding in the small lake beside the car!
The huge impact formed a curtain of rain, washing over the entire vehicle, yet Susan didn't dare stop for a moment, nor slow down.
Because the glass and rubble overhead were about to crash down.
The massive impact from the side plus the crazy speed made the entire car instantly fly up on a small slope!
Although she barely avoided being buried by the glass and rubble, the entire car was now out of control, tumbling through the air.
And it was heading straight for a huge rock!
Gritting her teeth, Susan immediately pulled out her Miracle Seed, even though there was risk of exposure, at a time like this she couldn't care too much...
But just as she took out the Miracle Seed, the car stopped in mid-air.
Susan froze for a moment, leaning out to look.
Golden threads surrounded the car, winding around nearby buildings and trees, forcibly lifting the car that was about to crash into the large rock.
"You've already lost your transformation ability, haven't you?"
[Losing transformation ability means you can't use Miracle Seeds anymore? Nonsense.]
The already transformed Jincha behind her looked at the Miracle Seed in her hand, eyes suspiciously examining her.
"Magical Girl Zhu Lu, two years ago framed by people from the Beihai Witch Association, resulting in loss of transformation ability, I've seen your file."
"That's truly an honor." Susan calmly put away the Miracle Seed, "It's the final moment, even if I can't transform I have to try, praying for a miracle, otherwise just wait to die?"
[As a Central Bureau council member, you actually don't believe in the power Magical Girls unleash in despair? Truly disappointing.]
"That's true."
Jincha said, picking up the still unconscious Camellia beside her, taking a deep breath.
This person's mental activity was clearly specially controlled.
Couldn't hear any useful information, just this level of precaution was suspicious enough.
But—a huge tremor carrying a magic shockwave almost broke the golden threads.
Jincha couldn't care about that much now, first slowly lowering the car.
Then getting out of the car, after transforming into a Magical Girl, flying herself was much faster than the car, and safer.
But just as she flew up, looking at the terrifying battle in the city, she fell silent for a moment.
Susan drove behind her, and she helped deal with some flying debris...
After a while, Jincha finally couldn't hold back, landing, asking somewhat incredulously, "Beihai, has it always been like this?"
"Occasionally."
It had been almost a month since the last time Lord Shion took action covering the entire city with strikes...
Should have been? Was it? Susan herself couldn't quite remember clearly either.
"Occasionally..." Jincha silently chewed on this word, then looked up again at the city streets, telephone poles, streetlights, vehicles flying wildly, "...Are you sure if it's occasionally like this, Beihai can develop?"
"Getting rid of the old to welcome the new." Susan smiled, "Old things don't leave, new things don't come, that's how our Beihai civil engineering developed, this city, it needs destruction, destroyed then developed, many people get jobs, won't stay stuck in old villages, the economy circulates, Beihai can prosper..."
"...Which children's publication's economics is this from." Jincha watched another building directly smashed, tilting about to collapse, sucking in a cold breath, "Such massive destruction, is it really okay! It'll affect life and work!"
"Trust the Beihai construction team, our Beihai civil engineering, number one in the world!"
Are there any normal humans in this Beihai Disaster Control Bureau?
Jincha really wanted to stay calm.
As a Central Bureau council member, her status and position required maintaining elegance.
But every time she came to Beihai, she couldn't quite hold it together.
Facing a group of non-humans, how can one maintain elegance, I ask?
Who can come demonstrate for me!
"Even if your civil engineering is all Magical Girls, they couldn't possibly fix such a large area this quickly..."
Her words stopped halfway.
Because the next moment, dazzling purple light erupted from the city center.
Like sunlight, piercing through the dark night.
The gorgeous colors dyed the entire city deep purple, even the white mist couldn't conceal this radiance, Jincha who had been tightly controlling herself not to show shock.
For the first time couldn't help but open her mouth.
But soon, she forced it back down.
It's just exaggerated mana amount, nothing to be shocked about.
Jincha, you're the Central Bureau's face, can't be shocked and lose composure over such small matters, makes you seem very inexperienced!
Although she really hadn't seen such exaggerated mana...
Elegance, must be elegant!
After calming down, Jincha originally wanted to comment, to show her broad experience, completely unfazed.
But before she could speak, a purple spear suddenly shot from the city center!
Purple mana surged, tearing open the covered sky, letting stars and moon appear, then under that purple fierce light, everything paled in comparison!
It was like pulling a purple celestial curtain across the sky, when the residual mana above began to scatter, it actually turned into purple raindrops, falling.
Jincha reached out catching those raindrops, it was mana so concentrated it couldn't dissolve...
For a moment her throat felt dry.
Instantly countless methods flashed through her mind, how to make scattered mana appear like raindrops.
But aside from some illusion techniques and Full Bloom rule abilities, almost all methods were impossible.
How could someone compress mana like this...
Not just the thickness of mana, but also the degree of mana control, unprecedented in Disaster Control Bureau history.
Purple flames, exaggerated to unbelievable mana sea.
Azure Cloud Sect Master, Shion...
"Careful!"
While still immersed in shock, Susan in the car behind suddenly warned.
Jincha sharply looked up, seeing gray-white mana defeated in collision with purple flames, then the scattered mana like axes and blades came at them!
Countless golden threads wrapped toward those gray-white axes and blades, but broke upon contact.
All golden threads were polluted gray-white, even her own Magical Outfit turned gray-white.
Magic, all ineffective.
Huge axes and blades chopped down, Jincha was about to throw Camellia out first.
A clear bright mana sword light flashed past.
The gray-white axes and blades overhead instantly shattered into pieces!
Jincha stared blankly at the scattered gray-white mana, looking back, seeing a white Magical Girl with tightly closed eyes.
Slowly sheathing her sword.
"Are you okay?"
Then with a "wah" sound spat out a mouthful of blood.
"No, you're the one... are you okay." Jincha hesitated, because she couldn't hear this Magical Girl's thoughts, only sword resonance.
[It's over, why is it Senior Jincha! Could this be inevitable fate, Wanrenyu's surprise attack!]
[Meeting again...]
Behind the white Magical Girl with tightly closed eyes, were familiar Xingxuan and Qingluán.
The three meeting, for a moment all felt somewhat awkward.
Xingxuan herself as the Disaster Control Bureau's rogue ninja, unlike Qingying, she was the one always getting scolded.
Jincha had scolded her plenty too, now running into each other, she scaredly hid behind Bai Mei.
And Qingying who had sworn she would never return, would never meet Jincha again—
—plus today made three times already.
But couldn't not greet her, could only awkwardly wave, "Um, hello Senior Jincha."
Jincha had no time to deal with these two girls now, just looking at Bai Mei beside them, murmuring asked, "You, what magic was that?"
"Haoran Sword Energy! Moon Palace Sword Intent!"
Xingxuan immediately proudly said.
Gray-white mana residue, Jincha naturally knew, the Central Bureau had related records, almost impossible to resist with mana.
Yet the other easily severed it...
She really wanted to ask how this sword energy was produced, what sword intent was.
Azure Cloud Sect's level divisions, sword energy, various magic developments, really seemed much stronger than the Central Bureau...
Unfortunately, before she could ask, the gray-white Magical Girl like a meteor, crashed onto a distant small hill!
Along with it spread terrifying purple flame waves, wave after wave, leveling the surroundings!
All buildings and trees blocking vision turned to powder in the shockwaves—fortunately this was the suburbs, mostly uninhabited ruins, otherwise just this wave of destruction.
Jincha really didn't believe Beihai civil engineering could handle such repair work!
Then another purple petite figure crashed down, the originally flat ground instantly collapsed into a huge crater!
Xingxuan tightly held Bai Mei nearly falling, while Qingluán beside her used gravity cards again to stabilize herself.
Susan had it worse, with Jincha present, she couldn't expose her identity, the car flew up again.
Fortunately Jincha quick-eyed and fast-handed, immediately pulled her back with golden threads, otherwise tonight Susan would sail away with unconscious Camellia—though after this ordeal, the vehicle was pretty much wrecked.
Soon another gust of strong wind blew, dispersing the surrounding smoke and dust, the two great powers who almost erased the Great Dao finally appeared in their sight.
Far in the distance.
But could see half of Magical Girl Shion's Magical Outfit had been dyed gray-white.
Yet even more vigorous purple flames madly devoured this gray-white, even forcibly dyeing the gray-white mana back to purple!
Jincha's heart tightened again.
Someone could actually dye emotional residue back to mana state...
On the other side, the gray-white Magical Girl had lost half her body, even half her head blown off, yet still hadn't canceled transformation, not even showing signs of stopping activity.
After Shion dyed the gray-white on her Magical Outfit back, took a step forward.
The gray-white Magical Girl suddenly knelt down.
Several girls watching the kneeling girl were all stunned, Xingxuan even loudly said, "Hmph, knowing to surrender at death's door, what were you doing earlier! Coming and going as you please, you think Beihai is your backyard..."
But whether Bai Mei or Jincha, both sensed something wrong.
And Qingluán urgently shouted, "Careful! She can—"
Before finishing, Bai Mei quickly drew her Magic Wand, Jincha also immediately wanted to control the other with golden threads.
But purple flames had already pierced through that gray-white head first!
Tilting back along the pierced head, the gray-white Magical Girl let out a light sigh.
"Disintegration Moment."
Time at this moment stepped into stillness.
At the feet of the gray-white girl nearly falling backward, a clock appeared.
Then, the hands overlapped.
With a click, a faint ripple spread out.
The stilled world resumed flow.
The spear in Shion's hand disappeared first, then the surging mana around instantly calmed.
All pure mana vanished.
Shion closest underwent mutation first, her Magical Outfit instantly disintegrated!
But before Bai Mei and Jincha could speak, the spreading ripple had already made both continuously cancel transformation.
Next Xingxuan, Qingluán.
In just an instant, all Magical Girls canceled transformation.
"...Cancel transformation." Only now did Qingluán barely finish her words.
Then sighed.
Even if warned, how could one avoid transformation cancellation on this scale...
And accompanying all Magical Girls canceling transformation, the gray-white Magical Girl's power grew even stronger, to the extent that the half body Shion destroyed even restored to original state.
The missing half face slowly grew back.
Jincha unable to transform couldn't see clearly the situation in the distant large crater, but she knew Shion who lost transformation was now in even greater danger!
Rescuing people urgent!
Bai Mei rushed up first, then Qingying and Susan rushed up.
She saw Susan even take out a Miracle Seed, water-blue mana surrounding her.
And you said you couldn't transform!
Jincha couldn't care about these now. Although also somewhat anxious, wanting to rescue Shion, but after all she couldn't transform, knew in her heart she couldn't do anything, could only worry helplessly.
But these few Magical Girls beside her, each seemed like they were going all out.
Susan could transform never mind, but Bai Mei and Qingying both had canceled transformation, actually charging over like this with mortal bodies!
"Come back!" She immediately wanted to pull Qingluán, but found the girl much faster than her, in just a blink rushed into the deep crater.
The Magical Girl killer didn't care about them at all, just walked straight toward Jiang Si.
In her eyes, the target before her was clearly top priority.
Perfectly intact body gradually restored, as she threw a punch down, saw the youth take out a Miracle Seed again.
This time not even saying transformation words, terrifying purple mana instantly covered his entire body!
The gray-white Magical Girl instantly blasted away!
Getting up, even those always blank pupils showed some daze.
Never mind her, the watching Magical Girls were all dumbfounded, aside from Bai Mei and Susan, the others only saw that gray-white figure in the distance, purple flames flashing before it, the Magical Girl Killer flew backward.
Then purple flames again smashed toward the gray-white Magical Girl.
Bai Mei somewhat surprisedly looked at her master.
"Does her transformation have no cooldown?"
As everyone knows, after canceling transformation there's a cooldown period, so once transformation is canceled, it's difficult to transform again for a long time.
But the Shion before them, how in a blink, transformed again?
Before several could react, the Magical Girl Killer tanking a hit again commanded: "Disintegration Moment!"
This time even the just transformed Magical Girl Zhu Lu was affected, canceling transformation again.
Jincha's heart shook, this person's transformation cancellation ability was unlimited?
This is the Magical Girl Killer?
Even if surpassing Magical Girl, summoning a miracle, transforming again.
The other could still cancel transformation, truly Magical Girls' natural enemy!
As long as you're a Magical Girl, absolutely no match!
Watching her master's transformation cancel again, Bai Mei frowned again, also not stopping her steps, charging straight toward the battlefield, this time opening her eyes, staring intently at the gray-white Magical Girl.
The moment the other violently attacked, she raised her aura, making herself like a sword.
Even without mana, Bai Mei could still strike another sword blow, an indestructible sword cultivator, a life-or-death desperate sword!
But the gray-white Magical Girl didn't even look, charging toward Jiang Si again!
Boom!
Purple mana exploded again!
Third transformation!
Gray-white Magical Girl blasted away again, this time even faster!
"Impossible!"
Jincha first exclaimed, noticing everyone looking over, immediately coughed, calmly and elegantly said, "Not very possible, no cooldown transformation, should be a once-only miracle..."
The Magical Girl Killer without hesitation canceled Shion's transformation again, this time charging up even faster!
Boom! Fourth transformation.
Jincha opened her mouth, wanting to say something, couldn't speak anymore.
And Qingying and Susan closer stopped their steps.
Fifth.
Sixth.
Cancel, transform, cancel, transform...
Jincha completely numb.
Qingluán silently watched, gaze growing increasingly fervent.
This is, the Azure Cloud Sect Master's strength!
Bai Mei sheathed her sword, couldn't help but lightly laugh, "As expected of Master."
Further away, Xingxuan carrying Camellia widened her eyes: "Spark flashes, head falls!"
"Spark flashes heaven and earth move, spark flashes again ghosts and gods startle, spark turns blade execution decided, spark changes shadow endless! This, this is the legendary kind Purple God's true strength..."
Jincha somewhat helplessly glanced at the lingering little girl, "Xingxuan! Take Camellia to a safe place."
"Got it got it, Senior Jincha, I already switched jobs though..."
After Xingxuan left, another blast sending the gray-white Magical Girl flying, this time the strike seemed heavier, causing the Magical Girl Killer to actually pause for a moment.
And simultaneously Shion who canceled transformation wasn't in a hurry to act again.
Only then did Jincha clearly see Shion's appearance after canceling transformation below,
Sucking in a cold breath, her gaze originally about to leave the youth after canceling transformation...
Wait, youth?
Jincha rubbed her eyes again, immediately confirming she wasn't mistaken,
Really male!
No, can't focus on this, that gray-white Magical Girl is the key point!
Magical Girl Killer, and the world ghost the Incubator mentioned...
But no matter what, attention kept inadvertently drawn to the youth.
Male Magical Girl really first time seeing, making history...
But glancing around, Qingjia, Bai Mei, Susan actually not a single one shocked Shion was a boy!
Oh no, could this be common knowledge in Beihai? If only she was shocked, wouldn't that make her seem very embarrassing...
But the chaotic thoughts didn't last long, after another transformation blasted the Magical Girl Killer away, Shion seemed to lose patience, actually voluntarily canceled transformation.
Deep purple white-gold Magical Outfit receded like tidewater.
The youth, slowly placed the Miracle Seed at his brow.
Qingjia and Jincha's hearts both jumped, this was a Witch's transformation action!
Then, saw him take out a huge syringe, filled with green liquid, directly injecting it into his own neck.
When all the liquid entered his body, pitch-black dense mana began boiling on him!
"Heaven and Earth are not humane."
Jiang Si felt that boiling mana, almost burning himself up.
Recalling Keke's Witch form and mana flow patterns in his mind, showing an intoxicated smile,
"When demonic blood stains the azure sky!"
Pitch-black mana twisted and swirled, spreading toward surroundings, all trees, grass, flowers, simultaneously withered, turning into dead silence!