Chapter 125: Not Interested
“Just indigestion, no need to worry too much.”
“Her? Indigestion?”
Hearing You Ji’s diagnosis, Luo Shuangyue doubted whether there was something wrong with her ears.
This little one, who usually eats so greedily, can’t be suffering from indigestion just from eating two of Luo Shuangxing’s cards, right? Is this a joke?
She seriously suspected that You Ji was just teasing her.
“Yes, is it hard to understand?” But You Ji seemed completely serious, tilting her head, as if she thought Luo Shuangyue couldn’t understand her words.
“No, no, no, what I mean is how could she have indigestion? Didn’t she eat quite happily when she was munching on magical beasts before?”
“That’s because the power of those magical beasts is of a much lower level compared to hers, and the swallowing of magical beasts is much simpler than consuming the magical power of a magical girl.” You Ji explained calmly.
As she spoke, she grabbed You Lian and picked out a few strands of white hair from You Ji’s head.
Originally, You Lian had long, beautiful black hair, but now she had several conspicuously white strands.
Not just in her hair, even on her face and hands, there were a few very faint white lines; these were all evidence of indigestion.
“However, the main reason is that the food you provided her is a bit unusual. Logically speaking, a budding level magical girl shouldn’t possess magical power of this quality that even You Lian, transformed from the Demon Lord, cannot digest in such a short time.”
“If we’re just talking about the difficulty of digestion, the magical power you gave her is harder to digest than that of a blooming level magical girl.”
Eating three cards indeed wouldn’t have too much impact on You Lian, but the discomfort was real.
These cards were like stones for You Lian; although tiny, she certainly couldn’t happily eat stones, right?
“Then why don’t I feel this way…”
“That’s because she can’t compare to it.” You Ji pointed at You Lian and then at the Big Butterfly in the sky, indicating that You Lian was just a tiny Demon Lord, not comparable to a creature like the Big Butterfly.
What Luo Shuangyue consumed was equivalent to entering the mouth of the Big Butterfly, and the digestion ability of the Big Butterfly… You Ji could only describe it as unfathomable.
The source magical power of a Demon Lord could be consumed like snacks, causing Luo Shuangyue’s strength to soar, but she would struggle to fully control the magic power in her body in a short time.
Could this really be considered a consequence?
It felt more like overeating and causing a nutrient surplus in her body.
“Oh, I see.” Luo Shuangyue nodded as if she understood but wasn’t completely convinced, feeling relieved by this explanation.
“If she can’t eat anymore, she will tell you herself, no need to worry about her harming herself.” Gently stroking You Lian’s head, You Ji indicated that Luo Shuangyue could show a little more trust in You Lian.
The child was just gluttonous; she wasn’t foolish and wouldn’t truly overstuff herself.
“Got it.” Luo Shuangyue sighed, thinking she would rely on You Lian to skip classes and master the sealing card powers of Luo Shuangxing, but it seemed she still had to put in the effort herself.
Sigh, here we go, another brain-burning moment.
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Brain-burning or not, this was something she could only do when free. After a good sleep, Luo Shuangyue had to head to Longwen’s lab without delay.
In the hall, Longwen was already waiting at the front desk, casually chatting with Qidian. When she spotted Luo Shuangyue flying down from the sky, she immediately abandoned her colleague and happily approached her.
This attitude made Qidian show an extremely disdainful expression, “Hmph, bad woman.”
However, Longwen seemed to be completely oblivious to Qidian’s comment, pulling Luo Shuangyue and heading outside the building.
On the way to the testing area, Longwen briefly explained the general process of the test to Luo Shuangyue. Overall, it was just running; they chose a very long track, and Luo Shuangyue would run at full speed down it to measure how fast she could go using the Ocean of Magical Power.
“The starting point is here, run in this direction until you reach where the Soul Guide is.”
To avoid Luo Shuangyue running off the track midway, several blooming level magical girls even helped to set up various markers before the test, with the endpoint chosen to be where the familiar blooming level magical girl, the Soul Guide, stood.
As long as she sensed the magical fluctuations from the Soul Guide, Luo Shuangyue could stop.
“The test starts at 9:15; you can get ready now.” Longwen glanced at the time and reminded Luo Shuangyue to prepare.
“Okay.”
Luo Shuangyue nodded, closed her eyes, and began to merge her body with the Ocean of Magical Power.
Unlike before, when her butterfly wings and arms merged, this time her entire body was fully integrated, manifesting in the real world as her body transformed into dark purple butterflies that disappeared into the starry sky.
Longwen’s eyes widened, and her golden vertical pupils fixed on the vague shadow still standing in place—it should be Luo Shuangyue, now merged with the Ocean of Magical Power.
“Can you still hear me?” she asked.
In the next moment, several butterflies materialized mid-air, forming a hand that gave Longwen an ‘OK’ gesture.
She could hear her voice… Longwen nodded thoughtfully. So this is actually a form of invisibility?
“Are you ready? The time is almost here.”
The hand gesture remained unchanged, but after making that sign, it transformed back into butterflies and vanished.
Luo Shuangyue was ready to set off.
Half a minute later, as the start time arrived, Luo Shuangyue suddenly disappeared from Longwen’s perception.
In the next second, she heard the surprised shout from the Soul Guide, “The Dark Butterfly has flown past!”
All the blooming level magical girls along the route felt a ripple in the Ocean of Magical Power beside them; they all realized that this Ocean was probably a bit abnormal.
A few seconds later, Luo Shuangyue returned, flying back to the side of the Soul Guide. The brief flight left her with a visibly uncomfortable expression.
“So dizzy, Senior, support me a bit.”
The butterflies reappeared from the void, reconstituting into Luo Shuangyue. As soon as she appeared, she called out for a hug from the Soul Guide.
It was so intense; previously, when she played with teleportation, it only lasted a split second, and she didn’t get too dizzy from it.
But when she truly entered the Ocean of Magical Power, ‘swimming’ in it, she realized just how terrifying this ocean was.
There were towering waves everywhere, especially when flying at full speed; she was hit by countless waves in an instant, each wave capable of knocking her far away.
But to be fair, if she was flying in the Ocean of Magical Power, her speed was indeed much faster than in the real world.
To put it bluntly, this couldn’t really be called flying; it was more akin to an extremely abstract coordinate transformation, or perhaps… teleportation.
“I can’t even describe what this feeling is; I definitely don’t want to experience it a second time.”
Supported by the Soul Guide, Luo Shuangyue dry-heaved a few times and said with a pale face.
The magical power inside her hadn’t decreased much; after all, while other things in the Ocean might be lacking, magical power was abundant; she could recover all the consumed magical power with just one breath.
But this external magical power still required some time to be converted into usable magical power; it wasn’t as simple as soaking in the Ocean to instantly recover.
Soaking in the Ocean was merely giving her a restorative buff.
“Yes, your speed has been recorded by the devices; now you can rest well.”
The Soul Guide said so, but when she brought Luo Shuangyue back to Longwen, the expression on Longwen’s face was clearly not right.
It looked like she had been startled by something.
Seeing Luo Shuangyue, she directly flew over, gripping Luo Shuangyue’s shoulders and shaking her vigorously, “Do you know how fast you just were?!”
Luo Shuangyue felt like a pitiful little tree being battered by a giant dragon, unable to speak amidst the shaking.
It was still the Soul Guide who calmed the overly excited Longwen, giving Luo Shuangyue a chance to breathe.
“Faster than light, right?” The Soul Guide seemed to have anticipated the results.
After all, just a moment ago, Luo Shuangyue had almost zipped past her as the numbers on the clock changed; she could do the math to know just how fast Luo Shuangyue was.
Longwen nodded gravely, “Yes, several times faster.”
The magical girls present exchanged glances, and finally, the Soul Guide sighed, “Now that we have magic, the old knowledge that used to be taken for granted should be let go.”
These blooming level magical girls had mostly grown up in a world before magical beasts descended, and naturally, they had been taught certain scientific principles that were supposed to be unbreakable.
Unfortunately, the emergence of magical beasts had shattered those principles, and the current world needed to progress under the premise of magic.
“If even the Dark Butterfly, a first-time experiment, can reach such a speed, then those magical beasts are likely to be even faster than her.” Longwen exhaled, her expression turning serious, “We probably don’t have much time left.”
Those magical beasts had fought interstellar wars and destroyed an interstellar civilization; their marching speed was certainly faster than what Luo Shuangyue could achieve!
Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before they arrived here, fighting against the magical girls.
“Right! Those royal-class magical beasts must have evolved their forms to traverse quickly through the Ocean of Magical Power!” Having personally experienced the Ocean’s submergence, Luo Shuangyue finally understood why those royal-class magical beasts evolved such shapes.
Those shapes weren’t meant for combat but for survival and advancement in the titanic waves of the Ocean of Magical Power!
“So, we can only rely on our perception of the Ocean of Magical Power to judge if they are coming? That’s really troublesome.” A somewhat unfamiliar blooming level magical girl with Luo Shuangyue sighed.
The magical beasts possessed speeds faster than light, meaning conventional detection methods were ineffective against them.
Moreover, the perception of the Ocean of Magical Power was a capability held by only some magical girls, predominantly blooming level magical girls.
Given this, keeping watch for magical beasts becoming an incoming challenge.
“I’ll report this result to the ground; sigh, they’ll have something to pull their hair out about.”
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Crash, crash, smack.
A thin report was gently slapped on the table. Monise stared at the content of the report, her expression somewhat grave.
The discoveries in the sky had thrown the people on the ground into utter chaos; they frantically sought her out, but she wasn’t the one dealing with this kind of stuff.
She specialized in human transformations, okay?
“Monise, do you have any solutions?”
On the electronic screen before her was a face of a tired girl full of worry. Monise gazed at this ‘enemy’ who had once led the charge to drive her away from Xinghai City, slowly shaking her head.
“I think you don’t need to worry too much. Didn’t the Dark Butterfly say that things in the Ocean of Magic have little effect on reality and can be influenced by things that have magical power in reality? Those magical beasts simply march faster; once they arrive here, they still need to fight us for real.”
“But do we really have enough combat power? According to Yi, the quantity of magical beasts far exceeds our imagination. Even if most of them are soldier-class magical beasts, once the numbers increase, we could still find it hard to resist.”
Most of the magical beasts were soldier-class, but most humans were ordinary folks.
Ordinary folks who weren’t of much use in battle.
Many of the Magic Department’s weapons required a certain level of mastery over magical power to use, and those capable of wielding magical power were either magical girls or transformed persons.
The number of magical girls couldn’t be raised significantly in a short time, so the solution left is just one, right?
This was why this magical girl had come to Monise to discuss transformed persons.
“How is your research coming along?” She took a deep breath, her gaze shifting from hesitation to determination.
Monise paused for a moment; she hadn’t expected this person to seek her out about transformed persons.
It left her a bit at a loss for words.
“There’s hope, but I cannot be sure if my ideas are correct… Give me half a month, and I’ll have an answer for you.”
“Half a month? That’s fine.” The girl nodded, her expression easing as if a heavy burden had finally lifted.
“Making this decision is hard, isn’t it?” Monise asked coldly.
The girl pouted and directly hung up the communication.
It was clear she was not inclined to make this decision.
Gazing at the dark screen before her, Monise quietly huffed; she hadn’t wanted to receive this person’s call at this time.
But… there truly wasn’t much time left for them.
Pulling up personnel data from the screen before her, Monise remained silent for a long time before finally making up her mind and pressing the contact number in the dossier.
“Hello? Lady Monise?”
“Yes, it’s me, Jiuye. I’ve approved your request.”
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“Hey, you’re picking up that I should duel with Luo Shuangyue first? Really troublesome,” Luo Shuangyue sighed in disappointment after glancing at the reply.
Fei Yue, who had been brought over by Xia Mo for a visit, trembled slightly at the four words and her expression turned complicated.
But this time, she didn’t react as strongly.
In the past, when she heard others mention her sister, it was always praise about how powerful and talented she was, but this time, she heard some different opinions.
“Don’t look down on Luo Shuangyue; she’s a really strong magical girl.” Xia Mo felt that Luo Shuangyue needed to give some respect to her opponent whom she had yet to defeat.
“An opponent who can fight with you for so long hardly excites my interest,” Luo Shuangyue replied playfully.
