Chapter 141: Battlegrounds
After throwing out ‘Qidian,’ Qidian immediately pulled her two companions to quickly retreat.
Her attack wouldn’t distinguish between friend and foe; once thrown out, anyone besides her would inevitably be affected by ‘Qidian.’
Therefore, after releasing this strike, she had to pull back with her two companions, regardless of whether this strike could achieve her desired results.
The three magical girls quickly retreated, and the magical beasts did not pursue them. The Demon Lord clearly understood that these three magical girls who had already left posed no threat. Its current task was to do everything it could to block the small black dot released by Qidian.
The magical beasts lunged at that small black dot that seemed tiny to the extreme, wanting to use their physical power to block it. However, the moment they made contact with the dot, they were sucked into it and completely turned to nothingness.
After their master moved away, this magic finally revealed its most true and terrifying aspect.
A bizarre dark zone appeared in the starry sky, slowly advancing toward its target. Nothing could impede its progress.
It was the abyss of darkness, and even the most grotesque-looking magical beasts that seemed to have crawled out of hell were merely gravel that could be crushed at will before it.
The Demon Lord was well aware that the first two attacks would not impact its plans, but this last strike could absolutely destroy the teleportation gate it had set and leave it grievously wounded by the raging waves of the Ocean of Magical Power.
It must be stopped!
Even if it couldn’t be stopped, it must at least buy enough time for it to surge out from the Ocean of Magical Power.
Such a force could not be stopped by mere flesh and blood; the Demon Lord currently had only one method, which was to use magical power, using magical power to stop ‘Qidian’s’ advance.
The magical beasts began to contract their defenses, igniting all the magical power within them, following the Demon Lord’s instructions to cast a celestial-level magic to obstruct ‘Qidian.’
The magical beasts were not magical girls; their magic was not as refined and effective, but with such a massive quantity, achieving the effect of a large brick fly was not too difficult.
In terms of quality, the magical power of these beasts was naturally incomparable to that of Qidian. Their full-force obstruction only slightly slowed down ‘Qidian’s’ forward speed.
Only the Demon Lord itself could halt this ‘Qidian,’ but right now, the Demon Lord was struggling through the Ocean of Magical Power.
It had already discarded the large army that was of little use, absorbing their power to accelerate its own speed.
With the selfless donation of these fuels, the Demon Lord’s speed had already far exceeded its original limit, to the point where even the spatial passage was beginning to tremble because of its speed.
Wherever it passed, the spatial passage cracked inch by inch. This was a one-way road with no possibility of retreat. After the Demon Lord descended into that starry sky, it would no longer possess the ability to move through the teleportation gate for a short time.
In other words, the upcoming battle would either end with it victorious or dead; the retreat path had already been cut off by itself.
However, the concept of a retreat did not exist in the Demon Lord’s mind; it would not consider what would happen if it lost before it was truly defeated.
The magical beasts were a group of wild beasts; even the most advanced ones, who seemed to possess intelligence, were merely slightly smarter beasts.
Their existence was to destroy and kill, to obliterate everything in this world; fleeing after being defeated was also to create better opportunities for future destruction and slaughter.
Before being beaten, magical beasts would not contemplate retreat, nor would they feel fear; this was their nature.
Thus, the Demon Lord at this moment had unleashed all its power to rush toward its destination. As long as it reached before ‘Qidian’ destroyed the teleportation gate, this battle would be its victory!
Faster, it needed to go faster!
The Demon Lord ‘saw’ that black sphere, akin to an abyss, was gradually approaching the teleportation gate it had set. It had very little time left.
It had to be faster… but if it increased its speed, the already unstable spatial passage would surely shatter. At that time, it would not require ‘Qidian’ to intervene; it would directly lose itself in the Ocean of Magical Power.
All because of its excessively large size.
After an exceedingly short contemplation, the Demon Lord made its final decision.
With a loud bang, its surface suddenly exploded into a cloud of black mist. As this mist was thrown into the Ocean of Magical Power, it was instantaneously torn apart and devoured by the endless magical waves, and its speed was once again enhanced.
Since being too large made it difficult to accelerate, then reducing its size was the solution!
The bodies of magical beasts are composed of high concentrations of magical energy, and they can discard unnecessary magical energy to shrink their size.
However, generally speaking, no magical beast would make such a choice.
Because it amounted to cutting into their own flesh, and what the Demon Lord was now discarding was even less likely to be retrievable.
It was equivalent to trading its own strength for faster speed in the hopes of reaching that unfamiliar starry sky before ‘Qidian’ destroyed the teleportation gate.
Clumps of magical energy peeled away from it. Its gigantic size shrank to half in a short time, while its speed increased by several times.
At this moment, it only needed a bit of time to arrive at its destination.
But… it was already out of time.
‘Qidian’ broke through its magical barrier, and the pitch-black light sphere touched the teleportation gate formed by the magical beasts’ physical bodies.
Then, in a moment of silence, the teleportation gate instantly disappeared by more than half.
As if it had been bitten by some horrific invisible beast.
The teleportation gate immediately grew unstable, and the deep spatial passage began to violently shake, as if it would collapse at any moment.
But in the end, it did not collapse.
The Demon Lord used its power to maintain the existence of the teleportation gate, using magical power to block ‘Qidian’s’ gravitational pull from outside. Doing so consumed immense power, but to avoid falling into the Ocean of Magical Power halfway, it had no choice but to proceed this way.
Two distinctly separate black forces intertwined, with ‘Qidian’s’ black sphere devouring half of the teleportation gate, remaining there, preventing the gate from recovering.
Meanwhile, the Demon Lord forcibly maintained the stability of the spatial passage with its magical power, buying it the last bit of time.
As if it were just a blink of an eye but also seemed to span countless years, these two dark forces could no longer maintain their fragile balance, transforming into nothingness in silence.
Darkness consumed everything, black holes, teleportation gates, spatial passages, all vanished in this horrific obliteration.
Was it over? Had they succeeded? Was the Demon Lord truly kept outside this starry sky?
Zii…
The recently annihilated space began to shake again. As the space shattered like pieces of glass, a hideous magical beast rushed out of the pitch-black void in a deranged manner.
Compared to its original size, the Demon Lord had shrunk to a quarter, with only the most elite guard legion still accompanying it; the rest of the legions had already been lost in the Ocean of Magical Power.
Although they still existed, getting back to its side within a short time had become impossible.
“Very good… very good! You little bugs, you have piqued my curiosity!” The black vertical pupils firmly stared at the bright stars in the distance as the Demon Lord let out a silent roar of rage.
This was the first time it had suffered such a significant loss, and it had not even truly confronted those opponents.
But all of this farce should come to an end at this moment, for it had arrived!
The one bringing destruction to this world was here!
Without the thought of staying to rest and wait for reinforcements, the moment the Demon Lord burst out of the spatial passage, it charged toward the place where the insects had dared to provoke it.
Its real blade was still well-preserved, and as long as the guard legion was there, it would remain undefeated!
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“They couldn’t stop it, but they weakened its condition by a lot.”
The state of the Demon Lord was not beyond the magical girls’ surveillance. Shortly after its arrival, they obtained its data.
This time’s ambush plan was not entirely successful, but it was far from being a failure. The strength of the Demon Lord that had descended had severely decreased and no longer felt as despairing as before.
The Magic Department had put all its trump cards on the line, swearing to completely slay the Demon Lord in the starry sky.
But at this critical moment, the abnormalities occurring on the home planet caused some minor issues for the Magic Department.
Seemingly due to the proximity of the royal-class magical beasts, the magical beasts on the home planet had suddenly become much more active. After the royal-class magical beasts descended, the frequency of the magical beasts appearing on the home planet had increased several times compared to the previous days.
What was even more terrifying was that these newly appeared magical beasts seemed to possess similarities to the cosmic magical beasts.
As if with the arrival of that royal-class magical beast, this starry sky had turned into its territory.
“We can’t delay; we need to settle this quickly.” The silver-haired girl stood beside the giant dragon and said coldly, “Although there are transformed people on the ground managing things without major issues, our time is limited.”
“Right now, the Demon Lord is in a weakened state after being injured, and this is the best opportunity to kill it.”
“And it seems it thinks so too, eagerly rushing toward us.”
Shifting her gaze to the depths of the starry sky, sensing the approaching brutal aura, Longwen slightly narrowed her eyes.
With the great battle ahead, she felt no fear at all; the battle intent boiled and burned in her blood. At this moment, she just wanted to rush up and fight the Demon Lord for three hundred rounds.
“It’s coming straight at us, I must say, that really is the Demon Lord’s style.” Another Blooming Level Magical Girl chuckled, showing no signs of tension.
At this point, tension served no purpose. What they could do was throw aside all doubts and focus on the fight.
It’s just a Demon Lord, we’ve hunted plenty of those down before; let this one also be just another page in our records of victories!
“It’s here!”
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Buzz!
A surge of immensely strong magical waves swept across the starry sky, causing the Initial Bloom Level Magical Girls flying in space to experience unstable flight conditions.
The Demon Lord had engaged in battle with the Blooming Level Magical Girls, and neither side had any intention of probing; their first clash was a full-force attack. Their battle was so intense that even the Demon Lord’s personal guard team could not get too close to the battlefield.
Once they approached, they would be engulfed by the terrifying magical turbulence that did not distinguish between friend and foe, met with a fate of being utterly obliterated.
Yet they still wished to aid their master. Each of these guards was a formidable royal-class magical beast, the strongest force under the Demon Lord’s command.
Their combined power would not make defeating a Blooming Level Magical Girl impossible.
“We won’t let you disturb our seniors!”
A black-purple light shone within the magical beast army, and a magic circle pre-arranged at this location was activated. Then, a figure soared from the magic circle, swinging a blade toward the magical beasts blocking its path.
The enormous magical beast wanted to evade, but its massive size significantly hindered its close combat abilities. In a mere instant, the black girl’s blade descended upon it.
The pitch-black magical power entangled around the blade, and the magical beast’s armor melted rapidly upon contact with it, resembling butter meeting a hot knife; its proud armored shell proved ineffective before this girl.
The magical power seeped into the magical beast’s body, quickly solidifying into bloodthirsty black thorns, spreading throughout the beast’s body, devouring its flesh and magical energy.
This lone girl storming into the enemy ranks was none other than Luo Shuangyue, who, with her teleportation ability, was undoubtedly the fastest among the Initial Bloom Level Magical Girls.
In a matchup of soldiers against soldiers, the Blooming Level Magical Girls dealt with royal-class magical beasts, so the royal-class magical beasts brought forth by them must naturally be countered by her Initial Bloom Levels.
As one of the top combat contributors among the Initial Bloom Level Magical Girls, Luo Shuangyue naturally targeted the largest and most conspicuous existences within this magical beast army and launched a sneak attack against it.
As for the results, it appeared rather promising?
Suddenly feeling a chill from behind, Luo Shuangyue quickly withdrew the scythe embedded in the magical beast’s body, transforming into a streak of light and leaving the area.
The next second, multiple magic cannon strikes from various directions hit that position.
This was a magical beast army, not merely solitary magical beasts that fought alone; they knew how to provide mutual cover and assistance.
While these magical beasts were still in good condition, Luo Shuangyue found it impossible to decapitate their leader under the gaze of so many magical beasts.
The life force of magical beasts was strikingly powerful; without crushing their source magical energy, they wouldn’t die.
“You’re being a bit too reckless!”
“I’ll just give it a try, but these guys are quite tough to deal with.” Luo Shuangyue, who had teleported back to Xia Mo’s side using her marked location, said nonchalantly. As long as there was a waypoint, she could conduct countless risk-free trials.
So her earlier action seemed risky, but in reality, it carried no danger at all.
