Shikong took out his phone, opened Juxin, found Bai Baihe's avatar, and clicked on it.
I Hate Working: 【This Disaster Beast is unusual; don't send ordinary Magical Girls after it.】
Bai Baihe: 【A City-Hating Class Disaster Beast, a rookie team can totally handle it, right?】
I Hate Working: 【This is a City-Hating Class Beast of Pranks, this is its disguise.】
The Beast of Pranks, an extremely rare special Disaster Beast individual, first appeared during the Great Cataclysm War.
Shikong turned off his phone, immediately got up, put on his slippers, ran to his sister's door, and knocked.
“Shi Yu, are you there? I’m opening the door.”
Click, Shikong pressed the doorknob and opened the door. His sister usually didn't lock the door when she was home, because there wouldn't be a third person in the house, and it was also out of trust for her brother.
“She’s not here, as expected…”
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At first, Shi Yu simply thought this was an easy Subjugation.
After all, the official news stated it was just a low-level Disaster Beast of the City-Hating Class.
One-on-one might be difficult, but what Magical Girls excelled at was group combat.
But this Disaster Beast was clearly different, as if it had gained intelligence?
This was simply impossible for a Disaster Beast of this level to possess.
Shi Yu hovered in the air, observing this unusual Disaster Beast, feeling a strange sense of anomaly.
“Xiao Jing, be careful, this Disaster Beast is very unusual!”
Chi Hong shouted anxiously.
“I know…” Shi Yu’s focus remained on the Disaster Beast, an invisible sense of pressure emanating from it.
“This isn't an ordinary City-Hating Class Disaster Beast; our magic can't harm it.” Zhu Hong's face clearly showed a hint of panic.
The Disaster Beast's body flickered, appearing in mid-air, and in another instant, its figure in mid-air was too fast for the eyes to catch its trace, suddenly appearing in front of Chi Hong the next moment.
Zhu Hong saw the Disaster Beast’s face, which bore a terrifying smile, making her body tremble. She instinctively raised her hand to block, and the Disaster Beast’s attack was blocked, but Zhu Hong was not well. The Disaster Beast’s continuous attacks rained down on Zhu Hong’s shield, rapidly depleting her magic.
“Zhu Hong!” Shi Yu cried out in a panic.
Zhu Hong quickly mobilized her remaining magic, rapidly creating distance to dodge, and her magic shield also shattered due to the depletion of her magic.
However, the Disaster Beast did not give Zhu Hong this chance; attacks followed one after another. Without the protection of a magic shield, a Magical Girl's physical abilities were only slightly stronger than an ordinary person's. Such an attack could not be resisted with the body alone.
A droplet-like object suddenly appeared in front of Chi Hong, blocking a potentially fatal blow for her.
【Mirror Magic · Triangle】
It was Shi Yu’s Mirror Magic, a triangle composed of four mirrors, possessing the characteristic of 【solidity】.
“Are you okay?” Shi Yu flew towards Chi Hong.
“I’m fine,” Chi Hong said, forcing herself to wipe away the blood from the corner of her mouth.
As the triangle shattered, the Sky Eye System's light curtain also fell.
“The light curtain has fallen!” Shen Lan reminded.
Once the light curtain falls, all communication will be interrupted; external parties cannot contact internal ones, and vice versa.
Suddenly, the Disaster Beast repeated its trick, appearing in front of Shi Yu the next second. What no one expected was that the Disaster Beast did not attack Shi Yu, but instead spoke.
“Your magic… is annoying… I hate it… I’ll kill you first…”
Before the words finished, Shi Yu immediately used magic to create a mirror body in front of herself.
However, the disparity in strength ultimately prevented her from sustaining it for long.
The Disaster Beast seized the moment the mirror body shattered to launch an attack. Shi Yu reacted quickly, casting twice consecutively the instant the mirror body broke.
【Mirror Magic · Mirror of Passage】
This was a displacement magic; Shi Yu’s body merged into the mirror, disappearing from the Disaster Beast’s sight.
As the mirror body shattered, she reappeared a hundred meters away, giving Shi Yu a chance to catch her breath.
Shen Lan was still using water magic to heal Chi Hong and restore her magic.
“I still have to hold on for a while…” Shi Yu muttered to herself.
With the repeated appearances and shatterings of Mirror Magic.
Shi Yu's magic and stamina were nearing their limits. Just then, Chi Hong, having recovered, joined the battle with Shen Lan.
【Water Magic · Pillar of Water】
The flowing water, like a giant pillar, slammed heavily into the Disaster Beast.
【Fire Magic · Tornado】
As the water magic disappeared, a crimson tornado rose.
Shen Lan focused her eyes on the Disaster Beast, “Xiao Jing! Now’s the time!”
“Alright!”
Shi Yu took a deep breath, gripping her black and white staff tightly, and began to chant, Your attack is over, now it's my turn!
Just as the Disaster Beast was about to move, it was surrounded by mirror bodies. Shi Yu’s charge was also nearing its end, and layers of mirror bodies stacked above the Disaster Beast.
【Mirror Magic · Heaven Seal】
The layered mirror bodies rapidly fell, one after another, smashing onto the Disaster Beast and shattering.
“Seven years ago, you took my parents, shattering my family.”
Shi Yu said to herself, with a hint of catharsis.
“For seven years, brother took care of me, brother bore the pressure. Yes, I was well taken care of, and my friends all envied me for having a good brother.”
“But only I know how heavy the burden on him, how great the pressure on him was!”
Care is mutual; Shikong's constant giving would only make Shi Yu feel more uncomfortable.
Shi Yu flew high into the sky, her final magic also beginning to charge, a triangular mirror being continuously stretched.
Shi Yu raised her staff high.
She wanted to prove to her annoying brother that she wasn't just a little girl, she had grown up, and she too could work hard for this family!
“Die! This is! My resolve!” Shi Yu swung her staff down with both hands.
As the staff swung down, the elongated triangle, like a sharp blade, fiercely stabbed towards the Disaster Beast.
Boom!
This blow struck the Disaster Beast’s body, kicking up a cloud of dust.
“Is it over?” Chi Hong flew back to Shi Yu’s side.
Shi Yu, having overexerted herself, felt a sharp pain in her head, and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. This was the consequence of magic overload. Her body collapsed, falling towards the ground, but Shen Lan quickly flew over and caught Shi Yu.
A few minutes later, as the dust dispersed.
The Demon Beast revealed a strange smile. Not only was it unharmed, but it was smiling?
Violent magic fluctuations swept the surroundings, releasing a wave that did not belong to the City-Hating Class.
The three little ones were stunned by this magic.
Shi Yu's mind recalled past events.
Her parents took her brother and her to an amusement park. It was then that her parents were killed by a Disaster Beast, and her brother began to bear all the pressure alone, taking very good care of her.
The spirit told her, 【You have great potential; fully releasing your magic to fight above your level is no problem at all.】
Her brother told her, 【It’s very dangerous; don’t do that again next time.】
...Is this a deathbed vision?
A sudden strange voice interrupted Shi Yu, “Had enough fun… It’s time to end it… Hehehehe.”
The Disaster Beast chuckled, as if it had been playing with them.
The Disaster Beast levitated, flying above the three little ones, just as the three little ones had looked at it initially. It hunched its body, chuckling.
Only, the roles were reversed; now the Disaster Beast was the predator.
It chuckled, like a clown in a circus, looking at the three little ones mockingly.
The next moment, the Disaster Beast, no longer concealing its strength, revealed its true form.
It was the 【Beast of Pranks】.
“This is, City-Hating Class?!” Chi Hong and Shen Lan, supporting Shi Yu, immediately moved away from the Beast of Pranks.
Perhaps Shi Yu, with her magic fully unleashed, could fight a Destruction-level Disaster Beast above her rank.
But what about encountering a City-Hating Class? This kind of Disaster Beast could destroy a city by itself.
“How can a City-Hating Class Disaster Beast appear in Nanhai City? This isn’t the front line at all!” Chi Hong completely failed to understand. This was simply not something a rookie Magical Girl could handle, and all the high-level Magical Girls in Nanhai City had already been transferred to the front line.
Facing an unprecedented crisis, Chi Hong and Shen Lan each grabbed one of Shi Yu's arms, desperately fleeing from the Beast of Pranks.
However, how could two Candle-level Magical Girls possibly escape?
Just as the attack was about to land on Shi Yu, two long swords crossed and stood upright in front of Shi Yu, blocking the attack.
“Good thing I made it,” a white figure appeared in front of Shi Yu.
“Senior?” Shi Yu saw the pure white girl wrapped in a black trench coat.
“It’s me. You can’t handle this thing. Stay away. Li Yu held a sword in each hand, raised them, and chopped down vertically, knocking the Disaster Beast to the ground.”
Li Yu stabbed the Disaster Beast with a sword, and the sword pierced into the Disaster Beast's body. Li Yu released the hand holding the sword, and kicked the Disaster Beast away.
“I told you to retreat first. Chi Hong’s condition isn’t very good. If you stay here, I’ll have to protect you, which is very troublesome.”
Generally speaking, Disaster Beasts are not harmed by physical damage; only magic is their bane. This human hurting him with a sword made him inexplicably angry, and he let out a roar.
“What are you yelling about?”
Li Yu instantly appeared in front of the Disaster Beast, pulled out the long sword embedded in its body, and with crossed swords, slashed an X from top to bottom. The Disaster Beast cried out in pain, used its feet to push off, and flew into the sky.
Li Yu instantly teleported above the Disaster Beast, her twin swords transforming into a longbow. She shot an arrow, knocking the Disaster Beast from the sky. The next instant, Li Yu immediately teleported again. Before the Disaster Beast even hit the ground, Li Yu was already on the ground, her longbow once again transforming into a greatsword. She swung the greatsword, carving a semicircular sword arc in the air, and the Disaster Beast was cut in two.
This Disaster Beast completely lost its ability to resist. Just as Li Yu was about to finish it off.
“I smell… the scent of a king… on you… They… will find you…”
The greatsword slashed, separating the body from the head.
“Then let them come.”
Li Yu teleported to the side of the three little ones.
“Senior…”
“Don’t blame yourselves; this isn’t your fault. This Disaster Beast is a special individual.”
Senior is truly amazing. Without using any magic, she simply used her Magical Armament skills to render the Disaster Beast utterly defenseless, Shi Yu thought, then spoke.
“Um, Senior, I was wondering if you could teach me.”
“No, no one can learn my fighting style.”
(Explanation: Li Yu currently cannot use the magic in her body, but teleportation and body recall are Li Yu's passive abilities. Li Yu's Magical Armament is also not any kind of weapon.)
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