Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 143 Prey
Remnant beasts, as monsters that existed long before human civilization in the material world, no one can say exactly when they were born.

One of the most well-known sayings is that the life and power of all remnant beasts actually come from the same source, a powerful existence without leaving a name or image.However, in the existing research on the magic side, there is no evidence to support this statement.

But faith does not actually need evidence, and there has never been a shortage of people who believe this.The "lord" in Black Ember Dawn's mouth actually refers to this unknown existence.

They called it "The Beast Lord".

"The great beast disaster 19 years ago certainly brought catastrophe to the material world, but it left a very valuable wealth for the research on the power of remnant beasts."

The smiling voice of the remnant beast clearly entered the consciousness of every magical girl present: "A large number of remains of remnant beasts that have not been stripped and reverberated, a large number of lives damaged by the magic power of beasts, and a large amount of data from battles. These are things that Black Ember Dawn couldn’t obtain in peaceful times, but they are within easy reach during the Great Beast Disaster.”

"After that, we extracted a rare spar from some extremely special remnant beasts. Surprisingly, as long as the remnant beasts with this kind of spar embedded in their bodies, More or less magic power enrichment phenomenon."

"Their body structure is stronger; the special organs in their bodies are more developed; even, the evolution of intelligence is extraordinary."

"We conducted detailed research on this spar, and finally found that this spar has the function of devouring and purifying a large amount of magic power, and then feeding back a certain special energy, and this special energy can greatly promote the recovery of residual beasts. evolution, raising the upper limit of the evolution of remnant beasts."

"It's just that the stock of this kind of spar is too scarce. We dissected all the remains of beasts found in the beast disaster, and we can only get a few. And the magic power it needs is too huge. Just a small amount of mana can't supply its consumption at all. Our experiments are progressing rather slowly."

"In the first experiment, it took us more than ten years to create a fully evolved remnant beast. However, the good times didn't last long. At the end of the evolution, the remnant beast collapsed and turned into a puddle. A puree full of magic."

"The second experiment, which started two years later than the first experiment, took longer, but ended in the same way, it collapsed."

"After two more failures, I ruled out all possible causes and found that it wasn't that our thinking was wrong, but that the 'food' was wrong."

"We have created a large number of meat pigs to feed the beasts, but the meat pigs alone are not enough. Just like humans will have various problems if they are picky eaters, the beasts also need a 'balanced diet'."

"The magical power of a fairy, the magical power of a magical girl, and the magical power of a beast are indispensable."

"In order to verify this conclusion, two years ago, I made a decision during the latest cultivation. I intercepted part of the magic power of the flower card magic girl and fed it to our remnant beasts. Then, variables appeared : Its growth rate far exceeds the previous experiments, and it also shows a considerable degree of intelligence."

"I know, my experiment was successful."

The huge moth flapped its wings slowly, staring at the blue-haired girl lying on the ground: "So I need to thank your teammate, Cornflower. It was Sakura's death that allowed me to get With enough flower card magic, it allowed me to see the possibility of success."

Delphinium did not speak.

Because she was really hurt.

The disabled beast took away his magic outfit, and then slashed his body firmly.

It is true that the body of a magical girl is made of magic power and has no biological organs, but what the magic outfit hurts is not the body of the magical girl, but the soul at a deeper level.

The soul was almost cut off in the middle, and the pain of this kind of cut in the middle was enough to make an ordinary magical girl lose control of her body.

At this moment, the delphinium was lying on its back on the ground, looking at the huge moth in the air expressionlessly, and quietly listening to the other party's proud and complacent speech.

"...you seem to lack an audience."

However, even with such an injury, she couldn't hear the slightest pain in her voice, as usual: "I'm not interested in the story of your painstaking efforts and painstaking efforts for so many years."

"Is that right?"

There was some surprise in Moss' voice: "I thought you would be somewhat moved by the death of your old teammate."

"If you just want to annoy me, then your purpose has already been achieved."

Delphinium's voice remained unchanged: "But if you want to tell me 'you killed Sakura' to shake my heart, then I can only answer you, it's impossible."

"Oh? I deliberately kept the altar until now. You should have captured Sakura's magic power from the ceremony just now. This doesn't make you believe me?"

"So what?"

Delphinium didn't look sideways, but no one knew what she was thinking under her calm appearance: "Sakura is dead, and her heart gem is gone. I already knew about it. Your behavior is nothing more than letting me know , Her death is indeed inseparable from you."

"You don't understand what 'the strongest flower card' really means, and you don't understand what she can do at all. Sakura, but you have defeated all kinds of invincible enemies time and time again to get to that position .”

She put her hands on the ground, straightened up slightly, and her tone gradually became serious: "Scumbags like you want to defeat her, or even kill her?"

"Don't make me laugh, you don't deserve to mention her name to me."

Moss was silent for a while, then she laughed again:
"Hahaha, very good, I really like your character of not admitting defeat."

"That's why I set the stage today, on this extremely grand occasion, and invited these lovely little audiences."

She waved her wings and pointed at the newcomers not far away: "Whether I can kill Sakura, I can't prove it to you now. But what about these little guys? What do you think?"

"For example, that girl over there, Sakura's daughter, her father seems to have an affair with you. If I kill her here, can you still hold that ice-like face? I'm looking forward to it."

"...Don't even think about it." Delphinium supported her body with the silk thread, allowing herself to stand up again.

"Then it depends on your performance."

As Moss said so, she raised her jointed limbs, and countless dense purple-black spheres floated in midair: "How long can you protect her, Cornflower?"

As her words fell, several purple-black magic balls fell towards Lin Xiaolu's position like meteorites falling from the sky.

Lin Xiaolu and the others were still fighting the remnant beast while approaching the delphinium, but when they saw the ball of light falling in the sky, they immediately turned around and tried to avoid it.However, the purple-black magic ball seemed to be conscious. As Lin Xiaolu shifted her position, their landing points also shifted together.

The delphinium turned into a streamer and flew to several newcomers in a blink of an eye. The magic costume formed a huge network in front of him, blocking the magic ball that landed in the air, trying to stop it.

However, before the magic ball came into contact with the magic outfit, the magic thread she wove disappeared out of thin air.

She played the Fawo rune again without hesitation, and several magic power barriers quickly enveloped in front of several people, isolating the magic power sphere.However, these magical barriers also turned into nothingness in an instant.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Xiaolu below also raised her hand and waved a silver-white magic flame, slashing towards the magic ball, but disappeared in the middle like a delphinium.

"It's not a one-off, it can be stored in multiple sections."

Delphinium muttered in the air, seeing that the magic ball was about to hit Lin Xiaolu, her eyes narrowed slightly, and then accelerated again.She rushed to Lin Xiaolu just like that, and used her body to firmly resist the magic sphere.

Seeing this, Xia Liang on the side quickly released her magic outfit, several mirrors wrapped the Delphinium in a circle, trying to divert the magic power of the sphere to other places.But her magic costume couldn't bear the magic power of this size at all, and it wasn't even Mousse's turn to make them disappear, so the mirrors all burst into pieces.

click.

"Heh...uh!"

Cracks suddenly appeared on Xia Liang's face, and his whole body was blown away.

Not to mention Delphinium who was in the center of the magic explosion, the heavy blow to her soul caused her to fall like a kite with a broken string, and was quickly caught by Lin Xiaolu below.

"Xia Liang! Damn it! Delphinium! How are you doing!"

She touched the delphinium's breath in a panic, looked at the tattered and even scorched dress on her body, and called out in a daze: "Are you all right, Delphinium?"

Delphinium's closed eyes opened again at Lin Xiaolu's call, then she stood up slightly and grabbed Lin Xiaolu's hand.

"fine."

Panting slightly, Delphinium looked at Lin Xiaolu calmly: "I'm here, don't worry, nothing will happen."

"Say 'it'll be fine'! Twice already! You're already hurt like this!"

There was a hint of crying in Lin Xiaolu's voice: "Don't treat yourself like this, if she wants to kill me and make you feel in the way of fighting, then it's better to just..."

Delphinium said nothing more.

She just squeezed Lin Xiaolu's hand to signal her not to continue talking, then struggled to stand up again, and looked at Moss in the air.

"I thought your bitter drama would last a little longer."

Moss sneered, "Why don't you show your sacrifice to her more, so that I can see more tear-jerking episodes?"

"I don't want to waste my tongue in front of the scum."

Delphinium's voice was still calm and firm: "If you want to see a tragedy, go to hell and watch your own ending slowly."

"Hahaha, interesting, since you are so motivated, let's continue."

The purple-black magic light ball appeared above the crowd again, Mousse said in a high voice, "Let me see, how long can you protect them with your scarred body when you can't use magic power? "

Looking at the densely packed magic balls in the sky, Delphinium's face remained unchanged, Mo Ke's face was full of horror, and Xia Liang looked down helplessly.Lin Xiaolu also turned pale. She looked at Delphinium and subconsciously spoke again, but she didn't know what to say.

Mousse's attack did not shake the will of the magical girls.

The purple-black magic ball slammed down again, and this time, Delphinium also blocked it with its body.

"Hahaha, it's really too rare. The magical girl who prepared the gemstone scepter dignifiedly and used to be a flower card is so embarrassed now!"

Moss laughed loudly: "Where's your magic outfit? Where's your Wonderland? Where's your Fankai? It's too ridiculous to fight like a species, or even worse than a species!"

"You've been uttering wild words like a stinky brat all the time, do you think I don't know? You overwhelmed yourself twice during the Garden Defense War and the Great Beast Disaster, and your strength has long been exhausted!"

"Look at what you look like now, how sad!"

"This is the kingdom of magic! This is their hero! The hero who saved the situation in the war and saved the city in the material world only deserves to be humiliated like this in the end!"

"Because of this, you are my best prey, the best ingredient for me to step up to a higher level!"

As her words fell, more magic balls appeared around her.

"...As expected."

Delphinium looked at the sky that had been soaked in purple-black, and the jewel-like eyes reflected the figure under the light: "Your target has been me from the beginning."

"Just realized now? It's too late!"

Moss laughed wantonly and said, "What kind of city, what kind of human being, what kind of country and investigation institute, these things have nothing to do with my plan from the beginning, all I need is you."

"It takes two years to feed a large amount of meat pigs to a remnant beast that is on the verge of collapse, and then obtain a large amount of high-quality magic girl's magic power in one breath, which is enough to bring the magic power in its body back to balance. This can be done quickly, Achieved the results I wanted!"

"What better prey than a former gemstone scepter who has been seriously injured, retired for many years, and is ignorant of the outside world?"

"As long as I get your source of magic power and let my beast's viscera complete the final complement, I can break through the limitation of slough, climb to a higher level, and become an existence near the peak—Wang slough!"

"I asked the group of useless men to attack your old friend's daughter, and you really showed up; I asked them to attack the man who had something to do with you, and you really fought; I asked the spider to attract the attention of the investigation institute, and you immediately Just go; I let Hong Sihe deceive your cognition, and you are ignorant!"

"I prepared so many smoke bombs to delay the ceremony, and prepared so many troubles to delay your steps. As expected, you stepped on every step I expected. I feel so pitiful for your ignorance!"

"You are like a bird living in a cage. You have trapped yourself under the cage, and you have no idea how many crises are approaching from the outside world. Sad, ridiculous, and sad!"

"Put away your useless stubbornness and kneel to me at the end."

Her voice became colder: "Just like I am powerless to protect my own daughter, you are also powerless to protect those little girls now. Kneel down and beg for my mercy, maybe I can spare their lives and let them be my daughter." A new experimental subject."

The jointed limbs of the moth and remnant beasts were raised high, and under the flapping wings, countless purple-black magic balls flickered on and off, surging with the breath of destruction: "Of course, you can also refuse, I don't mind that in the final ceremony , devour a few more heart gems."

It just looked down at the delphinium, waiting for the other party's reply.

The answer, however, was that there was no answer.

Delphinium did not respond to her words.

Her long azure blue hair was stained with dust, and her ripped navy blue dress was scorched black. She obviously looked at an absolute disadvantage, but Delphinium still stood there very upright and firm, looking at Moss calmly.

"...no flow."

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"When the magic power disappears, there is no direction to flow."

"So what, answer my question!"

"There is no need to answer, I don't want to waste my tongue on nonsense."

Delphinium said indifferently: "I have already guessed your rules."

These words, as if ice cubes were thrown into the boiling water, made Mousse, who was still extremely insolent, instantly quiet down.

"……Oh?"

After a while, she made a playful voice: "That's really surprising."

"What's the surprise? Is it because I can guess your rules, or is it because I'm not a fool?"

Delphinium narrowed her eyes slightly: "From the beginning, you have been throwing out all kinds of topics, your own experience, Sakura's death, the country's system, and my past... don't you just want to bring Is it partial to my thinking, distracting my thinking?"

"Jabbering like a loud clown in battle, other than because you're a natural chatterbox, the only reason I can think of is that you're trying to dictate our thinking."

"Use all kinds of topics that you think will stimulate me and arouse my interest to force me to answer, so that I ignore and give up thinking about the essence of your rules."

"After all, your rules seem so unsolvable, as if they can block everyone's magical attacks, but to put it bluntly, it's just a sentence:"

"—The person with the largest shadow occupies the magic power of others."

Her words made Moss fall into silence again.

"Nonsense." A moment later, Moss mocked, "If this is the conclusion you have come to, then you will only lose more ugly."

"is it?"

Delphinium was noncommittal: "If that's the case, why didn't you remove the dazzling beam of light after your 'ceremony' ended? You kept moving around meaninglessly, letting your shadow cover us all the time?"

"Oh, let's treat it like this."

"Yes, then treat it like this." Delphinium also repeated following Moss' words, and then stretched out her hand, pointing to its back:
"After all, the magic costume I left behind you has not disappeared until now."

Following the direction of the delphinium's finger, Moss looked behind her, and saw a small piece of blue magic power thread fixed on the ground at some point, quietly emitting a halo of magic power at this moment.

It just kept its posture like this, looked at the small piece of magic thread, turned back after a while, and stretched its wings suddenly.In an instant, a huge black shadow enveloped the entire area around Delphinium.

Moss looked at the silk thread, and didn't realize until this moment that she might have really underestimated this magical girl who had retired for many years.

"You've really been thinking about this all the time."

Looking at the delphinium, it was amazed: "If it wasn't because we were enemies, I'm afraid I really have to ask you for advice. What is the reason for you to be so calm?"

"The first one is not to listen to the nonsense of a beast like you."

"That's a real honor for me."

"The second is because I have fought countless battles between rules so far."

Delphinium continued: "The rule of speculation and concealment is the first priority. I don't think you will ignore this. After all, when the truth of the rule is known, your rule loses its threat."

"Oh? Even if you know the rules, what can you do?"

Moss said expressionlessly: "You still can't use your own magic power, you can't use your own magic outfit. And now you can't use Wonderland for a long time, and you don't have any resistance to all of this..."

——"Who said I can't use Wonderland?"

Delphinium interrupted it, staring straight at Moss: "Did I say that I can't use Wonderland?"

"Hmph, bluff!"

Moss snorted coldly: "Your heart gem and magic outfit have been damaged long ago. It is already a miracle to be alive. Forcibly using Wonderland? Do you think this kind of lie is meaningful?"

"Whether it's a lie or not, you'll know after one fight."

Delphinium said calmly: "As long as I know your rules, then your rules will no longer work."

"Okay, come on."

Moss paused, and then said with a smile: "Let me take a look at your wonderland, and see what means you still have to struggle!"

Delphinium did not talk to Moss again.

She silently opened her hand, and the remaining azure blue magic power surged in her body again. Among the intertwined silk threads, a small pair of tailoring scissors, only as big as her palm, gradually emerged in her finger. between.

The silver-blue scissors seem to be engraved with dense and complicated patterns, but when you look closer, you can find that those patterns are actually cracks.In fact, the scissors have already left only outlines, and they are afraid that they will be completely broken if they are moved casually.

Delphinium stared at the scissors in her hand, as if she was nostalgic for something, and seemed to be gradually letting go of something.

"...Sorry for using you so roughly all this time."

She reached out and stroked the tailoring scissors, her voice was a little soft: "But, let me be willful again."

Picking up the scissors, pulling out the silk thread from the knuckles, the delphinium waved, and faced the remnant beast in the air awe-inspiringly.

"Magic power construction, separation; wonderland, unfolding, let's judge all of this here——"

An order came out of her mouth, her will became more determined, and the azure blue magic power spewed out again like a high-pressure stimulus, and even the cracks on the scissors revealed light, as if they would shatter and explode at any time.

Then, Delphinium raised her voice, calling out the name of her magic outfit for the first time since her comeback:
——"Weaving life."

(End of this chapter)