Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 212

The greatest advantage of the technique called "Explosion" is its power. The high energy of magic power is enough to easily blow through the magic barrier of opponents of the same level.

At the same time, its biggest drawbacks are range and stability. It can only be activated with itself as the center, and it is almost impossible to extend its activation time. As long as the structure of the explosion ritual is constructed with the Favor Rune, it will collapse on its own even if it is not activated.

This has caused the "explosion" technique to become a rather unpopular technique, because its cost-effectiveness as a means of attack is really too low - it requires one to be in a very close distance to the enemy, and to cast several layers of magic barriers on oneself at the same time as releasing the technique in order to escape unscathed. To describe it as "humorous" is considered a restrained comment.

The most common use of this technique is when a magical girl feels that she cannot defeat a remnant beast and wants to die together with it. She uses all her magic power to deal a fatal blow to the remnant beast, with the awareness of hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting herself by eight hundred. Because of this, most magical girls have a hard time showing any good face when talking about this technique.

However, there are also quite a few magical girls who believe that "firepower is justice" and have been persistently improving the original "explosion" technique, constantly trying to make up for its own shortcomings. The result of their efforts is the creation of more advanced techniques, expanding the "explosion" technique into a real technique classification, and thus the entire explosion technique school was established.

Of course, these things have nothing to do with the cool summer weather now.

She learned the explosion technique not because she was interested in it, nor because she wanted to die together with the enemy, but because she wanted to form a combination of skills that were unique to her.

Combining the explosive techniques with the draw to make up for the lack of offensiveness of the draw itself and the shortcomings of the explosive techniques themselves, this was the suggestion that Cuique gave to Xia Liang.

Although this suggestion was entirely based on Cuique's conjecture and had not been subjected to any actual verification, Xia Liang chose to believe it and completed its prototype in just a few days.

And now, this combination skill, which is only in its embryonic form, is shown in front of others for the first time.

The magic power in his body has to be drained away in an instant while he maintains his magic outfit and uses the magic spell, even the "explosion" spell which consumes quite a lot of magic power. The real feedback he gets is a strong feeling of exhaustion.

But the arrow was on the string and had to be shot. After the spell was activated, she no longer had the ability to stop it.

"Is it really okay? Should we prepare to intervene?" Outside the field, Kusanagi once again looked at Aso Yuanxiang: "If this move is used, even if your team members can survive, the surrounding residents will come to complain to us."

"...Then let's use a barrier to protect the venue."

Aso Yuanxiang, who had been pretending to be profound, finally spoke up: "This trick is quite interesting. Did you invent it?"

“It can only be regarded as a proposal.”

Delphinium shook her head: "Until this child actually makes it happen, I'm not sure if it can be done."

"The destructive power can be felt just from the flow of magic power. If you can master this move, you will probably have no problem passing the test."

Aso Yuanxiang praised: "It's really good. You can't tell at all that she is a child who has just been a magical girl for half a year. The degree of perfection in all aspects is too high."

"Are you just praising our team members here? Where is the kid named Mimosa?"

Delphinium glanced at her sideways again: "This kind of power is not something that ordinary leaf-level can handle. It will be stronger than ordinary explosion spells. Aren't you worried about her safety?"

"Is it safe...?"

Muttering the two words proposed by Delphinium, Asou Yuanxiang slowly raised the corners of her mouth, and then finally turned her head and looked at Delphinium: "Sister, do you know what place Mimosa ranked in the practical test when she got the white card certification at the beginning of this year?"

"A practical exam?"

The word brought back some memories for Delphinium.

As far as she could remember, she had actually only taken the qualification certification exam once, which was a white-label certification when she was a rookie. And because she had not fully developed her abilities at the time, she only passed with an intermediate level score.

If she was asked to deal with Xia Liang's current combination skills, she probably wouldn't be able to do it. At that time, her magic suit would not be able to withstand such a powerful attack. The best solution is to determine the opponent's attack intention and dodge it.

Aso Yuanxiang naturally knew all this. In fact, when her results were released that year, her ranking was even lower than Delphinium. So at this moment, it would not be without reason for her to bring up this indicator.

——"From your expression, I think you've realized that the kid is ranked very high, third."

And this is the answer given by Aso Yuanxiang.

As these words were spoken, the battle in the arena had officially entered its climax.

"I hope the effect won't be too outrageous..."

Staring at the dazzling purple magic light in front of him, Xia Liang couldn't help swallowing his saliva, then he exerted force with his palm and pushed out the fully activated Favo rune in his hand.

The purple light immediately penetrated the vertical row of mirrors, lighting up the entire mirror track at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and bombarded in the direction of the mimosa.

During this process, Mimosa just held her magic wand and watched quietly.

Contrary to what Delphinium thought, she had no intention of hiding away.

Rather, although the fight with Xia Liang only lasted a few rounds, she did not move even a step from beginning to end.

She watched the light of the spell in Xia Liang's hand bloom, and then, amid the harsh bombardment, she opened her mouth slightly and whispered:
"Protect me, shoot my eyes."

As she finished speaking, the wand in her hand had turned into a small tambourine. She grabbed the tambourine with her left hand, and then tapped it briskly with the tips of a few fingers of her right hand.

"boom"!
A crisp sound was heard, and along with it emerged an extremely subtle light red magic power, which quickly spread like ripples on the water, and then, visibly to the naked eye, it offset a portion of Xia Liang's technique.

Although it only offset part of it and failed to completely eliminate it, it was enough.

As she continued to hit the tambourine, more and more magic patterns were constantly emitted. As long as these magic powers touched Xia Liang's rituals, they would dissipate part of the energy in the rituals, thereby continuously reducing their power.

And this whole process is completed in almost just one second.

A second later, when Xia Liang's spell hit Mimosa, the spell structure had become extremely loose and had completely lost its previous power. It was easily blocked by Mimosa's defense of several superimposed magic barriers.

Until the process was over, she still didn't move a step.

At the same time, Xia Liang, who had a large amount of magic power drained away by this explosive combination skill, could no longer maintain his transformed form. His magic clothes dissipated, and he collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.

"So...tired."

Unable to utter a word, Xia Liang supported himself on the ground with his hands, facing the floor, feeling the sweat sliding down his cheeks and finally dripping onto the ground. His mind went blank.

She didn't even have time to think about winning or losing, nor could she care about the fact that her "unique move" was easily solved by her opponent when it was first used. She could only gasp in vain.

After all, it is impossible to relieve the fatigue of the original form by breathing.

“Can it be used again?”

Standing opposite her, Mimosa tilted her head: "If there is a second round, it will be very difficult to deal with."

"……Gone."

Blinking his eyes, Xia Liang answered honestly.

She could feel that she actually still had some magic power, but at the moment she really couldn't even move, so there was no point in bluffing.

Although she had thought that her opponent would not be easy to deal with before the duel, she never expected that her opponent would be so powerful.

An ordinary leaf-level magical girl would never be able to handle this technique. Even an egg-level beast would most likely be killed by a single blast. However, the opponent took it on with ease.

However, she surprisingly didn't find it hard to accept. Rather, after knowing that her opponent was a "senior who was promoted to the Leaf level a year earlier", she knew that she would most likely lose.

If possible, she actually didn't want to lose. After all, she had found a rare opportunity to be alone with her junior senior, and she had also perfected her fighting style under the long-lost individual guidance. It would be best if she could end such a memorable moment with a victory.

Now...

Keeping his head down, Xia Liang slightly side-glanced at Cuiqiao who was standing beside him with a slightly frowned brow and a worried look on his face.

...In this way, it doesn't seem to be a loss.

Thinking of this, she took a few breaths, and finally slowly raised her head, grinned, and looked at the mimosa in front of her with a smile.

"I surrender."

Crisp and refreshing.

……

……

"The next group, Baimei vs. Baiji... both players, please enter the venue!"

Moko's voice was heard again in the training ground, but it didn't sound as loud as before.

The first round of the competition ended with the defeat of the Fangting City team.

Lin Xiaolu felt tense and her palms were sweating at the result.

In her opinion, among the current Fangting City team, Xia Liang is undoubtedly the most powerful on paper.

Although she had always been somewhat unwilling to accept the opponent's defeat, her strength progress was undoubtedly not as good as the opponent's due to the limitations of her own species' development progress.

Now, Xia Liang lost so easily, without even forcing out his opponent's full strength, and his opponent didn't seem to be the strongest one in the Bai'an City team.

She secretly glanced at Bai Ji who was walking out of the team next to her. She clenched her fists slightly and kept telling herself to stay calm.

Although the people from the Bai'an City team didn't say it directly, there was a high probability that Bai Ji was the strongest among them. And from now on, he could only face this opponent by himself.

Also, because Xia Liang lost a small game at the beginning, if he couldn't win the next time, the entire Fangting City team would lose.

At this moment, she felt like she was carrying an enormous burden.

What would happen if I lost? Would I be further and further away from my mother? Would Delphinium be even more disappointed in me? If she was disappointed in me, what would I do?

The air permeability of the training ground was not bad, but Lin Xiaolu felt that she was almost suffocating. At this time, Bai Ji had walked to the middle of the training ground, standing there straight, looking straight at Lin Xiaolu. Obviously, he was curious about why his opponent hadn't played yet.

Lin Xiaolu could only take her steps stiffly.

——"White Rose."

At this moment, a somewhat cold voice suddenly came from behind her.

She looked back and saw Delphinium motioning to her.

"What, what happened?" She asked, but she felt her voice was a little hoarse.

"Don't be nervous, and don't worry about winning or losing."

Delphinium said solemnly but gently: "Show your progress and expose your shortcomings boldly. Let me see you now. This is the purpose of the competition."

After she said this, she saw Lin Xiaolu just staring at her blankly, as if she wasn't listening at all, so she could only ask helplessly: "Okay?"

“…Ah, yeah, okay.”

Lin Xiaolu nodded slowly: "I understand, I will work hard."

She took another step and walked to the center of the field. This time, she finally looked Bai Ji in the eye.

"Let Delphinium see me now..." She whispered to herself, as if she could really draw courage from these words, and her expression became more determined.

The heart gemstone shone, and the magical girl's clothes were already adorned on her body. Then, she raised her hand, and a glittering blue magic ball slowly condensed in her hand.

"Let's start from here." She looked at Bai Ji with burning eyes.

Bai Ji looked at the magic ball in Lin Xiaolu's hand, and was a little puzzled at first, probably because he didn't understand why the other party chose a format that he had already lost once to start the competition. Then, as if he had thought of something, a little strange color flashed in his calm expression, and he looked towards Aso Yuanxiang outside the field for some unknown reason.

All he got was a thumbs-up from Aso Yuanxiang.

"...I see. Then, as you wish." She pursed her lips and was silent for a while before she lowered her eyes to respond.

A sky-blue light surrounded her body. She silently chanted the transformation spell and completed the transformation as well. Then she raised her hand, and the magic ball in her palm shone with Lin Xiaolu from afar.

The two men paused slightly, and then, as if they had agreed, they waved their hands forward at the same time and threw the magic spheres in their hands out.

The cyan and light blue magic powers collided in mid-air.

Because it was a magic sphere rather than a magic beam, the magic of both sides did not dissipate immediately after the collision, but instead became entangled, even forming a stalemate.

However, this stalemate was only short-lived.

Because in the blink of an eye, the green magic power originating from the white thistle suddenly vibrated.

Like a roaring engine, the ball of magic power vibrated at an extremely high frequency in a short period of time, and then pushed forward with a tendency to almost shake off Lin Xiaolu's magic power.

"Sure enough, she can do it too..."

Looking at this scene, Xia Liang in the audience was stunned at first, then sighed: "This is difficult, Xiaolu."

"What do you mean by 'will'?" Delphinium beside her suddenly asked.

"That's it. The technique that seems to suddenly change the nature of magic."

Xia Liang pointed at Bai Ji who was confronting him in the middle of the field and said, "Young senior, you saw it too, right? The flow of that child's magic power suddenly vibrated. It was the same with the opponent I fought before. I don't know why, but he could always tear apart my magic power with the same magic power."

"Do you see the essence of that technique?" Without commenting on Xia Liang's answer, Cuique just continued to ask.

"Essence? There is something about this kind of thing..."

Squinting his eyes in a bit of distress, Xia Liang said helplessly: "I can't see this kind of thing clearly after just two moves, young senior, you think too highly of me."

The Delphinium was silent.

She actually had no idea what this strange technique was, at least in the days when she was active as a magical girl, she had never seen such use of magic in anyone's hands.

But she didn't say much, and didn't even look at Aso Yuanxiang beside her, even though she knew that this thing was 100% related to the other party.

She just looked at Lin Xiaolu in the field, because she knew that if there was an answer, the best answer was with Lin Xiaolu.

The two magic balls in a stalemate also showed new changes at this moment.

The light blue magic that had been losing ground after the azure magic trembled suddenly stopped its decline. Then, as if a switch had been turned on, its shape also began to become irregular.

The light blue magic power that was dissipating everywhere was like a melting snowball, constantly collapsing inward from the surface, and then, from a certain moment, it suddenly burned.

The magic power seemed to have turned into fire.

This performance finally changed the expressions of everyone present.

If in Fangting City, Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan were just surprised by the sudden change in Lin Xiaolu; then in Bai'an City, whether it was Mimosa and Lily outside the field, or Bai Ji on the field, their feeling at this moment was "shocked".

"Do you see clearly now, sister?"

Aso Yuanxiang, who had been taciturn since the beginning of the competition, finally spoke: "This is the skill that I and my colleagues in the Investigation Institute have perfected over the past decade. It is also the capital that allowed me to be promoted to Hanaru."

"What's it called?" Without showing any exaggerated reaction, Kuizi just nodded lightly, his eyes still fixed on Lin Xiaolu.

"I usually call it 'dumbing', or in plain language, 'analog shift'."

Also looking at the flames in Lin Xiaolu's magic, Aso Yuanxiang said lightly: "In short, it is a technique to artificially distinguish the background color of magic power so that the magic power can show special properties."

"Simulation offset? Which way?"

Delphinium couldn't help but frown when she heard this: "That doesn't sound like a safe technique."

Because of the magic problems that Bai Jingxuan had previously demonstrated, after asking Emerald many times, her understanding of the basic nature of magic has become much deeper.

Emerald had said before that the background color of magic power represents the true nature of its owner, or even the origin. Just as the background color of a magical girl is a magical girl, and the background color of a crippled beast is a crippled beast, this background color is usually very difficult to change. People who have both background colors are generally called "deviationists."

A typical example is Claw Mark, these people are the ones who artificially shift the basic nature of the magical girls towards that of the crippled beasts, the "artificial shifters".

No matter from which angle you look at it, "deviation" does not seem to be a safe thing. At least whether it is Bai Jingxuan or Zhuahen, the common feature of them is "instability".

"It's not to one side or the other. The basic color of a magical girl is still a magical girl. There won't be any impurities mixed in."

However, Aso Yuanxiang chuckled and denied Delphinium's point of view: "It's just that the magic power of each magical girl is actually different, just like everyone's magic costume is unique. Although they use the same system of power, everyone has their own characteristics."

"To turbidify is to take out a part of the magic power from the 'commonality' side, and let it evolve towards its own 'individuality', so that the magic power can have its own characteristics."

"That's why I say it's just a 'simulated shift' because the magical girl's base color hasn't changed. It's just more similar to the process."

By the time this was said, the magic ball confrontation between Lin Xiaolu and Bai Ji had come to an end.

The trembling sky-blue magic and the burning light blue magic, after a fierce collision, the light blue side finally gained the upper hand, the flame overwhelmed the vibration pattern, and thus burned it up.

Lin Xiaolu took the advantage.

Even she herself had not expected that she would actually win in the same event.

But compared to her surprise, Bai Ji, who was standing opposite her, had the most complicated feelings at this moment.

incredible.

This is a reflection of her mood at the moment.

No one knew Lin Xiaolu's condition a week ago better than her. She had used the turbidization technique in a private competition with her, and combined with her shocked expression afterwards, it was obvious that, at least at that time, Lin Xiaolu had no idea what turbidization was.

And now, Lin Xiaolu can use this technique easily, so there is no doubt that someone taught her.

Among all the people present, no one else had this ability, except Aso Madoka.

This was the first thing Bai Ji didn’t understand. She didn’t understand why Aso Yuanxiang would teach Lin Xiaolu the technique of turbidity in private.

But what is even more incomprehensible is why Lin Xiaolu was actually able to learn it.

This concept, which is currently only spread in a very small range, is actually a very difficult skill. As a "unique skill" developed by Aso Madoka, it generally requires extremely high magic control talent and long-term practice to fully realize it.

At least it took Bai Ji more than half a year to learn this move, and Mimosa's skills have only improved as time has gone by. There is another team member in Bai'an City, Mu Baihe, who has not even mastered this skill yet.

So now, how long did it take her to defeat this opponent who used turbidity in front of her?

"You, have you learned the teacher's turbidity in just this one week?"

Thinking of this, Bai Ji couldn't help but ask this question.

"You mean turbidity?"

Not knowing what the other party was thinking when he asked this question, Lin Xiaolu remained calm. She just recalled it briefly and found the answer to this question from her memory:
——"It seems like three days?"

(End of this chapter)