Chapter 74: Magical Girl Thin Snow

"What are you talking about? A magical girl?"

Holding a specialized communication device, the black-robed man with small braids frowned, his tone unpleasant: "I think I need to remind you, to help that stiff brain of yours function as it should: a barrier has been set up outside, it is impossible for any magical girl to have broken in. Or are you trying to say that the little blue brat suspected to be of Leaf-level has arrived? Do you think it's possible for her to be here?"

After his words fell, the voice on the other end of the call buzzed for a while longer, adding a few more traces of astonishment to his face: "A magical girl emerged from within the barrier? You mean to say you saw a fairy? Why would there be a fairy here?"

As the other party continued to speak, his expression grew increasingly gloomy, and his hand gripping the communicator tightened. Finally, as if he could no longer bear to listen, he hung up the communication directly.

Putting the communicator into his black robe, he began to pace in place, walking back and forth with quite a bit of agitation.

He seemed very much to want to remain calm, but he could not maintain his composure no matter what. The news received over the phone made it difficult for his heart to settle. A moment later, he finally slammed a fist into the wall beside him.

"The designated sacrificial child has become a magical girl? This is not a funny joke."

He stared with wide eyes, head buried, muttering to himself in a low voice.

After a pause, once he had calmed down slightly, he beckoned to the several black-robed men at the door and pointed to the office desk behind him: "You lot, come in and keep a close watch on the esteemed Liu Wenqin at that position. Don't let her do anything detrimental to us all."

Having said that, he looked back at Liu Wenqin once to confirm she was making no unnecessary movements, then walked toward the others and strode out of the office with a dark face.

Since he knew the target of his trip—the location of that one-eyed girl—there was no need for him to remain here and bicker with Liu Wenqin.

Watching over her could be left to his subordinates.

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Bai Jingxuan became a magical girl.

In a moment of desperation, she expressed her resolve to Moke and picked up the Heart Seed. After a round of simple instruction, although still somewhat bewildered, she had managed to complete the transformation smoothly.

The codename she obtained was "Thin Snow."

Having successfully acquired the power of a magical girl, she hurried without pause toward the floor where the magical fluctuations were most intense, arriving in time to find Tian Sheng, who was locked in a life-or-death struggle with the enemy.

Seeing that Tian Sheng was at an absolute disadvantage and would lose his life if she were any later, she intervened in the battle without hesitation.

Even though this was her first contact with the so-called magical side in her life.

To a mage of the material world, the power of a magical girl is a dimensionality-crushing blow; both the total amount and quality of magic power, and even the physical fitness after transformation, far exceed that of ordinary humans.

The three stages of a mage's strength—Peering, Contact, and Control—are each a leap in strength for the mage themselves, but even becoming a top-level Controller makes it impossible to reach the level of a magical girl.

Therefore, once Bai Jingxuan joined the fray, such a battle could have no other outcome.

The two black-robed men possessed many techniques; according to Tian Sheng's estimation, they should have been skilled hands at the Contact level. Aside from various energy-based and basic-type techniques, they had even prepared soul-striking mental techniques, but for Bai Jingxuan, who had become a magical girl, these were meaningless.

The absolute difference in magic power and soul strength could not be compensated for by any technique.

As a magical girl born only minutes ago, Bai Jingxuan had not even mastered the four basic abilities of the Seed level, nor did she have a complete concept of her own range of abilities. Let alone precisely adjusting her use of power, it was already considered a rapid mastery that she could use it at all.

When she attempted to focus her magic power to launch an attack, she failed to control it entirely. No sooner had she gathered the magic at the tip of her wand than it instantly dispersed, exploding into a cluster of pale green magical fireworks.

But even so, when she crudely released a large amount of magic power into the surroundings, it formed an effect like interference waves: using magic power far exceeding that of her opponents to scatter the structure of their techniques entirely, causing them to vanish into nothingness.

This left the black-robed men momentarily stunned.

Bai Jingxuan's mental shift was also very fast; realizing she could not use magic-related abilities well, she simply cast them aside. She swung her wand and used close-quarters combat to knock the black-robed men unconscious, thus easily ending the battle.

With the enemies resolved and Tian Sheng saved, the urgent situation finally eased slightly.

Of course, having merely dealt with a few black-robed men, the crisis was far from resolved.

After a brief rest and discussion, at Tian Sheng's initiative, the two of them and the fairy changed direction and headed together toward the perimeter of the Fuli Academy.

According to Tian Sheng, he felt the top priority now was to lift the perimeter barrier, open an escape route, and obtain outside assistance in time to prepare for the next step of rescuing the people inside the academy.

He knew the basic principles of the barrier technique; the reason he could not pass before was simply a lack of magic power, but now it was different—they had a powerful source of magic: a magical girl.

With him identifying the nodes for a breakthrough and Bai Jingxuan outputting the magic power, there was a high probability of breaking the barrier.

However,

"Cough, cough... Bai Jingxuan, you are Bai Jingxuan, right?"

Carried in the air by Bai Jingxuan, Tian Sheng clutched his abdomen and said: "What exactly happened after you ran away? Why did you become a magical girl?"

Until he said the word himself, he still found it somewhat unbelievable.

For the vast majority of mages, the term "magical girl" is like a great mountain pressing down on their heads, one that is difficult to overcome in a lifetime.

After all, compared to the power of a magical girl, their efforts seem like a joke.

Spending ten or even decades bitterly increasing magic power and researching techniques, in the end, still cannot compare to even the weakest magical girl. Anyone who knows this cannot help but feel envy or jealousy, followed by a deep sense of powerlessness.

The standards for the Magic Kingdom to select magical girls are actually quite particular; the ones the fairies find are inevitably girls with outstanding talent in both magic power and soul, and who even possess considerable talent if they were to walk the path of a mage.

The magic talent already higher than ordinary people, combined with the super-spec magic power brought by the Heart Seed, ultimately creates a magical-side profession that crushes mages from every dimension—the magical girl.

The only thing that makes mages feel slightly at ease is that if their own numbers are rare, then magical girls are the rarest of the rare, and most of the time they operate in circles corresponding to the Magic Kingdom, rarely having direct contact with mages.

To treat them as outside the specifications, or even as non-existent, is the attitude most mages have toward magical girls.

Now, Tian Sheng had seen a magical girl with his own eyes, and what was more miraculous was that the person had previously been his acquaintance.

And thinking that Bai Jingxuan had previously been a child who needed his rescue, only to turn around and become a magical girl with strength far exceeding his own—even killing enemies in seconds—the contrast left him with somewhat complicated feelings.