Chapter 74: Magical Girl Thin Snow

"What are you saying? A magical girl?"

Holding a specially made communication device, the man in black robes with small braids frowned, his tone unfriendly: "I seem necessary to remind you, to make your stiff little brain function as it should: there is a barrier set up outside, it is absolutely impossible for a magical girl to break in; or do you mean to say the one who came is that suspected Ye-level blue brat? Do you think she would possibly come here?"

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

And as the other party continued to speak, his expression grew increasingly gloomy, the hand holding the communicator gripping tighter and tighter; finally, as if he could no longer bear to listen, he directly hung up the communication in his hand.

Putting the communicator into his black robes, he began to pace in place, walking back and forth with considerable irritability.

He seemed very much to want to remain calm, yet could not maintain his original composure no matter what; the news received over the phone made his heart difficult to settle. After a moment, he finally punched the wall beside him.

"The designated sacrifice has become a magical girl? This is not some amusing joke."

He widened his eyes, kept his head bowed, and muttered to himself in a somewhat low voice.

After a pause, once he had calmed down slightly, he beckoned to the several men in black robes at the door, pointing to the desk behind him and saying: "You lot come in, go to that position and keep a close watch on the respected Ms. Liu; do not let her do anything detrimental to everyone."

Having spoken, he turned back to look at Liu Wenqin, confirming the other party had made no extraneous moves, only then did he walk alongside the others, his face heavy, and quickly exited the office.

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

The matter of guarding the other party can be left to his subordinates.

Bai Jingxuan became a magical girl.

In her urgency, she revealed her determination to Moko and took hold of the Heart Seed; after undergoing a round of simple instruction, although still somewhat confused, she at least successfully completed her transformation.

The codename she obtained was "Thin Snow."

After successfully acquiring the power of a magical girl, she immediately rushed without stopping toward the floor where the mana fluctuations were most intense, arriving in time to find Tian Sheng locked in a life-or-death battle with enemies.

Seeing that Tian Sheng was already at an absolute disadvantage, and that even a little later he would lose his life, she intervened in this battle without hesitation.

Even though this was the first time in her life she had come into contact with the so-called magical side.

The power of a magical girl is a dimensional strike against magicians of the material world; whether in terms of total mana or mana quality, or even physical constitution after transformation, it far exceeds that of ordinary humans.

The three stages of a magician's strength: Glimpse, Contact, and Mastery; each stage represents a leap in strength for the magician themselves, yet even becoming a top-level Master makes it completely 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 men in black robes possessed many techniques; according to Tian Sheng's estimation, they were all capable hands at the Contact level; besides various energy-type and basic-type techniques, they had even prepared spirit-type techniques that strike directly at the soul, but for Bai Jingxuan, who had already become a magical girl, these held no meaning.

The absolute gap in mana and soul power cannot be bridged by whatever techniques are used.

As a newly born magical girl only a few minutes prior, Bai Jingxuan had not even mastered the four basic abilities of the Seed level; she had no complete concept of her own scope of abilities. Let alone precisely adjusting and using her abilities, the fact that she could use them properly at all already counted as rapid mastery.

When she attempted to condense her mana and fire it out as an attack, she completely failed to control it. The moment she gathered the mana to the tip of her wand, it instantly scattered, exploding into a cluster of light-green mana fireworks.

But even so, when she crudely released a large amount of mana in all directions, it formed an effect like an interference wave: using mana far exceeding the opponent's, she shattered the structure of all their techniques, erasing them into nothingness.

This left the men in black robes momentarily stunned.

Bai Jingxuan's thinking also switched quickly; realizing she could not use mana-related abilities well, she simply cast them aside; she swung her wand and used close-quarters combat to knock several men in black robes unconscious, thus easily ending the battle.

With the enemies dealt with and Tian Sheng saved, the emergency situation finally eased somewhat.

Of course, merely dealing with a few men in black robes meant the crisis was far from resolved.

After a brief rest and discussion, with Tian Sheng taking the initiative to propose, the two humans and the fairy turned direction and advanced together toward the outer perimeter of Fuli Academy.

According to Tian Sheng's reasoning, he felt the most urgent matter now was to dismantle the outer barrier, open up an escape route, promptly obtain aid from the outside world, and prepare for the next step of rescuing the masses within the academy.

He knew the basic principles of barrier techniques; previously he could not pass through only because his mana was insufficient, but now things were different—they had a powerful source of mana: a magical girl.

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

However,

"Ahem... Bai Jingxuan, you are Bai Jingxuan, right?"

Being carried flying through the air by Bai Jingxuan, Tian Sheng held his abdomen and said: "What exactly happened after you escaped, and why did you become a magical girl?"

Until he spoke the word himself, he still found it somewhat incredible.

For the vast majority of magicians, the term magical girl is like a great mountain pressing down on their heads, one difficult to climb over in a lifetime.

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

Spending ten years, or even decades, painfully increasing mana and researching techniques, only to end up not even matching the weakest of magical girls. Anyone who learns this point cannot help but feel envy or jealousy, followed by a deep sense of powerlessness.

The standards by which the Magical Kingdom selects magical girls are actually quite particular; the fairies seek out girls whose mana and soul talents are both outstanding, and who possess considerable talent even if they were to walk the path of a magician.

Already above-average mana talent, combined with the super-standard mana brought by the Heart Seed, ultimately forges the magical-side profession that crushes magicians across every dimension—the magical girl.

The only thing that can make magicians feel slightly at ease is that if their group is rare, then magical girls are rarer still; moreover, they mostly operate within the corresponding circles of the Magical Kingdom and rarely have direct contact with magicians.

Treating them as beyond specifications, or even as non-existent, is the attitude of most magicians toward magical girls.

Now, Tian Sheng has seen a magical girl with his own eyes; more strangely, the other party was previously an acquaintance of his.

And thinking that Bai Jingxuan was previously a child needing his rescue, only to turn around and become a magical girl whose strength far exceeds his own, even capable of instantly killing enemies, the contrast between the two leaves him with somewhat complex emotions.