The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Su Tianqing realized that she had seriously underestimated the albatross's magical abilities.

In a negative sense.

I am the only one who personally adjusted the legendary underground spell [Inari: Future Leap], and currently the only one with full access to [Mind World: Millennium].

Inari's legendary magic is incredibly sophisticated. It can not only achieve future jumps that transcend the laws of time, but also transform into a harvest barrier that filters magic and forms a guardian star after only a few three-digit node changes.

Her barrier was exquisitely designed, and every wisp of magic was used perfectly: the combined magic of the two star shadows was poured in at the same time, just enough to drive the entire spell, not too much and not too little.

As for the [Death Cycle], which is even more powerful than future jumps, it's unlikely to be terribly made, right? After all, it's a powerful magic that can take you back to the past.

Then I prepared a whole bunch of talking points to launch a verbal attack on the albatross. The albatross didn't even suspect anything and, under my barrage of words and gifts, very kindly granted me all the permissions. This made me think that this matter was a little too easy to handle.

After carefully examining the entire structure of the Millennium, Su Tianqing's doubts began to multiply.

"So, your original plan was to lock it up using mental imagery, but at that time you didn't know how to use that imagery, so in your haste you just copied Chengdu from the millennium era?"

"Yes, that's right." Albatross nodded.

"After encountering the hyacinth, you vaguely felt that you had to find a way to protect her. Just then, your inner vision was almost completely devoured by the jellyfish, so you used the [Death Cycle] that you had been pondering for over a decade, based on that inner vision?"

"Hmm, hmm, hmm, you seem to know a lot about magic, Xinyuehu. When I talked to Chixue about this, she didn't care at all." Albatross nodded repeatedly, very much admiring of the golden-haired fox girl in front of him.

Su Tianqing sighed helplessly, staring at the entire document given to her by the familiar in front of her, feeling as if several hairs on her ears would fall out after this period of contemplation.

"So, how exactly does this cycle of death work?"

"Well... I was thinking that jellyfish are practically indestructible, right? Even if they burn to ashes, they just revive. I figured using their remains as magical materials would create some really cool time loops!"

"Only a closed-loop, independent time can remove it from the timeline of the present world, thus breaking its immortality."

"Then I thought this should be used here, the jellyfish remains should be processed like this, and then through the combination of this and this—ta-da, the magic is done!"

The albatross raised its hands and gestured for a while, muttering some onomatopoeia, which reminded Su Tianqing of someone who also liked to use onomatopoeia when talking about being passionate.

"But I didn't expect the magic to be so effective; it's far from perfect, so I've been thinking about how to improve it..."

The girl scratched her head and chuckled, trying to get away with being cute.

Then the meerkat spirit on his shoulder flicked his forehead twice.

"Sorry, that's just how Albatross is. She's hardly ever studied the principles of magic systematically; she's learned everything by herself," Mengmeng said to Su Tianqing, standing on Albatross's shoulder.

"I can see that the entire cycle of death is fundamentally chaotic, so it's already a miracle that it has formed such a self-consistent magical situation," Su Tianqing replied.

You could say that the albatross is like a self-taught engineer who accidentally found a super engine, then spent more than a decade at home figuring out how to put an ugly shell on the engine that looked like it could fall apart at any moment, and then used it to run races.

Alongside it on the same track are the top-of-the-line sports car made by elite engineer Inari, the luxury new energy vehicle made by genius engineer Alice, and the previous generation champion sports car pulled out of the warehouse by veteran competitor Red Rose.

Then Albatross floored the gas pedal and sped all three of them off, leaving them far behind.

This is completely unreasonable!

"...And I must remind you, we don't have much time left."

Mengmeng continued,

"The astral jellyfish, which the albatross calls the Kraken, is immortal and will always be resurrected in the next cycle of reincarnation. The cycle of death takes advantage of this resurrection property."

"It will become stronger and more difficult to deal with."

"This time, its size is large enough to cover most of Chengdu's Second Ring Road. The next time, it might cover Chengdu's Third Ring Road, and then perhaps two ring expressways... even the Third Ring Expressway will be covered by it."

"We need a decisive tactic, a method that can achieve a perfect closed loop within two cycles."

Su Tianqing, unusually, did not answer, but silently looked down at the summary document in her hand that recorded the complete structure of the millennium.

Suddenly, Su Tianqing realized that she seemed to have overlooked something.

A closed loop in time, returning to the past.

If a closed loop is to be completed, then it must have a starting point. So where is the starting point of the closed loop of the millennium?

Su Tianqing quickly pressed for an answer:

"Miss Albatross, did you activate the Millennium directly based on the original mental image?"

No, that's not it.

The albatross said calmly,

"This jellyfish has been stuck in that strange, stagnant world... ah, I think it's called the mental world? Anyway, it's been rooted there for a really long time, and I couldn't get it off no matter how hard I tried, so I—"

"—The mental world was aborted, and the magic of the cycle of death was used to return to the time when it first appeared sixteen years ago, where a [time displacement] was completed with me and it at that time."

"Only in this way can I sever its connection with that mental image of mine, and only then can I put it back into the cycle of death."

"I see, that explains most problems," Su Tianqing thought to herself.

Albatross descended upon its past self, and at the same time, the astral jellyfish descended upon its past self. The jellyfish's immortality allowed it to escape the gaze of the laws of time, and Albatross also had the opportunity to use reincarnation in the present context to seal it into the time loop.

However, if we want to completely eliminate the astral jellyfish [Kraken] once and for all, besides continuing to develop and research it to perfection during the millennium, there is another method that is quite unique to this fox.

After all, even if Albatross were to look at Shishan herself, she probably wouldn't be able to figure it out in a short time. Her own thinking ability had already reached a bottleneck limit, and she couldn't do it any more perfectly.

"Miss Albatross, I have a suggestion, I wonder if you would be willing to accept it."

Su Tianqing said,

"Given the current situation, it's impossible for us to perfect your millennium within two cycles. Absolutely impossible. Even if Red Rose came, she couldn't do it."

"Is that so..."

Albatross was not surprised at all; on the contrary, he felt that this was the answer he expected.

"Since we can't eliminate it all at once, why don't we try a different approach?"

Su Tianqing directed her familiar to open the secret book. The newly appearing text on the pages was shared on the Tail Network, and she read aloud the Abyss script that only she could recognize:

Send the Kraken's reflection to the past, and the jellyfish's body to the future.

Use time to isolate it, then attack from both ends and defeat it simultaneously.

The only way to break a Möbius strip is to cut it in two.

"Hmm... but how can we sever all ties? The mental world can only extract and copy a separate timeline from the real world; it cannot directly interrupt time itself..."

"There is one person who can do it."

"Her ability is to stop time, and stopping time itself... isn't that just forcibly interrupting the continuity of time?"

Su Tianqing felt that the mission plan given by the secret manual was a bit too crazy, but after all, it was the only clue given by the secret manual.

"Messiah, a resident S-class hero of the Chengdu Heroes Association."