Magic: Reincarnate from high-voltage electricity at the start, level up independently.

Li Yang looked puzzled, his brow furrowed: "What do you mean we're surrounded?"

He understood instantly as soon as he finished speaking.

Suddenly, a dense cacophony of squeaks erupted from all around, the ear-piercing hiss of the rat swarm closing in and frantically encircling their location.

"Everyone be on alert! Monsters are attacking!" Li Yang shouted immediately, his expression suddenly tense.

"Let these bastards come at me!"

Xu Wan sneered coldly. She did not carry any firearms, but instead picked out a machete that was more than a meter long from the armory.

She raised the machete high, closed her eyes and concentrated, and pale blue water magic slowly wrapped around the blade, her aura suddenly tightening.

She quietly felt the violent tremors from the ground caused by the stampeding beasts, and a familiar scent lingered around her nose—

A giant rat with fishy eyes.

The next second, a dark shadow suddenly attacked from the side!

Xu Wan suddenly opened her eyes, a cold glint flashing in them. With a flick of her wrist, she swung her knife without hesitation!

"Supreme Ultimate Invincible Greatsword Slash!"

After last night's sacrifice, her physique was elevated to another level by the Great Thousand Records. Although she is still not as good as a Medicine King like Li Muzi, she can easily contend with ordinary low-level demonic beasts.

She deliberately refrained from using ranged magic because she wanted to personally test just how far her physical strength had reached.

"Whoosh—"

This machete was forged from a special alloy, making it incredibly hard. With the added strength and water magic of Xu Wan, the attacking giant rat was instantly cleaved in two with a single strike, without even being able to utter a scream.

The warm rat blood splattered all over Xu Wan's face, but instead of making her afraid, it aroused the fighting spirit in her bones. She subconsciously licked the blood droplets from the corner of her mouth, and her eyes became more and more excited.

Sensing the increasingly rapid footsteps of the rats in the surrounding darkness, Xu Wan turned and shouted at Chu Ge:

"Chu Ge, it's too dark! Use your fire magic to light the way!"

Chu Ge: "..."

Are you using me as a portable candle? Is this how you use my flame?

Though he remained silent, Chu Ge moved swiftly, his crimson magic surging wildly around him.

The next moment, a fireball more than a meter in diameter rose into the air and hovered silently in mid-air. The dazzling firelight instantly dispelled the darkness and illuminated the surroundings as if it were daytime.

When Li Gang and Li Yang saw their surroundings clearly, their expressions instantly turned horrified.

"Damn it! How can there be so many!"

In the firelight, their vision was filled with countless crimson rat eyes; numerous gushing-eyed giant rats surrounded them, completely blocking their escape route. A rough count revealed there were well over a hundred of them!

"This is... a huge problem." Li Yang's eyelids twitched wildly, and he unconsciously took a half step back.

He wasn't unfamiliar with much larger hordes of monsters. But right now, there were only five of them, meaning each person had to deal with nearly twenty monsters, significantly increasing the pressure.

"Forget everything else, call for backup immediately!"

Li Gang didn't dare to delay and immediately took out his communicator to send a distress signal to the nearby members of the Demon Hunting Bureau who were on a mission:

"A large number of giant, foul-smelling rats have been discovered at an abandoned factory in the northern suburbs of the city. We urgently request reinforcements! (Repeated: Requesting reinforcements!)"

"Received! Heading there immediately!"

"Please hurry up..." Li Gang sighed inwardly, put away the communicator, picked up the gun in his hand, and pulled the trigger directly.

"Bang bang bang—"

Bullets whistled through the air, piercing the swarm of rats and utterly enraging the bloodthirsty beasts. The massive, blood-red horde instantly went berserk, roaring as they charged madly towards the group.

Xu Wan swiftly slashed with her sword, killing the giant rat that pounced on her. She turned to look at Chu Ge, her fighting spirit blazing.

"Chu Ge, let's have a contest to see who kills more monsters, shall we? We'll only use our physical strength and weapons; no magic or special moves allowed!"

"I'll play along to the end." Chu Ge's eyes blazed with a competitive fire, and he readily agreed.

As soon as she finished speaking, she drew her Tang sword from her waist, stood still, and assumed a standard sword-drawing stance. Crimson fire magic quietly wrapped around the blade, but she did not use any fire magic.

Li Yang and Li Gang were dumbfounded. They saw two figures, as if their brakes had failed, rush straight into the swarm of rats and begin a one-sided massacre.

The blades flashed, red and blue hues intertwined, rat carcasses fell to the ground, blood splattered, and the piercing screams of the rat swarm echoed throughout the abandoned factory.

At that moment, Li Yang and his companion were even in a daze, wondering who the real monster was.

These two must be terrorists!

"That's incredible..." Li Yang couldn't help but sigh, filled with emotion, realizing he couldn't even match the fighting power of the two girls. He turned to Tang Xiaoran, whose eyes were sparkling as she stared at Chu Ge's figure, and asked softly, "Have they always been this strong?"

"Mmm." Tang Xiaoran's gaze was fixed on Chu Ge. She casually responded, then clenched her fist and shouted loudly, "Go, Chu Ge! Be careful!"

Xu Wan, who was fiercely battling among the rats, heard her best friend's fawning shout and deliberately imitated her in a sweet, coquettish voice:

"Good luck, Chu Ge! Be careful!"

Tang Xiaoran: "..."

She fell silent instantly, inwardly vowing angrily that she would never do it again—

I'm going to ignore Xu Wan!

Weird.

"Wanwan must be safe and sound, and always be happy," Tang Xiaoran murmured to herself, her heart filled with worry for the girl who had been with her for over a decade.

After a fierce battle, the hundred giant rats with bloody eyes were reduced to less than twenty under the powerful slaughter of the two magical girls. The remaining rats trembled and had long lost their initial ferocity, leaving only a dying struggle.

Seeing that the battle was over, Li Gang picked up the communicator again and called out in a deep voice: "Calling headquarters, the crisis at the abandoned factory has been resolved. Reinforcements are not needed. Please reply upon receipt."

"Are you sure you don't need reinforcements?"

"Confirmed. We have a skilled expert on our side. Everything is going smoothly."

"Received, change direction immediately."

Although the members of the demon-hunting team on the other end of the communicator were full of doubts, they immediately changed their route.

On the other side, among the remaining swarms of the blood-eyed giant rats.

A giant, slender rat approached the Rat King and squeaked anxiously: "Chieftain, our clan is facing annihilation! What should we do?"

The Rat King looked at the corpses of his kin scattered on the ground, his rat eyes filled with grief, then flashed with determination, and he hissed sharply: "Let the old, weak, women and children retreat first. The rest of the adult rats, follow me to cover the rear and fight to the death!"

The mice and young mice standing nearby looked at the Rat King and let out low, mournful cries, as if bidding him farewell: Chief, you must return safely, we are waiting for you!

The Queen Rat, her hands covering her slightly protruding belly, tears welling in her eyes, nuzzled the King Rat with deep reluctance: "My husband, rest assured and face the battle. I will protect our child and raise him safely. I've already thought of a name for him...

Before it could finish speaking, a sharp blade of light suddenly struck!

With a single slash, Xu Wan struck down the Rat Queen, who instantly collapsed in two, lifeless.

The girl licked the blood off the blade, her face full of arrogance: "What are you babbling about? You're obviously up to no good."

"Squeak—!"

The Rat King, overwhelmed with grief at the sight of his wife's tragic death and his unborn child, let out a mournful roar as his sharp claws gleamed and stabbed out.

Ultimate killing move of the rats—

The Storm Nebula is split open!

It wants to tear the human in front of it to pieces!

Xu Wan's eyes suddenly turned cold:

"You dare point at me?!"

She swung her machete, severing one of the rat king's claws with a vicious swing. Then, dragging the blood-stained machete, her face contorted with bloodlust, she walked towards the rat king and the trembling old and weak rats in the corner, a cold, cruel smile playing on her lips.

"Hehehe, today, none of you will escape!"

On the other side, Chu Ge had just killed the giant rat that had ambushed her with a single strike and was about to look for her next target when she suddenly caught sight of a smaller, fishy-eyed giant rat staring at her with eyes full of resentment a few dozen meters away.

Upon realizing it had been discovered, the little mouse, known as the Sacred Body of the Rat Clan, panicked and turned to flee for its life.

As it ran wildly, it kept looking back, trying to memorize Chu Ge and Xu Wan's faces, squeaking loudly, and making a blood oath in its heart:

Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, never underestimate a poor rat! When I attain the Great Dao and become the Holy Rat, I will surely return to pay for my blood debts and offer sacrifices to the souls of my entire clan!

"Oh? You dare to talk tough to me?"

Chu Ge's eyes instantly turned icy cold. He understood the principle of eliminating the root of the problem and would never give this Holy Body Rat a chance for revenge in the future.

She flipped her wrist and swung a knife through the air.

A crimson blade of light shot out, instantly cleaving the Holy Body Rat, which was poised to dominate the ages, in two.

Even so, Chu Ge did not let his guard down. He stepped forward and delivered several more blows, reducing the size of the piece and killing it completely to prevent future troubles.

At this point, all the giant, blood-red rats had been wiped out, and the ground was littered with rat corpses, a testament to the fierce battle that had just taken place.

While cleaning up the battlefield, the two girls who had just been decisive and ruthless instantly transformed into little money-grubbers, squatting on the ground to pick up the crystal cores from the rat corpses. They would stuff them directly into their mouths as soon as they found them, and when they couldn't swallow anymore, their cheeks bulged out like little hamsters, and they stood there looking completely bewildered.

"Emperor Chu," Xu Wan looked at Chu Ge, chin raised, her face full of arrogance, "tell me, how many did you kill?"

"Empress Xu Wan," Chu Ge raised an eyebrow and sneered, about to speak, but suddenly stopped. Huh? How many did she just kill? It seems she didn't even count.

He casually replied, "Exactly fifty, no more, no less."

He then countered with, "And you?"

"What a coincidence, I also have fifty, it's an even split," Xu Wan replied without changing her expression, because she hadn't counted them either.

She was secretly delighted; thankfully, she had asked Chu Ge first, otherwise she really wouldn't know how much to say. Anyway, most of the crystal cores had already been consumed, so there was no way to reconcile the accounts.

The two vicious dog girls exchanged a glance, each secretly thinking that they were geniuses.

Tang Xiaoran quickly stepped forward, looking at Chu Ge with eyes full of admiration: "Chu Ge, you're amazing!"

After saying that, she caught a glimpse of Xu Wan's slightly disgusted face and, before the other could become sarcastic, quickly added, "Wanwan is also super amazing, the most amazing person in the world!"

Xu Wan's cheeks flushed slightly. She turned her head away awkwardly and snorted softly, "That's right. I, Empress Xu Wan, don't need your praise."

"Hehe, okay~" Tang Xiaoran smiled, her eyes crinkling, and continued, "Empress Xu Wan is the best in the world, no one can compare!"

She was secretly pleased with herself, thinking how quick her reaction had been. She really was a little genius!

The three of us are awesome!

Not far away, Li Gang and Li Yang exchanged a glance, both seeing disbelief in each other's eyes.

"This...is that all resolved?" Li Yang asked, stunned.

"...It seems so." Li Gang swallowed hard, looking dazed.

Just as the five were packing up to return home, Li Gang's communicator suddenly rang, broadcasting an extremely urgent call for help:

"Requesting reinforcements! Requesting urgent reinforcements!"

"A forest farm in the northern suburbs of the city has been attacked by a large number of killer trees. The situation is critical! We request immediate assistance!"