My wife is a magical girl, how can I be the villain?

Xingyu looked down at the Origin Magic Book. Of the four pages of spells, less than one page was still glowing.

"Are there only nine left?"

Xingyu looked melancholy. The insect-shaped phantom beasts around her were only ten meters away. She didn't have time to think of other ways, so she had no choice but to turn the talismans into weapons. She stacked the three talismans in her hand together, turned them into a feather fan, and rushed directly into the horde to fight with her bare hands!

"Shall we attack now?" someone in the distance asked the man in the gray robe.

The gray-robed man's magic circle spun beneath his feet, and he continuously channeled energy into the insects. He glanced at the others and sneered.

"No rush. This is the Land of Voidquakes. The magical power that magical girls can obtain will only become more and more scarce. Each spell requires a sufficient amount of magical power to be used. Forty spells..."

The man's eyes were icy cold, and countless virtual beasts accelerated their attack in response to his movements.

"...How many are left now?"

While repelling the swarm of insects, Xingyu silently calculated her magic power. The series of attacks she had just launched against the gray-robed man had directly depleted 60% of her remaining magic power.

In the real world, magical girls' magic power is constantly replenished by [Magical Illusions]. However, even with this replenishment, many spells cannot be cast a second time in a single battle after being used once.

Even worse, some people are unable to release it again after a day or two.

……

"Is this a bit like casting a skill and waiting for its cooldown?"

When Hoshino first became a magical girl, she looked at the magic book in her hand and asked the fairy a question.

The elf Yui floated in front of the small blackboard and summarized like a little adult: "As a magical girl, you certainly don't have to worry about running out of magic power. That's the difference between you and ordinary wizards."

"However, special spells in magic cannot be used randomly. If you cannot plan the spell combinations needed to defeat the enemy, you will end up just wielding your magic wand and fighting with the remaining magic power on your magic armor."

"Yui, but I don't have a magic wand." Hoshino raised her hand.

"For example... do you understand?!"

……

Right now, Xingyu is engaging in close combat with the swarm of insects with minimal mana consumption.

In addition to the two spells that amplified my abilities before the battle, the [Heart Protection Spell] that prevented sneak attacks was also constantly taking effect.

Xingyu could feel the soreness and numbness in her muscles, and the light around her had dimmed to the point that it almost clung to her delicate skin. Compared to the previous dazzling light, she was obviously much weaker.

The swarm of insects was constantly being knocked away. Some were not fatally injured and were able to climb back to continue attacking, while others were embedded in the wall and their fate was unknown.

The gray-robed man's silk threads had mostly disappeared, and Xingyu had not been approached at all.

The sky darkened, and a chilling wind swept across the wide city streets.

"This girl is so powerful, she's managed to hold on until now... Speaking of which, are the [Void Tremor Insects] really that weak? I can barely sense any magic power left, how come so many of them have died?"

The gray-robed man frowned, glancing at the silk thread in his hand with some confusion.

The man's intuition was correct. Xingyu, using close-quarters combat, could not possibly kill the insects that had been nourished by alien matter and were constantly mutating in the Voidquake Land with ease.

Insects are tough, but they can't withstand those that are knocked away; someone else will finish them off.

Tang Ming's blood was boiling. He lowered his body and moved back and forth between the houses around the intersection.

The strange-looking people who had originally formed a circle gathered around the gray-robed man to avoid being accidentally injured by the swarm of insects.

This gave Tang Ming ample room to maneuver.

He kept rushing to the insects that had fallen into the windowsill, pouncing on them. Before the insects could even react from the impact, a humanoid beast grabbed their bodies and drained all their alien matter.

The few traces of alien matter on the insect entered Tang Ming's body, causing it to completely lose its luster. The insect, having been forcibly stripped of its alien matter, was essentially drained of its life force, turning into ashes and scattering on the ground.

Too little!

Tang Ming felt his body screaming incessantly, "It's too little!"

These insects indeed possessed pitifully little alien substance, even less than the lowest-ranking goblin-level void beasts, yet the gray-robed man could send them away as cannon fodder without a second thought.

"Not enough? Then let's continue. Xingyu has knocked away quite a few bugs. Little by little, it will add up... eventually enough."

Tang Ming felt his heart, which had calmed down slightly, begin to race again, making his chest feel uncomfortable.

He continued to conceal himself, ambushing the insects that had fallen out of the intersection from behind. He grabbed them with both hands, plunging his ten fingers into their bodies. In an instant, the tiny purple halo around the insects disappeared, turning them into ashes.

The amethyst crystals all over Tang Ming's body trembled continuously, as if a person in the desert had received a drop of sweet dew. The ridges at his joints twisted and then obediently contracted, sticking to Tang Ming's skin.

Seeing the promising results, Tang Ming repeated the process, using Xingyu as the center, and continued hunting on the other side of the gray-robed man and the others, draining the alien essence from the insects in Tang Ming's hands.

The number of insects that died at Tang Ming's hands was even ten times more than that of Xing Yu. These insects, infected by the alien substance, were like lambs to the slaughter in front of Tang Ming, and almost disappeared before they could resist.

"I feel much better. My heart was pounding so hard I felt like I was going to die..."

Tang Ming sat there, breathing heavily. The side effects of the changes in his crystal armor were finally subsiding.

"This kind of evolution... what will become of that heart palpitation I just felt?"

Tang Ming sensed his body's condition. Compared to the previous two weeks, the void alien matter was intertwined with his body more tightly. Every pore of his body was permeated by the alien matter, and beneath the smooth crystal surface, purple threads and capillaries were intertwined.

Tang Ming could feel that his body was completely different from when he first transformed, and he didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Tang Ming simply sighed at this, showing no fear or worry whatsoever.

The reasons he gave for joining a villainous organization because of mortgage payments and unemployment were just empty excuses. He was indeed broke, but he wouldn't do something so reckless for money.

Tang Ming longed to unravel that fragmented memory. The afterimage of a year ago would occasionally appear in his dreams. Tang Ming had a feeling that something that belonged to him was missing, lying in an unreachable distance, waiting for him to find it.

"Will it be in the void...?"

Tang Ming did not continue to dwell on his memories. As Xing Yu swatted away fewer and fewer insects, the insects from which he could extract the alien technique gradually disappeared.

The two unintentionally began to work together, eliminating the terrifying insects one by one.

"I feel much less stressed?" Xingyu murmured.

Xingyu has always adhered to the strategy of stalling. As long as the rate of mana consumption is kept lower than the rate of mana replenishment, it is impossible to wear her down with the insect swarm tactic unless she is completely exhausted.

Not only did she sense the strangeness of the insects' deaths, but some insects also sensed Tang Ming's presence. The gray-robed man, connected by silken threads, coldly shouted:

"What's that virtual beast doing over there? I didn't even bother it, yet it dares to ruin my plans!"

Some of the insects immediately broke free of the encirclement and rushed towards Tang Ming's location.

"You all go too! That humanoid phantom beast is weak; finish it off quickly and bring back the alien substance from its body!"

"yes!"

After receiving the order, the group bypassed Xingyu's attack range and rushed into the building behind. Upon seeing Tang Ming, the crystals on his body glowed. The group then tore off some bricks from the wall and threw them at Tang Ming.

Xingyu glanced back at the building, silently watching Tang Ming's retreating figure as he was surrounded and attacked, lost in thought. But she had no time to concern herself with Tang Ming's situation, because the gray-robed men had already begun their attack.

"There's not enough time..."

"They should be almost exhausted. The magical girl already used four spells. Let's all attack together!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone attacked Xingyu. The gray-robed man stood at the back, staring at Xingyu with the cunning look of a lone wolf.

"Finally here... Xunfeng Wushao, how's it going on your end?" Xingyu muttered to herself, looking down.

Xingyu had already realized that the series of events that had occurred today was a deadly trap set for them.

The four magical girls had absolutely no idea who the enemy in this deadly situation was!