Go to work, and then educate magical girls.

Chapter 25 Combat

It's not uncommon for warnings to not match the actual situation; in such cases, the magical girl's adaptability is put to the test.

Seeing that the energy fluctuations emanating from the calamity beast were A-level, Jinju became serious.

Defeating a monster that is one level above the level is not particularly difficult for experienced magical girls.

Because the monsters lack intelligence, possessing only the most basic fighting instincts.

Even if the concentration of magic power in his body is higher than that of a magical girl, the beast's frenzied and mindless behavior will only lead to his death by being kited by a magical girl.

Jinju is currently preparing to adopt a kite strategy, avoiding direct confrontation with the disaster beasts and instead using ranged attacks to wear them down, find their weaknesses, and launch a full-scale attack when the opportunity arises.

As magical projectiles continued to bombard the monster's hard exoskeleton, the creature seemed to be enraged, letting out a sharp "squeak—" sound.

However, the monster's speed seemed unable to keep up with Jinju. Whenever it tried to retaliate, Jinju would quickly dodge and fly high into the air.

Another magical projectile struck the monster squarely in the head. The giant centipede shook its head, slightly raised its forebody, and its two slender tentacles froze.

Jinju sensed a dangerous aura. She held her breath and focused her energy on dealing with the impending attack.

The next moment, a powerful beam of magic shot towards her at high speed. Jinju quickly adjusted her position and avoided this long-range attack.

She looked towards the source of the laser beam, which was the monster's two tentacles. Like antennas, they were constantly gathering magical power, and the next attack was imminent.

Jinju dodged the attacks while thinking of a countermeasure.

This monster can also use ranged magic attacks, so continuing to fight like this will only lead to a tug-of-war of magic power.

However, her magic level was lower than her opponent's, so she wouldn't gain an advantage by continuing to expend energy.

We need to find the monster's weakness as soon as possible.

Jinju slowly descended from the sky to the rooftop of a building, her wand transforming into a sharp magical spear.

Judging from the monster's sluggish movements when it was chasing her, this monstrous beast wasn't very fast; she could use her agility to her advantage...

Jinju's pupils suddenly dilated, and a huge black shadow occupied her entire pupil.

The calamity beast was now above her head.

The centipede monster, more than ten meters long, leaped up from the ground, its hundreds of slender legs springing up like springs, unleashing an astonishing jumping force.

In just a moment, they approached the tangerine tree, which was a hundred meters away.

Jinju's first reaction at that moment was disbelief.

Her body instinctively twisted to the side, raising the sharp spear in her hand to meet the monster's teeth.

Sparks flew from the collision, and a sickening metallic clang filled the air.

At the same time, the monster's long, thin whiskers lashed out like whips at Jinju's waist.

Even though she subconsciously used magic to defend herself, she was still sent flying like a cannonball, crashing into another house not far away and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Jinju rose from the smoke and dust, using her magic to deflect most of the impact. Apart from the direct hit from the monster, she was otherwise unharmed.

She looked up at the monster's slightly raised upper limbs and its wildly flailing thousand legs, her shocked heart unable to calm down.

The monster had been moving slowly, and when it couldn't catch up with her, it would use ranged magic to counterattack, leading her to subconsciously think that the monster was slow-moving and unresponsive.

This has been the case in previous encounters.

But just as she fell from the sky, the monster suddenly burst forth with astonishing speed, closing the distance of a hundred meters in an instant.

The monster's speed wasn't what worried her most. A bizarre conjecture arose in her mind: if confirmed, all the common sense she had ever held would be completely overturned.

She guessed that the monster had deliberately lured her down.

By feigning weakness through slow movements and using ineffective long-range attacks to lull the opponent into a false sense of security, the hunter unleashes their killer instinct in an instant once the target enters the attack range, capturing the target.

Since the monsters have no intelligence, this series of exquisite traps could not have been made by them. She could only convince herself that it was all just a coincidence.

She looked up at the monstrous beast's swaying head; its mouth was split into a narrow slit, and she seemed to sense that its expression at that moment was...

laugh at?

Is it possible for a monster to have this kind of expression?

Jinju could only conclude that it was her imagination. She raised the spear in her hand and assumed an offensive stance.

The fact that the beast suddenly unleashed such speed was unexpected, and the attack caught the user off guard, does not necessarily indicate a significant difference in speed between the two.

She can do that same speed.

Jinju brandished her spear, leaped high into the air, and thrust it towards the monster's raised head.

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Saint Snow was watching the battle from a distance.

She lacked the strength to determine the level of the calamity beast, but she could sense that the calamity beast's magical energy fluctuations were greater than Jinju's, which meant that the monster's strength was above Jinju's.

She was filled with worry.

The two appeared evenly matched in their ranged attacks, but the Calamity Beast often withstood Jinju's attacks unscathed, while Jinju always dodged its attacks.

She could tell that if Jinju were to take a direct hit from the opponent's attack, she would pay a high price.

The moment the calamity beast slapped Jinju away, her heart leaped into her throat.

Jinju... seems to be no match for that calamity beast.

She couldn't just stand there and watch; she had to go up and help.

In this state, she cannot intervene in the battle, so...

A flash of silvery-white light appeared, and Saint Snow transformed into her magical girl form.

She was about to rush forward when a hand suddenly reached out and grabbed her arm.

"teacher?"

Shengxue turned around and was surprised to find that the person who appeared there was actually Tang Feng.

"Teacher, what brings you here?"

"Of course I'm worried about you and Jinju."

"Shouldn't the teacher be the one who's being worried? This place is dangerous, not a place for ordinary people. The battle with the monsters could very well affect this area!" Shengxue said anxiously.

Tang Feng didn't answer. He waved his hand, signaling Sheng Xue to calm down. "Are you just going to rush in like that?" His voice was somewhat stern.

Shengxue lowered her head and remained silent.

Tang Feng didn't give Sheng Xue a chance to respond. He continued firing off questions like a machine gun, "Your condition is so unpredictable. By the time you get there, before the fight even starts, you'll be back to your old self. What are you going to do then?"

"At that time, only Jinju could save you. She was already struggling enough facing that monstrous beast alone. Did you really want to go and make things worse?"

Shengxue lowered her head and stammered, "But...but Jinju is at a disadvantage. Am I just supposed to keep watching?"

As she spoke, the silver-haired Saint Snow returned to her original form.

At this point, Shengxue fell completely silent.

"You are not allowed to go over until you have figured out your own situation, otherwise don't call me teacher. I don't have students who don't value their own lives."

Tang Feng flicked his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, and watched Jinju's battle in the distance.

Jinju was using her spear to engage in close combat with the calamity beast. She took advantage of her agility, striking and then disengaging, always maintaining a safe distance.

The calamity beasts, on the other hand, rely on their powerful exoskeleton defenses and their numerous, agile long legs to maintain a clear advantage in close combat.

Seeing this, Tang Feng muttered to himself in a voice only he could hear, "How pathetic. To fight such a mindless monster like this."

He began to think about whether he should give Jinju some special training; he didn't want the magical girl he had his eye on to die at the hands of a monster one day.

At this moment, Shengxue stepped forward.

"Although I haven't completely figured it out yet, I've come up with a temporary solution."

Tang Feng cast an inquiring glance at her.

Saint Snow slowly lifted the hem of her skirt.

"Teacher, come closer to me."

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Jinju dodged the attack from the tentacle, raised the tip of her spear, gathered all her magic power, and thrust it towards the beast's jaw.

This attack was blocked by several sharp, long legs, while at the same time, dozens of long legs attacked her from all directions.

Jinju could only use the spear to block the first attack, then use her other hand to quickly condense several magic circles and bombard them forward.

As she struck the monster's body, she used the recoil to escape the long-legged encirclement from all directions.

To her surprise, after she escaped, the monster's attack did not follow immediately, but instead it was briefly stunned.

Seeing this, Jinju's gaze narrowed slightly. Could it be...?

She noticed that the magical attack she had just unintentionally struck the monster's abdomen, where there seemed to be no exoskeleton covering it.

Perhaps that's its weakness?

Regardless of whether her guess was accurate or not, she raised her spear, transforming into a streak of light with boundless momentum, and thrust it straight into the belly of the calamity beast!

However, the attack was blocked by the monster. It used its entire upper limb to protect its abdomen. After blocking the attack, the monster simply lowered its raised upper limb and returned to the prone position it had shown when it first appeared.

In this way, its belly is completely flat on the ground, and it will no longer be in danger.

But this also shows that the abdomen is indeed the weak point of this monstrous beast!

Jinju seemed to see a glimmer of hope for victory. Several shimmering magic circles appeared around her, and then she slammed them down fiercely!

The target is not the monstrous beast, but the land surrounding it.

Jinju's spear also pierced into the ground.

"Ding!"

The next moment, a large area of ​​land around them exploded, and the calamity beast was thrown high into the air by the blasted reinforced concrete, revealing its hidden belly. Jinju seized the opportunity, gathered unprecedented power, and transformed into a sharp spear, shooting towards the calamity beast's belly.

The Heart Gem shone brightly at that moment, turning the surrounding area orange.

This is the manifestation of magic operating at its maximum.

As the speed reached its limit, sonic booms echoed through the air.

After breaking through the protection of dozens of long legs, Jinju was already close to the belly of the calamity beast.

Perhaps sensing the threat to its life, the calamity beast let out a sharp "squeak," and its countless long legs surged forward in layers.

With unstoppable momentum, Jinju broke through one defense after another. As she approached her final target, she suddenly sensed two deadly dangers behind her.

Those were the two long whiskers of the calamity beast, which now transformed into the sharpest spears, pointing directly at Jinju's back!

If she insists on stabbing him, then she will also be pierced by these two spears.

In a flash, without a second thought, Jinju hurled the spear in her hand toward the belly of the calamity beast with all her might. At the same time, she turned around and caught the spear thrusting toward her with both hands.

But there's still one...

Jinju could only watch helplessly as it stabbed towards her chest.

Just when Jinju thought she was going to die, a silver magic wand appeared out of nowhere and blocked the fatal blow.

She stared blankly at the long, silvery-white hair dancing in the wind and the stunningly beautiful back view.

"Saint... Snow?"

Jinju asked tentatively.

After all, the only one who had been nearby was Saint Snow, and the magical girl in front of her felt so familiar; she couldn't be a stranger.

"I'll explain later. I can't keep this up for long. Let's finish this quickly."

"it is good."

Jinju didn't ask any more questions. Her attention returned to the calamity beast. Her last throw had hit its target. Her spear was stuck in the calamity beast's abdomen, and dark green liquid was gushing out from the wound.

The good news is that this shows the abdomen is indeed the beast's weak point; the bad news is that her attack was interrupted midway and did not inflict a fatal wound on the beast.

At this moment, the calamity beast let out a sharp howl, and its hundreds of long legs surged like waves. Its body was filled with magical power, and it forcefully squeezed the spear out of its abdomen.

The spear transformed into a streak of light and returned to Jinju's hand, taking the shape of a magic wand.

The two magical girls exchanged a glance, then their figures blurred as they rushed towards the calamity beast.

Its weak point is its abdomen.

"learn."

The centipede-like calamity beast was now lying prone on the ground, its hard exoskeleton facing the enemy on all sides, two rows of long legs thrashing around its torso, and two long tentacles raised high, sensing the two dangerous auras approaching.

The next moment, it leaped up suddenly, unleashing an astonishing jumping force, and its massive body soared into the air.

The direction they were heading wasn't towards the magical girl, but rather... to escape.

The two magical girls naturally wouldn't let it go, and two streaks of light, one orange and one white, chased after it.

Seeing this, Tang Feng's eyes narrowed slightly.

"A calamity beast that can run away..."

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The rooftop of a building in the distance.

"See? I told you we'd reap great rewards!"

A girl held up binoculars, peering into the area where the battle was taking place.

"Tell me quickly, what did you see?!" Two girls squeezed in next to her.

"A new magical girl, silver-white!"

"let me see!"

"No! I haven't seen enough yet!"

Several girls started scrambling for the binoculars.

If Jinju were here, she would be surprised to find that these three girls were the same ones who had ambushed her in the bathroom a few days ago.

These girls were not chosen by the magical girl, and they were dissatisfied, so they decided to secretly go to the scene to watch the battle.

The group quickly agreed, skipped their school classes, found the warning information issued by the Magical Girl Association, and arrived at one of the locations ahead of time.

They saw the monsters and magical girls they wanted to see, and they also witnessed the battle that broke out between them.

However, the plot development took them by surprise.

The orange magical girl was at a disadvantage, and then a new magical girl appeared.

However, the twists and turns of the process made them even more excited, and they felt that the trip was worthwhile.

Through the telescope's view, the calamity beast fled in panic under the combined attack of the two magical girls, looking disheveled. Large sections of its two rows of densely packed long legs were missing, the cuts were jagged, and the wounds on its body were increasing, oozing a trickle of dark green liquid.

Wait, something's not right. The direction the calamity beast fled in seems to be...

Through the telescope, the body of the monstrous beast was rapidly magnifying.

Several girls looked terrified.

Before they could even scream, the monstrous beast was already above them.

The telescope fell to the ground with a crisp thud.

(End of this chapter)