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Chapter 62 Breaking the Ground
The moment the words left his mouth, Chen Mu moved.
Without further probing, she vanished from her spot, leaving only a ripple of magical energy spreading across the ground. The next instant, she appeared beside the monster's enormous head, covered in compound eyes, to the left. Silver light emanating from her toes shone brightly, and she delivered a devastating side kick that slammed into the side of the head!
boom! !
The dull thud was like the beating of a drum. The head, along with the deformed flesh and blood around the neck, suddenly caved inward, and the monster's massive body staggered slightly from the force.
"roar--!!"
The excruciating pain aroused the monster's ferocity, and several thick, twisted arms frantically clawed at Chen Mu from all angles.
Chen Mu's eyes were icy cold. The magical water waves from his feet, a technique called "Celestial Immortal's Unmoving Ground," exploded, propelling him through the air in a manner completely defying the laws of physics. He narrowly avoided the grabbing arm, tracing a tricky arc as he appeared above the monster's back. His hands clasped together, silver magical energy coalescing into a solid cone of light in his palms, which he then slammed down towards the base of the wing!
This is the most basic application of magical girl [magic enhancement]. As you can see, her skills are much more professional than the two girls in the previous preliminaries.
puff!
Dark red, almost black blood spurted out, and the monster let out a painful scream, its body trembling violently.
However, before Chen Mu could retreat, the monster roared and a gash suddenly split open on its other side!
A tentacle with a sharp bone blade at the end shot out like a venomous snake, stabbing towards her lower abdomen with astonishing speed!
"It can even temporarily grow limbs during battle?! What kind of power is this?"
Chen Mu's pupils contracted slightly, and he twisted his waist forcefully in mid-air. The silver skirt armor grazed the bone blade, making a piercing metallic scraping sound and leaving a shallow white mark.
She used the momentum to perform a backflip and landed on a wall that had collapsed halfway.
"It's no use! It's no use!"
The monster seemed to be still very excited, and all its heads roared at the same time.
Visibly, the flesh and blood in the area where Chen Mu had injured them were wriggling and multiplying, the sunken head was rapidly recovering, and the wound at the base of the wings was also contracting and healing.
"The grace bestowed by the Witch is [Life]! The lives I have sacrificed have all become my power! And you... how much longer can your heartbeat continue?"
Before the words were even finished, the monster's massive body suddenly lunged forward.
The tentacles slammed into the wall where Chen Mu was like a storm! It seemed to have abandoned precise targeting and instead used pure force and area-of-effect attacks to crush him.
Boom! Boom!!
The surrounding buildings crumbled and shattered like paper under the terrifying force, and huge gaps were smashed in the walls of the hospital building, with bricks flying everywhere and dust billowing in.
The monster rampaged through the courtyard, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Chen Mu could only dodge, his figure flickering amidst the dust and rubble.
She repeatedly used the [Celestial Immortal's Unmoving Strike] technique to perform unbelievable backswings, sudden stops, and changes of direction, narrowly avoiding fatal strikes and sweeping attacks time and again. Silver trails wove into a complex and deadly net in the air; she hadn't truly given up the attack, and each flash left a wound, deep or shallow, on the monster—
Unfortunately, these wounds were of little use.
As the monster said, these wounds always heal in a very short time. If this were a BOSS, it would not only have a long health bar, but it would also regenerate health. That's ridiculous.
"This is bad."
Even worse, Chen Mu could clearly feel that the power provided by the [Seed of the Heart] in his chest was rapidly diminishing like the receding tide.
Perhaps it's because she has only recently become a magical girl and hasn't accumulated much magic power yet, and each high-speed movement and each magic power enhancement accelerates this consumption.
This can't go on any longer.
Thinking of this, Chen Mu's eyes narrowed. After dodging another sweeping attack, she didn't continue to entangle herself. Instead, silver waves exploded beneath her feet, and she bent her body into a bow, launching herself forward! She shot towards the gap in the upper floors of the hospital building that had been smashed by the monster! It seemed that her magic power was insufficient, and she could only temporarily retreat. In any case, her original goal was to escape from here.
"Trying to run?! You're the designated sacrifice! You alone are worth more than everyone else!"
Upon seeing this, the monster let out a greedy roar. Its pair of pure white wings flapped vigorously, and although its clumsy body was very slow, it did manage to lift off the ground and fly away to chase after it!
It's now!
"That's quite an honor." Chen Mu sneered in mid-air, then suddenly stretched out his arms as if he were parachuting.
The girl's figure suddenly stopped without warning, and then flipped over!
She pushed the power of "Celestial Immortal Cannot Walk on Earth" to its limit, the silver water waves blazing intensely to the point of almost burning, providing an unbelievable right-angle reversal!
Transforming into a silver comet falling in reverse, it charged down towards the monster below, whose wings were flapping and whose portals were wide open!
She made a fist with her right hand, and the remaining magic power in her body surged out, compressed, and condensed at an unprecedented speed!
"Come on, come on!"
With an unknown call, she did just that, and a longsword made entirely of pure silver instantly took shape in her hand!
The sword is slender and straight, like solidified ice, and its blade represents the magic of going all in!
The monster was lured and deceived. Its current airborne posture completely exposed its front, and its massive body and slow movement made it a prime target!
"What?!?"
All the eyes on the monster reflected the rapidly approaching silver glint, and a sense of terror had just begun to rise.
Chen Mu and the silver longsword had become one, like a falling star piercing through the sky!
A star fell to earth.
puff--!!!
There was no earth-shattering roar, only the muffled thud of a sharp object piercing thick flesh. The silver longsword, imbued with Chen Mu's full power and speed, pierced through the monster's center! Along the monster's torso's central axis, it tore downwards with unstoppable force! Flesh, bones, internal organs… everything was cleaved in two before the sword's edge!
The monster's enormous body was completely cleaved open from head to toe!
"impossible……"
Countless mouths simultaneously uttered a final, incredulous, and broken cry.
A rain of blood, mixed with shattered entrails and tissue, cascaded down like a waterfall. The monster's mangled remains, cleaved in two, crashed like a mountain of flesh onto the already ravaged courtyard floor, sending up clouds of dust and blood. Chen Mu landed lightly amidst the blood rain, his silver longsword transforming into specks of silver light and dissipating into the air.
Magic depleted.
As Chen Mu realized this, the silver-white dress she was wearing began to become transparent and blurred, turning back into the hospital gown. The silver-gray color faded from her eyes, revealing her original pupils.
Instead, a wave of weakness and emptiness swept over the entire body.
"Is it resolved? Probably... Even a monster shouldn't be able to resurrect indefinitely like this."
She couldn't even think things through properly. She swayed, could no longer support herself, her legs gave way, and she collapsed to the ground.
...
Much later.
A pair of black leather shoes stepped in and stopped in front of the entrance to the ruins of the mental hospital.
They seemed unwilling to set foot in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood within.
"Ugh, it's so dirty."
The woman made a sound of disgust. She held an umbrella in one hand, and her appearance and clothing were not visible in the shadows, only the faint pink ends of her hair.
"Is the 'Mountain Private Mental Hospital Incident' too late? I wonder if this will satisfy the big shots. Perhaps the 'life' has already been harvested. You can't blame me, can you? I did sense a trace of an angel's aura, but it vanished in the blink of an eye. Did the contract fail? Could it be a wasted trip? This is too—"
She stopped speaking.
Because where his gaze swept, he saw the only unharmed girl in the sea of blood.
She lay there in a white hospital gown, her slender and frail body standing out from her surroundings.
"Oh?"
The woman showed an interested expression.