Bud Rank
In fact, Lin Yun also knew very little about Anya's death.
Because he was neither at the scene nor able to see the body, all the information he had came from the accounts of the younger magical girls.
Even so, he still couldn't understand how Anya could possibly be dead.
The Flower Card girls who are recognized for their fighting prowess are arguably at the pinnacle of magical girl strength, let alone the "Strongest Flower Card).
Simply staying in Fangting City would be like a leisurely stroll in Garden for Anya; there would be no danger whatsoever, and for the Aberrant Beast, she would probably be the real disaster.
However, her death was so swift and easy that it felt unreal, as if a majestic mountain that stood before us one second had silently turned into flat ground the next.
Anya died, crimson blood blooming from her chest, like a red spider lily adorning a cherry blossom tree. She closed her eyes, a satisfied and happy smile on her face, as if she had seen something beautiful, and drifted into a sweet dream.
But the path to this dream was a one-way street; Anya walked down it and never looked back.
Lin Yun never got to see that final farewell.
When the other magical girls arrived, horrified and grieving over Anya's death, and tried to take her body away, Anya's body turned into tiny magical particles that drifted before their eyes.
She left no trace in this world.
In the end, all that could commemorate her existence was that small tombstone.
This is also why Lin Yun couldn't let Lin Xiaolu see Anya's body at that time: because there was no body, he couldn't explain why to Lin Xiaolu.
At the time, Lin Xiaolu was puzzled and even angry about his behavior. But now that she knows the truth, she begins to feel that she may have been wrong back then.
Several days have passed since Lin Yun and Anya's wedding anniversary.
After learning that her mother was a magical girl, Lin Xiaolu was absent-minded for several days and couldn't concentrate on anything.
Lin Yun continued to make final handovers for her departure, preparing to devote herself fully to the affairs of the magical girl.
Moko's work as Seeder is sporadic, spending most of his time at home overseeing the training of two new recruits, and occasionally venturing out to find new magical girls.
According to it, it seems to have found similar traces in the Dawnstar District, which gives it some hope.
As for Xia Liang, as the more talented of the two new magical girls, she has reached the bottleneck of the Seed and Bud Rank in these days at a speed that would leave anyone speechless.
Then, predictably, this day presented the opportunity to uncover the True Form.
The True Form of a magical girl is a concept that sounds mysterious but is actually quite concrete. In terms of its actual composition, it is a special structure that combines the magical girl's magic power and soul, with Mana Source at its core.
It is the foundation of all the magical girl's subsequent abilities. Whether it is Magic Construct, Spell Formula, or anything else, they all need to have True Form. It is also the source of a magical girl's life. No matter how serious the injury to a magical girl's body is, as long as her True Form is not damaged, these injuries can be restored with time and magic.
Similarly, this also means that once a magical girl's True Form is destroyed, her life will come to an end.
This is precisely why magical girls need to protect their Mana Source: after all, the Mana Source is the core of their True Form, and if the Mana Source is damaged, their True Form will also be severely affected.
What Xia Liang is doing right now is related to this: she wants to use her own Mana Source as the core to construct a new True Form.
It was 10 p. m. at Xia Liang's home. When the study session was halfway through, she suddenly told the two of them, as if struck by a flash of inspiration, that she felt she was in the zone.
Under the instructions of the Larkspur and the bored gaze of Lin Xiaolu, she began her attempt to construct her True Form.
Holding her Heart Seed in her palm, Xia Liang closed her eyes and quietly felt the surge of magic within her.
Consciousness is the outward manifestation of the soul. It involves capturing and following the flow of magic, allowing one's own consciousness to follow the magic and form similar fluctuations. Then, it involves guiding the magic in reverse, manipulating the frequency of its fluctuations to make it the same as one's own consciousness and soul.
After the fluctuations of soul and magic gradually overlap, they are then used as the Mana Source for two-way communication, merging into one and forming a new power.
Gradually, the Heart Seed in her hand began to glow with a light unlike any other.
Like a seed sprouting from the soil under the nourishment of water, the originally round Heart Seed has changed its shape, transforming from a regular sphere into a teardrop shape. The tiny pointed tip stands atop the gem, looking rather adorable.
Of course, at this stage, the Heart Seed is no longer the Heart Seed; it should be given another name— the Heart Bud.
The Hibiscus Purple magic spread out in concentric circles from the Heart Bud, enveloping Xia Liang within it. The fluctuations of the magic cast a phantom image of Xia Liang, which vanished in an instant, merging back into Xia Liang herself.
Lin Xiaolu, who was lying not far away, couldn't help but rub her eyes: she didn't know if it was her imagination, but she vaguely seemed to see two Xia Liang, except that one of them was transparent like an illusion.
The Larkspur crossed her arms and watched quietly as Xia Liang constructed his True Form, nodding occasionally and marveling at Xia Liang's talent once again.
She successfully constructed the True Form on her first attempt. She didn't know how many such records existed in the Magic Kingdom, but it was certainly the only one she had ever seen in her life.
Twenty-two years ago, in the Fangting City Magical Girl Squad, among the four main members of the first batch, the fastest record for constructing their True Form was held by Su Shengzi: she took three attempts. The slowest record was held by Anya: she tried a full seventeen times.
Of course, the fact that Anya took the most attempts wasn't entirely due to a lack of talent. In fact, she had a high level of talent as a magical girl; it's just that she was the first in the team to reach the Bud Rank bottleneck.
Back then, Fangting City's lineup was even more shabby than it is now—they didn't have a senior mentor like Larkspur, only a few clueless newbies. Only the rabbit Fairy Wopo Wobo could provide some knowledge about cultivation, but its teaching level was not so much profound as to be misleading.
Thinking back to how many times it took her, under the tutelage of that stinky rabbit, to reconstruct this True Form, Larkspur couldn't help but sigh at how things had changed.
As the Hibiscus Purple light faded, Xia Liang, who was standing within it, opened her eyes, held the flawless Heart Bud in her hands, and gave Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu a playful smile.
Clearly, she succeeded.
Once the construction True Form reaches the Bud Rank, it means the next step is for her to awaken her Magic Construct.