Lin Xiaolu felt a great deal of pressure.
It was not simply because of the exam itself. Rather, if they were only talking about her progress in clearing the Maze Node, things had actually gone quite smoothly.
Too smoothly, in fact.
She believed she possessed the strength to sense the entire battlefield, and Bai Jingxuan was, in some ways, no weaker than her. Although the Aberrant Beast in this node was indeed enormous, and although there were countless swarms of low-level Aberrant Beasts besides that "big guy"... she believed that even without anyone else's help, she and Bai Jingxuan alone could clear this node.
It might take a little longer, perhaps.
However, once the magical girl codenamed Arrowroot took the lead and charged into the battlefield, the situation developed far beyond Lin Xiaolu's expectations.
Completely unlike the way Lin Xiaolu was used to magical girls fighting Aberrant Beasts, Arrowroot did not rely on magic power to inflict external wounds and destroy their bodies. Instead, she transformed into countless bats and clouds of black mist, invading the Aberrant Beasts' bodies. After that, the Aberrant Beasts would begin to weaken for no apparent reason.
Those low-level Aberrant Beasts could not withstand that move at all. In just a short while, they rapidly shriveled like balloons drained of air, then vanished.
As for the big one, it was not taken down quite so quickly. But after a brief period of weakness, it fell into a furious rage.
"Roar—"
Its howl echoed through the entire node cavern as it charged about like mad, attacking everything it could sense without distinguishing friend from foe.
Not only Lin Xiaolu and the others, but even the low-level Aberrant Beasts leaping down from the walls could be flattened in passing. It clearly felt nothing about that. It had