After the Qiu Gui Squad regained mastery of the rules of the Mindscape, the days of the Magical Girls in Mountain City finally grew leisurely and comfortable:
They spent the daytime resting and team-building, helping set up temporary defensive lines all across Mountain City to ensure that if a monster truly breached the perimeter, defenses could be deployed instantly to minimize casualties to the greatest extent possible.
By afternoon, everyone would gather before the entrance of the Mindscape to project a magical curtain of light, admiring the set where the Qiu Gui Squad had resumed filming movies while waiting for the evening's monster attacks to arrive, closing out the day's activities with a grand monster-blocking battle.
The types of monsters also grew increasingly diverse, possessing many powerful special abilities: pterodactyl monsters with wings that could fly into the sky, excavation monsters that could tunnel underground, and even lobster monsters capable of turning invisible and releasing decoys...
It was said that people had given that last lobster monster—the one that made weird chuckling sounds—the obscure name [Baltan], leaving the fox baffled.
I knew everyone would love these monsters we designed! Qiu Gui was extremely happy upon learning about this.
She even uploaded a summary of all the currently appearing monsters along with photographs to a video-sharing website in full, and netizens' research into these big guys grew increasingly fervent.
People posted on social media one after another to discuss which monster was truly the strongest—currently, the highest-voted ones were the steel monster that could transform from an armored vehicle into a giant robot, and the Fantasy Witch Prototype that emerged from within its body.
After all, debates were a nearly inescapable topic within the Magical Girl circle, and even now people were still arguing about things like "if Iris and Mai