Everything was ready; all that remained was for the planned moment to arrive.
After checking the Death Cycle's activation barrier one last time, Su Tianqing thought this to herself.
All preparations had been completed—the Albatross's Mindscape was now entirely under her control. She had patched every fatal flaw as best she could, ensuring that no unexpected incident during Albatross's thought process would cause the entire Mindscape to collapse on the spot.
...Actually, this had taken the most time. Nearly the entire day had gone into it.
After all, this was sixteen years' worth of top-tier spaghetti code!
A magical girl who had entered the field halfway through, never systematically studied any established magical system, and instead took a local path entirely different from Astral Sorcery, forcibly blazing a brand-new route of magical theory through sheer I Think It Works Power—
Su Tianqing called it Albatross's MAAAGIC Route.
Then Albatross had messed around and thought things through along this deeply unreliable route, somehow successfully developing [Death Cycle], which utterly outclassed every existing spell in practical application.
This was simply MAAAGIC!
But Su Tianqing felt that in a classic magical-girl setting that emphasized "The heart that believes is your magic!", Albatross using I Think It Works Power to create all kinds of ancient garbage actually did seem rather fitting.
She even had a thought from nowhere: could the reason she had managed to patch up this top-tier spaghetti code in a single day also be Albatross's I Think It Works Power at work?
Just imagine the scene.
This fox was directing the Familiars as they bustled around, while Albatross played a Familiar claw machine with magical hands nearby. Looking up and seeing her working so seriously, she would think:
"This little fox seems to know magic really well. Handing her control of