Magical Girl? There's No Going Back! (46)

"Damn it, if the tiger doesn't show its might, do you really take me for a kitten?! Three Rings: Hundred-Bone Severance!"

Yao had finally reached the end of her patience. She crossed her twin blades, and a vast net of countless slashes spread around her, instantly slaughtering every monster nearby.

"What? The monsters I prepared so carefully were taken out in one move..." Li Xuan was utterly shocked. Only a few monsters capable of blocking Yao's advance remained at his side, and without those specially modified meat shields, there was no way his speed could evade Yao's pursuit.

"Damn it, this move costs a lot of mental energy. You'd better be ready to pay it back!" Yao felt a wave of dizziness, but seeing that Li Xuan seemed to have been driven into a corner, she forced herself to focus and chased after him at top speed.

"I'm finished! I'm really finished this time! Why is a Grade A magical girl so strong?! Whatever, I'm getting out of here!" Li Xuan put on a terrified expression, opened a portal, and plunged headfirst into the Delusive Badlands.

"Spatial fluctuations? That's right! This is the place Saroye mentioned—their lair! I can't believe I stumbled into the top credit! Don't run!"

Sensing the spatial fluctuations ahead, Yao was instantly overjoyed. She leaped forward, shooting straight ahead like a shell leaving a cannon.

Opening or closing a portal to the Delusive Badlands required a certain amount of time. That would have been fine against anyone else, but against a high-speed enemy like Yao, it carried the risk of invasion.

Sure enough, the moment Li Xuan fled into the Delusive Badlands, Yao chased in right after him, barely making it through before the passage vanished.

"Hahahahaha, you trashy old man~ Now there's nowhere left for you to run, huh! Your lair doesn't seem to have any helpers either. I can't sense even a trace of Evil Energy." Yao stared at the flustered Li Xuan with an expression of utter victory.

"You're right. There are no other 'people' here. Looks like all I can do is put on an empty-fort strategy." Li Xuan seemed to have given up struggling. He stood where he was with a bitter smile, allowing Yao to approach him step by step.

"Well? You worthless old man, since you gave me those lyrics, kneel down and lick my toes right now. Maybe I'll give you a quick death~ Otherwise, I'll use these two blades to shave you down piece by piece until nothing but bones remain. That'd be exciting, wouldn't it~?" Seeing Li Xuan resignedly await death, Yao felt indescribably refreshed. The corners of her mouth nearly curled up to her ears as she laughed.

"Wait! Before I die, I have one final request!" Li Xuan hurriedly pleaded.

"You're not going to ask me to use my feet for you again, are you? That's impossible. I'll cut that big thing off in one stroke, then mince it into stuffing." Remembering the humiliation from that day, Yao immediately revealed a cruel smile.

"No, no, you misunderstand. My request is this: please, make sure you keep that arrogant face of yours. Don't break too easily. Otherwise, I'll get very bored." As Li Xuan spoke, the twisted despair on his face suddenly became an amused smile.

"Huh? You're still talking tough when death is at your door. I think you're—" Yao had been about to humiliate Li Xuan further, but an intense pain suddenly erupted in her head. It hurt so badly that her vision blurred, and she nearly lost her grip on her blades.

Naturally, this was not something Li Xuan's Mind Interference alone could accomplish. Just like when they forcibly controlled Tang Xi last time, this was a mental attack launched jointly by Mian Yin and Li Xuan.

"See you later, little trash~ You can stay here and play. I hope you haven't broken by the time I come back. Don't blame me for being underhanded—switching homes is a basic tactic." After saying that, Li Xuan extended a tentacle and removed Yao's hair accessory, then opened a portal before her eyes and returned to the real world, leaving Yao with nothing but an empty base—

And Mianyin Alice, wearing a wicked smile as she prepared to enter Yao's dreams and wreak havoc.

"Damn it... don't go!" Yao watched helplessly as Li Xuan vanished from sight. Her drowsiness grew stronger and stronger, until she finally could not resist closing her eyes and falling asleep.

Guitarist Yao had been successfully captured.

When Li Xuan returned to the real world, Felia had already shot down more than half the monsters filling the sky. The two groups of magical girls were taking turns restraining Saroye and Felia, but wary of each other's overwhelming offensive power, they could only harass them from the outskirts.

Fortunately, Black Cat had also expended much of her magic power. She was no longer using that all-screen hard-control cheat, instead hiding beneath Felia's skirt to control a few of the stronger monsters and guide Felia as she picked them off one by one.

Countless discarded firearms had already piled up around Felia's feet. Li Xuan guessed that she probably possessed spatial abilities too. Otherwise, how could she possibly hide so much weaponry beneath her skirt? It couldn't really be some fourth-dimensional anus, could it?

"Begin phase two." Li Xuan sent a signal to the five magical girls through their shared consciousness. The five immediately ran off to restrain Saroye, while the monsters swarmed toward the direction where Saroye was hiding. For a moment, the space around Felia was completely cleared.

On this carefully prepared stage, Li Xuan slowly approached Felia from the front. Though he had seen her countless times through Hunting Radar, only when he truly stood before her did he genuinely feel the oppressive force of her height.

Li Xuan was already considered fairly tall among men, yet he still looked remarkably short in front of Felia.

The instant Li Xuan met Felia's gaze, a system notification appeared:

[Magical girl locked on]

[Name: Felia]

[Magic Power Level: Grade A]

[Type: Prayer Type]

[Height: 215 cm]

[Cup Size: F]

She really was Prayer Type? Your whole aesthetic seemed a little off, didn't it? Weren't Prayer Types supposed to lack combat ability? Those huge breasts were nice, but her muscles were harder than mine. I really couldn't work up any interest.

Li Xuan secretly complained inwardly.

"Hello, Miss Felia. Though this is our first meeting, I have been paying attention to you for a long time. I believe you are the strongest member of the entire band, aren't you?" Li Xuan stopped a little over ten meters from Felia and spoke while staring into her beautiful blue eyes.

"Strong? I'm sorry, but I'm merely a support worker responsible for healing. You, on the other hand—a mere Grade B monster capable of setting up such a grand spectacle—have indeed exceeded my expectations. But in the end, it is only a sideshow. As long as you have no individual capable of confronting a Grade A opponent head-on, you cannot truly kill any one of us." Felia spoke without the slightest politeness.

"You are right. I haven't killed a single one of you." Li Xuan tossed Yao's hair accessory to Felia's feet.

"This is... Yao's hair accessory? What did you do to Yao?!" Felia's expression immediately turned to shock and fury upon seeing it.

"Don't worry, she isn't dead. She's merely locked up. If you want her to live, you'll have to obediently do as I say. Judging by your magic power, the two of you should be nearly exhausted as well, right? Why not just surrender? I'm very gentle with girls." Li Xuan smiled.

"Dream on! I may have weakened, but that does not mean you have grown stronger. Prepare to pay the price, heretic!" Driven by the fury of vengeance, Felia pulled a Gatling gun spitting blue flames from beneath her skirt and unleashed a barrage of rat-a-tat-tat at Li Xuan.

Chapter 124: All Right, That's Very Magical Girl

Li Xuan had prepared himself to endure the attack, so he had already drunk Wine of Ecstasy that enhanced his defense. Felia's assault was dense, but it did not possess the instant-kill power of Yao's attacks. He swung his tentacles to block and evade, yet still fled in a sorry state for quite a distance before Felia's gun barrels overheated.

"I'll give you one chance! Release Yao, and we will immediately abandon the mission, leave Clear Lotus City, and never interfere with each other again. We will never meet again." Felia discarded the overheated machine gun and stared at the panting Li Xuan.

"Really? Even if it means offending the Church, you are willing to let me go?" Li Xuan asked sincerely.

"I can promise you that. To us, companions matter more than missions. Where is Yao now? If you want to make a trade, I must first confirm that she is safe." Seeing that Li Xuan seemed willing to communicate, Felia did not take out another weapon. Instead, she remained where she was and began negotiating with him.

"You really are kind, Sister. But unfortunately, I won't let any of you go." Seeing that she had temporarily relaxed due to the negotiation, Li Xuan unexpectedly snapped his fingers. A pitch-black hole immediately appeared above Felia's head, pouring down countless colorful liquids.

Felia instinctively sensed danger. Despite her seemingly cumbersome build, she was remarkably agile and dodged away in an instant. Yet only after dodging did she realize that the bewildered Black Cat had remained standing there in a daze.

"Damn it!" Felia was startled. She hurriedly slammed on the brakes, kicked the ground apart, and used the rebound to throw herself over Black Cat, shielding her beneath her body as the multicolored liquids poured over her.

"Wine?" Felia smelled the pungent scent of alcohol, then immediately felt a wave of discomfort spread through her body.

Petrification, poisoning, dizziness, fear, paralysis, blindness, incapacitation, slowing, severe injury, silence, reduced strength, reduced endurance, magic power loss, reduced magic resistance, reduced physical defense...

A chain of negative effects was inflicted upon Felia. During the lengthy preparation period, Li Xuan had brewed two kinds of wine. One had provided buffs and had already been entirely used, while the other inflicted negative effects. Now, almost all of it had been dumped over Felia at once.

Felia slowly rose to her feet. Her body was completely soaked, yet Black Cat beneath her had not been splashed by a single drop. "That is... rather interesting. If I had to fight while enduring so many negative effects, perhaps you would indeed have a chance. But unfortunately, I am a Prayer Type born with Purification."

"Purification!" With Felia's sharp cry, holy light shone over her body. The light was so gentle that it seemed to embrace everything, washing over the negative effects afflicting Felia...

Yet it failed to remove even one of them.

"What? Purification didn't work?" Felia's pupils contracted in shock. In her understanding, purification magic existed specifically to remove all the abnormal conditions inflicted by monsters and to purify monsters' souls. It was an absolute power, a gift from the Heavenly Father. Once Purification was used, abnormal conditions would disappear, just as water would boil when heated. It was unquestionable common sense.

Yet this time, not a single negative effect Li Xuan had inflicted upon her was removed. It made her feel as though her entire worldview had collapsed.

Seeing that Purification had failed, Li Xuan closed the passage he had already half-opened. He had originally planned to flee immediately if the effects were purified, then return after thoroughly breaking Yao and converting her into his own combat strength.

But he had not expected Wine of Ecstasy to be this effective. Even the Purification of a Grade A Prayer Type could do nothing against it!

"Looks like I can only fight it out—Black Cat, how much magic power do you have left?" Felia asked.

"Just a little. Enough for only a few words of command." Black Cat stared at Li Xuan, looking somewhat puzzled, as though she had seen him somewhere before.

"Stay there and protect yourself. If I die, use your Awakening to kill her." Felia strode toward Li Xuan, her eyes filled with the determination of a martyr.

"Seriously? Sister, after suffering so many negative effects, you still want to kill me? You can't even use magic now, can you?" Li Xuan laughed.

"In the midst of this chaos, the enemy leader suddenly appears. I understand that this may be bait. But if killing you ends everything, that alone is enough for me to stake my life on it." Felia removed her veil, revealing dazzling golden curls. Then she took off her white gloves and clenched her large, powerful hands into fists.

"If magic won't work, you're just going in with your fists? All right, that's very magical girl." Li Xuan liked this sort of brainless brute-force type. He immediately fired a compressed Evil Energy cannon at Felia.

She charged ahead without dodging. Li Xuan continued fighting while retreating, using his tentacles' mobility to constantly wear Felia down with ranged attacks.

However, Li Xuan quickly discovered that even while burdened by a body full of debuffs, Felia's speed and strength remained astonishing. She even caught his tentacles several times. If he had not decisively severed them, she would have dragged him over and beaten him senseless.

This woman was fierce. Li Xuan was secretly alarmed. At this point, both Fallen Blood and Wine of Ecstasy had been entirely depleted. Though he still had one or two thousand low-grade monsters, he needed them as cannon fodder to cooperate with the five magical girls in holding Saroye back. He could not summon them to protect himself now.

"Looks like I'll have to bring out the preparations for capturing Saroye early. This is my final trump card!"

After another burst of wind from Felia's fist tore open his cheek, Li Xuan realized that he could not drag this out any longer. Without monsters protecting him, and with Wine of Ecstasy's speed boost long gone, maintaining a relaxed attitude now could get him beaten to death by a flurry of punches at any moment.

With that thought, Li Xuan turned and fled toward a prepared direction, frantically firing Evil Energy cannons backward to slow Felia's pursuit slightly. Felia did not evade at all, refusing to slow down even as Li Xuan's Evil Energy cannons struck her body.

Watching Felia relentlessly chase him from behind, Li Xuan could not help feeling puzzled. Why did a Prayer Type like her possess physical abilities that surpassed even Battle Types? The system had clearly stated that she was only Prayer Type, not a rare dual-type magical girl like Yao!

But he had no time to think too much. After all, escaping was the first priority.

Fortunately, Felia herself was burdened by debuffs. With her magic power nearly exhausted, she was almost entirely relying on her physical ability to keep going. That allowed Li Xuan to successfully flee to the trap zone originally prepared for Saroye—the abandoned factory where he had once given the three girls their pre-job training.

Chapter 125: Sensory Deprivation Trap

By the time Li Xuan arrived before the factory, he had fired so many cannons to slow Felia that the Evil Energy within his body was nearly depleted.

"Prepare to die!" Felia clearly noticed this as well. She accelerated once again, intending to seize Li Xuan in one decisive move.

With her magic power exhausted, Felia could only run across the ground on foot. The moment she stepped onto what appeared to be an ordinary patch of concrete, the ground suddenly collapsed beneath her. Felia hurriedly spread her arms and wedged herself against the entrance, barely avoiding the fate of falling all the way in.

"Damn it... what is this?"

She had already considered that there might be traps, but she had clearly watched Li Xuan pass through this place without incident. Why had the trap activated only when it was her turn?

"You must be wondering, right? These traps only react to magic power." Li Xuan turned back and smiled.

"Damn..." Felia braced both arms on the ground and tried to climb out, but Li Xuan immediately used all his strength to pin down her arms with his tentacles. At the same time, Felia could clearly feel many slick tentacles wrapping around the lower half of her body below. They prevented her from returning to the surface, leaving her awkwardly stuck at the entrance like a silver-ranked player.

"Hmph. You don't seriously think a trap like this can hold me, do you? Once I get out, I'll make you pay dearly." Though everything below Felia's arms had fallen into the pit, she still remained remarkably calm.

"This trap may look ordinary, but I prepared it very carefully. Do you really think you can escape unharmed?" Li Xuan coldly snapped his fingers. Felia immediately felt the surrounding ground begin to writhe, wrapping tightly around the portions of her body caught at the surface without leaving a single gap.

"The entire ground... is a monster?" Felia asked in surprise.

"That's right. Quite a surprise, isn't it... Wait, where did your muscles go? No, no, your whole body has shrunk by a size, hasn't it?" Halfway through speaking, Li Xuan suddenly realized that the nun before him seemed to have changed.

The hard, bulging muscles covering her body like old tree roots slowly disappeared, replaced by full, rounded feminine curves. Even her originally sharp-featured face softened. Her entire body seemed to have shrunk by a size—though even after shrinking, she was still at least two meters tall, she now looked rather cute.

"My muscles... were originally maintained with magic power. Now that my magic power is exhausted, of course they have disappeared. To maintain my authority as the band leader, I wanted to look more imposing." Felia did not hide this at all, but her willingness to share information gave Li Xuan the feeling that she was trying to stall for time.

However, Li Xuan was also planning to stall, so he did not expose her little scheme.

"I think you look cuter now!" Li Xuan looked at Felia before him. Even as he spoke, her body had shrunk noticeably more. If the monster at the entrance could not automatically adjust its tightness, she probably would have fallen straight in already.

Li Xuan placed a Hunting Mark on Felia and examined her from the overall perspective. Felia was now roughly 1.8 meters tall. She was still tall, but now within the range of someone one might occasionally encounter walking down the street.

Even so, there had been no reduction whatsoever in her chest. It remained an impressive F cup, only one size smaller than Li Sijie's.

At that moment, those F-cup breasts were caught at ground level. Since the monster held her tightly in place, they appeared especially prominent.

"Is that so? Thank you for the compliment. It would be even better if you made these monsters stop touching me—this is truly disgusting." Felia frowned.

"Hahaha, Sister, you really are humorous. But the reason you are willing to talk to me like this is actually just to stall for time, isn't it? After all, the negative effects I inflicted are intense but temporary. Once enough time passes and you recover, you will immediately be able to turn the tables." Li Xuan laughed.

"You saw through that? No wonder you managed to capture so many magical girls. You truly have some skill." Felia smiled.

"But unfortunately, I'm stalling for time too~" Li Xuan grinned wickedly and stepped forward, crouching down to poke at Felia's full breasts caught in the ground. Those soft, melon-like mounds sank with every poke, then quickly bounced back when he released them, entertaining Li Xuan immensely.

"Stalling? Do you think dragging this out benefits you? I can feel the abnormal conditions are about to vanish. When that happens, you'll—" Felia froze halfway through her sentence, sensing that something was faintly wrong with the parts of her body beneath the ground.

"Oh? Looks like you noticed. But it's already too late, Sister. This trap was made to hold an immortal body. Even once the negative effects disappear, you will not be able to escape anytime soon." Li Xuan smiled smugly.

"A toxin with a paralysis effect? My lower body is becoming harder and harder to move... No, it isn't poison. It's the sensation in my body... disappearing? A monster that deprives sensation?" Felia finally realized what was happening and spoke in shock.

"Hehehe, you're half right. This trap does indeed block sensation, but the monsters here have another function." Li Xuan wore a wicked smile as though his scheme had succeeded.

"They're absorbing my magic power? Damn it, then I can't replenish the magic power I've spent..."

Felia quickly sensed the trap's other function. The monsters beneath her were absorbing her magic power and gradually growing stronger.

Realizing the situation was dire, she desperately tried to climb upward. But the surrounding ground itself was made of monsters, sticky and soft, leaving no point to brace against. With all sensation gone from her lower body, Felia could not use her entire body to exert force either.

"What a nuisance. Doesn't this mean I can't even feel whether my body is moving?" Felia desperately kicked her legs. In fact, her legs were moving, but she could receive no feedback from the action. Even as the negative effects on her body gradually faded, the combined effects of magic power exhaustion and sensory deprivation still kept her trapped.

"Thank you for providing your magic power. Otherwise, I truly wouldn't know how to continue fighting." As Li Xuan spoke, he extended a tentacle into the deep valley between Felia's breasts, sending it down below to channel the energy harvested by the magic-draining tentacles into his own body.

"You can only act arrogantly for now. The negative effects on me have already disappeared. Even the basic defense of a Grade A can withstand any attack of yours. Once Saroye finishes dealing with those monsters, she will soon bring Black Cat to rescue me." Though Felia was in desperate straits, she still appeared calm and composed.

"You look pretty unruffled. As expected of the band's leader. You're right, my offensive power isn't strong. It's even weaker than Wu Yan, who has only just reached Grade B. Since neither of us can do anything to the other, why not peacefully watch a little movie?"

Li Xuan took out his phone, used a tentacle as a stand, and placed it before Felia's eyes. Then he used Hunting Radar to display an image of Felia's lower body on the screen.

"Heavenly Father above! This... is this really my body?" Felia, who had been calm just moments earlier, instantly turned pale upon seeing the image displayed on the phone. Her expression became terrified.

Chapter 126: Nun-Branded Water Gun

Although Felia could no longer feel anything happening below her body, her physiological reactions had not stopped.

While the two spoke with hidden agendas, the tentacles in the trap continued diligently at work. They nimbly slipped into Felia's clothing and roamed over the soft skin that had returned after her magic power was exhausted, applying liquid that heightened sensitivity across her body.

Under the tentacles' meticulous massage, Felia's entire body had been fully aroused, entering a state suitable for bearing children.

Seeing that she was ready, the tentacles mercilessly began massaging her entire body. Though her most intimate areas were spared humiliation due to Li Xuan's orders, almost every other place had been thoroughly handled by the tentacles.

"Oh no, you can't do this to me! Hey, do you understand what being a nun means? A nun is equivalent to the Heavenly Father's bride. I have already sworn to remain unmarried for life—how can you defile my body like this?"