Chapter 158: I'm Free!
Time rewound to an hour earlier. Bing Rui was silently enduring the Flesh Wall's squeezing.
But unlike her other two fellow prisoners, she possessed Mental Immunity Blessing. Her mind was not dazed; she remained fully conscious, secretly gathering magic power.
Unlike every magical girl Li Xuan had ever met, Bing Rui was not only blessed by the world, but also possessed a unique special ability:
Her heterochromatic eyes were not merely decorative. They were flesh Containers capable of storing magic power, and because they stored it independently, the mana-draining tentacles could not absorb the magic power within them.
Back when Bing Rui had still been a Grade C magical girl, this extra reserve of magic power had given her combat endurance far beyond others of the same rank.
However, as her magic power level rose, the limited storage capacity of her heterochromatic eyes became rather useless.
For Bing Rui, who relied on grand magic as her primary means of combat, that little bit of magic power was a drop in the bucket even if she called upon it, much less worth deliberately spending time accumulating.
As time passed, she had almost forgotten about this talent of hers.
Until she was captured after making a mistake.
Because she had constantly been wrapped in mana-draining tentacles, any magic power Bing Rui recovered was immediately sucked away. The amount she could stash in her heterochromatic eyes was pitifully small.
So Bing Rui kept accumulating it in silence—accumulating, accumulating, bit by bit, day and night without pause.
At last, she had gathered enough magic power. Though it was only enough for one small spell, it was sufficient to escape the Flesh Wall's embrace.
"Backup hidden energy, activate!" Bing Rui shouted softly. A thin layer of ice instantly formed over her