Magic Uncle, Transform!

Su Bai's gaze turned toward the night sky above downtown Xinghai City, and a flash of purple-gold light flickered through his eyes.

The clouds there were twisting in a manner that completely defied the laws of physics.

The sky seemed to have been violently torn open down the middle by a pair of invisible giant hands.

The edges of the enormous opening glowed with a nauseating dark red light, while two colossal shadows that blotted out the sky were colliding furiously inside the Rift.

The ear-piercing boom of explosions traveled across nearly half the city, making the glass windows hum.

"Master, that isn't an ordinary dimensional Rift!"

Kabi's chubby spirit bounced up and down in front of the window, its two bean-like black eyes filled with despair.

"Those are Lord-Class Monsters fighting over territory across worlds! And there are two of them!"

The star-shaped luminous patch atop Kabi's head flashed red, signaling danger.

"I sense the concentration of Deep Space Particles dispersing through the air!"

"These two monsters are at the peak of the ninth stage of E-rank! Their magic power is nearing D-rank!"

The ninth stage of E-rank.

Su Bai knew very well how the Monster Hunting Bureau's textbooks defined this level.

The Magic Power Scale threshold for an E-rank Monster was between five hundred and two thousand. The ninth stage meant the magic power within their bodies was infinitely close to the upper limit of two thousand.

The Monsters had even surpassed the upper limit of two thousand on the Magic Power Scale!

To ordinary Monster Hunters at the Star Mark level, this was an utterly hopeless chasm where merely touching them meant certain death.

The textbooks stated even more clearly that when encountering Monsters like these, it was best to have a Monster Hunter of Enforcer level dispatched!

Su Bai's current Magic Power Scale had only just broken through the fifteen-hundred mark after this period of frequent night-shift combat.

"If one of them had descended before, that would've been one thing. But now there are two stacked together!"

Kabi spun anxiously in midair.

"If we don't stop them from descending immediately, the energy turbulence from these two monsters officially clashing could completely flatten nearly half of Xinghai City! As a Magical Girl, Master, we can't just stand by! Otherwise, the world's consciousness will punish us!"

Punish him, too? Su Bai ignored Kabi's wailing.

He turned around without the slightest trace of fear.

"One Mutant Leech can sell for around a hundred thousand."

That fervent light of someone eyeing a fat piece of meat reappeared in Su Bai's dark eyes.

"Then the Abyssal Core of a ninth-stage one will be purer, with energy closer to a liquid state."

He picked up a calculator and entered a long string of zeroes.

"Add in the profiteering principle that rare goods are valuable."

He flipped the calculator around and shoved the screen in front of Kabi's face.

"Conservatively speaking, these two Abyssal Cores packaged together can sell for more than three hundred thousand."

Kabi's entire spirit went blank.

It simply couldn't believe its ears.

"Master! You're calculating how to sell their cores?!"

Kabi grabbed its head with its chubby little hands.

"You have less than two thousand magic power! Even if Ziwei's basic attacks are unreasonable, those are two Lords about to blow up the district!"

"Once they start fighting indiscriminately in the city and unleash their energy, the shockwaves capable of melting buildings across a wide area will absolutely be beyond what you and Ziwei alone can contain!"

That was also a fact.

No matter how powerful Su Bai's attacks were, he did not have three heads and six arms. He could not block the destructive shockwaves erupting in two directions at once.

Yet Su Bai held the calculator without the slightest hint of panic.

"Who told you I was going alone?"

Under Kabi's stunned gaze, he pulled out a spare phone.

His fingers deftly opened the interface of a hidden work group.

The group was named "Star Magical Girls—Tianhai Daily Squad."

There were only four people in the group.

Aside from him, the group owner "Star Guiding Deity," the other three were girls with flamboyant avatars.

"The number-one wage slave is also Xinghai City's current figurehead, codename Mint, Xia Ning."

Su Bai's tone was extremely businesslike.

"Plus the number-two fence-runner and newly inducted member, codename Cherry, Lin Guoguo."

Lin Guoguo was the internet-addicted girl who helped him move goods through Black Crow and earned a middleman's cut.

Because she couldn't afford a certain limited-edition game console, she had unleashed an extremely pure and unadulterated longing for money on the street.

That extreme emotion formed a strange chemical resonance with an F-rank wandering Monster at the street corner.

And so, the Magical Girl "Cherry" was born.

Naturally, Su Bai took control of the entire process and brought her into the organization.

Kabi's eyes suddenly lit up when it heard this.

"That's right! How could I forget about that!"

Kabi excitedly spun two circles in midair.

"According to the rules for bonded spirits, as long as multiple orthodox Magical Girls are present at the same time and produce a resonance of magic power..."

It drew a circle in the air with its plump finger.

"You can form an absolute-defense Starlight Barrier on the ground!"

"Once the Barrier is established, no matter how thoroughly you chop the Monsters to pieces inside it, all the destructive force will be restricted to the Barrier and won't affect the streets or innocent civilians outside at all!"

Su Bai directly entered a coordinate command into the group chat.

"Mission issued. Objective: double Lord kill. Anyone late will forfeit fifty percent of this month's public commission."

He tapped send.

In the group of four, two avatars almost instantly sent back cute "received" stickers.

Su Bai slipped the phone into his pocket and walked expressionlessly toward the balcony.

"The show is about to begin."

Monster Hunting Bureau, Xinghai Branch.

The holographic command hall.

The originally cold blue warning lights had all turned a glaring blood red, while the rapid electronic alarms stabbed at everyone's eardrums.

On the enormous circular screen, the number representing the energy concentration above Xinghai City was climbing wildly.

"Director! Two ultra-high-risk energy sources with different frequencies have appeared overhead simultaneously!"

The operator in the front row hammered the keyboard so quickly that his hands left afterimages, his voice cracking with fear.

"The detector reading has broken through four thousand! It's still rising! It's nearing the eight-thousand danger line! It's those two troublesome things!"

The director of the Monster Hunting Bureau's Xinghai Branch braced both hands heavily against the console.

Several sleepless nights had left his eyes bloodshot and his hair a complete mess.

He stared at the list of agents who would only be sent to their deaths if dispatched, his mind racing in desperation.

At that moment, a subordinate from the intelligence department hurried across the hall carrying a thick stack of documents.

"Director!"

The subordinate spread the documents across the console.

"This is the latest tracing investigation report on the 'Star Organization.'"

The director abruptly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the photographs.

"What did you find? Have you identified Mint's energy source and organizational background?"

The subordinate swallowed and brought up several surveillance recordings.

"The big-data center investigated the movements captured by every surveillance device along the light-rail route during the two days before the incident."

In the recording, several girls in school uniforms flashed across the screen.

"The last surveillance blind spot where the target disappeared was also the location before the Magical Girl appeared. We found no traces there of any known supernatural family or consortium."

The intelligence officer wiped the sweat from his forehead.

At the same time, Old Wang from the logistics department pushed a heavy supply cart into the center of the hall.

A specially made high-manganese steel bombproof case covered in yellow warning seals sat on the cart.

With a click, Old Wang entered the command and unlocked the combination lock.

The lid sprang open.

Hundreds of workers in the command hall craned their necks.

The inside of the bombproof case was lined with thick shock-absorbing foam.

Neatly arranged inside were dozens of plastic wand souvenirs confiscated en masse from a convention downtown, each adorned with pink lace trim and heart-shaped crystals.

The director stared at the entire case of cheap plastic toys, the corners of his eyes twitching violently.

"These are the important supernatural items you confiscated?"

His voice was a whisper on the verge of exploding.

The subordinate answered through gritted teeth.

"Reporting to you, Director, all eyewitness accounts confirmed that Mint transformed and cast spells using a wand with a design resembling these. We suspect that a genuine high-level magical item may be mixed in with this batch of toys."

The director stared at the case.

Then he looked up at the Magic Power Scale warning on the screen, which was already nearing the level where it could blow up the city.

In the face of a disaster of this magnitude, the Monster Hunting Bureau's vaunted standard Breathing Method and spirit-energy blades were barely stronger than paper.

In desperation, he clenched his teeth and issued what could be called the most absurd death order since the Bureau's founding.

"Now. Immediately."

The director pointed at the dozen or so special combat agents waiting in the hall.

"You will personally try these suspected magical items!"

His voice echoed through the hall.

"You must crack the Magical Girls' idealistic transformation principle! This is our only breakthrough in resisting this catastrophe!"

The entire hall fell into an eerie silence.

Scarface Captain, who was responsible for security inspection and interception, stood at the very front of the formation.

His face was covered in an intimidating beard that warned strangers away. His heavy tactical bulletproof vest was covered in scars, and the one running down his right cheek extended all the way to his chin. Normally, he could scare a new recruit to tears on sight.

The director's gaze fell on him.

"You go first. Take one."

Scarface Captain's expression froze completely.

He widened his eyes in disbelief, pointed at his own rugged face, then pointed at the bombproof case full of pink toys.

"D-Director... me?"

"Carry out the order! We're out of time!"

Dozens of high-pressure surveillance cameras nearby blinked their red indicator lights simultaneously, all focusing on that bombproof tough-guy face.

The female researchers in the front row of the hall held tablets and data recorders, staring at him with bated breath.

Scarface Captain's hand trembled violently.

This was a man who did not even furrow his brow in front of an E-rank Monster.

Yet now, facing this pink heart-shaped wand, even breathing had become incredibly difficult.

He shakily extended his callused hand and pulled a pink plastic wand from one of the foam slots.

His finger settled over the plastic button that would light up when pressed.

The surrounding researchers all retreated half a step and raised their detection probes.

Scarface Captain drew in a deep breath, then closed his eyes.

His voice was hoarse and resolute, carrying the tragic solemnity of someone marching toward his death.

"On behalf of the stars, I'll eliminate you."

He even followed the investigation report and drew a tiny, extremely crooked semicircle in front of his chest with the wand.

One second.

Two seconds.

Other than the cheap red-and-blue chasing lights on the tip of the plastic wand flickering a few times—the same kind sold at a two-yuan shop—

No magical effect occurred.

There was no pillar of pink light, no sweet-girl fashion, and certainly no gorgeous Gothic dress.

The holographic command hall sank into an unprecedented, prolonged silence.

Scarface Captain gripped the glowing plastic wand tightly.

He felt the complicated gazes of several hundred people around him.

At that moment, this elite special combat agent of the Xinghai Branch—

The sturdy line of defense he had forged through blood and fire was utterly shattered.