Magical Girls All Have Their Quirks!

The giant whale's massive body, pinned fast against the glowing dome, began to change.

The magic inside it, nearing the two-thousand-mark limit, reacted violently to the crushing pressure of the dome.

Its magical structure collapsed on the spot.

It warped into grotesque, gelatinous tentacles.

Countless sticky, dark-green tendrils writhed wildly in midair.

A wave of corruption beyond D-rank surged out in every direction.

For a moment, it even broke through the absolute two-thousand-mark threshold.

Its destructive power shot toward the next tier: Enforcer class.

Kabi clutched his head in terror.

"Master, watch out! That corruption can destroy a human's mental defenses!"

Monster Hunting Bureau, Xinghai Branch command hall.

The surviving backup satellite recalibrated and barely captured an overhead view.

The director planted both hands firmly on the workstation.

The instant the main screen lit up, the alarm let out a piercing shriek.

"Warning! Corruption levels exceed the defensive instruments' maximum tolerance!"

An operator hammered frantically at his keyboard as thick blood seeped from the corners of his eyes.

The director had no time to issue a tactical order.

A violent ringing pierced straight through his eardrums.

The world spun around him, and his eyes turned bloodshot in an instant.

Every instrument in the hall maxed out. Screens shattered.

Blinding red flashes engulfed the command center.

Even the faint connection through the video feed let the raw corruption trigger a mental catastrophe.

"Stop looking! Physically disconnect every signal receiver, now!"

The director's legs gave way. He fell to the floor, clutching his chest and gasping for air.

But his warning came too late.

Many intelligence officers with weaker mental resistance began foaming at the mouth.

Their eyes rolled back as they writhed and thrashed on the floor.

Some clawed desperately at their own cheeks, lost to unspeakable madness.

The entire hall became a suffocating hell on earth.

Back on the ruined streets of the West District.

The corruption inside the Starlight Barrier had reached a lethal peak.

The scar-faced captain lay unconscious on the ground, the whites of his eyes showing.

Ziwei alone stood there unharmed.

Her lovely brows barely furrowed. The psychic corruption had no effect on her at all.

Su Bai's mind was already occupied by something far purer.

An unshakable conviction to get the cores and turn them into cash.

That greed, solid as bedrock, became an impenetrable mental wall.

It shut out every trace of the powerful mental corruption.

"Quit poisoning my loot with that toxic gas."

Ziwei sneered, ignoring the immense pressure in the air that could have crushed an ordinary person.

Standing a striking five feet seven, she cut an imposing figure.

Her waist-length violet-gold hair whipped through the poisonous wind, setting off her jade-pale skin.

Ziwei crushed the rock beneath her feet and charged straight at the giant owl.

The explosive bend and extension of her legs as she launched herself forward

sent the ample curves of her chest swaying violently.

Her mature curves threatened to burst right through the ornate lace bodice.

The Bone Colossus Owl sensed her deadly intent.

The ferocious lord did not dare meet her attack. It tried to fold its wings and flee.

"Run? Where do you think you're going with my three hundred thousand?"

Ziwei lowered her center of gravity and swung the half-ton scythe around with both hands.

Then she burst upward, leaving a ring of blood-fueled shockwaves at the spot where she stood.

She leaped impossibly high, defying gravity itself.

She came down directly above the Bone Colossus Owl's broad head.

Her long legs, clad in black stockings, carried crushing force.

Her boots slammed into its bone-white, insulated skull.

"Stay down where you belong."

With a shrill scream, the owl's sturdy skull shattered.

Ziwei even found cutting it open too slow.

She drove her slender, pale hands deep into the fractured skull.

With a hard pull,

she ripped out a flawless D-rank ninth-tier lightning Abyssal Core.

Viscous, liquid lightning glowed within the crystal.

"Half to go," Ziwei said flatly, tucking the core against her body.

She turned, her fierce gaze locking onto the giant whale stuck atop the pink dome.

Her eyes were icy.

Kabi hurried in front of her and rattled off the monster's details.

"The most valuable part of a Deep-Space Giant Whale is inside its spine!"

"That specially adapted, high-purity spinal fluid is the key ingredient in top-grade healing potions!"

Kabi's voice came fast.

"Don't break the spinal cavity when you pull out the bones, or the fluid and its magic will leak away!"

Ziwei chuckled.

"What a coincidence. Fine work like deboning and carving meat is a survival skill too."

She held the dark-gold scythe across her chest and bent her knees.

Once more, she shot skyward like a dazzling violet-gold meteor.

Now she was hunting for the most valuable spinal fluid.

Her violet-gold afterimage danced around the whale's enormous body too fast for the eye to follow.

In her hands, the massive dark-gold scythe moved with the uncanny precision of a scalpel.

Its blade avoided every vital hydraulic bone tube.

Following the seams of the flesh, it sliced through chitinous armor as tough as titanium alloy.

The whale let out a series of agonized wails!

Elsewhere.

The Monster Hunting Bureau had just repaired a connection in its damaged equipment.

A backup screen lit up in the command center.

Several surviving senior officials supported one another as they drew closer.

Onscreen, the bloody dissection unfolded like a scene from a slaughterhouse.

Thousands of tons of armor and rotting flesh were cut apart and stripped away.

And the one doing it was a Magical Girl wrapped in a beautiful pink bubble of light!

The sight was so jarring

that the senior officials' minds went blank.

"Are Magical Girls... all this... unusual?"

The whale's core and spinal-fluid duct had been removed intact.

Huge chunks of its corpse broke loose.

Magic-rich flesh and blood crashed to the ground.

The remains, saturated with corruption, merged with the sludge beneath the ruins.

In the blink of an eye,

the cells in those chunks began devouring one another, writhing and swelling wildly.

They fused into a vast, venomous giant made of flesh, large enough to corrode an entire block!

A foul stench rose into the sky.

Even Xia Ning, struggling to hold on at the Barrier's focal point, felt a terrible tremor deep in her soul.

"What kind of horrifying thing is taking shape...?"

Mint gripped her staff.

Lin Guoguo's tearful scream came through the beacon.

"Big Sister, help! That mountain of flesh is absorbing the energy around it! It's going to drain me dry!"

At the very heart of the foul miasma,

Magical Girl Ziwei held the enormous, blood-dripping dark-gold scythe in one hand.

Her beautiful face showed no hint of retreat as she pointed the blade straight at the monstrous mass of corpses.