Magical Girls Have Personality!

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

The extreme magical power inside it, approaching two thousand units, was violently stimulated by the dome's crushing pressure.

Its magical structure collapsed on the spot.

It warped into grotesque, gelatinous tendrils.

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

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

For a brief moment, the wave even broke past the absolute two-thousand-unit mark.

Its lethality surged toward the threshold of the next rank: Enforcer.

Beside her, Kabi clutched her head in terror.

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

Monster Hunting Bureau, Xinghai Branch command hall.

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

The director braced both hands against the workbench.

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

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

An operator hammered at the 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 instantly turned bloodshot.

Every instrument in the hall overloaded. Screens shattered.

Blinding red flashes engulfed the command center.

The raw corruption crossed the faint link provided by the video feed and triggered a mental catastrophe.

"Stop looking! Physically disconnect every signal receiver!"

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

But his warning came too late.

Many intelligence agents with weaker mental resistance were already foaming at the mouth.

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

Some clawed desperately at their own cheeks, lost to an indescribable 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.

Scarface Captain lay on the ground, unconscious, the whites of his eyes showing.

Only Ziwei stood there unharmed.

Her lovely brows barely furrowed. The mind-borne corruption had no effect on her at all.

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

An unshakable conviction that he would get the cores and sell them.

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

It shut out every trace of the intense mental corruption.

"Stop spewing poison gas all over my loot."

Ziwei gave a cold laugh, ignoring the immense pressure in the air that could have crushed an ordinary person.

Standing an impressive five-foot-seven, she cut an intimidating figure.

Her waist-length purple-and-gold hair whipped through the toxic wind, setting off skin as pale as jade.

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

Even the explosive bend and extension of her first step

sent her ample chest swaying violently.

The perilous curves of her mature figure nearly burst free of her ornate lace bodice.

The Bone Colossus Owl sensed the killing intent.

The ferocious lord beast dared not meet her charge. It folded its wings, trying to turn and flee.

"Run? How far do you think you can take my three hundred thousand?"

Ziwei lowered her center of gravity and swung the half-ton Great Scythe in a full arc with both hands.

Then she exploded upward, leaving a sonic boom in her wake.

She made an impossibly high leap that defied gravity itself.

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

Her long, black-stockinged legs carried tremendous force.

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

"Stay down."

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

Ziwei even decided cutting through it would be too slow.

She thrust her slender, pale hands deep into the broken skull.

And yanked.

She ripped out a flawless D-rank, ninth-tier lightning-aspected Abyssal Core.

Viscous, liquid lightning glowed within the crystal.

Ziwei spoke flatly and tucked the crystal against her body.

"One more to go."

She turned, her fierce gaze locking onto the giant whale trapped atop the pink dome of light.

Her eyes were icy.

Kabi hurriedly flew 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 specialized, high-purity spinal fluid is the key ingredient in top-tier healing potions!"

Kabi's voice was urgent.

"Don't break the spinal canal when you remove the bones, or the fluid and its magical power will leak away!"

Ziwei chuckled.

"What a coincidence. Deboning and carving are essential survival skills, too."

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

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

Now, in search of the most valuable spinal fluid,

a purple-and-gold blur 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 pressurized bone tube.

Following the seams in the flesh, it sliced through chitin armor as tough as titanium alloy.

The whale let out one heart-rending wail after another!

Meanwhile.

The Monster Hunting Bureau had just finished repairing one connection in its damaged equipment.

A backup screen lit up in the command center.

Several surviving senior officials supported one another as they approached.

On the screen, the entire bloody dissection played out like a scene from a slaughterhouse.

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

And the one doing it all was a Magical Girl wrapped in a beautiful pink bubble aura!

The sight hit them so hard

that the Bureau's senior officials' minds went blank.

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

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

Chunks of its vast corpse broke free and fell.

Huge masses of magic-rich flesh crashed to the ground.

The remains, steeped in corruption, fused with the muck 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 flesh-mountain giant capable of corroding an entire street!

An overwhelming stench filled the air.

Even Xia Ning, struggling to hold on at the Barrier's central node, felt a tremendous shudder deep in her soul.

"What terrifying thing is taking shape...?"

Mint tightened her grip on her staff.

Lin Guoguo's tearful scream came through the Beacon.

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

At the heart of the foul, poisonous haze,

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

Not a trace of fear crossed her beautiful face as she pointed its blade straight at the monstrous giant of corpses.