Some Wishes Always Drew Out the Big Ones
Half an hour later.
The loudspeaker on the roof of the Xinghai Girls’ School suddenly blared.
The power to the loudspeaker was cut off yesterday, and the school posted a notice that it was no longer in use.
But first, a static noise came from the loudspeaker, followed by laughter.
The sounds of giggling, drawn out long, as if something had kneaded them, were a mingling of voices from men, women, and children.
The laughter stopped and was replaced by chanting.
"A girl harboring pure wishes... will be heard by the Will of the World..."
That's a line from the Guide, Seventh Edition.
The students on both sides of the road stopped in their tracks.
Some people stood still, their eyes glazed over, and began to mutter to themselves.
"I want to get into Tianqiong University..."
"I want my mother to get better..."
I want him to reply to my message...
One after another, the voices grew louder and louder, becoming more and more synchronized.
At the same time, inside the Monster Hunting Bureau's vehicle, the readings on the detector jumped all the way up, stopping at 2,400.
Rank D, Citybreaker level, equivalent to an Enforcer.
The numbers are still rising.
Liang Bing took off her headset and opened the car door.
"Seal off Xinghai Girls’ School. Notify the school administration that all students must immediately evacuate the teaching area and exit through the west gate."
She glanced at the dazed crowd opposite her. "Don't touch those who are standing still. Get your earmuffs and carry them away one by one."
Outside the yellow line, technicians began dragging equipment back, and whistles blared all around.
In the Old Auditorium, less than a kilometer away from the cordon, Su Bai stood on the steps, his feet resting on a layer of red brick floor.
It's that old broadcasting trunk line.
An echo came from deep within the pipeline, mixed with the evacuation whistles, and only he could hear it.
The voice was imitating someone.
The ending sounds are high-pitched with a slight nasal tone, and each sentence ends with a small exclamation mark.
"Teacher Ziwei..."
"Teacher Ziwei...!"
"Teacher Ziwei, come see me!!"
The sky above Xinghai Girls’ School looked strange.
The commotion of evacuating the crowd was drowned out by the pinkish-black resentment gushing from the ground.
The resentment seeped out from the broadcasting network outlets, lingered on the roof of the teaching building, and condensed into a constantly writhing thick fog.
"Explosion-proof barriers deployed. All units activate the Thunderclap Breathing Technique to stabilize the situation."
Liang Bing's voice was transmitted to the operators through the tactical channel.
Nearly two hundred Enforcer set up a defensive line at the school gate, and a semi-transparent energy barrier rose from the ground in an attempt to contain the resentment within the campus.
As soon as the fog adhered to the barrier, cracks appeared on its surface.
The Magic Power Star Ring within the operator's body began to flow uncontrollably in reverse.
A young operator's psionic rifle barrel cracked open; he groaned and fell to one knee, his face pale.
This is just the beginning.
The anti-blast array cracked inch by inch, and the temporary defense line built by the Monster Hunting Bureau at the cost of millions of Federal Coin was no match for the resentment.
The corridor on the third floor of the teaching building.
"Don't be afraid, I, Magical Girl Starshine, am here!"
Su Xiaoxiao held the Starshine Wand horizontally in front of her chest, the Star Core at the top of the staff flickering between light and shadow.
Behind her were more than a dozen classmates, trembling with fear.
A pale golden shield of light appeared in front of her, but it trembled violently.
The laughter on the radio continued, and the transformation spell she had written herself was reversed, turning into a curse that drained her power.
With each phrase she recited, most of the Magic Power within her was absorbed.
"The Magical Girl of Light will end your sins at this moment."
The voice on the radio imitated Ziwei's voice, carrying a twisted malice.
Su Xiaoxiao felt the Star Core being absorbed, and her power was rapidly dissipating.
She gritted her teeth, trying to re-form the light shield, a trickle of blood sliding down the corner of her mouth.
No, I can't hold on much longer.
The light shield in front of her shattered completely, and the resentment turned into tentacles, sweeping towards the classmates behind her.
Su Xiaoxiao's Magic Power was about to be drained, and she fell backward.
A beam of purple-gold divine light pierced the sky from the direction of the Old Auditorium in the distance, blasting through the core of the condensed resentment and creating a large hole.
Outside the campus, Liang Bing drew her psionic sword from her waist.
She is ready.
The gaping maw of resentment was about to devour the entire school and everyone's hopes.
With conventional methods ineffective, she could only launch a final assault as Enforcer to buy time for the evacuation.
But a purple-gold storm that descended from the sky brought her to a halt.
The purple light dissipated, and a figure hovered in mid-air.
She was surrounded by a purple light barrier, a dark golden Great Scythe was slung over her shoulder, and her Magical Armor remained motionless in the air currents.
Ziwei's gaze swept over the light shield below, then fell on the gathering resentment, watching the echoes fill the sky.
"It's so noisy."
Her voice drowned out all the noise.
"Using little girls' fantasies as bait, you worthless scum dare to call yourselves the Will of the World."
His voice was filled with disgust.
Feeling threatened, Vengeful Spirit emitted a piercing shriek, the sound waves pressing down on Ziwei.
Before Ziwei, the black and gold-covered Companion Magic Book moved without wind, rapidly turning its pages under the pressure.
The page stopped in the middle, and the purple-gold incantation lit up.
[Second Ring - Magic Skill - Twilight Elegy]
[Twilight Elegy]
No incantation required, instant cast!
As the dark gold Great Scythe swung downwards, an arc of light detached from the blade!
The arc of light landed silently, severing the old broadcasting network that stretched across the campus from the ground and turning it into dust.
All the loudspeakers immediately went silent.
The Vengeful Spirit's gigantic maw lost its foundation and began to twist and dissipate.
Liang Bing watched the descending figure, her hand gripping her sword utterly powerless.
With a clang, the sword slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.
The operators' eyes were red as they watched the campus, which should have been razed to the ground, being pulled back from the brink of destruction by Arc Light.
As the resentment dissipated, a pulsating pinkish-black core was revealed in mid-air.
This is the true form of the Echo Banshee.
Ziwei didn't waste any words.
She appeared before the core, and the dark gold Great Scythe plunged from top to bottom, piercing the Monster's central core.
The spatial annihilation storm formed at the point where the scythe pierced, instantly disintegrating and devouring the D-rank lord, who was as tall as 2,400 units.
The space where the banshee died shrank inwards.
Deep Space self-destruction and collapse.
This is a chain reaction triggered by the loss of control over the passage connecting to the Deep Space Dimension when a high-level Monster dies.
The black vortex expanded rapidly, threatening to drag the school and surrounding neighborhoods into it.
Ziwei extended her left hand.
With fingers spread wide, it held back the spatial vortex that was about to devour everything.
A purple-gold Magic Power surged from her body, boosting her physical strength and reaction speed to their limits.
She held the energy singularity in one hand, the Magical Armor on her arm creaking under the strain.
Without pausing, she used the explosive force of her skill to drag the spatial vortex upwards to a height of three thousand meters.
A deafening roar.
A blinding purple-gold ball of light exploded and evaporated high in the sky.
The light illuminated half of Xinghai City.
Countless people looked up and saw the annihilation clouds slowly dissipating in the sky.
Inside the Monster Hunting Bureau command vehicle, all life and Magic Power signals on the screen were completely reset to zero when the light came on.
"It's over..." The technician slumped in his chair, utterly exhausted.
Liang Bing picked up the sword from the ground and put it back on his waist.
She watched the dissipating purple-gold clouds and remained silent for a long time.
The blinding light faded.
Two shooting stars streaked across the night sky and disappeared at the edge of the city.
It was very quiet all around.
Soon, cheers erupted both inside and outside the campus.
The rescued students hugged each other, laughing and crying. The surviving agents from the Monster Hunting Bureau took off their helmets, letting sweat and tears stream down their faces.
"We won."
"It was Lady Ziwei! Lady Ziwei saved us! And Starshine! I saw Starshine!"