"Triple Sukuna-Level Total Magic Power!" (Three-in-one)

At the aquarium:

"Um... Miss Hell, can you still get up? How about I carry you out?"

Lin Xiaohong lifted her pointed hat and looked at Hell with concern, her little hands itching to act.

She was a little taller than Miss Hell, standing 165 centimeters both before and after transforming. She only looked petite in her loose mage uniform, so...

Carrying her like a princess would be no problem at all...!

At the thought, Xiaohong swallowed despite herself.

"No." Unfortunately, Miss Hell shook her head, biting her lollipop. "I'll be fine after resting for a while."

Crunch.

She gently bit through the lollipop, intending to rest a little longer before going out.

"All right..." Lin Xiaohong sighed.

Crack...!

Just then, the ceiling above them suddenly collapsed.

"Watch out!"

Xiaohong panicked and immediately pushed Miss Hell down onto the chair, wrapping her in her arms as she activated her magic defense.

Boom!

The shattered dome crashed down. Fortunately, thanks to the magic defense, both Lin Xiaohong and Hell beneath her were unharmed.

Xiaohong had been so frantic because she thought Hell had exhausted her magic power after unleashing her Magic Domain.

At a time like this, a magical girl would have no magic defense, and her body would be as fragile and breakable as an ordinary girl's.

Of course, she didn't know that Hell was actually only suffering from Cursed Technique Burnout and was temporarily unable to use Malevolent Shrine.

She could still maintain a simple magic defense.

As for running out of magic power? That had nothing to do with her whatsoever.

"Mm... Miss Hell, are you okay? You're not hurt, are you?"

With her knee between Miss Hell's legs and her hands on the girl's shoulders, Lin Xiaohong asked worriedly.

The closeness between them took Hell by surprise. She hadn't expected Lin Xiaohong to care so much about her.

After collecting herself, Hell sat up and ate the last bit of chocolate on the stick. "I'm fine, thank you."

Although it hadn't been necessary, Xiaohong had meant well, so she couldn't be bothered to explain.

"That's good. You scared me to death just now." Xiaohong breathed a sigh of relief and instinctively rubbed the girl's head again.

It was as though she were saying: There, there, big sister's here.

"Mm...?!"

Miss Hell's ears turned red at the touch. She hadn't expected Xiaohong to suddenly pat her head like that...

And what was with the inexplicable maternal affection that had appeared in Xiaohong's eyes??

Although she often patted her younger sister's head, this was the first time someone had rubbed hers while she was a girl.

It was hard to describe. In any case, it felt really strange...!

"Could you let go of me first?"

Hell finally couldn't hold back. She reached out and gently grasped Xiaohong's wrist, because Xiaohong was pressed far too close.

As she spoke, Miss Hell turned her head slightly, her face feeling hot.

If Xiaohong kept petting her, she felt like her whole body would go limp.

"Huh...? Sorry."

Only then did Xiaohong realize that her behavior was clearly a little presumptuous toward this young lady, so she quickly let go.

At home, she often cuddled up with her younger sisters to sleep and play games, rubbing their heads and kissing their cheeks while she was at it, so she hadn't been able to resist just now...

Ahem...

Besides, just as she'd thought before,

Although Miss Hell had a fierce personality, she was really very well-behaved when held, not squirming at all.

Like a little kitten, she obediently let Xiaohong rub her head, and it felt really nice.

But apart from Miss Hell's adorably cold expression, what excited Xiaohong most was that she could actually get this close to such a ruthless and powerful magical girl.

The thrill of touching a tiger's tail right under its nose made Xiaohong blush and her heart race, both frightened and excited.

In the end, excitement won out over fear.

Am I a bit of a pervert?

Xiaohong reflected on herself.

But she couldn't help it. She simply couldn't resist a girl as ruthless and cute as Hell...!

"Let's go. I've rested enough too."

Hell brushed the dust off her skirt and stood up from the chair, secretly taking a deep breath to compose herself.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaohong raised her hand and cast a dust-clearing spell, removing the dust from Hell's skirt and the holes in her black pantyhose.

Only then did she nod in satisfaction. Although the young lady looked cute with battle damage too, there were people outside. How could she go out looking like that?

A little while later,

Hell and Lin Xiaohong walked out of the aquarium.

Outside, Tang Wenjie and Firebird were leaning against a car, with Nightingale and Morning Star standing nearby.

Only when the two little ones saw them come out did they relax and happily wave to them.

Tang Wenjie finally breathed a sigh of relief as well and thanked Hell. "Thank you, Hell. I owe you a huge favor."

He had already heard what had happened from Nightingale and Morning Star, and knew that Hell had risked herself to rescue Tang Xiaoyu.

A little later, and Tang Xiaoyu's soul might have been eaten by the Siren Witch. That was a reality Tang Wenjie could never have accepted.

He would probably have gone mad.

"It was nothing."

Hearing him, Miss Hell rested one hand on her hip, her gaze relaxed as she said proudly:

"Although she was a little troublesome, she was only a newly born calamity witch. How could she possibly be a match for me?"

Despite her words, everyone knew the battle couldn't have been easy. Otherwise, Nightingale and Morning Star wouldn't have kept quiet about it.

Click, click. Scarlet Spider couldn't resist taking a couple of photos from a distance.

"Hey! Are you all okay?!"

Scarlet Spider then swung over from a nearby billboard and landed lightly on Tang Wenjie's car.

"Scarlet Spider?" Miss Hell tilted her head up slightly. "What are you doing here too?"

Scarlet Spider shrugged. "My boss was worried you wouldn't be able to beat that witch, so he sent me to check on things."

"Your boss...?" Miss Hell blinked, thinking of her own big brother, and scanned the rooftops.

She didn't see the Terrifying Owl.

Instead, she saw a figure standing on a rooftop under the night sky, silently watching them. The figure wore an old-fashioned mage's robe and a square-topped hat.

There were clockwork accessories attached to her robe and hat.

Suddenly, the figure raised her head slightly, revealing a girl's fair, delicate face with a gentle smile on it.

She looked only seventeen or eighteen. Her most distinctive feature was her unusual dark-gold pupils, which resembled an antique mantel clock.

"It's her?!"

Lin Xiaohong's gaze suddenly sharpened. She raised her staff, stepped in front of Miss Hell, and stared coldly at the other girl.

"What are you doing here? Are you going to attack magical girls? I'm warning you, we have a really powerful superhero on our side!"

Lin Xiaohong's warning was cold.

Hearing that, Scarlet Spider immediately flipped in place and raised a hand toward the person on the rooftop, as if to say:

That's right, I'm that really powerful superhero: Scarlet Spider!

What was that supposed to mean?

Firebird, standing nearby, gave Scarlet Spider an inscrutable glance, then pulled his left hand from his camouflage jacket and waved it lightly.

Scorching flames ignited in an instant.

The terrifying pressure of an A-rank superhero instantly swept over the entire block.

Of all the A-rank superhumans, Firebird was the closest to A+. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been called the A+ gatekeeper.

In other words, anyone who wanted an A+ rating had to get past Firebird first.

"Who is she?"

Hell blinked, utterly bewildered by the situation.

Lin Xiaohong's expression remained tense. "She... she's..."

Ding-a-ling-!

As a bell chimed softly, Lin Xiaohong was horrified to discover that the person on the rooftop had vanished.

Firebird looked surprised too, abruptly turning toward the girl who had appeared in front of Hell at some unknown point.

What kind of speed is that?!

Hell was startled and instinctively took a step back, feeling as though all the hair on her body was about to stand on end.

So fast. Is she A+?!

Everyone was shocked. They had just been about to move when they suddenly discovered, to their horror, that a strange force had frozen their bodies in place.

Lin Xiaohong's hand, which held her staff, was rigid in midair.

From the perspective of Subspace, one would see dark-gold chains winding around Firebird, Scarlet Spider, Lin Xiaohong, and the others.

Those chains possessed an indescribable power, locking them firmly in place and sealing all their power.

Forget moving; even speaking was difficult.

Unlike the others, who were shocked, Hell felt more troubled than anything. When she had instinctively stepped back just now, she had nearly hissed.

The girl in the mage's uniform was now standing right in front of her.

She was tall, about 168 centimeters, and the square-topped mage's hat on her head made her seem even more mysterious and imposing.

She simply gazed curiously at Miss Hell.

At last, the girl spoke softly, a smile still on her face:

"In terms of total magic power alone, you've already reached B+ rank, haven't you?"

"That's quite good."

She tilted her head at Hell, ignoring the other magical girls and superheroes around her.

"My code name is 'Bubble.' I'm very happy to meet you here, Little Hell."

"You know me?"

Miss Hell frowned slightly.

Meanwhile, Skynet was frantically warning her from within the Domain of the Heart. "This is bad, Master. She's a witch, and a very dangerous one at that. I found information on her."

[Code name: "Bubble."]

[Witch's true name: Unknown.]

[Affiliation: Witches' Association, core executive.]

[Danger level: A+.]

[History before becoming a witch: No record.]

[Record after becoming a witch: A mysterious witch who appeared out of nowhere two years ago. The magic world knows nothing of her past. Whenever a witch is born or dies, however, she appears at the scene, as though searching for traces of something.]

[Combat record: One year ago, the Ministry of Magic sent a team led by the magical girl "Eclipse" to hunt her down. The team was subsequently wiped out, with only Eclipse surviving, gravely injured.]

"No."

In response to Miss Hell's question, Bubble shook her head and said sincerely, "I just think you're special, quite different from all the magical girls I've met before."

"And your potential is quite good. If you became a witch..." She held her chin with one hand and gently closed her eyes, becoming thoughtful.

"You'd be A+ at the very least, wouldn't you?"

Bubble smiled with great interest.

Hearing that, Lin Xiaohong, still locked in place, was drenched in sweat. She was genuinely worried that Bubble would attack Hell.

Although the Ministry of Magic's records showed that Bubble had never hurt anyone for no reason like other witches, and that almost all her fights had been in self-defense,

Lin Xiaohong didn't dare believe she could guess what a witch was thinking.

Flap-!

Suddenly, the sound of a cape fluttering came from the sky. A man in an owl suit descended from above and landed behind Hell.

His body was tall and muscular. The shadow he cast after landing alone completely covered Hell and Bubble.

[Superhero: "Red Owl"]

[Danger level: A+.]

Scarlet Spider, Lin Xiaohong, and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, it was Red Owl! They were saved!

Rumble!!

Lightning flashed through the clouds, and heavy rain followed.

"Ah~ So it's Mr. Red Owl. Long time no see."

Bubble tilted her head and smiled, looking past Miss Hell at Red Owl behind her without a trace of fear.

After the typhoon dispersed, the rain in Jinghai District came down even harder, all the water stored in the clouds pouring out at that moment.

Seeing this, Hell carefully checked that her Cursed Technique Burnout had ended before speaking.

"You two... know each other too?"

Bubble smiled and nodded. "Yes, we've been old friends for years."

Red Owl's voice was cold and serious. "Friends? Hardly. We've only met a few times."

"I don't care what your purpose is, but you'd better not cause trouble under my watch."

Hearing that, Bubble smiled and took a step back. "No problem."

She winked at Hell. "Let's meet again when we get the chance, dear Miss Hell. I'll treat you to cake next time."

With that, she tugged at her hat, tucked her head into her collar, and leaped backward into the air, disappearing into the rainy night and darkness.

After she vanished, the chains holding Lin Xiaohong and the others in place also dissipated. Xiaohong patted her chest, still shaken.

She hurriedly checked Hell for injuries, looking her over from one side to the other:

"Thank goodness you're all right, Miss Hell. You scared me to death just now!"

Nightingale clutched her aching chest. "That witch was so strong. Unbelievably strong."

Morning Star nodded too, her little face deathly pale.

Tang Wenjie expressed his gratitude to Red Owl:

"Thank you for stepping in, Mr. Red Owl."

Hearing this,

Red Owl's gaze remained calm. "I came here tonight because I was worried someone might make a move against the magical girls. That's all."

Everyone in the world knew Red Owl couldn't tolerate crime. Whenever he saw it, he intervened.

That was also why he held the top spot in the "Superhero popularity poll." Even Peacemaker couldn't match him.

"You might not care, but I still have to say it. Thank you for what you did this time, Mr. Red Owl." Miss Hell turned and thanked him too.

Thank goodness her big brother had been there. Otherwise, she didn't think she was capable of beating that mysterious, terrifying witch as she was now.

Hearing her thanks, Mr. Red Owl fixed his crimson gaze on the girl and studied her for a moment.

Only then did he speak coldly:

"The Ministry of Magic is no good. If you and they ever fall out, I hope your fight won't affect ordinary people."

"Other than that, I won't interfere."

With that, Red Owl turned and left without waiting for Hell to answer.

Rumble!

A self-driving, high-tech combat vehicle pulled up right in front of Red Owl, opening its door to welcome its master back.

The Owl combat vehicle, Red Owl's personal ride.

So big brother is this cold when he's out and about.

Hell quietly grumbled about her big brother to herself. Why hadn't she seen him act this cold when they were kids?

Beside her, Tang Wenjie pushed up his glasses. "It seems Mr. Red Owl is more reasonable than I imagined."

He had originally thought Red Owl wouldn't be happy to see the magical girl Hell appear.

Hearing that, Scarlet Spider spoke up beside him. "Heh heh, aside from being a little obsessive, our boss is actually pretty reasonable."

"The Superhuman Law was successfully enacted back then thanks to his refinements and his efforts to push it through. Its first article prohibits all superhuman experimentation, and it's protected and saved quite a few people."

"It's just that our boss is still somewhat conflicted and dissatisfied with the provisions concerning crime and human rights."

"But in his words, laws are constantly refined and corrected as human civilization develops."

Hell nodded with a sigh. "No wonder he's such an outstanding graduate. Your boss studied law, didn't he?"

Scarlet Spider was startled. "You could even guess that?"

Miss Hell smiled smugly to herself. How could she not know? Back when Mo Jin'an had been preparing for his entrance exams to Heidelberg University, he had often made him coffee.

Meanwhile, farther away, on top of a high-rise, Mo Chou, dressed in a polo shirt and bucket hat, slowly turned and left.

Aside from the reckless Scarlet Spider stumbling across him by accident at the start, no one else had noticed his presence.

"I'm feeling a little sleepy, Miss Red Sparrow. I'll head back and get some rest."

Once she had relaxed, Hell said goodbye to Tang Wenjie, then took her leave of Lin Xiaohong and the other two.

When Mo Zhen got home, Mo Xiaochuan was finally relieved to see he was all right.

To his surprise, Mo Xiaochuan didn't ask why Mo Zhen had suddenly gone out.

In fact, Mo Xiaochuan had witnessed the whole thing: after Mo Zhen and Bai Xiaoxiao went out, the typhoon had gradually died down. Even without saying anything, he had already guessed a few things.

Of course, he could never have imagined something as fantastical as his older brother turning into a magical girl.

He only wondered whether his brother had awakened some kind of superpower.

But Bai Xiaoxiao was different.

Mo Xiaochuan had begun to seriously suspect that his younger sister was a magical girl. As for why, he couldn't quite say.

But he had a feeling somehow, like the kind of... connection between blood relatives that often appeared in comics?

Meanwhile.

Mo Zhen returned to the second floor and took a leisurely bath.

Afterward, he put up a Magic Curtain again, lest his upgrade cause some strange commotion.

Although he could use cleaning magic on himself, to Mo Zhen, bathing was something of a ritual.

Only after coming home and taking a bath did he feel everything begin to relax.

Next, he sat down at his desk, immersed his consciousness in his Domain of the Heart, released his magic power, and transformed again.

The girl opened her panel and, without hesitation, upgraded the total magic power entry first. After all, it was the most important base stat.

For Malevolent Shrine, everything else was useless without a boost to its base stats.

[Congratulations, Miss Witch. One of your entries has been upgraded.]

[You have obtained: "Triple Sukuna-Level Total Magic Power"!]

Miss Hell blinked. "Isn't that a bit perfunctory? Aren't we being a little disrespectful to Uncle Sukuna, using him as a unit of measurement?"

Did that mean there would be five Uncle Sukunas, ten Uncle Sukunas, a hundred Uncle Sukunas in the future...?

[The system will present entries in the manner easiest for you to understand, and the Sukuna-level description is the most intuitive.]

"Hmm... you have a point." Hell considered it. "That really is the easiest way to understand it."

[Your personal panel has been updated.]

Hell looked at her brand-new panel.

[Transformation status.]

[Magic code name: Hell.]

[Danger level: B+ (formerly C+).]

[Strength: B+ (formerly C+).]

[Speed: B+.]

[Defense: B+.]

[Magic power: A (formerly B+).]

[Charm: S.]

[Abilities: Cursed Technique: Malevolent Shrine, Reverse Cursed Technique, Domain Expansion.]

[Entries: "Triple Sukuna-Level Total Magic Power," "Sukuna-Level Magic Output Efficiency."]

The moment the entry finished loading, Miss Hell's Domain of the Heart began to boil.

Ripples spread across the tranquil pool, and even the clear blue sky was covered by a layer of dark clouds.

Anyone who didn't know better would have thought Miss Hell was breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage and preparing to face a lightning tribulation.

"Let's try out the brand-new Malevolent Shrine...!"

Hell began using Malevolent Shrine freely in her Domain of the Heart. It was far fiercer, faster, and stronger than before!

She felt she could now easily defeat her former self, even finish her off in a single move.

The reason the increase was so great was that a magical girl's magic output efficiency was calculated as a percentage.

For example:

If Sukuna-level total magic power was ten thousand points, and Sukuna-level magic output efficiency was 90%, then before the upgrade,

each of Hell's full-power attacks had a power of ten thousand multiplied by ninety percent, or 9,000 points.

After the upgrade, Miss Hell's total magic power had soared to three times Sukuna's, or thirty thousand points.

That meant each of her full-power attacks had a power of thirty thousand multiplied by 90%, or 27,000 points!

The example was a little crude, but that was more or less how the formula worked.

With three times Sukuna's total magic power, the current Miss Hell's combat power had made a qualitative leap.

It wasn't just Malevolent Shrine's output, but also her strength, speed, and defense, which were automatically enhanced by magic power.

Every one of them was maxed out.

Though none had reached A rank, with the boost from her stats, she had reached the ceiling among B+ superheroes.

However... Miss Hell didn't celebrate too soon.

The difference in combat power between A-rank and B+-rank magic power was already so great that it made her even more aware of the pyramid effect among superhumans.

The higher one went, the narrower it became.

If she wanted to upgrade her magic power from A to A+ later, the tasks she would have to complete would likely be far more numerous and difficult than today's.

She might even need to upgrade to five or ten times Sukuna-level magic power to barely meet the criteria for A+.

It looked like the difference of a single plus sign, but in a cultivation novel, it was already comparable to the gap between Nascent Soul and Soul Formation.

Hell had also figured out that, aside from the initial starter pack, the rewards her system gave her didn't actually come from nothing.

When she killed other superhumans or magical girls, the system directly devoured their power from a deeper level.

All that devoured power ultimately flowed into her Tree of Calamity.

After being transformed by the Tree of Calamity, that power became pure energy, which the system then shaped into task rewards and handed to her.

The logic behind the system's operation came from the code and settings Miss Hell had written in her previous life for the game Villainess Witch Raising Project.

Now that she thought about it, the energy that had initially activated the system had most likely come from that vial of Compound Nine from Colossus Company.

Thinking of this,

Hell's excitement over the new entry faded. She drew in her magic power and walked over to the Tree of Calamity, which was a little taller than she was,

and reached out to stroke its rough trunk.

The girl apologized softly:

"Sorry, System. I blamed you unfairly before. It wasn't that you did nothing for sixteen years after I was reborn; it was that I didn't find a chance to activate you until sixteen years later."

In response, the Tree of Calamity's newly grown willow leaves swayed gently in the wind, as though answering the girl's touch.

After coming to this world, it had continued to operate silently according to its creator's will. From beginning to end, it had never changed.

"Thank you."

Hell thanked it softly, regardless of whether it could understand her.

Strange as it was to say, the Tree of Calamity itself was part of Miss Hell's soul, and the two were connected.

So, emotionally, Miss Hell had already come to regard the Tree of Calamity as her own daughter.

Lost in thought, the girl sat down on the grass beside the Tree of Calamity, sliding down its trunk.

She tilted her little head, leaned back against the trunk as it grew broader by the day, and closed her eyes in peace.

Since she was sleepy, she would take a nap.

There was nowhere Miss Hell felt safer than in her own Domain of the Heart.

Here, she didn't have to think too much, because everything here loved her fervently and protected her.

At that moment, Skynet's Little Crow flew down from the top of the tree.

It landed on Miss Hell's thigh, tucked in its wings and feathers, then carefully edged forward.

Hell heard its little movements and reached out to draw it into her arms.

Skynet's Little Crow was overjoyed. It gently nuzzled its master's chin, then nestled in the girl's warm embrace and went dormant alongside her.