She glanced at her phone—sure enough, no signal.
Yinlin quickly took several photos to preserve the evidence.
“Little sister, something feels off here. Let’s hurry and leave—I’m really uneasy.” Huanhong’s voice trembled slightly.
She held her phone as a flashlight, nervously scanning the surroundings.
Yinlin noticed something strange and suddenly leaned her head close to the circular device, her eyes just centimeters away as she carefully examined it.
Then, she took out her phone again and snapped a few more pictures.
At that moment, Yinlin suddenly sensed a faint magical power fluctuation from far away—the one who used gravity magic.
“That guy has appeared.” She hurriedly climbed the stairs.
Huanhong followed behind, asking, “Where? I don’t sense anything.”
Yinlin kept climbing and pointed toward a direction, “Should be over ten kilometers from here.”
“More than ten kilometers?!” Huanhong was shocked. “How can you sense something that far away?”
Yinlin said, “His aura is very thin and faint. If the magic fluctuation were stronger, I could sense even farther.”
It was almost a boast; her exceptional sensing ability had always been a source of pride for Yinlin.
She was extremely sensitive to magical power.
When they reached the first floor, Yinlin pushed open the iron door and looked up at the sky.
There was a thin membrane above as well—other magical girls seemed unaware of it, but she could sense it clearly.
They took off, flying toward the source of the magic aura along with Huanhong.
The opponent was moving as well, and quite fast.
Yinlin quickened her pace, nearing the limit of her top speed.
Huanhong deliberately flew even faster, taking the lead, seemingly showing off.
Yinlin had no words, barely managing to point at a spot with her finger. Huanhong understood and gripped her magic rod tighter, accelerating again and leaving Yinlin behind.
Huanhong temporarily left the team, dashing ahead toward the destination.
Both knew where the enemy was likely headed.
Straight ahead was the Eastern Alliance Headquarters of the Human Alliance.
The gravity magic user was clearly making for there.
Huanhong reached the vicinity of the Eastern Alliance Headquarters in just three minutes but didn’t dare get closer.
It was too dangerous, heavily guarded with many defense weapons.
At this point, she still couldn’t sense the enemy’s magical fluctuations and could only wait tensely in the high air.
Yinlin wasn’t there yet—she still needed a little more time.
After waiting half a minute, Huanhong finally sensed the enemy—right beneath her, underground.
Again, the same method as last time—using the underground?
Without hesitation, Huanhong unleashed her burst magic, taking the enemy seriously.
After strengthening her body, she radiated immense magical power, naturally detectable even by an underground opponent.
The enemy hesitated and slowed down.
Huanhong deliberately descended closer to the ground.
She still remembered Yinlin’s information: getting within 200 meters was enough.
She purposely dropped to within 200 meters to provoke the enemy.
The enemy hesitated, then accelerated again, moving underground toward the Eastern Alliance Headquarters.
Huanhong further lowered her altitude, signaling her intention to attack.
The enemy finally lost patience and tried to launch a sneak attack.
Gravity suddenly intensified, and Huanhong was caught off guard, pulled down from the high air.
She dropped dozens of meters, nearly reaching the 100-meter mark.
Recovering her balance, she struggled to raise her altitude with her magic rod.
Now she understood how Yinlin felt—once trapped by gravity, the body became unbearably heavy, breathing grew difficult, and maintaining flight posture was extremely hard.
Fortunately, she had rich experience, having fought many demons before, so she quickly adapted to this sudden situation.
She pulled away to 200 meters and pondered her strategy.
She knew that to hurt the enemy, she had to close the distance, but the opponent specialized in that. Approaching would be suicide.
So how could she deal with an enemy who countered her so effectively?
At the same time, the Eastern Alliance and the Failure Squad’s monitors sounded an alarm—high-intensity magic was detected in the city.
Both Huanhong’s magic signature and the recently input gravity demon’s magical signature were present.
The two magic signatures were very close, meaning Huanhong was engaging the Gravity Demon.
Within seconds, this information reached the Eastern Alliance’s countermeasure center and every member of the Failure Squad.
As expected, it was a bait-and-switch tactic, used twice already.
Two members of the Failure Squad remained here, immediately initiating airborne support protocols to assist the Eastern Alliance Headquarters.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Alliance began executing the pre-arranged plan.
Why was there such an obvious infiltration route like a sewer beneath the Eastern Alliance Headquarters?
The enemy found out quickly.
Forced by Huanhong to use gravity magic and reveal his location, the enemy began running, trying to swiftly enter the Eastern Alliance Headquarters via the sewer.
A few hundred meters from the outer wall of the headquarters, the sewer was suddenly filled with dense yellow-green smoke—clearly some kind of chemical gas.
Once gravity magic was interrupted, sensors couldn’t detect the enemy’s position; their sensitivity wasn’t enough.
However, nearby sensors detected Huanhong’s burst magic.
By tracking Huanhong’s coordinates, they could infer the enemy’s position since Huanhong was following him.
“The enemy is still moving fast, the gas seems ineffective.”
At the countermeasure center, someone reported to a middle-aged man.
He nodded and said, “Execute Plan 2.”
Soon after, a scorching heat spread through the sewer hundreds of meters away.
The entire sewer was set ablaze.
Any carbon-based lifeform had an inherent fear of fire, ingrained into their DNA, impossible to avoid.
Known low, mid, and high-level demons all feared fire, though higher-level ones had better fire resistance.
With the extreme heat underground now, even a high-level demon wouldn’t last long.
Moreover, the enemy had shown a fear of fire during their previous battle using gravity magic.
Sure enough, after the fire attack, the enemy again used gravity magic.
He cut off the upstream flow and broke open the surface, exposing fresh air.
Failing to infiltrate through the sewer, the enemy abandoned hiding and crawled out to the surface.
For the first time, everyone clearly saw the enemy’s appearance.
Two meters tall, blue-skinned, with one eye and a pair of snail-like antennae.
It was clearly a demon.
Compared to other demons, this one looked rather slight.
Other demons were muscular, like regulars at the gym—champion-level physiques.
But this demon was only sturdy, far from champion level.
Though it could kill the unshielded Yinlin with a single punch, compared to other demons, it was notably skinny.