Jin Luan felt no fear this time, intending to launch a direct frontal assault.
She even gave a posturing warning: “Here I come.”
In the next instant, she was beside the skin-suit person Green Field, delivering a very ordinary horizontal slash.
Her movement was fast enough, but she still had to swing her blade.
Green Field was far too familiar with her swordsmanship and met it head-on with her whip.
This time, Jin Luan used her full power. Even though Green Field intercepted the strike, she was pushed back more than ten meters by the immense force. The whip even slid through her grip for a stretch, causing so much friction that her hands nearly bled.
A cut several centimeters deep also appeared on Green Field’s skin-suit.
She could clearly feel Jin Luan’s killing intent.
Jin Luan continued her assault, executing one flash-step after another. Green Field no longer dared to be arrogant; she swung her whip rapidly, enveloping herself in its reach to form a hollowed-out protective shroud resembling a spider’s cocoon.
As expected of a magical girl who utilized her magic rod to its absolute limit, she used the rod’s indestructible nature to firmly defend against Jin Luan’s attacks.
This whip-shroud covering her entire body could completely defend against all of Jin Luan’s slashes, chops, and sweeps; only a thrust could pose a threat to Green Field.
Even Jin Luan’s full-power enchanted attacks could not break through Green Field’s whip frontally. Meanwhile, Green Field had not yet started playing for real, remaining entirely on the defensive without attacking.
After more than a dozen consecutive slashes, Jin Luan’s rage gradually subsided. Having vented her temper, she began to calm down and started using thrusts.
Green Field still had a trick up her sleeve, making the whip flow rapidly like dozens of long snakes revolving around her.
Jin Luan’s thrusts were also defended against; she simply couldn’t penetrate the gaps in the rope-net before being forcibly pushed away.
“So this is your true strength?” Jin Luan’s tone was considerably cold.
“Are you feeling despair? If you don’t work harder, your baby is going to be sucked dry,” Green Field continued to provoke her.
She had to increase her explosive capability, otherwise, she simply couldn’t beat Green Field.
The more she engaged in a war of attrition, the more she would suffer.
Jin Luan’s mana grew less the more she fought, while Green Field’s mana increased.
Out of necessity, it was time to use her trump card charged-slash.
Huan Hong wasn’t just watching the show either; she had already ascended high into the sky.
To settle things quickly, she activated Burst Aura Reinforcement right at the start. Then, accelerating her descent from a height of two thousand meters, she unleashed the most powerful Falling Heaven Strike of her life.
This was a strike without any enchantment; it was a pure physical attack.
By the time Green Field noticed, it was unavoidable. Huan Hong’s long staff struck the whip above Green Field’s head with savage force.
A violent shockwave erupted in all directions, blowing their hair about.
Despite having the advantage of softness overcoming hardness, Green Field was still smashed from the air down to the ground by the single staff strike.
She had clearly deployed a magic shield; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to withstand the impact of this blow.
Cracks even appeared in the ground from the impact.
After the successful hit, Huan Hong wanted to follow up with a pursuit, but she saw that Jin Luan had finished charging, emitting a terrifying presence.
Seeing this, Huan Hong hastily retreated out of the mana-drain circle’s range.
Jin Luan was about to release a massive charged-slash. This was her most confident strike, one that could even break through Yin Lin’s invincible Tortoise Shell Shield.
Whether it was a slash or a thrust, the threat of this strike would be staggering; it was unlikely that even Green Field could definitely catch it.
Green Field finally stopped playing around. She consumed a large amount of mana to use a spell—specifically, the Vine Skill she had used after absorbing someone else’s mana last time.
This time it wasn’t just a few simple stalks, but hundreds upon hundreds of dense vines burrowing out from the ground.
Jin Luan felt an immense pressure, her scalp tingling.
On the other side, Huan Hong had already been caught by the vines. There were too many; they were impossible to dodge.
Jin Luan was still at a high point and could actually escape. Green Field seemed to be giving her a choice: would she dodge? Or continue to fight?
This time, Jin Luan was unwilling to flee. Looking at the vines growing all across the field, she swung that thunderous strike without looking back.
Green Field also concentrated her dozens-of-meters-long whip in front of her, no longer protecting her full 360-degree perimeter.
Liang Tai would never forget this scene for the rest of his life, watching in a daze.
Jin Luan’s slash seemed to cut through space itself; everywhere it passed became distorted.
The newly grown vines were sliced apart with ease by this blade carrying golden flames, like a sharp weapon cutting through leeks.
In an instant, more than twenty vines were shorn away.
She was still lunging forward, but her speed began to drop. She cut through ten more vines, but she could already feel the resistance; it wasn’t as smooth anymore.
With a loud cry, she squeezed out the last bit of her strength.
Finally, she lunged in front of Green Field, cutting through the vines blocking the path, and ended with a direct slash against Green Field’s whip.
The power was still staggering. It sent the whip Green Field held in front of her flying away. Although she couldn’t destroy the magic rod, she could knock the weapon out of her hand.
The blade’s edge also swept across Green Field’s chest, followed by the sound of a magic shield shattering.
Liang Tai, hiding far away, seemed to feel the wind kicked up by that slash brushing against his cheek.
In the next second, more vines continued to grow and seized the panting Jin Luan.
After swinging the Uchigatana in her hand to cut two of them, even more vines crawled onto her body, wrapping her into a bundle.
Just like Huan Hong, she was caught again.
The vines Green Field created this time were far stronger than the last, because these vines contained the mana of three magical girls, and Green Field had also done other undisclosed things.
A gash was cut into her skin-suit, and she was injured inside as well. A shallow bloodstain had been cut from her left shoulder, across her collarbone, to her right shoulder, with varying depths in the wound.
She wasn’t dead, just lightly injured.
“You are very brave, but unfortunately, you aren’t the protagonists of my script today.” Green Field looked at Jin Luan through the eyes of the skin-suit.
“What exactly are you plotting?” Jin Luan actually had a way to struggle this time, but she didn’t take action.
She felt that Green Field’s goal this time wasn’t to play those little games.
Green Field didn’t answer. She began flying nearby, continuing to destroy various human facilities, mimicking the actions of a Heteromorphic Demon.
Time gradually approached 11:00 PM. By all rights, the person she was waiting for should have appeared long ago.
***
Green Field, wearing the skin-suit, looked up at the sky. Although she didn’t sense any mana there, she vaguely felt that something was present.
A few minutes later, the edge of her perception finally received feedback. It was indeed directly above in the azure sky.
The person she anticipated appeared, descending from high altitude to Yiri Square.
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.” Green Field looked at her, her voice trembling, “Oh, the hero of Yiri City, Yin Lin.”
“Why are you wearing a Heteromorphic Demon skin-suit? Don’t you think it’s quite ridiculous?” The newcomer was indeed Yin Lin.
She was wearing her standard magical girl uniform, her long silver hair fluttering in the wind. She looked down at Green Field and the earth from above. Combined with her indifferent expression, she was filled with a sense of divinity, bearing some resemblance to the Goddess of Contracts.
Green Field: “Don’t ask those questions. Don’t do anything to justify my actions. I don’t need to be redeemed.”
Yin Lin: “But I am curious. Since you are all about Hedonism, why did you come here to seek death today?”
Green Field: “I don’t need to explain. Since I’m the villain, I just need to play the villain well. Investigating my logical behavior and redeeming me will only make you hesitate when you move against me.”
“Fine, as you wish.” Yin Lin’s magic shield was deployed, and she was currently maintaining a 20% charge on her magic cannon. “Then you’d better be ready to face my wrath. I am extremely angry today.”