The way back was clear and obvious.
As long as she followed the lines on the ground, even with all the side doors and small doors, it was easy to find the return path.
Combined with magic perception, she could locate the dining hall without getting lost.
They even used the same trick they had against Yin Lin: stripping naked.
Yin Lin had an incredibly overpowered perception ability.
Almost nothing with any trace of mana could escape her senses.
Therefore, the best way to ambush Yin Lin was to strip completely, carrying not a single shred of mana.
That was the tactic Jin Luan and Huan Hong were using now.
Embarrassing, but effective.
They left the great hall stark naked, slipped through one door after another, and started sneaking around.
Yin Lin could perceive; the demonic creatures could perceive too.
Of course, they didn’t dare go near the dining hall.
Instead, they took a straight path, breaking through walls and doors whenever blocked, doing their best to avoid the dining hall.
The demonic creature that had chased Jin Luan earlier had returned to the dining hall.
Probably a single low-level demon couldn’t push open the larger doors.
Their return route went smoothly, their sounds not disturbing the demonic creatures there.
The demonic creatures must have heard the noise, but they didn’t care.
Maybe they thought it was natural noise? Or maybe Yin Lin was more important, and they didn’t want to bother with other things.
The two were very timid.
They didn’t dare use enchantment, didn’t dare use energy burst, and didn’t release even a trace of mana.
They snuck all the way back to near the entrance, not daring to return to the original backyard.
If they came out like that, their lives would be ruined—they’d never be able to show their faces again, because there were robots deployed by the Eastern Alliance there.
They had no choice but to waste some mana.
They canceled their transformations, then transformed into magical girls again, putting their uniforms back on.
Since they were already at the exit, exposing their mana aura didn’t matter anymore.
From Yin Lin’s perspective, she perceived that Jin Luan and Huan Hong had been idling in the great hall, motionless for some reason.
Then suddenly, they “teleported” near the backyard.
Yin Lin couldn’t figure it out.
She didn’t understand how they “teleported.”
Until she heard shouting from over there:
“Fire the cannon, we’re ready to retreat!”
It was Jin Luan shouting.
Yin Lin didn’t hold back anymore.
She aimed her magic power cannon at the wall.
She didn’t dare fire at her own feet.
In video games, blowing up the ground under yourself was a displacement or jump skill.
But this wasn’t a video game; Yin Lin definitely didn’t dare detonate at her own feet.
She worried that when she fired, the demonic creatures would lock her in place, forcing her to take the full damage from her own magic power cannon.
So she blasted a wall a little farther away.
“Star-Piercing!”
She chanted her own line again.
A half-charged magic power cannon shot out.
A thick beam of light threaded through the gaps between the demonic creatures, not hitting them directly but grazing them, dealing some damage.
It hit the far wall and detonated, and a milky-white explosion ring spread rapidly.
Before that, the blast wave had already blown away the dirt and rocks.
Those flew out like fragmentation grenades.
They couldn’t break the demonic creatures’ skin; they turned to powder on impact.
Then, the few demonic creatures closest to the explosion’s center were knocked over by the shockwave.
All of that happened within two seconds.
When the milky-white explosion ring reached them, their skin and flesh began to evaporate rapidly.
Yin Lin, who was being held in a crushing embrace, also got caught in the explosion and was thrown back by the shockwave.
In the end, the milky-white explosion ring still touched her.
But this time, it was a good thing.
Yin Lin flew desperately, constantly putting up shields as she ran.
It took six magic shields before she escaped the range.
She was a mess, covered in wounds.
And those weren’t from the demonic creatures—they were self-inflicted.
The dungeon shook violently.
The dirt on the ceiling started falling off like a rain of rocks and mud.
It was about to collapse.
After the explosion, most of the demonic creatures were dead or injured, but a few were still alive.
Their superhuman physical constitution posed a huge threat to Yin Lin at this moment.
Even though she had flown fast enough to reach the backyard in a very short time,
the demonic creatures with missing limbs still caught up.
One took a huge leap from afar, charging toward Yin Lin who was about to reach the cave exit.
Then it smashed down with a fist, like a dunk in basketball, knocking Yin Lin out of the air.
The demonic creatures didn’t know the falling dirt meant a cave-in; they didn’t know it would bury everyone; they didn’t know that being buried alive would lead to suffocation and death.
They only knew they had to kill the magical girl, twist off her head, and drink her blood and eat her flesh to replenish mana.
The taste was incredibly delicious—for demonic creatures, it was a national banquet.
After Yin Lin crashed, two heavily wounded demonic creatures were already by her side, and one more was crawling over.
The farther ones were lying on the ground howling, on the verge of death.
The farthest—the demonic creatures near the magic power cannon blast point—were splattered everywhere like Prushka.
Only two demonic creatures were left to deal with Yin Lin, and they still needed at least twenty-plus seconds to completely lose mobility.
The dirt was falling faster and faster, landing on her, nearly burying her.
The reason she wasn’t buried was that the demonic creature fished her out again.
The creature grabbed her by the legs, spun her around, then hurled her straight into a wall—even smashing through the stone wall.
Sigh.
Helpless.
With a sister this weak and no super armor, what could you expect?
More and more dirt caved in, and the ground shook more violently.
This place wouldn’t hold much longer.
There was no way to give Yin Lin time to charge two Spears of Creation.
She had to sprint and escape; she couldn’t let the demonic creatures stall her.
Yin Lin burst out of the dirt and dashed toward the exit with blinding speed.
Her starting speed was maxed out.
But it was useless.
The demonic creature jumped, reached out casually, and caught her.
Come back you!
She was done.
She got locked down this time; she was probably really going to be buried alive here.
Another huge clump of dirt fell, raising the depth by about six feet in an instant, even burying the demonic creature’s lower body.
My life is over!
Because Yin Lin was so short, her entire body was already buried in the dirt.
Even the demonic creature had to fumble around like trying to catch a fish in water to find her.
Another big clump of dirt crashed down, nearly burying even the demonic creature.
Only its head was left.
It still didn’t understand what a cave-in was, still trying to find the magical girl.
But the dirt was too much of a hindrance.
The demonic creature swept around wildly with its big hands, clearing away the surrounding soil.
Finally, it found Yin Lin again and picked her up upside down.
At that moment, Miss was actually a little touched.
She sensed AIBO’s concern.
Just then, two auras rushed in at high speed.
Jin Luan was the first to return, already charged up.
Without sparing mana, she sliced off the neck of the heavily wounded demonic creature with one blade.
Even the dirt was carved into a small gully by her powerful slash.
Another demonic creature was nearby.
It grabbed Jin Luan’s knife, stopping her follow-up.
It simply grabbed the blade with its bare hand and forcibly spun Jin Luan in the air.
The weakest, Huan Hong, finally arrived.
She also didn’t spare mana and used a full-power strike.
She smacked the demonic creature’s head with her staff, leaving a dent in its skull and stunning it.
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