When Yin Lin usually fights other Demonic Creatures, because she has her Magic Shield, she can get beaten up while thinking about her fighting methods.
Only when encountering a Cadre-level Demonic Creature does she panic—like now.
Her mind is a bit overloaded, busy dealing with it, unable to figure out in such a short time how this Demonic Creature suddenly disappeared and then suddenly reappeared.
It’s like Teleport, but seems a bit different.
She continued flying away.
Although she didn’t understand the Demonic Creature’s Magic, she could confirm one thing: that Demonic Creature really wanted to get close.
Not sure if it wanted zero-distance contact or negative-distance contact, but anyway, run first and talk later.
This time, her acceleration was too slow, and the Cadre-level Demonic Creature closed in to only 20 meters.
In the Subway Tunnel, she had already reached 140 kilometers per hour, and Yin Lin was almost blown off her Wand.
At this speed, holding onto the Wand was extremely difficult.
Unlike a car, there’s no seat or windshield.
She was essentially using her physical body to withstand the astonishing wind resistance.
She could only maintain it for a few seconds.
After she accelerated to 140 kilometers per hour, the pursuing Cadre-level Demonic Creature was slowly falling behind.
Its speed was estimated at only about 135.
This was running speed from flesh legs, and that thing didn’t understand aerodynamics; it used a sloppy running posture.
If it had a coach to teach it, its speed could probably increase by more than 10%.
Once Yin Lin’s flying speed picked up, it looked like she was about to shake it off.
Sure enough, it started cheating again, using Rewind Magic once more.
The Demonic Creature disappeared again.
When it reappeared, it was closer to where Yin Lin had been, but Yin Lin had already fled far away.
Everything began to rewind, returning to the moment when she just started flying.
The chase scene played again.
The Cadre-level Demonic Creature still couldn’t catch Yin Lin, so it Rewinded again, repeating three times.
This one’s brain wasn’t very smart.
It liked to do the same thing several times and only gave up after many failures.
After figuring out its thought process, Yin Lin felt a bit more at ease and began to split her attention to observe this special Demonic Creature.
Over 3 meters tall, one eye, purple skin, no hair on its body, a humanoid monster.
Larger than an ordinary Demonic Creature, no weapons, empty-handed.
There were other differences as well.
Its blood vessels were very prominent all over its body, like a monster entwined with vines.
For now, she didn’t know this one’s special traits.
Based solely on its running speed of 135 km/h, she couldn’t judge whether it was a physical-type Demonic Creature.
Even with Rewind Magic and Teleport Magic, she still couldn’t tell if it was a magic-type Demonic Creature.
‘What if… she used her body to take a hit and test this Demonic Creature’s traits?’
After this thought occurred to her, Yin Lin immediately snapped out of it.
‘This the hell is classic villain thinking, right? Thinking oneself invincible and letting the Hero team attack.’
‘Then get delayed, or get injured by an unexpected move.’
‘No wonder people say that playing with too many long swords makes your eyes glaze over. Yin Lin, having used her Magic Shield too much, was also starting to glaze over.’
She shook her head and abandoned this dangerous idea.
After being pulled back once more, the Demonic Creature finally changed its action pattern.
Terrifying Mana emanated, mixed with a suffocating pressure.
It started roaring in place, like a person straining to take a dump.
‘Such a familiar move — isn’t that the Demonic Creature’s Energy Burst?’
‘Could it be the Energy Burst of an Elite Yimo? The kind that boosts stats to an insane level for a certain time?’
Yin Lin wasn’t going to stay and watch.
She ran, as far as she could, and built up her power first.
She didn’t need to rely on her eyes; she could use her Perception Ability to know what was happening behind.
That Demonic Creature’s aura was still skyrocketing, far exceeding the Energy Burst of those small-fry Demonic Creatures.
Strong winds were produced in the tunnel.
A faint suction force from the outside in was pulling things from far away toward the Cadre-level Demonic Creature.
That Demonic Creature’s aura kept growing and never stopped.
Not just Yin Lin’s — probably in the whole history of Humanity, such dense and massive Mana had rarely been detected.
The Mana it emitted already exceeded the Mana Yin Lin stored for a full Magic Power Cannon, not by a little, but far beyond.
Yin Lin really couldn’t help it.
She looked back again and faintly saw a weak blue light enveloping that Demonic Creature.
‘This the hell isn’t Mana, is it?’
Mana can be seen with the naked eye.
She had seen it in documentaries.
In this world, besides documentaries filming small animals and humanities, Humans had also recorded many documentaries about Demonic Creatures.
Among them were studies related to the element of “Mana.”
In several very famous incidents in the past, Humans had captured visible Mana on camera, and it was exactly this blue color.
Only when the concentration reached a certain level did it become visible to the naked eye, enveloping the body.
Even Human sensors couldn’t read correct data; they would be directly destroyed by that massive Mana.
It was like too much Mana inside the body, already reaching the limit.
That Mana was the overflow from the Demonic Creatures being overloaded.
Yin Lin felt she hadn’t seen wrong.
Behind her, that Demonic Creature that was powering up had visible Mana.
Now, not only Yin Lin, but even Huan Hong and Jin Luan, whose Perception Ability was only average, sensed it from 10 kilometers away.
The sensors set up by the Human Alliance were destroyed by the off-the-charts readings, and alarms kept sounding at the Countermeasure Center.
The experts hadn’t had time to eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and even those who had finally found time to rest were woken up.
Sensors destroyed, what to do?
What exactly happened there?
These puzzles in the eyes of the experts were as simple as eating and drinking, too easy to calculate — didn’t even need calculus, high school math could solve it.
Based on the Mana readings from sensors at the epicenter, then readings 100 meters away, then 1 kilometer away — with a simple calculation, they knew how many meters underground something was accumulating Mana.
They even calculated what was happening on site: they knew a Cadre-level Demonic Creature had appeared, Yin Lin was present, and the Demonic Creature was strengthening its body.
This was the role of the Think Tank — each person complementing each other’s strengths and weaknesses, forming a super team.
While they were still studying how to handle this anomaly, underground, Yin Lin was scared shitless.
She maxed out her speed, running as fast as she could.
The Demonic Creature finally finished strengthening and began to chase, running along the tunnel in the Industrial Zone.
Every step left deep footprints on the ground, and its speed was about to exceed Yin Lin’s.
She couldn’t help but look back again, noticing the changes in the other.
Its body was more muscular, blood vessels emitted blue light, its single eye also emitted blue light, and it was still wreathed in blue mist and light, like the Heavenly Deity in myths.
Yin Lin couldn’t even sense the exact location of the Demonic Creature anymore.
In her Perception, the thing chasing her was just a mass of condensed Mana.
This thing’s combat power definitely far surpassed that waste Biscuit Boy, and its appearance was full of pressure.
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