Yin Lin’s flying speed was faster.
The Demonic Creature launched into a crazed sprint, its speed absurdly fast, faster than Yin Lin in flight.
‘Cancel the Magic Power Cannon, raise a Feng Wall and speed away?’
Yin Lin was terrified.
At this moment, her mind was making a choice.
‘Or should I continue preparing the Magic Power Cannon? It’ll be ready to fire in forty seconds.’
‘But can I really hold out for forty seconds?’
She recalled her first battle with a Cadre-level Demonic Creature.
Back then, she encountered Lightning Man.
Forty seconds was a grueling ordeal, feeling like forty years.
This time, she was facing a Cadre-level Demonic Creature whose mana was leaking so heavily that it was visible to the naked eye.
Could she really last forty seconds?
‘What if… I just run? Stop charging.’
Her life flashed before her eyes.
She thought of Huang Yijun, Qian Dehao, and all the people she knew.
If she canceled the Magic Power Cannon now, the next charge would take another five minutes.
‘Is there really a chance to charge for another five minutes?’
Yin Lin fell into the classic sunk cost dilemma.
Recharge 648 for gacha and got nothing.
Recharge another 128 and you’ll hit the guarantee.
Only ten minutes left until the banner ends.
So, should she recharge or not?
When the charge reached 92%, the Demonic Creature caught up to her side.
Its speed was faster than she had imagined.
No time to think.
It was over ten meters away.
The Demonic Creature attacked first.
Wasn’t it bare-handed?
It only had a Mysterious Item B.
Could it hit her from over ten meters away?
It performed an extended slide on the ground, gradually gaining distance from Yin Lin.
“No way, dude, it’s already thirty meters away? Fifty meters!”
The distance kept growing.
It braked and performed a charging motion for a punch.
Eighty meters away now, and still charging a punch?
Finally, the Demonic Creature struck.
Yin Lin sensed the anomaly.
Nine months of combat experience told her: no matter what the Demonic Creature was brewing, dodge first.
While flying at high speed, she barely managed to adjust her wand by a tiny angle and made a small turn.
The Demonic Creature’s fist came out.
Its arm trailed blue mana visible to the naked eye as it flew forth with the punch.
The ground split open.
The cement surface was ripped up as if hit by a typhoon.
‘Was that the Demonic Creature’s punch wind?!’
This was far beyond a level-100 typhoon.
It was countless times fiercer.
The punch wind carved a ten-meter-deep trench into the ground.
The surrounding factories were shattered into pieces by the wind.
A visibly blue airwave pushed forward, creating a twenty-degree fan-shaped destructive range.
The punch wind brushed past Yin Lin.
Even though she dodged, she was still within its coverage.
She didn’t know how to describe the feeling.
Probably being spun dry in a washing machine felt like this.
She was grazed by the edge of the punch wind.
Her speed suddenly increased several times, giving her a huge, intense push.
Even though she wasn’t hit head-on, she completely lost control.
She couldn’t maintain her flight posture, tumbling and spinning through the air.
Her Magic Shield shattered instantly.
She closed her eyes, protected her head, held onto her wand, and kept casting Magic Shield.
This punch sent Yin Lin flying two kilometers.
She rolled another few hundred meters on the ground before stopping.
To be fair, the starry sky was beautiful.
‘Wasn’t I in the subway tunnel? How can I see the starry sky?’
But lying on the ground, she opened her eyes and struggled to get up.
She was injured.
She looked at the surroundings.
This was indeed the Basement Level 2 subway tunnel, but the ceiling had been blown off.
The soil that had covered the ceiling was blown to dust by that punch wind, revealing a cone-shaped opening.
From Basement Level 2, she could see the buildings on the surface.
Not only that, even the Earth had been given a middle part.
The high clouds were pushed aside by the punch wind.
‘What the hell kind of monster is this?!’
Yin Lin felt like she had peed her pants.
‘If Magical Girls had that function, I’d definitely be wet.’
She had cast Magic Shield and only been grazed by the punch wind, yet she flew over two kilometers.
‘If I’d been hit directly, would I have become a wife cake?’
She snapped back to reality.
The massive mana mass had already arrived beside her.
Yin Lin quickly scrambled up, letting the wand drag her into fast flight, sidestepping a few meters.
The Demonic Creature was now just a few meters away.
It threw another quick punch with a short charge.
Yin Lin dodged quickly, and this punch only grazed her again.
What was a quick punch to the Demonic Creature was a catastrophic finishing blow to humans.
Yin Lin was caught in the punch wind again, flying off another kilometer.
Her Magic Shield shattered once more.
Basement Level 2 once again got a nine-hundred-meter-deep hole.
The subway tunnel above collapsed.
The surface was also severely damaged.
Houses kept collapsing, and many roads were destroyed.
The Eastern Alliance’s reconnaissance drone discovered the hole on the surface and had a machine watching the situation below.
Yuwenbo, who was doing an emergency news broadcast on the street, started a new broadcast, aiming at the huge crack in the ground.
And everyone’s old friend Liang Tai, who had been kicked out of the rescue scene, continued his live broadcast, filming the new battlefield.
“Family members, we’re on site again.”
He was the fastest streamer to reach the new battlefield.
He launched a drone into the deep pit and started filming.
The viewers in the Live Broadcast Room naturally went crazy with gifts.
Liang Tai’s footage was clearer than the television station’s and shot from the closest distance.
They could see that the hole went straight to Basement Level 2.
A Demonic Creature radiating blue light was fighting Yin Lin.
To be precise, Yin Lin was being beaten, completely suppressed.
When that Demonic Creature punched, a thousand-meter-deep hole appeared in the ground.
A leg sweep excavated a parking lot underground.
An uppercut opened a huge hole on the surface, and also shaved the clouds above the Earth, giving them a new hairstyle.
Yin Lin couldn’t even counterattack.
She didn’t dare charge.
She was dodging with all her might.
To get more information, the Eastern Alliance had no choice but to open Liang Tai’s live stream and watch.
The Countermeasure Center had complained about this several times.
The footage captured by that streamer gave them more intelligence than the Countermeasure Center.
The Acting Person-in-Charge yawned and took a few more sips of coffee.
The dark circles under his eyes were very obvious.
Pointing at the projection screen, he said:
“Based on the intelligence we have now, this Demonic Creature is Cadre-level. Its mana reserve is very high. It can rapidly absorb mana from the surrounding air. We’re not sure if it can absorb mana from Magical Girls.”
“We need to give this Demonic Creature a code name. Let’s call it Lan Wang.”
At that moment, an expert next to him suddenly interjected:
“I have a different opinion. How about calling it Barber Male?”
The Acting Person-in-Charge frowned.
“What do you mean? Why so weird? What kind of code name is that?”
“Continuing the Eastern Alliance’s consistent naming convention. It needs an international name without losing our Eastern characteristics, so a combination of Chinese and English.”
The expert explained.
The Acting Person-in-Charge still had objections, but seeing that the experts beside him had naturally accepted the name, he thought about it and decided not to pursue it anymore.
And that was that.