It glanced at her, then looked away, focusing intently on Yin Lin’s direction as if its eyes could see through walls.
Huan Hong’s appearance only earned half a second of the Lifa Male’s attention.
To be precise, the Lifa Male looked down on both Huan Hong and Old Wang, not just Huan Hong alone.
Did the Lifa Male look down on Huan Hong?
Of course not.
It treated them both the same—equal disdain.
Old Wang followed beside Huan Hong, clutching her skirt.
The Demonic Creature stood near the cave entrance, appearing to be in a contemplative pose. It paused briefly, no longer attacking in a rush.
Huan Hong drew closer from the sky, holding Old Wang in her arms, her body trembling.
“Old Wang, what is that blue thing? It looks terrifying.”
“That’s mana of extremely high concentration. Don’t push me—I’m scared too.”
Old Wang’s little claws also grabbed onto Huan Hong, trying to hide behind her.
“I feel like if I get hit once, I’ll die.”
“If I get hit, I’ll return to Contract Island too.”
They had a very clear understanding of their own abilities.
At a height of several hundred meters, she adjusted her angle.
Huan Hong was already familiar with this—she knew exactly which angle allowed her to hit a ground target.
Without any foreplay, she activated her strongest state directly: Burst Aura Reinforcement plus Magic Shield.
Her mana was nearly bottomed out now. She could probably only sustain it for a short while, barely enough to pull off one final strike.
She only had one thing to do: control this Demonic Creature, then retreat.
She unleashed Fallen Heaven Strike once more, accelerating downward like a meteor.
Old Wang also separated from her embrace, seeming to be brewing something.
Yin Lin, underground, sensed the change in Huan Hong’s mana. She knew Huan Hong had activated her Burst Aura Reinforcement and that she was slamming down toward the Lifa Male on the ground.
Clearly, she was trying to create an opportunity for Yin Lin.
Yin Lin understood Huan Hong’s intention and began to move, flying toward the sinkhole that had collapsed from the tunnel, getting closer and closer to the Lifa Male.
Yin Lin was worried, but she still acted.
Even if Huan Hong managed to stagger the Demonic Creature, how would she escape? How would she get out of the Magic Power Cannon’s explosion range?
Yin Lin was puzzled.
Huan Hong was too weak—there was no way she could withstand the damage from the Magic Power Cannon.
The two Magical Girls were about to form a dual attack from the left and above.
With doubt, Yin Lin reached the sinkhole, now less than a hundred meters from the Demonic Creature.
Huan Hong finally landed.
Now she was both angry and scared.
This Demonic Creature knew she was attacking from the sky. All it needed to do was move a dozen meters, and Huan Hong would lose her target, making the attack useless.
Yet the Lifa Male refused to take even that small step. It stood there waiting, its eyes only on Yin Lin, ignoring Huan Hong entirely.
It wasn’t until Huan Hong was just over ten meters above its head, about to strike in the next instant, that the Demonic Creature’s single eye finally moved, glancing at her again.
It swiftly raised its hand, casually catching Huan Hong’s all-out staff strike with the back of its hand.
Its massive body didn’t sway at all, standing upright.
Its body could withstand the blow, but the ground could not.
Huan Hong’s Fallen Heaven Strike, along with the Demonic Creature, smashed two meters deep into the earth, half of the creature’s body buried.
She failed to stagger the Lifa Male, couldn’t even trigger the Rewind Magic—she wasn’t worthy of eating that spell.
But she still managed to hard-CC the Demonic Creature for a few seconds.
Why?
Because the terrain had changed, as if trapped by Demacia Prince’s Cage.
The Demonic Creature needed to climb out of this pit to continue moving, which would cost it a few seconds.
A thick Magic Power Cannon came flying, startling the Lifa Male.
What was worse—Yin Lin actually fired.
Huan Hong was also frightened out of her wits. Both of them felt death approaching.
At that moment, Huan Hong’s life flashed before her eyes.
She recalled her school days, the carefree campus. There was a large track field where she ran backward, free of worry.
Huh?
Running backward?
Huan Hong snapped back to reality, finding herself at a height of a hundred meters, plummeting downward.
She was using her full power to attack the Lifa Male on the ground.
Something felt off—a déjà vu that this had happened before.
No time to think.
She continued falling at full force.
Just as she was about to strike the Lifa Male, the Demonic Creature didn’t even look at her. It casually waved a hand, as if shooing a fly.
Not only did it break her all-out attack, but it also blasted her a hundred meters away. She rolled dozens of times on the ground, and even her Magic Shield was broken.
Just the palm wind alone sent Huan Hong, who was dozens of meters away, flying.
It almost broke her Transformation State. Only a faint trace of mana remained to maintain it.
Huan Hong failed to hit the Lifa Male.
But the matter wasn’t over yet.
Yin Lin flew to the sinkhole entrance, returned to the surface, and was about to fire the Magic Power Cannon.
At that moment, another small figure fell from the sky.
Because this one was too tiny, it didn’t even earn a glance from the Lifa Male.
It was precisely this contempt that brought a crisis upon it.
Old Wang landed a few meters from the Demonic Creature, instantly unleashing an enormous amount of mana. A visible shockwave of air burst outward with force.
Both the sudden eruption of mana and the fierce shockwave surprised Yin Lin.
Even the Lifa Male, a Cadre-level Demonic Creature, was pushed off balance by this special mana-infused shockwave, stumbling a step.
Its left hand opened, and a small object was flung from its palm.
Yin Lin noticed this detail but had no time to dwell on it. She seized the opportunity and fired again.
Old Wang was a bit weakened after unleashing that violent shockwave. He forced himself to run, knowing well that if he didn’t flee, he would be blown up by the Magic Power Cannon.
The Magical Girl and her Contract Beast’s thrilling Combination Technique took effect.
The Magic Power Cannon was almost about to hit the Lifa Male. It was still off balance, about to regain its footing.
Strange.
In theory, this stumble should have recovered quickly. Why was it taking so long?
Looking closely, they realized it hadn’t prioritized controlling its balance. Instead, it used its left hand to reach for the dropped object and caught it back.
The Magic Power Cannon struck it a fraction of a second later.
A milky-white explosion spread rapidly outward, kicking up sand and rocks.
A chunk of the Lifa Male’s body instantly vanished.
Unfortunately, the Magic Power Cannon couldn’t expand further. It suddenly stopped, slowly shrinking back into a beam of light.
The blown-off part of the Demonic Creature’s body also regenerated, restoring it to its state before the injury.
The Lifa Male activated Rewind Magic again.
But this time, there was a slight change. It didn’t rewind to before Yin Lin fired. Instead, it rewound to the moment it had caught back that little object in its palm—a fraction of a second before the Magic Power Cannon struck it.