“ What are you talking about?”
Qiao Mi’er Wells stepped back two paces, signaling the Special Operations Section to stand ready.
“ Ah, your heart rate just sped up, didn’t it? Your pores are contracting… Looks like I guessed right.”
“ I don’t care who you are. If you’re in cahoots with those people down there, then die!”
The Special Operations Section aimed all their weapons at her.
Luo You, however, showed a look of surprise.
“ You already know my identity and still dare to point weapons at me?”
“ Who do you think you are? Someone worth remembering?”
Qiao Mi’er Wells sneered coldly.
Luo You felt awkward.
She’d only been gone for seven years; it couldn’t be that bad…
Xing Yue had been missing for far longer and was still renowned everywhere.
Had her own reputation only circulated within the Magic Alliance?
“ Everyone, go in.”
“ Understood. We’ll make sure to take her down.”
Qiao Mi’er Wells handed over command of the situation here to his subordinates, his attention more focused on the Organization.
The Special Operations Section’s First Unit was the spearhead of the entire department, the direct counterpart to the Zero Squad.
Based on the异人组织’s classification of ordinary humans’ strength, every member of this unit was at least at the Grandmaster level, each capable of single-handedly taking on a fully armed tactical squad.
Over the past decade, they had solved multiple international terror cases that shook the world, earning them the nickname “Ghost God Squad.”
Unless facing abnormal entities like Magical Girls, normally, who else could handle so many experts at once?
“Move out together!”
All members of the First Unit surged forward.
The overwhelming pressure of Grandmaster-level psychics clung to their backs like ghostly shadows, moving like dragons and snakes, awe-inspiring in every way!
“ If anyone screws up in her hands, you’re docked a whole month’s salary!”
“ Haha, that’s no fun. If she even touches my finger, I’ll just cut the finger off myself!”
“ Don’t go all out at once. I’m curious about what she looks like under that mask. She’s got a nice figure, hopefully not one of those face-reveal killers.”
The team bantered in English, full of disdain Luo You couldn’t understand, but they remained cautious.
After all, this woman had silently approached their section chief earlier—she must have some skills.
In an instant, a dozen members of the First Unit swarmed Luo You.
Only Qiao Mi’er Wells remained, calmly surveying the whole situation, utterly confident of victory.
“ They say the异人组织’s Zero Squad is unmatched, and it’s true… only a dozen of them and yet they haven’t collapsed before a Third Seat Magical Girl right away.”
Qiao Mi’er Wells fixed his gaze on the side.
Or rather, on Xing Yu.
The strength of a Tenth Seat nearly filled him with despair.
He wouldn’t dare say if his entire unit died, they could even harm Xing Yu in the slightest.
“ Magical Girls… laughable. They’re clearly monsters cloaked in sheep’s clothing with overwhelming destructive power…” he muttered.
【 Wait, Elira… that name sounds familiar somewhere.】
Qiao Mi’er Wells fell into thought.
Had he heard it from his former superior?
Boom!
“ Shit!”
A tremendous explosion erupted behind him, stirring a wave in the界海 (Boundary Sea) that crashed toward him, but he dodged.
“ You idiot! Watch your back! Don’t you know I’m—?!”
Before he could finish, something that looked like a puddle of rotten mud landed at his feet.
What the hell?
Qiao Mi’er Wells looked down, his legs trembling slightly.
The deputy section chief who had just sworn an oath before him now bent backwards grotesquely, his body covered in what looked like brutal abuse.
Subcutaneous tissue was bleeding heavily; his limbs twisted like a twisted rope; his eyeballs were missing.
Qiao Mi’er Wells had seen this kind of death before.
Pilots who suffered overload in training and couldn’t endure would die like this.
But this deputy chief’s death was too horrifying, as if some unnatural speed had forcibly torn him apart.
“ What’s going on?!”
He suddenly looked up as several more corpses, all in the same state, were thrown before him like garbage.
“ The rumored Special Operations Section First Unit, the counterpart to Zero Squad, is just like this… so far behind.
Zero Squad can at least put up a decent counterattack; you lot are just a bunch of vomit patched together.”
Following the voice, he saw several team members trapped inside a golden-cast divine earth, frozen in place, faces full of terror.
Inside the golden divine earth, only one could move—like a deity high above all else.
Luo You’s hair had faded back to silver—using the Crimson Authority was too draining to maintain constantly; she only needed to keep it on to confirm no threats were nearby before turning it off.
She snapped her fingers lightly; the brilliance of the Three Worlds Ten Directions Pure Land turned into countless blades, shredding the remaining team members to pieces.
“ You—”
Qiao Mi’er Wells’s eyes bulged with rage.
“ W-who exactly are you… (voice trembling)”
“ Didn’t I say? Elira. If you still can’t remember, maybe ask that Magical Girl over there.
After all, she was… mine.”
Luo You licked her lips.
At that moment, the others noticed the situation here as well.
“ What a joke! Who are you? Besides Magical Girls, what else can—”
“ Pfft~~” Luo You chuckled softly.
Then she said:
“ Psychics may have powers beyond ordinary humans, but compared to Magical Girls—who are outright unscientific beings—it’s like characters from martial arts novels clashing with those from immortal cultivation stories. The outcome is inevitable.”
“ They’ve formed a systematic use of magical power, with diverse and complex types that can be passed down through the experience of predecessors.
Psychics’ powers, on the other hand, are varied and chaotic, completely unsystematic, with no unity or adaptability.
The type of psychic ability you have defines your upper limit.”
“ If you had a power to rewind time, I might think highly of you, but most of your psychic powers are… sigh, still mortal!”
“ Maybe in the future there’ll be ways to better unlock psychics’ potential, but for now… you’re far from it.”
Luo You’s words were blunt and passed directly into everyone’s ears.
The only response was silence.
“ Lady Elira…”
The Zero Squad’s leader, Zero, watched from afar, his expression complex.
Was it because of words like Elira’s that the Moon faction allowed their subordinates to enact such plans?
Besides her, another person was left dazed.
“Elira…? How could she… didn’t Xing Yue say she defected.”
Xing Yu stood frozen for a long time, her voluptuous body trembling uncontrollably.
【 Don’t be afraid… I am no longer who I was before.
I have a chance against her now!】
【 I must take her down, bring her before my little sister, and make her atone!】
The fire of revenge ignited in her eyes.
“Elira!!”
“ Hmm?”
Luo You ignored Xing Yu rushing at her and continued talking to Qiao Mi’er Wells:
“ To continue from before, if Magical Girls are the immortal cultivators who overwhelm you, then I’m the one who refines them in the cauldron, seeking the Dao through desire…”
“ Bah! You think it’ll be like before? This time, we’ll definitely take you down!”
Xing Yu shouted.
Luo You sneered.
“ Just heard the exact same opening line from your colleague recently, thick with the scent of defeat!”
“ Whether true or not, you’ll find out with your own body!”
“ Yada~ So scary! I just saved you, you know?”
Luo You effortlessly dodged and parried against Xing Yu, pointing at Qiao Mi’er Wells: “That guy planned for you and the异人组织 to destroy each other, and then finish you off too.”
“ A pitiful scheme of divide and conquer!”
Xing Yu snorted coldly, summoning magnificent magical constructs around her, dazzling magical shells hurtling toward Luo You.
“ Ah, is that so? You think I need to resort to schemes against you? You underestimate me.”
Luo You stood her ground without dodging.
The Three Worlds Ten Directions Pure Land expanded, swallowing all the imposing attacks, then reflected them back.
The principle of one trick to master them all never failed!
Then—
Behind Xing Yu appeared a massive mirror—Innate Magic: Mirror World.
Second-level Magic: Flash Burst.
Invisible, dazzling light refracted infinitely inside the Mirror World, stealing Luo You’s sight and rushing at her.
“ Not learning your lesson… hmm?”
Luo You sensed something wrong.
Despite the terrifying light, after entering the Pure Land, it bore no burden.
It was as if a bright flashlight had been shone inside, meant to intimidate.
Then a few harmless magic shells followed, absorbed by the Pure Land, and then nothing else.
Luo You’s mind raced as she instantly released the little energy stored in the Pure Land, then expanded it again.
Swish!
A beam of truly powerful magical light froze before her eyes—if she hadn’t preemptively anticipated, she would have been bound by it now.
“ You think after all this time, we’d remain ignorant of you?”
Xing Yu stepped on a magic array; the truly powerful magic only began to form now.
“ Three Worlds Ten Directions Pure Land… that’s what you call it, right?
In the past, this move was unstoppable in your hands, almost no one could hurt you, but precisely because you used it too often, we studied and found its weakness.”
She raised two fingers and said: “Two seconds.”
“ Your Three Worlds Ten Directions Pure Land can only last about two seconds per release.
During that time, you can swallow huge attacks.
But before you use up the stored energy, you can’t deploy the Pure Land a second time.”
“So, just like I’m doing now, using harmless attacks to bait you into deploying the Pure Land, preventing you from storing enough energy.
Then I’ll delay for about a second and strike the gap before you can deploy it again, dealing damage to you.”
“ Although difficult in practice, once we break your invincible golden body, you’re no longer unbeatable.
Surrender now, Elira.”
The powerful magic array was complete; Xing Yu hovered confidently before Luo You.
Luo You calmly faced her, unmoving.
“ What? Just cracking this move means you’ve run out of tricks?”
Xing Yu felt a faint unease stirring within.