Chapter 79: A Twisted Product of Evil

Based on the collective accounts from the magical girls who have faced Dragon-level Dimensional Beasts, the human government estimates that Dragon-level threats range broadly from 50,000 to 200,000 in overall strength—a staggering gap.

At the pinnacle of Dragon-level stands the strongest under the title of “Ravage Light,” a force even Xingyue cannot guarantee victory against.

Although she has personally completed over ten solo missions hunting Dragon-level Dimensional Beasts, those were all early to mid-stage Dragons.

She had never encountered a pinnacle Dragon-level beast before.

In fact, humanity has never even observed a pinnacle Dragon-level Dimensional Beast directly.

Instead, Ravage Light has recorded several appearances above that level.

And now, this thing before them…

Its body resembled that of a giant centipede, but its many legs were an even more grotesque and sinister writhing mass of flesh.

The most nauseating part was its head—a bizarre sheep’s head with six eyes and three ears.

A long tongue trailed lazily from its mouth, its eyeballs swollen and bloodshot as if about to burst at any moment.

Just the sight of this abomination was enough to inflict immense psychological pressure on the other magical girls.

“You, send half of the team to deal with this thing. The rest, go after those who broke through!”

Queen Jin calmly commanded the overall battle.

She wasn’t afraid of the creature, only unsettled by her inability to pinpoint whether it was mid-stage Dragon-level or even higher.

But that unease quickly dissipated with Xingyu’s arrival.

“Queen Jin! What is this thing—?”

“Xingyu, prepare yourself mentally. It looks like it’s just the two of us against this one.”

“Wait, let me contact Manjusha!”

Sensing an instinctive unease, Xingyu reached out to Manjusha stationed at the Magic Alliance Headquarters in Seidheim.

“It’s useless. All signals here are being jammed.”

Queen Jin spoke coolly; she had already tried.

“Then why not establish communication magic?”

“I don’t know how.”

Meanwhile, Manjusha, ready to dispatch aid at a moment’s notice, received Xingyu’s message.

“Xingyu, how’s the situation on your end?”

“That Dragon-level Dimensional Beast that broke through to the Nine Abyssal Seas has been taken down. My sister—she can transform again too.”

“Your sister?”

Manjusha smiled with relief.

“That’s great news.”

“Xingyu!”

Queen Jin’s voice crackled with urgency.

“Mm, Manjusha, can you take a look at this? I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before.”

Xingyu switched the feed to the monstrous creature attached to the giant star ring.

Manjusha’s eyes snapped open—twin orbs filled with a dreamlike glow.

The moment they opened, countless shimmering golden particles burst forth and danced wildly in the air around her.

“That thing… impossible!”

“What’s wrong, Manjusha? You recognize it?”

Manjusha seemed not to hear.

She stared at the image, recalling an entry she had read long ago in the Magic Alliance’s archives.

Isn’t this the same beast from many years ago?

Back when the magical girls had yet to establish themselves in society, this Ravage Light-level Dimensional Beast suddenly appeared.

“Don’t act rashly. Everyone, fall back. That’s a Ravage Light-level creature. I’ll contact Xingyue immediately.”

Manjusha’s voice was grave.

“No way. I’ve personally seen true Ravage Light-levels. I’m sure this one isn’t.”

Xingyu was firm.

Four years ago, she had fought in the Ravage Light campaign in the Nine Abyssal Seas.

Facing a Ravage Light-level beast head-on, she was one of the rare few who felt paralyzed by fear, her legs trembling under the oppressive dread.

The inhuman pressure from that Ravage Light was worlds apart from the creature before them now.

“Regardless, I have to go. Don’t—”

As she spoke, another distress signal came from a different zone of the Boundary Sea.

Manjusha frowned deeply as she weighed which side to assist first.

Since Xingyu was so certain, she decided to trust her judgment.

Besides, there were three Tenth Seats over there, so the situation should be manageable.

“Xingyu, be careful. That thing is the Ravage Light-level Dimensional Beast from years ago.”

“Understood.”

Leaving the situation fully in Xingyu’s hands, Manjusha still felt uneasy.

【That Ravage Light should be dead, that’s what the records say, but…】

She hadn’t become a magical girl at the time and wasn’t privy to all the details.

She only knew that this Ravage Light had been killed by the Magic Alliance before the existence of the Tenth Seats—not sealed, but killed.

No one knew how it was done.

Even four years ago, with zero-ranked magic and multiple Tenth Seats on the field, it took the sacrifice of four Tenth Seats just to barely seal it away.

“I’ll have to investigate later.”

Manjusha closed her dreamlike eyes, calm and still like a sea under a moonlit night—no wind, no waves.

Xingyue had already located the Dragon-level Dimensional Beast that had slipped through the Boundary Sea and into the mainland.

Manjusha was currently in charge of overall strategy and could not afford to lose composure.

***

“Manjusha said she’s leaving this to us but told us to be careful.”

Xingyu and Queen Jin discussed how to handle the disgusting creature.

The six eyes on the sheep’s head locked onto their side with unblinking vigilance, its malevolent gaze filling Xingyu with waves of nausea.

Most Dimensional Beasts they had encountered were bizarre in form, but their bodily structures still conformed somewhat to human aesthetics—somehow coherent.

But this sheep-headed centipede looked like a ‘twisted product’ born from the Boundary Sea itself, filled with an overwhelming sense of wrongness.

“We can’t let it continue like this. There are still survivors on the giant star ring. Can you still move, Xingyu?”

“Of course. Let’s go.”

Xingyu checked her remaining magical energy.

The psychic pillar still had some time left.

“Good. Queen Jin, you draw its attention. I’ll prepare a First Rank spell—”

Suddenly, a dazzling pink star descended in the corner of the Boundary Sea checkpoint.

Xingyu gasped, “Erella?”

The witch stood high above, arms crossed, chest out, gazing ahead with an arrogant posture that seemed to scorn the entire battlefield.

She appeared to be watching something without any movement.

The only thing breaking her intimidating presence was the small kid behind her wearing an Ultraman mask.

“What? What’s she doing there?”

Queen Jin was shocked.

She could only hope Erella wasn’t there to interfere.

Just praying the woman wouldn’t kidnap and ‘discipline’ them after the battle was a blessing in itself!

“Never mind that, save the people first!”

Queen Jin turned away. Golden qi billowed around her like a thick fog, striking fiercely against the Boundary Sea’s howling wind.

Xingyu began casting her own magic to create an opening for Queen Jin, while also preparing her First Rank spell to deliver a decisive blow to the sheep-headed centipede.

Besides them, more than a dozen other magical girls, including Fiyu and Zhou Xi, joined in the coordinated assault, weaving a large-scale linked spell for teamwork.

“What is Erella doing?”

Fiyu couldn’t help but be distracted.

Her intuition told her that Erella was suppressing some kind of fury.