Chapter 78: Bloom

“This guy is just too powerful…”

Once again knocked back by the monster, Luo Shuangyue felt a dull ache in her teeth. The monster’s strength was overwhelming, like a flawless fighter with no weaknesses at all.

Its body kept crumbling, but at this pace, she wouldn’t last until the monster completely collapsed.

No, I can’t drag this out any longer…

“Night Scale, buy me some time!” Luo Shuangyue shouted at Night Scale.

Luo Shuangyue wasn’t the type who pinned all her hopes on a single powerful skill. Unlike magical girls who liked to use magic cannons to decide victory, she preferred to string together smaller skills into a combo for the win.

This tactic worked well against people, but now it exposed a huge weakness.

These small skills couldn’t even pierce the monster’s defenses!

With no other choice, Luo Shuangyue had to use her ultimate move—a trump card she’d only used a handful of times.

And just like a magical girl’s magic cannon, her ultimate move needed to be charged before it could be unleashed. In this situation, she could only hope that Night Scale could buy her enough time.

Hearing Luo Shuangyue’s shout, Night Scale didn’t hesitate. She lunged at the monster, wrapping herself around it.

She also understood that dragging things out would only end badly. She was just a wisp of demonic energy to begin with, so even if her current body was destroyed, it didn’t matter.

At worst, her consciousness would return to the sealedcard and continue being imprisoned.

It wasn’t as if anything worse could happen…

The monster roared in anger and tore at Night Scale, who clung stubbornly to its body. In a little over ten seconds, it used its terrifying strength to rip Night Scale to shreds.

The torn Night Scale turned into a lighter blackmist, merging into the ground. She’d done all she could; the rest was up to Luo Shuangyue.

A little over ten seconds was neither long nor short. But in this brief time bought by Night Scale’s sacrifice, Luo Shuangyue finished her charge. A layer of gray light had already coated the scythe in her hand, and a dense deathaura seeped out from it.

“WitheredFinale!”

Giant black-purple butterfly wings unfurled behind her. Countless fluttering deathbutterflies emerged from the void, forming a massive butterflyvortex around Luo Shuangyue.

Her body silently dissolved and merged into the swirling butterflies. At once, the butterflies surged like a torrent, sweeping toward the monster.

Where her attacks had only sparked against its hide before, now they tore through its body, making the monster let out a shrill howl.

The butterflies kept ripping at the monster, leaving gaping wounds across its form. As the wounds multiplied, the monster’s collapse sped up rapidly.

Just a few more rounds like this, and it would—

Suddenly, a mass of pitch-blackmist shot from the monster’s wounds, shattering all the butterflies at once. At the same time, Luo Shuangyue’s true body was exposed before the monster.

A black beam of light burst from its wound, instantly piercing her left shoulder and sending her flying.

Not good… As she was knocked away, Luo Shuangyue realized something was wrong. She hadn’t expected the monster to strike back with such a cunning move.

I was careless.

Her pierced left shoulder had gone completely numb. She could feel her magic power surging toward the wound, but the monster was already on her.

No time to dodge!

A thick pillar of black blood slammed into Luo Shuangyue like a battering ram, embedding her deep into the ground.

The impact knocked her out of her transformed state.

This scene entered Xia Mo’s eyes, making her heart skip a beat.

The aura of the Underworld Butterfly has vanished?

Could it be… No, impossible, she can’t be hurt!

A surge of fury erupted in her heart. The monster, still pressing its attack, now appeared to Xia Mo as a true enemy.

Her comrades had fallen one after another, yet she could only stand there, powerless. How could she accept that?!

I don’t want to just hide behind my comrades and be protected. I want to stand with them and protect others!

The purple glow around Xia Mo intensified, and cracks spread across the magicstaff in her hand.

But at this moment, Xia Mo ignored such trivial things. Only one thought filled her mind: to kill this monster and avenge Night Scale and Underworld Butterfly!

Sensing the fluctuations of magic power from Xia Mo’s side, the monster slowly turned to face her.

This let Xia Mo see the wounds Underworld Butterfly had inflicted on the monster’s front—its weakest point right now!

“Disappear from this world!”

With a shout, the magicstaff in Xia Mo’s hand shattered completely, and the magic power stored within erupted into a torrent of the magic power, surging at the monster.

The purple torrent of the magic power crashed into the monster, forcing it backward.

But it still wasn’t enough. The monster hadn’t suffered fatal damage.

“In the end… I still can’t do it?” Xia Mo tried to pour out more magic, but this magic cannon was already her limit.

Was this really the end?

“Senior, don’t forget about us!”

Clear voices rang out behind Xia Mo. Instantly, two slightly weaker powers flowed into her body, replenishing her nearly exhausted magic.

Luo Shuangxing and Xiao Mimi stood behind her, each placing a hand on her shoulders and pouring all their magic power into Xia Mo.

“Go, Senior! Let this ugly guy see what we can do!” Luo Shuangxing shouted, cheering Xia Mo on.

Xia Mo didn’t look back. She just nodded, teeth clenched, and fused all her power into the magic cannon.

She couldn’t lose!

She wouldn’t lose!

A hint of white and brown flickered within the purple magic cannon. The monster finally showed signs of exhaustion as the renewed magic cannon battered it. It roared in pain, its body crumbling away in great chunks.

Xia Mo had entered a state of complete self-forgetfulness. At this moment, she didn’t even notice that four wing-likefloatinggunturrets had appeared behind her. As soon as these turrets materialized, they aimed at the monster and unleashed a barrage of attacks.

By rights, Xia Mo’s magic power shouldn’t have been enough to sustain such terrifying consumption. The magic power that Luo Shuangxing and Xiao Mimi provided wasn’t much, since they were only new recruits.

But, as everyone knows, magical girls are beings of pure ideals.

When her comrades fell one by one, when her juniors entrusted their last strength to her, Xia Mo’s breakthrough at this moment felt inevitable.

Xia Mo’s flower had already bloomed!