"You're really troublesome." Hibiscus gritted her teeth and also released pressure to push back Jin Ruochu's out-of-control magic power release.
She probably had no choice but to fight.
It was quite easy, showing it was just rootless duckweed.
"Origin without mental support is just a manic episode." The girl stared at a stumbling figure appearing from the distant ward, emanating black mist and seemingly roaring in response.
Much better than imagined—she had thought Jin Ruochu would be distorted and mutated in appearance too, but this body was quite resilient, perfectly accommodating fusion technology.
This performance was because magical girl power was losing control, colliding with Disaster Beasts to produce a strange reaction, easily drawing out a novice magical girl's power to vent wildly, resulting in an accident. After figuring this out, Hibiscus felt somewhat relieved, since she didn't want to fight a mutated Jin Ruochu.
She strode forward actively, with people constantly falling beside and behind her.
The Origin collision between both sides spread out, making the entire experimental park groan with creaking sounds. All life forms with consciousness were without exception shocked to the point of blank minds.
Bang!
Suddenly Hibiscus stumbled forward involuntarily. Halfway there, she used completely superhuman center-of-gravity control to abruptly stop her form. In front was a surgical knife standing straight up.
With magical girl physique, hitting it head-on wouldn't matter, but this surgical knife aimed at her eyes—the damage probably wouldn't be weak.
Hibiscus moved her foot aside, frowning.
She would never make such a low-level mistake as tripping. It was probably magic influence... Before she could figure it out, a nearby medicine cabinet crashed over with a whoosh. A series of anesthetics fell to the ground and quickly evaporated, spreading. Many staff members already sound asleep now began deep dreaming.
Hibiscus quickly covered her nose and mouth to suppress the drug effects. Combined with her strong physique, she avoided fainting on the spot, but the continuous strange attacks still made her heart race.
She roughly understood intelligence about the strongest magic of each series, but actual contact was completely different.
"Roar!"
Jin Ruochu, covered in black aura, covered her face with both hands and roared repeatedly, carrying rolling magic power sweeping out. Various chemical reagent bottles in the narrow corridor cracked and leaked. Even ordinary hospitals would breed dangerous chemicals this way, let alone research institutes with plenty of lethal stuff. If the berserk magical girl continued causing havoc, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Hibiscus's figure disappeared from the spot. The next moment, Jin Ruochu flew out of the narrow corridor with a bang, rolling into the open park area. She instinctively got up, shaking her head.
Even with unclear thinking, she understood some strange phenomenon had just occurred.
What happened?
Why did the person suddenly disappear?
"Whatever!" After another roar, she actively pounced forward but was kicked away by Hibiscus.
Clang.
The moment they separated, a huge steel support column from the rooftop came crashing down, hitting the silver-haired girl. Under gravitational acceleration, the enormous force smashed a deep pit in the concrete ground. Hibiscus in the center of the crater touched her bleeding forehead. Green light flickered and quickly healed it.
She should be the puzzled one. The attack clearly hit and feedback showed the enemy was repelled, but obviously Jin Ruochu was unharmed, still lively and jumping.
Attack hit, damage ineffective.
Worthy of being called "one of the noble damage immunity mechanisms" by users—truly troublesome. Sands of Time and Small Universe immunity were in late stages, but Fortune and Misfortune was in early stages. Simply ridiculous. Fortunately, they also provided enough intelligence:
The damage as "misfortune" was transferred to a random lucky audience member on site—like an unlucky person beside Jin Ruochu who was clearly unconscious but arched like a shrimp from pain.
Setting aside late-stage super mechanism confrontation cases, early-stage limitations were quite large.
First, transferable damage had an upper limit.
Second, lucky audience members had to be within 100 meters or all damage would be borne by oneself.
Third, specific operation was closely related to the caster's own magic power.
Just as Hibiscus was thinking, Jin Ruochu pounced again, throwing a thunderous punch at her face with much more force than at the start. But facing a girl who had already integrated her power and experienced life-and-death trials, it was full of openings. She lightly kicked and the girl lost her form. But the next moment Jin Ruochu supported herself with one hand, yet her opponent moved faster. At this moment, Hibiscus's entire body was like a drawn bow storing power, suddenly pushing her out.
"Remember how we separated when we first met?" The girl with blurred consciousness couldn't hear this sentence clearly, only the howling wind in her ears.
She flew into the air like being hit by a high-speed train. The damage transferred halfway lost its capture range, and immediately her body's bones creaked and cracked all over. Jin Ruochu temporarily lost mobility. Even so, Hibiscus leaped into the air and punched her down into the park's abandoned uninhabited area.
Changfeng Financial Group was really wealthy—areas slightly contaminated with infection were simply abandoned. Thanks to this, it was convenient for her.
Actually, this magic was perfect for use in extremely high population density big cities—with 10 million residents meaning 10 million health bars. Fragile but victorious in quantity.
Provided the user was willing.
No wonder netizens said "darkened evil Manjusaka" had almost unlimited health—power scaling had some basis. Among magical girls, there were many cases of "morality constraining strength," or they would have long ago fought until heaven and earth collapsed.
Hibiscus had always been indifferent—even if asked to beat up a sickly beautiful girl now, it wouldn't matter.
Thud!
After losing her damage transfer target, Jin Ruochu took a solid punch to the abdomen, straight to the heart, wanting to crush her internal organs. Blood throughout her body seemed to flow backward, magic power out of control, pain spreading throughout her body then converging back, making her kneel gasping for breath.
Until this moment, Hibiscus still hadn't transformed, nor fully utilized her physical qualities that surpassed her opponent—purely a vast difference in combat techniques.
You think my daily early rising and late sleeping practice was for nothing?
Hibiscus grabbed Jin Ruochu's arm behind her back and pressed her to the ground in a restraining position. However, the remaining berserk magical girl still struggled violently, constantly roaring incoherently. Searching her body, she found the Evil-Repelling Incense had lost its luster, completely consumed. Perhaps it preserved a trace of the girl's consciousness but wasn't enough. Now she was in trouble, still unclear how to wake her. Otherwise, like fixing electronics, hit it hard a few times?
Before she could decide, she heard creaking sounds behind her. It was a 20-story crane toppling over, losing its center and falling straight toward her.
Even from such a distance, Hibiscus could hear the wind pressure roaring unstoppably. Taking it head-on would definitely not feel good.
"Are you planning mutual destruction?"
She angrily questioned but saw Jin Ruochu's expression gradually calm with a trace of confusion. Apparently this person was clueless, probably unable to control how disasters specifically descended. Now both were grasshoppers on the same rope, both within the attack range.
"You idiot."
Following Hibiscus's helpless sigh, the crane crashed down with a thunderous roar, stirring up dust.