Off Work, Then Transform into a Magical Girl-Chapter 81 – Black Ash Dawn

In order to achieve their goal of resisting the royal court, their actions were ruthless: they slaughtered and even massacred civilians, carried out terrorist attacks on city public facilities and even the city government, and privately traded various prohibited items. They were notorious for their evil deeds.

Their actions were so rampant that they naturally attracted the vigorous suppression of the Investigation Institute. However, like mice that couldn't be exterminated, as soon as one group was caught, another group would appear, blooming everywhere in the world, committing crimes.

As a former magical girl, she was born with a strong power system, and she couldn't stand these freaks. But she had to admit that besides the still-serving magical girls, this group of lunatics had the most knowledge of rare magical materials in the material world.

If she was still in service before, she wouldn't need to resort to these gray channels to obtain materials. But since she defected from the Kingdom many years ago and joined Claw Mark, she had to seriously consider the issue of research expenses.

After coming to Fangting City and collecting some local information, she suddenly remembered the rumors she had heard.

This city was the place where "Yicheku" retired.

Two years ago, Sakura, the strongest Flower Card magical girl in the Kingdom, died for unknown reasons. This incident caused a strong shock among many magical girls in the magical side, and even a small group of people - Sakura's fans - went to Fangting City to investigate.

These visitors turned Fangting City upside down, killing all the Brutal Beasts in the surrounding area, and also approached Sakura's teammates and husband to inquire about the situation, but they didn't get any useful information.

Among them, there were people who believed in the rumors, believing that Yicheku was hiding in Fangting City and wanting to question her about Sakura's death.

But no matter how they searched, no one found Yicheku's whereabouts.

It seemed that the rumors were really just rumors, like some people's unrealistic imagination.

And when Sparrow came to this city, this wave of enthusiasm had already faded. Whether it was Sakura's teammates or her fans, they all believed that the culprit had already fled and went to other cities to search for their traces. Losing several elite-level magical girls in one breath, Fangting City seemed to have entered a period of decline in magical power, and the magical girl team stationed here was in a state of shortage.

In this situation, Sparrow contacted the local Black Ash Dawn team.

She didn't know why these lunatics chose to stay in Fangting City, nor did she know where they got their information from. In any case, they proposed a request for exchange regarding the transaction with Sparrow: that is, she should eliminate the current magical girl team in Fangting City on a specific day.

It would be best to kill these magical girls, but if not, she must at least delay them. The key target among them was a magical girl wearing navy blue clothes with long blue hair.

According to them, this magical girl had shown the ability to use Spell Formulas, at least at the Leaf Stage, far surpassing the other two rookies. They absolutely couldn't let her disrupt their plans.

Sparrow had already defected from the Kingdom, fighting against her former colleagues, so she had no emotional resistance to killing magical girls. Naturally, she agreed to their request.

And then, she began to observe the "blue magical girl".

At first, she waited near the scene where Brutal Beasts appeared, confirming what the target looked like.

Because she was afraid of being sensed by the other party's Magic Power and alerting them, she always let the accompanying Sparrows observe from a distance. Then, based on the location where the Brutal Beasts appeared, combined with the time and direction of the blue magical girl's appearance, she made the Sparrows track them and deduced their starting point.

In order to confirm the target's route, she deliberately attracted some Brutal Beasts to attack the crowd she suspected. Then, during an attack on a light rail train, the blue magical girl really appeared.She was convinced that the daily activity area of this blue magical girl must be the Luoming District of Fangting City.

As she continued to track her, she not only gradually determined the location where the other party usually stayed—a office building—but also discovered something else. This blue magical girl seemed to have many similarities with the rumored "Chrysanthemum".

Without telling anyone about this information, she collected some photos from twenty years ago. Even without comparing them, she could confirm that this magical girl was indeed Chrysanthemum!

And so, today's carefully prepared battle began.

Sparrow's plan was to defeat Chrysanthemum here, preferably capturing her alive. Not only would this enhance her own reputation, but she might also gain something from it. She remembered that many years ago, someone in the Claw Mark had expressed interest in this former legend.

When she transformed into her half-beast form, she even thought she was close to victory.

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She could penetrate Chrysanthemum's magical barrier, knock her down from the air, and even attack the turtle shell formed by her silk threads as if beating a sandbag. However, as the battle dragged on, she discovered a serious problem: the other party had not been injured at all.

Moreover, due to the difference in precision in their magical planning strategies, even though her magic power had been greatly depleted, Chrysanthemum still refused to show herself and remained hidden in her magical assembly turtle shell.

This couldn't go on, she realized.

Reluctantly admitting it, if Chrysanthemum continued to maintain a defensive posture, her own magic power would be exhausted before completely shattering her defense.

She had to force the other party to expose herself from her defense.

"I don't mind, but do you really plan to stay hidden in your shell forever?"

So she spoke, waving her own magical assembly. "If we keep delaying like this without opening up the Wonderland, your little companions might be in danger."

This sentence was actually made up. It was more accurate to say that she herself was curious about where those new rookies were. But as the saying goes, all is fair in war. If she could disrupt the other party's formation with just a few random words, it would undoubtedly be a cost-effective strategy.

The provocative words she casually fabricated had an unexpected effect. As soon as she finished speaking, Cui Que behind her froze.

Hearing Sparrow's words, she almost instantly remembered the unanswered call she had received earlier, and also recalled the whereabouts reported by Xia Liang and Lin Xiaolu not long ago.

Did they really encounter some problems when they went to the Lixing District to find Mo Ke?

Although she also knew that it could be a verbal deception, she still divided part of her attention during the battle to sense her own spell formulas. Immediately afterwards, she was astonished to find that the positioning spell formula she had set on Mo Ke had failed.

"Do you have companions?" Her gaze began to grow serious.

"Companions? Let's forget about that. I'm not a companion of those crazy freaks." Sparrow sneered and continued to provoke, "But you're right, your little companions are not here. They might be fighting with a group of ruthless villains. Can they really win without your help?"

Setting aside the nonsense she had just spouted, this sentence she said was not a lie.

Although she didn't know what the group of Black Ash Dawn wanted to find, once they found it, based on their habits, a bloody and brutal blood sacrifice was probably inevitable. And in this process, if Fangting City's other new rookies were to confront them, the chances of survival would be slim.

"If you open up the Wonderland now, maybe you can defeat me and go support them, huh?"

Feeling that her words were indeed effective, she began to exaggerate, trying to further provoke the other party's emotions. "Of course, this is the most ideal situation. If things develop too quickly on that side, those few saplings you painstakingly nurtured might have already died, who knows?"

Then, whether it was an illusion or not, the surrounding air seemed to suddenly freeze.

Immediately after, as if the air pressure had dropped, making it difficult to breathe.

"Indeed, it's about time to end this."

Her tense fingers gradually loosened, and the masterpiece shield that had been gathered in front of her dispersed into a network of magical silk threads. Cui Que gave up all her defense just like that.

She shook her somewhat stiff palm and focused her cold gaze on Sparrow:

"It's unlikely that I can find out your true identity; the strange black magic seems to be a characteristic of the entire organization; the half-beast form seems to have some connection with the brutal beasts; the purple-black magic gem, the base color of the magic source has changed... It seems that these are the only things."

As she muttered to herself, the originally declining azure magic power around her gradually faded away, like flames losing their warmth.

"Oh? You came out just like this? It seems that even though you've been in retirement for many years, you still have some courage."

Cui Que's sudden display of calmness made Sparrow feel a bit strange, but she didn't know where this inexplicable sense of disharmony came from. She felt satisfied with the success of her provocation, and then said loudly, "But bluffing won't work. I can feel that your total magic power is not even as good as an ordinary Lei-level!"

"Well, you're right." Cui Que suddenly admitted calmly.

"Huh? What do you mean by 'right'?" This calm attitude instead made Sparrow feel surprised. "Are you out of your mind?"

"As you said, my current state is very poor."

Speaking as if she was talking about something unrelated to herself, Cui Que's tone was calm. "Due to the accumulation of various reasons, I have to admit that I can't reach the peak of my strength right now."

"You're saying this now? Are you admitting defeat?"

For some reason, Sparrow's heart skipped a beat, and she even felt a slight sense of unease, but she couldn't figure out where this uneasiness came from. "Are you telling me that you can't open up the Wonderland, can't defeat me, and are asking for mercy?"

"No, I just want to clarify one thing."The long hair behind her head rose without wind, and the soft strands of hair danced in the air. The sound of flowing air echoed, and the threads of magic power around Cui Que also rippled, drawing soft waves as if chasing the traces of the wind.

Looking at the figure not far away, half of which was wrapped in black magic power, she remained calm and natural, as if stating something obvious:

"To defeat you, I don't need Wonderland at all."

In the next moment, the deep blue magic power erupted again, but this time, it was completely different from before. Her magic power no longer took on a regular shape, but dispersed in all directions like an overflowing river, so powerful that it was blinding.

If the magic power displayed by Cui Que before was just a trickle, then now it was like a surging river, unstoppable and magnificent.

Cui Que raised her head, and both of her eyes shimmered with a deep blue light. The heart gemstone around her neck seemed to be filled with magic power, becoming incredibly shiny.

She stretched out a hand, and even the nails on her fingertips seemed to be coated with fluorescent nail polish, emitting a deep blue light:

"It's almost time, let's finish this quickly."