CXnovel Chapter 604 Counterattack
Chapter 604 Counterattack
Mercury's Secret: This chapter has 4 words. I don't want it to end abruptly, so let's go all out!
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[Legendary Spell: Multidimensional Link]
Based on the legendary spell "Future Jump" that Inari set up in the port city, and using the explanations in the spellbook and my own understanding, I developed this legendary spell specifically designed to connect various mental worlds.
In other words... this is legendary teleportation magic.
Now that Garuda's true form has been confirmed, let's seize the opportunity to gather our superior forces for a decisive battle, weakening Garuda's combat power as much as possible, or even...
"BOOM!!"
Several beams of magic cannon fire erupted, tearing a deep rift in the churning darkness surrounding Garuda. Countless shadow minions were annihilated in this first volley of magic cannon fire.
The Wheat Squad was the first to step into this dreamlike vision, each occupying a rooftop with a wide view. Wheat herself almost immediately activated her somewhat unstable Starry Shadow—she always showed her new determination to protect at crucial moments, forcibly clearing a path with the salvo of two train cannons.
This time is no exception.
"Are those ugly, dark things Garuda's retinue? Concentrate your firepower! Suppress them!"
With such powerful firepower support, Hyacinth's counterattack became even more destructive. She charged into the gap torn open by the salvo of magic cannons, making a huge fuss and single-handedly creating the momentum of a thousand troops. Nothing could stop her swinging giant sword.
But the Shadow Familiars' charge grew increasingly frenzied. No matter how hard the Crimson Roses went, they could only manage to keep their line from being overwhelmed in an instant. The breach that had been torn open by the volley of magic cannon fire was visibly beginning to be filled in.
"Hyacinth, bow your head!" A clear, enchanted shout echoed across the battlefield.
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Hyacinth immediately abandoned her pursuit of the Shadow Kin in front of her and paused for two seconds.
With no obstacles in sight, countless Shadow Familiars seized the opportunity to rush past Hyacinth's defenses and headed straight for Red Rose and the two golden-haired fox girls behind her who were casting teleportation magic. But then they suddenly saw the girl draped in starlight appear... and the several linked magic cannons beside her.
"————Whoosh!!!" The intense buzzing of magic.
Magical Girl Iris☆Shadow of the Stars, all the combined magic cannons fire at once.
Although it is slightly less powerful than the train cannon that emphasizes extreme firepower, the Iris Flower's twin-mounted magic cannon has an unparalleled advantage in mobility, and can seize the opportunity to change the firing angle to launch just the right support.
The Shadow Familiars, who had just broken through the defenses, were blasted back by this dense barrage. The breach in the defenses was completely torn open, and the pair of molten gold eyes filled with hatred could be seen directly behind the dark curtain.
Garuda, who descended in physical form, hid behind the dark barrier woven by its followers. Even after the barrier was completely torn apart by the magic cannon, it still did not cast a glance at the other magical girls, but instead stared at the eagle owl girl next to the golden fox girl with its hateful eyes.
What is it observing? What is it waiting for?
Su Tianqing naturally saw Garuda's actions, but she didn't know what it was planning to do—was Garuda still holding back some powerful move? Or was it still observing and assessing the magical girls' combat strength?
I had previously speculated whether Garuda possessed an astral shield like Jormungandr's, but the current situation does not indicate that Garuda has such a deadly thing.
The Wheat Squad tore a gap in the Shadows' defenses, and the Iris's artillery support widened and solidified the breach. Since that's the case, let's let the most suitable person for this situation shine!
"Kitty! Bunny! Doggy!"
"I told you I'm a wolf!!!"
A grey figure, imbued with magic no less powerful than the red rose, crashed into the battlefield. The magical girl Fenrir shouted lines that seemed inappropriate for a decisive battle, smashing into the side of the Shadow Familiar's defenses with the force of thunder, blasting open an even deeper scar.
The shadow minions immediately launched a fierce attack on the gray wolf girl, but she completely ignored their claws and bites. No attack could cause the slightest damage to her thick magical shield, but the stinging pain from the physical attacks only made her burst into a villainous, maniacal laugh:
"Heh heh heh heh heh! That's it! You try to please me with your weak claws! Then I'll burn you to ashes!"
It's really tough on the dog. Ever since she received the magic power from the Greedy Wolf Star, she hasn't fought seriously at all, for fear that she might accidentally blow up half of Rongcheng before she runs out of magic power.
Facing Garuda, this astral behemoth, she no longer held back, focusing solely on unleashing her surging magical power to distract Garuda as much as possible, forcing the behemoth to send out more of its minions to deal with this terrifyingly powerful being.
This tactic proved to be correct; when Fenrir entered the battlefield, even Garuda had to divert some of its attention to her.
Immediately afterwards, the deep blue shadow rushed to Hyacinth's side, smashing a Shadow kin into a viscous puddle of shadow with a single punch, which was then completely absorbed by the magic accretion disk of the Black Hole Cat Fist.
Magical Girl Hellcat☆Shadow of the Stars
BLACK☆HOLE!
"I knew you'd come!" Hyacinth swung her greatsword and smashed the head of the shadow in front of her, sweeping away countless shadows in the process, and said to Hellcat beside her, whose cat fists left afterimages.
"Enough talk, just like last time, the two of us have to fight our way to Garuda!"
"Charge right up to us? Are we going to use Fenrir to smash that black bird like we did in Hong Kong this time?" Hyacinth was slightly puzzled, but she never missed an opportunity to charge ahead, so she immediately swung her greatsword and followed the charging Hellcat.
This time, it wasn't the blue duo charging ahead—the crimson March Hare had also arrived at the forefront of the charge. The charge of the three Star Shadows completely tore apart the last magical defense in front of Garuda, allowing the burning, pitch-black giant bird to appear in everyone's sight.
Squad White Lily, Squad Aquamarine, and all the magical girls participating in the battle have arrived. Various magical cannons are firing freely, turning this dreamlike landscape into a decisive battlefield to defeat the astral behemoth.
...But something is still missing.
Watching the Shadow Kin army being swiftly crushed and annihilated, and seeing the colossal Garuda gradually emerging from the darkness, Su Tianqing frowned, her face devoid of joy or smile.
No, something's not right.
Garuda has never revealed its true power. Unlike Jormungandr, it has not been sealed away for an unknown period of time, nor has it been imprisoned in the mind world by the Red Rose and continuously weakened, like Leviathan. It is a genuine, fully-formed astral behemoth that descended from the astral plane. What other terrifying abilities does it still have that it has not yet used?
Chaos, disorder, flames, decay—these are the only abilities Garuda has displayed so far, and the magical girls have overcome them one by one, launching a powerful counterattack against it.
But why hasn't its main body made any move yet? As an unrestrained behemoth, why is it only sending out these shadow minions to charge into battle?
It seems that no one else has noticed this.
The magical girls were completely absorbed in the battle, immersed in the hope of annihilating Garuda in one fell swoop.
They roared, cheered, and laughed wildly, unleashing a deluge of bullets, swords, and cannon fire. Countless spells were aimed at Garuda's true form: the giant black bird engulfed in flames, launching a mortal counterattack against this astral being that had fallen from the heavens.
But what exactly did I overlook?
If Garuda launches an attack, in what form will its attack take? In what chaotic and twisted way will it punish these magical girls who dare to attack it?
Is it like Jormungandr deploying a powerful astral barrier, or like Leviathan firing a world-shattering astral cannon, or perhaps...
You are so adorably innocent, Su Tianqing.
A whisper, seemingly from the distant abyss at the edge of the starry sky, echoed in Su Tianqing's mind.
Su Tianqing recognized the voice—it was the voice that guided her to obtain the Guardian Star and transform into the Moon Fox on the day she obtained the Mercury Codex, and it was the voice that made a contract with her to become a villainous magical girl.
Garuda is about to get serious. Show us all your skills, or you'll all be in trouble.
The whispers of the abyss faded away.
Su Tianqing didn't know why the secret manual, which had been dormant for so long, would send her a message at this time, but it didn't sound like something that would make her happy:
Garuda's actions so far were just minor skirmishes; its true power is about to be unleashed.
【————####！ ！ 】
The giant black bird emitted a piercing, sharp screech.
Magic could not stop the shriek from invading; it seemed to ring directly in everyone's mind. Even Red Rose frowned, her spellcasting was temporarily interrupted, and she had to cover her ears to prevent the sound from reaching them.
"Whoa?!" "What was that noise...?" "My ears hurt!"
The girls' offensive was interrupted for a moment, but none of them were newbies. They immediately activated their magical defenses to prevent the shriek from affecting them and tried to reorganize their offensive.
But the moment they tried to use magic, everyone noticed something was wrong—
The magic is rapidly disappearing from this dreamlike vision.
The wand transformation could not be maintained, the magic cannon and sword aura could not be fired, and almost all offensive magic disappeared, leaving only basic flight magic and magic shields still usable.
Garuda's shadow minions also disappeared as the magic faded—transforming into countless black beasts and alien monsters that surged and roared across the ground.
It's just a boring sub-plane, as crude as a toy to me.
Su Tianqing understood the words spoken by Garuda.
Since you rely so heavily on magic, then I will eliminate magic and spells from the very rules of this sub-plane.
Come on, let me see just how far you can fight without magic!
The sky twisted and changed, and the surrounding burned and collapsed buildings folded and overturned like a kaleidoscope. A mirror-like illusion of Chengdu appeared in the air, but it was instantly replaced by a towering mage tower, then turned into a rushing river, and then into a vast and boundless sea...
Bizarre and twisted, dreamlike and dazzling chaos.
Or rather, this is Garuda's true power: the distortion and control of the rules of the plane, the invasion and destruction of sub-planes such as mental images, and the transformation of the plane itself into what it desires.
"Oh no..."
Red Rose also lost the ability to use magic, but as someone who could use the world of mental images, she still retained a certain degree of understanding and control over this dreamlike mental image—although Garuda had taken away most of this control, it could still be used as an extension of her senses.
"Garuda is distorting all the mental worlds above Rongcheng; it's spreading its distortions from the mental worlds it has invaded... Everyone be careful!"
The distorted and chaotic illusions in the sky fell to the ground.
Su Tianqing seemed to hear the collapse and shattering of the mental world itself—which then fused and merged in a distorted way, mixing and disrupting all the layers of mental worlds and integrating them into the dream world it inhabited… and it already possessed immense power within those invaded mental worlds!
...Su Tianqing saw it.
The sky opened its eyes, which seemed to hold molten gold.
The broken mage tower fell into the distance.
In the distance, the ground cracks and buildings collapse, revealing a dark spire burning with golden flames.
The dilapidated factory stood with its doors wide open amidst the ruins, from which countless shadowy monsters sped about.
The pitch-black underground labyrinth surged forth with countless thick shadows, hatching countless powerful monsters.
There are many more, many more things I don't recognize, even chaotic and disordered things that haven't appeared yet—they represent Garuda's power in these mental worlds, representing its incomparably powerful and invincible great power at the level of rules.
At this point, Garuda was already an invincible being in the world of mental images.
"Stop your babbling and try this!"
The girl's angry shout rang out, and a blood-red beam of light shot straight up from the ground into the sky.
Everyone looked down at the figure who had lost his magic and was forced to land on the ground:
The azure magical girl, her starry shadows had faded with the disappearance of magic, but she was still wearing a cloak that fluttered in the wind and a futuristic suit of armor with a sci-fi design. She hurled a metal sphere at Garuda with all her might... and the crimson beam of light emanated from that sphere.
Meanwhile, high above the chaotic and distorted sky, people saw something impossible—a warship that had warped in! A jet fighter carrying a huge bomb appeared on the horizon!
They responded to the spherical beams of light projected by the hyacinths, unleashing a devastating storm upon Garuda!
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"Take this, Garuda!" Hyacinth shouted sharply.
380mm rail-mounted fire net, rail-mounted napalm bomb fire net, Flying Eagle 500kg air strike.
Garuda possesses immense power from countless mental worlds, so the magical girls will use that power to launch a counterattack!
The counterattack has begun!