Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

"...Damn it! Are you a human or a Remnant Beast, what the hell are you!"

In another airspace, on a larger Sky Island, six examinees encountered a red-black Magical Girl.

Even with such a large numerical advantage, after a brief skirmish, five of the examinees had exhausted their magic power, reverted back to normal, and collapsed to the ground. Only one remained, kneeling, gritting teeth, and glaring at the opponent.

"Maybe it's a Remnant Beast?"

The red-black Magical Girl, or rather Arrowroot, floated down from the sky with a smile. The pitch-black smoke turned into a noose around the examinee's neck in front of her: "But I don't want to delve into this topic. Hand over the number tag, or else I'll have to make you suffer a bit."

"I spit!"

The kneeling examinee spat out: "My number tag is hanging right on my chest, if you want it, take it! Stop pretending here!"

"Chest? Don't lie to me, I didn't see it just now..."

Arrowroot's gaze shifted downward and then she stopped speaking. Clicking her tongue, she narrowed her eyes, somewhat displeased: "Cow."

As soon as she finished speaking, black mist enveloped the examinee completely. Before long, the kneeling Magical Girl was drained of her Magic Power and fainted on the ground.

Arrowroot fished out the last number tag from the other person's chest and pocketed it. However, she did not hurry to leave, as if waiting for someone, standing in place.

After a while, a pale blue magic arc flew over from a distance, and Lin Xiaolu arrived at the scene.

"Not going to keep running?" she asked.

"So it's you, I thought it might be Mint." Arrowroot pouted: "What do you want from me, someone without a tag?"

"Ha? Of course, I'm here to take revenge on you!" Lin Xiaolu declared confidently: "Defeat you, snatch my tag back, isn't that it!"

"Wasn't getting knocked down once enough? Was I too soft on you last time?"

Arrowroot raised her chin: "Where are your teammates? Compared to you, this so-called SS who doesn't live up to the name, who is weak and unaware, I'm more interested in them."

"Don't worry, they're on their way here."

Lin Xiaolu raised her Magic Wand: "Until then, I'll keep you here."

"Huh? Just you?"

Arrowroot touched her mouth corner with a finger, revealing a somewhat disdainful smile: "You know, if I hadn't stopped to wait for a while, you probably wouldn't even be able to touch a shadow of me."

"Um." Lin Xiaolu made a slightly guilty sound.

Indeed, although she bragged lavishly in front of Emerald Sparrow, unfortunately, after parting with Emerald Sparrow, she encountered difficulty at the first step of her revenge.

—They couldn't find Arrowroot.

In retrospect, this was actually a matter of course. The three's Magic Armor abilities were not particularly good at sensing and searching. Although Beast Children could sense each other to some extent, over too great a distance, this sense would still fail, making it impossible for Mint to confirm the opponent's location.

Moreover, even if Mint sensed the magic of a Beast Child, she couldn't confirm the opponent's identity. Was the magical power fluctuation from Arrowroot or another Beast Child? No one could give a definitive conclusion.

Because of this, they targeted the wrong person during the process, encountering the Beast Child codenamed Sheep Hesitation. They thought it would be a tough fight, but unexpectedly, when the opponent heard that Lin Xiaolu's tag was already gone, he turned away and left, pragmatic to the extreme.

Afterwards, the three had no choice but to use the dumb way, using exhaustive exclusion to search one by one. Every time Mint sensed a target, the three of them would block off in three directions.

Whether lucky or unlucky, the second target they sensed was Arrowroot herself. And the first to arrive on the scene was Lin Xiaolu.

No doubt, at this point Arrowroot had no reason to stay fighting. She stopped waiting, merely to see if there might be a chance for a one-on-one encounter with Mint, and since the one who came first wasn't Mint, she could actually leave.

For Lin Xiaolu, keeping the opponent here was actually more difficult than defending against her attacks in their last battle.

But even so, she still boldly made her move.

As fast as she could, she wielded her Magic Armor, switching to a spear, directing its tip at Arrowroot's back, her gaze slightly focused—

—Whiz!

Then, a blue shadow suddenly pierced through the space, rushing towards Arrowroot.

In mid-air, Arrowroot instinctively shifted to dodge, but soon, she recalled something, then softly invoked the name of Blood Bat, turning her body into black mist.

Almost at the same time, the blue shadow in the sky abruptly changed direction, piercing through the black mist.

At that moment, the true nature of Lin Xiaolu's attack was finally revealed: at some point, her spear had extended tens of meters long, and it even curved in mid-air.

"...Interesting, came up with a new trick in just a few days?" Arrowroot's figure emerged from the black mist: "But you haven't forgotten my ability, right? Trying to harm me with just a collision with a Magic Body, are you maybe mistaken? And using such flashy attacks, how is it different from just throwing the spear?"

"The difference is this." Lin Xiaolu laughed, and then the extended portion of her spear in her hand turned into magic light points and scattered, leaving only the original section of the spear still held in her hand: "Much faster to retract!"

"Stupid." Arrowroot assessed.

The response was yet another stab from the spear, and Arrowroot melded into the mist to evade, but before she could make a next move, Lin Xiaolu retracted the spear and struck again for the third time. In just a few seconds, she had stabbed at the location of the black mist over a dozen times, the light blue magic in the air nearly drawing afterimages.

"...What are you trying to do?" Once the attack ceased, Arrowroot reappeared: "Wasting magic like this, are you out of your mind?"

She didn't expect Lin Xiaolu to provide any useful answer, so after mocking her with a contemptuous taunt, she truly intended to leave this time. However, an unsettling sensation immediately surged throughout her body.

"You remember my ability, right?" Lin Xiaolu's voice timely rang out, "Guidance and piercing, or perhaps it might be better put as piercing and guidance."

Pale blue star points, at some point, were already flickering around Arrowroot.

If you looked carefully, you'd find they weren't star points, but thin strings fixed in mid-air.

Lin Xiaolu held the spear in one hand and pulled at the string floating in the air with the other, grinning: "Try dodging this?"

High concentrations of magic power flowed upwards along the string, completely dyeing the once-invisible string into light blue. At the same time, the spear in her hand also began to glow, and then, dozens of beams of light, too fast to see clearly, burst from there and pierced through the sky.

The King's Key's ability in its guardian form could actually guide multiple targets simultaneously, and when attacking multiple nearby targets, the high concentration of magic power even partially made the attack luminous, turning the spear attack into a Laser Cannon-like form.

This move was something Lin Xiaolu had researched during special training in Fangting City.

However, in previous battles, either she couldn't fully use her abilities or she was suppressed and lost before unleashing her finishing move, so it couldn't be used. Until now, the fruits of her special training, prepared for this examination, were finally beginning to unfold.

In the air, Arrowroot flew out dragging half of her charred clothes. Obviously, even if she turned into black mist, she couldn't avoid the recent attack. She let out a somewhat dissatisfied grunt, her entire body's magic power surging to the charred area, restoring it anew: "Pretty good, congratulations, you successfully kept me here."

While saying this, her eyes flashed red, and she gathered the black mist back to her hands: "You've successfully infuriated me with these tedious little tricks, so don't expect to lose so easily like last time—"

Obviously, she was about to manifest Blood Bat's true form.

Though this time, before she could fully wield her Magic Armor, Lin Xiaolu suddenly spoke:

"Can you?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, are you really going to use that ability here?" Lin Xiaolu's face had a mischievous smile.

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

"I know you have ways to block potential surveillance in the examination field, but what about this?"

As Lin Xiaolu spoke, she raised a square object hanging around her neck since earlier:

"My phone is recording now."