Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

The light blue and black-red magic power continually shuttles between the clouds, flickering. Lin Xiaolu and Arrowroot's figures cross and separate, the surrounding magical power fluctuations growing increasingly chaotic and intense, clearly both have pushed their magic power output to the limit.

"Come on, if you have any more tricks, use them quickly now!"

Arrowroot laughs wildly while shouting, simultaneously conjuring a string of Favo Runes at his fingertips, the magic power around his hand instantly transforming into waves of pitch-black water: "You think by restraining my Magic Armor you can win? How foolish! You're not even Leaf Level and you don't have enough means to counter me, moreover, your phone has now become your weakness!"

As his words fell, the black waves suddenly spread out, slicing towards every direction like sharp blades.

Ring Blade Skill, rune length of 8, can be considered as an "advanced spell", generally used just as an attack method by magical girls above Bud Level. For Leaf Level magical girls, it's entirely beyond their curriculum, and its counterpart is the powerful performance during this Kaihua Stage.

Not only does it cover a large range with considerable attack strength, but more importantly, once the rune string is activated for the first time, the subsequent attacks will consume half the magic power.

Undoubtedly, for Lin Xiaolu, who has yet to master Shield Skill, avoiding such an attack is not easy.

Arrowroot was right, she used her phone to record, certainly, it could restrict the opponent's Magic Armor, but it also constrained her own movements.

Because recording is merely recording, without a signal in the examination room it can't be sent out, if the phone gets destroyed, there's no proof, Arrowroot can then still use his Magic Armor wilfully.

In other words, Lin Xiaolu must also protect her phone.

And Arrowroot didn't want to give her this chance, after activating Ring Blade Skill, he didn't stop his actions, instead directed the remaining power to manipulate the black fog, filling the gaps between the black blade waves, attempting to completely close off Lin Xiaolu's evasion space.

Lin Xiaolu didn't sit idly by awaiting her fate.

She flew through the air, narrowly avoiding several Ring Blades, while using Magic Silk to change her flight direction, preventing her moves from being predicted by Arrowroot. Nevertheless, obviously, her flying speed wasn't faster than the black fog, and soon, she was surrounded by it.

"No more moves? Then let's end it here." Arrowroot sneered, raised his palm and pressed it down, the black fog followed his move and pressed towards Lin Xiaolu.

Yet, he noticed Lin Xiaolu's face didn't show a trace of panic.

"You're too hasty," she said.

Then, the long spear in her hand suddenly folded like a three-section roll, connecting head and tail, transforming into a triangle. Light blue silk climbed up the spear body, instantly forming a huge "shield" woven from silk strings.

"Well, I've learned a few things."

Placing the shield in front, she dodged the black fog and charged towards the wave of blades.

The black magic blades clashed with the Silk Shield, producing a grating sound that set teeth on edge, after rushing a short distance forward, the shield in front of Lin Xiaolu was already nearly shattered.

However, Lin Xiaolu wisely laid down several layers of Magic Silk, when one layer shattered from attacks, she replenished another behind it, continually consuming magic power, turning the shield into a renewable form.

Thereafter, she broke out of the blade wave's encirclement.

"Don't think you can escape!" Seeing the Ring Blade Skill being broken, Arrowroot immediately cut off the magic power to the rune string, and summoned several new runes, intending to use other magic techniques for attacking.

But this time, Lin Xiaolu finally seized the opportunity.

The "shield" transformed back into the long spear's form, and she aimed the spearhead at Arrowroot's direction as quickly as possible, both of their moves separated perhaps by less than half a second.

"King's Key, Fire!"

With her command, the light blue spear body instantly penetrated towards the black-red figure.

Almost simultaneously, Arrowroot came to the conclusion that "it's too late".

So he quickly altered his strategy, the released magic power didn't inject into the originally planned runes but changed to illuminate the rune string for "Shield Skill".

Whizz—clang!

The piercing shrill made Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but cover her ears with one hand.

However, she didn't halt her offensive.

Having barely switched from defense to offense, she knew this was the opportune moment for suppression, so she desperately consumed magic power, pushing the magic power output to the limit, the long spear in her hand almost turned into a handgun firing repetitively "bang bang bang", bombarding Arrowroot's shield relentlessly.

Arrowroot was initially wondering if this girl was going mad again, but soon, she realized what Lin Xiaolu intended to do.

However, by then, it was too late.

"King's Key, Full Volley."

Following Lin Xiaolu's another command, that seemingly laser cannon-like attack she used previously was triggered again.

At this moment, Arrowroot no longer had the time to remove the Shield.

She had to make a quick maneuver to fly away from the Shield's direction, but the Shield which was used to block the offensive, delaying time, in this ultimate bombardment, shattered with a sound.

Snap.

Thus, the Shield broke.

Simultaneously breaking with the Shield were the runes corresponding to Shield Skill originally surrounding Arrowroot's wrist.

"Last night, I was actually contemplating this matter, you seem to really like rune reuse, and seem inclined to choose those magic techniques that can reuse runes with Shield Skill."

Having extravagantly spent a load of magic power, the panting Lin Xiaolu looked at Arrowroot with bright eyes: "So, does it mean, if I destroy the runes for Shield Skill, you won't be able to use other magic techniques for a while?"

"You really were planning something like this... commendable, it seems the thing around your neck indeed isn't for decoration."

At this moment, Arrowroot's face no longer bore that disdainful smile, rather it had turned utterly ice-cold, evidently, Lin Xiaolu's tactics indeed struck at her sore spot, and naturally enraged her:

"But, you've got one thing wrong, I'm not foolish enough to bind all my magic techniques together with Shield."

Once more she lit the runes on her wrist, attempting to switch to other attack methods—

—whoosh.

Yet, Lin Xiaolu once again interrupted her with a shot.

"I certainly won't consider you a fool."

With one hit missed, Lin Xiaolu's remaining magic power was running low, but her face looked increasingly brimmed with determination: "However, without Shield, you can't dodge my attacks while using magic techniques, right? And your merging with the black fog, doesn't seem possible for rune condensation in the black fog state?"

Arrowroot couldn't help but click her tongue.

She remained silent for a while, ultimately sighed as though conceding to something.

"I didn't want to use this move." she said.

The black fog hovering in the air suddenly returned to her side, then began merging into her body.

No surplus phenomenon occurred, even Lin Xiaolu's phone could only capture the picture of the black fog dispersing, while Arrowroot amidst the black fog merely floated there, coldly staring at Lin Xiaolu.

Lin Xiaolu pondered briefly, then raised her long spear once again, launching an attack towards Arrowroot's direction.

Arrowroot didn't evade.

She floated there, but upon the long spear penetrating her body, it only brought up a large mass of black fog.

"Eh?" Lin Xiaolu was surprised.

"You said I couldn't use magic techniques when merging with Blood Bat, congratulations, you guessed right."

The pierced body reshaped once more, Arrowroot in the midst of swirling black fog extended her hand, runes lit again: "However, if it's me with Blood Bat merged into my body, then I can."

—"Come on, tell me, what method do you have to stop me next?"