My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Fourteen days later.

Crack.

Accompanied by crimson light flickering within it, a sudden wail of anguish rang out from the forest thick with dense black fog.

Grrrooooaaaarrrr—

The next moment.

In the forest, a withered tree monster, its trunk pitch-black with a face twisted in agony carved into its bark, was abruptly engulfed in scarlet flames, burning to ashes at terrifying speed.

The uncontrolled magical flames didn't spread outward; the black mist swirled and quickly extinguished on its own, leaving only a pile of smoldering embers.

The crimson magical girl withdrew her fist without a single glance at the lower-ranked dangerous species [Twisted Treant] she'd killed with a casual blow, continuing her slow advance.

"…"

But before she'd walked even a few dozen meters, her steps suddenly stumbled, and her crimson beautiful eyes went vacant for an instant.

With a faint shimmer of light, the crimson performance outfit dissolved into countless tiny motes of magical energy, reverting to ordinary clothes, her hair and eye color shifting back to cherry pink.

The girl forced herself to stand steady, a sickly flush blooming across her cheeks as she couldn't help but pant for a moment.

"Cough… haah… haah…"

The transformation ended, and she became the fragile-looking girl she always was.

Still the same outfit from the very start of every cycle, deliberately matched to give a more mature impression.

The slightly loose white shirt, the short black hot pants, the black platform sneakers and knee-high socks wrapping her slender feet.

Everything about her remained impeccably clean, without any unpleasant smell or stain.

Only…

If in the past, Lin Guang in her transformed state had resembled a valiant Valkyrie, blending the charm of a beautiful girl with the spirit of a warrior.

Then now, that spirit had vanished entirely, leaving only an indescribable weakness, exhaustion, and heartrending frailty.

Lin Guang was now completely running on fumes.

Though magical girls experienced a cleansing effect similar to a built-in mechanism when entering and leaving their transformation state—magical energy purifying any dirt or stains on the body and clothes, which was why the blood from the first seven days of her period had been cleansed without a trace—

But…

The bleeding debuff itself was already terrible enough, let alone the state she'd been operating in for these fourteen days.

From the very beginning, not only had her magical power bottomed out from the fierce battle with Airwen, but she also had no supplies, no food, no water, no Sacred Tree Barrier to hide herself.

For an ordinary magical girl in this situation, merely surviving in the Misty Forest would already be an unrealistic goal.

After all, magical girls were still human—even if far stronger than normal people, they still needed energy intake.

Even if the magical power concentration in the Outer Realm was indeed dense, setting aside the elements that could wear down one's spirit, magical girls couldn't live on magic alone—whether that changed at higher levels was uncertain, but at least a D-rank magical girl couldn't rely solely on absorbing ambient magical power to fully replenish physical and mental exhaustion.

Under these circumstances, endless waves of minions would be enough to grind down a magical girl who couldn't transform.

Yet Lin Guang had done what no one else would even dare imagine.

She dared to sleep in the Outer Realm without any protective measures, relying on the free-floating magical power in the air to restore her own magic reserves.

[Soul Link] and [Precision Operation Engine] were enough to lock her power so tightly that almost none leaked out, ordinary minions completely unable to detect her.

And Lin Guang's flawlessly accurate instincts could wake her from deep sleep the instant a demon beast approached, letting her deal with it immediately.

By suppressing her metabolism as much as possible and using deep sleep to recover stamina and magic, over these dozen days, she'd stubbornly managed to restore her magical power to a level where she could transform again, time after time.

Then…

Relying on that meager magic, she forced this starved teenage body to keep trekking through the Outer Realm, like a lonely forgotten ghost, circling endlessly around the perimeter of the Sacred Tree Barrier in her memory.

Not to find a way in, but to find the others.

According to what Airwen had said before, she simply didn't want Lin Guang to interfere further in the collection of the last five Fragments of Hope, which meant the fragments still had to be gathered.

Following the usual flow of past cycles, Airwen would definitely bring Su Fang, Zihan, Tang Keren, and the others to the Outer Realm for practical combat training.

For the first nine days, Lin Guang had circled the most common training grounds countless times.

But the effort yielded nothing.

This undoubtedly meant Airwen had changed the training location or used some barrier to conceal their movements.

After all, the Outer Realm was far too vast; with a body unenhanced by any blessing, Lin Guang's method was hardly different from waiting by a tree stump for a rabbit.

So on the tenth day… she changed her strategy.

Lin Guang chose to embark on a solo expedition, dragging her body to the brink of collapse toward the territory of the upper-rank dangerous species [Headless General].

Based on past probability estimates, the Headless General's chance of holding the first Fragment of Hope was only 43%, but that was already the highest among the five monsters guarding fragments.

But whether it was bad luck or she was simply too slow, there was nothing left there.

No monster, no traces of battle—she couldn't tell whether the fragment and guardian monster hadn't "spawned" there at all, or if they had already been taken care of.

So the situation hit another dead end.

Yet Lin Guang still showed no sign of giving up.

If this cycle's overall trajectory remained the same as before, only two possibilities lay ahead.

Either the [Abyss King] would come to destroy the Sacred Tree Barrier.

Or the [Abyss King] would be successfully vanquished by the magical girls, and they would return to the Sacred Tree with the Fragments of Hope.

Considering Airwen's presence, as long as she didn't hold back this time and went all out, with the others capable of Full Bloom, the second scenario wasn't impossible—even without Lin Guang.

At this point, Lin Guang no longer had the strength to venture alone into the deepest reaches of the white wasteland.

All she could do now was try to find them on the road back to the Sacred Tree after their hunt… though that was still like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Yet at this very moment, there was no trace of despair or defeat in Lin Guang's eyes.

Even though she was pushed to a limit never reached before.

Even though this body and soul were like a candle nearly burned to nothing.

Even though she clearly sensed she could no longer recover through sleep, because the situation had grown so dire that if she lay down, this body would never wake again.

But the word "give up" was simply impossible.

Because…

Giving up is not something a magical girl does.

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