My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Beside her, the Phoenix was still suppressing the tremors shaking Kazenari Town.

At this moment, she seemed practically welded to that small tree in the Association hall, dangling directly from its branches, her entire bird form a blazing golden-red. Hearing that, she said with obvious irritation:

"Don't be so optimistic—things have already blown up outside the Sacred Tree!"

"All this is just the appetizer!"

In an instant, another scene appeared within the live projection.

—It was the view beyond the barrier.

Accompanied by the same violent tremors, the endless thick black fog churned and roiled furiously, with a mind-numbingly vast number of dangerous species and Claw-types faintly visible, marching forward without pause.

They were like a black ocean, surging frantically toward the cracked black holes in the barrier of light, scrambling to pour through.

And among them…

Nightmare Seeds were drawing near!

The Phoenix's voice carried a gnashing of teeth: "The Abyss is targeting the Sacred Tree, applying pressure from the outside nonstop. The barrier is getting damaged from sustained attacks…"

"Probably not long before the damage is big enough for even Nightmare Seeds to get in."

This meant…

Right now, the magical girls were holding their own, easily fending off those Claw-types and dangerous species.

But this was just an infinitesimally tiny fraction of that tidal wave.

"And what the hell is up with this 'birds-and-flowers-bullshit' earthquake anyway… I feel like the whole damn Utopia, Sacred Tree and Abyss alike, is shaking!"

The Phoenix couldn't help but drop a curse.

Lin Guang furrowed his brows slightly, as if racing through his own thoughts.

But just then.

Within the live projection on the screen, a flash of brilliant light streaked through again.

It tore through the black fog representing the Outer Realm, carving a comet-like trail across the battlefield, soaring all the way toward Kazenari Town's urban area, then closing in on this building.

Finally, it suddenly smacked right into the head of the Phoenix perched on the little tree.

Ding—

The fourth Fragment of Hope bounced off her tiny bird brain, changed trajectory, and vanished into the small tree below.

The Sacred Tree's radiance grew once more, while the Phoenix, still standing on the branch, couldn't help wrapping her wings around her head:

"Ow! Missy's head!"

Amber couldn't hold back a laugh, covering her mouth: "That's probably the payback for you always watering the Sacred Tree with boiling water, you know."

Lin Guang: "..."

The Phoenix recovered, then roared in fury: "How the hell can you still be laughing right now?!"

The urgency in her eyes had reached a point where she could barely suppress it, as she looked at the two girls before her: "Things are already like this!"

Her voice practically cracked.

Actually…

Lin Guang could tell—it wasn't the siege on Kazenari Town that had her so anxious.

After all, over these long years, Su Jingyan as the Abyss King had likely appeared countless times to cut down the Sacred Tree in one strike. As the Sacred Tree Spirit, she had died even more abruptly and brutally than this.

And let alone Amber and the Phoenix, who had endured over three thousand cycles—even Lin Guang had grown somewhat accustomed to the world's resets.

What truly made this Sacred Tree Spirit so anxious was the anomaly behind the massive changes in this cycle.

What does this really mean? What's about to happen?

Is Airwen really collecting fragments that fast? How is she doing it?

Do these changes mean that the potential mastermind's goal is also about to be achieved?

People always fear the unknown.

Even after spending three hundred years in this infinite loop, that fear still lingered.

But…

Right at that moment, a soft voice suddenly echoed through the headquarters.

It was Amber's voice.

"Maybe this time, the ending we've been waiting for is finally here?"

The Phoenix froze for a moment, her golden eyes turning to the black-haired girl's flawless face.

"Actually, we've already mentally prepared ourselves a long time ago, haven't we?"

Amber said softly: "Even if the ending can't be changed… then at least, before the final end comes, we're not alone."

She looked at the previous magical girls still fighting in the live projection, her amber-colored eyes carrying a look of long-resigned peace.

—These fake "grown-up" magical girls were actually nothing more than Echoes left behind after they had been erased.

Whether it was memories of past cycles or memories from before entering Utopia, all of that was gone for them. Naturally, they couldn't know the truth of the cycles, nor would they ever realize that this place was merely a game world hidden within a tiny gemstone.

They didn't know that all this history, these emotions, these memories might be nothing but brand-new illusions constructed by the so-called "Seven Minutes Ago World Hypothesis."

But how could they not see what everything happening right now really meant?

In those magical girls' eyes, this was the end of the world—the final curtain, the destruction of Kazenari Town and humanity.

In their understanding, there was no second chance in all of this.

So… not a single one retreated, not a single one was afraid.

Because they were fighting to protect everything precious in their memories.

That's what magical girls are.

Even if those memories were fake… but at this point, did fake or real even matter anymore?

The world was fake, the memories were fake, the history was fake.

But… love was real.

The Phoenix fell into silence.

After more than ten seconds, she let out a quiet laugh.

"Hah… yeah."

"I've been living here so long, I almost forgot."

"Originally, I was supposed to be a short-lived brat who wouldn't even live to see twenty."

Lin Guang's cherry-red eyes rippled slightly.

"You're right. There's really nothing to be afraid of. After all, everything has to end eventually—whether it's a bad movie or a good one, no exceptions."

The Phoenix took a deep breath, then suddenly flapped her wings with force.

"Your damn old lady here has already lived long enough to call it even!"

With the Phoenix's movement, golden ripples once again spread outward from the headquarters, sweeping across the city, also brushing past the bodies of those magical girls.

In that instant.

They all perked up, feeling their magic power begin to recover endlessly.

The Sacred Tree was directly supporting them through their contracts!

"It's the Phoenix!"

"That old bird finally did something useful!"

"Thanks!"

"Alright!"

Within the live projection, the magical girls' gratitude began pouring in without pause.

Amber then turned to the cherry-haired girl, who had remained silent: "Mengmengxiang, no need to worry either."

Lin Guang was caught off guard.

She smiled and said: "I can feel it—they're coming too, you know."

"Because everything you've done in the past was absolutely not meaningless."

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