My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Chapter 73: Pressuring Yourself Is a Must for Experts

[You have died.]

[Mission Evaluation: E-Rank]

[Achievement Unlocked: Who Designed This Crap Mob?]

Accompanied by the system prompts, the young man snapped his eyes open, his cold face immediately twisting into an expression that could only be described as utterly furious as he blurted out:

"Who designed this crap mob?"

Even the system had predicted it in advance.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Lin Guang lay on his long-missed hard bed, taking a full five minutes to collect himself before his face returned to its usual expressionless mask. But he didn't make any move to get up.

Beyond the soul-deep mental exhaustion, as if he'd pushed himself to the brink for three days and nights straight, the witch he'd personally buried was still vividly before his eyes, flashing through his mind relentlessly.

Lin Guang squinted coldly and muttered, "There won't be a next time."

If anything went wrong with this monster on the next encounter, he'd just slit his own throat and ascend to heaven.

Put simply... Lin Guang was getting a bit anxious.

All thanks to that damned tea party girl.

Of course.

Given Lin Guang's self-proclaimed cultivation of profound composure, what had broken him wasn't failure or death.

After all, for a high-end player, the kind of death and failure you can retry is as refreshing as a cool summer night, offering worry-free slumber.

Nor was it because of the excessive difficulty.

After all, if he was truly afraid of hardship, he wouldn't have chosen an S-rank difficulty start in the first place. The pressure of high difficulty for high rewards only gave him the sense of achievement of conquering peaks.

Blaming his teammates was even more off base.

Su Fang, Airwen, Tang Keren, and Zihan—these four magical girls had tried harder than any of the fake or divine teammates Lin Guang had encountered in both his lifetimes combined.

If those so-called troublesome interpersonal relationships were all at this level, he wouldn't find them annoying at all.

And even Zihan's backstabbing strikes weren't her fault—after all, in a blind raid, someone always has to test the mechanics. Having someone with a sharp head wasn't the problem; the real issue would be if no one dared to take that position.

What actually broke Lin Guang...

Was that he felt like he'd been making a big fuss over nothing, pressuring himself.

Magical girl Mengmengxiang, wasn't it your fault this round?

Actually, yes!

At the start, when Lin Guang saw the tea party girl's ability to mark others and herself, he began tangling with the dangerous species while constantly observing the battlefield and frantically brainstorming.

As a high-end player's instinct, he naturally started calculating the mechanism of the mark ability, its interval, lethal judgment, and other specific settings.

Would it not give the same mark to the same person twice?

Or did everyone have their own internal cooldown?

There was even the situation where it connected two people on the same side to interfere with each other.

Honestly, at least at that point, although it seemed complicated, Lin Guang thought it was still manageable. He spent a while analyzing the skill rotation in his head, even considering how to bait the enemy into giving him the damage-sharing mark.

The plan he proposed to Zihan was exactly the optimal path he'd observed at that moment.

But that plan still failed, and the whole situation spiraled uncontrollably toward collapse. With no other options, he, without much hope, tried a Hail Mary play—eating someone else's mark.

...And damn if it didn't actually work.

It was hard to imagine that this mark-enforced damage-sharing ability didn't even have a guaranteed-hit property locking onto the target's magic aura. It was just a simple, unadorned instant projectile attack skill—just one that flew incredibly fast.

That wasn't Little ○'s Flying Dagger; at best, it was ○-Finger Divine Technique.

When Lin Guang finally realized this, he was so pissed he laughed.

Tricked!

He'd spent half the day thinking five layers deep, only to find this thing was only operating on the first layer.

In the end, he realized he didn't need to go through the mechanics at all; just return to fundamentals and it would be fine.

If he'd known that earlier, why the hell had he wasted so much effort thinking? It was all just wasted emotion.

The mark itself was indeed too fast to react to, one following another, but the wind-up before it was longer than his lifespan in Lin Guang's eyes.

It was the same principle as dodging a bullet.

Borrowing a famous saying from a mathematician in his past life...

No matter how slow someone's reflexes are, can't they dodge the action of aiming and pulling the trigger?

From another perspective, as long as Lin Guang could actively take the damage-sharing magic mark, he could directly drain it until its own mother wouldn't recognize it.

As for other magical girls being able to use only a quarter of their magic power at a time before overloading and feeling excruciating pain throughout their bodies, with the risk of self-destruction beyond that... What did that have to do with magical girl Mengmengxiang?

Having self-destructed so many times, how could she still be afraid of that?

She was someone who could keep casting even after being cut in half, unlike some teacher who claimed to have precise operation and high-speed recovery but lost all ability to mobilize power after being bisected, leading to a GG.

"Forget it."

Lin Guang rubbed his throbbing temples.

Next time, he wouldn't give this crap mob any chance to show off.

At the start, after it finished its outburst, he'd directly snatch the damage-sharing mark, have others protect him, drain its magic power dry, and then lock down the activation timing of its damage-sharing mark. Done deal.

Azure Firefall, as the name suggested, was an upgraded version of Crimson Flame Cannon.

After Lin Guang received the Sacred Tree's blessing and upgraded, he'd excavated a new incantation magic from his memories.

Its chanting lines and time were longer, during which he could do virtually nothing. If not for his upgraded D-rank Magic Aptitude, he might not even be able to walk, but it also required greater restraint and control over magic power.

According to Lin Guang's conservative estimate, the limit was compressing four times his Magic Power Capacity into a single spell.

Regardless of whether this Azure Firefall could drain that thing's magic power in one go, its condition would definitely be heavily affected. As long as he teamed up with the others to strike together, given that thing's fragile body, it would be dead as dead could be.

If this still went wrong, he'd eat his phone on the spot!

He shook his head.

Lin Guang took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the dazed feeling of ending a journey of over ten days here, and then began checking the rewards from this dungeon.

[Reward: Magic Aptitude (E-), Mengmengxiang's Magic Power Crystal (Tiny) (F+) x1]

[Hint: Due to the special nature of the S-rank difficulty trial, each time a new evaluation is achieved, the system will directly distribute the corresponding reward item. This reward is independent of the trial's final reward.]

[Settle with E-rank evaluation?]

[YES/NO]

NO.

Lin Guang's gaze fixed on the new option.

[Magic Aptitude (E-)]

[A small crystal condensed from spirit and soul. Using it can slightly improve magic control ability.]

He blinked in surprise.

Magic Aptitude?

The next moment, Lin Guang silently intoned:

Claim reward.

As his thought fell, two thumb-sized, dazzling crystals materialized in his hand out of thin air.

One was warm to the touch, refracting a faint, flame-like glow; the other was completely transparent, carrying specks of white light.

They melted into his palm before even warming up, turning into streams of light that merged into Lin Guang's body.

The next moment.

Accompanied by a familiar feeling of gratitude, the power brought by the two streams of light began to spread, flowing throughout his body.

One carried a slight scorching heat, while the other also held a cool sensation.

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