My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Su Fang looked at Airwen's black pupils, somehow sensing that things weren't that simple.

But in the end, she didn't say anything more, simply withdrawing her gaze.

Lin Guang, meanwhile, quietly held eye contact with the silver-haired girl.

Their gazes didn't linger long—they parted in less than two seconds.

Airwen stood up. "Time to rest."

Not long after, everyone finished a quick wash and returned to their tents to sleep.

With Su Fang nestled against him, Lin Guang closed his eyes as his consciousness sank into darkness.

...

Ten hours later.

Airwen asked Su Fang, "Of the remaining four fragments, besides the biggest one, how far is the one closest to us, or rather, to the Sacred Tree's barrier?"

"If it's not too far, we can head straight there to retrieve it."

Su Fang nodded obediently, closing her eyes and crossing her hands over her chest.

Hum—

The Soul Gem on her chest glowed with a gentle, azure radiance.

A moment later, Su Fang opened her eyes and pointed in a certain direction. "In that direction. I can sense it very clearly."

"In terms of distance, it's about twice as far as from the barrier to where we are now."

In that instant.

Staring at the direction Su Fang was pointing, Lin Guang was completely stunned.

For an ordinary magical girl, maps of the Outer Realm were essentially nonexistent, since everything out there basically looked the same.

But she was different.

With the Perfect Memory Engine—similar to something like Yuki◯na's—that came from the Precision Operation Engine, Lin Guang felt a chilling possibility creep over him.

Wait.

This direction seemed off...

Could it be?!

...

Over a dozen hours later.

Looking at the mountain-like stone giant before him—which had absolutely nothing to do with the tea party girl—along with the hundreds of small stone statues surrounding it, Lin Guang couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Just as he thought.

Every time he restarted, the damn Nightmare Seed holding the Fragments of Hope was different, wasn't it?

Looked like all that strategy prep was for nothing.

But still...

A hero couldn't run away from a fight!

The next moment, the red magical girl raised her staff and charged forward.

...

[You have died.]

[Mission Evaluation: E-Rank]

[Achievement Unlocked: What the Hell, This Is a Roguelike Game?]

Lin Guang opened his eyes. The sensation of being crushed into paste from a distance by some bizarre ability—all to shield Tang Keren from a blow—still lingered throughout his body.

His neural signals were firing wildly like a dance, making him feel like he was about to convulse all over.

The young man took a few deep breaths, did some stretching exercises to suppress the pain, then glanced expressionlessly at the system prompt before letting out a cold laugh.

He knew it. This bastard achievement was just the system being cheeky.

No reward, so it really was just messing around.

Good thing he'd predicted that the system would predict his complaints this time and deliberately held back his urge to gripe.

So I won this round...

[Ding.]

[Achievement Unlocked: I Won This Round.]

I won this round.

???

Lin Guang's eyes went wide.

[Ding.]

[Achievement Unlocked: Wait, You Can Backdate Achievements?]

Wait, you can backdate achievements?

So this dog system that'd shoved him into a magical girl identity was definitely alive after all.

"..."

Lin Guang said nothing, just kept taking deep breaths. He didn't bother questioning it out loud.

If it wanted to be cheeky, fine. But it'd better hand out some awesome rewards later.

Otherwise, he, Lin Guang, would definitely follow the example of the sages of the ○tomic multiverse—stand at the pinnacle of life, then pull a "burn the bridge after crossing" on both the system and the mastermind behind the scenes.

I am not yet strong. When I am, things will change!

He quickly regained his composure, stretched a bit more, then chose not to go straight to sleep to recover his energy. Instead, he got up from the bed, walked to the desk, opened his notebook, and began sorting through the events of this trial.

The position of the Fragments of Hope's guardian had changed. He could think of two possibilities.

One was the butterfly effect.

The other was that every time the trial started, the demon beast holding the Fragments of Hope changed.

Considering this was an S-Rank Trial, the latter was more likely.

If so, the fact that the "Headless General" held the fragment in both trials might also be a coincidence.

"..."

Pressing the pen to his lower lip, Lin Guang began recalling the demon beast from this trial—temporarily naming it "Stone Demon."

The Stone Demon didn't have a one-shot kill mechanic like the tea party girl. It was pure raw stats—the same type of Nightmare Seed as the giant beast that had invaded the city center.

Every move it made triggered terrifying shockwaves in the air. The atmosphere rippled like visible waves on a mirror's surface. Wherever the waves passed, the ground split open, gravel turned to powder, and it could even launch them from a distance.

If hit directly, given the opponent's magic power output and attack force, even with a Spirit Outfit and protective force field, his organs would be crushed to paste.

That was exactly how Lin Guang had just died.

"The weakness is actually obvious."

Lin Guang scribbled furiously in his notebook.

The Stone Demon's body was vaguely humanoid. Though it had limbs, it had no head. Its entire body was split into upper and lower halves, connected by a massive red core in the middle.

If its limbs were shattered, they would slowly regenerate from the core.

Without a doubt, the core was the weak point—destroy it completely, and victory was assured.

The problem was...

This was also its strongest point.

The core itself was where the Stone Demon's vibrations were most intense, a true work of art that combined offense and defense. Any attack that wasn't strong enough would be deflected upon contact.

Melee combat was out of the question. Ranged attacks were the same story. And on top of that, it came with a bunch of small Claw-type minion statues, making this a full-on grueling battle.

The most ridiculous part was that even if the damage output was enough and enough harm was dealt to the core, it would actually charge up the core, firing a light cannon loaded with shockwave energy.

Lin Guang hadn't even lasted long enough to see a glimmer of victory this time. Tang Keren was fighting too desperately, her magic power output nearly at overload. When the core countered with a light cannon blast she couldn't dodge, Lin Guang had to forcibly take the hit for her.

Then he died on the spot—a truly gruesome end.

But now that he'd figured it out, next time he'd be careful. It shouldn't be too much of a problem.

He just needed to make sure the counterattack light cannon was aimed at him instead.

After all, no matter how powerful an attack was, if it couldn't hit you, it didn't matter.

This principle was also recorded in the words of a certain famous figure whose signature color was red.

Lin Guang was almost done writing when he suddenly stopped, looking at the dense notes and deductions on the notebook, his brows slightly raised.

...If it really was random like a roguelike game, then next time, he couldn't be sure if he'd run into a new monster.

The tea party girl and the Stone Demon—one was a mechanics-based boss, the other a stats-based one.

Honestly, both were incredibly tough.

And this was at most the level of a Low-Level Nightmare Seed.

According to what Airwen had said during the hellish intensive training, Mid-Level Nightmare Seeds, let alone High-Level ones, were nearly flawless beings with no weaknesses.

If it really was roguelike-style randomness, with many different Nightmare Seeds guarding the Fragments of Hope...

The difficulty of this trial was indeed something else.

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