My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Zihan also nodded deeply.

Su Fang blinked.

...That actually makes sense.

She glanced at the cherry-haired girl beside her, but found her frowning and lost in thought, so she called softly, "Senior Mengmengxiang?"

Lin Guang snapped out of his reverie and shook his head.

"Mm-hmm."

"In any case, I propose that after we finish resting, we head straight to reclaim the next fragment."

As she spoke, Tang Keren raised her right hand high:

"Our condition is this good, and our strength has jumped so much, we should ride this momentum while the Abyss hasn't reacted, and recover as many Fragments of Hope as we can!"

Zihan nodded too, her left eye filled with resolve: "I, I will too!"

"Although I want to say we mustn't be careless, we really can't be sure about the Sacred Tree's current state."

Airwen said quietly, "Maybe the Abyss has already sensed fragments being reclaimed and begun to instinctively act against the Sacred Tree. If we gather the remaining fragments sooner, maybe we can help earlier."

Once she said that, nobody objected.

So, surrounded by the campfire, everyone immediately began arranging resting spots, conserving energy for the journey ahead.

............

Five hours later.

Gale-force winds howled, whipping up endless red sand that tangled with the black fog hanging in the air, forming a red storm with almost zero visibility.

The air reeked of biting rusty metal. The red sandstorm blotted out the sky, reducing sight to less than twenty meters. The violent gusts and fine particles scraped at everything like countless tiny blades.

This crimson desert before them was practically a dead zone.

Not just Claw-type minions, even Dangerous Species were nowhere to be seen, as if the calamity could dissolve those monsters.

Yet despite the oppressive, disaster-like atmosphere, the group suffered no real harm and moved with surprising ease.

After receiving the Sacred Tree's blessing a second time, the girls' magic power surged again, hugely increasing their travel speed. Moving from that lonely plain to this red desert took only a few hours, and traveling through the storm no longer drained much energy.

Tang Keren dashed forward, her whole spirit outfit field traced by a visible pink outline as she complained, "Tsk, this is getting ridiculous... Su Fang, how much farther?"

Beside her, outlines glowed in silver, blue, purple, and red—a procession like five meteors streaking side by side.

Within the blue, watery radiance, Su Fang gripped her twin guns and, bracing against the wind, shouted back, "About half an hour!"

"Kukuku, wait for my grand performance!"

Transformed, Zihan was practically swelling with pride, dragging purple-black afterimages through the air, flashing a wicked grin with pearly teeth at Lin Guang and Airwen beside her.

Half an hour later.

Su Fang, who had been leading at the front, suddenly halted and looked puzzled.

"Huh?"

In the next moment, the azure Soul Gem in her possession glowed faintly. She closed her eyes and carefully sensed that peculiar fluctuation, then looked up at the muddied red sky: "Strange."

Airwen asked, "What's wrong?"

The blue light in Su Fang's eyes continued to flicker: "It's clearly close, but it doesn't seem to be on the ground...it's at a higher position?"

"Odd, it seems to be moving?"

Hearing that, everyone froze slightly.

Within their line of sight, aside from the endless red sand and the sandstorm, there were no outlines of any mountains.

The terrain they'd crossed offered no elevation change; it had been perfectly flat.

Suddenly, Su Fang's expression hardened: "Something's not right, it's getting closer!"

In an instant.

Lin Guang felt as if something struck him—his crimson pupils contracted sharply.

He snapped his head up, his gaze slicing through the red sand and black fog like a blade, locking onto the churning cloud mass overhead.

The other magical girls reacted just as fast, looking up, gripping their weapons, and beginning to gather their magic.

"Shriek—!!!"

A howl that chilled the bones echoed from the high sky.

A vague silhouette flashed across the low-visibility field of view.

In the next instant.

The red sandstorm and black fog overhead were ripped open as if by an invisible giant hand, and a huge, blurry red avian shadow hurtled toward them with unbelievable speed.

Then—

The terrifying figure descended obliquely like a crimson comet.

Its scythe-like wings, over twenty meters across, sliced down toward the group.

However, at the very first moment of the attack.

Intense red-and-silver radiance flared in the storm with almost no delay.

Airwen's sword and Lin Guang's staff met the creature's wings at precisely the same moment, unleashing violent magic to forcibly stop its motion.

As swelling music seemed to rise, phantom swordlight and ascending flames clashed fiercely at the battle's center.

The magic on the wings reacted violently with the magic on the two weapons, producing a metallic clash.

Clang!!

The gigantic avian form was stalled for a brief instant.

Lin Guang's thoughts churned rapidly.

This one's total magic power was much greater than the Tea Party Girl's, and its body was extremely tough.

Even without minions, the danger it emitted was greater.

If the Tea Party Girl was C-minus, this thing might be C!

A mid-rank Nightmare Seed?!

And in that split second.

Su Fang's frigid blue bullets, Tang Keren's fastest pink barrage, and the ghostly giant scythe all struck together.

The three-colored magic intertwined once more, becoming a blinding flash.

"Shriek—!!!"

The red dust clinging to its body was stripped away for a moment, revealing the nightmare's true form.

It was a ferocious crimson-black raptor.

Its size was almost airplane-like, its skull grotesque, the giant beak curved like a scythe. Its wings could blot out the sky. Its feathers looked metallic, bearing a tarnished, blood-stained sheen, like razor-sharp blades tinged with gore.

Its eyes showed no trace of reason, only pure ferocity.

In the next moment it shrieked again, beating its wings violently and whipping up a savage gale. Using that force, its massive body exploded upward.

"Don't try to run!"

"This thing...!!"

Tang Keren and Zihan instinctively wanted to take to the air. Magic at their feet had just begun to sketch out a shape.

But at the same time, a cool yet sweet voice forcibly stopped them.

"Don't go up."

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