: What is she pretending to be?

"There's a flaw in this corridor, otherwise the otters wouldn't have tried to persuade us to surrender."

"Genko's strength here is insufficient to reliably defeat a magical girl in her blooming stage."

"The Phantom Society has other main forces, otherwise it would not be able to suppress the Qishan City General Bureau, but it is likely that it cannot spare the time now."

During his conversation with the otters, Wu'an roughly understood these points.

After a moment's hesitation, Wu'an opened the bottle and brought it to his lips.

Drinking the filthy magic in that bottle shouldn't be a problem.

With its [Devour] ability, Wu An could drink up even a whole vat, let alone this thumb-sized bottle.

Even if it contains witch magic, I'm not afraid.

She remembered the first time she met Genko.

The pink mist produced by the witch's bodily fluids can suppress calamity beasts and magical girls, but it has little effect on her.

Even when he accidentally drank the witch's bodily fluids later, he only felt a salty taste.

I just don't know if we can fool the people from the Illusion Society and get her out of trouble.

If you manage to fool them, things will be easy; if you fail, you'll have to resort to brute force to get through.

The source of the ability that distorted space and distance before my eyes was that witch who called herself Bai Leqi.

If I become powerful one day, will I face off against her? And if I do, how will I deal with it?

To investigate the internal workings of the Qishan City General Affairs Bureau, it's also necessary to overcome this capability...

Although he hoped to successfully deceive the Genko Society, Mu'an was also mentally prepared for failure.

"I'm going to drink it now."

She said something to the screen and downed it in one gulp.

[Devour] activated.

[Sufficient amount of ■■ magic power has been obtained]

His vision was tinged with crimson. Wu An closed his eyes, his usually calm heart now filled with extreme rage.

The witch's magic entered her body through her throat and was about to spread, but the magic circulating within her body was like a shark that had seen blood. Without Wu An's control, the magic surged forward.

The magic that wanted to spread undoubtedly surpassed the magic of the Darkness in quality.

However, Wu'an's magic power was far greater than hers. The witch's magic power had a slight tendency to become corrupted, but even if Wu'an's magic power was corrupted, it was immediately torn apart by the pure magic power within her body.

Before long, the witch's magic completely disappeared from her body.

Despite being a masked group with a lingering aura, just by looking at the compatibility between their magic, Wu'an could tell that she and the witch had terrible compatibility.

Wu An is not a very emotional person, and he does not hunt disaster beasts because he hates them.

She felt she wouldn't hate something for no reason, but she had a vague premonition.

Wu An closed her eyes, waiting for Huan Zi to come and "reclaim" her.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the executives of the Illusion Society, seeing that Wu An had drunk the magic in the bottle, immediately took out several bottles of champagne from the freezer in the conference hall and started opening them.

The aroma of wine filled the conference room, and everyone stared excitedly at the screen.

Three minutes passed, and someone couldn't help but ask:

"Why is there still no movement?"

"Transformation takes time, after all."

"The previous transformation wasn't like this... I remember that one called Kira, it was over in an instant."

"But we've only seen one case, so the conversion time we derived shouldn't be representative, right?"

"Never mind that! Keep drinking!"

After a while, the people who had been drinking were no longer drunk; instead, they became even more sober.

Wu An kept her eyes closed the whole time, her delicate eyebrows furrowed together, as if she were enduring great pain.

The problem is, the other person's nails haven't grown at all! And there are no cracks on their face...

There was not a single sign of transformation.

"This...this isn't right, is it?"

"Is she acting like one of us?"

"Maybe he put that thing in his mouth and didn't swallow it?"

"Nonsense! That stuff doesn't only work if you swallow it."

Although she was equally shocked, Minase shrugged and tried her best to remain calm:

"You're making a fuss over nothing. She was able to enter the base using 'tainted magic' before, so she's probably using the same trick to store the liquid in the bottle now. But this girl probably doesn't understand 'conversion' either, which is why she's pretending like this."

"Hmph! This magical girl is shameless; she even tried to trick us into a sneak attack!"

"Burp~"

"Make him sober up!" Minase said unhappily, pointing at the executive who had just been hiccuping.

Snapped!

The drunkard who was beaten yelled and cursed, but after realizing what was happening, he lowered his head.

Hitting someone won't solve the problem.

Wu An is temporarily unable to transform into a witch, so the situation remains at a stalemate.

"President, don't worry, she can't escape anyway. In the end, she'll be at our mercy. If all else fails, we can go to the General Affairs Bureau and ask them to help us deal with her."

"Too."

The unease that had risen in Minase's heart when she thought of the person entrenched in the General Affairs Bureau was quickly wiped away.

Currently, Qishan City lacks fourth-tier magical girl combat power. Once a fourth-tier magical girl appears, she will be virtually invincible. In any case, they can stall for time. At worst, they can send some food to Wu'an to prevent her from starving to death.

Most importantly, even without the help of a fourth-tier expert, this corridor is not something that can be traversed by someone merely in the flowering stage.

.......

Seeing that no one had come after he had been pretending to be dead for half an hour, Wu An knew that his cleverness had been exposed.

Now the only option is to forcibly break open the corridor.

Fortunately, she wasn't just pretending to be asleep; she was thinking about how to get out of the corridor.

Wu An opened his eyes and got up. Following the possibilities he had considered, he lightly flicked his fingers across the corridor.

A magic bullet was fired at the wall, and then it disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, this process is gradual, not instantaneous.

Although the changes occurred in such a short time that they were almost impossible to capture, Wu An saw them clearly.

In order to eliminate the TuTu Disaster Beasts in the city as soon as possible, she carefully calculated every bit of magic power, and she was aware of even the slightest change in magic power.

"Surprisingly simple."

A black longbow materialized in her hand. She drew the bow, nocked an arrow, and the black arrow flew through the corridor, disappearing after traveling a short distance.

call out--

The second arrow followed closely behind, moving even faster than the first, and disappeared after traveling a distance.

However, it flew out about half a paving stone's distance.

Wu An turned around to face the wall and fired an arrow even faster. Almost the instant the arrow left the bowstring, the magic that made up the arrow dissipated.

The walls are much more "defensive" than the walkways.

However, she had also completely confirmed the situation in the corridor.

While distance can extend infinitely, the speed at which it extends is not infinite.

Previously, I had only been walking, and since I could see the end of the corridor, I mistakenly thought that the extension of the corridor was instantaneous.

In addition, the "defense" level of the walls on both sides is significantly stronger, and trying to find a breakthrough through the walls only reinforces the impression that "it is impossible to break through the corridor".

Ultimately, if this corridor were truly flawless, the Huanzi Society wouldn't be holed up in Qishan City; they would have gone to Changming City long ago.

A fifth-tier warrior can definitely break through the corridor with brute force. Even if one's raw strength doesn't reach the fifth tier, some skill can still help.

With this thought in mind, Wu Anqian flipped his hand, and a black ball of light appeared in his hand.

[True Form: Weaving a Web of Words]

Endless black threads spread into the air, intertwining and becoming fulcrums, while Wu An's body retreated continuously, with an endless bouncy rope woven from the threads behind him.

"Huh?"

She looked ahead curiously, and another magic bullet was launched.

It traveled at the same speed as the first arrow, but flew a much farther distance.

The "Weaving of Words" seems to shorten distances... no... it doesn't seem to shorten distances, but rather it seems to inhibit the "growth of distance".

Why does it have this property?

A question was planted in Wu'an's heart, but the most important thing right now was to get out of trouble.

The silk threads gradually tightened the bow, and the originally scattered silk threads were woven into thick and tough ropes.

Bat wings made of magic formed around Wu An's waist, poised to strike.

She pointed to the main entrance at the end of the corridor, finally adjusting her aim.

"open."

He silently recited a command, and the terrifying pressure that had been building up in his lower back instantly rebounded.

boom!!

The moment the wings flapped, a sonic boom echoed through the corridor.

The shadowy figure flashed past, leaving the distance it had traveled far behind.

At the end of the corridor, all that remained was a pile of wrecked remains.

.......

Rumble!

Click, click!

A huge tremor came from underground, and the cups on the table wobbled and fell to the ground.

Those in the conference room all looked grave after witnessing Wu An's actions.

The shift from a joyful atmosphere to one of profound grief took less than half an hour.

It was supposed to be a defense that would trap even a fourth-tier being, but it was broken through by a magical girl in her prime.

"President...how about we move?"

Someone couldn't help but suggest it.

Although there were other protective measures below the base, the long corridor that had never been breached before was broken today, making the members of the Phantom Society wonder if the other defenses might also have been breached.

"No, no need." Minase simply frowned and changed the monitoring perspective. Several of the dozens of small monitoring screens were now displaying a snow-like pattern—those were the parts where Wu An had passed through.

"Koala," the otters called to a middle-aged man—they were addressed by code names and titles within the Genko-kai.

Koala was the one who had been drunk earlier, and her face still bore the marks of a slap and the flush of intoxication.

Upon being summoned, Koala's face showed some tension, and she felt a chill run down her spine, fearing that the student council president would give her some kind of order—"to stop the magical girl"...

"Go to the General Affairs Bureau and find Qiluo, then tell her what happened."

Koala's face paled a little. If we were to say who the actual person in charge of their Genji Association in Qishan City is now, it is not the president, but the magical girl, Kira, who has already completed her transformation.

But the problem is... once the transformation is complete, wouldn't she become a witch? If she communicates with something like that, won't she be killed after delivering the message?

Isn't this just sending him to his death?

"You don't need to worry too much. Qi Luo's real body is currently in Changming City. The one that was sent back is just a fake body. It shouldn't be as bloodthirsty as the witch."

"We'll take a loss and stay here to hold off that magical girl. You go and call for backup. Everyone's lives are in your hands."

Minase said it seriously, but no one could help but think she was talking nonsense.

Everyone knows perfectly well what kind of people are in the Huanzi Society and even become its leaders.

Calling for backup is such a dangerous job; the otters would definitely be the first to run away.

"With such a formidable enemy at hand, if everyone else isn't retreating, I can't either. Should I just call Qiluo and ask her to come over?" Koala still wanted to make one last effort.

As soon as he said this, the surrounding officials began to look at him with hostility.

Making a phone call is naturally the most convenient way to contact someone, but the problem is that you have to be able to get through.

Huanzi was also unsure about Qiluo's condition; they had lost contact with the Qishan City General Affairs Bureau for several days.

I wonder what Qiluo is busy with.

The attitude of the members of the Genko-kai towards the witch is, in a sense, similar to that of the followers of the evil god towards the evil god. The evil god may give the followers benefits, but may also take their lives at any time.

We all only have one life, so we should avoid contact with witches as much as possible.

Wu An is only in her blossoming stage. She does have some skills, but the internal defenses of the Huanzi Society are enough to hold her off for a while.

Qiluo is merely an insurance policy to prevent a complete disaster.

Under the koala's fearful gaze, the otter slammed her hand on the table, holding what appeared to be a pistol, and her previous gentle persuasion vanished completely.

Firearms are useless against magical girls, but they are more than enough to deal with ordinary people who can only use a little bit of corrupt magic.

"You don't want to put everyone in a difficult position, do you?"

"Go find Qiluo honestly, don't even think about running away. You don't want to know what will happen if you take chances."

Minase brandished her pistol, ignoring the grim-faced koala, and addressed the other officers:

"The rest of you, come with me to the upper level."