Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

Pushing aside the thick stone pillar next to her, then tearing through several layers of concrete wall, stone, rebar, even a mess of televisions and computers, Jialan finally crawled up from the bottom of the building.

She glanced at the magical outfit on her body.

Simo Tu’s blow had deformed her magical outfit.

One thing was certain: the opponent had not used any mana.

In a place like this, she absolutely could not afford to let her guard down.

From the very beginning, detection and defense against mana had been running at full strength.

After all, whether Magical Girls or Witches, whenever they acted there would always be mana overflow.

Her magic was especially sensitive to mana, so she had been brazen while moving through South China.

Moreover, Jialan had indeed fought Simo Tu face to face. Although the boy was fierce, he still ultimately used polluted magic...

Lies.

He didn’t need to at all.

She coughed twice. If she weren’t in transformation state, Jialan felt like her internal organs might have been completely smashed.

Simo Tu didn’t need any mana at all; he relied purely on his body to reach this level.

A single punch had almost crushed a Blooming-tier Magical Girl.

Could this really be possible? Could someone truly do this?

Remember, Magical Girls and Disaster Beasts had existed for who knew how many years.

An attack without mana could at most suppress, not truly wound a Magical Girl; that had become common societal knowledge, a rule of the world.

Now her whole body felt like it had been beaten to pieces, as if her heavy armor was about to fall apart, and yet it was telling her:

Is it time for a physically-modified monster to deal real physical damage to a Magical Girl?

"A humanoid Disaster Beast, huh."

Even while potentially overestimating Simo Tu, Jialan couldn’t help exclaiming.

This was no longer within what humans could achieve.

Even full-body modifications couldn’t explain such physical strength; as an experiment participant, Jialan knew this better than anyone...

Boom!

A distant building suddenly collapsed.

No human figures could be seen, only a single line piercing right through the building.

All the glass in that building shattered in an instant, raining down shards, and the whole building began to crumple rapidly!

Jialan’s expression changed.

That building contained the gift she had prepared specifically for Simo Tu...

Upon seeing the death-trap-filled building collapse, Jialan had already lifted her magic wand forward,

concentrating a massive amount of mana into a barrier.

Then she saw the lake ahead ripple violently, as if something had stomped on it.

By moonlight she faintly saw a line flash across her vision.

Then came an intense shove to her back!

It felt like a train had struck her from behind at full speed, Jialan’s head smashing into her own deployed defensive magic.

She was hurled out in a clean straight line!

Only when she was struck up into the air did Jialan see the ripples on the lake explode outward!

Followed by the sharp whine of a sonic boom and the loud splash as the lake ruptured.

Too fast.

So fast that the lake’s reaction lagged by half a beat as he charged across it!

Speed is power!

Even a Magical Girl, under such terrifying wind pressure and inertia, couldn’t stop her movement instantly.

She smashed past the tip of a high iron tower, caught by multiple tangled power lines, Jialan didn’t have time to correct her posture and instantly spread her mana protection across her whole body!

Below, Yun Ke’s eyes spun as she watched a brilliant yellow sphere wildly whirled around by a streaking line, colliding again and again!

The streak moved at terrifying speed, at one point weaving into a bundle that wrapped the yellow sphere entirely!

Amid countless rapid strikes, Jialan couldn’t muster mana to counterattack; merely maintaining the thickness of her mana barrier drained most of her mana and attention!

Even so, the mana barrier developed cracks.

Then Simo Tu, without any mana and relying solely on physical rules, smashed the surrounding mana barrier to pieces!

Even having mentally prepared for Simo Tu, Jialan still couldn’t help freezing in shock for a moment.

This guy wants to defeat me using pure flesh?

The next second, a rough palm covered her face and clamped down hard.

Her wand’s magic activated; the yellow line wound tightly around the opponent’s right hand and quickly began crawling up Simo Tu’s arm!

"Fall."

Before consciousness faded she heard a cold whisper.

Unstoppable, enormous force descended from above her skull!

Yun Ke, watching below, only blinked and then saw the asphalt below, like the lake before, spray up chunks of gravel and asphalt like a tidal wave!

Cracks on the ground crazily spread in all directions; the surroundings seemed to tilt and quake, as if stones were about to collapse.

When the fissures reached the lake, a great volume of water began to spill out, rushing along the cracks into the massive pit Simo Tu had smashed out of the ground.

Yun Ke licked her lips, then glanced at the car where the other Witch Association combat members had been.

The car had been flipped by the aftershock; the fighters inside were all unconscious.

After all, in a battle of this scale, without strength you wouldn’t even have the qualification to watch from the sidelines.

If she weren’t a Complete Witch, Yun Ke would have directly passed out too.

Even as a Complete Witch, the tremor had left her a little dizzy.

No wonder she dared to claim she wanted to be Vice President...

An ordinary attack that is a physical critical hit and can pierce mana defenses — could anyone resist Simo Tu-sama?

Not to mention Vice President, he could easily be President!

Thinking this, Yun Ke suddenly felt excited.

What’s happening? My money-grubbing choice just gave me a bright future?

If I follow Simo Tu, maybe I won’t have to stay in the underground South China factory, scavenging and processing potion materials for the Witch Association like a rat. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

My skillful hands might turn over a new leaf!

Just as her heart raced at that thought, a flash of orange mana shot out from the pit filled halfway with lake water!

Simo Tu in midair again became an invisible streak the naked eye couldn’t track, carving countless winding meteor-like trails across the night sky, cutting the sky into pieces with his lines.

The orange mana cannon chased him relentlessly.

Yun Ke’s eyes bulged; she still couldn’t make out the form, only two indifferent hues pursuing one another until they slammed somewhere with a tremendous explosion.

Jialan leapt out of the pit, gasping, and looked toward where Simo Tu had fallen, her expression showing no relaxation.

Because the next second, a telephone pole shot toward Simo Tu’s fall like an arrow!

Jialan’s brows tightened; her magic finally betrayed her.

The pole suddenly pierced through her body and drove straight into the hood of a Rolls-Royce parked behind her!

The entire car twisted and then erupted in an explosion!

Other vehicles around the parking lot were also blown apart; some even rolled twice.

Alarms screamed sharply, but no people appeared nearby.

Most residents had eagerly gone next door to watch the match; the few who hadn’t hid underground for safety.

All electrical systems failed; the whole Guangzhou fell into darkness.

Though she knew battle relocations usually got covered by the Disaster Control Bureau, Yun Ke, who had been short on money working in the factory, watched the scene with twitching eyelids.

How much will the compensation be...

She didn’t know if there were casualties; Yun Ke hadn’t seen anyone among the ruined buildings that Simo Tu had smashed.

Yet such huge destruction could be catastrophic for a small town.

Probably Simo Tu just happened to select unoccupied buildings, not that he cared about killing.

I should care about that.

Yun Ke couldn’t imagine Simo Tu caring about human lives!

Amid the great flames and shrill alarms, sweat began to slide slowly down Jialan’s temples.

The licking flames behind her offered no warmth.

This is damn weird.

Even when she watched horror films as a child, Jialan had never felt this indescribable terror.

The opponent, without using a single mana trace, had used his absurd body to destroy her mana barrier.

He even forced her into virtualization.

He even made her feel a ridiculous humiliation for an instant.

Although she had long abandoned the dream of being a Magical Girl,

honor and mission had long been out of her reach.

Yet in this moment, Jialan involuntarily felt an uncontrollable urge.

"Aren’t you going to use mana?"

Even in this situation, Jialan didn’t panic; she smiled and asked, "Transformation’s fine, borrowing polluted magic is fine, none of those should be hard for you, right?"

"A piece of paper can be cut by scissors if you have scissors."

Simo Tu dragged a streetlamp and slowly emerged from the darkness, "Why change to a cleaver?"

Yes, that was it.

The sense of mission born in Jialan’s heart.

As a Magical Girl, she absolutely could not be defeated by a being that did not use mana.

That unbearable, from-head-to-toe contempt.

Unlike the Prince’s arrogance born from status,

this person judged by strength and then displayed this posture.

There was no room for argument.

Weakness was just weakness, his attitude was formed from hard battle results.

Precisely because of that, it was intolerable.

The miracle of Magical Girls, losing to such a being.

His mere existence seemed to undermine the underlying logic of the world.

For a moment, Jialan thought maybe she had been granted a Miracle Seed and become a Magical Girl for this very moment.

To defeat this extraordinary monster who doesn’t even use mana, to protect the love and hope of this world, to prove the superiority of Magical Girl miracles!

"Fine."

Jialan grinned, showing a brilliant smile, "Then let’s see whether your scissors can really cut through my piece of rotten paper!"

The streetlamp slammed down!

She de-virtualized in the instant she moved back; in the fleeting moment she escaped danger she canceled virtualization.

Virtualization had a time limit, and the opponent knew this.

When facing the Golden Calamity Dragon King before, she had exposed all her bottom cards just to barely escape.

Now without intelligence advantage, the opponent didn’t even need to transform to suppress her.

So brazen; clearly he had prepared counters to all her abilities.

Including the Mental Landscape?

For a moment Jialan was even curious.

How would he break into a Mental Landscape without using mana?

While retreating at top speed, the opponent casually uprooted a large tree and smashed it over again,

using whatever he could get as weapons.

Trees, streetlamps, utility poles, even kicking over a car.

All sorts of throwing tactics — like throwing stones.

Giving her almost no time to breathe, massive objects rained down like toys as he hurled them.

This frantic assault made Jialan realize something.

That is, the opponent’s method for countering the Mental Landscape might not come from inside it at all.

From the start he had no intention of letting her expand a Mental Landscape to swallow him.

He was forcing her to keep virtualizing.

While virtualized she couldn’t deploy Mental Landscape, since she wasn’t in that space and couldn’t use Personal Reality to alter the world and open a domain.

Virtualization consumed a lot of mana and the time was limited.

Simo Tu knew the time limit; when the Golden Calamity Dragon King chased and sprayed dragon breath, it wore down her virtualization time,

and with Simo Tu’s speed just now, he could avoid her before she expanded her domain.

Then what to do?

Huge stones fell from the sky; unwilling to waste virtualization, Jialan countered a blast of mana to shatter them.

But more wooden stakes, rebar, iron plates slammed into her. Her magical outfit wavered again.

Mass beyond the outfit’s defensive limit.

Gradually, however, Jialan found the rhythm of the fight and began to match his pace, weaving through the rain of attacks.

Her virtualization time kept dwindling.

Seven seconds left.

She really hadn’t fought in a long time.

Her clash with the Golden Calamity Dragon King wasn’t really a real fight — she had been beaten and had fled.

Before meeting Simo Tu she hadn’t had any worthy opponents.

The last time she had fought with all her strength was probably shortly after she first became a Magical Girl.

Simo Tu’s combat logic was still easy to read: long-range suppression to consume virtualization time and waste her mana.

It was hard for her offensive spells to hit; even if they did, the damage seemed limited.

But that was also because Jialan herself wasn’t proficient in offensive magic; her abilities were never developed for combat.

Her virtualization ability was also why she could make pure mana and polluted magic coexist...

Boom!

A mana blast dissolved the concrete beneath Simo Tu’s feet.

No matter how inhuman, he still obeyed physical rules; the collapsing ground shifted his posture,

so long-range mana blasts couldn’t penetrate his defense.

Jialan lunged straight into Simo Tu’s front!

"I actually—"

Her wand shrank, transformed, almost into a fine needle; Jialan suddenly stabbed it into Jiang Si’s body!

"I’m also pretty good at close combat."

The wand exploded inside the boy!

Half of the mask was blown off at once; that steel-like body also shuddered from the internal mana blast.

No matter how tough a body is, the internal organs cannot withstand such force...

Simo Tu’s movement paused for a beat, then he grabbed her head without obstruction, ripped at her hair, and yanked her down hard!

His knee slammed brutally into her skull!

Dazed for a moment, even with the magical outfit’s defense, it felt like her brains would be forced out!

She hadn’t felt this extreme pain from being beaten in a long time.

Still in Magical Girl form, the knee pinned her forehead; Simo Tu’s right elbow then smashed down mercilessly onto the back of her head!

Elbow strike!

This time Jialan even felt the magical outfit on the verge of collapsing!

She virtualized again; the knee and elbow punched through her body and collided!

Like two gigantic iron hammers meeting with stored energy,

her clothes tore in an instant; the ground beneath Simo Tu’s feet collapsed again.

Jialan fell back; the boy casually grabbed the nearby railing, and with one pull dozens of meters of railing were uprooted and flung at the virtualized Jialan.

Virtualization time, last four seconds.

Simo Tu obviously sensed this crucial time point. He continuously threw surrounding debris and followed them like cannonballs.

Even faster than the projectiles he threw!

The attack range and persistence were enough to cover the final four seconds!

Two seconds left.

She prematurely canceled virtualization.

Even Simo Tu was taken aback; he didn’t expect her to de-virtualize early.

Several steel pipes instantly pierced Jialan’s body!

Her magical outfit began to fade; mana leaked away.

Her speed suddenly slowed.

Simo Tu prepared to close in without hesitation.

His thrown debris came tumbling on in sequence; virtualization time left only two seconds.

A professional could already judge the outcome.

That meant he had won!

"Mental Landscape."

But Jialan flashed a smile with a hint of childish triumph, "Expand."

Just as she had imagined, Simo Tu changed direction at extreme speed, punched the ground, and as the earth caved he rocketed vertically in a sonic boom!

As a diffusion-type, not an Iris swap-type Mental Landscape, there was no way to pull in such a fast enemy into the domain!

Yet the premise was that the Mental Landscape expands from her body.

Simo Tu suddenly bowed his head; Jialan’s Mental Landscape, however, opened from the wand that had been driven into his body, and in an instant swallowed him whole!

The expanding domain even devoured the rebar, streetlamps, and utility poles that were chasing Jialan!

Jialan avoided her own domain and, because of inertia, tumbled on the ground several times before finally stopping.

Gasping, she pulled the steel pipes from her body.

Looking up at the fully deployed domain, in the quiet night there was almost nothing left but her breath.

Relief at surviving, excitement and elation, the joy and satisfaction of victory,

and the love, hope, and miracles trampled by Simo Tu

had all been protected.

Jialan only laughed out loud from emotions after a long, long delay.

"Looks like my piece of rotten paper isn’t so easy to cut after all."

Unlike the Golden Calamity Dragon King, Simo Tu’s speed was simply too great.

He had been guarding against her Mental Landscape, not revealing a close-range weakness; he would never give her a chance to catch him.

He could not be pulled in from long range, and at close range she had no opportunity to expand the domain.

So she gambled: drive the wand into Simo Tu’s body and open the domain from inside him.

If anything went wrong, she might have canceled transformation first.

This time luck favored her; she seized the chance.

But who says luck isn’t part of strength?

When Jialan rose and relaxed, her Magical Girl body suddenly felt an unprecedented fatigue and numbness.

Her muscles ached and went weak.

It was strange because Magical Girl form shouldn’t feel like this.

What a baffling fellow, Simo Tu.

Although being forced to this point by pure physicality felt ugly and beastly,

if it was Simo Tu she didn’t feel ashamed.

Instead, as a Magical Girl, her sense of honor and mission were rarely satisfied.

She probably would never forget him in her life...

Glancing at the stunned, trembling Yun Ke, Jialan chuckled, "Don’t worry, he won’t die. He still has a trump card he hasn’t used."

With that she pulled out a prepared magic card; a dense magic array unfolded from the card.

"But being prepared isn’t exactly—"

Boom!

As expected, the domain was broken.

When the fissure appeared, Jialan had already made full preparations.

She didn’t intend to keep entangled with him.

If she forced out a Disaster Dragon state, she had already won.

What followed was beyond her ability...

Bang!

A fist smashed out from the crack.

Jialan’s calm gaze dimmed.

Smash, smash!

The fissure was smashed open again and again until an eye on the other side was exposed.

The broken fox mask was stained with blood. The boy grabbed the edge of the domain with both hands,

and ripped open a huge tear!

He slowly walked out.

No mana.

From start to finish, he still hadn’t used any mana.

"Impossible!"

Even Jialan couldn’t help shouting, "How can pure physicality smash a Mental Landscape!"

Cheating, playing dirty, maybe he transformed into the Golden Calamity Dragon King and changed back, purposely to disgust me...

"The Mental Landscape thing." Simo Tu casually slammed on the nearby Mental Landscape,

and space, along with the domain, cracked!

"Coincidentally, I also happen to have a simplified version."