Chapter 54: The New Magical Girl

The woods outside the window rustled in the gentle breeze.

Feeling the refreshing breeze, Bai Yuze glanced at the time. There were no evening classes today, so it was time to leave work.

Arriving at the parking lot, Bai Yuze wheeled an Aima electric scooter out from among a sea of BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.

He put on his helmet and headed toward the One-Yuan Noodle Restaurant.

Before even stepping inside, he noticed that the storefront next to the noodle shop seemed to be under renovation, while a recruitment notice was posted on the noodle shop's door. Taking a closer look, it was hiring two servers and one breakfast chef.

Bai Yuze could not help feeling a bit puzzled. He stepped back out and checked the signboard again to make sure he hadn't misread it; it was indeed the One-Yuan Noodle Restaurant.

With lingering confusion, he walked inside. "Uncle Li."

"Yuze, you're here?"

Uncle Li, who was busy kneading dough, broke into a wide smile the moment he saw Bai Yuze.

"Uncle Li, aren't you running a noodle shop? How come you're starting to hire a breakfast chef?"

Bai Yuze sat down at a table close to the kitchen and asked.

Uncle Li smiled and scratched his head. "The neighbors nearby always complain that there aren't many places selling steamed buns around here, and nobody has time to slurp noodles or rice noodles in the early morning. It's very inconvenient."

"Old Ye from the neighboring storefront moved away for personal reasons, so I thought about renting that space as well to expand the business, specializing in steamed buns and other pastries to make things more convenient for the neighborhood."

"I see."

Bai Yuze nodded, fell silent, and obediently lowered his head to slurp his noodles.

He had originally intended to use insider information as an excuse to persuade Uncle Li to move away from Yeqiu City. But now that Uncle Li was expanding his business, investing human labor, material resources, and financial capital, it was no longer something a mere teacher like him could alter. The insider information might be true or false, but the money spent was entirely real.

Let's wait and see for now; the new business might not take off immediately.

If things didn't go well later on, he could bring it up again, or perhaps approach it through Uncle Li's daughter.

The destruction caused by the opening of the Abyss Gate was by no means inferior to that of a strategic nuclear weapon. Especially since as long as the Abyss Gate remained unclosed, calamity beasts would continuously emerge, just like perpetual and unrelenting nuclear radiation.

After a while, Bai Yuze rubbed his stomach, placed the empty bowl on the table, and gave Uncle Li a thumbs-up.

"Uncle Li, your culinary skills are improving. The noodles are chewy with just the right firmness, and the soup is delicious."

"You're the only one with such a sweet mouth, able to spin flowers out of anything."

Kneading the dough, Uncle Li didn't pay much attention to the praise, but the upturned corners of his mouth honestly betrayed him. "Nonsense, it's been over a dozen years; isn't it still the same old taste?"

"Uncle Li, your noodles..."

Bai Yuze wanted to offer a few more compliments when a familiar, foul stench permeated his heart.

Aura of the Abyss!!

Nearby, not far from here. Bai Yuze's cheerful expression turned stern. He could sense that the calamity beast was not far from the One-Yuan Noodle Restaurant, and it had to be eliminated immediately.

Otherwise, Uncle Li might be in danger.

He quickly scanned the QR code with his phone and shouted to Uncle Li, "Uncle Li, I have some matters to attend to. I'll come back in a few days. By the way, I haven't seen Xuanyue call me these past few days. Tell her that if she really needs help with her studies, don't be shy and call me directly. You know, I'm the one who fed her spoonful by spoonful when she was a little girl."

"Alright, you can come over anytime you're free. Xuanyue is thin-skinned, so I'll talk to her."

Bai Yuze turned and left the noodle shop, found a restroom to transform, and immediately flew toward the direction of the calamity beast.

***

The otaku, whose face flushed with excitement after using the restroom, wiped his hands and cheerfully greeted his friend.

"Hey hey! Let me tell you! Just now, I saw a little loli with long hair down to her waist and white silk stockings! So cute!"

Hearing this, his buddy instantly became interested, turned his head, and looked around. "Where? Why didn't I see her? You bastard trying to keep all the good stuff to yourself, huh?"

The otaku took the cola handed over by his friend and casually said, "Right when I was in the restroom just now..."

The atmosphere grew somewhat heavy.

His buddy took a sip of cola, looking somewhat dazed, feeling like something wasn't quite right...

After a moment, the two looked at each other in dismay.

The otaku looked at his friend earnestly and explained, "Trap girls... I suppose I can accept that."

"Stay away from me, you damn bender!"

"You're not a trap girl yourself, what are you afraid of? Could it be..."

"I... I am not!"

The calamity beast was not far away, and Violet soon reached her destination.

This was a department store, and she still had some impressions of it. When she was wandering the streets as a child, she liked to come in here and use the phones and computers inside to check information about this world.

At this moment, the department store was completely deserted. To say that it had been fully evacuated was certainly unlikely; there simply wouldn't have been enough time to evacuate such a large crowd from a massive shopping mall. Filled with doubt, Violet summoned her magical arms conductor—Candle Tears.

The Butterfly-Transforming Sickle was very cool, but she preferred her own magical arms conductor—slaying calamity beasts completely naturally and pollution-free.

More importantly, Magical Girl Violet's profile was recorded in official documents, and her magical arms conductor was the Tang saber known as Candle Tears.

Entering the exact center of the shopping mall, Violet beheld the true appearance of the abyssal monster.

The monster's body was tall and thick, resembling a moving mountain. Its skin was a deep purple, covered in uneven, tumor-like protrusions that exuded a foul, nauseating stench.

The monster's face was even more terrifying—devoid of eyes, featuring only two dark, hollow sockets that seemed to devour all light. When its mouth opened, it revealed a row of sharp fangs gleaming with a cold light, sending chills down one's spine.

Although its appearance was extremely terrifying, the worry in Violet's heart diminished significantly. "Not yet fully formed, lacking intelligence, guided only by biological instinct. A third-rate, low-level calamity beast."

There were very few bloodstains near the monster, indicating that the number of casualties was not high.

With that thought, Violet prepared to wave her hand to finish off the opponent, but she immediately stopped.

The fiery red blade in her hand instantly transformed into ten pale purple magical blades. She rotated backward and flipped upside down into the air above the monster.

A pale purple magical rune array formed beneath the monster.

Trapped within the array, the calamity beast continued to howl and roar, attempting to intimidate Violet, who floated above like an insect in size.

Regrettably, Violet didn't even spare it a glance.

She pulled out her phone to stop Xia Qing and Han Xue, who were about to rush over.

Xia Qing: "Senior Xiaolan, Han Xue and I are taking time off. We might arrive a little late."

Bai Youqing: "Sister Xiaolan, I'm in gym class right now, but I can rush right over."

Violet: "You and Han Xue don't need to come. I'm at the scene. It's just a third-rate subordinate demon; you guys just focus on your classes. Youqing can come, as this is a great practical combat opportunity."

Scrolling up the chat, she could see that Chen Yuyi, the team captain, had also posted two screenshots in the group chat.

One was the location pinpoint of the Abyss Aura: Kainan Department Store on Hanjiang Street.

The other was the calamity event's rating: E-rank disaster, the lowest level of danger.

After sending the two pictures, the person went completely silent, acting like a hands-off boss.

Xia Qing: "Alright, sorry to trouble Senior Xiaolan."

Han Xue: "Got it."

Bai Youqing: "Understood."

Before long, accompanied by a piercing sound of breaking wind, a cyan rainbow flew across the horizon, charging straight toward the location of the calamity beast.

Followed by several cyan magical beams that slammed fiercely into the calamity beast,

blasting the creature into a bloody mess amidst billowing smoke.

Visually, the effect was quite impressive, making the calamity beast howl in wild agony and extreme pain.

In reality, Violet could see very clearly that the calamity beast's core had not suffered a single bit of damage.

Seemingly noticing this situation as well, the newcomer began adjusting the beams to search for the calamity beast's bodily weakness.

For an unformed, slime-type calamity beast like this, its regenerative ability was immense; as long as flesh and blood were present, it could regenerate endlessly.

However, since it was currently imprisoned here by Violet,

there was simply no flesh and blood nearby for it to digest, let alone recover its own injuries.

The core buried deep within its body was forcefully blasted out by the cyan magical girl's relentless bombardment.

The cyan magical girl didn't know its weakness, but seeing this stone-like object buried deepest inside,

she figured it must be a vital organ of this calamity beast.

Let's try it out first...

With that thought, she adjusted the beams and slammed them violently into the calamity beast's core.

"Crash!"

The floors of the shopping mall had withstood the destruction of the calamity beast, but they ultimately failed to endure the magical girl's fierce bombardment.

The floor finally emitted a mournful groan and collapsed into a pile of ruins.

As the smoke cleared, Violet could clearly see the newcomer—yet another magical girl she had never seen before.

She had gorgeous, slightly wavy cyan long hair tied with a bow,

and wore a cyan waist-cinching princess dress, adorned with a string of sparkling, beautiful gems around her neck.

In her hand, she held the magical wand that served as the initial equipment for every magical girl.

"You're a magical girl too. Why didn't you kill this calamity beast?"

The cyan-orange magical girl confirmed the calamity beast's death repeatedly before flying over to Violet's side and coldly demanding an explanation.