In a world that was nearly at a standstill, the distance between the heavy truck and the bus continued to close at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The mute girl, who flashed to the passenger seat of the truck, had her pupils darting rapidly. She glanced at the unconscious driver and the three pedals under his feet, then scowled heavily.
'Can't reach them, and which one is the brake?'
Forget it, if I can't reach them, I won't step on them.
In this race against milliseconds, there was no room for distinguishing and trial and error. Hesitation ant death, so the mute girl didn't pause at all and lunged straight for the steering wheel.
But after grabbing it steadily, she didn't imdiately twist it in the opposite direction; instead, she remained calm, staring at the bus approaching incessantly from the opposite direction.
This was a heavy truck loaded with bulky tal, and the bus driver on the opposite side had instinctively begun evasive maneuvers. Randomly turning the steering wheel at this mont might actually cause a larger accident.
In such a scenario, ordinary people wouldn't have the spare capacity to observe and think. They could only react instinctively in a flash, and many would lose the ability to act in such life-and-death choices coming at them, bewilderedly welcoming impending doom.
But under the Snake God's blessing, the mute girl's mind displayed an incredible calm, operating at an efficiency that even surprised herself.
Judgnt, calculation, correction—all processes completed in an instant.
The next mont, the soft arm of the junior high girl exploded with powerful strength under the infusion of magic power, precisely turning the steering wheel to the ideal angle.
Imdiately, a chill spread, and ri-like magic power completely froze and locked the steering wheel.
A second later, the truck veered off the road.
In the violent jolt of losing control, everything in the carriage tumbled, and the mute girl clung tightly to her head, feeling like a ball bouncing around inside the vehicle.
However, the chaos ca and went quickly. The truck, having veered off the road, tipped over and ca to a stop in less than a few seconds.
"Hiss..." The whole-body-aching mute girl propped herself up, sucking in a cold breath, and tidied her disheveled hair.
Although temporarily relieving the suppressed state of magic power through [Self-reflection], the intense impact wasn't sothing she could easily bear.
Her peripheral vision caught the driver—though his body was battered by debris in the car, his head was bloody, yet he was firmly secured to the seat by that black woven belt, breathing weakly.
Having instinctively understood the importance of seat belts from this scene, the mute girl withdrew her gaze, then lifted a foot and fiercely kicked the already twisted and deford left car door.
With a clang, the deford car door was kicked open with a gap. The mute girl braced herself against the vehicle's edge and crawled out from the overturned carriage.
She imdiately looked towards the bus not far away and breathed a slight sigh of relief.
'It would be too embarrassing if I couldn't save them even after trying so hard.'
The bus, though also having veered off the road, did not tip over; it just leaned and stopped on the embanknt slope. Most of the windows on one side had shattered in the impact, but inside, the students, though knocked askew and bearing expressions of terror, were all unhurt.
The tal cargo loaded at the truck's rear was flung out at an astonishing angle, neither crashing into the cab under inertia, turning the inside into a puree, nor rolling down to cause a secondary accident, but remained firmly embedded in the uncured mud outside the road.
Though this large-scale accident paralyzed the entire road, with many vehicles behind suffering minor rear-end collisions, the mingled sounds of crashes and brakes ford a chaotic blend. Still, miraculously, there were no casualties.
"Heh heh..." Watching this scene, the mute girl's lips curled into a satisfied smile.
The next mont, the small Ice Heaven Great Snake God darted out from over her head again, proudly puffing out its chest.
However, after completing the blessing, this god did not leave imdiately like the ones before but suddenly grabbed the still-flashing pop-up screen interface at the edge of the mute girl's vision and pulled it over.
The erald green long hair of the snake god magically covered its upper body, no matter how it moved, consistently blocking key areas.
Ha ya ya ya!
Following that, the Great Snake God, seemingly incapable of human speech, let out strange sound effects, furiously assailing the panel.
Though ruthlessly abused, the shattered panel stubbornly did not disappear. The characters on it kept changing as if attempting to file a complaint.
'Isn't the Angel King part of All Gods? Do they not get along well?'
This scene only allowed for such speculation.
Although the Angel King's blessing did provide help initially, in the critical juncture just now, the Snake God apparently contributed more.
The mute girl, having no interest in the past grievances between the two, had no intention of diating. With a "Heave-ho," she jumped off the truck's carriage, her feet touching down, stirring up a small cloud of dust.
The paralyzed traffic scene was chaotic. Many enthusiastic drivers got out of their cars, with most running toward the bus, while a few kind-hearted ones closer to the truck cautiously approached this side. So others took out what appeared to be mobile terminals of the arcane apparatus, seemingly calling for rescue and dical care.
The mute girl intended to blend into the crowd as they were to avoid attracting attention and leave the scene. However, the Snake God, persistently battering the panel over her head, suddenly stopped its actions, changed position, and reluctantly held up the interface, crisscrossed with spiderweb-like cracks, in front of her eyes.
Even with vision enhanced by magic power, recognizing the broken and flickering text took the mute girl a bit of effort.
"You don't like this thing, do you? Let see... A countdown?"
[Perfect Star denies the Goblin's accusation and provides you guidance: Use the magic power within you to escape the explosion in thirty seconds]
[25]
When she barely discerned the aning of this text, the countdown number above had already dropped to less than twenty seconds.
"...What the heck?"
At the sa ti, a faint, greasy, slightly pungent sll wafted into the girl's nose, causing her expression to change drastically.
——This is the taste of Alchemy Potion.
Although the ingredients were not specific, when passing by those Magic Pharmacies in the Plain Ancient City, one could always sll a similar pungent odor.
And alchemy and explosion are almost two sides of the sa coin.
Understanding this, the Mute Girl didn't hesitate and was about to dash away, but saw the Snake God anxiously flick its tail, pointing at the unconscious driver.
Right, if this guy dies, won't my record of no injuries be gone?
Zero and one are completely different numbers.
So she turned around, tore open the cracked windshield, used her fingers like a knife to cut the seatbelt, and pulled the unconscious driver out of the driver's seat—all these smooth-flowing actions took her less than ten seconds.
But in this interlayer, Magic Power suppression is a long-term and persistent environntal status, like being in Poison Fog, simply drinking an Antidote doesn't always keep you safe.
Although earlier she briefly forcibly removed it by borrowing the blessing of the Star Cot Ring, that was only temporary. The blessing's effectiveness began to decay shortly, and after pulling out the driver, it returned to the state of thin Magic Power.
In this state, she was just a student with physical fitness slightly better than a professional athlete.
But at the mont of life and death, the Mute Girl still exploded with strong Strength, dragging the driver and starting to sprint.
Less than ten seconds later, a loud explosion sounded behind her.
A blazing orange-red fireball blood dramatically from the wreckage of the big truck, with scorching heat waves rolling out in all directions.
The dust on the ground was lifted where the heat wave passed, forming a visible shock wave.
The scorching heat wave caught up with the fleeing Mute Girl, like a hot giant palm pushing her fiercely, flipping both her and the unconscious driver onto the ground.
In the ringing in her ears, the last thing she saw was the crowd continuously screaming as they escaped, and in the distance, the Shield Woman who had just gotten off the bus and was flipped over by the shock wave.
Then, consciousness sank into a warm darkness.
→☆→☆→☆→✧←★←★←★←
The Mute Girl struggled to open her eyes, first seeing a blur, then slowly focusing on an unfamiliar ceiling and the IV bag hanging above.
Is this... a hospital?
She eased her movents, slowly sitting up. Although the equipnt and decoration were quite different from the Kingdom's dical facilities, as an excellent Healer, she easily recognized where she was.
"Haven't solved it yet..."
She was still within the Illusion Realm.
Sure, with the difficulty equivalent to thirty-six layers, obviously not sothing that can be resolved by surviving a car accident and explosion.
The Mute Girl sighed, her eyes sweeping the room, quickly spotting the Arcane Apparatus Terminal on the bedside.
This seed to belong to this body, considerately placed bedside by dical personnel.
After unlocking by fingerprint, it didn't take long for the Mute Girl to learn the basic usage, randomly opening software, leading to nurous strange videos automatically playing.
"Hey, although this world has thin Magic Power, this thing is interesting..."
Completely unconcerned with her current situation, the Mute Girl was happily browsing videos when her face suddenly froze.
A striking title popped up on the screen.
——"Bare-handed Crushing of the King's Junior High School Girl!"
And the figure on the screen contained a bizarre sense of familiarity.
It was a footage captured at an unknown ti by soone.
Despite so shaking and blurring, it was still clear to recognize a slender girl climbing out from a toppled big truck, saving the driver bare-handedly, then staggering to run with an adult male nearly double her weight.
The next mont, an explosion occurred, the soaring flas and shock wave interrupted the recording, the cara spun so wildly the screen went black, and it showcased her unfamiliar face.
[Mute Girl's Next Action]
1.5. Follow the guide
2.6. Just go to school first
3.7. Attempt to communicate with the outside world
4.8. Seek blessing
9. Do you want to beco a Magical Girl?
10. Great Success/Extre Failure
D10=4
♛: Seek blessing
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