"Weave of Fate" was a very weak magical equipnt.
This was once the consensus of the Magical Girl squad in old Fangting City.
As the equipnt obtained by Erald Sparrow when she was just a bud, Weave of Fate initially was nothing but a cluster of seemingly pointless Magic Power Lines. Few in number and lacking in tenacity, even when used to entangle an enemy, it appeared incredibly frail.
At that ti, whenever she faced a formidable enemy with her companions, while they all drew out their own magical equipnt, Erald Sparrow could only wield those sparse threads, taking on the tasks of harassnt and at shield.
For this reason, during the early stages of her life as a Magical Girl, Erald Sparrow never relied on her magical equipnt to fight.
This did not an she gave up on developing her magical equipnt. After all, it was a common understanding that a Magical Girl's equipnt would evolve as she grew.
And as the saying goes, hard work pays off. Weave of Fate indeed underwent evolution. The first ti was when Erald Sparrow turned 15, at the ti of her awakening to the rank of bud and her initiation into her own Wonder, her magical equipnt inexplicably gained a pair of small tailoring scissors.
These scissors were excessively tiny, so initially, Erald Sparrow didn't realize what their purpose was, thinking them like her threads, needing ti to grow.
But after months of waiting, she finally discovered that the scissors seed to retain that form permanently. After several attempts, she also discovered their true use—they must be used in conjunction with the threads.
It seed that due to this discovery, she soon achieved the third form of Weave of Fate—a ruler.
Threads, scissors, a ruler—the combination sounded like a sewing kit but when combined, they exhibited a powerful combat force beyond anyone's imagination. Hence, at that ti, Erald Sparrow, even at the level of a bud, could challenge Remnant Beasts far surpassing the strength of an ordinary bud and even erge victorious.
However, even so, the abilities of a bud have their limits, while the strength of the enemies did not.
When she was 16, during the defense battle of the Magic Kingdom's garden, Erald Sparrow encountered an unprecedentedly strong enemy. Her entire escort squad was caught in a grueling battle, many mbers were on the brink of death, and the center of wisdom of the Magic Kingdom—Luennolay—was at the edge of being breached.
In that battle, for the first ti, Erald Sparrow used a technique that should not have been used.
It was a technique that, it was said, every Magical Girl could only use once in their life and that would inevitably result in their True Form shattering and possibly even death upon use.
Erald Sparrow used it, and she defeated the strong enemy.
She even survived, but the cost was her own True Form and magical equipnt—her scissors were nearly ruined, becoming almost unusable.
It's just a minor injury, Erald Sparrow told herself. She even achieved another Awakening afterwards, officially stepping into the level of a flower.
She continued to be active as a Magical Girl, fighting.
Although due to the impact of the garden defense battle, she voluntarily distanced herself from the power center of the Magic Kingdom, it didn't stop her from still having a heart for battle.
So, when she was 17, during the year known as the "Great Calamity, Great Celebration," a beast calamity like none seen in a century erupted in the physical realm. The Magical Girl team of Fangting City encountered terrifying Remnant Beasts that none of them together could repel.
When she saw her companions in danger, despite so hesitation, Erald Sparrow once again used that forbidden technique.
She beca very strong, gaining power far beyond the ordinary. She won again, and even accomplishing such a feat, she still did not die. But the cost yet again was her magical equipnt—her ruler shattered.
Unlike the scissors, the ruler couldn't even retain its shape, turning into a pile of rubble, completely disappearing from the world.
What followed was extre side effects: The Heart's Gem cracked, her True Form beca flawed, her abilities as a Magical Girl significantly degraded, using a relatively larger amount of magic power would cause severe headaches, further damaging the Heart's Gem, and what should have been an effortlessly wielded Wonder beca a trendous burden.
Participating in the battles of the Fangting City squad in such a state, she had beco a drag.
Even though she had earned the honor of a lifeti Magical Girl in the kingdom, even though the royal court had once invited her to beco the final Gemstone Scepter, in the world of magic, without power and the ability to fight, all honors were re empty talk.
Thus, disregarding her teammates' objections, Erald Sparrow chose to retire.
Her teammates had all beco stronger than her, and An Ya was improving at a pace of leaps and bounds each day; there was no longer anyone who she needed to help, no one she needed to protect.
She was also very tired, having fought valiantly for three years, defeating unprecedented strong foes, and saving cities in peril… She felt her brief career as a Magical Girl had made a sufficient contribution, and thus, it seed fitting to put a full stop to it.
In comic book stories, heroes always live happily ever after saving the world, and the world is so vast it won't stop spinning for the lack of anyone. The retirent of a Magical Girl would not have that profound of an impact.
She once thought that way.
—"But no, that's not how it is."
Erald Sparrow closed her eyes slightly: "Life is not a comic book story, I am not a hero from the stories, I wasn't able to truly solve problems, it was but self-satisfaction for my own endeavors."
Since the day he learned of An Ya's death, he who was now just Lin Yun, was consud by guilt, always blaming himself.
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