When advocacy had just beco a consensus, this kind of confrontation was highly effective. Claw Marks had even wrested control over several cities from the kingdom, showing signs of establishing their own rule.
But at that ti, flourishing and beginning to look towards the future, Claw Marks forgot one thing—head-on confrontations lead to bloodshed.
This trend, about twelve years ago, ca to an end with a kingdom's siege.
It wasn't the usual comradely civil war conducted with tender feelings. Gardeners from the Garden arrived in the Material Realm wielding scissors, turning all self-confidence into fear.
A large number of Magical Girls from Claw Marks lost their lives in that siege, and many more who didn't die were arrested by the kingdom and dragged back.
In an instant, Claw Marks' leading cadre was reduced by half, except for Chi Yuan who was always stationed at the base, the leader White Wolf, the vice leader Black Cat, and two others who happened to be in the Interrealm; the other five cadres all perished.
In fact, though the Gardeners were powerful, they shouldn't have been able to inflict such a devastating blow on Claw Marks. The reason for the slaughter-like outco was simple—at that ti, all of Claw Marks' Flowers could no longer bloom.
Breaking away from the kingdom and changing allegiance, dying the undercurrent of Magic Power with Remnant Beasts, the ultimate form of a Magical Girl naturally beca like rootless duckweed. Although they were still Magical Girls, the only power they could wield was limited to wonders. The power of wonders might have been enough against ordinary enemies, but facing the Gardeners' scissors, they were as powerless as babies.
This painful lesson led to yet another drastic change in Claw Marks' approach. The surviving Magical Girls, inheriting their fallen comrades' will, began to adopt even more extre thods.
Atop this extremism, the Fruit of Sin, which shouldn't exist, erged as if called by fate.
With the Magic Power of Remnant Beasts as the base and the abilities of Magical Girls as the fulcrum, Claw Marks began to explore a new path. They attempted to use the Magic Power of Remnant Beasts to reach full bloom once again.
And after relentless effort, this endeavor was rewarded. They gained a simulated form of full bloom that could dramatically enhance their abilities for a short ti—this state was nad Beast Heart Liberation, abbreviated as Liberation.
Beast Heart Liberation, as the na suggests, is like mbers of Black Ash Dawn using Beast's Viscera to transform into Remnant Beasts. Liberation completely discards the Magic Power of Magical Girls, allowing the power of Remnant Beasts to erode the entire body and using a single tint of Magic Power to mimic full bloom, to achieve an effect similar to full bloom.
Of course, it is only similar to full bloom. Although Beast Heart Liberation often has many similarities to a Magical Girl's original full bloom, it also undergoes mutations due to the base of Remnant Beasts.
For example, Chi Yuan, whose full bloom form is nad "Hundred Weapons Montum," is a full bloom born from her mastery over "montum." After transforming into Liberation, the form's na changed to "Hundred Forces Form Martial Might."
The original full bloom form allowed for the accumulation of a trace of "montum" from continuous battle, as long as a small advantage could be gained during combat. Once "montum" reached a critical point, it could transform into "great montum," bringing Canna overwhelming victories as if cutting through decay with ease.
Though it wasn't an instantly noticeable effect, for Canna, who excelled at martial arts and was adept at maneuvering through duels, it was a very fitting ability. It allowed every minor advantage to gradually accumulate into an irresistible victory.
If the enemy went all out from the start, Canna needed only to withstand the offensive. In the long war of attrition, she was bound to accumulate enough "montum" to win; if the enemy initially chose to hold back, by the ti Canna had gathered sufficient "montum," even their true skill could no longer make waves.
This ant that unless Canna was knocked down at the beginning of the fight, the opponent would only grow stronger as the battle progressed, until finally becoming unbeatable.
Such a thodical and dependable full bloom, once Canna had beco Chi Yuan, transford into a Liberation that yielded a completely different effect.
Erald Sparrow had already deeply experienced this effect.
She did not know what this "Beast Heart Liberation" could do, but it didn't prevent her from having an intuitive feeling during the fight.
That is—the power was despairingly imnse.
Chi Yuan's original Magic Armor, that mass of pitch-black liquid tal, also changed form with Liberation, turning into a black fog that had sohow co to envelop everyone from both the Fangting City team and Bai'an City team.
It was this fog, carrying a tangible imnse pressure, that made all the Magical Girls present feel as if they couldn't harness their full strength.
Erald Sparrow and two others were still able to rely on their relatively solid foundation of Magic Power to continue using their Magic Armor, but the performance of the other new recruits could only be described as flustered; even Bai Ji, the most experienced among them, couldn't summon her Magic Armor and could only dodge clumsily in the midst of the fog.
Indeed, they even had to dodge because Chi Yuan's attacks had never ceased.
Although she herself was engaging Erald Sparrow and others in battle, relying on her high speed to pressure three people by herself, the new recruits did not get a chance to catch their breath. Black shadows of Chi Yuan would erge from the black fog from ti to ti, attacking them with different weapons.
As Chi Yuan herself said, everyone just needed to "focus on the Chi Yuan in front of them." Because almost in front of each person was a Chi Yuan incessantly attacking.
"What's the matter? If you just keep defending, you will never get an opportunity for victory, you know?"
Plucking a Canna sword from the black fog with nonchalance, Chi Yuan casually swung at Erald Sparrow from the side. The Canna sword went directly through the silk thread barrier, nearly striking Erald Sparrow's chest but was blocked by a Magic Technique from Hong Siyu at the last mont.
She didn't stop the motion of her hands; the Canna sword, only slightly deflected after being blocked by the Magic Technique, bounced Hong Siyu's Technique back to its source and continued to slash towards Erald Sparrow in front of her.
During this process, she seed to perform many actions, but in truth, it was only a flick of the sword in an instant. The entire process was so fast that everyone couldn't react in ti and was already facing an imminent defeat.
The slash towards Erald Sparrow t no resistance, and the Magic Technique rebounded to Hong Siyu flew straight towards her face.
In this critical mont, Erald Sparrow twitched her little finger.
Almost at the sa ti, her previously prepared silk threads connected to her and Hong Siyu's backs, yanking the two like marionettes suddenly from their spots, narrowly evading Chi Yuan's attack.
When facing soone as troubleso as Chi Yuan, one could not afford to be anything but cautious; in battle, one must always have contingency plans.
In fact, this wasn't the first ti she had resorted to this tactic in the fight; earlier, she had already used it several tis to help the three of them avoid injury.
Because the existence of the silk threads was very concealed and the force needed to activate them did not require large movents, even if she couldn't keep up with the opponent's speed, she could still use such trickery to dodge their attacks.
However, this ti, rely pulling on the silk threads, Erald Sparrow already had a bad feeling.
"The trajectory is too easy to predict."
Chi Yuan's voice ca from behind her.
No one was surprised by this; even Erald Sparrow herself knew that a tactic used several tis would certainly not go unguarded by the opponent.
In truth, at that mont, there was another thread connected to her sleeve, which she could hook to change direction in mid-air and fly away at an angle.
But what she didn't expect was that Chi Yuan would stand on the bisector of the angle.
Without deviation, Chi Yuan stood at a position where she could imdiately strike Erald Sparrow regardless of whether she changed direction or not.
Since the direction of the pulling of the silk threads was fixed and the speed induced by Magic Power was not that fast, it was now impossible for Erald Sparrow to alter her trajectory further; the only thing she could think of was to reduce the strength of her pull to keep herself from continuing to accelerate as she flew past.
—"Senior!" She could hear Hong Siyu's short gasp, along with the screams of the girls nearby.
Schlick.
Then, the sound of fabric tearing accompanied by the rise of silver-blue sparks, Chi Yuan's Canna sword pierced from front to back through Erald Sparrow's chest.
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