Lin Xiaolu felt a lot of pressure.
It's not simply because of the exam content that the pressure is high, but rather, if we're just talking about her process of tackling the maze nodes, it's actually quite smooth.
In fact, it's too smooth.
She believes she has the strength to sense the entire field, and Bai Jingxuan is sowhat comparable to her. Although the Remnant Beast at this node is indeed very large, and besides this "big guy" there are countless low-level Remnant Beast hordes... But she believes that even without the help of others, she and Bai Jingxuan alone can conquer this node.
It might take a bit more ti, perhaps.
However, when the magical girl with the codena "Arrowroot" took the lead and charged into the battlefield, the speed of the situation's evolution far exceeded her expectations.
Unlike Lin Xiaolu's usual habits, the way magical girls and Remnant Beasts fight is completely different. Arrowroot does not rely on Magic Power to cause external injuries to the Remnant Beasts and destroy their bodies. What she does is transform into countless bats and black mist, infiltrate the body of the Remnant Beast, and then the Remnant Beast inexplicably begins to weaken.
Those low-level Remnant Beasts simply couldn't withstand this move. After just a while, they shriveled up rapidly like deflated balloons and then disappeared.
As for that big guy, it's not resolved so quickly. But after a brief weakness, it fell into a frenzy.
"Roar——"
Its roar echoed through the entire node cave, rampaging like mad, indiscriminately attacking everything it could sense.
Not only Lin Xiaolu and the others but even those low-level Remnant Beasts that leapt off the walls might get squashed. And it obviously didn't feel anything about it, it just focused on Lin Xiaolu's group of "culprits," believing that its pain must co from these unwelco guests, so it used all its ans to chase them.
Lin Xiaolu truly felt what "earth-shaking" ant.
When this beast, over thirty ters long, started running wildly in the hollow, she even felt the ground beneath her feet was about to beco a trampoline.
"Don't just focus on running, lend a hand, don't let those small Remnant Beasts get near it!" Arrowroot's voice sounded beside Lin Xiaolu's ear.
"Huh? Who's speaking?" Busy dodging the giant beast's attacks, Lin Xiaolu was so startled that she nearly got hit by a claw.
"It's , I'm inside its body!" Arrowroot continued: "It's now just not aware of the cause of its discomfort, when it realizes, it'll definitely swallow those small Remnant Beasts to find inside its body! If that happens, I'll have to deal with those small fry first, which will beco very troubleso, so help keep them under control."
"Don't you know this big guy has gone mad?"
Lin Xiaolu shouted: "Shouldn't we subdue this thing first?"
"I can handle it quickly! You guys hang on for two minutes!" Arrowroot vowed confidently.
"There's not much difficulty in holding on for a bit..." Lin Xiaolu glanced at the distant Remnant Beast's moves, evaluated its potential destructive power, then made her judgnt: "But is it really only two minutes?"
"Three minutes at most!"
"Okay." Lin Xiaolu imdiately extracted her Magic Armor, turning back and using her long spear to fend off the beast's claw: "You said it, if you can't handle it, don't expect to be so easygoing!"
"Heh."
Arrowroot rely chuckled and said no more.
Then, three minutes later, when Lin Xiaolu and the others were still trying to dodge attacks while stopping those low-level Remnant Beasts, the giant beast's movents suddenly halted. Then, as though its entire strength was drained, it collapsed onto the ground.
The timing was precise, exactly as Arrowroot had said.
Before its body dissipated into Resonance, Lin Xiaolu saw the giant beast's form — like those low-level Remnant Beasts that Arrowroot incidentally killed, its body was emaciated and shriveled.
This reminded Lin Xiaolu of an entity only found in fantasy stories: Vampires.
According to legends, these monsters feed on the blood of living creatures, fear sunlight, walk in the dark, and have an inseparable connection with the image of "bats." Not only that, it's said that when they attack their prey, they can drain all the prey's blood, leading to death by blood loss.
Arrowroot was like a "Vampire" feeding on Remnant Beasts. Although there was no concept of blood inside the Remnant Beasts, whatever she absorbed, she indeed took sothing out from the Remnant Beast's body. More than a battle, her actions should be called "feeding."
A magical girl who eats Remnant Beasts? Or maybe, what she can consu is not limited to Remnant Beasts?
Watching Arrowroot flying out from the beast's body, recomposing into a human form, and covering her mouth with a burp, Lin Xiaolu was startled by her sudden thought.
But regardless of everything, the other party truly displayed astonishing strength. While in Lin Xiaolu's view, this level might not reach what Mint referred to as "another dinsion" — she was confident that she could single-handedly face this Remnant Beast — but to say, having Arrowroot's participation indeed made the process of tackling this node much smoother.
After the giant beast was defeated, those hordes of low-level Remnant Beasts were naturally no match for Lin Xiaolu and the others. They swept through like clearing a venue, turning these Remnant Beasts into echoes scattered all over the ground.
As previously ntioned, the process of conquering the node was smooth.
However, afterward, Lin Xiaolu found herself trapped in a scenario that made her feel imnse pressure.
——because Mint and Arrowroot were starting to argue again.
And all the cause was nothing more than Mint's sarcastic remark, "Quite the appetite, watch out for gaining weight again at night."
"Speaking of which, before the exam, didn't you publish a ranking online? The unexpected response was quite good, though you only ranked second, which really annoyed ."
Mint's words clearly annoyed Arrowroot. She stood closely beside Mint, though shorter by a few centiters, her smile was proud and assertive: "You actually ranked that magical girl nad Mu Mian above ? What ability does she have that makes you recognize her more than ? Or is this one of your purposes? Ranking second is just one of your usual disgusting little tricks?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the temperature in the hollow seed to drop a few degrees, the atmosphere which barely maintained stability due to victory quickly plumted to freezing point.
"I'm really sorry, but how the ranking is done is my business."
The other party no longer feigned a smile, Mint also withdrew hers: "Maybe she really is stronger than you? Why don't you go and compete with her?"
Arrowroot said nothing more, Mint also showed coldness, the two confronted each other like this.
And if it were only these two people's conflict erupting, it might be okay, but obviously, among the present mbers, there was another teammate who had a very poor impression of Arrowroot.
That was Bai Jingxuan.
She said nothing, just bestowed her Magic Armor, silently moved to Mint's side, assud a posture of "co on if you want a fight," and glared at Arrowroot with dissatisfaction.
"Oh, you want to fight too?"
Arrowroot certainly would not ignore Bai Jingxuan's presence; rather, her attention to Bai Jingxuan had always been very apparent. Seeing Bai Jingxuan's posture, her smile beca even more joyful: "That might be more interesting than imagined."
At this point, the conflict among the few people in the scene was already on the verge of erupting.
Honestly speaking, if it were the usual Lin Xiaolu, she should have already rushed out to stand up and prepared to fight Arrowroot to protect Bai Jingxuan.
But now, still during the exam, Lin Xiaolu realized one thing: if they fought here, it would likely beco a very difficult situation to end, regardless of winning or losing. It surely wouldn't benefit the exam scores.
Thus, if she was the only one at the scene who could still remain rational, then the work of "diation" could only be done by her.
Should I do it? Do such a thing?
Never has it been like this mont that Lin Xiaolu wished Erald Sparrow were present.
She never had the experience of doing such things, rather, she's usually the one responsible for losing her temper, while Erald Sparrow is the one smoothing things over. And standing in Erald Sparrow's perspective, is it actually such a feeling?
Lin Xiaolu wanted to think more about it, but she was well aware the ti left for her to think was not ample.
What should she do? She strived to drive her nearly-stalled brain.
——If it were Erald Sparrow, what would she do?
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