Woken by the alarm, Su Xiaocheng released Su Xiaowei from her arms.
With no time to change clothes, she transformed directly.
Su Xiaowei pouted in dissatisfaction.
Losing her sister’s embrace so early in the morning—the Witch was truly heinous!
Following the guidance of the terminal map, the group quickly arrived at the location where the Witch had appeared.
“This is… the tea garden where the Witch appeared yesterday?”
Su Xiaocheng said in surprise.
At that moment, the sun had just fully risen above the horizon.
The Flower Witch turned around and looked at the four Magical Girls before her.
A trace of helplessness appeared on her face.
“Humans, I bear no malice.”
“The Witch… can talk?”
Su Xiaocheng exclaimed in shock.
“Is that strange? Language is not exclusive to humans.”
The Flower Witch replied matter-of-factly.
Even Lu Yinxi was momentarily at a loss.
Witches were born from negative emotions and were generally impossible to communicate with.
Their instinct was to create negative emotions through various means and absorb them to grow stronger.
The Flower Witch said amicably, “Magical Girls, I have been here for a very long time. Since my birth, I have never harmed anyone. There is no need for you to be so tense.”
After reporting the special situation, Lu Yinxi attempted to negotiate with the Flower Witch.
“If you truly bear no malice, could you please leave the human living areas and go into the wilderness?”
Magical Girls stationed in cities did not need to exterminate every Witch—that was unrealistic.
Taking down a powerful Witch would also cost the Magical Girls dearly.
Often, both sides would take a step back to avoid mutual destruction.
“Leave this place?”
The Flower Witch’s petals swayed as she spoke angrily, “I am the owner here! I have lived here for over a hundred years. It is you humans who have intruded into my home, and now you want me to leave?”
The development of White Tea Mountain had only happened a few decades ago.
If the Flower Witch wasn’t lying, then humans were indeed the latecomers.
“I am not negotiating with you.”
Magic power surged from Lu Yinxi as her domain prepared to activate.
Even if what the Flower Witch said was true, so what?
White Tea Mountain now belonged to Anning City.
It was a famous tourist attraction and tea-producing area.
Were they supposed to hand it over just because of one Witch’s words?
She hadn’t voiced any objections when the mountain was being developed.
A hesitant look flashed in the Flower Witch’s eyes.
Fighting seemed like she couldn’t win.
Leaving… she was unable to leave this place.
Her ability to maintain some semblance of reason was closely tied to White Tea Mountain.
If she left, it wouldn’t be long before she became no different from an ordinary Witch.
Why now of all times?
If you had given me a few more months… the Flower Witch thought bitterly.
“Last chance. Will you leave, or shall we fight?” Lu Yinxi issued her ultimatum.
“Did you really think you had me beat?”
With negotiations failed, the Flower Witch dropped all pretense.
The Flower Witch used the same move again, activating her stripping magic.
However, everyone was prepared this time.
The tour concert unfolded.
Lu Yinxi did not launch an attack, focusing entirely on resisting the effects of the stripping magic.
Using music to manipulate elements was only one of Lu Yinxi’s methods.
Her magic bias was actually assimilation.
By focusing on assimilating the Flower Witch’s magic power, although she still consumed more magic power than usual when facing stripping magic, it was not completely unbearable.
Su Xiaocheng fired a Magic Beam, striking the Flower Witch who was locked in a standoff with Lu Yinxi and leaving a deep wound on her body.
Xiaobai summoned her greatsword.
Sword light flashed, and half of the vines forming the Flower Witch’s right hand were severed, leaving only a few vines barely attached.
As the main attacker, Su Xiaowei snapped a photo and tore it in half.
“Ah!”
The Flower Witch let out a shrill, miserable scream.
Yesterday, Su Xiaowei’s attack hadn’t worked because the Flower Witch had first expended a large amount of magic power to resist, preventing Su Xiaowei from tearing the photo immediately, and then promptly used stripping magic to erase her own image from it.
Today, under Lu Yinxi’s restraint, the Flower Witch took the full brunt of the attack.
She was heavily injured.
Two petals from the seven-colored flower on her head fell off.
“I will… make you pay.” The Flower Witch said with a ferocious expression.
A large amount of magic power burned.
The Flower Witch’s body shrank by twenty percent.
After paying a heavy price, she finally created an opening.
She briefly broke free from Lu Yinxi’s suppression, dug a tunnel, and burrowed into the ground.
Looking at the hole left in the ground, the group was somewhat puzzled.
“Why did she dig a hole?” Su Xiaocheng was shocked.
If she wanted to escape, flying away would have been much easier and less magic-consuming.
Digging a hole still required magic power; it wasn’t faster than flying.
“Be careful. She’s acting very strange.”
Lu Yinxi warned, taking the lead to give chase.
The four followed the tunnel in pursuit. Before long, they saw the tunnel exit.
“The tunnel goes straight down. We are currently one thousand meters underground, the say.”
Xiaobai said while looking at the screen of the game console in her hand.
“Is it really that fully featured?”
Su Xiaocheng muttered to herself.
Flying out of the tunnel exit, they found themselves in a natural cave.
The Flower Witch was waiting for them in front of a stone platform ahead.
On the stone platform lay a plump, round seed.
It looked like the most ordinary seed imaginable, showing no signs of anything unusual.
“This is all your fault. You will repay me for my losses!”
The Flower Witch had lost all her initial elegance and grace.
She had fallen into madness.
“Stop her!”
Although they didn’t know what her goal was, Lu Yinxi knew they absolutely could not let her succeed.
Allowing attacks to land on her body, the Flower Witch forcibly endured the suppression of the tour concert and broke free from the photo’s restraints.
The petals of the seven-colored flower fell off one after another.
Ignoring everything, she forcibly swallowed the seed on the stone platform.
The seemingly ordinary seed entered the Witch’s body and released extremely pure purifying magic power.
The Flower Witch let out a miserable scream.
She hadn’t died from their attacks, yet she was now nearly completely purified by this ordinary-looking seed.
“Thirty years… Every day I washed my magic body with the sunlight at sunrise. Day and night I absorbed the seed’s aura until I was finally almost able to contain it. Why did you have to appear at this exact moment?”
The Flower Witch said with deep resentment.
“Just a little more. If you had given me a little more time, I could have made its power my own. Just a little more!”
The Flower Witch, who had been on the verge of death, suddenly erupted with an extremely powerful magic fluctuation after swallowing the mysterious seed.
Stripping magic was activated once again.
The group tried to resist, but they discovered that the Flower Witch’s magic power seemed endless. They couldn’t withstand it at all.
Their transformed states were forcibly canceled. The tide of battle reversed in an instant.
Because everything had happened so suddenly, the group that had rushed over in a hurry was still wearing their pajamas.
“No good… I can’t mobilize even a bit of magic power.”
Su Xiaocheng said weakly.
There was still some magic power left in her body, but under the effect of the stripping magic, she couldn’t move even a fraction of it.
“You will all become my nourishment!”
The Flower Witch extended the vines from her hands, stabbing toward the group.
Gotta go with Flowey here, she wasn’t doing anything wrong, and they stole her home