An ordinary person would probably have been scared out of their wits by this scene. But Su Bai was different. She was a battle-hardened veteran. Without even thinking, her body moved on its own.
She sidestepped in a flash and used the momentum to dive to the side.
Whoosh. A rushing sound came from overhead as two more Demonic Beasts lunged out of the darkness. This time, Su Bai managed to dodge them just in time.
This move was not merely simple evasion.
The Demonic Beast she had just sidestepped recovered its footing and lunged at her again.
Puchi.
Su Bai twisted her body and thrust. The tip of the rebar, faintly glowing with fluorescence, stabbed straight into the Demonic Beast’s head.
Then came a muffled boom, and the Demonic Beast’s head exploded in an instant.
It turned out that the dive just now had mainly been so Su Bai could pick up the rebar that had fallen from the second floor. She coated it with magic and channeled it into the beast’s body.
Then she detonated the magic from within, killing the Demonic Beast outright.
“Huff…” Su Bai panted heavily, not daring to rest for even a moment.
She stood up, leaning forward in a half-crouch as she faced off against the other two Demonic Beasts.
The physical drain was extraordinary. After just those few maneuvers, if not for Su Bai’s formidable willpower and her already decent physical condition, she would probably have been too exhausted to move.
On the other side.
Although those two Demonic Beasts were not particularly intelligent, they could still tell that the person before them, who appeared to have extremely weak magical fluctuations, actually posed a great threat.
For a moment, they did not dare to act rashly and simply glared at her ferociously.
Su Bai held the rebar in one hand while using the other to wind the rope made from her clothes around her body in successive loops.
“Come on, you beasts… Don’t tell me you’re scared?” Su Bai arched her body and shouted in anger. Her voice was not deep, yet it carried considerable force.
The only response was a continuous rumbling sound.
This sound was the trembling noise coming from the second floor. It had never stopped. It was probably some kind of giant creature writhing and slamming against everything around it.
It had not yet broken through to the first floor, seemingly because it was blocked by the construction debris upstairs.
She had to finish this quickly. The noise was too loud. If more Demonic Beasts came as reinforcements, or if that big fellow upstairs smashed through the second floor, it would be complete trouble.
Su Bai no longer hesitated. She took a step back, tensed her muscles, and launched herself forward at high speed toward the nearest Demonic Beast.
Her petite body suddenly erupted with unimaginable explosive power, like a cannonball. She performed a flying kick, slamming her foot straight into the Demonic Beast’s body.
Although the kick was not light, Demonic Beasts were not ordinary animals. Pure physical attacks did not have much effect.
But this kick of hers was not solely for offense.
The Demonic Beast reacted and was just about to swing its sharp claws to tear this tiny human to shreds.
Puchi.
Su Bai flipped over and dodged the claws completely. Using the foothold from her earlier stomp, she thrust the rebar into its body from the side and, following the same method, detonated the energy from within.
The spraying black blood covered her face, but there was no time to wipe it away.
The other beast had not been idle. It had already opened its jaws wide and charged over, now right in front of her.
Seeing this, Su Bai immediately raised the arm wrapped in thick cloth strips across her front.
The Demonic Beast opened its mouth wide, intending to bite off the human’s head in one go.
But Su Bai leaned back slightly, and the jaws clamped down directly onto the arm thickly wrapped in cloth strips.
“Hyaa…” A delicate shout rang out as Su Bai reversed her grip on the rebar and stabbed downward toward the Demonic Beast’s forehead.
It immediately loosened its jaws to escape, but it had not expected Su Bai’s arm strength to suddenly increase, with faint magical light flickering.
With a sudden exertion of force, she actually clamped the Demonic Beast’s jaw tightly under her armpit.
“Beast, where do you think you’re going!”
Su Bai thrust the rebar down, injected magic, and killed it with a single blow.
“Huff, huff, huff… I did it.”
At this moment, Su Bai was still holding the rebar while covering her other arm.
It hurts so much. This arm can’t move anymore. It’s fractured… Huff… I need to use magic to heal the injury…
Su Bai limped toward the exit, her body already at its limit.
“We’re almost there, almost out. Xiao Xi… we…” Su Bai encouraged herself.
Suddenly, a sticky black tentacle shot out from the shadows and instantly wrapped around both of their waists.
Caught completely off guard, Su Bai was lifted straight up.
“Ugh…”
Her hands and feet struggled weakly as she let out a pained moan.
The tentacle around her waist tightened more and more, as if she were being constricted by a giant python.
She had to protect Xiao Xi first. She directed all her magical output preferentially to shield the waist of the girl on her back.
Su Bai felt as if her own waist was about to be crushed.
I’m running out of magic… Even if I die here, I have to make sure Xiao Xi…
The tentacle not only intended to strangle them but was also slowly carrying them along, as if trying to bring them to its main body.
The magic in the bracelet was already at maximum output, yet it could only barely maintain the protective barrier around Xiao Xi.
If only I had a little more magic, just a little more.
Su Bai exerted every ounce of her strength to draw out the magic within the bracelet, even though she knew it was futile…
But… even so… I…
For Xiao Xi, for everyone, for all of them…
Because a magical girl must never give up…
Su Bai frantically circulated her magic according to the method she had used back when she was still White Iris, no longer heeding any so-called “theoretical” limitations.
Sizzle. The magical bracelet on her wrist flickered, declaring that it had reached its limit of endurance.
My head hurts so much… so much… so much… Why does it hurt this badly…
“Aaaaaaah…”
This kind of “overdraft” circulation method made her head feel as if it were about to explode, and she could not help but cry out.
Crack. Crack.
The intense pain in her head did not stop at all, but within it, another sensation seemed to be rising.
It felt as if something was shattering, or rather being smashed open?
What on earth was this feeling? She had never experienced anything like it while circulating magic before.
The constriction around her waist continued, and they were getting closer and closer to the monster’s main body.
Just as Su Bai was growing more and more desperate—
At that moment, an unexpected scene unfolded.
A brown blade of magic from an unknown source suddenly shot toward the tentacle and severed it cleanly.
Su Bai felt the pressure around her waist loosen as a section of the tentacle slid to the ground along with them.
“Xiao Xi!” Su Bai checked the little girl on her back.
She was still asleep, breathing steadily, and seemed unharmed.
Throughout the entire way, Su Bai had used most of her magic to protect Xiao Xi, so this result was not surprising.
Who saved me just now?
Su Bai looked up toward the ceiling and saw a completely jet-black crow with a pair of compound eyes circling above.
That’s…?
A Demonic Beast? No, that wasn’t right. The aura it emitted was more like… a witch?
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. The large monster was also enraged by this sudden attack.
It simultaneously extended multiple tentacles toward the crow.
The crow showed no fear. Beating its wings, it shot out several more blades of magical light that struck the tentacles, chopping them into pieces.
Su Bai watched the two sides locked in combat. Her mind held no other thoughts—only one remained:
Run!!
Her legs felt as heavy as if sandbags were tied to them, but Su Bai did not dare stop, nor even look back. This was her only chance to escape with her life.
“Help! Help!” Su Bai shouted as she charged out of the building.
The Demonic Beasts outside heard Su Bai’s cries and all turned toward the exit, swarming over in an instant.
Of course, the Demonic Beasts were not the only ones who noticed the situation here.
Several bolts of magical lightning appeared out of thin air and crashed down onto the Demonic Beasts that were about to surround them.
The lightning bolts electrocuted them into ashes.
Whoosh. An orange-yellow figure flashed through the air and rushed toward them.
The moment she saw the magical girl, the physical strength Su Bai had been forcing herself to maintain finally gave out, and she collapsed toward the ground.
Only one sentence echoed in her mind: We’re saved…