“Goo~ Goo~ Gah~ Gah~”
A few crows let out strange cries as they flew across the sky.
“This crow’s call sounds like a penguin’s.”
No one paid attention to Su Xiaocheng’s complaint. Desert Fox stopped leading the way and said, “We’re here. The Eye of Yellow Sand should be right up ahead.”
A massive, deathly silent basin suddenly unfolded before everyone’s eyes.
Surrounding it were hundred-meter-tall rock cliffs that stood bare and lifeless, as if carved by blades and axes.
In the air, a faint yet oppressive witch aura quietly spread, intertwining with the ever-present death aura.
Anyone who approached couldn’t help but feel their heart race and experience waves of indescribable physical discomfort.
At the very center of the basin was a deep, light-swallowing pit.
“This place… really makes people uncomfortable,” Lu Yinxi said. She disliked the atmosphere here. Compared to this dead silence, she preferred livelier environments.
“Are there a lot of witches inside?” Su Xiaocheng could already feel several malicious gazes watching them.
Carrying the Purification Seed, witches naturally felt aversion toward her.
Malice poured toward her without restraint.
“A few more won’t be a problem. We’re not here to purge witches anyway.”
Li Yanyan leapt forward and jumped down the hundred-meter cliff.
“Huh? She just jumped like that?”
“Otherwise, how are we supposed to find Absolute Spirit Sand from up here?”
Desert Fox put on a pair of gloves and quickly climbed down along the cliff face. Unlike magical girls, she couldn’t fly, so she had to make do.
An Li pressed her watch, and single-soldier armor covered her entire body.
“By the way, why did you come too, Teacher An? This place is a bit too dangerous, isn’t it?”
Recalling the scene before they left, Su Xiaocheng almost laughed.
Lu Chenyi, a grown man standing at 1.78 meters, had cried like a three-year-old while tightly hugging An Li’s 1.5-meter-tall leg.
“I’m an A-rank combatant too. Why can’t I come?” An Li felt she was being underestimated.
“Alright, let’s go. We’re about to lose sight of them.” Lu Yinxi urged.
***
After descending into the basin, the death aura became noticeably denser.
Su Xiaowei promptly applied protection to everyone.
To her surprise, they weren’t attacked.
However, simply due to the influence of the death aura in the environment, her magic power was slowly being consumed.
Though the consumption rate was very slow, almost negligible.
“What a terrible place. Let’s search around first. Don’t stray too far,” Li Yanyan exhaled a breath of turbid air.
While searching, the group gradually moved closer to the central pit.
Several hidden auras lurked around them — witches concealed in the area. If any opening appeared, they would definitely strike.
“Another one’s coming. There are quite a few now,” Lu Yinxi said. In her perception, there were already four witches tailing them. Judging by their magic fluctuations, they were all A-rank.
“Should we deal with them first?” Desert Fox licked her lips. Passively waiting for the enemy to attack wasn’t her style.
“Let’s do it. Teacher An, you support Ah-Li against the closest one. The remaining three are for Xiaocheng’s group. Any new ones that appear later, leave them to me.”
Li Yanyan assigned the targets in just a few words.
“Then, here I go!”
Desert Fox bent her knees slightly.
After a brief moment of gathering strength, she charged toward the nearest witch like a thunderbolt.
The witch she had targeted froze for a moment. Just before Desert Fox could close in, she tried to take off and create distance.
An energy blast exploded above her head, sealing off her upward escape route.
“Nice shot!”
Desert Fox praised.
She had successfully closed the distance. In the past, it hadn’t been this easy for her to get close to a witch when fighting alone.
An Li’s support was incredibly helpful.
When her hands touched the witch, her gloves released a peculiar magic fluctuation.
Under its influence, the witch’s originally energy-like body became solid.
Normal physical attacks were ineffective against witches, but Desert Fox’s gloves could strip them of that property.
“Nowhere to run, huh?” Desert Fox chuckled and punched the witch in the face.
Having lost her energy form and with Desert Fox in close range, every time the witch tried to use magic to counterattack, she was interrupted by another punch.
After taking several hits, the witch felt like her brain had poor contact — her entire head felt empty.
From then on, the fight became a completely one-sided beating.
Desert Fox’s sandbag-sized fists continuously rained down on the witch.
The poor witch couldn’t use a single spell.
She was like a helpless M being mercilessly whipped by an S who had forgotten the safeword.
Desert Fox’s sudden assault instantly ignited the battlefield.
The other three witches attacked at the same time.
In an instant, fierce winds howled, poisonous fog spread, and the death aura thickened several times over.
“Wind, poison, and death?”
Lu Yinxi confirmed the three witches’ attributes. Her [Touring Concert] domain expanded as various instruments played in unison.
[Melody · Concerto]
Earth, water, fire, and wind elements intertwined brilliantly.
Lu Yinxi single-handedly blocked the combined assault of the three witches.
A ring of starlight surrounded Lu Shiyuan. Nine meteors lined up and smashed directly toward the Death witch.
After being lectured, Su Xiaocheng had returned to simplicity.
With both Refinement and Aggregation enhancing her, an unremarkable magic beam shot into the Poison witch’s body.
The seemingly weak magic beam erupted with unimaginable power once it entered the witch’s body.
Extreme purification power traveled through the witch, and faint cherry-pink flames even ignited on her skin.
Perhaps attracted by the battle, a newly arrived witch quietly approached to see what was happening.
Li Yanyan vanished in an instant. The next second, she appeared right in front of the new witch.
Her fist, infused with [Solar Flame] power, slammed into her.
A domain’s power exploded instantly, and scorching flames engulfed the witch’s entire body, reducing her to ashes in moments.
The last remaining Wind witch saw that the situation was unfavorable and tried to escape.
Li Yanyan’s figure appeared in front of her, smiling. “Did I say you could leave? Go back.”
Feeling the extremely compressed [Solar Flame] domain in Li Yanyan’s hand and the scorching heat radiating from it, the Wind witch took a small step back.
She felt that if she tried to run, she might die even more cleanly.
A second ring of starlight flew out.
Nine meteors fell neatly one after another onto the Death witch.
After nine loud explosions, the smoke cleared and a Witch’s Heart dropped to the ground.
On the other side, Su Xiaocheng thrust her magic staff into the Poison witch’s body.
The poisonous gas the witch released corroded Su Xiaowei’s protective light ring with a sizzling sound, but purification power continuously poured into her body.
Before long, the Poison witch was completely purified, and even the surrounding air became fresher.
Desert Fox threw her final punch.
The witch whose attributes had remained unknown throughout the entire fight had her body dissipate.
Her Witch’s Heart was still in midair when Desert Fox grabbed it.
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