Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

Under Jiang Yuan's cajoling, Lin Xiaolu half-heartedly agreed to go to the concert. She had no intention of accepting an invitation from a strange boy, but she couldn't find a reason to refuse one from a friend.

Thus, she waited lethargically until school was out. When the teacher announced "class dismissed", Lin Xiaolu, who had been in a drowsy stupor all day, stretched lazily. She gazed out at the dusky sky through the window and gradually regained some clarity.

After saying goodbye to Jiang Yuan, who sat in front of her, she walked out of the school gate alone. Then, following Emerald Sparrow's teachings, she found a secluded corner and transformed into a Magical Girl.

Next came the patrol time that she had grown accustomed to these days.

Although the activities of the Remnant Beasts in Fangting City had drastically decreased in the last two months, especially compared to the time before the Full Moon Festival, the process still had to be followed. The task could not be omitted. Lin Xiaolu slowly shuttled between the city buildings, surveying the streets below while using her Magical Power Perception to scan her surroundings and ensure no trail was missed.

She could have patrolled while flying, but for one thing, her perception ability wasn't strong enough for high-speed movement without missing clues; and on another note, her control over Magic Power was not particularly refined. Although flying no longer wasted Magic Power like when she was a novice, it was still hard for her to control her speed.

For these reasons, Lin Xiaolu ultimately chose a compromise, jumping between tall buildings as she moved and checking the area for fluctuations in Magic Power.
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This kind of check was mostly fruitless, but today seemed to be different. As she passed by an accident-prone intersection, she suddenly sensed something unusual.

Almost instinctively, she looked toward the street not too far away and quickly noticed an inexplicable bulge on the busy road. The bulge grew larger and larger, and the well-paved surface started to show a web of cracks.

—It was a Remnant Beast.

She opened her hand, and the Magic Wand materialized in the palm of her hand. Magic Power surged under her feet, hastening her toward the bulge on the road. Then, with a fierce swipe of her wand, she used the naturally emitted Magic Power to push all nearby vehicles aside.

Many of the pushed vehicles nearly crashed into the roadside railings, but fortunately, the force Lin Xiaolu used was not strong enough to cause any traffic accidents. As the drivers, with a mix of bewilderment and annoyance, stuck their heads out, their eyes aligned perfectly with the monster emerging from the road.

It was a Remnant Beast.

Their bewilderment turned to relief, their annoyance to panic, and the beeping on the road instantly turned into screams. Realizing what was happening, people almost instantly began to scatter and flee. Those who were stuck in the middle of the road in their vehicles also abandoned them and ran for their lives.

There were indeed some sharp-eyed individuals who saw the Magical Girl in the air and took out their phones to capture the moment, seeking to ride the wave of attention, but they were scared off by Lin Xiaolu's stern glare and hastily put away their phones.

"Don't stay here, run for it!"

She shouted at the bystanders, who were practically joking with their lives. With a fierce wave of her Magic Wand, Lin Xiaolu then turned to block the advancement of the Remnant Beast.

After she yelled, those few onlookers looked at one another, and while it pained them, rationality ultimately prevailed. They shouted their thanks to Lin Xiaolu from a distance and then turned and ran away.

Of course, these people didn't know that even if they wanted to continue recording, Lin Xiaolu couldn't have stopped them—her stern glare was all she could do. With the enemy in front of her, she had to focus on the fight.

Remnant Beasts that suddenly appeared in public and were under fifteen meters tall usually belonged to the Egg or Inchworm stage. With Lin Xiaolu's current combat abilities, dealing with these level beasts was no trouble at all.

Although she still couldn't use her magical gear, her Magic Power had completely overwhelmed beasts of this stage. Even using just naturally released Magic Bullets and Magic Power Beams, she could inundate the Remnant Beast underneath her firepower.

Her considerable Magic Power provided not only an unending barrage of firepower but also the agility to toy with beasts of this caliber—after all, she could continuously use Magic Power for short bursts of speed, without worrying about being attacked.

This fighting style was tailored for Lin Xiaolu by Emerald Sparrow and even inherited from Emerald Sparrow herself. Upon discovering her daughter possessed far more Magic Power than her peers, she began guiding Lin Xiaolu in the art of high-speed combat.

The so-called high-speed combat, as the name suggests, is a fighting style where one fights while flying. This method greatly reduces the probability of a Magical Girl being hit by an opponent, while also distracting the Remnant Beast. It is both a safe and efficient way to fight.

If there's a downside to this fighting style, it's the high demands it places on the Magical Girl's Magic Power, attention, reaction speed, and even battle instincts—and Lin Xiaolu possessed all of these things.

Following this fighting method, Lin Xiaolu usually chose to fly in circles around such beasts, striking while flying to suppress them with minimal loss and maximal firepower.

This time, however, she couldn't do that until all the bystanders had completely evacuated.

The area around where the Remnant Beast appeared was too densely packed with people. Recklessly unleashing Magic Power could potentially harm the onlookers. As a Magical Girl with mature combat experience, Lin Xiaolu would never allow such a thing to happen.