dmims Chapter 605 Great Melee
Chapter 605 Great Melee
"BOOM!! BOOM!!"
The space battleships dropped orbital fire support in the direction indicated by the hyacinth, and sci-fi jet attack aircraft dove down to bombard and strafed the enemy. The Shadow Familiars cried out in agony as they turned into fragments amidst the barrage of fire. The battle, which had initially been tilted in favor of Garuda by the magic being dispelled, was instantly reversed.
Garuda, a colossal astral beast, will bring destruction and chaos to the world.
It pushes everything around it toward chaos and distortion, invading the rules of the mental world and even the real world, and drawing great power from these distorted rules.
When it invaded those mental worlds above Chengdu and attempted to enter the real world, it also obtained "entities" that could be concretely perceived from these mental images, or simply existed as chaotic concepts. When it invaded the mental world of Red Rose and empowered itself with this power, it also brought over the "rules" of other mental images.
If Garuda can use it, there's no reason why others can't!
"BOOM!!!"
The bombs dropped by the attack aircraft landed at Garuda's feet and detonated. The huge impact blasted Garuda, who had also lost the protection of magic, back several steps. The behemoth was then fiercely attacked by the distorted power it had given to this mental world.
Hyacinth stood at the edge of the sea of fire, holding a heavy machine gun in both hands and firing at the shadowy monsters around her. The storm of bullets tore apart the dust kicked up by the bombs, and also tore apart the darkness stirred up by Garuda.
"Well done! Where did you get that support ball?" Nightingale's voice rang out beside the girl.
Hyacinth had no time to turn around and talk to her companions. While taking out another metal sphere, she entered the password to call for support, and drew a pistol from her waist, smashing the head of the Shadow Familiar who was trying to approach her.
"I found this in Foxkov, I need to reload! Cover me!"
"Leave it to me!"
Nightingale responded with a smile, and then, a deafening roar like cannon fire came from beside Hyacinth, and the flames of the explosion burst forth in the pile of monsters in front of her.
Only then did she have time to glance at the nightingale beside her—the pale yellow magical girl was wearing a tall power armor, a bomb gun in her left hand and a scythe sword in her right, firing bombs powerful enough to blast the monsters to pieces.
"Holy crap! Where did you get all that gear?!"
"Hehe, I found it in the mental world I'm in charge of!"
Nightingale laughed loudly, brandishing her chainsaw sword and charging in, shouting her lines as she went:
"Blood sacrifice to the Fox King! Luo offers herself to the Fox Throne!" "Is that slogan even appropriate?!"
Hyacinth finished reloading the heavy machine gun, and the machine gun began firing again, spitting fire. Red beams of light were constantly being projected and lit up. The space battleship and close air support were doing their best to suppress and wipe out the monsters that were pouring out of the underground labyrinth and abandoned factory.
Suddenly, the buzzing of magic reached everyone's ears—Iris, dressed in a mage's robe, floated in the sky holding a staff, scattering several objects that turned into particles with her left hand. The staff pointed directly at the center of the monster army's formation, and a high-pitched incantation resounded throughout the entire mental image:
"I call upon the starlight of the heavens! I summon the brilliance of the stars!"
"I offer up my golden radiance! I unleash the flames and the lava!"
"Why can she use magic?!" Nightingale asked in surprise, severing the head of the Shadow Follower beside her with her chainsaw sword, and turning to look at the Archmage Iris floating in the air.
"Have you forgotten what her class was in the Fox Gate? She uses magic net magic! Get out of the way!!"
The shouts and conversations on the ground were drowned out by the roars of the shadow monsters, while the pure white-clad female mage in the air continued her incantation:
"I tear the veil of the heavens! All things return to nothingness!"
"This is the blazing light of calamity from the heavens! It transforms into a scorching meteor that falls from the sky!"
The magic network connected, magic surged into the sky, and a dazzling giant appeared in the distorted heavens—a meteorite fell from the sky!
Ninth-order technique, [Anonymous - Meteor Shower]
The Fox Gate's most powerful Evocation spell was unleashed by Iris, sending an unstoppable meteor hurtling towards the distant, collapsed tower. In the blink of an eye, it destroyed the tower's outer layer, revealing the twisted darkness hidden within amidst the rising smoke. The darkness was then consumed by flames and reduced to ashes.
The girls raised their arms and cheered.
The iris flower was the first to damage Garuda's "true form" as manifested in the mental world... Although it may have been just the most basic damage, it was at least the most important step in the counterattack.
Before the smoke of battle could completely dissipate, more bird-like monsters rose from the thick darkness of the abandoned factory, attempting to attack the iris flower that had cast a powerful spell, aiming to shoot down and restrict the only girl mage currently capable of using magic here.
Another figure in white sped past Iris, riding a motorcycle with outstretched wings. She slammed a card onto the card-playing area in front of her, shouting out her lines:
"We have conquered everything that was once you existed. This is our desperate counterattack! We will not let this monster from the astral plane succeed again!"
"Synchronization Summon - [Cosmic Radiant Dragon]!"
A radiant dragon was born from the light, sweeping away all the monsters that rushed towards the iris with a single blow. It gathered a scorching and dazzling breath of light in its mouth and spewed it out towards the abandoned factory!
An explosion, a flash of light, a brief silence before annihilation, followed by the mournful cries of shadows consumed by the light.
Another Garuda entity was destroyed and perished, and the battlefield began to develop in a direction that no one had expected.
Everyone, including Garuda, originally thought that the elimination of magic from the underlying logic of the mental world would lead to an inevitable defeat—Garuda, who possessed numerous mental entities and rules, was practically a god of the dream world, with power that was off the charts.
But the girls didn't expect something else—it wasn't just Garuda who controlled the power of the mental world; the magical girls who guarded the mental world or were caught up in the dream also controlled those powers!
Hyacinth was the first to adapt to the sudden arrival of the mental image rules. The support beacon she threw summoned space battleships and near-ground support. The girls also remembered what they had experienced in those mental image worlds and immediately displayed their respective powerful combat capabilities:
The M1A2 Abrams tank brigade, commanded by Aquamarine, charged and crushed everything in its path, while the remaining members of Lily White's squad piloted giant robots in space to prevent Garuda, which had transformed into the Axis space station, from landing on the ground.
Ziyingshi raised the artillery calibration telescope in her hand, while Siyecao rode across the battlefield on the back of the pitch-black blocky dragon, bombarding the ground with the electromagnetic cannon she held.
There's the red zircon that runs and leaps to deliver a RIDER KICK kick to Garuda's true form, and Fenrir that drives a modified Tyrant MK2, rampaging and laughing loudly.
The battlefield was in utter chaos.
No magic? Then use whatever you can!
Garuda has manifested a familiar form from the mental world? Then let's use the corresponding power from that mental image to destroy it! Suppress it!
Let it know who's in charge of this mental world!
"Everyone... is working so hard..."
The eagle owl girl stood blankly behind the two fox girls, unsure of what expression to make or what to do.
It seems I still can't get involved in anything. I have no experience of venturing into the mental world to guard it, nor do I have powerful magic to fight with. I can only feel lost and helpless in this chaotic battle.
"Yes, when faced with a common threat, everyone wants to protect what they cherish. Even without magic, magical girls have an unwavering will to protect and a steadfast determination to protect, providing strength and resolve for everyone."
Dandelion put down her magic wand and whispered to the winged Sasha.
The eagle owl girl seemed to understand something, and unconsciously tightened her grip on the guardian star that was radiating brilliant light. Looking at the chaotic battlefield in the sky, she seemed to understand something at that moment.
Magical girls are born to protect.
Even though I only met most of them briefly, they were still willing to show their courage to protect, using this power to protect themselves and the world.
Could I... possess their courage? Could I gain the Guardian Star's approval and become one of them?
...Can I avenge my mother?
【————###！ ！ ！ 】
Another deafening roar erupted.
Garuda roared, its words echoing in the girls' minds: "[How infuriating! You pesky insects!]"
"So you've broken down and started cursing because you found that even the power you've seized in the mental world can't defeat us? Haha." Heart Moon Fox grinned, its fox tail swaying from side to side as it taunted.
I love seeing the other person break down and yell, especially when facing an opponent of the Astral Behemoth level. Their angry outbursts give me pleasant inspiration, prompting me to think about my next move and what dangerous things they might do out of anger...
As expected, the burning black giant bird flapped its wings again, and the various mental images destroyed by the girls turned into thick darkness and merged into its shadow.
That was Garuda's true form. Its oppressive aura suddenly increased with the return of the mental image entity. The dragon bombs and machine guns could not cause any damage to it for a while, and could not even break through the thick shadow barrier in front of it.
The fully formed Garuda suddenly appeared at this moment.
"Be careful, it's gathering all mental images; it might be planning something—"
Red Rose was the first to sense something was wrong and tried to use her remaining control over the mental world to defend her companions, but Garuda acted first:
The giant black bird flapped its wings and suddenly hurled a dark orb of light as swift as a shooting star. Its speed was so great that Crimson Rose attempted to deploy a defense, but missed by a hair's breadth at the last moment, and could only watch helplessly as the orb struck the only undefended spot…
Heart Moon Fox, Dandelion, and... Winged Sasha.
Su Tianqing was stunned, only managing to utter a surprised and astonished line:
"What the hell... coming straight for me?"
"Puff!!"
A burst of shadowy light erupted, and the thick darkness engulfed and enveloped the three figures, vanishing in an instant.