100: Chapter 100 The Horror of Magical Girls

When he finished speaking, President Long Zaiyuan's emotional control was textbook level—calm, collected, and indifferent, perfectly embodying the aura of a 9th-tier Supreme. Among the eleven elders behind him, seven or eight were still hesitating whether to Stand up and show solidarity, while four had already started quietly retreating.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan stared at him for two seconds.

Then, she spoke.

"What are you?"

Her voice wasn't loud, and her tone wasn't harsh; it even carried a hint of genuine confusion, as if she were asking a question she truly couldn't fathom—what are you, to be mentioned in the same breath as me?

Especially since, if it were the old Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan, it would be one thing; at least her presence and stature would match. But the current Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan was a pure loli!

Seeing a little girl make such an arrogant claim, the first reaction of everyone present wasn't anger, but a desire to laugh. But soon, they couldn't laugh anymore.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan raised her flame halberd with her right hand, pointing the tip vaguely at President Long Zaiyuan's head. "Die!"

Dominant and merciless!

The moment those three words fell, everyone in the conference room below Rank 9 simultaneously felt something known as instinctual fear.

It wasn't psychological fear; it was the instinctual reaction carved into their genes when a creature in the food chain encounters a predator several levels above it—they wanted to run, but their legs wouldn't obey; they wanted to scream, but their throats were locked tight! That terrifying sense of deterrence turned the little girl into an ancient beast, and everyone felt a fear radiating from within!

"Hmph, bluffing!"

President Long Zaiyuan's pupils contracted. His intuition as a 9th-tier Supreme left him no hesitation, and he immediately unleashed the full power of his Nether Bone Armor.

A ghostly green light exploded from within him, and layers upon layers of bone armor emerged from the void, instantly covering his entire body. At the same time, he gripped his right hand, and a giant scythe condensed from pure death energy appeared in his palm. With his left hand, he opened the Ghost Forbidden Codex floating in his palm. The pages of the codex flipped wildly, and hundreds of defensive barriers unfolded before him simultaneously.

His reaction was undeniably fast.

It took only a fraction of a second from Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan saying "Die" to him completing his full defensive stance. This was the combat proficiency of a 9th-tier Supreme, muscle memory honed from over a decade of bloody battles on the Abyss Front.

Then, Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan moved!

She didn't use any skills. No incantations, no hand seals, no magic circles, not even the transformation effect of her soul gem. She simply took a step forward and swung her halberd down.

This step shattered the conference room floor!

The floor tiles of the entire level cracked simultaneously, with fissures radiating in all directions from Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's military boots, and dark red flames erupting from the depths of every crack.

The conference table was sent flying by the shockwave, shattering into dozens of burning wooden pieces in mid-air. The eleven elders were sent reeling by the shockwave; five who were slightly slower to react were blown away, hitting the wall before rolling to the ground.

Of the hundreds of defensive barriers in front of President Long Zaiyuan, not a single one broke.

Because the halberd hadn't touched them at all.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's figure vanished the instant before she swung the halberd—not teleportation, not a spatial rift, but pure physical speed! It was so fast that the retinas of everyone below Rank 9 couldn't capture any afterimages, so fast that the spatial perception array engraved on President Long Zaiyuan's Ghost Forbidden Codex didn't even have time to sound an alarm.

The next second, she appeared behind President Long Zaiyuan. The halberd swept upward from below, and the nine flame dragons coiled around the blade opened their mouths simultaneously to bite at President Long Zaiyuan's back.

"What!?"

President Long Zaiyuan's pupils shrank to pinpoints!

He didn't turn around; turning at this distance was suicide. He immediately activated the passive life-saving technique engraved in the Ghost Forbidden Codex—Dead Soul Displacement.

His entire body turned ethereal in an instant, leaving behind a Stand condensed from death energy, while his true body was teleported into the shadows at the other end of the conference room.

Boom!

The Stand was split in half by the halberd, and the nine flame dragons bit into the fragments of the Stand, shredding them into blue smoke in mid-air. Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's attack missed, and the halberd slammed into the floor, blasting another patch of tiles into molten lava.

President Long Zaiyuan emerged from the shadows, a layer of cold sweat beading on his forehead, but his expression remained calm. His right hand, turning the pages of the Ghost Forbidden Codex, didn't even tremble.

"A speed-type Rank 9, just like the rumors say. But—"

He whispered a forbidden spell, and dense, dark purple array patterns appeared simultaneously on all four walls of the conference room. The space on the entire floor was locked down instantly, and all teleportation-type skills were rendered ineffective. "In my domain, no matter how fast you are, you won't—"

He didn't finish his sentence.

Because Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's military boot was already imprinted on his face.

Bang!

The sole of her over-the-knee boot stomped directly onto President Long Zaiyuan's nose, driving him from mid-air into the floor. A shockwave exploded outward from the point of impact, and three floors collapsed in succession amidst the roaring sound as the two of them plummeted downward.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan stomped on President Long Zaiyuan's face all the way from the top floor down to the lobby on the first floor. Every floor they passed through was shattered, and rubble and steel bars poured down, mixed with the screams of the Ghost Guild staff. President Long Zaiyuan's back plowed a deep trench into the floors, and the defensive barriers of the Ghost Forbidden Codex shattered layer by layer under Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's feet, like brittle glass being struck by a hammer.

The moment they landed, Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan exerted force with her toes, flicking President Long Zaiyuan up from the ground and kicking him toward the ceiling. Then, her halberd followed, striking horizontally. The shaft of the halberd slammed into President Long Zaiyuan's chest, blasting him out and through the outer wall of the guild building, where he rolled seven or eight times on the street before barely managing to steady his form.

President Long Zaiyuan stood up, clutching his chest. Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, but the Nether Bone Armor plates on his body showed no obvious damage. The calm, collected expression on his face had finally shattered into pieces, replaced by a nearly ferocious shock and anger.

"Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan—you—"

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan walked out of the hole in the wall. Her military boots stepped on the broken bricks of the outer wall, each step creating a small ripple of flames. She tilted her head, her twin tails swaying with the movement.

"I thought you could fight, but it looks like you're not much after all."

President Long Zaiyuan gritted his teeth, opened the Ghost Forbidden Codex with his left hand, and raised his death energy scythe with his right. The things in the deepest part of the codex that he had never flipped to—Abyss Forbidden Arts—were leaking ghostly green liquid from the edges of the pages. His voice squeezed out from between his teeth.

"You think you're the only one who can transform?"

The page of the forbidden art in the deepest part of the Ghost Forbidden Codex shattered in his palm. All the fragments simultaneously merged into the Nether Bone Armor on his body, and ghostly green light flames erupted from every gap in the armor plates.

His physique began to expand, and bone armor plates proliferated layer by layer, instantly ballooning from a little over two meters to over four meters. The eyes beneath his faceplate turned a pure dark green, and the phantom of the skeleton behind him solidified completely, overlapping with his true body.

Rank 9 Magic Card: True God of Nether Bones!

The ground within a radius of several hundred meters began to crack, and the air was filled with a thick, choking death energy. The surviving Ghost Guild staff in the lobby scrambled and crawled to run outside; a few who were grazed by the edges of the death energy fainted instantly.

President Long Zaiyuan looked down at Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan. The size difference of four meters to one point four meters gave him back a sense of security.

His voice came from beneath his faceplate, carrying the echo of grinding bones: "That brat Su Bai's magical girl card is, at the end of the day, just something from Su Bai—a Rank 2 Card Creator. For you, a Rank 9, to use a system made by a Rank 2, Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan, are you arrogant or just brainless?"

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan looked up at him. There was no emotional fluctuation in her amber pupils.

"Although it was Su Bai's proposal, the card was made by Li Qingyue."

The halberd spun half a circle in her palm, the blade flipping from pointing diagonally at the ground to facing President Long Zaiyuan directly. The nine flame dragon phantoms expanded to three times their original size in an instant, and the sound of the dragon roars drowned out all the surrounding collapses and explosions.

"By the way, the Magical Girl system... is much stronger than you imagine."