101: Chapter 101 A Shocking Development in Journalism!

She raised the halberd with one hand. From bottom to top, she slashed upward!

A dark red, crescent-shaped blade light flew from the halberd's edge, expanding against the wind and growing into a massive cutting wave dozens of meters wide in the blink of an eye.

Where the cutting wave passed, the air was instantly ionized into plasma, and everything on the road was melted into magma by the intense heat.

President Long Zaiyuan held his death-energy scythe horizontally to block, his four-meter-tall True God of the Nether Skeleton body taking the hit head-on—the scythe snapped in the middle, layers of Nether Skeleton armor plates were shattered, and his massive body was pushed backward dozens of meters by the impact, leaving two scorched furrows on the ground.

Before he could steady himself, Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan was already above him!

The halberd smashed down from above, the shaft striking President Long Zaiyuan's head and forcing him to one knee. The floor exploded into a large crater several meters in diameter, centered on his knee.

Then came the second strike. It smashed into his right shoulder, shattering the Nether Skeleton armor plates and dislocating his right arm.

The third strike was a sweep, smashing into his left ribs; the crisp sound of ribs shattering echoed from beneath his faceplate.

The halberd's nine flame dragons took the opportunity to bite onto President Long Zaiyuan's left arm, their dragon fangs embedding into the gaps of the armor and exerting force simultaneously, tearing off the entire left arm along with the Nether Skeleton armor.

Ghostly green blood gushed from the stump, splashing onto Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's combat skirt and instantly evaporating into green smoke.

President Long Zaiyuan let out a muffled grunt. He pushed off the ground with his remaining right arm, rolling backward to dodge the follow-up thrust from Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan.

The four-meter-tall True God of the Nether Skeleton looked pathetic rolling on the ground, but he had no spare capacity to care about his dignity.

Clutching his spurting severed arm, his eyes glared at Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan, no longer possessing their previous composure, but instead filled with shock.

"This system is wrong. You only have one core card; even if it's a Rank 9 card, so what? But how is your strength..." His voice cracked. "This is impossible! Even if it's a Rainbow Card, without a deck, it shouldn't have this kind of power!"

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan walked toward him, carrying the halberd. Each step was unhurried.

"I told you."

The halberd spun in her palm, the flames on the blade shifting from dark red to pure gold, the temperature in the air rising so sharply that even the fire hydrants on the distant street began to spray water on their own.

"Magical Girl is not an ordinary system card; it has a complete worldview running within it. It's not something you can compare to the armaments you've seen before."

The halberd pierced into President Long Zaiyuan's chest, the Nether Skeleton armor plates punctured like paper!

The blade protruded from his back, the golden flames on the tip exploding inside him, and the nine flame dragons flooded into his body simultaneously, beginning to incinerate his internal organs, meridian circuits, and magic core from the inside out.

President Long Zaiyuan opened his mouth wide but couldn't make a sound, as his vocal cords had already been burned to ashes by the flames.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan held the halberd shaft with one hand and flicked it upward, lifting President Long Zaiyuan into mid-air. Then, using her free left hand, she gripped the air into a claw, directly seizing his head and digging her five fingers into the gaps of his skull.

She looked down at President Long Zaiyuan's face, which had been burned by the flames to the point where his features were unrecognizable.

"Su Bai is from my military district."

Her voice was calm, yet it possessed a penetrating power; in an instant, Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan's voice appeared in the minds of everyone within a hundred miles.

"Whoever dares to touch him..."

Snap.

She twisted the entire head directly off his cervical spine!

The massive headless body of the True God of the Nether Skeleton stiffened for a moment in mid-air, then all the ghostly green light flames retracted rapidly like a receding tide, and the four-meter-tall Nether Skeleton armor began to disintegrate into fragments, revealing the charred remains of President Long Zaiyuan's actual body inside.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan landed on the steps in front of the main entrance of the guild building, holding the halberd upside down in her right hand and holding the still-burning head high in her left.

She turned around, raised the still-burning head of the 9th-tier Supreme, and tossed it aside casually.

"This is the outcome."

The Rank 9 battle had come to an end in just a few short moments!

In the distant sky, there were actually people who had long been using Telescope Cards or other recording cards to film it secretly, as this was, after all, an extremely rare battle between 9th-tier Supremes.

Generally speaking, a battle of this level would take at least several hours, or even days, to decide a winner, and because 9th-tier Supremes are difficult to kill, both sides of a major battle would at most suffer some injuries before leaving hastily.

This was also why the True God of the Nether Skeleton couldn't be bothered to leave even though he knew he was wanted; he was certain that as a 9th-tier Supreme, others wouldn't dare to act against him easily, otherwise, they would face endless retaliation from a Rank 9 against other Rank 9s.

But... this guy just died, just like that!

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan had stepped onto his doorstep, and within just a few minutes, his head was chopped off and tossed down the steps just like that!

The moment the video was uploaded to the network...

The entire online world exploded at that very moment!

The forum servers were overwhelmed within a fraction of a second, and the live stream comments on major social platforms were so dense that the screen was completely obscured.

From the frontline military intelligence channels to the dark web discussion areas of Abyss monsters, from the internal groups of the Truth Sanctuary to the work groups of every battle guild—everyone was using the same sentence structure to relay the same news to each other.

Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan transformed into a Magical Girl and killed President Long Zaiyuan!

A 9th-tier Supreme has fallen, and it was because of a Magical Girl!

And things of that nature.

And the source of all this—the magical girl card that allowed Deputy Commander Xiao Hongyan to achieve the crushing victory—was conceptually proposed by a student who hadn't even reached Rank 2 yet!

Of course, Li Qingyue was also mentioned repeatedly.

But Li Qingyue was already a top-tier Rank 9 Card Creator, so the news naturally tried its best to downplay her title and instead focus heavily on Su Bai.

After all, the shock of Su Bai, a Rank 2, influencing a Rank 9 battle was much greater!

Someone in the live stream comments was hysterically spamming.

[What does she mean by "from my military district"—when did Su Bai join the military?]

[Right now, I'm going to place an order immediately. Where is the official website of Lin's Card Workshop??]

[Are those thirteen guilds that boycotted it still there? Hahahaha—]

And right in the center of all this clamor.

In the living room of the Jinghai Academy dormitory building, Su Bai held a cup of black tea, watching the notifications frantically jumping on his phone, and took a sip with a blank expression.

Kyubey squatted on his shoulder and tilted its head.

"Su Bai. Six of the top ten trending topics on the forum are about you."

"Oh."

"Aren't you going to share your thoughts?"

Su Bai put down his teacup. He looked at the twin-tailed Magical Girl on the screen, standing on the steps and holding the enemy's head high, and was silent for a few seconds.

"My thoughts are—"

He paused.

"Deputy Commander Xiao's transformation outfit is done quite well."