Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

Lin Xiaolu sat in front of her desk, staring blankly at her hands.

The only light in the room came from the desk lamp, making the space rather dim with a very limited range of visibility. However, at this moment, Lin Xiaolu didn't care about that.

She had lost.

That was the only thought in her mind. Explore more stories with My Virtual Library Empire

Full of the intent to teach the other a lesson and tell them "never to underestimate others," she had accepted a challenge that looked incredibly simple. Then, without any suspense, she lost.

What was critical was that even after losing, the other had an expression with no fluctuations, as if defeating her was just a matter of course, so calm it was infuriating.

But what good did anger do? Losing meant losing; the defeated had no room for rebuttal.

What had happened before the loss? To be honest, even now, Lin Xiaolu hadn't figured it out.

All she remembered was that she had accepted Bai Ji's invitation, transformed, and then created a makeshift magic power sphere in her hand, mimicking the opponent's method, and with full confidence, she collided with it.

There was no other reason but that in the pure competition of quality and quantity of Magic Power, she was stronger than the average Magical Girl.

Being stuck at the Seed level and not being able to break through was certainly bad, but as the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Her Magic Power growth hadn't stopped, on the contrary, it seemed to have developed a kind of high-pressure effect, refining her Magic Power. Specifically, it meant that with the same amount of Magic Power, the damage she could cause was much stronger.

Therefore, as long as it was a Magical Girl in the Blossom stage who was not too far beyond her, this "refined" Magic Power was theoretically not weaker than anyone else's.

Until that point, Lin Xiaolu had always maintained this belief.

Until she had competed with Bai Ji.

In the past, when Lin Xiaolu attended Emerald Sparrow's classes, Emerald Sparrow had instilled in her a conclusion: Magic Power, is equivalent to the extension of a Magical Girl's limbs.

This sentence wasn't difficult to understand. Just as tools are an extension of the human body, for Magical Girls, Magic Power is an exceptionally useful tool — the rationale was the same.

At the moment when her magic power sphere collided with Bai Ji's, Lin Xiaolu was reminded of this sentence.

Because she suddenly realized that what Emerald Sparrow emphasized might not just be the "tool" attribute of Magic Power.

What kind of feeling was it? It was merely the collision of magic power spheres, but at the moment of impact, Lin Xiaolu felt a "numbing" sensation.

It was as if her fingers had touched something electric, the tingling sensation of the numbness and the subsequent stiffness. The unreal "touch" feedback from the Magic Power to herself led to a loss of control.

Electrocution.

That was Lin Xiaolu's most direct feeling in the collision of the magic power spheres.

She had encountered a similar feeling before, such as when she came into contact with the Remnant Beasts; the sensation of burning when her Magic Power eroded. However, that burning sensation was not that intense and couldn't compare at all to the pain from a direct attack in battle, so it was often overlooked.

But the impact caused by Bai Ji was far beyond that; at that moment, Lin Xiaolu even felt that her Magic Power had become a weak point under attack. It was as if the feeling of "numbness" had been intensified, allowing the Magic Power to carry sensory feedback to the source of Magic Power, which then spread to the core and transmitted directly to the person herself.

As a result, the magic power sphere that Lin Xiaolu had thrown out with full confidence collapsed naturally within two seconds after colliding with Bai Ji.

What was left was only Lin Xiaolu standing in place, still stupidly extending a hand, not even clear about what had happened.

Bai Ji didn't speak either. She just shook the hand that had gathered the magic power sphere as if feeling it was enough, then she canceled her transformation, turned around, pulled her suitcase, and walked into her room.

There was no need to say more about what happened after that.

Lin Xiaolu returned to her room in a daze, still not recovered by dinnertime, and then, all the way until now.

Her desolation was not solely because she had lost, nor just because of the opponent's dismissive attitude, but more importantly, the "anxiety" she had been suppressing in various ways, trying desperately to ignore, had erupted.

Ever since Xia Liang had blossomed successfully before her, obtaining her own Magic Gear, that anxiety had never ceased.

She had become a Magical Girl first, she had started learning first, she had been ahead in everything, so why was Xia Liang ahead of her in ability blossoming?

This anxiety peaked after Bai Jingxuan awakened her Magic Gear.

If one could explain Xia Liang's advancement with "stronger talent," then why was Bai Jingxuan, who became a Magical Girl more than two months later, still ahead of her?

Yes, she remembered she once managed to use that special white Magic Power, but it was only twice, and it only came out when facing exceedingly dangerous enemies.

How exactly did she manage to use it? Could she use it as smoothly next time? Why couldn't she use it under normal circumstances?

Even if Magic Power in quality and quantity had far exceeded the Seed level, even surpassing the normal Bud level, without awakening her own Magic Gear, being a Seed was still just a "seed."