Chapter 118 : Raging Rapids (2)

Hundreds of magical girls of [Plague] approaching from beyond with mad mutterings.

“It’s birth!!”

“We can create our world!!”

“Now ‘we’ are the masters of this star!!”

As soon as I saw the magical girls of [Plague] absorbing starlight with scales hung on their backs, I immediately gathered both hands to create a white giant star.

‘It’s certain, they’re trying to absorb and release the starlight gathered here! The magical girls of [Plague] are enemies!’

Numerous twinkling starlights appear above my hands, and the colorful light gradually overlaps and gathers into one. What is created is a brilliant white that includes all colors.

The pure light of hope gathers to become a white morning star that protects humans.

Flash―!

When I threw the created white morning star at the magical girls of [Plague], 10 magical girls of [Plague] clustered in the center of the group instantly disappeared with a huge flash.

“Everyone scatter!”

“You’ll die if caught in the white star!”

“We have to scatter!!”

“The white star is dangerous!!”

“We’ll die right after being born!!”

Hundreds of [Plague] scattering while quickly wrapping themselves in black starlight.

Their communication was done only through words. Also, their movements wrapped in black starlight were somewhat clumsy and improvised.

‘They’re not avatars or incarnations like Galatea. They’re just separate independent individuals.’

Division of the apostle.

Hostility of the apostle.

For the first time, an apostle born from the goddess of [Beginning] completely opposes humanity.

Watching the gradually scattering magical girls of [Plague], I realized what I had to block in this battle. I had to leave the black sea serpent slowly starting to move in the distant sea to Yuki’s group.

■■■■―!!!

Every time the giant sea serpent writhed, waves several kilometers high rose, and hundreds of huge whirlpools formed with the sound of its body vibrating.

Heavy noise. Huge waves.

Due to the violent waves and raging whirlpools caused by the black body that seemed like it would split the strait, it looked like thousands of mountain ranges made of water had formed in the sea.

“Yuki!! I’ll block [Plague]!! Fight the sea serpent as you are!!”

[Got it!]

“This is the magical girl of [Hope] announcing!! An unusual situation has occurred where magical girls hostile to humanity have appeared in the trial!!”

Magical girls of [Plague]

The final apostle who only showed mad helplessness in the original work was now hostile to humanity.

‘It’s different from Animus who tried to test and change humans!’

I continuously informed the observatory that I was in complete hostile relations with the magical girls of [Plague].

“The enemy is born 3-star magical girls of [Plague]!! Multiple beings with the same face!! Be careful!!”

The observatory used communication magic so that each magical girl could know the appearance of [Plague] after hearing my radio. The communication magic was delivered in real-time to all combatants as images.

[We have delivered the appearance of the magical girls of Plague to everyone.]

[Confirmed! Still no reaction in all areas except the trial scene, other than the appearance of very few black lion demons!]

Magical girls of [Plague] being shot down one by one by the huge white beams emitted by the Galateas. And they were just avoiding the white morning stars I threw and interfering little by little as they got some leeway.

‘They seem much weaker than the Divine Maiden… maybe even weaker than Yuki or Hana, is this the price of forcibly increasing their numbers?’

The magical girls of [Plague] with such meager starlight that it was hard to believe they were born 3-star magical girls were preparing to release while painfully stealing starlight with their scales.

Creak

Creak

Scales coming down at a miserable speed with a rusty sound.

It was due to the meager amount of starlight that didn’t reach great authority.

If so, there was no need to forcibly call 3-star magical girls here as reinforcements.

I instructed the 3-star magical girls in charge of defense in each region to stand by so they could prepare for unexpected situations.

“Cover teams, please trust me and engage in battle as you are! I will block everything!”

“Understood!”

As soon as they heard my instructions, the on-site cover teams on dozens of platforms all began to project firepower towards the giant sea serpent. Standing in their respective positions as practiced dozens of times, they cast unique skills or controlled white self-propelled guns.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

With huge explosive sounds, shells fired from white self-propelled guns and attacks containing numerous colors from magical girls advanced drawing brilliant lines.

Numerous starlights advancing towards the writhing sea serpent.

But they disappeared in the raging waves and whirlpools without leaving even a sound.

“Prepare next attack!”

“Don’t shoot one by one! Shoot all together at once!”

“Preparation complete!!”

“Fire!!”

“Fire!!”

The cover team completely turned their backs on the magical girls of [Plague], leaving all interception to me

‘Everyone is fighting trusting me…’

Then as the magical girl of [Hope], I had to use infinite starlight to stop them.

I created a white bow, then prepared a huge transformative strike that had deleted thousands of missiles.

White arrow

Power protecting humans

Hope illuminating tomorrow

“Disappear without interfering!”

Twang!!

A huge white trajectory advancing forward shot from my hand.

And a flash.

Boooom―!

When a huge flash exploded that temporarily dyed the red sky white, magical girls focusing on cover on the white platforms turned around startled.

“Argh!!”

“How could this be… right after birth.”

“How futile!”

Dozens of [Plague] disappearing with death throes. Seeing that sight, the cover team showed even stronger trust and resumed attacking the sea serpent.

‘They’re quickly scattering while being conscious of me.’

Because the magical girls of [Plague] quickly scattered with black starlight as soon as they confirmed my power, I couldn’t reduce more than a certain number at once even if I used huge miracles continuously.

‘…And when the number is reduced to some extent, they appear with small rifts.’

Dark sea where fire and waves rage under the red sky.

Small rifts gathered on the sea where Yuki’s group and the sea serpent are fighting in huge waves and hundreds of starlights containing flames are raging.

Swish

Swish

Swish

Unlike the rifts that kept opening while spewing out black lions in the first trial, these quickly closed after releasing one magical girl of [Plague]. Reports came in that only black lions like in the first trial, not [Plague], were coming out of small rifts at other scenes except here.

“Yahoo! It’s the world!”

“Wow?! Fire! Water! So colorful!”

“We’re born into this world!! Freedom!!”

The power possessed by the endlessly born magical girls of [Plague] was feeble, but the scales attached to their backs continuously absorbed starlight automatically, interfering with the magical girls.

“We’ve gathered enough!”

Through hundreds of white unique skills emitted by me and Galatea, [Plague] who barely survived and succeeded in staying for a certain time tried to take out the scale of release with a joyful voice. If that is activated, at least one or two attacks that a born 3-star magical girl could make would burst out.

Crack

“Where do you think you’re going.”

A white goddess dozens of meters tall that I summoned with Ichika’s unique skill grabbed and burst [Plague] who tried to attack other magical girls. Then it held her corpse and made a huge swing to attack other [Plague] nearby.

“It’s the goddess of [Beginning]!! She’s attacking us!!”

“We’re going to serve a different goddess now!!”

“Being trapped in one body was hell!!”

“You showed us hell!!”

Due to the characteristics of the avatars I summoned, they all resembled the goddess of [Beginning], and seeing that, the magical girls of [Plague] tried to attack while gathering meager black starlight with childish jeers mixed with anger.

‘Don’t they know that the ones who cursed them were the other three goddesses?’

I could gradually understand why the magical girls of [Plague] were hostile to humanity and participating in the trials.

Unlike in the original work where the three goddesses were indifferent to the trials, it seemed they had manipulated things so that the souls of [Plague] magical girls would be reborn in the rifts where demons were born instead of demons.

[Revelation] who didn’t have the fate of destruction like the apostles.

[War] who volunteered for the trials herself and disappeared.

[Death] who switched souls and changed fate.

Unlike the three apostles, [Plague] born in demons based on endlessly dividing abnormal souls had weak starlight compared to the authority they possessed.

[Plague] disappearing and appearing repeatedly in real-time to attacks from Galatea and me even now.

“Argh!”

“How could this be!!”

“We were just born!!”

‘Though one is weak, even just existing in certain numbers is a big hindrance.’

Their mere existence steals starlight from magical girls, and using the gathered starlight, they fire a fatal blow to other magical girls except me.

If the magical girls of [Plague] are left alone, we won’t be able to defeat the trial demon.

One fortunate thing was that the trial demon itself, born purely from the will of the stars, hadn’t changed much. And that a magical girl who knows better than anyone about the trials before they changed was dealing with it.

‘Yuki! I’m counting on you!’

I endlessly intercepted [Plague] who absorbed and released starlight, interfering with the magical girls like that.