Erika slowly extended her palm towards Bond, speaking coolly like Iron Man, “Now, put Cielciel down and run away. This is your final warning! Even I don’t know what will happen next.”
Truthfully, Erika hoped they would just back down. What if this thing’s power exceeded her imagination…?
However, they just stared unblinkingly at Erika’s coldly beautiful little face and sneered contemptuously.
“Erika Angelina, it’s no secret that you’re a combat failure. No matter how much you bluff, you can’t avoid your punishment today.” Bond directly dropped Cielciel, walked over, snatched a riding crop from one of his underlings, seemingly intending to do it himself.
In that instant, Erika thought of many things again. Speaking of which, the reason these little boys kept eagerly coming with leveling NPCs to find her…
The purely negative talent ‘Alluring Enchantress’ had to shoulder at least ninety-nine percent of the blame!
Things had come to this, there was no other choice.
“Ember!”
“Zzzzt—Boom!”
The magic circuits grew hot, magic power surged chaotically. It felt as if all the energy in her body, including her blood, was completely drained within a microsecond, converging into that fair palm. A fierce and violent torrent of energy erupted from her palm.
It really was just like Tony’s repulsor blast. What shot from her palm was an energy mass similar to an air cannon.
An air cannon roughly the size of a head seemed to undergo countless compressions in a short time, finally blasting out with an immeasurable force. The recoil even caused Erika to be thrown backward violently, her little bottom hitting the ground hard.
“Oww.” Just as the girl was still grimacing in pain from the fall, the scene before her had already changed drastically.
The roaring air cannon mercilessly tore up the lush green lawn on the ground, crashing into Bond directly ahead at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
In common terms, he ate the ultimate move at point-blank range!
“Guh—wah—!” Accompanied by a weak, wretched scream, he was sent sprawling to the ground by the unstoppable impact.
At the same time, Cielciel, who had been trembling in fear after being tossed aside, seized the chance to escape and hid behind Erika. “Comrade…!”
“Stay behind me for now!”
Erika, barely standing up, kept her gaze fixed on the remaining two men. They stared wide-eyed, looking at each other as if doubting they were awake.
“What’s going on? Isn’t that girl supposed to be unable to use magic? What was that power just now?” “I don’t know! I just came because I heard there were credits!”
“Ugh, Bond’s down! Hey, hey, wake up!”
“Ugh, uh, ugh…” Bond, whose octagonal cap had been blown off to who-knows-where, coughed up a mouthful of blood, his breathing faint. Judging by the whites of his rolled-back eyes, there was no need to worry about him regaining consciousness anytime soon.
The power of the newly acquired incantation was indeed extraordinary. A direct hit to the abdomen meant even if he woke up, his body wouldn’t easily recover.
Truly a High-Level Destruction Incantation! I’m a Great Sorcerer now!
“Mm…”
A familiar, sharp pain spread throughout her body. The palm that had released the magic throbbed painfully, unbearably swollen, as if about to seep blood. The bones inside her hand felt like they were about to crack.
But she absolutely couldn’t show any weakness now… Erika hid the swollen little hand behind her back and extended her other palm towards them again.
“Do you want another taste of Gamma Ray? Hand over your badges and all the money on you now, then leave obediently, and I might just let you go.”
Sorry, but a Level 9 actress can do whatever she wants.
Even though she was almost crying from the pain, she could still put on such a bluff while enduring it.
“Hey, isn’t that cheating? She has no cooldown. What do we do?”
“I don’t know! You call this a delicate, beautiful girl? She’s more like the Funeral Witch!” In this world, regardless of class, Mages were extremely dangerous beings.
Initially, only a select few elites could use magic. Therefore, when making a Mage an enemy, one had to equip corresponding gear and formulate meticulous plans.
However, these two clearly hadn’t taken it seriously, thinking they were just out to harass a girl as delinquents. Now, they were utterly dumbfounded.
Erika wasn’t polite with them, wrinkling her little nose. “Hurry up!”
“And, Cielciel is mine! Don’t even think about grabbing her to be some intern!” “Also, I want to be an intern…!”
“? ” “Comrade! All recovered…!” Cielciel handed the spoils she had scavenged from those people to the girl.
“Very good. Brooches worth 2000 Star Coins, seven meal vouchers.” Erika smiled brightly at the spoils, a stark contrast to the bitter faces of the others.
“Um, could you return that meal voucher to us? Without it, we’ll go hungry…”
“Heh heh, sparing your lives is already my, Erika, showing exceptional mercy. Have you eaten? No? Then eat my palm blast!”
“We’re leaving right now!”
Seeing the fierce looks on Erika and Cielciel’s faces, the two men quickly chose flight as the best strategy.
“Hey, quick, let’s go together!”
“Ugh, damn it! He’s so heavy!”
Watching them drag the unconscious Bond away in a sorry state filled Erika with immense satisfaction.
Cielciel growled at their fleeing backs, “The contract has already been stamped…!”
Only when the figures of the three villains had completely disappeared in the distance did Erika slowly relax, her legs giving way as she slumped to the ground.
“Mm…”
Her mind was hazy, her head splitting with pain. A violent wave of nausea hit her, but after her nose suddenly started bleeding again, the feeling eased slightly.
Severe Magic Depletion symptoms had come to visit once more. However, the problem wasn’t limited to just that.
Erika looked at her right hand. That palm was now swollen to almost twice the size of her left, covered in blue, purple, and black marks that looked terrifying. Clearly, many bones were shattered.
“Ugh—ah—.” Only after the tension faded did the delayed, intense pain sweep through her entire body. Erika was almost brought to tears by the pain.
She hadn’t expected the incantation to have such near-self-mutilating side effects.
Still, if it weren’t for the newly learned incantation, her current fate probably wouldn’t be as simple as just broken bones.
Facing three villains with ill intentions, achieving this could already be considered a decent, noteworthy performance.
Yes, I’m awesome!
“We won!”
The girl raised her intact left hand high, feeling pure joy for this great victory. How many times had she felt helpless and powerless in the face of assassination attempts and violence until now?
But now, Erika had evolved greatly! She had grown into a poisonous wasp, a Scorpion that could fight back.
This was a historic turning point for Erika!
Joy and excitement overcame her willingness to compromise with the pain, allowing her to stand up from the ground again.
“Comrade! I told you to run away and not worry about me! Why didn’t you escape?”
“Because we’re companions. Speaking of which, why are you so insistent on joining as an intern? If that’s the case, wouldn’t the reason you fought so desperately just now be gone?”
“Th-that’s not important…! What’s more important is that your hand is seriously injured…!” “It can’t be helped.”
“A destruction magic with such powerful backlash… That’s precisely why tools like wands or magic staffs are needed as mediums…!”
“Mediums?”
“Excellent, finely crafted wands can bear the backlash of magic in place of the caster…!”
Cielciel grabbed her own tail, which was swaying left and right. “Stay put…!” Sway, sway. “Be good, be good and stay still…!”
Cielciel suddenly started struggling with her own tail without a word. This bizarre scene, like the left and right brains fighting each other, left the observing girl momentarily stunned.
“Just… let me pull it out…!”
With a grunt of effort—”Hnngh—”—Cielciel actually whoosh pulled her tail… out?
Erika almost screamed—wasn’t this scene a bit too bizarre and bloody?
“Why did you have to pull your tail off?!”
“For us Succubi, our tails are as important as life itself… But, since I owe you a great debt, Comrade, I’ll give this to you…!”
“Swish.” Cielciel extended her tail, which had turned a reddish-orange after being pulled off, in front of the girl. Seeing Cielciel’s overly serious expression, the girl could only twitch the corner of her mouth and accept it.
However, unlike the imagined soft, droopy noodle-like appearance, the Succubus Tail was straighter and harder than expected, feeling like an iron riding crop.
It was said that Succubus tails were excellent materials for making wands. With it, it seemed she could indeed minimize backlash and recoil… “But, is it really okay to pull off your tail?”
“Little tails, if you drink milk diligently, they’ll grow back, you know… Sometimes, when there’s absolutely no other choice, you have to cut off your tail to escape…”
“I-is that so.”
It felt like her understanding of Succubi had deepened. So, the Succubus race could sometimes sever their tails to survive, like geckos… Erika’s useless knowledge +1.
“Phew.”
Anyway, I won.
Before her eyes appeared the panel prompt showing the experience points for the Actor and Mage professions rising. Unfortunately, her level didn’t increase.
But Erika still felt that today, she had been reborn, truly different!