As her words fell, her magic power swelled once more.
The magic power that Feng Ling had drained away earlier was now reviving, and even the wound on her face healed as if it had never been there.
It seemed she could “Share” Lian Ge’s magic power more than once.
Lian Ge’s expression changed as she desperately tried to pin her down, but Zhi Jin endured her hold and stood up, lifting Lian Ge into the air.
Lian Ge was suspended in midair, and her position was becoming dangerous.
Under these circumstances, she had no choice but to let go and land back on the ground.
Feng Ling saw the situation was dire and rushed in with another punch, hoping to knock her back while she was off balance.
Unexpectedly, Zhi Jin used the momentum of the punch to perform a roll, scrambling out of the two’s pincer attack.
After staggering a couple of steps, she turned and ran out of the warehouse.
“Don’t run.”
Feng Ling shouted and was about to chase.
As soon as she stepped out with her right foot, she tripped over something and fell flat on the ground with a slap.
She looked back and saw that her shoes had been stretched out of shape.
The toes wrapped in socks were already exposed.
Her stride had been a bit too large, and she had tripped solidly.
Lian Ge immediately chased after her, but the enemy had a head start.
By the time Lian Ge tried to catch up, she had already crossed the warehouse roof and escaped into a blind spot.
Feng Ling kicked off her completely ruined shoes and scrambled to her feet.
Lian Ge jumped onto the roof, and Feng Ling followed.
But once on the roof, as far as the eye could see, the factory roofs formed a gray ocean, and there was no trace of Zhi Jin.
“After all that talk, I thought she was going into a second phase counterattack, but she was just using a smoke screen to escape.”
Feng Ling clutched the clothes around her chest that were about to burst open and said quite sulkily.
Lian Ge stood at the edge of the roof and scanned the area once more.
After confirming that there really was no sign of anyone, she didn’t say anything discouraging.
Instead, she returned to Feng Ling’s side and said:
“Let’s report this to the Association first and look into what’s going on with this Zhi Jin.”
“Wait, wait a minute… I think there’s something wrong with me…”
Feng Ling was about to nod, but felt her body starting to feel strange again.
After coming out of the warehouse, she thought the absorbed magic power had stabilized, but she probably hadn’t fully digested it.
After the fall just now, that swelling sensation from the inside out that she felt in the warehouse returned, and this time it was even more intense.
Lian Ge had only noticed that Feng Ling’s hair had turned blue earlier, but now after a closer look, she found that Feng Ling’s height had indeed shot up to an unfamiliar level.
Originally, Feng Ling could barely reach Lian Ge’s chin when standing.
Now, after absorbing Lian Ge’s magic power, her height had directly matched Lian Ge’s.
Back in the warehouse, she had grown to just half a head shorter than Lian Ge.
Now she was still growing and had already reached the same height as Lian Ge.
Of course, Feng Ling wasn’t simply expanding proportionally.
Her entire body was developing in a more mature direction.
Her originally flat chest had now grown to the point where it was about to burst through her dress.
Lian Ge couldn’t help but ask quickly:
“Feng Ling, are you okay? Are you about to undergo an ultimate evolution?”
“This is just a side effect of absorbing your magic power.”
Feng Ling felt another wave of goosebumps rise.
Her body seemed to have grown another size.
“Let’s go home quickly. My clothes really can’t take much more.”
The two of them could only change their destination for the time being and went to Lian Ge’s residence, which was a bit closer.
Feng Ling flew through the air, but she tightly wrapped her arms around her chest, pressing down, and hunched her shoulders, trying to physically prevent the situation from worsening.
However, due to the laws of physics, Feng Ling couldn’t stop the clothes from disintegrating.
Every few feet she flew, she could hear the threads of her dress creaking and snapping.
Feng Ling didn’t know how much longer her clothes would hold, so she gritted her teeth and flew toward Lian Ge’s house.
Not bothering to use the front door, she went around and entered through the window.
Once inside Lian Ge’s home, Feng Ling’s nerves, which had been stretched to the limit, finally relaxed.
At this point, she no longer needed to care about her clothes.
As Feng Ling’s tightly contracted body relaxed a bit, she heard a crunching sound, and her dress split open from all directions.
“A-are you okay?”
Lian Ge became worried at the sight of Feng Ling, concerned that absorbing too much magic power might have caused an adverse reaction.
“I’m fine… I’m fine. It’s just the normal side effect after absorbing magic power.”
Feng Ling said she was fine, but her body was still growing.
She quickly grabbed her slipping clothes and pulled them back up.
Just as she stabilized the front, a tearing sound came from behind.
The fabric on her back split open from the middle, all the way up to her shoulder blades.
Cold air rushed in, making Feng Ling shrink back uncomfortably.
Feng Ling scrambled to cover herself front and back.
She barely managed to maintain the defense on her upper body, but the tights on her lower body couldn’t hold out any longer.
The area on the outside of her thighs had been stretched to translucency, with her skin faintly visible underneath.
The fibers of the tights were visibly being stretched to their limit, with widespread runs appearing.
Although they hadn’t torn yet, they were ruined and no longer usable.
The bell on her ankle was still hanging dutifully, but the string that had been tightly tied earlier was now digging into her flesh.
Feng Ling felt uncomfortable from the tightness.
She bent down to untie it, but at that moment, it snapped.
The bell rolled away with a clatter, disappearing under the sofa.
Now, not a single piece of Feng Ling’s outfit was usable.
At least it was a good thing that a Magical Girl’s clothes were automatically constructed from Star Crystal, so Feng Ling didn’t feel bad about it.
She just didn’t know if she could adjust the size when repairing with magic power.
However, since she had grown to this extent, the magic power seemed to have stabilized.
Feng Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At that moment, she picked up her clothes and stood up, looking at Lian Ge.
She found that she had to look down to see the other’s face.
She had become about the same height as her male self.
Lian Ge couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of Feng Ling.
“Pfft, Feng Ling, you’re so tall. I didn’t expect a Demon Beast could actually evolve.”
“I told you, it’s just a side effect, okay?”
Feng Ling, holding her tattered clothes, walked toward the bathroom and pulled the door closed.
“Let me borrow your bathroom to change.”
“Do you have any clothes? How are you going to change?”
“I remember that a Magical Girl’s clothes can repair themselves. Let me take them off and see if I can fix them.”