lcionline Chapter 91 Turning Defeat into Victory
Chapter 91 Turning Defeat into Victory
Looking at Noah falling back to the ground, Meteorite's expression was somewhat smug.
Normally, Noah hiding underground wouldn't fool an ordinary magical girl. A normal magical girl could easily detect someone underground using detection magic.
Given that magic cannot be used on meteorites, Noah probably came up with this hiding place.
Unfortunately, she underestimated Meteor's understanding of her.
Noah also regretted that she had relied too much on time-stopping as a combat method, which resulted in her not learning any offensive spells.
"The captain I admired so much back then has resorted to this childish tactic of hide-and-seek." Meteorite took a step forward, preparing to charge upwards.
"It took me quite a while to figure out where you were hiding. Come to think of it, your time stop... should be usable again soon."
"But it's pointless. Even if you stop time again, it will only buy you a little more time—"
Seeing Noah's disheveled yet composed appearance, Meteorite felt an indescribable sense of pleasure.
This wasn't out of betrayal, but rather an excitement of proving oneself.
She thoroughly enjoyed the thrill of personally driving her captain, whom she had once admired and who was as gentle as a loving father, into a desperate situation.
Captain, I am no longer the junior who looked up to your back.
I have surpassed you; I can do everything even without you.
So rest in peace.
Just as Meteorite was about to make its move, a powerful white magic cannon shot in from several kilometers away and pierced through—
"...?"
The meteorite attracted attention because of this sudden change.
She turned her head slightly and glanced out of the corner of her eye at the beam of light that was rapidly approaching from a distance.
Was that the magic cannon fired by the little girl next to Noah just now?
The power is astonishing, approaching the "Blooming" level in terms of sheer power, but is it really possible for her to hit a person when she fires a light cannon from that position?
She fired from at least five kilometers away, while the light cannon's speed was less than Mach 3.
No matter how powerful this light cannon is, what's the point? By the time it flies right in front of you, five or six seconds will have already passed, and you can easily dodge it.
Moreover, judging from the flight trajectory of the light cannon, this is far too far off.
She could sense that the source of the light cannon had only launched an attack in roughly her direction. At that distance, she probably couldn't have aimed accurately at her.
How could that possibly hit?
Even if you stand still and let the beam of light fly over, it will only fly past you a dozen meters behind you and pose no threat whatsoever.
A pointless struggle.
Was it that little girl who fired randomly to attract his attention and buy Noah time to escape?
"Your companion's aim isn't very good," Meteorite said with a hint of sarcasm.
However, there was no sign of despair on Noah's face.
"No. She was too accurate—"
As soon as she finished speaking, Noah dashed forward—
"...!"
This completely unexpected and abnormal behavior alerted Meteorite. She instinctively prepared to throw a punch—
The next second—
A massive white torrent instantly engulfed the meteorite.
"Varied--?!"
Surrounded by the beam of light, the meteorite was in excruciating pain that rendered her almost incapable of thought. She couldn't even comprehend what had happened before she was struck squarely head-on by the beam that should have been flying past more than ten meters away.
That's impossible... The trajectory of the light cannon could never hit itself.
Even if... even if Noah activates time stop, she can't change the trajectory of the light cannon!
wrong……
It's not that the trajectory of the light cannon has changed.
—My position has changed!
Noah... after stopping time, she... moved me... onto the trajectory of the light cannon?
How could this be...?!
Subsequently, the meteorite lost consciousness.
*
Watching the light cannon strike the meteorite, sending her and her body flying into the distance, Noah let out a long sigh of relief, then sat down and began to heal herself.
The exhaustion of surviving the ordeal washed over me like a tidal wave.
The phone in her pocket also vibrated.
Noah picked up the phone and pressed the answer button—
"How is it?" Lingbo's voice came through the phone.
"Very timely." Noah placed her left hand on her lower abdomen to heal her wounds, while holding the phone in her other hand. "Just now... how did you know I was in danger?"
"intuition."
Hearing Lingbo's answer, Noah couldn't help but laugh.
It really was... a rather inexplicable victory.
"Don't come any closer. Your charged beam cannon is powerful, but not lethal; it'll only render her mostly incapacitated. I can handle her on my own. Once Bi'an and Huixiang arrive, you two stay a kilometer away and wait for my command to launch the attack together."
"Okay, I understand."
After Noah hung up the phone, she sat quietly for more than ten minutes, giving emergency treatment to the most serious areas of her body.
almost.
Noah stood up and slowly flew towards the direction in which the meteorite had been blasted away.
In fact, without setting up any defensive spells, even a "Eternal Radiance" level magical girl like Meteorite would not be able to withstand being hit head-on by Lingbo's charged beam cannon.
"Lost most of her fighting abilities" was just a pretext to keep Ayanami from joining the battle.
In reality, she probably can't stand up at all.
The reason I said that was because Noah wanted to talk to this veteran player... alone.
Perhaps it's best to keep Ayanami away. In this situation... it would be better if it were just the two of them.
Noah flew at low altitude for a distance and soon spotted the meteorite.
She leaned against a huge rock, covered in wounds, her black combat suit tattered and torn.
Noah slowly landed in front of her.
Meteor seemed to sense the presence of the newcomer and struggled to open its eyes. When it recognized Noah, it revealed a relieved smile.
"As expected... the captain... is indeed the captain..."
"It seems I'll never be able to surpass you."
Noah's expression was complicated.
Looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar junior, she felt a mix of emotions.
Regardless, as former teammates, it's impossible to say there are no feelings involved.
But reason reminded her that the "meteor" before her was no longer the person she knew.
A corrupted magical girl cannot be awakened.
But... even so...
"It's so great to have met the captain—"
After saying this, Meteor slowly closed his eyes.
She recalled that time Noah had... pulled her out of the abyss of loneliness—a warm redemption.