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Their only thought was, what the hell is this thing? What kind of carbon-based life form can hold a cable carrying megawatts, almost gigawatts of electricity, and emerge unscathed? Not only can it absorb enormous amounts of electricity, but it can even speak.
"Can you increase the power?" Muirse's voice carried out. The current surging in her body had been gradually controlled and calmed down, and it was not visible from the outside. She had converted this power into magic power within her.
To be honest, she didn't quite understand how this transformation happened; she just knew how to do it.
Chinese scientists have quietly increased the power generation of nuclear power plants.
"Is this even human?" someone muttered under their breath.
"Ahem, of course they are people!" A high-ranking official from Shenzhou immediately coughed a few times and said.
But this scene is still too much of a challenge to human understanding.
Chinese scientists are even more curious about the nature of magic. What exactly is it? Why is it that even a megawatt-level amount of electricity converted into magic is still so little?
"Our understanding of magic is still far too limited; it seems to be omnipotent."
"They really are omnipotent. Don't you think magical girls can actually be considered magical life forms?"
Several elderly scientists, whose eyes still shone brightly, were talking.
"But there's another question: what's the relationship between witches and magical girls?"
When this issue was discussed, the Chinese scientists became much quieter.
However, they did not dare to delve into the relationship between witches and magical girls, as humanity was currently facing a life-or-death crisis.
"Witches and magical girls, they both seem to use magic, but the magic they use is different; one uses evil magic, and the other uses pure magic—at least that's what the magical girls say."
"I feel there's no fundamental difference; it's all magic, just different uses. Also, the source of magic is strange. Recently, we've detected traces of magic in many places, but they disappear quickly. I suspect this newly appearing magic is being absorbed by magical girls. If they didn't absorb magic, it could be everywhere."
"So, where does magic come from?"
“...There is probably only one possibility,” an old scientist pondered for a while.
Almost everyone else also realized what it was.
"universe"
At that moment, Muirsay's voice reached their ears.
"Immediately transport these crystallized magical energy formations to Antarctica! They have extremely high energy radiation, but as long as there's no contact, it'll be fine."
Chapter 411 The Second Great Collapse (5)
Antarctic Pole Lighthouse Base
Most of the members of the Fire Moth were not killed, as long as they did not resist.
The four magical girls responsible for using the Law of Cycles did not resist, but when they tried to use the Law of Cycles to contact the outside world, Anna froze them.
Anna is now sitting in Muirsey's office at the lighthouse base, sipping her tea while gazing at the distant 'sun' and colorful starlight.
Anna gently blew on the freshly brewed hot tea, took a sip, and found it quite delicious.
She lay comfortably on the soft chair, her eyes half-closed, her hands resting on her lower abdomen, enjoying the tranquility.
She now enjoys quietly watching the unchanging scenery.
Whether it was due to the influence of her own stagnant authority or some other reason, Anna didn't know, but that didn't matter anymore.
She is Anna Schariac, a mere Herrscher.
On the other side of the office, May looked at Anna with a puzzled expression.
'Witches... seem to be no different from humans.'
Mei wondered curiously.
She was released by Anna, but more accurately, May ran away on her own, because all the Firemoths guarding her were now under Anna's control.
After Mei noticed something was wrong outside and tried to leave the place where she was being held, she realized that the lighthouse base at the South Pole seemed to have been taken over by the witch.
However, the witch clearly did not kill any of the Firemoth personnel. After Mei and the others successfully communicated, they discovered that as long as they did not leave the base or send messages outside, the Frost Guard guards who were watching over them did not care where they went or what they were doing.
May and the other members of the Fire Moth searched for the witches separately, and then May found the 5th witch in Muirseth's office on the top floor of the Lighthouse base.
A girl who looks rather gentle and quiet.
Mei simply didn't know how to communicate with this witch.
Most of the Lighthouse base's external communication channels were cut off, and May was unaware of the situation outside.
"What is your purpose, witches?"
After hesitating for a while, Mei finally mustered up the courage to ask the Fifth Witch.
Regardless of what the Fifth Witch looks like, there is no doubt that witches will never show mercy to humans.
Anna had no intention of answering, nor did she need to.
The gap in understanding between her and Mei was too great; it was pointless for them to talk past each other.
Mei waited and worried for a long time, but the Fifth Witch seemed not to hear her at all and completely ignored her.
May tried to muster the courage to ask again, but when she saw Anna's sudden glance, she finally gave in and silently looked at the witch.
More than ten hours later
The deafening bombing from afar startled Mei awake. As soon as she looked up, she saw the Fifth Witch still sitting there, drinking tea and enjoying the scenery.
Mei quickly got up and walked to the office window, where she saw the continuous flames in the distance.
"They're here?!" Mei was pleasantly surprised, but then looked back with some worry and found that the Fifth Witch didn't even bother to give her a second glance, as if she didn't care at all.
But Mei didn't know if the Fifth Witch really didn't care, so she could only leave the office and run to the place where the Moth of Fire were being held.
"Everyone, stay hidden deep inside the base and don't come out. We might be caught in the crossfire."
Mei addressed the crowd.
"Don't worry! The magical girls are here! We're saved!"
Some people were overjoyed.
"You must tell the witch! We humans are not to be trifled with!"
Some people are very confident.
"Let's hide first."
However, there are also people who are afraid of being caught in the crossfire.
Mei tried to dissuade everyone from hiding with her deep within the lighthouse base. She suggested that they should hide if they could, as the battle between magical girls and witches was too likely to harm mortals, let alone the bystanders who were nearby.
But not everyone was willing to listen to Mei's opinion, especially since Mei was a criminal before this, a criminal under strict guard.
As a result, this group of people separated. Some planned to contact the magical girls outside, while others hid deep within the lighthouse base with Mei.
Anna didn't care about what these people did.
Lighthouse Base Outskirts
The Allied forces that landed from the Weddell Sea and those that landed from the Ross Sea, relying on their powerful artillery fire, advanced rapidly to the outskirts of the lighthouse base at the South Pole.
The Frost Guard failed to stop the Alliance's offensive; after all, that level of capability was insufficient to withstand a modern army with virtually unlimited logistical support.
Once the intensity of the artillery fire reached a certain level, the Frost Guards were simply unable to intercept it or withstand it.
Anna didn't care, and it was she who intentionally loosened the spatial stagnation in Antarctica. Otherwise, after the Allied forces penetrated deep into Antarctica, the teleporter wouldn't have been able to reach the depths of the continent, and the Allied forces' logistics would have become a major problem long ago.
"We can already see the lighthouse base!"
The sergeant in the helicopter reported to the rear that a vast fleet of helicopters surrounded him, and fighter jets swept across the sky, speeding toward the lighthouse base.
In her office on the top floor of the lighthouse base, Anna finished her last cup of tea.
"Are you just going to sit here all day with a pot of tea?" Anna put down her teacup and suddenly heard Sirin's voice.
She turned her head and saw that it was indeed her sister Xilin peeking out from behind a spatial portal.
"It's quite elegant," Xilin commented.
"What do you want to eat tonight?" she asked, getting down to business.
"What did Bronya say this time?" Anna asked with a smile.
Generally speaking, Sirin wouldn't specifically come to ask her; she could just send a message in the chat group. However, as soon as Sirin came over, Anna guessed that it must be Bronya causing trouble again.
"Anyway, Bronya isn't getting any of Mei's cooking today," Sirin said casually.
“I’d like to eat French food that night, and I prefer it on the sweeter side,” Anna replied after thinking for a moment.
"Hmm, I told Mei I'd be waiting for you tonight."
"Okay, goodbye, Sister Sirin."
After finishing their business, Anna turned her attention outside.
What to have for dinner with the other Herrschers today was a serious matter for Anna and her companions; fighting the human army and magical girls outside the Lighthouse Base was a minor issue.
Anna has already released a lot of sea creatures.
Actually, the same applies to other Herrschers.
Donning a new Herrscher gown and transforming back into the stern Ice Queen, Anna flew out of the Lighthouse base, followed closely by her Frost Guard.
At this time, half of the Earth had already entered night, but Antarctica was still as bright as day, even brighter than usual, because two suns hung in the sky, along with many dazzling, colorful stars.
Anna looked at the white 'sun' and the colorful starlight around it.
I need to rush back to help Mei cook.
"It's time to end this!"
The melting rate of Antarctic glaciers has suddenly accelerated.
Chapter 412 The Second Great Collapse (6)
"headmaster!"
After the appearance of the Fifth Witch, the B-rank magical girl Vera immediately contacted Alicia, the principal of St. Freya Magical Girl Academy.
Alicia, who had been waiting, quickly seized the opportunity and, wearing a special teleportation suit, was transported directly to the Lighthouse Base via the teleporter.
Holding the Void Witch's Gem, Alicia immediately unleashed a Spacequake at the Fifth Witch, causing a visible spherical distortion to erupt right in front of her.
"Ugh"
Anna sighed softly.
She simply extended a finger and pressed down on the impending spatial quake, stopping it.
"The commotion was so loud, it was impossible for them not to notice."
Anna flicked the spatial quake, which vanished into nothingness before Alicia's astonished gaze.
The essence of a spacequake is to use the power of the Sky Witch to cause a tremor in a certain space, thereby launching an attack, but it is not very effective against Anna.
Her ability to stop spatial tremors is more than enough to halt them, unless it is an extremely subtle and sudden spatial tremor, or an incredibly powerful spatial tremor that could miraculously cause an earthquake, which could pose a threat to Anna.
Alicia didn't say anything, but silently raised her pink bow and arrow, and attacked Anna in conjunction with a spacequake.
After these four witch incidents over the past few years, Alicia has come to understand that those witches are absolute evil! Never try to communicate with them! They exist solely to destroy human civilization!
But why is the Fifth Witch able to stop the spacequakes and arrows?
Alicia was extremely puzzled. Why did the Fifth Witch seem to manipulate ice, thaw the Antarctic glacier, and have those Frost Guards, all of which made the Fifth Witch's powers seem to be about controlling ice?
However, the spatial tremors and pink arrows that were frozen around the Fifth Witch clearly told Alicia that the Fifth Witch's power was also just something that appeared to be the manipulation of ice.
"Is that all you know?" Anna stared coldly at Alicia.
Suddenly, a faint sound flew towards Anna, aiming straight for her body. However, she casually raised her hand and stopped the bullet, which contained magic power that was about to explode, in mid-air.
"Boom!" Not far away, Vera detonated the bullet without hesitation.
St. Freya Magical Girl Academy has changed its plans and strategies for fighting witches time and time again. After the Wind Witch incident, the magical girls focused their research on how to concentrate the magic power of multiple magical girls to attack the witch.
Some of the results are high-magic crystals formed from condensed magic, and the ability for multiple magical girls to concentrate their magic on a single magical girl, temporarily granting her sufficient magical power.
The other part consists of compressed magic attacks and explosive magic attacks. The former tends to secretly gather magic for a sneak attack, while the latter tends to use high temperatures and sufficiently powerful explosions.
Just now, Vera and some magical girls took advantage of Principal Alicia's battle with the witch to concentrate their magic power into a bullet, preparing to launch a sneak attack on the witch.
But this didn't seem to be of much use to the witch.
The explosion, which could spread over hundreds of meters and whose core temperature could temporarily reach millions of degrees Celsius, only spread less than a dozen meters before being stopped in mid-air in front of the Fifth Witch.