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As Muirsey listened to Alicia's voice on the communication channel, she also received a communication from Emilia.
"I am already at the Shenzhou nuclear fusion power generation center. If the interception plan fails, I will do everything in my power to build a defensive barrier."
Emilia is currently wielding the Thunder Witch Gem, absorbing the massive amount of electricity at the Shenzhou Nuclear Fusion Power Generation Center.
She will serve as a last resort to prevent the Earth from being destroyed.
“The Seventh Witch’s retinue is almost here,” Muirseth said, watching the seven giant points of light getting closer and closer.
However, at this moment, Muirsay received another communication from the lighthouse base.
"Director, those seem to be some kind of giant life form?" the magical girl in charge of exploring the Law of Cycles reported urgently.
"A giant life form? Capable of flying at sub-light speed?" Muirsey asked subconsciously.
The intelligence officer beside her glanced at the magical girls in space on the large screen.
Who knows, maybe magical girls could do that too?
The intelligence officer thought to himself furtively.
"Those points of light have slowed down?!"
"What kind of monster is this?"
"What a huge thing!"
New information came through the communication, and the intelligence officer immediately analyzed the latest news.
"Director! Those points of light are enormous life forms!"
On the big screen, the intelligence officer exclaimed in shock as he watched the enormous monsters reveal themselves as they approached Earth.
The magical girls in space can see it more clearly.
The seven golden points of light that flew from the sun toward Earth began to slow down as they approached Earth, decelerating directly from near-light speed without warning.
Immediately afterwards, the golden light gradually dissipated, and what appeared before the many magical girls were seven enormous life forms, each a hundred meters tall!
These life forms looked incredibly ferocious and terrifying, their bodies resembling flowing lava. They varied in appearance, some with black horns on their heads, and others with feathers that looked like burning flames.
Some monsters have no hands but only bird-like fiery wings and beaks like birds. Other monsters have three fingers on their hands and huge, ferocious black teeth that are interlocked.
Without exception, their eyes all emitted a golden-red light.
"Change the interception plan to an operational plan."
Alicia shouted into the communication almost without thinking.
However, the moment she spoke, those terrifying giant life forms charged towards the magical girls at a speed completely different from their size.
Before some of the magical girls could even react, these monsters had already rushed right in front of them.
"Roar!!!"
Space is too vast, so sound cannot travel through any medium, but the magical girls heard the terrifying roars of these monsters in space.
Caught off guard, several magical girls were terrified and their faces were filled with fear.
Immediately afterwards, those monsters spewed out flames of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius from their volcano-like mouths.
"Stop right there!"
"The Ring of Protection!"
Two dazzling but different lights erupted almost simultaneously; the flowing ice-blue light stagnated the flames that were being sprayed at the magical girls; and pink halos appeared on each of the magical girls at the same time.
Du Shushu and Wei Hua acted simultaneously to protect the magical girls.
However, they saw a human-like mockery and ridicule in the eyes of those seven monsters.
One of the monsters intensified the flames it spewed from its mouth, spreading them out and engulfing all the magical girls, while the other monsters scattered, seemingly trying to surround them.
However, at this moment, a pink arrow suddenly lit up in the dark space, piercing through the flames and splitting them in two, before heading straight for a monster.
Just as the pink arrow was about to strike a monster's throat, another golden beam of light struck the pink arrow instead.
Alicia then saw another monster flapping its fiery wings, looking at her as if mocking her.
"These monsters are intelligent, everyone be careful!"
As soon as Alicia finished speaking, another bird-like monster suddenly folded its wings and charged towards the magical girls.
But just as the magical girls were about to attack it together, the bird-like monster that had charged at them suddenly turned and flew straight towards Earth.
"Intercept it!" Muirse immediately gave the order to the Firemoth air force, which was ready at any time.
Just as Alicia was about to intercept the monster that flew into Earth, a golden beam of light struck her. She reacted quickly and raised her pink shield to block the attack.
The monster that had been mocking her was flying towards Alicia.
The other monsters still in space also scattered and attacked the magical girls.
The magical girls quickly separated and formed small teams. The magical girls who had just been frightened retreated into their teams and were protected, while doing their best to transfer magic power to the other magical girls.
Other magical girl squads charged towards the monsters, immediately gathering their magic to begin their attack.
Suddenly, all sorts of colorful lights burst forth in space, all of them attacks caused by the magical girls gathering their magic power.
"Don't go near them! Their body temperature is too high!"
"Attack effective! Focus your attack! Dislocate this monster's arm first!"
"Get out of the way! Get away from its breath!"
"Get behind them! Find their weak point!"
The magical girls are fighting fiercely against these giant monsters.
While keeping an eye on the six monsters battling the magical girls in space, Muirsey also watched the seventh monster breaking through Earth's atmosphere.
“Strange…” she wondered.
'Why?'
Why would those monsters do that? To tease? No, not quite; their reactions when attacked weren't fake.
Muirsey didn't know why these monsters didn't crash into the Earth at near-light speed. Given their hundreds-of-meters-tall size, a single head could have smashed through and destroyed the Earth.
But why?
Their speed decreased drastically after approaching Earth for some unknown reason. The monster that broke into Earth's atmosphere was the most obvious example. It was very fast, but only reached speeds of Mach 1, which was not even close to the first cosmic velocity.
This is far, far slower than their previous sub-light speed.
Or rather, their state of traveling at sub-light speed is not like this?
Muirsey shook his head. Now was not the time to explore this question; the most important thing was to kill those monsters!
The battle in space is underway, while the battle on Earth has just begun.
The monster that flew into Earth headed straight for the surface, but what it was met first was a sea of missiles launched by various countries.
However, the bird-like monster spun around, and a raging fire barrier suddenly burst forth from its entire body. The missiles exploded immediately upon hitting the fire barrier.
"Boom boom boom!" A series of explosions rang out in the sky.
But emerging from the flames and smoke was a bird-like monster, completely unharmed.
Muirsey was somewhat worried about the air force that had taken off to intercept them; such a large monster was clearly beyond the reach of missiles.
However, to Muirsay's relief, most military equipment, such as aircraft, was already equipped with emergency teleportation devices, enabling short-distance emergency transport.
"Attention all air force units! Prioritize your own safety! In case of emergency, immediately initiate teleportation!"
Muirsey contacted the air force pilots who had taken off directly and gave them instructions.
"Eagle Squad has received..."
"Swift Team received..."
The air force squadrons of the Fire-Chasing Moths responded one after another.
However, Muirsay's concerns were valid. Although hundreds of air force fighters took off to intercept, they did almost no damage to the monster.
With a flick of the familiar flame barrier, the missiles launched beyond visual range exploded upon impact, failing to harm the monster at all.
"Mimi! I'll go!"
As the monster drew closer and closer to the surface, Emilia couldn't help but speak.
However, just as Muirsay was about to agree.
A new situation has emerged in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Dozens of unprecedented, futuristic-looking triangular fighter jets silently appeared in the distance from the monster.
“?” Muirsay was taken aback.
Immediately afterwards, she saw the noses of dozens of Shenzhou fighter jets simultaneously fire brilliant orange-red beams, focusing their fire to pierce through the monster's flame barrier and strike its body.
The monster seemed to feel pain, and roared to the sky, but before it could utter a sound, dozens of beams of fire had already melted its throat.
"A Shenzhou aircraft?" Muirsay was somewhat bewildered when he saw that the identification signal was a Shenzhou fighter jet.
However, she subsequently received a communication from China.
"Director Muirsay, our newly developed Chongming Space Fighter has been deployed to the battlefield. It should be able to provide some assistance in the battle against the witch."
Before Muirsey could respond, she saw the bird-like monster spew flames at the Shenzhou Chongming aerospace fighter.
However, while the Chongming aircraft continued their attack, they suddenly hovered in place and then scattered in all directions to surround the monster. They flew diagonally and even vertically, inexplicably dodging the monster's attacks.
The nose of the Chongming aircraft group remained locked on the monster, and the beams it fired kept melting it.
Muirsey was shocked when she saw it. She didn't remember giving Shenzhou any technical data on similar beam weapons or aircraft. In other words, both this outrageous aircraft and the beam weapon it carried were all invented by Shenzhou itself?!
Himeko and her student blinked at each other. The student watched as the monster she was controlling was gradually melted away, then released the control stick with both hands. She blinked her big, bright golden eyes, looking very innocent.
Himeko covered her forehead and sighed.
"Little Shi..."
Chapter 441 The Second Great Collapse (2)
Muirsey watched as the magical girls in space fought the monsters for a long time without managing to defeat them, and then looked at the monsters that had been melted by the Chongming machine group shortly after entering Earth's atmosphere.
However, it wasn't that the magical girls' attacks were inferior to the Shigeaki machine guns, but rather that they couldn't combine all their attacks like the Shigeaki machine guns could.
But as the monster melted away, Muirsay's doubts deepened.
This is a monster that can travel from the sun to Earth at near the speed of light!
But why did it suddenly become so weak upon entering Earth, or more precisely, within the Earth-Moon region? To the point that it couldn't even withstand the attacks of magical girls and human weapons.
"Director Muirsay, what problem have you discovered?"
The high-ranking officials of Shenzhou, who were communicating with Muirsay, looked at Muirsay with some doubt as he fell into silence and thought since the appearance of the Chongming aircraft group.
Although the scientific miracles created by Chinese scientists have indeed made China's top leadership very proud.
"Are those creatures that can fly at near-light speed really something we can kill?" Muirsey asked calmly, watching the monster's melted and disintegrated remains fall into the sea on the big screen.
"..."
The top leadership of China immediately contacted the scientists and soon learned that the physical strength of a creature traveling at sub-light speed could not possibly be killed by an attack of this level.
It can even take a bath in the sun without any problems.
But how do we explain the monster's corpse?
Unless it's not dead!
"Contact the front lines immediately! Make sure the monster is truly dead! No part of its remains must fall into the Earth's oceans!"
The top leadership of China immediately and seriously issued a direct order.
He didn't dare gamble on whether the monster was really dead; what if it was just faking its death?!
However, not long after the monster's remains were carefully found and completely melted, there was no sign of the monster reappearing.
"A comprehensive search! Conduct a thorough search of the surrounding sea and airspace, and resolutely and completely destroy any anomalies!"
Muirse gave orders to the army of the Fire-Chasing Moths.
The Fire Moth Army, which includes a large number of naval and air forces from various countries and is gradually evolving into a unified human army, immediately set out and rushed to the airspace and sea area where the monsters were melted.
However, even after the magical girls successfully killed and destroyed the bodies of the other six monsters in space, the Moths on Earth still found nothing unusual.