Chapter 406 She is most likely that Catastrophe Witch!
After a few exchanges with the attendant, he also gave a self-seeking expression and continued to knock on other rooms.
In such a large floor, he was the only one to issue reminders, which has to be said to be somewhat outdated.
However, this method can indeed ensure that everyone can take refuge.
After all, early in the morning, many people are still in their dreams.
But among the crowd already awakened by that attendant, there were indeed people who ran off without caring about their appearance, which is enough to show their fear of excavators, cursing as they ran.
It can be said that in emergency situations, one can really see all kinds of human behavior.
I glanced back at the incense burning halfway in the incense burner; this was the incense I purchased from Sister Gong Xi Huanxin, and it was quite expensive. Although some remained, for some reason, I felt very distressed.
The reason for this is still due to the mischief of those excavators! This grudge is recorded down for them.
With a wave of my hand, I extinguished the incense burner and stored it in my storage equipment. Then I checked to see if the Tear of Rampant Growth was still in the storage equipment before heading to Qiu Ruxin’s door to wake her up.
“Um? Sister Xiao Han, why are you up so early?” After confirming my identity from inside, Qiu Ruxin pushed open the door, rubbing her slightly sleepy eyes as she looked at me.
But soon she also noticed the commotion outside, with the running crowd and a somewhat panicked expression.
“What’s going on?” Qiu Ruxin immediately became alert.
“Um, it seems quite a few excavators have gathered outside the hotel, and the attendant is reminding everyone to take refuge one by one.”
“Excavators! Then we should hurry and take refuge too!” At this moment, Qiu Ruxin was still wearing her nightgown, her somewhat messy long hair hadn’t been sorted out.
“Don’t be so hasty. Take refuge? Where should we go for refuge? Do you think it’d be safer to take refuge in the underground level of the hotel than next to me?” I held Qiu Ruxin’s neck firmly so she wouldn’t run around.
“That seems to be the case?” Qiu Ruxin soon realized this. Although she had never seen how powerful Sister Xiao Han really was, the confidence brought by this awareness was quite evident.
“So, let’s stay here for the time being. Oh, I almost forgot.” After calming Qiu Ruxin, I thought of that pendant and took it out, handing it to her.
“I’ve made it. Just hold it in both hands and pray, and you can complete the ceremony. But don’t use it too frequently; it has a limited number of uses in a short time, and I won’t always have time to respond to summons, understand?”
“Mm!” Qiu Ruxin nodded as she looked at the pendant. Her longing for the function it provided had already overridden her fear of it.
These days had already made her understand that even whether this pendant was on her or not, she would be unlucky, and she even heard Sister Xiao Han say her relationship with this thing was quite deep—unless the world ended, there was a chance of severance.
So… rather than resisting, it would be better to accept it calmly. This was the answer she had come to after contemplating the matter all night.
There are always some unavoidable things that she needs to accept by herself.
Once Qiu Ruxin took the pendant, a sense of inexplicable dread surged in her heart, as if she were anticipating some danger.
This was a premonition triggered when she was about to encounter danger!
It was also an instinctive alertness she had to ensure her safety in the face of various misfortunes.
But at this moment, this alertness was more heightened than ever!
“Be careful!”
Just as Qiu Ruxin’s warning left her lips, a sound of shattering glass suddenly came from the window of the guest room where Qiu Ruxin was.
Numerous glass shards were blocked by the curtains, but a figure tore down the curtain entirely, the immense inertia causing him to slide on the floor wrapped in the curtain for quite a distance until he reached us.
One of the hotel’s main selling points, the floor-to-ceiling view, had been completely destroyed; the morning breeze surged directly into the room.
The cool wind lifted my loose white hair, the shattered glass shards scattered all over the floor.
At that instant, I placed a shield in front of Qiu Ruxin and myself.
As for the figure causing this unexpected event, it seemed to have suffered very little injury. With a tearing sound of fabric, a figure stood up from within.
This person was clad in tight-fitting dark combat attire, with many clips on their body, seemingly left over for some decorative purpose. They were covered with light armor, enveloping vital parts like the shoulders and joints.
The other seemed quite surprised to see two young girls in this room, but clearly, he didn’t care to think about anything else at this moment. His overflowing anger needed an outlet and he started to roar and curse.
“F*ck your mother… dare to provoke me, you really are tired of living. What are you looking at, you two stinky b*tc*s, let me reward you with some roasted peanuts!”
Clearly, this person was still focused on the outside, but at this moment, his disheveled appearance left him no time to care about the situation outside, transferring his venting point onto us.
“Um… Universal Language?”
I muttered quietly. If I hadn’t used the Mind Communication Magic earlier, I might not have understood what he wanted to express, but now I could comprehend the language he spoke and realized how vulgar his curses were.
Moreover… this guy was also thinking about taking our lives, which really shows he doesn’t take life seriously.
What a coincidence, right? I don’t take the lives of those excavators seriously either.
Bang! Bang!
As he aimed his sci-fi-style weapon at us, he immediately pulled the trigger.
Two energy bullets shot out at short intervals, their colorful trajectories instantly surging towards us.
Faced with this sudden calamity, Qiu Ruxin instinctively tried to dodge.
But the next moment, the two bullets collided directly with my energy shield, and these bullets didn’t shake the strength of the energy shield in the slightest.
“Don’t be afraid, Sister Xiao Han is… very strong.”
I glanced at Qiu Ruxin who was startled and instinctively wanted to hide, and with a wave of my hand, a protective shield appeared around her. “Just find a place to hide.”
As soon as I finished speaking, the guy in front of me looked stunned!
“What the f*ck is this shield? Go d*e!”
Originally, he anticipated a scene of bl**d spurting, but the lack of a bloody spectacle to relieve his rage only made him angrier.
So he fired many shots in succession.
However, these energy bullets exploded upon hitting the energy shield.
“Do you like playing with guns? Do you like shooting?” I extended my right hand and made a g*n gesture, instantly gathering strong fire elemental power.
Focus: Fireball Spell!
“Bong～”
With the spell concentrated, I added a gunfire sound effect, and the next moment, this fierce Fireball Spell was compressed into a fine red flame ray, directly piercing through his forehead.
The terrifying high temperature extended with the flame ray, and only after it dissipated did a terrifying explosion bloom along its trail.
It was like a vortex of flames chasing after the earlier concentrated Fireball Spell, and the extreme heat obliterated everything around.
The guy before me was instantly carbonized by the sudden high temperature, and then crushed into powder by the pressure from the extreme temperature difference.
The cold winds above were momentarily transformed into hot currents, blowing away the charred remains, leaving nothing behind.
At this moment, Qiu Ruxin, who hadn’t managed to dodge, was stunned by the scene before her and the heat enveloping her; she didn’t even notice her hair was curling due to the heat.
“Too… too terrifying…” This was the first time Qiu Ruxin had seen such means, and she couldn’t help but exclaim.
At this moment, the guest room and the entire area by the floor-to-ceiling window had become a mess due to the high temperature, the burnt floor blackened by carbonization, while the fire-resistant materials couldn’t stop the flames from spreading here.
Looking at the scene, even I was a bit surprised. Without the suppression of the Main World’s weakening spells, I didn’t expect that even a derivative Fireball Spell could have such terrifying power. Although this did also have something to do with me adding some strength earlier, but power and damage don’t lie.
That guy shot me several times, and I shot him back; this is quite fair, isn’t it?
It just made a larger noise.
But regardless, after this incident, it was impossible for me to stay here any longer.
It would be better to create a bigger spectacle and announce my arrival to these guys!
Make them aware of the consequences of provoking me!
Then wait until the incident calms down, after which I could disguise myself, change my appearance, and move to a different place to continue “enjoying” life. Wouldn’t that be nice?
I can’t be like those excavators causing destruction everywhere just for fun; that’s too boring.
I still have many things left to do, and they are just a disruptive factor threatening my plans for stability!
A show of force is still very necessary.
At this moment, a terrifying flame suddenly erupted from a certain guest room in the high-rise area of this hotel, naturally attracting the attention of a large number of people—not just those excavators, but also the ordinary people hiding and fleeing below.
These ordinary people are the most miserable, but more pitiful is that they enjoy watching the commotion. Their curiosity will lead them to destruction, those excavator’s bullets are enough to k*ll them many times over.
Those who hold power have no time to care about the lives of these people. That unfortunate guy just now was able to k*ll out of sheer anger, which shows that excavators don’t regard these people as human.
As I approached the already damaged edge and instinctively looked down, I had to admit it was pretty high.
It might trigger acrophobia in many people, but for someone like me who has flown on a broomstick for a long time, this height is merely trivial; it’s like how a good swimmer isn’t afraid of water, and a flyer isn’t afraid of heights.
Then I scanned the surrounding environment, my gaze eventually locking onto a few figures flying between the tall buildings, clad in angular metallic armor or exoskeletons emitting various flashy effects as they soared through the air.
These excavators can even fly?
Seeing this scene surprised me, but flying isn’t a particularly difficult skill.
I could also feel that as I stood here, several gazes locked onto my figure.
Some were directly watching the activity from the exterior of the building, clearly observing, waiting to see if any hot-blooded fool would dare to test this girl.
The scene with them just felt completely out of place; in stark contrast to their high-tech or armored appearance, I was dressed in very ordinary fashion, notable only for my long silver hair.
At this moment, having roughly assessed the situation, a rune appeared in my vocal cords, followed by the spell effect activating, and an echoing voice reverberated throughout the area.
“All you excavators, get as far away as possible! Making trouble here so early in the morning, do you want to live too long?”
As this voice echoed in every excavator’s ear, although it sounded a bit strange—after all, I had only recently learned the language of this world—it did not prevent them from feeling provoked and enraged.
They couldn’t understand why someone would speak so brazenly and threaten so many people.
Who does she think she is?
Does she really think she can take on so many?
“You little sh*t, what nonsense are you talking? Eat my rocket launcher!” At this moment, a nearby excavator stepped forward, mocking me before raising an exaggerated weapon directed at my position.
With the sound of launching, the rocket burst forth, emitting intense heat waves in the air, trailing colorful effects and flying toward me in a serpentine trajectory that defied the laws of physics.
“Idiot…” I disdainfully muttered, summoning a Fireball Spell.
The intense fireball condensed to half my height in an instant. This was the true form of the Fireball Spell without any suppression. If at the Witch Academy, a normal Fireball could k*ll an ordinary person, this one could obliterate a person leaving no trace.
Without the augmentation from magical modifications or derivative technologies, I felt the damage efficiency of using Fireball in this way was too low, which is why not many people favored it.
But it was just right to counter the current overwhelming situation.
At this moment, the fireball already resembled a small sun, radiating extreme heat that slightly distorted the light around it, quickly engulfing the rocket aimed at me.
The Fireball Spell didn’t stop for a single rocket; its target had always been the person who attacked me.
That rocket exploded violently under extreme heat, and although it scatters the ordinary fireball somewhat, it lacked the ability to utterly destroy the Fireball Spell.
Until it hit its target, amidst that person’s fearful expression and cries, a far more intense explosion erupted, scattering countless fire elements outward.
After the blast, as the smoke cleared, that person was left with nothing.
At this moment, the excavators looked on in a daze as this reversal happened in an instant. Did he just disappear with a single hit?
They could see the armor that guy wore had an energy protective shield that automatically activated when under attack!
But even so, he was taken out by this girl with just one hit?
For a moment, the excavators with equipment similar to that guy’s broke out in cold sweat, feeling the situation before them was becoming troublesome and secretly pondering whether they should flee.
Let’s not forget that the earlier attack seemed like just a casual swing to her, while that earlier spectacular flame pillar shooting between the skyscrapers toward the skies was her real capability!
Moreover… such tactics were something these excavators could never accomplish! They hadn’t even seen where the weapon capable of launching such a terrifying attack was hidden.
“It’s her! That girl!”
Suddenly, someone seemed to think of something and exclaimed in shock, immediately grabbing the attention of many excavators.
They seemed curious about what this person knew.
As he sensed the gazes from so many people on him, he immediately felt a sense of vanity and satisfaction. After all, that post had surely been viewed by many; this information would be revealed sooner or later, and he didn’t mind showing off at the moment.
“That witch from the strategy! What’s her name… Catastrophe Witch! Yes! She’s very likely that Catastrophe Witch!”
