socalfunplaces Chapter 212 The Shadowy Man
Chapter 212 The Shadowy Man
Chapter 212 The Shadowy Man
An invisible pressure enveloped the woman; she could only hear the rapid beating of her own heart, which was extremely noticeable in the deathly silence.
Just then, the scenery in front of the woman changed, and a force forcibly pulled her back several steps.
Turning her head sharply, the woman could only vaguely see a beautiful figure. But upon closer inspection, she discovered that a girl with exquisitely delicate features was holding her hand.
"You, you..." the woman stammered.
"You were controlled by those shadows. If you go any further, you will fall completely into their trap, and I won't be able to save you."
The girl's expression was resolute, and her youthful face carried a maturity beyond her years.
The woman then realized that the resistance she had just encountered was a warning signal from her body; her body was resisting and calling for help from her brain.
Having figured this out, she suddenly looked up at the man, only to find that the stranger had a twisted smile on his face and his eyes had completely lost their humanity.
"What disgusting energy fluctuations! This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this."
The sudden sound startled the woman, who looked down to see a small white cat gracefully walking towards her.
Just as she was marveling at the scene where animals could actually speak, the girl beside her spoke again.
"Get out of here quickly. Just keep running along this road. There are night patrol officers ahead who will escort you home." The girl's voice was as clear as spring water. For some reason, looking at this girl who was much younger than herself, the woman suddenly felt less afraid.
At the same time, she finally realized that the talking animal was a girl who was walking with evil.
"You, you are!"
"Answer my call!"
Tang Cao did not answer the woman, or rather, she answered her in another way.
A blinding white light burst forth from the pendant on the girl's chest and enveloped her entire body with incredible speed.
"—Bloom!"
The woman instinctively raised her hand to shield herself from the light.
As the light faded, the girl before them transformed into something else entirely.
Her long, flowing white hair reached her waist, and her bright white dress clung to her delicate body, highlighting her slender, snow-white legs.
"Demon, magical girl!?"
The woman's mouth dropped open. Seeing it on a video is one thing, but seeing it in person is quite another.
Although she already had a guess in her heart, when she saw that the girl in front of her had actually transformed, she still felt like she was living in a dream.
"Stop standing there like an idiot, let's go!" Xiaobai called out, frowning.
"Oh, okay! Oh, I'll be right there."
Women aren't stupid; she wouldn't risk her life just to watch a spectacle.
So upon hearing Xiaobai's voice, the woman immediately took off running, perfectly demonstrating that her three years of night running experience had not been in vain.
Seeing that the woman had run to a relatively safe place and quickly disappeared at the end of the street, Tang Cao silently breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought the monster in front of her would stop the woman from leaving, but to her surprise, the monster didn't move at all, and its gaze didn't even change as the woman left.
Or, one could say that from the moment Tangcao appeared, the monster's eyes were entirely focused on her, and it no longer cared about the woman from before.
"Magical...girl...so...beautiful..."
The man murmured softly, as if gazing upon some sacred treasure.
"Such a beautiful figure, such a youthful age, such delicate skin...so beautiful...absolutely stunning..."
Feeling the lustful gaze, Tang Cao frowned slightly.
Little White couldn't take it anymore either, and she brandished her claws. "What a disgusting look..."
The man staggered to his feet, his eyes filled with madness and desire, his mouth stretched to his ears, giving him a terrifyingly ferocious appearance.
"You are mine, you will always be mine..."
As he slowly walked towards Tangcao, the man's voice was deep and hoarse, and at the same time, the shadow beneath his feet began to surge violently.
Tang Cao took a step back warily; it was the first time she had ever seen something so bizarre.
This is no longer simply evil. The monster in front of me has no murderous intent, no negative energy. Its target is very clear: it is coming for my body.
The man's pace quickened abruptly, his hands reaching straight for the girl's face. Tang Cao reacted swiftly, raising her hand to unleash a dazzling white light. A beam of pure ice instantly covered the man's body, causing him to freeze in place.
Frost enveloped the man, and his feet were covered in ice, but this did not calm him down; instead, it fueled his madness.
Suddenly, a shadow shot out, coiling around Tangcao's body like a python. Tangcao dodged the attack with a swift movement, her feet sliding smoothly across the ground.
But the shadow did not disappear; instead, it turned a corner in the air and pounced on Tangcao again.
Tang Cao remained unfazed and quickly dodged to the side. The tentacle grazed the hem of her clothes, bringing with it a chilling wind. At that very moment, the shadow suddenly began to split apart.
The original shadow tentacle suddenly split into another shadow, which wrapped around Tangcao's waist at such close range.
Swipe!
Before the shadow could tighten, a flash of white light sliced the black shadow in two. In Tang Cao's hand, he was holding a longsword crafted from pure ice.
The severed shadow fell to the ground, twitching like a fish out of water, while emitting bursts of black mist.
Tang Cao retreated repeatedly, widening the distance between herself and the man. Looking at the constantly writhing shadow on the ground, she felt a wave of fear wash over her.
The monster before them was clearly more bizarre than the previous Shadow Clan; its shadow attacks were impossible to dodge using normal logic.
Seeing that Tang Cao was not only not bound by him, but had easily severed his shadow, the man was not angry, but became even more frenzied.
"That's it...that's it..."
He raised his hands high, and the ground beneath his feet began to tremble slightly. Streaks of dark tentacles extended from the shadows, like black octopuses baring their fangs.
Tang Cao frowned and waved her hand.
"Ice Soul - Frost Blade I"
The white glow dispelled the darkness and quickly transformed into sharp, icy blades in mid-air. This was the first offensive magic Tangcao had mastered, and it was also her best fighting method at the moment.
The ice blades, formed from gathered magic, possess terrifying destructive power, capable of easily tearing apart even metal.
As soon as the ice blades gathered, the surrounding temperature dropped instantly.
But just as Tang Cao was preparing to control the ice blade to launch an attack, a sense of crisis suddenly enveloped her heart.
Before she could think, Tang Cao suddenly dodged to the side. Immediately afterward, tentacles shot out from the shadow of the ice blade and lashed fiercely at Tang Cao's original spot.
Xiao Bai's eyes widened in disbelief. "This works?!"
Tangcao braced herself with one hand on the ground, swung her sword and cut in half a shadow as thick as an arm in front of her, immediately creating a barrier.
It kept all those shadows out.
"It seems that while the Shadow Clan cannot possess my shadow, they can invade other shadows, even those I create with magic."
The shadow tentacles, blocked by the barrier, hissed, but this only made them dance even more wildly.
"Haha...hahahaha...you can't escape...you can't escape..."
The man's wild laughter was particularly jarring in the quiet of the night.
"Come on, I'm going to let you experience true joy. You're mine, and so are the other magical girls—you'll all be mine alone!!"
"Ha ha ha ha!!"
Shadow tentacles attacked from different directions, instantly enveloping Tangcao in all directions, while the light of the barrier began to slowly weaken.
Xiao Bai watched this scene anxiously. "This won't do; there are too many shadows. You can't keep going like this for long."
"Then there's only one way." Tang Cao raised her head slightly, her gaze piercing through the tentacles and locking onto the crazed man. "Solving him should be enough, right?"
"That's true, but in the dead of night, this guy's power..." Xiaobai's tongue tasted bitter.
Although he appears to be just an ordinary monster, the power he displays under the cover of darkness is even more formidable than that of a typical elite-level monster.
Tang Cao's gaze turned cold. "Xiao Bai, cover me."
"Huh? Am I going to take action too?"
"Just like we've been practicing these past few days, didn't you fight those Shadows before?" Tangcao said.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Bai shook her head slightly. "Since you've put it that way, then I'll lend you a hand once again."
"Wait for my signal."
Tang Cao gripped the ice sword tightly in one hand and the star staff in the other. Instantly, the magic power around her began to gather rapidly.
The shield, which had been gradually melting away, began to glow again, and the light grew brighter and brighter. At the same time, a thin layer of frost suddenly covered the ground beneath Tangcao's feet.
The frost continued to spread, extending in all directions across the ground.
The man noticed this, but he didn't care. Even if the terrain changed, the frost couldn't stop the growth of shadows.
On the contrary, casting such magic will rapidly deplete the opponent's magical power.
He could already imagine what would happen the moment the magical girl in front of him ran out of magic power.
Thinking of this, the man's smile widened.
At this moment, the gathered magic power finally reached its peak and instantly transformed into a violent burst of light.
A blinding white light swept out in the blink of an eye, engulfing the entire street like a flashbang, and everything in sight was white.
"Now!"
Tang Cao gave a soft shout.
Immediately afterwards, the dark tentacles that had been affected by the intense light were severed.
The man was blinded by the flash, but quickly recovered and turned to stare intently at the source of the intense light.
Immediately afterwards, two girls with similar faces broke through the encirclement of shadowy tentacles and came straight at him from the left and right from different directions!