The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 290 The Villains' Righteous Plan

"Project Thor's Hammer?"

Temporary villain's rooftop.

Hellcat repeated the slightly awkward name of the plan that Heart Moon Fox had read out.

"So that's the action plan you extracted from Inari's memories, Fox?"

"That's right. Miss Inari devised this plan ten years ago. During the ten years she disappeared, she was searching for a way to completely destroy the Astral Beast."

"The astral behemoth... is quite a troublesome fellow..."

Cheshire Rabbit chimed in, stroking his chin and speaking softly, his brow furrowed.

According to the information Xia Taotao has been collecting, nothing associated with "giant beasts" is ever a friendly foe.

For example, the behemoth Leviathan that emerged from the astral rift sealed off by Red Rose was incredibly powerful. Su Tianqing had to exert all her strength to barely block its attack on Red Rose.

However, that Astral Cannon attack cannot be considered Leviathan's normal attack - after that cannon, Leviathan's magic power was greatly depleted, which led to it being completely overwhelmed by the Black Hole Hellcat throughout the subsequent battle.

"If you had been facing a Leviathan brimming with magic back then, you might have also been in a tough fight."

"Yes, but if that's the case, wouldn't Ameyoshi also be able to deploy a large number of witches to participate in the battle?"

Hellcat shared its thoughts.

"So I think the behemoth is just a stronger astral monster, and it is not invincible as long as we use the right methods."

"I agree with that," Cheshire Rabbit nodded in agreement.

As for Su Tianqing herself... she didn't feel anything at all.

A giant monster? It's just a monster with the "super-giant" tag added to it. Give me some time and I can create one too!

But in reality, I can't create a behemoth of Leviathan's strength.

The Heartmoon Wand has its limits; it's still too difficult to create a perfect 1:1 replica of Leviathan right now.

But this fox's strength has also improved significantly!

The golden-haired fox girl was completely absorbed in admiring and studying her opponent's brand-new magic wand:

After collecting all the items left behind by Inari, the fox mask's power was fully unleashed, and the secret manual was also quite powerful, enhancing the Heart Moon Wand to a completely new form:

【Heart Moon Wand - Inari Form】

A crimson-gold ribbon now adorns the edge of the wand, replacing the flowing star-studded ribbon, and a fox-face pattern is added as decoration to the guardian star at the tip of the wand.

In the new form, the ability to summon monsters and customize them with the wand is retained, and the ability to recycle monsters to strengthen oneself is added.

Last time when I was fighting Hyacinth on the rooftop, I secretly retrieved Sirius Witch, which gave Hyacinth a little shock.

That was merely an experimental use before the power was fully unleashed.

After fully unleashing the Inari form, Su Tianqing noticed a significant change in the monster summoning ability:

First, the limit on the number of summons you can have been removed and replaced by a limit on the number of enhancements and special abilities you can stack. There is a fixed limit to the number of enhancements you can use each day.

Sounds a bit complicated, right? It'll become clear once you try it out!

For chestnut:

This fox can currently use a total of 175 enhancements and 30 special abilities per day. At most, I can apply 35 enhancements to a single monster and add up to 6 additional special abilities.

Originally, I could only summon five monsters per day, but this limit has been removed and replaced by a limit based on the number of times I can stack enhancements!

In other words, you can divide the 175 enhancements into five equal parts, each with 35 enhancements, and create five boss monsters with top-tier strength and maximum power.

Or you could break up all 175 enhancement attempts and create 175 weak monsters that only have one enhancement attempt each!

How about that! Isn't it an incredibly cool summoning ability?

The fox wags its tail.

However, the application scenarios for the miscellaneous monsters are actually somewhat unclear, and they are not even good at being part of the atmosphere group when facing the shadow of the stars.

"Fox, do you have any new information to share regarding Inari's proposed plan?"

Hellcat asked casually.

The fox girl, who had been engrossed in admiring the new form of the magic wand, immediately perked up her fox ears and tail and blinked.

"Hmm... I still have two items whose memories I haven't looked at yet. I plan to wait until Hyacinth and the others take further action before making any decisions."

This is also a series of requests and reminders that Inari gives to herself in her memory.

[For the next operation, I hope you will conduct peripheral investigations after Miss Hyacinth begins her operation, and not rush to delve deeper.]

[Apart from Miss Xinyuehu, your companions are not currently protected by the stars. Approaching my sealing barrier rashly may result in accidents.]

For safety reasons, please continue your investigation from the perimeter for now.

Magical Girl Inari said this, and Su Tianqing relayed her words to her companions verbatim.

Legendary Quest: Project Thor's Hammer

[Investigating the distribution of underground magic in the port city]

The secret manual has refreshed and a new quest has been created. Let's investigate this objective today.

"So it seems that the massive magical barrier in the underground center of the port city was indeed the key that Inari used to seal Jormungandr."

"To think she could summon such a massive amount of magical power... Doesn't Inari not have the Shadow of Stars? How did she manage that?"

Hellcat and Cheshire Rabbit both expressed their feelings, but also raised questions.

The two did not devote much energy to thinking about this question, which they could not answer for the time being, and focused on the execution of the plan.

"In short, let's gather some other intelligence on the outskirts for now, shall we?"

"That's what Ms. Inari discussed with me," Kokoro nodded.

"I lied to them before, saying that the barrier was a bomb I planted. I didn't expect Hyacinth and the others to actually believe me. They're probably conducting an underground investigation in the center of the port city right now."

At this point, Su Tianqing grinned, her smile full of joy.

bomb?

There was no bomb at all!

When he was planning the heist, he had no idea why there was such a large amount of magical energy in the center of the port city, so he simply treated it as a bomb barrier.

Unexpectedly, that was the barrier left by Inari to seal Jormungandr, which was also the core of her [Harvest Magic] barrier.

...I was just following the instructions in the secret manual to improve the Harvest Magic, so why did I end up in the prelude to a BOSS battle after peeling back the layers?

Perhaps Inari saw all of this with his futuristic magic, which is why he deliberately orchestrated all his actions?

"Seeing the future is indeed a terrifying magic powerful enough to trigger the constraints of the laws of time," Su Tianqing exclaimed.

While working with the cats and rabbits to develop an external investigation plan, Su Tianqing also glanced at Fenrir, the gray wolf, who was trying to join the discussion but failed to understand anything.

The dog was trying hard to understand what she was talking about, but judging from her clear, babbling eyes, she probably didn't understand at all.

I'll give her a private lesson when I go out to investigate later, Su Tianqing thought to herself.

After all, in Inari's Thor's Hammer project, Doggy was a key figure in defeating Jormungandr.

"In short, let's investigate the situation step by step first, and then see how to proceed."

Addressing her companions, Su Tianqing pulled out a subway map of Hong Kong from her pocket and pointed to one of the lines.

"Let's start from here."

"Our goal today is to gather all clues about the existence of that giant beast underground outside the barrier!"