Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

She pondered in her heart, ready to take out her phone and call Hong Siyu, but as her palm barely touched the phone, she realized it had already started vibrating ahead of her.

Looking at the screen, she saw the name "Lin Xiaolu" and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

Emerald Sparrow remembered the message Xia Liang had sent her in the group chat earlier, saying they suspected that Moco had found a prospective Magical Girl but kept it a secret, intending to follow and investigate.

The reason for the call at this time must be related to this matter.

Although logically she should explain the situation first to Hong Siyu and the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, after a brief hesitation, she decided that Lin Xiaolu's call was more urgent.

With the expectation in her heart, Emerald Sparrow lifted her thumb to the screen, ready to tap the call button.

But she never managed to press it.

"Whoosh!"

For almost at the same moment, a black shadow suddenly swept over from her wrist and struck her hand with great speed.

Emerald Sparrow's peripheral vision caught this scene, and she quickly withdrew her hand in time, but because the target of the sneak attack was too small and came too quickly, she only managed to retract her hand. Her phone, which she had been holding, was hit and fell into the bushes next to her.

Without time to check on the condition of her phone, Emerald Sparrow immediately looked toward the small black shadow that had suddenly attacked her, and after seeing its form clearly, she expressed her confusion: "Sparrow?"

She was not calling out the code name of an enemy.

Instead, the small black shadow she saw was not something else, but a little sparrow flapping its wings.

A normal sparrow shouldn't have such a high flying speed, and their flying endurance is relatively weak. How could it be fast enough to catch a Magical Girl like her off guard?

"...Ouch, that hurts."

As Emerald Sparrow involuntarily began to ponder, although the sparrow was still above and there was a distance from the ground, its voice clearly emanated from the pit.

"I'm not dead yet, and you're still thinking about making phone calls at a time like this. Should I commend you for being a former ace?"

Emerging once more from the pit, the sparrow reappeared within Emerald Sparrow's field of vision.

She was still conscious, and could even be said to still have combat ability, which surprised Emerald Sparrow.

She knew the power of using her masterpiece for a heavy blow: without using advanced Spell Techniques or defensive magic gear, most Magical Girls at the Leaf or Bud level would not be able to withstand such an attack.

Given the physical quality of a Magical Girl, taking a punch from a masterpiece,

Let alone this Magical Girl named Sparrow being taken by surprise by her own sneak attack from behind, even if Emerald Sparrow herself were to stand still and take a blow, it likely wouldn't be easy to endure.

Therefore, the fact that Sparrow still retained the ability to move was quite astonishing.

This suddenly appearing Magical Girl, who claimed to be a former Character card, should have her ability stage within the range of Leaf to Bud level.

It's not that there are no Ace-level among the Character cards, but those who have evolved to Ace level without the qualification to obtain the Ace card do not identify themselves as Character cards out in the open; they feel it would be demeaning.

The key point is, Emerald Sparrow was very clear: she could not beat a Magical Girl who had evolved to the Ace level.

As a Magical Girl's abilities evolve, with each stage increase, starting from the Bud level, every step is a massive bottleneck, and crossing it leads to a significant increase.

From Leaf to Bud, from Bud to Ace, with each leap, a Magical Girl's combat ability adds an important dimension.

Emerald Sparrow was very clear about her current combat capability.

And precisely because of this, she could in turn be sure that this so-called Sparrow Magical Girl was not of the Floral class.

However, having suffered a heavy blow from the Masterpiece Gauntlets and slammed into the ground, she was in a more wretched state than before, and her clothes made of magic showed numerous tears, indicating that the damage was not light.

Yet her current appearance once again baffled Emerald Sparrow.

For at some point, Sparrow had lost her human left arm, replaced instead by a pair of magic wings with black bases and yellow spots, which looked quite sinister.

Her eyes also underwent a strange change, the most obvious feature being that her irises became huge, nearly occupying the entire eye socket; the remaining sclera was no longer the white of humans, but had turned black.

"Haven't seen it before? Then you should feel happy," the Sparrow lifted her head, showing the purple-black Heart's Gem below her neck, and widened her eyes, her face filled with excited and combative smiles, "Don't get distracted, the real show is just beginning."

She lifted the half of her body that had transformed into bird wings, the pitch-black magic feathers flapping, scattering magic like a flood in all directions, stirring up wave after wave, even reaching the onlookers who had come to watch. The magic waves caused a burst of cries and screams, and many people started screaming the moment magic touched them,

This kind of magic was corrosive and harmful even to the magic of Magical Girls, let alone to ordinary people with weak magic. The corrosion and destruction of the tiny magic related to life within their bodies was a pain far beyond the tolerance of ordinary people.

Emerald Sparrow, who had been observing the situation and planning to retrieve her cellphone, no longer had the time to do what she wanted. She could only use her magical armor and materialize layers of thread from the street corner to block the black magic rushing towards the bystanders.

"Stop gawking here, run!" she yelled at those who were still dazed.

—"Didn't I tell you not to get distracted!"

On the other side, Sparrow was excitedly howling and leaping into the air once again. This time, her speed was so fast that the trajectory couldn't even be seen by ordinary people.

Not only that, the Little Sparrows that had previously ambushed Emerald Sparrow from the shadows also took to the air with her, several small sparrows following alongside her like wingmen in the sky. These little birds opened and closed their beaks, surprisingly spitting out tiny magic bullets.

The little magic bullets, seeming only as large as green beans and not lethal in power, had the advantage of speed, difficult to discern with the naked eye, making it easy for ordinary people to be hit.

Black and blue magic intertwined in the sky once again, and this time, the blue was clearly in a defensive position.

After turning into what she called her "half-beast form," Sparrow's physical strength and speed were not the only things to improve—her magic power also escalated by a level, completely suppressing Emerald Sparrow.

If anyone knowledgeable were observing this battle, they would notice: although Emerald Sparrow far exceeded Sparrow in the flexibility of combat intuition and planning of magic use, Sparrow's methods could be described as overwhelming strength, firmly taking the upper hand in pure magical output.

However, Emerald Sparrow wasn't in a hurry, or rather, she remained very calm.

Even though the situation was passive, she was still conserving her magic power, blocking Sparrow's flashy and frequent attacks with a combined defense of barrier and Masterpiece, and she was looking for an opportunity to counterattack.

"Why not unfold the Wonder? Cornflower!"

Such a solely defensive stance also made Sparrow quite bored, feeling like she was simply knocking on a turtle shell, completely lacking the pleasure of combat.

Therefore, she released her magic again, taking out her Flying Claw magical gear.

The pitch-black magic spread from her right arm, and the tips of the Flying Claws also started emanating an ominous color. She flung her arm in mid-air, like throwing a spear, hurling it with force towards Emerald Sparrow.

The Flying Claw magical gear, also wrapped in pitch-black magic, hit hard against the Masterpiece conjured by Emerald Sparrow. But this time, the force was far greater than before: even though it still failed to penetrate the Masterpiece, it still sent it and Emerald Sparrow behind it flying.

"Or is it, as the rumors say..."

Pulling back her magical gear with her remaining right hand, Sparrow once again laughed unrestrained:

"During the 'Garden's' defense battle, you had a problem with your Heart's Gem because you used a power that exceeded the limits, right?"