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

Chapter 358 Preliminary reconnaissance is essential

Read the rules of the game and build your army of pieces. Complete missions to conquer the capital and win the final victory.

Hyacinth was somewhat surprised that Heart Moon Fox had actually come up with such an interesting game activity.

...At least it looks interesting.

"But I don't think we can easily believe Xin Yuehu's words!"

Nan Xiaofeng said,

"She's definitely just teasing us. Once we actually develop the chess pieces and send them in to investigate, we'll definitely encounter the incredibly powerful Hellcats, just like when we escaped from Foxkov!"

"But we can't use magic in this mental world, so we can only use these chess pieces to try and investigate."

Iris glanced back at Hyacinth, smiled wryly, and spread her hands, saying that a row of various chess pieces were laid out in front of her, which she was carefully painting with magic.

This has always been Xin Yuehu's style.

Once inside the world of mental images, one must abide by the rules set by the creator. If it weren't for the fact that Xin Yuehu had no ill intentions, they would have long since become toys in her hands.

"Is Heart Moon Fox just someone who wants to play together?" Iris couldn't help but think.

But he was quickly overwhelmed by the memory of Cheshire Rabbit's eerie smile and shook his head repeatedly.

Qiu Gui seemed to have accepted reality, and simply sat down to the side and carefully painted the pieces of the faction she had chosen.

"I said, Qiu Gui."

"Um?"

"How can you be so calm and collected while you're marking the chess pieces?!"

Chunlan asked, puzzled.

"Shouldn't we be thinking about how to escape from here? This is the mental world! A very dangerous mental world!"

"Is that so...?"

Hearing what the team members said, Qiu Gui looked up and looked around.

This wasn't the first time she had seen the mental world—during the great battle against Leviathan in Suicheng, Qiugui's team had also participated in the fight and personally experienced the immense barrier magic of Red Rose.

It can even encompass the entire astral rift and provide powerful magical amplification to the magical girls within it, making it extremely powerful.

"...But, do we have any good way to leave from here?" Qiu Gui thought for a while and asked Chun Lan.

The latter remained silent and shook his head.

"I don't know... but if we continue like this..."

"We have plenty of experience dealing with that," Nightingale replied.

The four members of Qiu Gui's team looked at their teammate who was concentrating on painting the chess pieces.

In terms of seniority, Nightingale is the junior of all the members of her team, but when it comes to experience in battles between magical girls, Nightingale definitely surpasses the vast majority of magical girls in the world.

They also have absolutely seasoned experience in the mental world of Xin Yuehu.

"Under normal circumstances, as long as we cooperate well with Heart Moon Fox, she will not create any crisis situations, let alone threaten our safety," Nightingale said.

"Really?" Chunlan asked with considerable skepticism.

"We have no choice but to try what Xin Yuehu said."

Hyacinth sighed and said softly, looking down at the row of chess pieces in front of her.

"Nightingale is right. If Heart Moon Fox really wanted to get rid of us, she could have done it the instant she opened the mental world. There was no need for all this trouble."

"Then let's follow the rules she mentioned—and figure out how to escape."

With the endorsement of Hyacinth, a leading expert in the field of Heart Moon Fox, Chunlan and the others finally felt relieved and sat down with Qiugui to seriously study the rulebook in their hands.

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To describe today's event in the simplest way, we can use the rules from the rulebook:

Each piece has its own score. You need to form a team with 3000 points by placing pieces with different roles and abilities around the battlefield and cooperating with each other.

The objective of this mission is to break through the defenses, enter the hive city, and seize control of the core area.

"So, has everyone's team been formed?"

Hyacinth stood before the crowd, looking at the chess pieces held in the hands of her companions.

Using magic to paint is much simpler than regular hand-painting, and it can also more effectively present the appearance that everyone wants the chess pieces to look like.

Hyacinth chose the cool-looking [World Eater Chapter], while Iris set her sights on [Black Legion].

Although these two factions are on the side of chaos in the backstory, there is no strict faction division in this strategy game.

Following the rulebook's instructions, the magical girls quickly dispersed, using the immense magic of their mental world to materialize the chess pieces into familiar-like entities, and commanding them to conduct reconnaissance.

"So you can see the pieces directly... It's like playing a real-time strategy game."

Nightingale played with the magic light screen in her hand in surprise and said to Hyacinth and the other person beside her.

She chose the [Mechanical Order] faction, which is highly functional and equipped with a large number of corresponding familiars for reconnaissance and annihilation.

"Real-time strategy game?... " Hyacinth tilted her head curiously.

"It's a type of video game, but unfortunately it's declined now. It used to be a very popular genre."

Nightingale shrugged and said,

"We're now commanding this army to explore the surrounding area, it's quite similar to those video games."

"Hmm... I don't quite understand, but Nightingale, have you found anything? Has the reconnaissance team sent any intelligence?" Iris chimed in.

"Yes, the infiltrators I sent out have roughly figured out Xin Yuehu and her allies' choice of faction and the construction of the outer defense line."

As she spoke, Nightingale unfolded a magical light screen in front of the three of them, displaying a map of the hive city shrouded in the fog of war, though a large portion of its outer perimeter had already been explored.

"Based on the intelligence sent back by the infiltrators, we can confirm the faction choices of Hellcat and Cheshire Rabbit."

"The [Ultimate Warrior] and [Holy Blood Angel] are extremely powerful, their defenses are impenetrable, and they are equipped with heavy firepower, making it very difficult to break through from the front."

The three glanced at the several Dreadnoughts hidden in the darkness behind the position, and none of them had the desire to launch a full-scale assault on the position.

"A direct assault is unwise; we must outsmart them," Hyacinth said.

Seeing the hyacinth's cautious attitude, both the iris and the nightingale were quite surprised.

"...Why are you two staring at me like that?"

"You're usually the first one to charge in, how come you've suddenly become so shrewd?" Nightingale muttered under her breath.

"I'm not that reckless! I just wanted to be the first to intercept Hellcat!" Hyacinth retorted, her face slightly flushed, but without any real conviction.

Soon, after some searching, the hyacinth spotted a weakly defended area:

At the edge of the Hellcat and Cheshire Rabbit's defensive line, there is an abandoned elevator entrance leading into the hive city. Infiltrators are trying to sneak in, perhaps to open a shortcut into the interior of the defensive line.

"The defenses here are... led by Fenrir, and her allies are the Ork Barbarians."

"Excellent! Let's launch our attack from here! While we're at it, let's contact Qiu Gui and the others, and have them send out small groups of troops on both flanks to feint attacks and cover our main assault!"

After saying that, Hyacinth stood up and raised the plastic-looking toy chainsaw sword in her hand.

"Let's go, my warriors!"