Let me see what good things you gave?
Hibiscus looked closely at the system interface—indeed dazzling, with all three stage rewards together showing considerable quantity.
Large Enhancement Potion ×2, Large Health Recovery Potion ×1, Large Mana Recovery Potion ×1, Exchange Points 100, Free Attribute Points 50, Origin Advancement Stone Fragment ×1, Regalia Small Advancement Stone ×1, Relic Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror related technique knowledge.
Quite generous, and the last two far exceeded expectations. Seeing this, the girl's heart rejoiced.
"So you do have advancement stones, not just fragments."
Perfectly corresponding to the Regalia part. In that case, she could reduce energy investment in Regalia while maintaining evolution—in a sense, leveraging system hosting ability, just right.
Though Hibiscus had now figured out magical girl 3-element upgrade routes and needed fewer system rewards, even mosquitoes were meat. Don't look at the three lazy bugs sleeping soundly beside her—they'd already shown considerable talent, gradually shouldering responsibilities alone, growth speed far exceeding expectations. Even the first magical girl had to exert full effort to maintain her lead.
This time, thanks to the ornament Regalia amplifying mental power, otherwise actions would definitely be difficult. Just the volcano crater teleportation array step alone would be enough to block her.
Hibiscus decided on "three-legged walking"—inevitably needing advancement stones. Having prospects for Regalia's next stage was good news.
Simply hit the jackpot.
Relic-related knowledge was equally important.
The Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror, as an extremely rare spatial function relic, counted as civilization's treasure—high floor, ceiling depending on the user.
Ordinary people might think "actively fusing with relics like Holy Relics," but magical girls didn't need to. Possessing countless powers plus talent, Hibiscus had more choices. Fusing with it wasn't the right approach—using it well was what mattered.
Moreover, she held top-tier time magic and would definitely encounter spatial magic in the future, even that series' strongest Door of Keys. Spatial relics would pale in comparison.
Anyway, technique knowledge related to the Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror solved urgent needs.
Worthy of a spatial relic.
Hibiscus received partial knowledge and felt massive contamination, plus its mechanisms were complex and difficult to control, requiring high magic power from users.
Many flaws, but before global directional teleportation function, they weren't worth mentioning. Spatial relics being hard to use had nothing to do with original manufacturers—definitely her fault. She should reflect, everyone should reflect.
As long as you're performance-stable and don't throw tantrums, we Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror users can self-adapt to shortcomings.
Base and concealed navigation methods all sorted.
Carefully calculating costs: diluted small health recovery potion, small mana recovery potion one bottle each. Just that—thanks to teammates' capability, no need to use many items.
When Hibiscus fought alone, she often used potions—or rather, they provided "error tolerance." In team battles with many people and great strength, some situations had corresponding magic low-cost solutions. Like the Island 24 landing battle then—Fortune and Misfortune was most suitable for opening paths in meteor showers.
After inventorying external items, she used free attribute points for balanced distribution. After all, what goes to the body counts as hers. Last time was around average 300, now five dimensions broke through to new stages.
[Constitution: 400]
[Magic Power: 440]
[Spirit: 420]
[Speed: 398]
[Strength: 395]
Thanks to Regalia ornament corresponding amplification, mental attributes suddenly jumped a large section, breaking through 400 and having the highest value.
Regalia had ornament, top, gloves, skirt, boots—5 parts. Could they correspond to 5 attributes? Essentially they were external manifestations, adding an attribute layer. Though Hibiscus was quite surprised by her sudden idea, thinking carefully it was correct.
Netizens weren't clear on system panels but understood Regalia mechanisms. According to intelligence they'd once revealed, it indeed faintly corresponded to five dimensions—perfect.
No wonder magical girl Regalia was so important it awakened last.
Hibiscus felt many things made sense.
For example, excluding ornaments releasing special "telekinesis" abilities, purely numerical. Similarly for other Regalia parts. That equaled wearing armor with equivalent magical girl physical quality layer. Enemies couldn't achieve much without armor-breaking, and even facing armor-piercing attacks could offset considerable damage. So in the original storyline, Hyacinth, Protea, Manjusaka—despite not majoring in Regalia—were still thick-skinned.
Understood—dual health bars.
Had to admit magical girl mechanisms were superior, considering various weaknesses and shortcomings comprehensively—watertight.
She glanced at peacefully sleeping companions and couldn't help smiling faintly. Who knew how these heaven's favorites would develop in the new worldline? Everyone's fate had changed.
Besides this, Hibiscus most valued magic power—it far exceeded 400 as expected.
Other attributes basically went with fate but didn't fall too far behind, steadily advancing toward the 500-point mark. At that step, she'd definitely touch Seedling Stage, with comprehensive power surging another level. After all, this level division described magical girl life tier iteration—once advancing further, that counted as achieving comprehensive transcendence.
Hibiscus took a deep breath, mobilizing substantialized magic power.
Flame-shaped wings appeared behind the silver-haired girl—a mark of ultra-high-speed flight that she used as naturally as her limbs, improving aerial combat adaptability somewhat.
"What happened?" Nan Zhiyi woke suddenly, sensing slight magic fluctuations.
"Don't worry—just my turn for night watch, plus experimenting with some ideas." Hibiscus dispersed the magic wings behind her with a thought, smiling: "Don't worry. This time I'm right beside you—you can rest well, right?"
The girl whose anxiety was exposed blushed slightly with mild dissatisfaction: "I was worried something happened to you."
"Hermit Island is already safe."
"Suddenly disturbing peaceful dreams—how will you compensate?"
"Just ask."
Nan Zhiyi hadn't expected her playful, petulant suggestion to receive Hibiscus's immediate agreement. Unlike the former aloof coldness, probably thanks to making more friends and having more experiences, the habitually closed-hearted girl showed liveliness matching her age. Somewhat regrettable not fully witnessing this process, yet fortunate this moment belonged only to her.
She took a deep breath gazing at the starry sky—countless twinkling stars, gentle breeze carrying floral fragrance, ocean tides flowing with lingering rhythm. So beautiful. She'd wanted to chat more but was unfortunately too tired—her body remained fatigued.
The girl couldn't help murmuring: "I slept too hastily just now, didn't get to hear your goodnight..."
"Alright."
Hibiscus stepped forward, brushing aside Nan Zhiyi's bangs. Under the latter's astonished gaze, red lips parted lightly, pressing gently against her forehead, whispering sweetly by her ear: "Goodnight, my Dandelion girl."
Not just greetings, but a goodnight kiss—simply beyond imagination rewards.
Nan Zhiyi was stunned.
Never expected a joking request for compensation would make Hibiscus exceed payment with a goodnight kiss. Soft lips lightly touching her forehead, lingering aftertaste.
Magical Girl Hyacinth was full of tolerance—nothing seemed able to make her lose composure. She was always lenient with friends, even responding to willfulness. In interpersonal relationships, this aspect had some weakness.
Too arousing of bullying desires—wanting to lock you in a domain, that would be a complete world for just us two...
Nan Zhiyi took a deep breath, adjusting emotions matter-of-factly: "Hibiscus, goodnight to you too."
"Sweet dreams. Tomorrow sleep as long as you want."
"See you when the sun rises."
Though admittedly her heartstrings were touched, emotions never swayed Nan Zhiyi's judgment. The seemingly gentle girl possessed rational even cruel decisiveness. When she determined vigilance toward Hermit Island still couldn't be relaxed and needed to seize time for rest, slight ripples couldn't disturb her heartbeat. She turned over, breathing soon stabilizing as she fell into deep sleep, as if nothing had happened.
Seeing the latter's calm performance, Hibiscus concluded the goodnight kiss was just a playful level. Perhaps she could try if others made requests later.
Back to business—interrupted magic research continued.
To avoid disturbing three sleeping people, she couldn't easily try magic power substantialization, but what about more concealed mental power?
Current telekinesis could lift a stone but only "levitation"—"deformation" was far off. According to some netizens' descriptions, high-level telekinesis could create external barriers. For such magical girls with barriers plus Regalia dual shields, high output while being excessively tanky was excessive.
Moreover, telekinesis could be refined for deformation—like constructing invisible hands with greatly improved operability, even moving mountains and filling seas. The upper limits were extremely high.
The volcano crater teleportation array's brief confrontation with Disaster Beasts exposed a problem: currently including Hibiscus lacked external barrier mechanisms. So encountering fire salamanders and recent poison relics relied almost entirely on endurance, using Regalia and magic enhancement to offset each other.
Magical girls lacked this mechanism?
They had it.
But it existed in Regalia ornament development—if telekinesis could easily defend against some attacks with built-in erosion effects.
Hibiscus concentrated, making barely floating stones imprint palm prints.
This wasn't achieving "telekinesis form change" realm but making them receive palm-shaped force—also a clever approach, ultimately relying on hard power to pass.
The Hermit Island journey was indeed full of twists but brought more thinking about magical girl abilities—like mutual mechanism coordination, compensating for shortcomings, responding to teleportation methods. Intelligence could count as part of combat power.
Speaking of which, thanks to netizens' full intelligence guidance, otherwise unimaginable how much worse it would be. Must reply and report safety.
Edit new update:
"Thank you all for enthusiastic support. Hermit Island strategy battle concludes. We obtained control cores, Evil Eye Spider, Thousand-Li Viewing Mirror and other battle results. Now the Salvation Church completely controls Hermit Island. Everyone needn't worry—the island crisis has been resolved."
Sure enough, the message brought numerous comments.
Hibiscus naturally knew rules couldn't be broken, so she took a night scene photo from flat-topped mountain overlooking perspective and uploaded:
The image showed stars surrounding the moon, even seeing a silver river with purple, white, gold magnificent coloring. This magnificent scenery absolutely wouldn't exist in cities full of modern industrial pollution. The massive object filled vision without an oppressive feeling—dreamlike, breathtakingly beautiful. Where sky and ocean met, waves churned, clearly visible thanks to reflected moonlight, as if tidal sounds echoed. Golden beaches extended toward land, forests lush and green, waterfalls hanging high, mountains towering. Abundant vegetation added liveliness to the island.
...Wait, could be even better. Thinking this, the girl flew skyward, using system photography with overlooking perspective of entire Hermit Island, trying to present overall feeling.
Soon images changed from single shots to selected nine-grid wallpapers.
Beautiful scenery was captured completely.
Because the system automatically processed lighting for clear visibility against night backgrounds, many people felt special effects composition traces existed, but this didn't affect everyone recognizing photographer Hyacinth's aesthetic standards.
【Saving, saving all, super high resolution originals get good reviews, setting as computer wallpaper】
【You're so gentle, Hyacinth, giving me dream material for tonight】
【I always thought the OP lazily used special effects CG, turns out you really ran to some tropical island for scenery, though there are retouching traces but location selection is serious】
【Knew I could wait for good stuff from the OP】
【Grandpa Bull: Any more pictures?】
【According to settings, Hermit Island counts as tropical island climate—abundant vegetation, considerable natural resources. Most importantly, overall spatial movement makes it a war fortress, even suitable for industrial facilities】
【True, after all the island has iron ore, rubber, coal, petroleum and such—storage not large but enough for living】
【America: Send coordinates, I'll check it out for everyone】
【You're here to buy oil, right.jpg】
【Future Time Priestess: Let me see who dares snatch from me? Mere mold, so what? Watch me take the leader's head from ten thousand armies and explode your boss's gold coins】
【Fight!!!】
【Good good good, could the original story's Hyacinth single-handedly beheading "Time Assassin Major Event" happen early? Most tired of superhero movies where everyone fights internally—this time without Protea backing them up, those weak yet arrogant guys should be taught a harsh lesson】
【Still missing one piece—with spatial magic 'Door Knocker' around, what Cheyenne Mountain base, White House bunker all count as home】
【New worldline Hyacinth isn't so extreme】
【Seriously speaking, Hermit Island mineral reserves are just so-so, only enough for personal use】
Seeing this, Hibiscus was delighted—unexpectedly the unexpected gains weren't over. She hadn't even dared think this place had industrial raw materials, practically sitting on a gold mountain.
Sure enough, at this point netizens even thoughtfully posted a "Hermit Island Resource Distribution Map"—perfect.
She'd worried that though the Evil Eye Spider solved labor force issues, without raw materials would mean large-scale transportation, inevitably causing commotion. Now things would be much more convenient. Like buying a private island claiming development while actually mostly supplying Hermit Island.
Feasible.
With open thinking, no difficulties existed.
Hibiscus automatically skipped those netizens always thinking about combat's bizarre remarks, turning to consider making Hermit Island into a fortress.
This indeed fit its original positioning—in the original storyline, officials who mastered this trump card quickly expanded competition and weaponization, brewing countless slaughters.
Netizens had quite many topics around Hermit Island, benefiting Hibiscus with much intelligence:
In the original storyline, after enormous sacrifices the military finally mastered Island 24.5, but its first mission was indeed building an unsinkable aircraft carrier. Adding spatial movement attributes for free movement almost broke power balance. So far so good—at most mutual suspicion, since humans were still rational.
But times change.
Later Disaster Beast activity intensified, many magical girls wouldn't submit to control, Holy Relics sought more power and status... Planet Gaia's turbulent situation empowered hardliners.
Super weapon Hermit Island was a major catalyst in later human civil war, with kill counts far exceeding the Salvation Church. When big shots went crazy, constantly solo-fighting magical girls couldn't compete.
Anyway, netizens leaned toward Pandora's Box definitions.
Hibiscus understood completely—even she'd thought of building weapon fortresses, just not that committed.
She knew what level Magical Girl Hyacinth could reach—even surpassing complete Time Priestess. So she wasn't interested in weapons.
What fancy tricks? Better to pause one more second.
Hibiscus updated messages responding: "After hearing everyone's intelligence, I understand Hermit Island has many uses, but its current function is merely containing magical girls—at least settling those magic talent holders previously captured as test subjects. As for whether to use this weapon? I think it's unnecessary. I have better choices—I have you all, plus Jin Ruochu, Jin Yulu and Nan Zhiyi. Sky high, sea vast—roads are often more numerous than people imagine."
【Worthy of the OP—no, Hyacinth herself, always maintaining character】
【Not OOC at all, indeed something Boss Mu could say. With information from another worldline, she'd definitely walk a bright path】
【Actually flirting with netizens across worlds—what's "I still have you all"? Sorry, I eat this up】
【Leader, we respect and love you】
【Too good, new worldline Hyacinth is a good woman】
Hibiscus couldn't understand how her casual comment got such praise—not that extreme, right? Moreover, she should indeed thank them, but for netizens it should be raising electronic pets. How did I become the host?
So easy to gain favor—really manageable. Lacking love in life? Bunch of small fry, hehe.
The girl thought jokingly. However, she should indeed increase interaction, since countless future problems needed consultation. Couldn't shortchange the think tank.
Already people reminded "woke up to Hermit Island victory news, what about the process? Where's the video?" urging updates.
Long ago Hibiscus had been reminded to always record during major battles—no shortage of material. From boarding Ocean Pearl cruise ship, she hadn't stopped, practically continuous combat. About 72 hours of fighting, even edited would guarantee substantial content.
Uploaded.
Regardless of definition or length, the system completed it in one second.
30-minute long video.
Hibiscus received many suggestions hoping for reposts or simultaneous uploads to other platforms. Since she didn't care about metrics, she readily agreed, following netizen guidance to upload to pink software and music note software. They considered "hoping videos get more revenue," though she didn't care.
Videos were just side products under the "Hyacinth Simulation Life" topic anyway. Moreover, in her view, lengthy content created high barriers inevitably discouraging audiences.
To present Hermit Island journey as comprehensively as possible, she'd reduced cuts—not fitting mainstream short and concise style.
Really nothing to trim—too much content. Just like this, consider it duty fulfilled.
After uploading videos, Hibiscus sat cross-legged meditating and resting.
She'd wait for everyone to finish watching before chatting. After all, video "Hermit Island Exploration" compressed 72 hours into cruise ship battle, Island 24 landing warfare, divided battlefields, volcano crater teleportation, brief fairyland glimpses, island's first night, disappearances and splitting up, ruins village decisive battle... Could it be cut? Not a bit. Segmented uploads weren't considered from the start—too troublesome.
2 hours later.
Estimating sufficient time, Hibiscus opened her eyes and reactivated the system interface. However, far exceeding expectations, comments exploded—positive meaning, it was viral.
Her blue Q&A software posts suddenly entered trending searches, other platforms equally impressive, completely breaking out of "Magical Girl of Light" discussion circles to be recognized as major production special effects short films.
30-minute content instead became sincere representation—only substantial content, no filler.
To Hibiscus, these familiar scenes—like Disaster Beasts and warships colliding counted as daily Planet Gaia news—were visual impacts for those living peacefully in other worlds. Every frame counted as monster movies. Those magical effects were even more incredible, real-world presentation rivaling original anime.
【My favorite is this Manjusaka segment: Screenshot】
The screen center showed Jin Ruochu standing on the World Serpent's head with arms spread welcoming volcanic ash meteors. Such dense barrage automatically parted into a passage.
【Classic scene +1】
【Small Universe domain usage changed—never-before-seen guardian posture. Boss Mu, remember this—it's a change born for you】
【I like Hyacinth's instant-kill strike on the Sea Demon, directly splitting clouds to reveal clear skies—light and shadow effects too strong】
【Tribute to strongest Magical Girl Protea. Perhaps for you, the Salvation Church is a better destination. You can also support Hyacinth so she won't become obsessively mad. Most importantly, you needn't fight each other】
【First time seeing such young, undisfigured Colonel Josh. Though her desperate single-handed victory over three Boss Disaster Beasts is gone, shouldn't there be something better?】
Another screenshot from fairyland.
Extreme magnification actually showed armored fairy reflections on distant leaves.
Hibiscus was slightly stunned, sighing that system recording was truly terrifying—even details her mental power hadn't noticed were recorded.
【Discovered fairy knights—unexpectedly Hyacinth's accidental entry alarmed them. Normal since World Tree has almost no secrets. Abnormal is Julius coming too—logically she only interests herself in magical girls with fairy affinity talent. Praise author's attention to detail—actually buried easter eggs】
【How do you confirm it's definitely Julius? Could be someone else】
【Because there's a golden blob there】
【Thank you, frame-starer】
Hibiscus didn't quite understand the specific information everyone was discussing, unable to ask too much since fairyland-related information contained massive knowledge poison. However, she noted the name Julius—perhaps both sides had fate.
The brief World Tree realm intrusion probably caused some impact. Even if she thought about it, it was useless, but from extending aid, it should be friendly.