Superman Termination Manual

Night fell like a curtain, shrouding the brightly lit Old Jingmai District.

In Bai Ke's home, scattered lights cast silhouettes on the curtains: someone sat by the window reading a book; someone sat at a table playing with their phone; someone opened the curtains, cupping their cheeks in their hands, gazing into the night sky, idling away as moonlight gently swayed strands of her snowy hair.

In the constant chirp of cicadas, one by one, the lights behind the windows were extinguished by the evening breeze, and the entire apartment complex went dark.

At that moment, in one of the dimly lit rooms.

Ke Mingye lay on his bed, arms behind his head, his mind a whirl of thoughts.

"Every day I throw the dice, and by the evening of June 30, the 'Disaster Dice' will have evolved into a C-level Skill."

"With my current strength, it's still too hard to get involved in the strife between my second brother and that elementary school kid... That kid could easily chew me up, and the Ninja sent by the Ninja Sect are probably not far off in strength either. But maybe on July 4, if I throw the dice well, I might be able to achieve a surprising effect?"

He sighed deeply, closed his eyes, and tried to summon sleep, but he tossed and turned restlessly, unable to fall asleep.

So he simply picked up the phone next to his pillow, unlocked the screen, and languidly opened the browser after his gaze lingered on the home screen for a second.

Ke Mingye scanned the Baidu hot search list and clicked on the site ranking fifth in the hot search—"The Magical Girl Alliance Official Website."

According to statistics, the Magical Girl Alliance's official website received nearly 500 million visits a day, which showed the extent of the public's interest.

Any Magic Girl that had appeared around the world would have their profile recorded on the Alliance's website, even those who had only shown their faces to the public once or who had not joined the Alliance.

But their real names were not made public.

Normally, only internal officials of the Magic Girls had access to their real identities, while others could only see some one-sided information, such as "favorite food," "things they hate," "what they do at the victory banquet after defeating villains," "preference in choosing a partner"...

It was all rather useless information, the officials didn't even release their birthdays.

If a Magic Girl had commercial cooperation with some enterprises, at the bottom of their profile it might read "It's said that this Magic Girl likes 'Miryu Summer' brand potato chips," "It's said that this Magic Girl usually uses 'Lijie Kafu' brand skincare products," and other overt commercial promotion information.

Next to it hung a glaringly obvious hyperlink, with intentions clear without need for words, yet a portion of their fervent fans would still take the bait.

In today's era of traffic, no matter the industry, if a business couldn't spend money on a Magic Girl or a superhero as a spokesperson, they would eventually be outdone by competitors.

If by lucky chance they managed to hire a world top influencer like Firando Gomez or Xizi Yue, then even if the quality of their product was poor, it would likely sell out overnight.

Ke Mingye aimlessly browsed the official website, his eyes flitting across the portraits of Magic Girls wearing sweet smiles, feeling somewhat aesthetically fatigued, until he scrolled to a girl dressed in goth style with a black dress.

It was as if he had seen a crow standing out of place among a flock of dazzling white pigeons.

The profile picture of Ash, the Magic Girl, clashed with the others; while the rest had at least a smile or at best a neutral expression on their faces.

She was the only one with a cold little face, her head slightly tilted to the right, her eyes filled with disdain.

Looking like she was in business against her will, probably Xizi Yue and others had dragged her to take the profile picture. With her temperament, she likely only listened to her three masters.

Clicking on her profile, he couldn't even find information like "favorite food" or "fears." Scrolling down the list, other than the "Magic Girl Code" column being filled with a bold "Ash," everything else was blank.

"Such a willful little sister," Ke Mingye chuckled lightly, his finger lingering on her profile for two seconds, thinking if it wasn't for Xizi Yue covering for her, Bai Zini couldn't possibly be so arrogant.

But he was quite curious, which one was the real Bai Zini? Was it the domineering and proud Magic Girl Ash... or the neighborly little sister she was at home?

Or could it be, both were her?

Ke Ming mindlessly thought, his finger slowly scrolling down, and the countenance of Magic Girl Ash disappeared from the screen.

Looking further, the Alliance's official website also regularly released profiles of "Magic Girl Interns" to arouse public attention and interest.

As the name implied, these Magic Girls were all interning at the Alliance.

If, compared to looks, some of the Magic Girl interns stood out more for their strength, they would officially join the Alliance, embarking on a mission to combat crime;

But if the Magic Girl interns were more outstanding in appearance than in strength, the Alliance would offer them another option: to debut as idols, sign with talent agencies, learn to sing, dance, and rap, striving to shine on stage.

They would also sign a revenue-sharing agreement so that if they performed impressively and became popular, they could bring substantial economic benefits to the Magical Girls Alliance.

As a rule, the Magic Girl Alliances of each country would have a collaborative channel with local idol talent agencies:

—The Alliance would recommend exceptionally talented Magic Girls to the talent agencies, which would, in turn, provide a profit share based on their performance, reciprocating to the Magical Girl Alliance.

This mutually beneficial collaboration, as an important revenue stream for the Alliance, was vigorously supported by officials.

However, due to Chinese netizens' concern over the mortality rate of underage Magic Girls, lately there has been a growing opposition to Magic Girls, and therefore idols who debuted as Magic Girl interns faced uniform resistance in the entertainment industry.

One of their revenue streams had been severely impacted, leaving the Magical Girl Alliance's Chinese branch in jeopardy, solely propped up by Xizi Yue's overtime work shooting advertisements.

If it weren't for the fact that she alone had brought tens of millions in economic benefits to the Alliance's Chinese branch, they wouldn't have been able to hold on until now.

Ke Mingye flipped through a batch of intern profiles for magic girls, and within this group of interns, seventy percent had chosen to debut as idols.

This figure was somewhat exaggerated, perhaps influenced by Chinese public opinion, other countries had also begun to take the issue of magic girl mortality rates seriously.

However, unlike in China, where there was an outright rejection of magic girls, other countries felt it more fitting for magic girls to be decorative figures rather than combating criminals—as if, just as Black people are naturally talented in RAP, magic girls have an innate advantage in being loved by the public, and it would be a waste not to utilize it.

Ke Mingye yawned, his eyes filled with the tears of fatigue, as his fingers continued to slide across the screen.

The Alliance's official website still publicly recorded some information about magic cards.

According to current statistics, a total of 126 types of magic cards had appeared in the world, including some self-created cards, such as Udina's "Holy Sword Burst," Lilai's "Iceberg Collapse," and Xizi Yue's "Space-Time Train"...

The first two were A-grade cards, while the latter was an S-grade card.

Only magic girls with exceptional talent could create their own cards, which was the case for these three—they wouldn't have become the representative figures of contemporary magic girls otherwise.

But ordinary magic girls were capable of crafting magic cards, creating them by extracting a small part of the comet fragments within them and using tools to mold the fragments into cards engraved with magical runes.

During the crafting process, they could whimsically add mysterious materials, potentially giving the card odd effects.

Xizi Yue had summarized some patterns and experiences in card crafting, generously sharing them on the Alliance's official website.

However, according to the Association's data, the comet fragments inside an ordinary magic girl were sufficient to craft at most 300 magic cards.

If they used up the comet fragments without restraint, they would lose their magic girl powers and might even revert to being ordinary people—after all, the power of comet-kind magic girls comes from the fragments within them.

"Can I also craft cards?" Ke Mingye wondered, "Turn mannequins into magic girls, then extract the comet fragments from their bodies to craft cards. Keep some extra cards for emergencies... Magic cards can come in handy, whether facing instances or causing trouble outside."

However, crafting was easy, mastering the cards was not. Each magic card had its corresponding difficulty level, with higher-grade cards being harder to handle.

They had to infuse magic power of the same nature as the card into it, resonate with the card to activate it and use it for themselves.

This morning, Magical Girl Ash had used a B-grade magic card "Gust" while chasing a superhuman criminal.

Setting aside special elemental types like ice and snow, wind-type magic cards are the most difficult to control in the regular elemental categories.

This showed that Ash was not inept at using magic cards; she was simply in a rebellious phase and didn't want to use them.

For the safety of magic girls, official sources only released a scant amount of card information—some unofficial websites had even compiled more card types from past magic girl combat videos than those listed on the Alliance's official site.

Ke Mingye clicked on the card directory on the official website, and the first card that appeared was the one with serial number NO.000—"Day of Qiyamate."

The Qiyamate Comet first appeared three thousand years ago, which means... the very first magic girl also came into being three thousand years ago, and calling her the progenitor of magic girls would not be an exaggeration.

It was this progenitor who left behind the record of the card with serial number 0, symbolizing the beginning of all things.

Apart from her, in these three thousand years, no other magic girl had ever used this card, meaning it was almost a card that existed only in legend.

According to internet rumors, a magic girl who had predicted the end of the world once appeared among the Mayan tribes.

This magic girl had said that the card named "Day of Qiyamate" could not be crafted and would only appear on the day when Qiyamate Comet arrived, and only on that day could the card's power be released...

There was a one in ten million chance that the magic girl chosen by the comet would obtain the magic card "Day of Qiyamate" on that day.

For three thousand years, besides the progenitor of magic girls, no other magic girl had been granted this card by the comet.

As for the effects of this progenitor-level card, that was even more unknown. There were only some scattered speculations on the internet, but who could guess what happened three thousand years ago.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Thinking this, Ke Mingye raised his eyebrows, suddenly remembering something. He thus exited the website and entered "the next time Qiyamate Comet passes Earth" into the search engine of the browser.

"The Qiyamate Comet will take away all the power of this generation's magic girls, scattering new comet fragments onto Earth. Girls who come into contact with these fragments will become magic girls... So, if the comet happens to arrive this year, could it save some people from death?"

"And... there's no need for me to oppose Bai Zini anymore."

With that thought, Ke Mingye hesitated for a moment before slowly pressing down his index finger on the search key. Your journey continues with empire

Accompanying the page refresh, the results suddenly appeared in his view.

[The next time Qiyamate Comet returns to Earth is the night of June 18, 2029.]

Ke Mingye paused for two seconds, then shivered violently, his pupils slightly contracting as they reflected the date.

"Isn't that... the day before the deadline for the extinction task ends?" he thought.

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