Do they all live in Olympic or are there more some other places?

There's some in Scourged Peak, which isn't close to any Earths! That's where they come from.

What kind of place is it instead of an Earth?

An Overworld place! You can't get to any Earth from there, you're stuck in the Overworld!

Huh - are there exotic directions of travel in the Overworld, is it just bigger than an Earth?

Hmm... Both. Definitely both.

Hee hee.

O obstacle course, where are you?

Past more weird landscape! Though the off-road to Olympic Village was the high point of weirdness. It's mostly interstate from here. She does pass by a pretty patch of forest, all multicolored flowers and fairies. Eventually, Absolute Direction directs her turn-

I smell a monster! Puchuu declares.

Shit. What kind? she asks, freezing in place and listening hard.

I think a swarm type of Abyssal, south of here. In that old lumber mill, maybe. You should hurry and find Titanium Steel and Gravity Maven!

She runs faster.

Puchuu is faster! It zips past her, trailing sparkles like a furry missile, turns a corner that her Absolute Direction says to follow, and its mind gets progressively further away until it drops out of the Overworld entirely.

About thirty seconds later, a new magical-girl-mind (distinct from ordinary humans and from Puchuu) enters her field of perception. And then stomping around the corner comes an eight-foot high suit of armor festooned in dimly glowing shapes, moving like it's someone wearing jogging clothes instead of a suit of armor that must weigh about as much as a motorcycle.

"I'm Titanium Steel. Do you want to try fighting, or just leave it to me?"

"I'll try but will mostly try to stay out of your way."

"Okay. Staying back and maybe fucking with them is a good idea. Swarm type is a bunch of evil chihuahuas, kinda. I fight up close, don't worry about me getting hurt. I don't expect anything to go horribly wrong, but you never know. Good to meet you, by the way."

And then Titanium Steel is running back the way Bella came.

(Her Puchuu appears a moment later and says that Gravity Maven isn't around.)

Okay! Just her and the suit of armor. Cool. She runs after, keeping alert for evil Chihuahuas.

Titanium Steel pauses at an intersection, until her Puchuu gives directions. A different, bulkier and green rather than purple, puchuu shows up and follows along too.

Oh. And her Abyssal-detecting necklace is reacting. The sensation is sharp and unpleasant, like smelling smoke.

Titanium Steel drops out of the Overworld when they reach the lumber mill, vanishing in that sideways in a direction thst doesn't exist sort of way.

You should drop out, and then use the Overworld Shift! Just do it really hard and you'll drag all the monsters with you!

(Puchuus come in colors! - not important.) Okay, she will give that the old college try!

The glimpse of the large warehouse-like structure she gets when dropping out reveals it to be oozing with foot-long black things. They seem to mostly be slimy, lopsided, and tentacley, little blobs of hate rather than anything like a conventional animal. The giant suit of armor is already laying about with her gauntlets, and metal chains are lashing around the place, trying to keep them from scattering. There must be over a thousand of them, though, all with tiny sparks of minds dancing about like insects.

And then they're in the Overworld again, where the twisted mirror of the lumber mill is twice as tall and full of weird pipes and spinning saw blades. The Abyssal swarm hesitates, stops trying to scatter, and starts trying to reach her. Though they're a good hundred feet away right now, and Titanium Steel immediately pivots to try and get between her and them.

If she can feel their minds can she attack their minds? Extinguish them, perhaps! Or confuse them, that would also work. Can they climb, will getting up high help?

She can zap their minds, making them spasm or flop bonelessly! She can confuse them, making them attack their conspecifics!

But there's a lot of them. A LOT of them. And they can definitely climb, they're climbing all over the armor.

A new wall of lashing chains rises up twenty feet ahead of her, extending and interlocking into a dense protective wall. And growing barbs. The sounds of metal smacking against ooze continue.

Is she going to run down her mana if she just keeps making them attack each other as fast as she can for practice?

Not right away at least! She's not pushing herself as much as Cosmic Heal does, and she could keep that up for a few minutes before being really out of it. (Smash-smash-squish there's still more!)

Are there bigger ones, or anything, that would be more leverage in getting turned against their fellows? They're swarming, can she push on the swarm instinct itself and get them pushed around how she wants?