"Hah!"
A flash of sword light.
The pitch-black demon dog howled and collapsed, blood spraying everywhere. Having landed her blow, Raphtalia swiftly retreated, dodging the attack of another demon dog. At the same time, a petite figure suddenly darted out from behind. Rifana leaped into the air, driving the two daggers in her hands into the second demon dog's head from behind and knocking it to the ground.
The third demon dog bared its fangs and claws in an attempt to intimidate them, but the whistling shield-axe came down and smashed its head to pieces.
"Done. That's a wrap."
Fang Zheng raised the shield-axe and snapped his fingers. Hearing him, Raphtalia and Rifana finally relaxed and lowered their weapons.
"You both did very well."
Fang Zheng looked at the two girls before him and smiled.
That was right, girls.
Raphtalia and Rifana were no longer the children Fang Zheng had bought back then. They had grown into adolescent girls, appearing to be around sixteen or seventeen years old.
Of course, that did not mean Fang Zheng had spent six or seven years in this world with the two little ones. In fact, he only later learned from the bald shopkeeper that if demi-humans rapidly raised their levels during childhood, their bodies would mature to the age best suited for combat.
Honestly, it had startled Fang Zheng at first. Waking up one day, opening the door, and finding that the two little girls in the bed had suddenly become young women was undeniably a little bizarre.
But even though their bodies had grown, nothing had changed on the Mental Plane. Raphtalia had even once burst into tears over wetting the bed... Well, fine, it was not really that big a deal.
Still, the little ones at Heavenly Dao Palace would definitely