Often, escalating external pressure could effectively shift internal conflicts.
That was the case now as well.
Before setting off for The Lands Between, the atmosphere among the girls had been somewhat tense and stiff.
But after they returned from The Lands Between, everyone spoke with one voice: complaints.
Because that place was way too hellish!!!
Monsters lurked in hidden corners of graveyards and would suddenly jump out at any moment. The beasts in caves were the same. They might look harmless on the surface, but they would secretly circle behind you and bite when you were not paying attention.
And beyond that, many of the monsters themselves were terrifying.
There were the sea squirts by the shore, tangled in tentacles, which made people want to take a detour just from looking at them. While racing through Mistwood, a three-meter-tall giant bear might suddenly roar and pounce out. From the ceilings of mines hung humanoid creatures that seemed to be enclosed in iron cages, with several arms. Once the girls walked beneath them, these iron-cage people would suddenly drop from above, waving their blades and hacking wildly at them.
The girls all had equipment protecting them, and the attacks in this world could not truly hurt them, but... the damage inflicted upon their fragile hearts could not be repaired.
"Why would anyone design a world like this?! Does this world exist just to mock us?"
Eriri immediately poured out her grievances after returning.
"If this world were made into a game, players would curse it to death! If the Death Game we entered back then had been this, no number of lives would have been enough!!"
"Mm..."
Leaning weakly against Lala, Asuna nodded. Her fragile heart had already been pushed to the brink of collapse by those ants in the underground