Whose Strike Is Stronger

"What's going on?"

"Why did this thing appear on the ground?"

Tiona and Tione both leaped in front of Riezel, who had fallen to the ground, standing with their backs to him as they shouted without looking back.

"This Ista Familia..."

Gareth had more or less guessed what was going on. Though displeasure showed on his face, his hands did not slow in the slightest. As he swung his great battle axe, he severed the thick vines one by one.

"Yeah, I bet the Ista Familia teamed up with those underground forces again, didn't they?"

With a sword in one hand and Speed Attack Magic in the other, Riezel fired pillar-thick Flame Thunder bolts in rapid succession at the Aberrant Giant, which was about to raise its flesh axe. Explosions erupted all over its body, making it howl in pain again and again.

But just as before, even when Flame Thunder pierced the Aberrant Giant's body and burned away its flesh, the green flesh covering it rapidly wriggled, filling in the missing portions and causing the Aberrant Giant to continue swelling.

As a result, the Aberrant Giant's attacks grew fiercer and its strength more terrifying. By now, any casual strike from it could make the entire Pleasure District shake several times.

Faced with the flesh axe carrying such terrifying power and the wildly flailing tentacles, even Gareth, the super vanguard who had reached Lv. 7, had no desire to meet them head-on.

Thus, Gareth, Tiona, and Tione quickly scattered, leaping away from one another to avoid the direct blows of the flesh axe and tentacles, leaving the ground to be ravaged and devastated.

Riezel also shot into the air, flashing back and forth like lightning.

The four of them attacked the Aberrant Giant several times in succession from both the