Endless Battle

With a bang, the ten-meter-long tree trunk in Pandora's hands slammed heavily into the ground. She stomped her foot, leaving a depression several centimeters deep, then leaped into the air and crashed like a cannonball into the nearest animals.

With a boom, the densely packed animals were sent flying by the powerful shockwave.

A wild boar at the center was the unluckiest. It had been targeted by Pandora's attack. It did not have the luck of being blown away by the shockwave; instead, it was smashed hard into the ground by a single punch.

Then... there was no then...

Pandora rose from the wild boar's body. The wild boar did not move.

The animals blown away by the shockwave had already landed one after another. Struggling to their feet, they began closing in on Pandora.

Pandora clenched her fists without saying a word. The next moment, she stomped down hard again.

Crack!

The dead wild boar's body exploded under the tremendous force.

Amid the mist of blood, Pandora leaped up and crashed into the animals' encirclement, beginning a slaughter in every direction.

At that moment, Pandora's combat power as a dragon girl was displayed to the fullest.

Though she looked like a human girl, though she looked only seven or eight years old, though she stood only 1.2 meters tall, though she seemed more coolly adorable than anything else, though she looked completely harmless...

But! She was still a dragon, a giant dragon that stood at the pinnacle of all living things in legend!

Bang! Her delicate right fist shot out. The air surged, and a beast trying to sneak attack her cried out as it was smashed to the ground.

Bang! Her delicate left fist shot out. A gale roared, and several beasts that had surrounded her were heavily injured and blasted away.

Bang! Both delicate fists struck out together. Space trembled, and the beasts that failed to dodge were blasted into pieces.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

Three minutes later, there was not a single living animal within a radius of more than twenty meters around Pandora. Pandora knocked down a Silverback Gorilla with her final punch, then walked slowly back to the open ground before the castle with a cold expression. She picked up the massive wooden club and frowned as she looked around.

An endless stream of crazed animals surged in from every direction, quickly filling the gap left by the animals she had killed. The encirclement around the hilltop remained airtight. She had killed more than a hundred crazed animals just now, but compared to the entire mass of animals surrounding the hilltop, it was merely a drop in the ocean.

Though they could not be counted, there were at least ten thousand crazed animals surrounding the hill. From the summit to the foot of the hill, they formed a dense black mass. Even more crazed animals were pouring in from the forest. Those who arrived late could not find a good position and could only wait at the edge of the hill with bloodshot eyes. Only once the animals in front had all died would they have a chance to rush forward and attack.

Could they really be killed off like this?

Of course not!

They could only hold the line, keep holding it until dawn.

Annoying. So annoying!

Pandora thought with an icy expression.

The same thing happened every so often, making her feel both disgusted and helpless.

She glanced at Richard by the castle entrance, then looked at the Dragon Cave. Pandora pressed her lips together and turned her displeased gaze toward the multitude of crazed animals.

Crack!

Pandora exerted a little force with both arms and tightened her grip on the tree trunk in her arms.

Roar!

As if they had been provoked, the countless crazed animals let out a unified roar and pounced forward like a tidal wave.

Agile tigers, leopards, and wolves charged at the front. Black bears and wild boars squeezed through the middle with their massive bodies, while a large pack of squirrels and rabbits hopped and chattered behind them...

Pandora's gaze sharpened. Her expression did not change, but her brows slowly rose. Then she swung the tree trunk with all her strength, smashing it toward the animals.

Roar—bang!

The tree trunk crashed into the bodies of the animals. Their cries came to an abrupt stop, the tide's momentum stalled, and time seemed to freeze for an instant.

Then time resumed. The tide fell backward, the animals' roars turned into screams, and amid the suddenly rising gale, they sprayed blood as they flew toward the rear.

Hiss! Splat!

The injured animals were almost immediately devoured the moment they landed. The overall morale of the animals did not drop in the slightest. On the contrary, they became even more frenzied before attacking Pandora again.

Pandora did not stop after swinging the tree trunk. She swung it back again, frowning as she violently smashed it into the animal horde and began a merciless, cold-blooded slaughter.

She was a dragon. She was a powerful dragon. No matter how crazed ordinary animals were, she could crush them. Every swing of the tree trunk took at least a dozen lives. Her strength seemed inexhaustible, as though she could keep fighting forever.

But the attacking animals were equally endless. When one fell, two rushed forward. When two were killed, four launched attacks. The more she killed, the more came, and the crazier they became.

It was as if both sides were endless. Then in this battle, who would show signs of defeat first?

The answer was... the tree trunk in Pandora's hands.

Whoosh! Bang! Whoosh! Bang!

After being swung countless times and smashed into the crazed animal horde countless times, there came a sudden crack. The tree trunk in Pandora's hands split apart, its end spinning away and knocking down crazed animals all along its path. In the blink of an eye, the "weapon" in Pandora's hands had been reduced to a short stub. Its attack power and range immediately plummeted, and the crazed animals seized the chance to launch fiercer attacks.

Pandora frowned tightly. After a brief moment of surprise, she was already surrounded by countless crazed animals. A badger tried to tug at Pandora's hair, but Pandora jerked her head and punched it away. Then an otter pounced at her, and Pandora punched it away as well.

But during that delay, a large number of animals had already reached Pandora. A black bear behind her stood upright and tried to grab her, its two thick paws descending with a cold gleam.

Pandora snorted coldly. With a smack, she tossed away the half-broken tree trunk, grabbed one of the black bear's paws with both hands, and exerted force. She directly threw the several-hundred-pound black bear over her shoulder.

Bang! The black bear crashed heavily into the ground, thoroughly dazed. Before it could react, Pandora kept hold of its paw and swung it up again, wielding the black bear like a tree trunk.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The many crazed animals that had just surrounded her immediately suffered. Struck by the black bear's heavy body, their bones broke, and they wailed as they flew backward.

The black bear swinging through the air suffered even more. It endured continuous heavy impacts. After all, force was mutual—however much it hurt when it smashed into other crazed animals, it hurt just as much for it.

At first, relying on its thick hide and tough flesh, the black bear felt that it could barely endure it. Floating lightly through the air, it even felt an indescribable thrill.

But after more than ten seconds, that feeling changed. The black bear began to feel pain, and the pain grew worse and worse. Its thick hide and tough flesh clearly could not withstand the endless collisions, especially when it crashed into goat horns, Sika Deer antlers, bison horns...

Why are they all horns?! The black bear wanted to roar in protest, but no one paid it any attention. It was swung faster and faster, like a spinning wheel of fire as it continued smashing into the crazed animals.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

After about twenty seconds, the black bear felt as though every bone in its body was about to break. There was not a single place on its body that did not hurt.

After about thirty seconds, the black bear began seriously considering the rest of its bear life. As a disabled bear paralyzed from head to toe, where should it go from here?

After about forty seconds, the black bear began contemplating philosophical questions: Who am I? Where am I? How did I end up here?

Ah! Mom, save me! I want to go home!

Bang!