After reviving George, the next to be revived was the griffin Philip—after all, half of the Grand Guardian's strength lay in the griffin. A Sky Knight without a griffin was simply too weak.
...Though even with a griffin, they probably couldn't pose any threat to the Fallen Angel.
The defining feature of the Sky Knight profession was having two sources of combat power... When facing an enemy weaker than themselves, the human and griffin could make up for each other's shortcomings. But when challenging an enemy far stronger than themselves, their strength was ultimately split between two bodies, leaving their upper limit far too low!
Philip immediately carried the Grand Guardian into the mountain forest and rescued Ligeia!
What was shocking was that Ligeia, who had smashed through a mountain, still wasn't completely dead! Although nearly every bone in her body had shattered, making her look almost like a mass of rotten meat... her extremely rapid breathing could still be seen.
She had long since lost consciousness.
Yet her flesh seemed to have entered some kind of frenzied state of activity, looking like a clump of out-of-control seaweed. Four-fifths of her head had been ground away, and the traditional vital organ known as the "brain" had completely vanished! But Ligeia was still alive!
Her spine was growing, emerging from her fractured skull like a hideous white flower. Her entire body was mangled, and her broken bones had mixed with the scraps of flesh, turning into one tentacle after another. Sharp teeth made of bone covered every tentacle, and some even had mouths for feeding. The largest tentacle on her body was her former tail.
Perhaps because her "tail" had remained intact despite being injured, her body, having lost its brain, judged that "the tail is the correct structure." Thus, it