But the creature twisted its body, and silver-black scales immediately grew across its surface. Curved in shape, they glinted beneath the sunlight like somber, cold iron.
The monster let out a soul-shaking roar and beat its wings, kicking up a violent gale that overturned more than ten nearby buildings. The wooden houses in the distance swayed as though they might collapse, and several children were even blown several meters away.
"No, I have to save them."
Upon seeing this, the young Mage immediately ran toward the target.
She cast a speed-enhancing spell on herself, and her steps seemed to shrink the distance beneath her feet. With only a few strides, she crossed several hundred meters.
Boom!
The monster began wreaking havoc in a more densely populated part of the city. Some Black Iron Rank fighters, and even a few Mithril Rank ones, had no choice but to step forward and try to resist it, but they were like eggs smashing against a rock, unable to harm it in the slightest.
"Damn it, where did this thing even come from?"
There had been no shortage of attacks before, but with such a powerful creature appearing out of nowhere, even the commander atop the city wall was at his wits' end.
Some messengers were sent in other directions to request reinforcements. At that moment, the monster seemed to sense a dense aura of energy in the distance and turned its gaze toward the end of the street.
Over there, the young Mage was rapidly approaching.
"Roar~"
Without any hesitation, it spewed out a mouthful of highly compressed flame.
The fiery serpent formed from searing flames shot six or seven hundred meters ahead. Even steel melted with ease wherever it passed.
The young Mage nimbly dodged the crimson flames and agilely leaped onto