"I thought they'd use some relics to test us first. I didn't expect them to start fighting right away."
Amid the splattering sound of flesh falling to the ground, Illustrious Miss emerged from the rain in the depths of the dense forest, dozens of cannon barrels floating behind her in the void and closely following her.
In the ruins of the destroyed Hunter Cabin, the stone sphere came apart. Besides the three girls who had originally been inside it, Vanessa, who had been lurking underground until just now, also stepped out.
"It seems they don't believe the Emilia here is the real Emilia, so they didn't bother testing us."
She watched the fallen flesh gather in the air again. As the dragon beast regenerated as though time were flowing backward, she clenched her right hand.
With the earth rumbling, dozens of hundred-meter-tall rock giants that had long been lying in ambush rose from the soil together.
"I listened to the voice of the earth. No one from the Tree Hole Association came, and that 'Clockmaker' didn't come either. There's only us nearby. Then again, knowing an assassination was coming and still entering a dangerous forest at a time like this, it's only natural that they guessed the elf here wasn't real."
Grayish-white mist spread around the dragon beast like ripples, but the rock giants' feet were rooted in the earth. Not even the Power of Time could turn them to dust in a short period of time.
Though that also prevented the giants from moving easily, it did not stop them from surrounding the still-regenerating dragon beast. Dozens of hill-sized fists then repeatedly pounded the mass of flesh in the air.
Illustrious Miss, with cannon barrels floating behind her, spread the wings of a Blue Dragon and took flight. She