"Roar-----!!!"
To Naruse Mio, Rias, and the others, the scene before them felt just like a dream.
First, they had inexplicably encountered an alien monster that could disguise itself as other creatures, and now a giant beast as tall as a mountain had appeared?
They were beginning to question their entire lives.
Duanmu Huai and Mary, on the other hand, were extremely calm. After all, for them, having something even stranger and more bizarre show up in the middle of a battle was simply part of everyday life.
"Rias, you're responsible for maintaining the barrier and making sure the outside world doesn't learn about what's happening here! Mary, come with me. Frieren, Mio, stop it from advancing any farther!"
The commotion caused by the monster was far too great. If Rias and the others hadn't immediately deployed a barrier to block the outside world's perception of the area, every Research Station in Antarctica would probably have discovered the disturbance by now.
"I understand! Akeno, Yuto, Koneko, everyone, pour your demonic power into the barrier!"
Hearing Duanmu Huai's order, Rias flew into the sky and hurriedly gave her own orders. She raised her hands and looked at the monster before her, which was practically as large as a mountain, unable to keep herself from sighing.
"I never thought following Teacher Duanmu would lead us to encounter something like this..."
"Yeah, this is really exciting."
Himejima Akeno nodded beside her.
"Not only did we come to Antarctica for an adventure, we even ran into a monster? I think our experiences could be made into a movie."
"Though that movie would be rather disjointed."
Rias complained while raising both hands to maintain the barrier. Indeed, just as she had said, they actually had no idea what was happening here. They had merely discovered