"I never thought this place could be so terrifying."
Looking at the snakes splattered with blood and flesh all around them, Lin Yueru was still shaken with fear.
"No wonder those heroes never returned..."
Indeed, the heroes of this world possessed impressive skills, but the problem was that there were simply too many snakes in Hidden Dragon Cave, and every last one of them was venomous. Even a single bite would kill someone on the spot. On top of that, the cave was dark, damp, and cramped, leaving people unable to fight properly. Without the help of these Immortal Masters, Lin Yueru feared she would have met a terrible end as well.
Speaking of those Immortal Masters...
Lin Yueru turned her head and looked at the scene beside her with a complicated expression. There, Duanmu Huai was gripping a warhammer in one hand and pointing at several people in front of him with the other as he berated them.
"Idiots! Are you all idiots?! And you call yourselves Magical Girls? You can fight familiars, you can fight Witches, but you don't even dare fight a snake? What are you here for, then?! Huh?"
"Ugh..."
At that moment, Mami Tomoe and Tamaki Iroha obediently lowered their heads without saying a word. Their performance just now had indeed been rather disgraceful. Of course, they did have an explanation. They had fought Witches and familiars before, but those monsters had abstract appearances. They were not frightening in the slightest.
So in that sense, Magical Girls fighting little monsters had a somewhat childlike fairy-tale quality to it. Whether familiars or Witches, the creatures they defeated were like illusions. They did not bleed or get dismembered, much less have their guts explode. Instead, like monsters in a game, they would let out a scream after