After all, the militia fighters weren't elite troops with years of training. Faced with an enemy as huge as a giant bear, they'd panicked and instinctively emptied their magazines.
Of course, they'd emptied their magazines rather than being too scared to fire at all. That was worth a bit of praise.
Once the hail of bullets had stopped, they saw a huge, unrecognizable lump of bloody flesh sprawled on the ground. Even a troll's prodigious vitality couldn't save it now. It had to be well and truly dead.
So Kelvin and his comrades cautiously approached with their rifles, only to see a gorgeous halo of light spreading from the mangled corpse.
"Hey, what's that? Little Kai, can trolls drop gems?"
"No, that's not a troll. It's a lizard."
"Lizards don't drop gems either!"
"...That's zero-element! Wait, so the lizard was a psychic?"
"...Shouldn't the troll have been the psychic?"
"But that really did come out of the lizard! Look, this lump of blood and flesh is the troll, and that yellowish stump is the lizard. They've been beaten into a mess, but you can still tell them apart."
"Little Kai, you're making me feel a little sick."
"I'm feeling a little sick too, but that's what happened! You know how good my eyesight is. I can spot a groundhog peeking out from five hundred meters away and drop it with one shot."
After some friendly discussion, everyone accepted that the zero-element had crystallized from the lizard. But when they thought about it, the whole scene seemed even more bizarre.
"Why would a lizard be a psychic? A phantom beast?"
"Could a phantom beast lose to a troll?"
While everyone was scratching their heads, the radio in the pickup truck crackled to life. It was a call from Tulong Command to