[Failure Penalty: Erasure] [Kind Reminder: As this is your first time directly facing a high-scoring monster worth over 100 points, if you feel unable to defeat it, you may instead kill other primal devils in Hell, or kill any one of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'.]
As they looked at the mission briefing this time, there was none of the usual introduction filled with the monster's twisted hobbies and catchphrases—only a score assessment that signified danger.
Ryuen Kakeru couldn't help clicking his tongue.
"What kind of joke is this...?"
"What do you mean the monsters we faced in previous exams were worth no more than ninety points at most, but this exam suddenly shoots straight up to two hundred points?!"
Morishita Ai, who had always worn an expressionless face, now helplessly clenched the hem of her clothes.
She had never expected that she had only just saved up enough points to buy a Reinforcement Suit, thinking it would give her at least a little sense of security.
Yet the leap in difficulty was absurdly enormous!
Could it be... that this exam would truly end in a complete party wipe?
Her mind raced, and she even found herself wondering:
If they failed the mission, the Main God had not made it clear just now—would it directly erase them all, or merely deduct one life?
If it was the former, then their group was probably truly finished today.
Infected by that despair, Yotsuya Miko asked in a trembling voice:
"S-Su Wei... what should we do now?"
Ryuen Kakeru sighed.
"What else can we do?"
"Give up on fantasies and prepare to fight. We're dead either way. Even if we die, we should at least die with some dignity, right?"
Su Wei stroked his chin and stepped forward