Countless soldiers went pale, their ears ringing and their minds utterly blank.
The next instant!
The White Whale's enormous body went flying backward, smashing through layer after layer of air.
"I... I'm not seeing things, am I?"
"That woman... actually kicked the White Whale away?"
After a brief silence, an uproar broke out.
Everyone's pupils contracted, their eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets.
The sight was simply too outrageous.
"Roar!"
The White Whale shook its head, its eyes filled with ferocity.
It seemed to have been thoroughly enraged.
Then!
Under countless stunned gazes.
Two smaller White Whales slowly materialized.
This was another of its abilities.
It could split off two clones with a measure of combat strength.
Normally.
It could use its clones to occupy the enemy while its main body rested.
Unfortunately.
This time, it had chosen the wrong opponents.
In a single instant!
It and its two clones were surrounded.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The sounds of bodies colliding rang out without pause. Kuroka and the others attacked in succession, tearing away great chunks of flesh with every strike.
The White Whale had no chance to fight back.
Even its annihilating white mist could not touch Kuroka or the others in the slightest.
A dozen seconds later.
"Roar!"
With a piercing howl of agony, the two clones vanished, and the White Whale's body fell helplessly from the sky.
Like a meteor crashing to earth.
It smashed a massive crater into the ground.
Looking at the corpse inside the crater, everyone froze.
Dead?
The Demon Beast of Mist that had rampaged for hundreds of years.
Had it really died just like that?
Everyone looked dazed, as though trapped in a dream.
But soon.
Cheers like crashing waves thundered up into the sky.
"It was only thanks to Master that