Melina taking the initiative to ask for praise had opened the door to a whole new world for Lilith.
As a hopeless tsundere, she had never even considered such a tactic before, and for a moment, she found herself admiring Melina's sheer shamelessness.
"Wait, does she really like that guy?"
Lilith suddenly remembered what Melina had told her during yesterday's training in the clearing-"I'm really fond of Greg too."
At the time, she had thought Melina was deliberately saying it to provoke her, but now... could it actually be true!?
At that thought, Lilith's feelings grew even more complicated.
"Hey, Lilith, are you listening? You're up next."
Greg's voice sounded beside her, pulling her out of her tangled thoughts.
Lilith snapped back to her senses, only then noticing that everyone ahead had stopped and their surroundings had changed into a landscape she had never seen before.
They were in an open area where the air smelled of sulfur and scorched earth, and the temperature was noticeably higher than before.
The ground was dark red and riddled with cracks, with faint orange-red light seeping through them, as though magma were flowing slowly underneath.
Several black stone pillars stood scattered across the area, their surfaces covered in honeycomb-like holes-clearly unusual formations created by prolonged exposure to intense heat.
"Were you... saying something just now?"
Knowing she was in the wrong, Lilith scratched her cheek awkwardly, her gaze drifting guiltily elsewhere.
Greg sighed, but rather than taking her to task for spacing out, he patiently explained again:
"Your opponent is a Lava Armored Beast, a monster with extremely high fire resistance. Its whole body is covered in black rock armor that looks like cooled lava, giving it very high defense. So your task is the same as Vivian's: find a way to defeat