Aoji bent down and lunged at the giant python on the sea ahead, her massive body bearing down like a mountain range.
The giant python began dodging without any direction from the short girl. The pressure of an adult dragon was the nightmare of most demon beasts in this world.
Of course, Aoji would not let it slip away so easily. A peculiar sheen spread over her scales as she unleashed a Dragon Clan spell art. In an instant, the sea froze in the python's escape route, and thick walls of ice rose in rapid succession.
The python braced itself and smashed through one ice wall, but a second and a third awaited it.
It hesitated, and that hesitation allowed more and more ice walls to appear around it, rapidly sealing off the space it could use to maneuver and escape.
The short girl raised both arms. A moment later, a flock of crows appeared in the sky, swiftly gathering into an enormous black curtain. Before the curtain could begin its next move, however, Aoji spat out a terrifying blast of frost. The black curtain shattered instantly, and crows frozen into lumps of ice fell into the sea in great swaths.
The Whip Bearer might have neglected Aoji's soul, but he had never skimped on her body. Like Little Kangna, she had grown up with an abundance of pills. These demon beasts could not have counted as opponents for her to begin with, and the summoned demon beast illusions could only exert thirty or forty percent of their originals' strength at most, making them even less of a challenge.
The young man looked at the elf girl beside him and shouted, "What are you standing there for?"
The elf girl immediately replied, "He's a lord!"
"Didn't you hear what Uncle