However, before long... Theresa discovered something extremely painful: she was lost.
That was right! Theresa had no idea where she was. She had never been to this Yae Town before, and although she had a map... even with a map, she did not know her exact location.
Lost, Theresa could only rely on her instincts. But her instincts only left her more disoriented. It was not until she saw a mountain in the distance that, thinking she could see farther from higher up, Theresa began heading toward its foot.
Before she reached the foot of the mountain, Theresa was ambushed again by those Honkai-corrupted mutants—Mortals—as she entered a bamboo grove.
At first, Theresa did not think much of it. After all, she had even defeated an Emperor-class Honkai Beast before. As long as they were not ghosts or something, Theresa was not afraid!
And once they clashed, that was indeed the case... With a single strike from Judah, the Mortal before her fell straight to the ground. But what happened next was quite different from what Theresa had imagined.
Three Mortal girls appeared before her, floating in the air. They looked much like the other Mortals, except their hairstyles had become twin tails.
No, that was not all. Four coffins floated around each of them, and blood-colored mist coiled around their bodies. Combined with the dim light in the bamboo grove, they looked exactly like the evil spirits and ghosts of legend.
Theresa's heart leaped into her throat. Though terrified, she thought of what she still had to do, gritted her teeth, held her ground, and forced herself to attack them.
However... unlike the Mortals she had encountered before, these three ghostlike Mortals could teleport freely through space, causing all of Theresa's attacks to miss.
And that was not even