Jörmungandr slowly nodded her enormous head, like a small mountain gently swaying.
Then her body began moving along the tree trunk, her scales rubbing against the bark with a rustling sound.
Before long, she slowly slid down the trunk and reached the ground.
Her massive body, over a thousand meters long and more than twenty meters in diameter, coiled across the ground like a winding black torrent, imposing in its grandeur.
The pitch-black scales covering her body gleamed coldly, reflecting an icy light beneath the sun.
From a distance, she resembled an immense, indestructible iron mountain, radiating a chilling sense of pressure.
Smiling, Kakarot said to Jörmungandr:
"Jörmungandr, sorry for the trouble. These friends of mine are all very eager to spar with you."
With that, Kakarot led everyone in an orderly retreat beyond the vast clearing,
leaving only Hades, Simba, Ailik, and Troius Jeno behind.
The four exchanged glances, seemingly conveying some unspoken understanding through their eyes.
Then the other three moved aside in tacit agreement, leaving the field to Simba alone.
Simba looked up at the enormous "iron mountain" towering hundreds of meters before him-Jörmungandr-and immediately felt tremendous pressure well up within him.
Anyone would have felt a little nervous facing an opponent so enormous and with such a powerful presence.
Still, Simba had faced Kakarot, Hades, and the others before, so he was already very familiar with the pressure exerted by the strong.
In an instant, he adjusted his mindset. His aura abruptly changed as he entered his Flame Lion Human-Beast Form.
His frame swelled, his already athletic body growing even more powerfully built,
and fiery red fur covered him, as hot as burning flames.
Next, he activated his Sulong form. In a flash, all his fiery red fur turned snow-white, as though covered in frost and