"By the way, Miss?"
"Hmm? Who are you? Takao. Who are these goons?"
"... Takao. I will definitely slap this girl."
"Don't get triggered, Martin."
"Oh! I am Mello! That guy is my nii-san. Martin!"
"Hoo!? Like I care."
"Ha! I will definitely beat you up for insulting us."
"This guy will defeat me? Haha! I don't think so!"
"He trained a lot. So I am pretty sure you stand no chance."
"Haha! I bet you can't bear a whole minute."
"Stop talking! I will defeat you and make you my girlfriend!"
"Deal! But if you can't defeat me! Takao will be my boyfriend!"
Takao then immediately grabbed Mello's shoulder and whispers.
"Please, Defeat her. She is a headache."
"Yes, boss!"
While saluting.
"Valentina-san!"
a teenage girl is calling her while running.
She's clad in pure silver armor.
"What is it?"
"Where had you been into? We had a quest today right?"
"Oh yeah! Sorry. I was just wondering here today and I found them."
"There's no need to hold a conversation with them right now. Let's go. We had to subjugate strong hordes of monsters."
"Moouuu... Fine. See you. Takao."
"Oh yeah! You're the one who defeated her right?"
"Yes. Well. You are fighting somebody yesterday. Right?"
"Yeah. A ten-star fellow. I defeated him easily though."
"Let's go. Valentina-san. An eight-star rate monster appeared in the east! We are called there."
"Fine. Let's go."
"Wait. Eight-star monster?"
"Yes, Takao-san. A landsquid."
"Landsquid, huh?"
"Yes. Very well. We'll be on our way."
"Mm..."
"Um... They left."
"Yeah. How about it? Takao. Let's watch them secretly."
"Yes."
They then turned in an alleyway and turned invisible to trail them secretly while flying.
After a while. When Valentina met with her six other teammates. Making them an eight-man team. There are five men among them and the rest, Valentina included are female.
"Hmm... I guess. She is the leader."
Mello mumbled.
"Yeah. I think so too."
Martin replied.
After then. They proceed with their horses and travels south while Takao and the two are trailing them secretly.
After almost an hour. They arrived since the team travel with full speed but Takao could easily keep that speed up and is much, much faster than that.
The whole team got down of their horses and proceed.
"How was it?"
Said by the same girl that called Valentina before.
"It is bad. A lot of us are injured. Yeah, we are healing with potions but it is running out fast."
"You idiots! Why did you fight without us!?"
Valentina then cut in.
"We are sorry. But there are also teams from different cities so we thought we could. There are also ten-star teams here."
"So. Are there any deaths?"
"No... Not yet. We might all die if we ran out of potion. That landsquid is an adult. It is powerful. It also has a regenerative ability so we are at our wit's end. We don't know what to do."
"Regenerative ability?"
"Yeah, leader! Remember? An adult landsquid have strong regenerative ability."
Said by one of the men.
"Yeah, yeah. I reviewed my homework."
"Let's go, leader."
"Yeah. Let's go."
They then engage in battle.
They reached the monster currently engaged by many other adventurers. But halted.
"Taga is not here?"
"Yeah. It seems so, leader."
"Ahh! Let's just finish this quick!"
"Yes!"
The landsquid is huge. Its tentacles could be seen to become razor-sharp and could freely transform into different sizes and shapes.
"We must cut the three hearts located somewhere on its head. But an adult is a pain to deal with because of its healing. That means we must be fast so it won't have time to regenerate."
Said by one of the females. That girl wears glasses and also wore an armor. A sword is on her waist.
"Yeah, yeah. But how will we do that?"
"The first heart is located at the center of its body. The other two are circulating in its body. That is why it is an eight-star monster. We must completely tear it apart or we have to locate these hearts to kill it. But if we destroyed the first heart. That will stop it from regenerating. But it will also be hard to search for the heart. We also don't have the power to completely devastate its body. We must proceed with caution, leader."
"Yeah! The potions!?"
"Ah! I have them!"
Said by another female member.
"I'll go, then."
She took her stance.
[Messalina Style: Heavenly Flashing Strikes]
She completely disappeared due to her speed.
So fast she managed to cut down three of its eight tentacles instantly.
"Haahh!"
She then jumps to cut down the center heart.
But before she could do so. A tentacle turned into a thin sharp and cuts on her stomach.
Luckily it couldn't kill her immediately.
"Kya!"
"Leader!"
They quickly responded and rushed towards her while the others are covering for them.
"Get a potion for her!"
"Huh? I am fine, you know?"
"Don't talk, leader. It really is not good."
The landsquid continues to rampage and others got hurt too while trying to neutralize it.
"Get me down. I needed to deal a blow somehow."
"Yeah, leader. Just drink a potion first, please."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Ahhh... Leader. You're so stubborn."
Said by another female member.
The men currently cover for them. The previously cut tentacles have fully recovered now and are functioning.
Valentina got down and stood up.
"Just give me a potion."
"Yes."
They gave her a small bottle with red liquid in it.
"Haahh"
That good. I will fight now. Everyone. With me."
"Yes!"
They charged alongside with tens of adventurers currently present.
As they attacked. The monster spins and created a vortex that sends them away.
"Shit!"
As the vortex is still occurring the opposite happens. It now starts pulling them.
Four tentacles then lashed out and stabbed four adventurers that immediately kills them.