A black smoke surrounded them and a black monster appeared in front of them.
When Gabriel saw the black monster, he recognised it immediately.
Gabriel said it was Black Serpent, it's usually live in large caves and it only attack people when it is disturbed, the players said that before they got trapped in the forest they saw a large caves just up ahead where they are, when they saw it they entered the cave hoping to find treasures but the a black smoke covered them and the black serpent appeared.
Gabriel tell them that's the reason why the black serpent attack them, because they disturbed the black serpent while it was asleep.
Haruto asked Gabriel how to undone the curse, and Gabriel tell them that there's only one way to undone the curse, they need to defeat the black serpent if they want to undone the curse.
The players said that it's futile, they tried to fight it but it's skin is as hard as rock.
Gabriel tell them that a black serpent is so difficult to defeat, even he can't defeat a black serpent by himself even though he's a knight.
The players tell them to run, but Haruto charged to fight the black serpent.
Haruto attacked the black serpent again and again, but it didn't take a damage, the players remind Haruto that it's impossible to defeat the black serpent, that he'll only get himself killed.
Haruto tell them, what will they do, do they want to wait and starve to death or die with having a fight, he said that he'll do what he can to defeat the black serpent.
When Gabriel heard what Haruto said, he smiled and fight the black serpent with all he got and so as Akari.
The players watched the 3 of them fight, when they saw the 3 of them fight fiercely, they helped.
But no matter how many times they attacked the black serpent, the black serpent didn't even have a scratch, the black serpent attacked them and they got blown away.
But they still stand up after they got blown away.
They attacked the black serpent again and again and blown away again and again and stand up again and again.
After a few minutes they got blown away again and they don't have the energy to stand up again, they still tried to stand up but they can't.
When the they was about to get killed by the finishing move of the black serpent.
They saw a dazzling light, and a mage, the mage cast one of his fire magic and attacked the black serpent.
When the black serpent attacked by the mage, it was defeated in a flash without a trace.
When they saw it, they were amazed how the mage managed to defeat the black serpent so easily while they're were struggling to defeat it.
The mage went to them and healed all their wounds.
Haruto, Akari, all of them thank the mage for saving them.
The players was so happy that finally the curse was undone and they can get out of the forest.
After the mage healed I'll of them, the mage went to where Gabriel is.
And the Gabriel said that she's late.
When everyone heard him, they asked him is he knows the mage.
Gabriel said that he knows the mage, the strongest royal mage in Union Kingdom, Anna Aoi.