Listening to Hilda's whispers, a cruel gleam flashed in the eyes of the giant Wolf Demon.
It emitted a grating growl, causing all the Wolf Demons to scatter, with three heads charging towards the critically injured Crystal Serpent, while the remaining four, led by the giant Wolf Demon, surrounded Hilda.
The battle on the side of the Crystal Serpent quickly erupted, with the severely injured Crystal Serpent obviously no longer able to match the three Golden-tier Wolf Demons, seemingly unable to hold on for much longer.
And the four Wolf Demons surrounding Hilda, under the leadership of the giant Wolf Demon, launched an attack on her.
A cold light flashed in Hilda's eyes as magical energy surged out.
When the sky began to snow like goose feathers, it was better not to touch it.
Because that might be the sword aura of the Swan Sword Maiden.
Snowflakes fluttered, each goose feather carrying sharp sword intent.
In an instant, dozens of slashes, and one Wolf Demon was torn apart on the spot!
But the attack from the giant Wolf Demon followed immediately, its blood-red claws slicing through the air with a sharp howl, aimed directly at Hilda's back.
Without even turning her head, Hilda immediately kicked off with her long legs, swiftly retreating in place, leaving behind a huge crater several meters wide on the ground where the giant Wolf Demon had struck, showing the terrifying power of the giant Wolf Demon.
She couldn't afford to confront it head-on!
Hilda immediately came to this conclusion.
She had to leverage her agility advantage to systematically kill those Golden-tier Wolf Demons one by one, then deal with the largest one!
With that in mind, she landed and immediately dashed towards one of the Golden-tier Wolf Demons.
But just then, a foul wind struck, causing Hilda's pupils to shrink. She immediately performed her combat skill, Golden Flash, turning into a golden light and flashing away from her original position.
"Boom!!!" A loud noise rang out.
Hilda landed on a tree, her eyes filled with solemnity as she looked at the giant Wolf Demon that appeared where she had just been.
This speed... was even faster than she had imagined!
But that wasn't a reason for her to retreat.
If so, she would be faster than it!
With a flick of her slender sword, magical energy surged out once again.
Golden Flash!
A twisting golden light shot towards the giant Wolf Demon at an extremely fast speed, prompting the giant Wolf Demon to raise its claws and strike down.
But the golden light, just before reaching it, seemed to reflect like a mirror, leaving its original position and forming a triangular shape, circling around behind it.
The goose feather-like sword aura rained down once again, leaving several fine sword marks on the giant Wolf Demon's back, but Hilda's real killing move did not target it, instead aiming at the Golden-tier Wolf Demon behind it.
Just like the first Wolf Demon, torn apart!
In the blink of an eye, another one fell!
She didn't stop, turning into a golden light and attacking again.
The giant Wolf Demon also roared and chased after her, from a distance, it looked like two lights, one gold and one black, constantly shuttling through the battlefield.
But every time, Hilda was able to dodge the giant Wolf Demon's attacks accurately and gracefully, using her slender sword to slay the Golden-tier Wolf Demons.
Under her maneuvering, the three Golden-tier Wolf Demons were quickly killed.
But she still didn't stop, heading straight for the three Wolf Demons hunting the Crystal Serpent.
The Crystal Serpent was already on its last legs, and the three Wolf Demons were ravaging its body.
Suddenly, a roar came, and the slightly larger Wolf Demon, probably close to Platinum-tier, lifted its head.
But what awaited it was a golden sword aura.
Head separated from body!
"The fourth one..." she murmured, like a golden hunter, always remaining calm and elegant.
Feld, who was hiding nearby and observing with relish, couldn't help but be amazed.
Wow, she really lives up to her title as the genius bestowed with the Swan Sword Maiden title, she's not just for show.
"Does she really need our help, meow?" Kiki couldn't help asking.
Feld stared at the battlefield and finally nodded. "She does."
"Why, she's almost finished killing the Wolf Demons... that was the fifth one, she's amazing, meow!"
But Feld shook his head. "She's amazing, but her sword can't hold up."
"And did you notice, that largest Wolf Demon, it's still smiling."
"Tsk, it's really a despicable creature, it's treating this as a game."
Kiki was startled, then showed a solemn expression.
Treating it as a game meant that the giant Wolf Demon still hadn't used its true power.
As she watched Hilda kill one Wolf Demon after another, it continued to play with enthusiasm, just as Feld said, it was truly a despicable creature, meow.
But...
Kiki looked at Feld, who was watching with relish from the bushes, and asked, "Then why don't we go help her now, meow?"
Feld smiled and shook his head. "She's a proud girl, I can feel her confidence even from two hundred meters away. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made such dangerous evasion maneuvers, almost brushing past the giant Wolf Demon's claws just to kill the Golden-tier Wolf Demon next to it."
"Such a proud little swan, if I help her now, she might even cut me down."
With that, Feld smiled and shrugged. "She's a genius, and she's strong, but she's too young, so we'll wait until she learns her lesson before we intervene, that's when our help will be effective."
"Oh~" Kiki nodded as if she had learned something, showing a thoughtful expression.
For some reason, Feld, who claimed to be eighteen but was actually only sixteen, said that an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl was too young, but she didn't feel any sense of contradiction.
Well, Feld's demeanor was that of a seasoned mercenary.
With forty-eight years of experience from both this life and the last, both in speech and in demeanor, he didn't seem like a sixteen-year-old kid.
Of course, his muscular physique didn't help.
"I wonder why she doesn't use magic, is she unable to?" Feld muttered again.
"It's impossible, as the student council president of the Haidis Magic Academy, not being able to use magic would be a joke..."
"Buzz..." At this moment, a sword hum sounded, and Hilda jumped off the tree trunk.
The next moment, the tree, with a circumference of about one person, was directly cut in half by the giant Wolf Demon's claws!
Upon landing, Hilda's chest rose and fell slightly, obviously the high-speed maneuvering and slashing had placed a considerable burden on her, leaving her with less than a quarter of her magical power.
But at this moment, she was more excited than anything else.
All seven Wolf Demons had been slain, and all that remained was to kill this largest one!
With that in mind, she raised her slender sword once again.
And the giant Wolf Demon also sensed her killing intent, its hideous smile becoming even more terrifying.
It spread its arms, making a preparatory motion with its claws fully extended, cold light flickering.
One person and one wolf stood quietly facing each other.
A few leaves slowly drifted down.
As the leaves touched the ground, the person and the wolf also turned into a residual golden and black light, rapidly colliding.
The golden light was faster, more agile, constantly maneuvering and dodging around the giant Wolf Demon, slashing several swords with each dodge, seizing every opportunity to leave wounds on the Wolf Demon's body.
Those wounds seemed insignificant on the giant Wolf Demon's huge body.
But what if it was a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand wounds?
Enough to reduce it to dust!
Hundreds of golden sword auras became faster and faster, the goose feather-like snowflakes became denser, and a smile of excitement and confidence gradually appeared on Hilda's face.
Opening! Able to slash!
As the Wolf Demon's claws swung empty, her azure eyes turned golden, seeing a golden beam of light.
Following the beam of light, she could slash off its head!
She thought so, and she did it.
With her back to her, the Wolf Demon didn't have time to turn around to defend itself, and she believed in herself.
Yes, she could.
But her sword couldn't.
With a crisp sound, Hilda leaped out, then landed steadily.
But the smile on her face disappeared, and she slowly raised the sword in her hand.
That exquisite slender sword had already broken.
The broken end was stuck in the gap between the vertebrae at the back of the giant Wolf Demon's neck.
This sword failed to sever its head, but it left her weaponless.
The Wolf Demon turned around, and as it pulled back its claws, the wound on its body where the sword had struck, along with that broken piece of sword, was pulled off together.
The smirk on its face vanished, replaced by a hollow expression.
Its eyes widened, staring at Hilda like this, not showing its fangs, but doubling the pressure on Hilda.
Its eyes emitted a red light.
The next moment, a roar, a terrifying aura surged out, and within a radius of several hundred meters, a red light emerged from the bodies of the Wolf Demon corpses on the ground, blinking and entering the body of the giant Wolf Demon.
The black fur on the giant Wolf Demon's body turned blood-red, its claws, originally half a meter long, directly swelled to a meter, but its six-meter-tall body, accompanied by the cracking sound of bones, shrank to about four meters.
But the contours of its muscles became more pronounced, and its momentum became more terrifying.
The ferocious aura swept over, causing Hilda's face to turn pale.
This guy... is it really a Wolf Demon?
She had never heard of Wolf Demons having a second form...
If Holan were here, he would definitely tell her that standing in front of her was the superior breed of Wolf Demons.
The Rampaging Wolf Demon!
A cloaked figure, a kilometer away, watched the scene, shaking his head with a sigh.
If she were at her peak and her weapon intact, Hilda could handle this Rampaging Wolf Demon.
But now, she couldn't.
So for now... he still wouldn't intervene, but wait for the Rampaging Wolf Demon to attack Hilda, triggering the protective power within her.
But doing so might damage Hilda's state of mind - she didn't know she had protective power within her.
But it was still better than her perishing.
He raised his hand, and a book appeared in it, with a golden brush floating, ready to record Hilda's experiences and deficiencies today.
However, he raised his eyebrows and then put away the book and brush, his eyes showing a hint of interest.
...
The Rampaging Wolf Demon, in its transformed state, once again showed a smirk, and Hilda could feel its murderous intent.
Hilda's hand trembled slightly.
Not only because of the recoil from just swinging her sword into the bone, but also because of the fear in her heart.
Fear... was she feeling fear?
This feeling was really unpleasant, and she could only force herself to calm down continuously, tightening the grip on the broken sword in her hand, which was now less than a third intact.
Now, her goal had changed.
It wasn't to slay the Wolf Demon in front of her, but to survive.
It just showed how excellent she was to be able to quickly adjust her mindset in such a state.
But some things couldn't be solved by adjusting one's mindset, like the Rampaging Wolf Demon in front of her.
"Roar..." a low growl sounded, the Wolf Demon's limbs on the ground, muscles tense, already in a state of readiness.
Hilda also tensed all over, aiming to seize the moment when the Wolf Demon attacked, dodge the attack, and then escape quickly.
She stared fixedly at the Wolf Demon's movements, trying to concentrate, but suddenly, the Wolf Demon disappeared.
And then, a fierce and terrifying face appeared in front of her in an instant, its huge mouth wide open.
At that moment, all of Hilda's mental preparation was lost.
She never expected the transformed Wolf Demon to be so fast, completely beyond her reaction range, so her mind went blank in that moment.
She could only rely on her combat instincts trained since childhood to try to dodge as much as possible, but even so, her left arm would inevitably be bitten off by the Wolf Demon.
That was the hand she held her sword with...
And at the critical moment, a heavy hammer whistled through the air, hitting the Rampaging Wolf Demon that was pouncing.
With a loud bang, the Wolf Demon was instantly sent flying, smashing boulders and trees along the way.
The heavy hammer also soared high in a rotation, then smashed down not far from Hilda, shaking the ground.
At the same time, a huge figure strode out of the woods, a wild smile on his face.
"Is it fun to bully a little girl? Let me play with you."
"Roar..." a hundred meters away, the collapsed giant tree, the Wolf Demon shook its head and stood up, the hammer blow just now only dislocating its jaw.
It twisted its neck, with a click, the jaw was back in place, eyes gleaming with ferocity as it stared at the big guy who attacked it, emitting a fierce light.
Feld walked up to Hilda, but didn't look at her, continuing to walk forward.
Standing in front of the heavy hammer, he lifted it with one hand and carried it on his shoulder, then beckoned to the Wolf Demon, making a teasing sound like when teasing a dog.