At that moment, the monster who only knows rage and anger has learned fear.
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"Now that it's only the two of us, let's see which one is the savage hunter and the hopeless prey."
...RARWWW!!!...
The Black Weretiger Monster roars in rage to the mockery of the dying prey that dares to challenge its might.
The hatred it feels seeing the prey that it has failed to devour over and over again makes the Black Weretiger Monster lose its mind to anger.
Once again, the Black Weretiger Monster aims to devour its prey. Yet the injuries that Karna's Magic dealt to the monster, burning its skin to cinders, made the Black Weretiger Monster unable to move from where it was kneeling.
"Puro-III..."
With the opportunity given to her, Vier asks her pet slime for the two items needed for her plan to make the bastard who hurt her friends suffer.
The first item that Puro-III releases from its Storage skill is a special Mana Potion. A Mana Potion in its purest form, which is not synthesized to be consumed. Yet Vier drank the Mana Potion until its last drop.
"Argh!... Cough!... Cough!..."
Drinking the purest Mana Potion made Vier cough blood.
The Mana Potion will increase Vier's Mana by a hundredfold, at the cause of suffering a burning pain within her body. But that burning pain didn't even bother her, for Vier had already surpassed the point where pain felt nothing to her.
With her Mana increasing by a hundredfold, Vier would be able to do what she couldn't do ever since. To use Magic like everyone else. To use the second item that Puro-III releases from its Storage skill.
A Monster Core from one of the Boss Monsters of the Rank C Forest Valley Dungeon.
The Rank 5 Forest Valley Empress Monster.
"Empress Call... SCREECCHHH!!!..."
As Vier uses the Magic skill of the Forest Valley Empress Monster Core, her vocal cords release a screeching sound that is impossible for the human voice to produce. After the screeching sound echoes within the Forest Valley Dungeon, the Black Weretiger Monster witnesses the horror that stands before what the monster has thought of as dying prey.
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The Rank 5 Forest Valley Empress Monster is a 20-meter giant butterfly-like monster and the deadliest among the five Boss Monsters within the Rank C Forest Valley Dungeon.
It's not because of its combat abilities, but because of a certain Magic skill that the Forest Valley Empress has.
The Empress Call skill. A Magic skill that allows the Forest Valley Empress to summon and control all lower-ranking insect-like monsters within the Forest Valley Dungeon. And at the worst event, the Forest Valley Empress would be able to summon and control the other four Rank 5 Boss Monsters.
The ground and air within the Forest Valley Dungeon tremble as the swarm of insect-like monsters marches to answer the call of their Empress.
They all appear from the top of the rock trenches and giant trees, behind the monster who is trying to devour its dying prey, and from behind the girl who is trying to resist the fate that stands before her.
They appear behind the giant trees behind the girl's back. The shadow cast by their large bodies created darkness between the space of the giant trees as their eyes glowed in the darkness.
It was a terrifying image, an image of darkness and the glowing eyes of monsters. It was an image of a girl becoming a monster herself.
The girl is standing with her whole body stained with her blood. Blood comes out from the bleeding wounds all over her body, on the cut in her face, on her severe right arm, and blood comes out every time she opens her mouth.
Yet the fierce look in her remaining eye is still there. A determined look to defeat the enemy in front of her.
The monster saw all of it as it looked at the girl. But that isn't everything yet.
The darkness created by the shadows of those monsters expands like the girl is growing a pair of black wings behind her back. The appearance of those monsters' eyes in that darkness created an image that resembled the image of a certain monster.
The image of the Forest Valley Empress Monster spreading its beautiful and terrifying black wings.
At that moment, the monster who only knows rage and anger has learned fear.
...RARWWW!!!...
The Black Weretiger Monster roars not in rage but to hide the fact that, for the first time in its life, it feels scared. Not to the swarm of monsters but to the dying prey that aims to devour the monster.
"...SCREECCHHH!!!..."
With the screeching voice that is heard by all the monsters within the Forest Valley Dungeon, Vier gives the only command to all the monsters who answered her call.
...Devour this bastard who dares to hurt my friends!...
...RARWWW!!!...
...SCREECCHHH!!!...
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"Fufufu!!!...
...Hahaha!!!...
...Ahhhhhh!!!...
...This is unbelievably entertaining!...
...You outdone my expectations, my dear apprentice!...
...Ahhhhhh!!!"
Drinking the purest Mana Potion just so Vier can use Magic normally like everyone else but at the cause of destroying the inside of her body.
Directly using a Rank 5 Monster Core just so Vier can use a skill to call a swarm of insect-like monsters but at the cause of enduring an intense pain that will make anyone pass out in a few minutes.
Betting her life, that she will be able to control hundreds, thousands of monsters using the Empress Call skill.
But Vier did it.
She took control of the swarm of monsters and remained conscious while enduring the pain like every part of her body was being torn apart and put back together just to be torn apart again.
But it is still not over yet. Not until Vier finishes what she wants to accomplish.
Vier, with her staggering body, slowly moves towards the Black Weretiger Monster.
...RARWWW!!!...
The Black Weretiger Monster trembles, unable to move from where it's standing as it looks at the swarm of insect-like monsters moving to devour the monster.
Her slow step becomes much faster as she takes another. In a few more steps, Vier is already charging toward the Black Weretiger Monster with the swarm of monsters marching behind her.
But even if she wanted to end the fight. Even she can already win once the swarm of monsters devour the Black Weretiger Monster. It is still impossible for her.
After all, Vier lost consciousness in the middle of her charge and lost control of the Empress Call skill.
At the same time she collapses to the ground, the swarm of monsters starts attacking not only the Black Weretiger Monster but also Vier.
"Ahhhhhh!!!...
...You're gonna die...
...But I won't let that happen...
...After all, you're my dear apprentice. Someone capable of giving me the most amusing entertainment...
...Arachne Magic... Doll Creation..."