To tell the truth, after being enveloped by the Blackwater Monster, Ainola was utterly despairing.
She had thought this was a certain death situation, but then she turned around and found Anderson descending like a god, rescuing her from fire and water.
This scene reminded Ainola of over a year ago, when Anderson had also saved her like this.
So facing this scene, Ainola felt both the joy of escaping death and the nostalgia of encountering the past.
More importantly, she suddenly felt that Anderson, this good man, was as reliable as ever.
“Why are you staring?”
Anderson really wanted to pinch Ainola’s cheeks and bully them harshly, but business came first; he had to deal with this unknown monster in front of him.
“By the way, what is this thing exactly? Do you know?”
As a prince of a nation, Anderson was well-traveled and knowledgeable. Even he, who had received elite education since childhood, had never seen such a monster.
“I don’t know,” Ainola, hiding behind the magic barrier, shook her head and said, “This thing seems to be made of liquid. As for its origin, it might be some kind of plague.”
At this moment, Ainola restrained her usual joyful believer demeanor and appeared relatively more serious.
Usually, Ainola gave people the impression of being cute and playful, but this appearance actually seemed quite calm.
The main point was that she was still very beautiful.
However, Anderson only looked at her a couple more times before turning his head and focusing his attention on the monster in front of him.
“In the end, how can this monster be killed?”
During the conversation, Anderson had already tried many methods of attack, whether it was a pure sword qi slash or a light blade wrapped in magic.
Striking it was like cutting water with a sword—it had no effect at all.
At this point, Ainola suggested an idea.
“How about you try using fire, Anderson?”
According to physics, liquid will boil and turn into water vapor when subjected to enough heat.
And the current monster was indeed made of liquid.
If there was enough high temperature, it might be possible to directly evaporate it.
“That’s the only option for now.”
Anderson still chose to trust Ainola.
A dazzling white light gathered in his hand, looking somewhat like a small artificial sun.
But this thing was indeed not much different from the sun; the terrifying high temperature distorted the air around it.
Ainola had no idea how Anderson could hold this thing in his hand, but before she could ponder further, Anderson had already thrown the white orb.
When the orb collided with the Blackwater Monster, the terrifying high temperature did cause the black water to boil and even directly vaporized a considerable portion.
The white orb even directly pierced through the Blackwater Monster’s body, leaving a nearly one-meter hole in it, with a large amount of black water flowing out of the wound like blood.
However, as the black water fell to the ground, it was absorbed by the black water on the surface and was replenished back into the monster’s body.
Soon, its wound healed as before.
Seeing that even high temperature couldn’t kill it, Anderson felt a bit of trouble.
“No magic power, no life force… How exactly is it alive?”
It seemed that Anderson’s white orb had caused some damage, but the problem was that this spell was not easy to gather and consumed a lot of magic power.
Relying on the white orb to eliminate it was obviously impractical.
So Anderson had to look for another method.
“If there were a large-scale Forbidden Curse spell, maybe it could be killed.”
Anderson was a Knight and was not good at large-scale spells, so the best way was to let the Mage Corps of Wording City handle it.
It would only take one Mage Team to gather a large-scale Forbidden Curse.
With the destructive power of a Forbidden Curse scale, Anderson didn’t believe it could hold out.
Or he could gather a Forbidden Curse himself, which was also an option.
So after figuring this out, Anderson grabbed Ainola’s hand and said to her,
“Let’s leave here first.”
“Ara~ I thought you were going to show your divine power and take down this monster in a few moves.”
Ainola hadn’t expected Anderson to retreat so decisively.
She had just been thinking about how to sneak away when Anderson grabbed her hand.
Now she could only use a coaxing tone and say to Anderson again.
“How about… you try again? You’re a Super Rank Holy Temple Knight! How can you stop here?”
In fact, Anderson’s strength was not merely at the Super Rank; at least to avoid attracting attention, he had always publicly claimed to be only a Super Rank Judgment Executor.
Because of this, he often couldn’t fully stretch his limbs.
Above the Super Rank was the Demigod Rank.
In this world, that was equivalent to a nuclear deterrent.
Of course, Anderson knew he hadn’t reached the Demigod Rank, so to deal with this Blackwater Monster, he would have to use the Forbidden Curse Blazing Sun Flare to possibly damage it.
At least as a Forbidden Curse spell, its power and range were huge. Anderson himself might be fine, but this trash assassin he was holding might be blown to ashes on the spot.
Moreover, Anderson was not a fool. He could naturally see through Ainola’s little tricks.
She simply wanted to slip away when he wasn’t paying attention.
Too naive. Anderson’s lips curled upward involuntarily, and he said in a seemingly helpless tone.
“Can’t defeat it, absolutely can’t defeat it. I’ll have to go back to Wording City and ask for reinforcements.”
“Ah ha ha ha…” Ainola also realized Anderson had seen through her thoughts, so she laughed awkwardly and said,
“Since you’re going for reinforcements, how about… you let go of an innocent passerby like me first?”
“In your dreams.”
Anderson grabbed Ainola and dragged her toward Wording City.
“Hey hey hey!!”
Ainola tried to escape, but Anderson’s hand held tight like a vise; no matter how hard Ainola struggled, she couldn’t break free from that hand.
Even worse, Anderson was very fast, and Ainola was almost being lifted off her feet as she was dragged along.
The Blackwater Monster was left behind, roaring continuously in place.
The good news was that, probably due to the limitation of the black water, it couldn’t move outside the black water.
The bad news was that Ainola had been dragged all the way into Wording City by Anderson, and it seemed she was about to be caught and locked up in the basement.
Seeing this, Ainola’s clever little head had an idea.
She immediately put on the image of a pitiful young girl being coerced and bullied.
She looked around at the watching crowd and cried pitifully.
“H-Help! The government soldiers are abducting an innocent young girl!”