Before the massive body of the sword-hunting white tiger, Isis and Lifa’s figures appeared so tiny.
Before the paw with its claws came down, the shadow had already completely enveloped the two of them.
“Thorn Blade…”
At this distance, Lifa knew it would be difficult to pull Isis and dodge. As a last resort, she could only use the Thorn Blade she had not yet tried.
Hum
Lifa turned and grasped the connection point of the sword hilt. A thorny vine grew rapidly, first wrapping around Lifa’s hand holding the sword, then climbing up along the blade.
Meanwhile, the originally plain sword body began to glow with emerald green magical patterns. The power of the platinum-grade weapon seemed about to burst forth from the newly born thorny vines.
Unfortunately.
Too late…
After all, this was Lifa’s first time formally using the Thorn Blade. When this action proved futile, she thought of the method Isis had used earlier to help her escape the scorpion demonic beast’s attack.
Push Isis away.
There was no time for further consideration or hesitation. Just as Lifa was about to act, she felt a force in the opposite direction on the hand that was grasping Isis.
Words.
“Huh!?”
Lifa was pulled over by Isis.
To prevent the Thorn Blade in her hand from hurting Isis, Lifa practically fell into Isis’s arms.
“Don’t be afraid.”
“Isis… sis…”
Lifa felt the rough texture of her skin pressed against the surface of Isis’s robe. After that, she realized the two had completed a brief exchange.
As for the demonic beast’s attack, it had still not arrived.
“It’s okay now~”
Her golden hair was being stroked. Beyond an inexplicable sense of safety, Lifa could also feel Isis’s five fingers threading through her hair, gently feeling around.
Wha, what is Isis-sis doing…
In the midst of danger, such an abrupt intimate interaction was inserted, and Lifa felt quite unfamiliar with Isis’s tone.
“Ugh—”
To find the answer to the change, Lifa immediately lifted her head from Isis’s embrace.
Then, she saw a very fragmented and incongruous contrasting scene: Isis, with a single slender finger, easily blocked the palm of the sword-hunting white tiger.
“How about that, Destiny? Pretty impressive, right~?”
The sword-hunting white tiger’s claws trembled. Clearly it was still trying to exert force, but the recently injured Isis was smiling and showing off her power to Lifa.
Horrifying.
“Hmm?”
Seeing that Lifa did not answer for a long time, Isis let out a long questioning hum.
“V-very impressive.”
Destiny… was that calling her?
Lifa answered somewhat haltingly. When her gaze moved to Isis’s face, her earlier confusion had turned into a hint of fear.
The Isis she saw now exuded an air of carelessness and wildness completely opposite to her usual aloofness and restraint.
Especially her face. Her originally ice-beauty-like beautiful visage now appeared somewhat eerie due to the blood-red from her eyes spreading from her cheeks down to her neck.
“Hehe~”
Isis’s eyes under her white hair narrowed. She casually shook back the sword-hunting white tiger, using the loud crash of its body hitting the trees as background sound.
Her hand that had been stroking Lifa’s hair stopped, then turned to pinch the girl’s chin and lift it little by little.
Silk.
“Of course it’s impressive. After all, it’s the body of a Hero plus the demon, mmph—”
Isis—or rather, the temporarily freed Casalima—stopped speaking abruptly.
“M-Master…”
Lifa finally understood that Ron’s preparations were exactly for guarding against this moment.
“Lifa, activate the defensive spell on the Thorn Blade.”
As the sword-hunting white tiger got up again and adjusted its stance, Ron, who had been silent since the start of this battle, supported Isis whose gaze was sometimes confused and sometimes clear.
“Isis, now is the best opportunity. Wake up.”
Without a doubt, the battle against the sword-hunting white tiger still depended on Isis.
And for Isis to exert her power as much as possible, she had no choice but to use the power that had been eroded by the Demon King.
The sudden reversal of the situation made the sword-hunting white tiger, which had returned to the battlefield, pace in the distance. This tiger’s roar was not only out of anger but also to summon other demonic beasts.
“They really are persistent…”
Ron’s words had a double meaning: not only referring to the demonic beasts, but also to the remnant soul of the Demon King inside Isis.
The Hero’s life-risking struggle could buy the temporary compromise and release of power from Casalima, but along with the power came further erosion by the Demon King.
The effect of the wish magic was also nearly at its limit.
“So it was just a final burst?”
Misunderstanding the situation with Isis, the King of Demonic Beasts approached again with large strides.
With Ron, Lifa, and Isis at the center, more and more demonic beasts began to emerge from the surrounding dense forest, surrounding the three.
“Defensive spell… deploy!”
The retained spell on the Thorn Blade was activated. A barrier constructed of thorns rose from the ground around Ron and Lifa. But compared to the ferocious demonic beasts, such a defense appeared far too thin and weak.
Lifa, having completed this task, prepared to seek Ron’s next instructions, but discovered she was not the only one looking at the teacher.
“Mr. Ron.”
Isis, the Hero who could now exert part of her true strength, had many things she wanted to say, but in the end, she only nodded lightly after calling his name.
“Go ahead. Get the origin crystal first.”
Ron’s voice was very weak. The amplification effect of using the soul dagger for the second time was much worse than the first.
The replenished mental energy had been mostly used up again while suppressing Casalima just now.
After the previous battle, several parts of the robe on Isis’s body had turned into loose strips of cloth.
Fluttering in the wind, making a rustling sound.
“Hero, is this all your true strength?”
Unwilling to be outdone, the sword-hunting white tiger stepped onto a fallen ancient tree.
Although its overlooking posture still did not diminish the prestige of the king of demonic beasts, it could also clearly see the fear of the other demonic beasts around.
“Let me take the origin crystal, and you won’t die.”
“Absolutely not.”
Bang
The hero’s sword was pulled out from the ground again.
Isis held the sword with one hand, attempting to adjust the various functions of her body.
Ron and Lifa then saw Isis disappear from where she stood and reappear in the air just above the head of the sword-hunting white tiger.
Severely injuring a powerful demonic beast that had entered the seventh rank and could destroy a weak kingdom was as easy and fast as the wind blowing a fallen leaf.
“Descending Light.”
Stab, twist.
A ring of specks of light rose around the sword-hunting white tiger’s head. Under circumstances it could not understand, its massive body was torn apart as if pierced by thousands of arrows from those light specks.
It’s over.
“J-just like that, it’s settled?”
The true power of the youngest Hero in history once again refreshed Lifa’s understanding.
Even in previous battles, she could still learn something from Isis, but this battle ended in a completely incomprehensible manner.
“Mm, it’s solved.”
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