“Red Maru, well done!”
On a cliff several hundred meters high, a petite loli with a childish face who looked less than ten years old bounced her short legs and jumped directly off the cliff, running 'puff puff' to Red Maru's side, tiptoeing to pat Red Maru's arm.
Her tender and lovely face carried a look of gratification, just like a leader inspecting the work of a subordinate.
Subsequently, amidst Red Maru's bewildered expression, Luo Yina ran to the Air Swimming Giant that Red Maru had blasted away into the forest, grabbed its tail, and effortlessly dragged the Air Swimming Giant, which was nearly twenty meters in size, away.
Before leaving, she even glanced at the Air Swimming Giant, which still had a breath left, and gave it a kick with her little foot.
“.......”
Red Maru's mouth twitched as he watched Luo Yina drag the Air Swimming Giant away.
At this moment, the Air Swimming Giant's huge head had already caved in for the most part.
His full-force attack of 【Black Flame Hell】 had only stunned the Air Swimming Giant.
Despite its entire body turning black, it hadn't actually suffered much damage.
However, Luo Yina's casual kick had easily killed the Air Swimming Giant.
Most importantly, Luo Yina had maintained a relaxed demeanor from beginning to end, as if killing the Air Swimming Giant was as simple as breathing.
“Bai Lao is really wasteful.”
On the cliff, Lu Minghao rested his chin on his hand, watching Luo Yina running towards them from below, then raised his head and looked into the distance.
There, an Air Swimming Giant had been directly cut into thumb-sized pieces by Bai Lao, completely inedible.
“Master, Luo Yina is back!”
At this moment, Luo Yina, down on the cliff, raised her small hand and waved it at Lu Minghao above, and the next second, Luo Yina squatted down slightly, and visible cracks in the ground spread out from Luo Yina as the center.
Boom!
In an instant, Luo Yina's body soared into the sky, her small hand tightly gripping the Air Swimming Giant in her hand as she flew up, landing heavily beside Lu Minghao and Limuru, and the Air Swimming Giant's huge body kicked up a lot of dust upon landing.
“Hehe!”
Once the dust settled, Luo Yina hopped and skipped to Lu Minghao's side, blinking her big eyes and looking at Lu Minghao with a wanting-to-be-praised expression, tilting her little head slightly and snuggling up to Lu Minghao's hand.
“Luo Yina is awesome, and Canghua, I'm counting on you.”
“Yes.”
Canghua glanced at Lu Minghao, who was gently stroking Luo Yina's hair, nodded, and walked to the Air Swimming Giant's side, skillfully taking out various tools and seasonings, and began to make dishes with the Air Swimming Giant as the main ingredient.
Beside Canghua, Milim, who had been enviously watching Hong Maru and the others play with the Storm Demon Vortex, now ran to Canghua's side with anticipation, watching the Air Swimming Giant being prepared.
“Hmm, running in the sky, when did Ranga learn this skill?”
At this moment, Limuru, who was being held in Zhu Cai's arms, suddenly looked towards the front of the Storm Demon Vortex in the sky.
There, Ranga was running at high speed in the sky, rapidly approaching the last Floating Giant beside the Storm Demon Vortex, and atop Ranga's head, Ziyuan, holding a long knife, stared intently at the approaching Floating Giant.
“This time, I must make a great contribution and gain Lord Limuru's attention!”
“Yes, I agree with your opinion.”
In the sky, during the exchange between Ziyuan and Ranga, they had successfully arrived above the last Floating Giant.
At this moment, Ranga and Ziyuan exchanged glances, and Ziyuan directly leaped down from Ranga's head, a purple light shimmering on the long knife in her hand.
“Severing Head Demon Blade!”
Accompanied by Ziyuan's loud shout, the purple light on the long knife in her hand instantly solidified into a substantial light blade, heavily slashing onto a fin of the Floating Giant.
Purple light flashed, and the Floating Giant's nearly five-meter-long fin was instantly cut off.
In the distance, Ranga, seeing this and confirming that his attack would not affect the falling Ziyuan, roared to the sky, the single horn on his head flashing with black lightning, and in an instant, the entire body of the Floating Giant was enveloped in lightning.
When the lightning dissipated, the Floating Giant, with black smoke rising from its body and already three-tenths cooked, flew towards the forest below and fell.
Seeing this, Ranga let out a long howl and ran towards the falling Ziyuan, successfully catching her before she fell.
“Then the rest….”
Ziyuan raised her head and looked at the Storm Demon Vortex opposite her with a faint smile.
In front of its massive body, which resembled an aerial fortress, Ziyuan and Ranga were like small ants.
Under the enormous difference in size between the two sides, Ziyuan and Ranga's expressions gradually became serious.
“Let's see just how strong it is!”
Ranga raised his head, looking at the Storm Demon Vortex's oppressive body, the long fangs at the corners of his mouth emitting a faint light in the sunlight.
Even with such a huge difference, Ranga did not flinch in the slightest, and even his body began to become eager to try.
“This is Ranga's momentum.”
Ziyuan chuckled and raised the long knife in her hand, aiming it at the Storm Demon Vortex in front of her.
At the same time, Ranga's strong and powerful limbs began to run rapidly, quickly approaching the Storm Demon Vortex in front of him.
On the other side, Hong Maru, Bai Lao, Krut, Cangying and others, who had already dealt with the other Air Swimming Giants, also began to quickly approach the Storm Demon Vortex.
“Is only the Storm Demon Vortex left? But speaking of which, no matter how many times I look at it, it's really big!”
On the cliff, Limuru looked at the only remaining Storm Demon Vortex and the all-out attack launched by Hong Maru and the others, and couldn't help but sigh.
Then he put the skewers he had finished eating next to him and turned his head to look at Lu Minghao and his group, who were picnicking, with a speechless expression.
These guys don't have any sense of urgency at all.
Hong Maru and the others are fighting the enemy!
They are actually having a picnic here, and it's so delicious, damn it (〃＞皿＜)!
“Lord Limuru, would you like some more?”
At this moment, the faint aroma of grilled meat wafted into Limuru's nose, and Canghua raised a plate of freshly prepared grilled meat and placed it in front of Limuru, asking.
“.....Yes!”
After a second of silence, Limuru silently took the grilled meat from Canghua's hand, and incidentally criticized Lu Minghao and his group again for picnicking in the battlefield.
As for him, of course, he had to taste it carefully before he could find a reason to criticize Lu Minghao and the others.
“Huh?”
Suddenly, Limuru, who had just swallowed a piece of grilled meat, raised his head and looked at the sky.
At this moment, the Storm Demon Vortex was constantly flashing red light, but no matter how Hong Maru and the others attacked, they did not cause any damage to the Storm Demon Vortex.
But that wasn't important.
What was important was that Limuru felt the huge magic essence within the Storm Demon Vortex's body was rapidly gathering, it was about to counterattack!
“Hong Maru, Ziyuan, Ranga, Cangying, stay away, the Storm Demon Vortex is about to attack!”
Relying on [Thought Connection], Limuru instantly told Hong Maru and the others, who were attacking, what he had discovered.
At the same time, Hong Maru and the others, who had received Limuru's reminder, also became vigilant and instinctively retreated from the Storm Demon Vortex's huge body.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
Just as Hong Maru and the others had just left the Storm Demon Vortex's body, suddenly, in the shocked eyes of Hong Maru and the others, the huge scales on the Storm Demon Vortex's body stood up and aimed at them.
The next second, countless scales detached from the Storm Great Demon Vortex's body, gathering together in mid-air. A dark, oppressive mass instantly engulfed Benimaru and the others, knocking them out of the sky upon the briefest contact.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
On the ochre earth, Benimaru and the others crashed heavily into the ground. But before they could recover from the attack, they forced themselves up from the craters, enduring the pain.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The instant Benimaru and the others left their original positions, countless scales, each nearly half a meter in size, pierced the ground like sharp swords. Had they been a second slower, they would have been sliced into pieces.
“Here they come again!”
Souei shouted to Benimaru and the others. Above them, countless scales rained down like a storm, instantly filling the ground in front of them. Forests were shredded to pieces in their wake.
“Damn it, I can’t dodge them all!”
Souei darted around, evading the incoming scales, but his speed wasn't enough to perfectly avoid every single one. In less than a second, he had been cut with numerous wounds.
“Evade? How weak!”
Shion, watching Souei dodge the attacks, roared and raised her long sword, slashing apart the incoming scales. Unfortunately, before she could even feel cool, several scales slipped past her strikes and slammed into her body.
Instantly, crimson blood bloomed on Shion's body. A massive scale pierced through her and embedded itself in the ground, its blue edge stained with blood. Shion's body crashed heavily beside it.
“Cough, cough!”
Badly wounded, Shion struggled to rise, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood. Her once strong and vigorous body had become incredibly weak, barely able to stand straight, relying on her long sword for support.
“Damn it!”
Shion looked down at her abdomen, which was almost completely sliced open. If she hadn't reinforced it with magic essence at the last second, she would have been cut in half. Even now, her abdomen was mostly cleaved open, and her internal organs were severely damaged.
The next second, before Shion could even catch her breath, a large number of scales rained down from the sky again. Seeing this, she braced herself and raised her long sword to counterattack, but the pain caused her to falter. In that instant, countless scales were already above her head.
“Awoo!!!”
Just as Shion was about to be shredded into minced meat, Ranga's massive body appeared, shielding her. With a roar, black lightning instantly shattered most of the scales, and Ranga used his body to block the remaining few, suffering only minor injuries due to his thick fur.
However, even more scales swirled in the sky, completely shrouding it. In this situation, Benimaru and the others, already injured to varying degrees, faced certain death.
“Souei, use [Shadow Move] to escape. I'll hold them off. Benimaru, take Shion and go!”
Ranga looked up at the rapidly swirling scales and the massive Storm Great Demon Vortex above, then lowered his head to look at the severely injured Shion and Souei behind him. His eyes gradually hardened as he spoke to Benimaru and the others, word by word.
“How can I? Are you trying to die, Ranga?”
Behind him, the heavily injured Shion, upon hearing Ranga's words, staggered to her feet and stood in front of him, raising her bloodstained long sword to face the countless scales approaching from the sky.
“Just leave this place to me, you guys…”
“Heh heh heh! Lord Rimuru would probably choose the side with the highest chance of survival.”
Ranga opened his mouth, bit Shion who was staggering in front of him, and threw her to Benimaru behind him. He looked up at the scales attacking again from the sky and said that compared to Shion and Benimaru, who were seriously injured and unable to move in the sky, he had the highest survival rate if he stayed behind.
“Survival rate, huh? Then I'll stay too. But don't get me wrong, I'll have my main body retreat before I die, don't misunderstand.”
Souei chuckled and walked to Ranga's side, casually waving to Shion and Benimaru behind him. In reality, he was prepared to die here. He was just saying that so Benimaru and Shion could leave without feeling burdened.
“Then let's survive together!”
Shion, held by Benimaru, looked at Ranga and Souei in front of her. She struggled to sit up in Benimaru's arms, gripped her long sword, and prepared to leave the moment Ranga and Souei held off the Storm Great Demon Vortex's attack. She knew that staying here in her injured state would only be a burden. Only by leaving as soon as possible would Ranga and Souei have a better chance of surviving.
At the same time, the Storm Great Demon Vortex, which had been motionless in the sky, suddenly stirred. Its single eye, nearly ten meters in size, glowed with a scarlet light. Instantly, all the scales swirling in the sky flew towards Benimaru and the others below.
“Let’s go!”
“Yeah!”
Facing the Storm Great Demon Vortex's attack, Souei and Ranga charged forward. Benimaru followed closely behind them, while the seriously injured Shion, realizing there was no hope of escape, raised her long sword and charged as well.
“Hey, hey! Are you guys hardheaded or something? Don't you know to call for help when you encounter someone you can't beat?”
“Yeah, Minghao is right, you guys are really idiots. Can't you rely on us at times like this!”
Suddenly, Lu Minghao and Rimuru appeared in front of Benimaru and the others. Lu Minghao looked helplessly at the few people below who were already prepared to die. These guys were just too stubborn. They were obviously not far away, wouldn't it be nice to call for help when they were about to die?
If the same situation were to happen to Lu Minghao, he would probably call everyone over and have a righteous beatdown with the Storm Great Demon Vortex. He wouldn't play any deathmatches. Didn't they know it's better to be alive?
“Minghao, I'm counting on you to take care of them.”
The next second, Rimuru turned his head and said to Lu Minghao beside him, gently flapping his wings and flying directly towards the Storm Great Demon Vortex.
“This guy, couldn’t he have destroyed these things before he left? I don’t have a hobby of eating fish scales.”
Watching Rimuru leave and the many scales flying towards him, Lu Minghao ignited viscous, mud-like blood-red flames in his hand. With a gentle wave, [Gluttonous Flame] transformed into a curtain, enveloping the entire sky, burning all the scales to ashes.
After casually clearing all the scales, Lu Minghao threw a few bottles of perfect recovery medicine to Benimaru and the others, then gently moved his body and flew to the top of Rimuru's personal mount, Ranga, sitting on the soft wolf fur and looking up at Rimuru's battle with the Storm Great Demon Vortex.
