“Stun them with your roar! And beat your opponents flat!”
“DEEEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEN!”
Deen stomped through the ground and began its charge. Grabbing the masked heads of two Titans within its reach, it smashed the back of their skulls together.
The warriors of the Titan tribe couldn’t help but give a roar in anger.
“Gahouhouhouhouhouhou---!”
The titans tried to escape the grasp of the Steel arms, but Deen’s unnatural power wasn’t about to be moved by such an effort. Not releasing its hold on the titans in its right and left hands, it proceeded to smash them together repeatedly to the point where its opponents have lost consciousness.
And with that, Deen raised an unconscious titan.
“Toss him out!”
“DEEEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEN!”
Under Asuka’s command, Deen tossed the titan in one of its hand at another titan.
The titan must have been too stunned to register what was happening. It would seem that they had never thought of the possibility that their comrade could be tossed into the air with arms and legs flailing like he were dancing in mid-air and collide right into his own chest.
The two Titans who were tangled with each other seemed to have become a tumbler[9] as they rolled and bounced all the way to the middle of the large river.
Witnessing the great battle from the air, Yō had forgotten to provide assistance and merely gaped in a daze.
“Deen’s……really impressive!”
Yō had heard of how Deen made a quick job out of the Demon Lord cronies previously and had predicted a certain amount of battle strength that it needed to do that.
But the actual ability had far exceeded her imagination. The warriors of the Titan tribe didn’t stand a chance against the Red Steel doll that was at its full power. And it had already put down three of the Titan tribe within moments.
The heroic performance gave a boost to the spirit of the [Underwood] defenders.
Judging it to be a victorious turning point, a person in the Great Tree unfurled the banner of the [Draco Greif] Alliance and lit torches to brighten it up.
Sala also began to speed up her wrestling with the three Titans and swung her red hair that seemed to burn with crimson flames back as she shouted:
“If you let your guests protect the [Host], this would be our lifelong embarrassment! All members of the [Draco Greif] Alliance! Stand strong and hold your respective stations and change the tide!”
Roars of the emboldened warriors erupted in the battlefield as they replied to her chiding with much fervor. The various Communities that had returned to their orderly thoughts started to gather in their formations under the Flag and started to resume their respective missions.
[One Horn] and [Five Claws] moved forth to the frontlines and roared as they attacked the invaders.
[Two Wings] and [Four Footed] pulled the two wheeled war chariots as they provided support.
[Three Tails] and [Six Scars] were in charge of stretchering the injured away from the frontlines and providing item support.[10]
Facing the [Draco Greif] members that were getting more organized in their attacks, the Titan tribe was slowly being pushed back and had started to retreat as well.
Yō who was observing the battle situation had thought that the result was already clear by then. But---
In that moment, the sound of a stringed instrument being played could be heard from the field.
“……Huh?”
Yō couldn't react in time as a dense fog began to cover the surroundings. The battlefield below had also been shrouded by the fog.
The strange fog had even appeared in front of Yō’s eyes when she was about a thousand meters above ground.
And that made the sense of sight useless.
“How did it suddenly……”
“Oh no!”
Yō suddenly jerked her head down to look below.
The three Titans that had originally targeted Sala were now targeting Asuka and Deen as they launched their attacks. And what made things worse was the fact that the other Titan tribe members had thrown lots of chains around Deen’s body, causing it to be slower in its actions.
If Deen’s movements were entirely locked down, Asuka would become defenseless.
“Asuka---!”
Yō wrapped herself with whirlwinds as she descended rapidly. Placing all her energy to increase her speed to the maximum Yō then assessed the information stored within the [Genome Tree] to increase her mass to the heaviest recorded mass of an animal that she had befriended.
Bringing her full force into the strike that had created lots of shockwaves in her descent…
“Gahouhouhouhouhouhou---!”
However, she was swept aside by the huge arm that collided into her side.
“……WHAT?!”
It was just as simple a gesture as swatting a fly.
The crowned and masked Titan had easily deflected the strike that Yō had pumped all her energy into.
Yō managed to pull herself into a defensive position to protect herself, albeit with much difficulty and she collided with the surface of the big river, skipping along the surface before landing on the other side of the bank. Due to her use of wind to cushion her impacts, she hadn’t sustained any serious injuries. If it were to be land that she first smashed into, there’s no telling how serious an injury she might have sustained.
Moreover, the reason why she was able to take on that attack without injuries was due to the fact that Yō’s body was strengthened beyond that of a normal human.
[If Asuka were to receive such an attack……]
Surely---her slender body would be beaten to pulp.
Yō shook her head to rid herself of that worst possible scenario.
Whipping up a whirlwind to start her flight, Yō tried to rush back to Asuka’s side as fast as she could.
Though Yō had the sight of an eagle, but visibility on the ground was too poor with everything shrouded in dense fog. Even while flying close to the ground at her maximum speed, she could only rely on her ears that picked up sharp sounds of metals clashing and the roars of the Titan tribe. In addition to the poor sight, she was also getting confused by the smells and it was clear that this was a Gift used by the invaders.
[If it’s like this……]
Yō suddenly ascended rapidly and stopped in mid-air.
Since the fog is the result of a Gift’s power, we can only use the power of a Gift to counter it.
Spreading her arms, Yō started to collect all the winds into her palms.
[Though I’ve not tried any tricks other than flight……but I’m sure I can do it---!]
No. It must succeed no matter what.
If she couldn’t succeed, Asuka’s life would be in danger.
“Da…Damn it……Disperse them all---!”
The tornado that moved along the water level of the river gave a rumbling roar as it started to move forth. And it wasn’t long after that it started to suck up the fog along the funnel and up into the sky.
Though the thought was sound, the effectiveness was lacking and the dense fog showed no signs of dissipating. Yō had thought that her efforts had all been for naught when her ears picked up the roars of Eudemons that have witnessed her actions.
“---GEYAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Seeming to respond to Yō, the battlefield was suddenly filled with a large amount of whirlwinds. Though the roars of the Eudemons were unable to be understood by people who lacked the capacity to speak in their language, but they were all understandable to Yō’s ears.
[It’s Gry and his comrades……]
Thanking him in her heart, Yō took the chance to sprint forward as the fog was dissipating.
Just as she was praying hard to make it in time when she reached the battlefield---
She found that Asuka was still fine, causing Yō to feel as though she had worked for nothing.
“Asuka!”
“Ka……Kasukabe-san……Ya!”
Yō who felt so relieved that she forgot to stop her speed, knocked into Asuka and they fell to the ground. Though it was lucky that Asuka was on the floor and not on Deen’s shoulder that a tragedy did not happen, but she still couldn’t avoid falling to the ground on her butt.
“This’s great! To be able to get through that kind of situation without a scratch. You really are great, Asuka!”
“Though I would really like to answer that with a [Of course, do you really need to ask me that?], but in reality, it wasn’t me who defeated the enemies.”
“Eh?”
“……Just look around you and you will understand.”
Under the urging of Asuka’s solemn voice, Yō looked around to confirm the situation.
The fog was dissipating and the shadow of a human figure was becoming more visible. As for the Titan tribe---
“---How is it possible……”
When the fog had dissipated, she noted that the Titan tribe---had been annihilated.
They had been gutted by a sharp blade that cleanly slit open their skulls, necks, hearts and none had been allowed to become anything other than corpses on the ground. The main force of the invaders should also be amongst the dead, the trio that had worn crowns and held accessories like the sceptres.
……Yō was sure that she had arrived beside Asuka’s side within a minute.
But the Titan tribe on these parts of the battle field had all been wiped out with the same type of technique.
“Could it be……all the Titan tribe was…….by one person……who in the world is it?”
This reality was a great shock to Yō as she drew a sharp intake of breath.
To be able to wipe out the Titan Tribe in such a short period of time. That was surely an act that far exceeded one’s imagination.
Amongst the people that Yō knew of, only one could have managed this monster like feat---
“---You aren’t hurt, right?”
“Eh…… Eh?’
Yō immediately came to her senses. Though she had heightened her alertness due to the sudden voice, she immediately dismissed it in the next moment. This was definitely not because of her willingness to dismiss it.
But it was because Yō could understand with just one look---Though the owner of the voice wasn’t a beast man, neither was she an Eudemon nor a Lesser Dragon.
It was she, this woman who had killed all of the Titan