After witnessing the massive corpse of the Ancient Hydra lying helplessly at the bottom of the destroyed crater, the atmosphere among Sylvia, Stacia, and Alicia became a strange mix of deep satisfaction and reflective silence. The Hydra's body, which reached 25 meters in length, was now completely motionless. Its blackish-green scales were scorched and cracked like skin burned by hellfire. Its four majestic heads hung limply without life, its mouths full of sharp teeth gaping emptily, and thick black blood that had dried formed large pools on the melted stone beneath it. Sylvia's devastating explosion yesterday had apparently destroyed the legendary creature's life core from within, though its death process had been slow and painful until it finally died without being able to regenerate.
