"Please guide me, Lady Egui Peng."
The first to enter the arena was Hong Maru, the young master of the Great Ogre Clan.
He held a samurai sword, his burly figure, nearly 2.5 meters tall, standing before Egui Peng like a small mountain.
However, despite such a huge size difference,
it was Hong Maru who was truly nervous, not Egui Peng.
"Alone?"
Peng Peng tilted her head, her playful and adorable appearance immediately winning the affection of countless Great Ogre Clan members.
'My Peng Peng, so cute.'
Bai Luo, along with the Red Ogre leader and Bai Luo, came to a high vantage point at the edge of the arena, where the view was excellent.
From here, they could more clearly observe the battle between Egui Peng and the Great Ogre Clan.
"I want to know how big the gap still is between me and a true A-rank!"
"A-rank?"
Hearing Hong Maru's words, Egui Peng tilted her head.
But Peng Peng was not A-rank.
Her magic essence level was indeed A, but her true combat power was definitely at the Special A level.
If Hong Maru intended to use Egui Peng as a reference for an A-rank demon, then this time, he was probably going to be devastated.
"Please enlighten me!"
Hong Maru, still unaware that he had underestimated Egui Peng's strength, had already raised his samurai sword and assumed a mid-stance.
"Alright."
"Then, as you wish..."
Egui Peng raised her head, the green thorn vine stick spinning in her hand as if it weighed nothing.
A-rank or not, it didn't matter.
Egui Peng's only goal was to gain experience points from Hong Maru.
"Are you ready?"
"Rea..."
"Swish!"
However, almost at the instant Hong Maru's words fell, the Great Ogre Clan's young master's pupils sharply contracted.
The next moment, Egui Peng's figure vanished from Hong Maru's sight without warning.
Fast!
So fast that among all the Great Ogre Clan members in the entire village, only Bai Luo barely managed to catch a glimpse of Egui Peng's moving shadow.
"What?"
By the time Hong Maru reacted, he only felt a monstrous force, like a mountain toppling, assailing him from the front.
The burly red-haired Ogre instinctively tried to block with his sword.
But Egui Peng's thorn vine stick was one step ahead, stopping right in front of his face.
"Boom!!"
Before Hong Maru could recover from his shock, he was met with the fierce wind pressure generated by Egui Peng's single blow.
Thus, everyone only saw Hong Maru being violently sent flying, smashing through several wooden houses, and disappearing at the end of the street.
"This..."
For a moment, all the Ogres stood dumbfounded.
The entire field was silent, as if they hadn't recovered from Egui Peng's seemingly ordinary blow just now.
What happened?
They only saw Egui Peng suddenly disappear and then suddenly reappear.
Then their young master flew backward like a meteor and then fell unconscious.
'High-speed movement?'
'No!'
The Ogre elder standing beside Bai Luo was startled by his own guess: 'Is it spatial jump? She actually possessed such a skill?'
'But what about that monstrous force wrapped around the stick?'
Bai Luo was rich in combat experience; in the original work, he deduced the source of Rimuru's skills through a brief encounter with him.
But this time, Bai Luo said he didn't understand.
"Young Master!!!"
Finally, some Ogres realized what had happened.
They anxiously rushed in the direction Hong Maru had flown.
After some searching, everyone finally dug out the unconscious Hong Maru from the ruins.
"Young Master?"
"Young Master, are you alright? Young Master?!!!"
Fortunately, there was an experienced physician in the village.
The physician stepped forward to examine Hong Maru's condition and found that he had simply fallen into a coma, with not many injuries on his body.
"He's just unconscious."
The physician said, "Most of the young master's injuries are superficial, and with our Ogre Clan's recovery ability, he will heal quickly."
"Phew~~"
Hearing the physician's diagnosis, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
And after the initial panic, what emerged from the hearts of the Ogres was admiration for Egui Peng's power and astonishment at her effortless skill.
"So amazing!"
"Lady Egui Peng is not only powerful, but her control over her strength has reached such a level!"
"Unbelievable."
"This is the first time I've seen anyone other than the old man do something like this."
The old man the Ogres referred to was naturally Bai Luo.
However, even Bai Luo would find it difficult to achieve Egui Peng's delicate technique of injuring without killing.
This involved too many technical aspects, unimaginable to ordinary people.
Bai Luo didn't know that this was precisely a martial art from the Konosuba World, which, after being transformed by the Cardinal World's rules, formed a completely new professional system.
Before this, the Cardinal World had no similar skills.
It was no exaggeration to say that in terms of martial arts attainment alone, Egui Peng had already reached the pinnacle of the Cardinal World, with only a very few grandmaster-level humans being able to compare.
Bai Luo's swordsmanship had almost reached the grandmaster realm.
However, he was too old, and his spirit was willing but his flesh was weak.
"Don't worry, Peng Peng held back."
Bai Luo: "Bring him over."
With such destruction just now, Hong Maru only sustained such minor injuries, which absolutely meant Egui Peng had held back.
Soon, the unconscious Hong Maru was brought before Bai Luo.
"Healing Spell!"
Bai Luo raised his hand, and golden magic essence sprinkled down; Hong Maru's injuries immediately healed at a visible speed.
This miraculous scene once again drew gasps of astonishment from the Great Ogre Clan.
"The injuries have healed; he will wake up in a little while."
After treating Hong Maru, Bai Luo looked at Bai Luo and asked, "With your experience, old man, can you discern the profoundness of Peng Peng's blow just now?"
"This old man is foolish."
Bai Luo shook his head and sighed, "I failed to grasp the profundity of Lady Ogre Princess's move; please enlighten this old man, Mr. Bai Luo."
The old man did not voice his guess.
He had originally thought that Egui Peng had used some kind of spatial jump skill, which allowed her to instantly cross dozens of meters and appear before Hong Maru.
But soon, this conjecture was overturned by Bai Luo.
It wasn't spatial teleportation.
Egui Peng's method of movement belonged to a realm Bai Luo couldn't comprehend.
It was a bizarre method he had never imagined.
"It's destruction."
Bai Luo didn't make it difficult for Bai Luo, explaining the profoundness of Egui Peng's blow just now to the two of them: "Peng Peng possesses the power to completely destroy anything she touches."