One month later, the young girl waved her hand and dropped a small spark. The Fire Dragon before her, which possessed the defense skill
The moment she returned to the temporary base, the girl was attacked. A small, agile figure swung a pair of front claws as sharp as scythes and launched an attack at her. Before launching the attack, this monster hadn't leaked a single bit of its presence, like a legendary master assassin; surely no one could dodge its strike while off guard. The girl knew deep down that she could never confront this creature, which crushed her in attributes, head-on. So, she calmly activated magic: the shadow-type magic Shadow Step, which can ignore all physical damage. After dodging the attack, she followed up with the light-type magic Flash, blinding the opponent and taking away their vision.
The attacking monster landed on the ground and revealed its true form. The Flash, now leveled up to the maximum, had an absolute blinding effect, but this monster possessed extremely high perception-type skills, so the time gained was only a fleeting moment. The girl used an Evil Eye—the Petrification Evil Eye. Once the monster was hit by the Evil Eye, its body began to gradually turn to stone. However, the Petrification Evil Eye ultimately belonged to the control and distraction category; it was unrealistic to expect to completely petrify or even kill the target. The fact was, upon realizing it had been hit by the Evil Eye, the monster decisively cut off the parts that had begun to petrify and then used high-speed movement to prevent the girl's Evil Eye from locking onto its silhouette. Without being able to accurately sight the target, the Evil Eye skill could not be activated.
But the preparations were already complete. A brilliant red light radiated from the girl's body as vast mana condensed into powerful elements. She activated the Fire Magic Purgatory, which has an absolute hit rate within a certain range. As long as the opponent was within the range of her mana field, this instant-cast magic was absolutely unavoidable. The girl's mana range was now the size of a basketball court. Within this field, she could indiscriminately ignite flames from within anyone's body. Unless the opponent possessed an instant-cast spatial displacement skill, it would be absolutely impossible to escape from her Purgatory!
"..."
The monster's body stiffened, and sparks of fire erupted all over it. Then it quickly leaped backward, and a gate opened in the air—that was spatial magic. The opponent used this method to dodge the girl's killing blow. Moreover, the gate's opening appeared above the girl's head, and in the next moment, the monster landed on the girl's head, its claws pressed against her mud-stained neck. The battle ended with the girl's defeat, but she showed little emotion about it. After all, the disparity in strength was immense. If anything, she was quite satisfied with the results of her training, having been able to exchange several moves with the opponent like this.
Spider Child retracted her claws and crawled down from Classmate Tsukasa. She could feel Classmate Tsukasa's body trembling slightly as she crawled; it seemed Classmate Tsukasa still hadn't been able to get used to such things. Although Classmate Tsukasa hadn't told her outright, Spider Child could tell from some of her actions that she was a girl who wasn't good with crawling insects. However, the appearance of this clone of hers should be that of a very cute little thing, right? Classmate Tsukasa's allergic reaction made her a little sad, but she quite liked how Classmate Tsukasa didn't show those feelings, showing a considerate side.
"Well done. You have now reached the standard for entering the Demon Lords Army." Spider Child felt that with Classmate Tsukasa's current strength, she should be able to exchange a few moves with that Vampire she kept at home. Given sufficient preparation, she might even be able to heavily wound that arrogant Vampire, though she was still a bit short of defeating her due to the large gap in attributes and level.
But in short, she could enter the Demon Lords Army.
Hearing Wakaba-san's words, Tsukasa's heart—
She looked at Wakaba-san with somewhat complicated feelings; she hadn't expected Wakaba-san's hellish training to have such a powerful effect. Although that dark cuisine didn't grant her much resistance, instead giving her the two not-so-useful skills
It was no exaggeration to say that her current self could completely insta-kill her former self. Even the Godwind Tiger King that had ambushed her back then was no longer her match. Now, in the dungeon, only those of the Dragon race were monsters she couldn't defeat; even social monsters like the Crocodile-mouthed Apes were no longer her match. As long as her MP remained, any target with stats not much different from hers or even slightly higher was just cannon fodder that could be handled with a single Purgatory. Her magic was just that powerful. According to Wakaba-san, her skill tree seemed to have undergone a certain mutation. Under Wakaba-san's explanation, she understood that the way people of this world learned magic was different from hers. People of this world learned magic by directly acquiring a specific magic skill; in other words, the Fireball they learned was just a simple Fireball. Magic series were just magic series, and unlocking a series allowed one to learn the magic skills within that series.
But her situation was different from others; the skills she acquired were actually series. Her skill display was Fire Magic, rather than Fireball or Purgatory. Wakaba-san said that the level-up of this skill of hers seemed to directly improve her magic talent. The reason her average stats exceeded the average stats for this level also seemed to be caused by this mutated skill tree. Generally speaking, stats are improved through leveling up and training. For monsters, they can improve through racial evolution, but the human race only has the first two methods. Skill level-ups don't contribute much to basic stats, and might not even increase them at all. Therefore, her stats were quite abnormal; at least, they weren't stats a normal person could possess. That should be the influence of the mutated skill tree and her Fairy Race skills.
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