【The Rise of the Ugly Monster】 The Survival Competition on the Early Winter Plateau
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"N'eeeeeeh!?"
After declaring her intention to kill the giant monsters, the first thing Emi did was... grab his body and throw it high into the sky.
(S-So fast!? So high!?)
Of course, he easily understood that this was an emergency evacuation for his safety, but even so, she threw him too high!
When he reached an altitude where the bodies of the giant monsters looked like tiny beans, he used 【Poison Liquid Manipulation】 to stop his ascent and began to float there.
Of course, he had no intention of going down.
On the ground, a fierce battle had already begun.
From his position in the sky, the creature that looked like a tiny black dot... in other words, Emi, somehow created a super-giant, dark black greatsword.
And she swung it in a horizontal sweep.
The giant Noshiterukecchi, which was within the attack range, had its giant body severed in two with the first move, and was the first to be cut down.
What was terrifying... was that the attack was carried out while involving a wide area of the forest.
With a single swing of Emi's greatsword, a section of the forest of the Plateau of Behemoths was blown away, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a vacant lot...
(...Absolutely! I'm not going down! Absolutely!)
He trembled and decided to remain in the air.
If he got caught in it, he would definitely die.
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"RAAAAAAH!!"
Emi, who had slain the giant Noshiterukecchi, immediately unwove the tentacles that had formed the 【Black Greatsword】 and formed a 【Black Arm】.
And while spinning round and round with the momentum of swinging the 【Black Greatsword】 with all her might, she extended the 【Black Arm】 above her head...
And deflected the right leg of the giant tiger that had been brought down, to the side!
"GAAAH!?"
A blow taking advantage of an opening.
The giant tiger, which had not expected it to be parried, momentarily lost its footing and stumbled.
Emi, towards the face of such a giant tiger, released the fist of the 【Black Arm】.
A right straight with a giant fist!
It cut through the wind with furious momentum and was about to strike the giant tiger's cheek... but it didn't.
"SSHAAAH!!"
Because the jet-black giant snake had interfered.
"Gu..."
"GAAAH!?"
A "moving wall" that knocked down the trees of the forest while colliding with Emi and the giant tiger.
It was the tail of the giant snake, which was absurdly giant and long!
Emi, who was light, was sent flying sideways by the horizontal sweep of the giant snake's tail.
A normal person would have had their body burst from the impact and would not be surprised to die, but this was Emi.
Although she was sent flying, it seems the damage wasn't that great, and without any particular change in her expression, she spun round and round in the air, extended a 【Black Tentacle】 and stabbed it into the ground to kill her momentum.
On the other hand, the giant tiger, although it grimaced in pain, was not sent flying.
It hadn't even fallen.
It had taken the giant snake's attack head-on.
That was thanks to his proud weight... and even more so, thanks to his ability to manipulate earth.
Before he knew it, the giant tiger had wrapped its giant body in the soil it had gathered around it, and had grown to more than double its size.
Its already giant mass became even more giant!
"GAAAH!!"
And the giant tiger, with the claws of its right foreleg, which had become large and sharp with clinging soil... brought them down on the giant snake's tail with all its might!
"SSHAAAH!?"
The giant tiger's claws cleanly severed the giant snake's tail.
The giant snake let out a short scream from the pain!
"GAAAH!?"
But at the same time, the giant tiger also screamed.
Emi, who had been sent flying... had grown dark black wings on her back, and had literally flown back... and punched the giant tiger's side with all her might!
"Mu."
Emi's plan had been to blow away the giant tiger's head with that single blow and kill it.
But, however.
"GAAAH...!"
The giant tiger... was still alive!
The clods of earth clinging to its body had softened the impact of Emi's blow!
And with its originally proud toughness, it had endured the damage that still came through!
"GAAAH!!"
The giant tiger swung its head with a *bun* and threw Emi, who had thrust her small fist into its cheek, into the air.
Although Emi can extend and retract her wings, she cannot fly freely in the air.
She struggled to somehow control her posture while spinning round and round.
A big opening.
"SSHAAAH!!!"
The giant monsters of the Plateau of Behemoths did not miss that small irregularity that had been born!
Raising its head, the first to act was the giant snake.
The giant snake, while gathering magical power in its mouth and making it glow intensely... spat out a super-thick beam of light!
A 【Breath】!
"GAAAH!!"
And without a moment's delay, the giant tiger also released a 【Breath】 at the small irregularity!
The exchanges so far had been only a few.
But those few exchanges... had convinced the giant tiger, which had survived in the great demonic realm of the Plateau of Behemoths for hundreds of years... that this small irregularity was the greatest threat among all the enemies it had ever met!
It had to strike when it could.
With all its might!
DOOOOOOON!!!
The 【Breaths】 of the giant snake and the giant tiger intersected with Emi at the point of intersection and exploded.
A magical power berserk, born from the collision of absurdly high-density magical power!
The shockwave from the explosion knocked down the large surrounding trees, which had been spared from being caught in the battle and were barely unscathed...
""............""
Such a large explosion had occurred.
Surely, they must have finished it off.
Both the giant snake and the giant tiger judged so according to common sense.
But for some reason, they couldn't be sure.
Their survival instincts, which they had cultivated, were still ringing warning bells.
Therefore, they couldn't take their eyes off the epicenter of the explosion, where white smoke was rising.
And... the intuition that whispered to them was correct.
A cold wind blew with a *byuu*, and the smoke drifting in the surroundings cleared.
Then, what appeared there was.
...a "cocoon" of a dark black color.
With a rusty red color occasionally floating up, it had several tentacles extended and screwed into the ground, and was suspended in the air using them as support.
Mishi, gishi, gishi...
And the cocoon, while making a sound like creaking metal, split in two, left and right.
At once, from within it, a dark black miasma that even a giant monster would feel revulsion at overflowed.
...and an unscathed small irregularity, Emi, appeared.
"You've done it now."
In an aloof, expressionless manner... but with a voice more steeped in murderous intent and malice than ever before.
Emi muttered that softly.
It was a very small voice.
But for some reason, that voice carried well.
In the next moment, an even greater 【Intimidation】 than before was released from Emi!
Along with a large amount of miasma.
...We can't win!
Seeing Emi, who had probably finally gotten "serious," the instincts of the giant snake and the giant tiger immediately realized that fact.
And they tried to run away.
However, the pride of a strong being that had survived on the Plateau of Behemoths for hundreds of years stood in their way.
Caught between instinct and pride, the giant monsters paused for a moment...
...and were swallowed by the surging dark black miasma, and their figures disappeared.
【Breath】
An ultimate technique that destroys the opponent by striking them with high-density magical power.
It seems to be used frequently by dragons and the like, but in this work, hermit crabs and the like also release 【Breaths】.
How dangerous.
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