I Did It

Perhaps these elves had lived for so long that their brains were missing a few screws.

The most important thing right now was obviously not to stand around yapping and praising how great Lady Liyana was, but...

"Run away!"

Liyana bolted, fleeing in the opposite direction as fast as her legs could carry her.

Perhaps sensing that Liyana was the one who had provoked it with an arrow earlier, the monster completely ignored the other elves and chased straight after her.

"Lady Liyana actually sacrificed herself to lure that monster away so we could escape?"

"Bah, bah, bah! What do you mean 'sacrificed herself'? Lady Liyana is so strong, how could she possibly fail to defeat this monster?"

"She must have been afraid that the shockwaves of the battle would catch us in the crossfire, which is why she told us to run!"

"So that's it! Then let's hurry and get out of here!"

With her long, pointy ears, Liyana had excellent hearing. Catching the conversation between those elves, she had the urge to curse them out in her heart.

She had thought that everyone would run for their lives together, covering each other and shooting arrows swish, swish, swish behind them... That way, she would have felt a bit more balanced about the situation. But she hadn't expected the thing to hold such a grudge, locking its sights solely on her.

Liyana glanced back, wanting to see just what the hell that monster was.

By now, the monster had completely revealed its true form. Its entire body shifted through various colors. Judging by its shape, one could vaguely tell that it was some sort of four-legged, crawling creature, like a wingless dragon.

The monster was massive. Its head alone was over ten meters tall, and its body length was probably over a hundred meters.

Liyana's arrows would certainly be considered too small even to serve as toothpicks for it.

Despite its enormous size, its movements were not slow in the slightest. Whether it was because the giant beast was very light or for some other reason, it surprisingly didn't trample the surrounding trees. Instead, as if possessing a lightness skill, it stepped on the treetops and chased after Liyana.

This scene was quite shocking to behold.

Liyana had obviously seen her fair share of grand spectacles. Encountering such a situation, she wasn't so frightened that she couldn't move. Her long, straight, and slender legs instantly tensed, and she ran even faster.

The Endless Forest Sea was filled with dense jungles everywhere, acting as natural barriers. If it were anyone else, they would likely find it difficult to take a single step right now, but beneath Liyana's feet, it was like walking on flat ground.

Liyana's figure rapidly shuttled through the trees, turning into a blur of afterimages, but the giant beast continued to pursue her relentlessly.

"Damn it, what exactly is that thing?" Liyana clicked her tongue inwardly.

Having traveled far and wide for so long and wandered through so many taverns, she had never heard anyone mention a monster like this.

Such a terrifying monster, combined with its bizarre invisibility ability from earlier, logically shouldn't be completely unheard of.

Could it be that everyone who has seen this guy failed to make it back alive?

Bah, bah, bah, what terrible luck, Liyana thought to herself repeatedly.

Aina might know exactly what kind of monster this was.

Magic power condensed in Liyana's hand. An arrow from the quiver on her back appeared in her grasp at some unknown moment. Her sturdy and powerful legs kicked fiercely against the trunk of a large tree, bending the tree downward, and then Liyana's figure leaped high into the air.

"Eat this arrow!"

Liyana let out a delicate shout. Using the recoil from her kick to fly backward through the air, she simultaneously fired an arrow at the magical beast before her.

A cold gleam flashed by. The arrow shot into the monster's forehead, tearing open a massive bloody wound. Blood splattered wildly, as if it hadn't been struck by an arrow, but rather smashed viciously by a heavy hammer.

Liyana's eyesight was excellent. Through the wound on the monster's forehead that she had blasted open—a small tunnel-like hole wide enough for a person to pass through—she clearly saw her arrow firmly embedded in its blood-streaked, pristine white skull. That bone was like an indestructible fortress wall.

"Damn! It didn't pierce through?" Liyana clicked her tongue inwardly, not expecting this guy's skull to be so hard.

She had been thinking that if she could shoot an arrow directly into this guy's brain, the battle might be over.

The monster's mountain-like body pressed forward, and Liyana hurriedly fled in panic once again.

It was easy to see that this guy was even angrier now.

"I'm doomed, I'm doomed! I should have shot its eyes earlier!" Liyana felt secretly annoyed with herself. Because the monster's eyes were located on the sides of its head, Liyana had feared that shooting from that angle wouldn't allow the arrow to directly enter its brain and cause fatal damage. That was why she had chosen to shoot it right between the eyebrows... but unfortunately, it was blocked by the skull.

A monster of this tier definitely wasn't stupid. It would start guarding against her attacks, making it much harder to inflict a fatal wound again... As long as it turned its head, Liyana's arrows would lose their threat.

She had gotten a little greedy, and now it seemed she was going to meet her end, ehe?

Liyana took a deep breath, pondering whether she should loudly cry for help.

The elves' hearing was undoubtedly very good... In that case, the squad from earlier would definitely hear it, and her majestic image might just collapse...

Wait... She wasn't Aina, and right now she was even inside a labyrinth. Even if she cried for help, would that guy Xia Lun really be able to hear her? And then tear through the void to appear here and save her...

Perhaps he could? For some unknown reason, Liyana held a mysterious confidence in Xia Lun. She even felt as if Xia Lun was right by her side at this very moment.

But maybe that had nothing to do with whether she was Aina or not?

The monster behind her suddenly accelerated, crashing toward Liyana at high speed like a runaway train. With its massive size, Liyana had absolutely nowhere to dodge, and the distance between the two was rapidly closing.

"Stop chasing me!" Liyana cried out with a face full of grief and indignation. She hadn't even planned on provoking this guy! Who knew that casually firing a single arrow would attract such a huge amount of trouble?

"Roar—"

The only response Liyana received was the monster's frenzied roar.

And then—

Boom—

After letting out that roar, the monster crashed heavily to the ground without any warning, its colossal body crushing a large swath of the forest.

Noticing the commotion behind her, Liyana slowly came to a halt, staring blankly at the monster's corpse.

What happened?

How did it suddenly die? Her arrow was still embedded in its forehead, which didn't look like a fatal wound no matter how she looked at it, right?

Playing dead? It couldn't be, right?

Liyana gulped and carefully fired another arrow at the guy.

The arrow pierced its eyeball, but the monster remained completely motionless.

It seems it really is dead? There didn't appear to be any other injuries on its body besides the arrow wounds she had caused...

From behind, that group of elves rushed over.

"Lady Liyana! You actually subjugated such a ferocious monster all by yourself!"

"As expected of Lady Liyana! To accomplish such a feat with such ease!"

"Your strength is truly too amazing!"

Faced with everyone's worship and praise, Liyana scratched her head.

Did I do this?

Yep, I did it!