“My lords, the only one who could command these long-ears' Chief... is likely the Spirit Maiden of the Wood Elves!”
“Oh? A Spirit Maiden?”
The leading demon burst into laughter, his eyes gleaming with greed.
“Brat, hand over the new Sacred Spirit obediently, and come back with us to help Lord Demon Prince find more Sacred Spirits with your trait. Do that, and I might just spare your miserable life.”
Qimeng's small mouth parted slightly as she let out a mocking sneer.
“You actually expect the Wood Elves to become your dogs like the lizardmen? Are the brains of the Demon Race filled with expired alchemy potions? How utterly disgusting.”
“You court death, you wretched brat!!”
The high-ranking demon's face darkened, and he waved his hand to order the three wounded demons.
“You three, cripple her! Just leave her with a breath of life. Break her limbs and bring her back!”
“Hehehe, understood!”
The Ogre Clan brute twisted his neck with a sinister grin, throwing a fist as large as a sandbag toward her pretty little face, tearing through the air with a sonic boom.
“Shorty, can you take this punch?! I only need a single finger to crush a loli-sized piece of trash like you into minced meat!!”
“Ogre, don't obliterate her with one punch. We need this brat alive. You can break and cripple her all you want, but don't kill her.”
The Flame Demon also roared with laughter from behind.
“Heh, don't worry! Though I'm not very good at holding back against weaklings!”
Faced with a punch powerful enough to shatter a city wall, Qimeng didn't dodge. Instead, a savage smile played on her lips.
“Strong, are we? Then... let's see whose strength is truly superior.”
Currently, she was a stat monster with the combined attributes of both her Demon Tree and humanoid main bodies!
Compared to the physical constitution the Demon Race took so much pride in, hers was not only on par, but even superior!
Hum!
Qimeng thrust her fair, tender little fist forward, meeting the massive fist head-on!
Boom!!!
The two brutal fists collided, and the sickening sound of shattering bones instantly echoed.
“Ahhhhhhh!!”
The Ogre Clan brute's right arm exploded into a mangled, deformed mess. Not only that, but his towering body was blasted back hundreds of meters by the single punch, smashing into the ruined cliffside in the distance, his fate unknown!
“What?! Impossible... This is absolutely impossible!!”
The Flame Demon and Wind Spirit Demon's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
That was an Ogre Clan member buffed to the level of an Advanced Rank magical beast!!
A demon, whose race prized strength above all else, had been sent flying in a direct clash of pure strength by a Wood Elf loli who only radiated the aura of an Intermediate Rank magical beast?!
On the surface, Qimeng casually dusted off her little hands, but she clicked her tongue inwardly.
I didn't insta-kill him? As expected, fighting across a major rank means relying solely on basic stats is still a bit lacking.
The faces of the two newly arrived high-ranking demons darkened as well.
“Flame Demon, Wind Spirit! Cut the chatter! Join forces and take her down immediately!!”
“So what if she's a strength-based freak?! My flames are the absolute counter to you long-ears! Fiery Hell Annihilation!!”
The Flame Demon powerhouse roared and laughed sinisterly, unleashing a massive pillar of fire that swept toward Qimeng with the power to incinerate all in its path.
Qimeng merely let out a bored yawn and flicked her finger.
“Water-Wood Spirit, come forth.”
Boom!!
Behind her, a brilliant blue-and-green spirit phantom materialized out of thin air, summoning an endless, deep blue wave that crashed down like a tsunami!
Bang!!
The raging flames were instantly extinguished, and a massive hand of water slapped the Flame Demon's chest, swatting him away like a fly as he coughed up a fountain of blood!
An instant kill, with just a single strike.
Qimeng looked down from above at the Flame Demon twitching in the puddle.
His eyes were wide, filled with utter disbelief. It seemed he desperately wanted to ask, even on the verge of death: You're a Wood Elf, so why can you use Water spells?
Unfortunately, he could no longer squeeze out even a single syllable.
“Why aren't you laughing? Don't you like to laugh?”
Whoosh!
Just as she spoke mockingly, the Wind Spirit Demon, who had been biding his time, struck. Activating his 【Wind Shadow Flash Step】, his sharp blade tore through the air, lunging straight for Qimeng's neck.
“Got you!!”
Splat!
As the blade cut through, the Wind Spirit Demon's expression shifted drastically. The sensation was completely wrong!
In the next instant, the silver-haired loli before him dissolved into a flurry of gorgeous, drifting petals and shimmering light, vanishing into thin air!
“Behind you.”
“What?!”
Every hair on the Wind Spirit Demon's body stood on end. He swung his blade backward in a desperate counter-slash.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In midair, two streaks of light, moving so fast they left countless afterimages, clashed repeatedly before vanishing, only to refract again at different locations.
Within seconds, the two had clashed and teleported dozens of times in a dizzying display of speed!
Qimeng raised an eyebrow slightly. An Advanced Rank magical beast focused purely on speed was indeed troublesome.
Meanwhile, her opponent was breaking out in a cold sweat. An Intermediate Rank magical beast could actually keep up with his pace as an Advanced Rank assassin?! This made absolutely no sense!!
Qimeng glanced at the two high-ranking demons watching coldly from a distance. She had no intention of wasting any more time on this subpar assassin.
Time to wrap this up quickly.
Her emerald eyes narrowed. Inside her pupils, concentric rings of tree growth-rings suddenly spun as she activated her eye technique.
【Instant Vision】!
Hum!
The light, shadows, and sounds of the entire world fell into a stagnant, frozen state.
Within this unique sub-dimensional vision, the Wind Spirit Demon's movement trajectory and landing position were frozen clearly in Qimeng's eyes.
Found you.
Qimeng took a step forward, a bizarre, purplish-red scythe blade condensing in her hand. As they crossed paths, she swept it across his neck.
When time resumed its normal flow, the Advanced Rank Wind Spirit Demon assassin, who had been moving invisibly through the air just a second ago, suddenly materialized. Immediately after, his head rolled off his shoulders, accompanied by a fountain of spraying blood!
The two spectating demons gasped in unison.
Qimeng flipped the corpse over with the tip of her shoe to search it, then clicked her tongue in disgust.
“As expected of a cheap knockoff who relies on potions. He didn't even have a black magic stone in his body. What a waste of time.”
This sharp and merciless execution completely wiped the arrogance from the faces of the two high-ranking demons. The leader spoke in a heavy voice.
“Brat, your strength has earned our respect. How about joining our Lord Demon Prince's faction? As long as you tribute three Sacred Spirits every month, we will withdraw our troops immediately and guarantee the eternal survival of your Wood Elf race!”
Qimeng covered her small mouth with the back of her hand, laughing so hard her shoulders shook.
“Hehehe... Hahaha! That sounds quite tempting. But to invaders, my answer is no. Besides, what I hate most is being threatened by weaklings. So, why don't you both just die here?”
“Ignorant, arrogant brat! We are nothing like those three knockoffs made from magic potions!!”
Boom!!
One of them took the initiative to strike. He tore off his large robe, revealing a true form covered in black-gold scales, the massive horn on his head erupting with terrifying bursts of demonic light.
Though he belonged to the same Giant Horn Clan, his speed and strength were leagues ahead of the guy who had just been sent flying with a single punch!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The two figures clashed amid the burning ruins, exchanging dozens of blows within a few seconds.
The demon grew increasingly alarmed the longer they fought.
This Wood Elf loli's combat experience didn't resemble that of some mutated anomaly at all. Instead, she fought like a battle-hardened physical combat monster who was deeply versed in the martial arts!
Qimeng, having taken a few heavy punches head-on, also felt her arms go numb.
As expected of a genuine Advanced Rank magical beast. If I don't pull out some of my real trump cards, the outcome might actually be hard to predict.
Whoosh! Qimeng used the recoil to drift back a hundred meters.
A flash of light emanated from her fair little hand, and a 【Space Fruit】 radiating spatial fluctuations appeared out of thin air.
She then reached inside and pulled out a potion bottle emitting a pure green light.
【Ancient Tree Thousand-Year Marrow】
Drinking it would permanently and significantly boost the physical constitution and strength of plant-type magical beasts!
Rate on N.U.
