A Girl Who Was Told "You Have No Talent" Turned Out To Be A Talented Monster - Chapter 21.3
Litty forcefully grabbed Roma’s hand and continued to the left. At the end of the winding road, they finally found out what was hiding at the deepest part of the cave.
It was a very large Scarb, standing on two legs with its transparent wings spread.
It shook its long antennae and sensed the presence of Litty and Roma.
“It must be the Scarb queen. There are so many eggs around her.”
“This is the price of negligence. These monsters are being born one after another and increasing their numbers. However, if we take the queen down, we can curb Scarb’s reproduction significantly.”
An egg on the edge of Litty’s peripheral vision showed movement. Without any hesitation, Litty quickly sliced it open and looked towards Roma, urging her to do the same.
The moment the egg was broken, the queen made her move and pounched towards Litty who dodged the upcoming attack with a slide and slashed through the eggs in the vicinity.
“Hurry up and crush the eggs! If left unchecked, they will hatch and increase the number of enemies! I have a shield, so leave the queen to me!”
There was no way the queen would overlook Roma who had started destroying her eggs. Just as she was about to aim at Roma, Litty stepped in front of the Queen and received the blow with her shield, and then counterattacked with a gale slash.
The hit was successful and a liquid of unknown color splashed from the queen.
As she had been taught, Litty had successfully managed to balance attack and defense.
Meanwhile, Roma, done destroying most of the eggs and stood next to Litty.
“The other Scarbs are gathering. This is similar to the situation I feared the most during our confrontation with the forest leader.”
“Roma… Can you beat this queen? I’ll stand back and hold off the upcoming wave of Scarb.”
“I will try.”
Litty and Roma stood back-to-back and each took their fighting stance, ready to launch attacks.
With her fast and smooth movements, Litty took care of the Scarbs one by one.
Roma tried to aim at the queen’s long legs, but she was unable to land a good hit as each time the queen managed to successfully block it.
Suddenly, the queen spits something out from her mouth.
“Duck!”
Roma shouted towards Litty, who was fighting behind her. As soon as Litty turned around, she thrust out her shield and used the momentum of her rotation to slash at the Scarbs that were approaching her.
Roma also dodged to the right and avoided the liquid. The sticky, translucent liquid was heavy. If they were to get hit directly, they would be rendered motionless on the ground.
Litty quickly defended herself with the shield, but the liquid still reached her feet.
Trying to avoid being drenched in full scale, Litty changed her stance.
“Let’s get out of here! If we both get hit by that thing at the same time, then we’re done for sure!”
There was no escaping for them, the path was blocked. So, Roma decided to challenge the queen.
The queen’s multiple legs flailed to intercept Roma.
Roma laughed.
She wondered what she had been doing for over a year, what had she learned?
She had repeated mock battles every day with people who could defeat such demons without difficulty.
Yes, so when she compared this queen to those people, she could clearly see it, the Queen’s moves.
“Cleave!”
A perfect moment when queen’s leg was aimed at her, with a single move, Roma easily cut it all off with her skill. The queen’s thin leg was thrown in the air before landing not far away.
In the queen’s haste, she tried to shoot fluids, but it was already too late. Roma’s sword sliced through the queen’s head in one go.
The sharpened gale slash was so powerful that it pushed the queen’s body to the very edge.
“You did it!?”
“First, let’s get the proof of the queen’s defeat. We’ll leave as soon as we’re done!”
“Okay, I’ll do my best to clean up over here as well!”
Litty rushed at Scarb after freeing herself from the sticky liquid with brute force, and smashed enemies in her path with her shield. What she used was Shield Charge, an offensive and defensive skill, which was effective when moving forward.
Roma finished harvesting and followed behind Litty.
They continued rushing towards the entrance to the mine, killing more Scarbs as they went, not knowing how many they had already taken down.
“We should be safe now, as they’re all down, right?”
“Yes. Well, it was worth it.”
They were relieved when they reached the stage where they could see the light at the entrance to the mine.
After inhaling the fresh air outside the cave, they both slumped down to the ground almost simultaneously.
They had been desperate when they were fighting, but when they finally completed the job like this, their heads were strangely clear with a sense of accomplishment.
Litty was convinced that she had accomplished more than she had expected. But for now, she would like to put her excitement aside and rest.
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“A horde of bug monsters in an abandoned mine… then fighting a Queen Scarb… This is what an adventure should be like!”
Roma’s only comment to Litty, who stood up and exclaimed, in a fit of mysterious emotion, “Does this girl have no limit?”