"Prepare for battle!!!"
Adeline's roar suddenly erupted from the forest.
The legs that had been rapidly retreating backward left deep footprints in the damp soil under the inertia of the body.
Two one-handed iron hammers, reflecting a metallic cold light under the sunlight overhead, were clenched tightly in her palms.
Her face, splattered with mud, was stiff and tense, and her dark brown yellowish eyes mirrored the gigantic creature charging straight at them.
The seemingly sluggish and lazy petrified lizard, notorious among adventurers for its lethal and troublesome "petrification gaze," had a challenge level as high as Level 3, with explosive power far beyond its size.
This was not something they, newly promoted to Level 1, could easily shake off with only their accumulated experience.
In the face of pure "values," all so-called skills became trivial fancy.
