In the dark night, a monster saw a girl crouching with her back to him. As he tried to approach quietly, a sword imbued with lightning stabbed him from behind, and his body was instantly paralyzed.
As he was about to find out what happened, a large flaming hammer hit his body several times. Not only that, just as he staggered back, he received a series of punches and kicks that created sparks of lightning and fire as they hit his body.
From other people's perspective, the monster only approached as a silhouette, then dozens of colored lights hit his body, and made him end up lying down as blue lights flew into his body.
"I think this is the last Elite-tier monster around here."
"Dahlia, are you sure this thing is capable of breaking through its defense? I can break it if I try hard." Karen doubted the large rusty iron bar they found.
"We don't have anything better. I'll leave right away if this doesn't work."
"No, I'll do it. A leader must stand still looking at his subordinates. Come on, let's find that lizard."
Dahlia tried to say something, but Karen and Leo had already gone ahead of her.
After a while they arrived at the location of the signal.
"Are you sure you didn't get the coordinates wrong? Because there are only low level monsters here."
They looked around, and indeed only found Common-tier monsters there.
The ignored Common-tier monster screamed, and started attacking. But just as it arrived...
"You get out of the way!"
...Karen immediately hit it from top to bottom with her hammer, and hit it so hard that the monster was sent flying against the wooden fence.
Karen tried to ignore the monster, but when they saw the wooden fence that was starting to crumble, they were immediately surprised because the monster they were looking for was behind the fence.
"Hey, you can already walk on two legs, so don't have to crawl! You made it hard for us to find you, you know?"
Humungo roared in response, and started attacking.
The three of them immediately ran while dropping some large objects in their path, such as benches, barrels, or others, to slow down Humungo's pursuit.
Seeing the path full of obstacles, Humungo could still pass through it. But because his legs were short, he rolled his body, and rolled forward while crushing everything in his path.
"Karen."
Karen immediately rolled backwards. When she saw Humungo getting closer, Karen began to tense up, and raised the iron bar up and slightly tilted in the direction Humungo was coming.
As soon as Humungo arrived, Karen immediately moved aside, and the iron bar stabbed Humungo's body through the gap in the blooming scales.
Humungo screamed in pain and came out of his wheel form. He tried to get rid of the object that stabbed his back, but because the iron bar was not very sturdy, it was partially destroyed and stuck inside his body, so it could not be pulled out.
Dahlia and Leo who saw Humungo fall and struggle, immediately realized that their plan had succeeded.
On the other hand, Karen who was almost run over and managed to escape, was still tense and her heart was beating quite fast.
"Luckily I did it. If it was Dahlia, I might have been out of breath."
But unfortunately, it was not as expected. Humungo became uncontrollable, and attacked blindly.
They couldn't delay any longer if they didn't want to attract more monsters.
They started attacking Humungo simultaneously while remaining vigilant. Because if not, they would be hit by Humungo's attacks which were now unpredictable.
However, because of Humungo's enormous size, they could only attack the lower part, and it made them troubled.
Suddenly Humungo who was previously uncontrollable attacked again with focus because their attacks gave more pain than iron bars.
When the blow from Humungo's two hands came, they immediately dodged.
However, when Dahlia dodged by jumping onto the building and climbing the stairs, to try to attack the upper part, Humungo did not stop his attack. Right after he launched a downward strike, he spun around and attacked the building Dahlia was on.
"Dahlia!" Leo and Karen tried to warn her.
Dahlia fell pretty hard, but she was still safe. But that wasn't the reason they were screaming.
Just as Dahlia was about to say that she was fine, the wall of the building next to her fell.
Leo and Karen quickly moved to block the wall fragments. However, that actually trapped them because it gave Humungo the chance to attack.
Just as Humungo was about to attack, a lance suddenly flew down Humungo's neck and exploded, causing Humungo to fall and miss his attack.
Leo and Karen lowered the piece of wall they had lifted, to see what had happened.
"I hope I'm not too late."
When they heard the voice, the three of them immediately turned around to see a man who had just arrived not far from them.
The man had a fairly masculine face, simple shoulder-length hair, a body that was over 7 feet tall, and looked very athletic.
"Izrail, the leader of the Hunter team, has come to help."
"Izrail?!" Leo was a little surprised when he heard it.
"You know him?" Karen asked.
"Yes, I heard he is a B-rank soldier with the strongest attack currently. The commander sent suitable reinforcements to deal with this Humungo."
"But the Commander said he had sent help before I told him what monster we were facing. Is this just a coincidence?" Dahlia thought.
"Since help has arrived, let's defeat this big guy." Leo slammed his fists together excitedly.
"Wait, we have to wait for other help."
"That's not necessary, the four of us are enough to defeat him." Izrail said.
As Humungo pulled out and threw Izrail's spear from piercing his body, Izrail noticed Humungo's slow wound, and immediately understood what Leo was saying.
Izrail moved and reached out towards his weapon. The lance immediately flew into his hand and transformed into a lance sword, its original form.
As Izrail advanced, the blade of his weapon glowed orange and emitted red flames.
He attacked one of Humungo's legs and moved back, then used Humungo's tail as a foothold to jump and slash Humungo's back.
"We too!" Dahlia said.
The three of them immediately joined in the attack from various directions.
Izrail watched the Dragon Claw team's fighting style.
"That little girl has quite good fighting skills for a C-rank soldier. She is able to provide support at the right time, and knows her role. But she doesn't have enough power in each of her attacks."
"As for that boy, his attacks are quite big, but he is not suitable for facing opponents who are much bigger in size."
"The one whose attacks are most effective is that girl. Her weapon should be quite heavy, but she doesn't seem to be burdened too much. It seems like she has a strong physique."
"Overall this team is quite balanced, and can probably handle a variety of conditions, but it's still not enough to deal with an opponent like this."