Monsters of the sixth and seventh rank?
Those numbers alone were enough to make her stomach twist.
She had faced strong beasts before dangerous ones, deadly ones.. but never anything near that level. A peak fourth-ranked beast was already enough to push her to her limits, and even those fights might left her half-dead. But sixth or seventh rank? Those were monsters that could crush her without even trying ..beings tens of thousands of times stronger than she could currently handle.
And Neptunia had said there would be many of them.
That thought alone made her pulse quicken, her heart thudding painfully against her chest.
For a brief moment, she actually considered turning back. The idea of charging into something so impossible felt like walking straight into death's embrace.
But then she looked at Razeal.
I can't leave now, she told herself. Not when I'm still relying on him.
