Campione world, Mediterranean center, Sardinian port.
Massive shockwaves swept across the entire city, turning the modern metropolis to ruins in an instant, and the sea surface at the port raised huge waves.
From ordinary people's perspective, they might only see natural disaster descending.
But if someone from the magic world were here, they would definitely discover that the so-called natural disaster was actually just a storm raised by a giant wild boar over twenty meters long.
That furiously rampaging attitude and vigorous strength matched the name "god" better than any temple clay idol.
Fortunately, this wild boar wasn't a so-called deity, but a divine beast one level lower than Heretic Gods.
Unfortunately, even just a divine beast wasn't something ordinary magicians could handle.
Although Erica previously didn't want to admit this point.
"Damn! Are divine beasts really this strong?!"
Looking at the furious divine beast wild boar before her, Erica struggled to stand up, not daring to relax even slightly.
Earlier, she received a call from her uncle Saint Paolo saying Sardinia suspected a Heretic God appearance and asked her to scout for information.
With her Great Knight level strength, carrying out reconnaissance missions was naturally more than sufficient.
However, her uncle obviously didn't understand young people's drive.
Erica, a prodigy since childhood, felt such missions seriously underestimated her. She decided to add some difficulty for herself.
Like slaying a Heretic God to become a Campione, for instance.
Perhaps because the Campiones she'd encountered were idiots like the Sword King, her reverence for Campiones was lower than ordinary European magicians.
If even that brainless beast could successfully slay gods, why couldn't she?
With such thoughts, she directly reached the disaster site.
Discovering the troublemaker wasn't a Heretic God but a divine beast, she wasn't disappointed.
"Before slaying gods, I can practice with divine beasts first!"
That's what Erica thought at the time.
She couldn't be blamed for being arrogant—after purchasing Ryuga's master version magic power extraction technique, her strength had indeed improved significantly.
Though she hadn't reached Saint Knight level, she was much stronger than before.
If it were her previous strength, she would at most try to stall the opponent. Now that she had finally become stronger, naturally her goals were bigger.
Her uncle, a Saint Knight, could block six divine beasts—she should be able to handle one, right?
With such simple thoughts, Erica found the divine beast wild boar, Erica charged forward, Erica prepared victory speech, then—
Erica instantly played GG.
With just a "bang" sound.
She was directly hit by the shockwave, her body smashed into building ruins.
Obviously, she didn't understand the gap between herself and divine beasts—the difference between Rank 1 and Rank 2.
Moreover, even among divine beasts, this wild boar belonged to the strongest batch, no less than top-tier dragons and serpents.
Actually, if Erica hadn't become stronger, she might not have received such fierce attacks.
After all, in the divine beast wild boar's eyes, a mere Great Knight was just ephemeral.
But she had become several times stronger with such obvious hostility, evolving from an ant to an annoying mosquito.
The divine beast wild boar, representing furious emotions, naturally couldn't tolerate such existence and directly launched an attack.
Thanks to Erica having indeed become much stronger and timely invoking Senate spells for defense, otherwise she might not have survived this strike.
"This is bad!"
After barely supporting her almost-falling-apart body, Erica suddenly realized something more terrible than her own embarrassing defeat awaited her.
Namely, the divine beast wild boar's slightly reddened eyes and constantly restless hooves.
This posture looked like it had completely locked onto her and wanted to eliminate her completely!
Just for poking your nose once, is it worth holding such a grudge?
Sensing life-threatening danger and the divine beast's crushing-level power advantage over ordinary life, Erica desperately realized she had almost no way to break the situation.
After becoming stronger through Ryuga's techniques, the Saint-level Word Spirit she previously had little confidence in successfully casting now had a thirty percent success rate.
If she could successfully use this Saint-realm level magic, she would gain Sacred Annihilation privileges sufficient to harm Heretic Gods.
With this privilege, she could definitely deal effective damage to the divine beast.
But the problem was, the divine beast wild boar was so big while she was so small.
Using this magic to fight the divine beast wild boar was like taking an embroidery needle to challenge a Blue Dragon Crescent Blade.
Even if you could hack me to death, I could still poke you once...
Wasn't this seeking death?
Decisively abandoning this suicidal fighting method, she chose to admit defeat.
No matter how Rin would mock her afterward, she had to call for help when necessary.
So—
"Ryuga-sama, save me!"
In the chat group, seeing Erica's wail, Tohsaka Rin's heart trembled.
[Tohsaka Rin: "What happened, Erica? What danger did you encounter?"]
At critical moments, she was still very worried about this friend.
[Kanae: "Erica! First describe the situation so Ryuga-san can make judgments."]
[Kanae: "If there's anything we can help with, please don't hesitate to ask!"]
[Madoka: "Yes, if we can help Erica-nee, please don't hesitate to ask!"]
Erica's good relationships paid off—everyone in the group was willing to help.
Before everyone could @ him together, Ryuga, who had just finished his insights, also appeared.
[Ryuga: "Crisis type, level, acceptable handling time—report everything."]
[Ryuga: "@Erica"]
Unlike others, Ryuga's words contained no excess comfort, cold and efficient.
Seeing everyone's concern, Erica felt warmth in her heart.
The little sisters in the group were indeed good girls.
Seeing Ryuga's inquiry, somehow almost everyone in the group felt an inexplicable sense of security.
Erica immediately began reporting.
[Erica: "Encountered an enemy—a divine beast, strength level Rank 2! It has completely locked onto me, can't escape!"]
[Erica: "As for acceptable handling time... ten!"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "Ten minutes?"]
Seeing Erica's interrupted message, Tohsaka Rin sighed in relief.
That was good—there should be time to discuss countermeasures.
With Ryuga's demonstrated wisdom, he should at least help Erica find a way to escape, right?
But what she didn't expect was Erica's reply following immediately.
[Erica: "Nine!"]
[Erica: "Eight!"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "..."]
So you were counting down seconds?!
To be continued...