.
If not invited, under normal circumstances, one cannot enter the barrier.
"Then what do we do? Can we only watch?"
Yotsuya Miko was a bit stunned.
After putting in all their effort, they couldn't even get through the door?
"Don't worry, there are two ways to enter the barrier. One is to be invited by the caster, and the other is like this."
Rosen pressed his right hand against the barrier, and a wave of Holy Light appeared in his palm. Then, with a slight exertion of force, the outer layer of the barrier shattered like glass with a crash.
"Breaking the barrier now is a bit beyond your current capabilities, so I'll help you this time. However, you'll have to face the Mountain God yourselves next."
Even so.
Rosen would still watch from the side to prevent them from facing life-threatening crises.
After all, training is training, and he didn't want his adorable dependents to die.
After the barrier was broken, the girls suddenly found that their surroundings had drastically changed.
Originally, they should have been standing in a lush forest, but now they were standing on a relatively wide mountaintop platform.
Behind them was a torii gate in disrepair from age.
And directly in front was a small shrine, with a money box in front of it, corroded by wind and rain.
"Huh? Was the shrine here all along?"
"Sure enough, only by breaking the barrier can we see the shrine."
"Look, those undead behind us don't dare to chase us anymore!"
Yurikawa Hana noticed the scene behind them.
The undead that had been relentlessly pursuing them were now all stopped at the outermost edge of the barrier.
Even though the barrier had been shattered, they still didn't dare to cross the line, as if there was something terrifying inside.
Finally, they turned and left, then slowly disappeared into the forest.
"We'll deal with those small fries later when we have time. For now, you need to pay attention to the owner here."
Rosen reminded them.
And as his words fell.
Two short-haired, fox-masked priestesses in red and white Miko attire appeared one on each side in front of the shrine.
Upon seeing Rosen and his group, the fox-masked priestesses' expressions, which had originally shown faint humanity, instantly twisted like enraged beasts.
Their eyes narrowed, and their open mouths revealed sharp teeth.
They were also speaking a language humans couldn't understand.
Zhoufang Youxi recognized them at a glance.
"They were the ones who protected me three times before."
At this moment, the two fox-masked priestesses finally spoke words the girls could understand.
They looked at Zhoufang Youxi with hatred.
"You violated your contract with the God!"
"You must pay the price!"
As soon as their voices fell, the two priestesses immediately rushed towards Zhoufang Youxi, their outstretched hands as withered as tree branches, and like the claws of some monster.
A strong wind swept over them.
Yotsuya Miko reacted the fastest, rushing towards one of the priestesses with her Holy Light Sword.
The priestess was somewhat surprised to see the human not only not flee but instead charge towards her.
But at this moment, whether it was Zhoufang Youxi who violated the contract, or these heretics who disturbed the God's peace, they would all become nourishment to make the God stronger!
However, when the priestess's claw was severed, and her head was separated from her body, the fox's face revealed a distinctly human-like confusion.
The other priestess, seeing this, immediately felt a warning sign.
But before she could make any move, Sakurajima Mai, who had activated the "Disappearance of Existence" skill, had already quietly appeared behind her, and then a Holy Light Dagger was plunged into the priestess's back of the head.
The entire battle process ended in less than ten seconds.
Of course, the reason it was so quick was partly because the combat power of these fox-masked priestesses in the original work was only enough to bully the most ordinary undead.
As long as there was a slightly powerful elite monster, they would expose their weakness of insufficient strength.
In the original work, when Yotsuya Miko was attacked by an evil spirit disguised as a child, these two fox-masked priestesses appeared and saved her life, but one of the priestesses was also severely wounded.
Two against one, and they were counter-killed.
Rosen found it hard to say with a clear conscience that they were strong.
Seeing the battle end, Zhoufang Youxi was still a bit dazed.
No.
It just ended like that?
She didn't seem to do anything!
But at this moment, all four girls simultaneously felt a strong sense of oppression surge from the atmosphere.
Immediately after, a colossal beast broke through the air, its form like a small mountain, with a ferocious fox head standing proudly.
The sunlight illuminated its body covered in white and golden fur, and a faint glow enveloped it.
Its majestic and towering appearance was as imposing and solemn as a giant god.
The moment it appeared, except for Rosen, the other four girls felt varying degrees of heart palpitations and trembling.
In their hearts, they all simultaneously had the illusion, "Could this be a God?"
But they quickly returned to normal.
Since Shepherd said that the mountain god here is nothing more than a monster in the guise of a deity, then there must be no mistake!
"Miko, Hana, and the newcomer over there, Zhoufang Youxi, let's eliminate this monster as quickly as possible, just as we discussed before!"
Sakurajima Mai reacted quickly.
Immediately, she threw a Holy Light Dagger at the monster's fox head.
The dagger embedded in the fox head's forehead made the monster let out a scream.
Its mouth bloomed like a four-petal chrysanthemum, and its violent roar shook the entire mountain forest.
"Okay! Watch me!"
Yurikawa Hana gathered powerful life energy in both hands, blasting it towards the monster's body like a cannonball.
After a violent explosion, a large part of the monster's body was scorched.
Another scream.
Yotsuya Miko then ran over, swinging the Holy Light Sword with all her might to sever its neck.
The monster's headless corpse slowly fell.
Is this the end?
Just as this question arose in the women's minds.
The corpse began to writhe, and after its skin split, a half-human, half-beast monster slowly rose from the corpse, covered in beast fur, with sturdy fox-like hind legs, but arms as slender and fair as a woman's, and a face with bulging eyeballs and an inverted triangular mouth.
But what was most striking was its abdomen.
A large number of ribs, made of women's arms, tightly encased countless bells inside its belly.
The sharp and abstract appearance gave several girls, including Yotsuya Miko, a strong visual impact.
Even Rosen himself couldn't help but marvel at this chaotic world.
The monsters in this world are truly like deep-sea fish; since ordinary people can't see them, they just grow however they please.