Eileen’s ability to change her demeanor was indeed extraordinary. Upon hearing that the Dragon Lady wasn’t deceiving her and even had training methods, Eileen quickly added a respectful “sister” to address her.
“There are three steps in total for the training. First, fight them without any weapons,” the Dragon Lady directed, pointing to the tainted beasts roaming the wild swamps. .
“What? Isn’t that just asking to be beaten up?”
“Exactly, it’s about taking the hits.”
Watching Nova nod seriously and not joking, Eileen moved her lips several times, wanting to say something. But ultimately, she steeled herself with determination.
‘Bring it on!’
With more and more people joining Renji’s side, Eileen felt an increasing pressure within. This was why, after witnessing the Nova’s strength, she made such a swift and clean turnaround.
‘I want to improve myself!’
Rolling up her sleeves, Eileen charged barehanded towards a mutated two-headed wolf-like tainted corpse not far away.
Even without using her “Annihilation” skill, just summoning a regular version of the Bloody Sword, Eileen was confident she could kill the monster within three moves. However, now, complying with Nova’s request to fight barehanded, which meant not using Miasma’s power, her attack power was significantly reduced. This caused her to be evenly matched with the two-headed wolf.
On the other hand, Eileen was weaponless, but her reflexes were intact. It was easy for her to dodge the wolf’s attacks, but “dodging” wasn’t her goal. Resolutely, Eileen let down her guard on purpose. Taking a claw strike from the wolf as a trade-off, she landed a successful punch right in the beast’s chest.
A burning pain shot through her back, causing Eileen to grimace, but she didn’t stop. Taking advantage of the beast being knocked down by her punch, she quickly mounted its back and started hammering it relentlessly.
After two or three minutes, the creature beneath her finally stopped moving. Eileen then wiped the sweat off her forehead, breathing a sigh of relief. She truly realized then how challenging it was to step out of her comfort zone and fight in an unfamiliar way.
But before Eileen, now covered in dirt and sweat, could catch her breath, a roar from behind startled her.
Turning around hurriedly, she saw a beast, similar to the initial bear monster and about three meters tall, lured over by the Dragon Lady. It almost seemed like the Dragon Lady was non-verbally suggesting this beast as her next opponent.
“Damn it!”
Having just struggled with the two-headed wolf, and now being asked to face this gigantic creature seemed a bit too much.
“Sister Nana, let me rest!… don’t walk away!”
After drawing the monster’s attention, the Nova swiftly moved to a distant spot and watched without expression. The monster, losing its original target, quickly focused on Eileen as its new enemy.
Seeing Nova’s behavior, Eileen felt like she wouldn’t come to her aid even if she were eaten by the beast. Driven by the instinct to survive, her adrenaline surged, and she gritted her teeth to push her limits in the fight against the monster.
-Ten minutes later
Bang—*
The massive body of the beast finally fell, and Eileen was in a sorry state, lying on the ground in a spread-eagle position, gasping for air. Her jacket and leather pants were now styled with “holes.”
“Sister Nana!?”
After struggling to her feet, she looked around for the Dragon Lady, only to see her riding a ferocious velociraptor, charging straight at her.
“Shit!”
-Fifteen minutes later.
The frenzied velociraptor also fell, and with it, Eileen. She had been whipped by its tail twelve times, smacked by its claws seven times, hit and thrown three times by its head, pushed back by an ‘Iron Mountain Lean’ five times, and seven times kicked by its leaping claws.
Now, the girl lay motionless on the ground, feeling like her bones were about to fall apart, with not a single muscle in her body that didn’t ache. .
“I can’t… please, Sister Nana, spare me. If this goes on, someone will really die.”
Nova: “Eat this first, this is the second step.”
Nova crouched beside the exhausted girl and pulled out a fresh mutant plant from her pocket, as if she had just plucked it from the savage swamp. The leaves of this plant were a disturbing purple color, shaped like insects, and what disgusted Eileen even more was that these leaves moved as if they had a consciousness when Nova held them in her hand.
“No! Get this S**ty?thing away from me! I’d rather die than eat this! This isn’t training at all! I see through your acting now Nana… ugh, ugh, ugh, bleh!”
Clearly, Eileen’s resistance was futile, and given her current condition, she couldn’t resist Nova in any way. With a calm expression, Nova ignored Eileen’s refusal, forcefully opened her mouth, and shoved the purple insect-like herb inside.
Eileen had initially tried to resist vigorously, hoping to spit it out, but Nova seemed to press something that made her swallow it involuntarily.
By the time she wanted to vomit it out, it was too late. She could only produce a series of nauseating retches.
“I’m going to die! I can’t believe I actually ate this weird thing that grew in the filthy mud! It’s over! I’m done for!”
Eileen’s thoughts were in turmoil, and soon her stomach, which was already uncomfortable, began to cramp painfully.
Just as she was sweating profusely while clutching her stomach, Nova returned, with seven or eight swamp creatures following her. They had been lured over.
“The first two steps are over. Now, it’s time for the final step. If you can get through this, you’ll succeed.”
“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu@k!”
These seven or eight mutated monsters were all advanced variants. Even on a normal day, Eileen would have to be cautious and put in some effort to deal with them. But in her current terrible condition, this was nothing short of a death sentence. However, Eileen had figured out Nova’s personality – she wouldn’t lift a finger to help. So, despite enduring the excruciating pain in her stomach, she had no choice but to face the incoming horde of monsters.
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