"Please guide me, Lady Ogerpon."
The first to enter the arena was Benimaru.
He held a samurai sword, his burly figure, nearly 2.5 meters tall, standing before Ogerpon like a small mountain.
However, despite such a huge size difference, it was Benimaru who was truly nervous, not Ogerpon.
Rin, along with the Red Ogre leader and others, stood at a high vantage point at the edge of the arena, where the view was excellent.
From here, they could more clearly observe the battle between Ogerpon and the Ogre Clan.
"I want to know how big the gap still is between me and a true A-rank!"
"A-rank?"
Hearing Benimaru's words, Ogerpon tilted her head.
But Ogerpon was not A-rank.
Her magicule level was indeed A, but her true combat power was definitely at the Special A level.
If Benimaru intended to use Ogerpon as a reference for an A-rank demon, then this time, he was probably going to be devastated.
"Please enlighten me!"
Still unaware that he had underestimated Ogerpon's strength, Benimaru had already raised his samurai sword and assumed a mid-stance.
"Alright."
"Then, as you wish…"
Ogerpon raised her head, the Ivy Cudgel spinning in her hand as if it weighed nothing.
A-rank or not, it didn't matter.
Ogerpon's only goal was to gain experience points from Benimaru.
"Are you ready?"
"Rea—"
Swish!
However, almost at the instant Benimaru's words fell, the Ogre Clan's young master's pupils sharply contracted.
The next moment, Ogerpon's figure vanished from Benimaru's sight without warning.
Fast!
So fast that among all the Ogre Clan members in the entire village, only Rin barely managed to catch a glimpse of Ogerpon's moving shadow.
"What?"
By the time Benimaru reacted, he only felt a monstrous force, like a mountain toppling, assailing him from the front.
The burly red-haired Ogre instinctively tried to block with his sword.
But Ogerpon's Ivy Cudgel was one step ahead, stopping right in front of his face.
Boom!!
Before Benimaru could recover from his shock, he was met with the fierce wind pressure generated by Ogerpon's single blow.
Thus, everyone only saw Benimaru being violently sent flying, smashing through several wooden houses, and disappearing at the end of the street.
"This…"
For a moment, all the Ogres stood dumbfounded.
The entire field was silent, as if they hadn't recovered from Ogerpon's seemingly ordinary blow just now.
What happened?
They only saw Ogerpon suddenly disappear and then suddenly reappear.
Then their young master flew backward like a meteor and then fell unconscious.
'High-speed movement?'
'No!'
The Ogre elder standing beside Rin was startled by his own guess.
'Is it spatial jump? She actually possessed such a skill?'
'But what about that monstrous force wrapped around the stick?'
Hakurou was rich in combat experience. In the original work, he had deduced the source of Rimuru's skills through a brief encounter with him.
But this time, Rin said he didn't understand.
"Young Master!!!"
Finally, some Ogres realized what had happened.
They anxiously rushed in the direction Benimaru had flown.
After some searching, everyone finally dug out the unconscious Benimaru from the ruins.
"Young Master?"
"Young Master, are you alright? Young Master!!!"
Fortunately, there was an experienced physician in the village.
The physician stepped forward to examine Benimaru's condition and found that he had simply fallen into a coma, with not many injuries on his body.
"He's just unconscious."
The physician said, "Most of the young master's injuries are superficial, and with our Ogre Clan's recovery ability, he will heal quickly."
"Phew~"
Hearing the physician's diagnosis, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
And after the initial panic, what emerged from the hearts of the Ogres was admiration for Ogerpon's power and astonishment at her effortless skill.
"So amazing!"
"Lady Ogerpon is not only powerful, but her control over her strength has reached such a level!"
"Unbelievable."
"This is the first time I've seen anyone other than the old man do something like this."
The old man the Ogres referred to was naturally Hakurou.
However, even Hakurou would find it difficult to achieve Ogerpon's delicate technique of injuring without killing.
This involved too many technical aspects, unimaginable to ordinary people.
Hakurou didn't know that this was precisely a martial art from the Konosuba World, which, after being transformed by the Cardinal World's rules, formed a completely new professional system.
Before this, the Cardinal World had no similar skills.
It was no exaggeration to say that in terms of martial arts attainment alone, Ogerpon had already reached the pinnacle of the Cardinal World, with only a very few grandmaster-level humans being able to compare.
Hakurou's swordsmanship had almost reached the grandmaster realm.
However, he was too old, and his spirit was willing but his flesh was weak.
"Don't worry, Ogerpon held back."
Rin: "Bring him over."
With such destruction just now, Benimaru only sustained such minor injuries, which absolutely meant Ogerpon had held back.
Soon, the unconscious Benimaru was brought before Rin.
"Healing Spell!"
Rin raised his hand, and golden magicules sprinkled down. Benimaru's injuries immediately healed at a visible speed.
This miraculous scene once again drew gasps of astonishment from the Ogre Clan.
"The injuries have healed; he will wake up in a little while."
After treating Benimaru, Rin looked at Hakurou and asked, "With your experience, can you discern the profoundness of Ogerpon's blow just now?"
Hakurou shook his head and sighed, "I failed to grasp the profundity of her move. Please enlighten this old man, Rin-san."
Hakurou did not voice his guess.
He had originally thought that Ogerpon had used some kind of spatial jump skill, which allowed her to instantly cross dozens of meters and appear before Benimaru.
But soon, this conjecture was overturned by Rin.
It wasn't spatial teleportation.
Ogerpon's method of movement belonged to a realm Hakurou couldn't comprehend.
It was a bizarre method he had never imagined.
"It's destruction."
Rin didn't make it difficult for Hakurou, explaining the profoundness of Ogerpon's blow just now to the two of them: "Ogerpon possesses the power to completely destroy anything she touches."
(To be continued.)
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