When that bizarre bird was rushing straight toward Annette, and it was almost about to catch her. But she quickly reacted in time, by dodging to one side to avoid its attack. Then she began swinging her sword, slashing many critical and continuous blows at its neck. But such a simple action—how could it possibly make that bizarre bird die so easily? After being injured by Annette, in the neck area, those wounds had healed on their own very quickly, in just a blink of an eye. Which made Annette very confused, and now she had no other choice. Other than, having to make a final decision, which was,... to use all of her strength, to cast magic and completely destroy that bird.

She quickly crossed her arms, to cast. And after that, she put in all her effort, creating lots of arrows shaped like hearts. After Annette had created a large number of arrows, she stopped and spread her arms out, to control those arrows, aiming them back toward that bizarre bird, then making those arrows fire repeatedly at it. Making it hurt and burn. And finally, she quickly delivered the finishing blow. With a terrifying explosion, Annette fired a series of final arrows. And those arrows, when pierced into the bird, exploded violently. Making the whole sky light up, just like fireworks.

After using a lot of strength, to destroy that monster, she was exhausted and fainted. Seeing that, Gladys panicked, flew over toward Annette. As she was about to fall freely to the ground, luckily Gladys quickly caught her in time. Making Gladys breathe a sigh of relief.

– Gladys: Whew! Thank goodness, that was really fast and dangerous.

Next was the battle between Desi and the giant monster from earlier, which had taken the lives of her three unfortunate friends. Making Desi full of hatred and wanting to destroy it immediately, just to avenge them. But honestly, if you wanted to defeat it, it would be a bit difficult. Because, just by glancing at it, you could already feel,... the magical aura full of murderous intent that it carried inside, along with its towering body. Almost as tall as a mountain—that monster made people tremble when facing it. In addition, you could also see its tough and strong skin. No matter how many sword slashes you made, it wouldn't do anything. Just one slash might even break your sword, let alone talking about slashing it many times—almost impossible.

So Desi had no choice, but to keep casting magic like Annette did. By crossing her arms, and then she used all of her strength, to create a huge boulder and control it. Dropping it right where that giant monster was standing, and then Desi shouted:

– Desi: Take this! You damn beast!

When the boulder, weighing thousands of tons, fell down, it didn't just crush and grind the monster, but also created an earthquake, shaking everything violently and causing landslides everywhere, making their group feel the situation was unstable, and they had to leave immediately.

Desi was just like Annette, she also cast a lot of spells. Which caused her to use up a lot of energy. Making her exhausted right after fighting it. And she had to rely on the help of the last friend in their group. That was Jolie—she quickly caught Desi.

– Jolie: Hey! Are you okay?
– Desi: I'm fine!
– Jolie: That's good then!
– Gladys: Let's get out of here quickly!
– Desi: Hey! Is Annette okay?
– Gladys: Oh, she's fine! It's just because she used too much energy, so she became exhausted and fainted for a bit!
– Desi: Haizzz! But I'm really jealous of Annette. I don't get it, but whatever she does looks beautiful—even fainting looks beautiful.
– Gladys: Of course! That's why even we are so into her—no wonder the boys in the academy are all chasing after her.
– Jolie: Come on! Instead of being jealous like that, why don't we admire her beauty instead?
– Gladys: There! You hear what Jolie said? Instead of being jealous, why don't we admire Annette instead?
– Desi: Alright, alright! Got it, so from now on I won't be jealous anymore, okay? And instead, I'll admire Annette like you guys said. Happy now?
– Jolie: Hehe! Didn't expect Desi to change that easily.

• Back to the ongoing battle of Riccardo's group.

Their group stood in a circle, aiming to observe and defend from multiple sides. Then, Cyrus smiled smugly. It seemed he knew exactly what to do.

– Cyrus: Hey! You all know what to do, right?
Everyone immediately replied in unison:
– Of course!

So their group spread out to both sides. Then flew up into the air. First was Noland—he crossed both his arms, to cast magic like everyone else usually did. He started absorbing magic from the ground, up toward him, but in fact what he absorbed was the core inside. The purpose of doing this was,... to weaken the energy inside it. So his group could destroy it more easily. Next was Jasper—he also crossed both arms to cast magic like Noland did. Then he took a deep breath, and brought his arms behind him. With the aim to release the air inside his body outward and create a strong gust of wind, snapping the trees. Taking advantage of that, Kano also started casting magic, like his friends. In an instant, he created a powerful icy mist, freezing everything—core included.

Right now, was the moment to strike the final blow, to make sure those wood spirits could never regenerate again. Cyrus quickly flew up higher than everyone else. To better observe below, and flying up from that angle, he could aim more accurately, and not miss a single one.

Cyrus hurriedly cast his final move, by breathing out a giant flame, and that flame spread out at lightning speed. Burning down that entire area. After successfully destroying them, they hugged each other and cheered happily:

– Hooray! Awesome, guys, we did it!