A large two headed orange lizard monster roared toward the sky. But before it could finish roaring, it was smashed to the ground with a giant hammer. One of it's heads immediately turned into pulp and soon the other head also followed it's footsteps.

As for the person who was responsible for this, she did not give the monster a second glance and ran toward a bunch of tomato like vegitables that was growing behind the lizard monster. She had the big smile on her face while she collected all the veggies.

Elena witness this whole thing while doing nothing. The lady in question, Escora had told Elena that she was going to protect her and asked her to just relax. So that was exactly what she was doing right now.

Escora was quite powerful. She could easily kill S rank and even legendary grade monsters. Most of the counsilors were at the legendary grade but Escora looked to be a step above of them in terms of strength.

Elena had checked out who Escora really was but she had not read her mind for the time being. So Elena was actually not sure what she was thinking about. Coming to the Ikrovi Wasteland with Elena could not just be for vegetable gathering and Elena had guessed that Escora wanted to prove how strong Elena actually was. But then, she stopped Elena from fighting so Elena was again confused about what Escora wanted.

While following behind Escora, Elena saw quite a few monsters biting the dust and Escora collecting a large amount of herbs and vegetables. She also did not forget to collect the meat from the large monsters. Today was exceptionally lucky for her as she had managed to gather way more ingredients than she was expecting. So Escora was truly in a very good mood.

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As both of them went even further inside the Ikrovi Wasteland, the monsters started to not only become stronger but also larger in size too. That was not true only for the monsters but the rocks and plants around them had also increased in size.

Elena was looking at this phenomenon with interest. It looked like this was also one of the reason why people were very confident that giants lived in the deepest part of the Ikrovi Wasteland.

As Elena was walking while thinking that, Escora suddenly stopped. Then she turned around toward Elena and swang her large hammer toward her while releasing her killing intent. She was extremely fast but Elena was able to move out of the hammer's way without any problem and with a calm expression on her face. Seeing this, the smile that Escora had on her face became even more ferocious.

"Hahaha, my intuition about miss Elena was not wrong. If you're capable of dodging that attack, no way you're just a S rank adventurer. Now come on. Show me how strong you really are."

While saying this, Escora continued her assult. She swang her hammer with full force and with each swing, the environment around her was destroyed. She had also stopped suppressing her aura and the current aura that she was showing was not something that a mere legendary grade powerhouse would have. That was because Escora was actually a demigod rank being. Her current level was 420.

Actually even now, she was holding back a little bit. She was maintaining the intensity of her attacks at the level of someone who had just entered the Demigod rank. It looked like she had mistaken Elena to be someone who had just entered the Demigod rank and was coming to the Ikrovi Wasteland to go to Valhalla. Except for Elena's current power level, what she had thought was actually not wrong. So her intuition was definitely very powerful.

While Escora was attacking her, Elena took out a three segmented staff and started to defend herself with it. Her talent for this particular weapon was actually as good as her talent for the sword. But as the coiling dragon staff was a very rare weapon, she had not managed to came across it in her hero days.

So it had not being long since she had started practicing with this weapon. And even with the very short span of time, she had already reached the transcendental grade with this weapon. So currently she was trying to catch up to her progress of sword with this weapon.

But sword had a lot of history for her and she had spent a lot of time with this weapon. So it looked like the coiling dragon staff would need a lot time before catching up with it. So Elena was making sure to use this weapon whenever she had the chance.

With her three segmented staff, Elena managed to easily block all the hammer smashes. Not only that, she even started pushing Escora back. She was severely limiting her stats and level as Elena was scared that if her level was close to hers, she might just lose control over her attack and would kill Escora. So she made sure to keep her level at least 200 level below Escora. But still, with her transcendental grade mastery of this weapon, she had no trouble dominating the whole fight.

Seeing that she was at a back foot, instead of getting frustrated, Escora became more gleeful and activated some kind of skill. She had already stopped holding back but still was not able to overpower Elena. So she decided to go all out.

Her white hair started burning with white fire while her body started to become even bigger. The hammer in her hand also got covered in the same white fire and became stronger. Then with more speed and more power, Escora continued her attacks on Elena. To defend against these attacks without raising her level, Elena started to use a weapon art of her creation called " Thousand Pillar Fortress" and created an impenetrable defense for herself.

Even after the boost, all of Escora's attacks were still getting blocked. Not only that but she could also feel that Elena had not used any kind of boosts and was fighting against her with pure skills. That was even more unbelievable for her. Seeing this, Escora started to realise the gap in strength between each other.

But even though she now understood that her chance of winning against Elena was basically zero, she could not stop now. Her pride would not allow that. So even when she was completely outmatched, she continued to do her best to somehow break through Elena's defense.

But that was all in vain. After striking at Elena for about an hour, the flame in her hair started to disappear. After a few more minutes, all the white flame extinguished and Escora fell to the ground, completely unconscious. Seeing this, Elena dismissed her technique and lifted up the unconscious lady in the princess carry position. After she woke up, she had a lot of answering to do.

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