"They have appeared." Rea narrowed her eyes, staring at these monsters. She couldn't help but recall the video of Theo explaining this type of monster.
"When you encounter this type of monster, you have to remember three things." Theo raised his hand and formed a red stick figure along with a few humanoid figures. "Someone at our level has a new source of power.
"The slime is dissolving our power and engraving it to the new body." The red stick figure was torn apart and gradually moved toward the new bodies. And each body only had a part of the red body.
There was one with only a finger and one with a whole head.
After that, Theo continued, "If you encounter them, you have to check the part where they store their power. Depending on the size of the part along with the importance of the organ, their strength will vary."
Remembering that warning, Rea immediately scanned their entire bodies while attacking them so that the monsters would release their power again, allowing Rea to find their parts.
*Boom!*
*Boom!*
*Boom!*
A series of explosions occurred as Rea took a few leaps back while locating their red spots. After finding them, Rea recounted the continuation of that explanation.
"After you have recognized them, you have to separate them into two categories: the strong and the weak. I don't know if they have the same consciousness or not at this point, considering the slime has dissolved their bodies again, but I want you to focus on the weaker ones first.
"The weaker one should not be a problem for all of you. They might have the power of a King Class Monster, but their strength was only equal to an above average Mythical Rank Expert. Meanwhile, I've recruited all special talents whose strengths are far above average. So, I'm expecting a lot from you guys."
Rea narrowed her eyes, putting a number on their heads. She was going to prioritize the weaker monster.
According to Theo, the slime would be able to reproduce them, but the slime had to move its real body to the frontline. As long as they could kill the weaker ones, they could thin out their members and prevent any unnecessary deaths from them.
"…" Rea had noticed something and it was related to the third warning.
"This is the last warning. It is only my speculation, so you have to confirm it first. The stronger they are, the bigger their power will be granted.
"Why would the slime give all the power to a single Supreme Rank Monster? Using that logic, the humanoid monsters that will have the important organs and bigger parts will be Mythical Rank Experts.
"That's why if you find them, just dodge their attacks until you have enough people to help you. After all, the enemies this time might not only have the power of explosions but others as well."
Rea took a deep breath, muttering inwardly, 'I have confirmed that there is one monster whose brain has concentrated energy. I have to ignore him first and thin out their number before another wave of monsters comes.'
Rea locked on the first three targets while glancing around to make sure that the enemies hit her from out of nowhere.
It appeared the enemies refused to pay attention to her the moment these explosive humanoid monsters appeared.
'I am going then.' Rea jumped with a smile as if taunting them. She wanted to see if these people had individual personalities or shared ones.
Unfortunately for her, they didn't show any change in their expression. Although it could go both ways, she deemed it impossible to spark some feelings in them. Of course, she wasn't so foolish that she wanted to let the human soul take their body back since the original human had died.
She just wanted to cause discord among them so that she could win without using too much energy.
But without that emotion, she had to stick to the basics.
Several red lights appeared in front of her. Rea changed her transformation to Kitsune Form, increasing her speed.
She leaped to the side, avoiding the blast. But after that, she jumped back into the smoke.
The humanoid monsters were staring at the smoke with poker faces. They simply pointed their palms at the smoke as if they didn't care how surprising Rea's action was.
But right after they released their red lights, Rea suddenly emerged from the smoke, heading straight at them.
She didn't follow Theo's direction as she actually approached the strongest monster first.
The humanoid monster seemed to be confident to take her on. At the very least, it wouldn't go down easily.
So, when Rea was about to reach him, the humanoid monster clapped its hands while the others released their detonating red lights.
This was when Rea changed her form into Genbu. She jumped to the side and erected a barrier.
*Boom!*
All the red lights exploded simultaneously, engulfing the most powerful monster. Meanwhile, the barrier managed to protect Rea from both the heat and the explosion.
This time, Rea aimed at the weakest one, who seemed to be a Supreme Rank Monster.
She waved her sword, only to find the monster trying to use the power of explosion to blast her sword away.
This was what they should worry about. The fact that the monster didn't care about its own life meant it could become a suicide bomber, which would lead to numerous casualties.
Rea took this matter seriously as she changed her transformation at the last second. She turned into an oni.
With the sudden surge of strength, she stomped the ground to increase her speed for a moment, cutting the humanoid monster's neck.
"One down…" Rea muttered while looking at the monster to confirm his death. It seemed everything went according to the information. The monster was still moving and tried to harm her, but Rea waved her sword once again, separating its body.
As if predicting her movement, the monster's body started glowing as if trying to detonate himself.
"!!!"
*Boom!*
