627 It blocked the portal! (2/2)

Mika and Hisashi returned to their senses and hurriedly started fighting the dinosaur boss monster.

Thanks to Seiji and Shika eliminating the smaller monsters' interference, Mika and Hisashi were able to defeat and kill the giant dinosaur monster in just a short while by using the combination of the Thunderboom and the Dimension Shattering Jade.

”Hoshi, how are you feeling?”

”It hurts just a little…”

Although Hoshi crashed into the ground from the sky, the combat uniform he wore mitigated the impact so that he was only minorly injured.

Hoshi was simultaneously a little depressed as well as really happy. That was because he witnessed Senpai— no, Team Leader in action!

Even after entering here, this was the first time that Hoshi had ever witnessed Seiji fighting.

Hoshi wanted to see even more… But he knew that he couldn't overly rely on Seiji. His goal was to be able to fight as an equal by Seiji's side.

'This time, their team met with danger because they lack strong AOE techniques… no, it's purely because they're still not strong enough,' Seiji thought to himself.

If Hisashi and Hoshi had been a bit stronger, they'd then be able to deal with the numerous smaller monsters attacking them all at once. In that case, even if they didn't have strong AOE attacks, they'd be able to agilely move around the battlefield and pick smaller monsters off before finally dealing with the boss monster.

Of course, it would be better if they had some better AOE attacks, or a larger-scale AOE crowd control spell.

”Apart from Hoshi panicking a bit too much, you guys didn't make any other mistakes. It's just that your power is still insufficient.”

”I'm sorry…”

”I'm not blaming you at all. This is your first battle ever. It's only normal for you to make mistakes. It's fine as long as you grow and learn from this.”

Hoshi felt a warm feeling in his heart from receiving Seiji's encouragement.

After resting for a while, everyone continued onward.

When everyone arrived in the third district, they saw a large tree in full bloom which had bright-red leaves that resembled maple leaves.

Red leaves… Hoshi felt something from this. Suddenly, he heard the faint sound of singing.

This singing sounded rather mystical and ethereal. He recalled the mysterious singing that he heard when he Awakened.

These two singing voices were obviously different. The one he heard right now sounded mystical and ethereal, while the one he'd heard previously in his dream sounded elegant and sad. However, the singing also seemed to somehow resemble each other.

Hoshi reflexively searched around for the singer. He then saw a girl wearing a green dress who sat on one of the branches of the large red-leafed tree!

This girl had a head of brilliant golden hair that shone like it was pure gold. However, her incredibly beautiful hair seemed completely disheveled as it was scattered all over her face. Her bangs were long to the point where half her face was covered, with only her exquisite nose and cute mouth showing.

She had delicate arms and milky-white soft skin. Her soft and beautiful tiny hands and tender feet seemed just like beautiful artwork! Even without being able to see her face clearly, any lolicon would go into a mania at seeing her skin, arms, and legs.

Hoshi wasn't a lolicon. However, he was still attracted to her as he stood still while staring at her without even blinking.

”Hoshi, can you see something?” Seiji spoke up.

Right after arriving in the third district, Seiji sensed that something was off. He looked around him and noticed that his junior was acting strange. Seiji followed Hoshi's line of sight and saw nothing there at all. That was why he spoke up and asked that.

Hoshi didn't respond. He simply stared at the tree with an admiring expression on his face.

”Hoshi!” Seiji increased the volume of his voice. However, his junior still didn't respond.

Everyone else also had slightly confused expressions at seeing this.

”Something's present,” Kazuko suddenly spoke up. ”I can sense something… but can't see it.”

She had an incredibly serious expression.

Seiji slapped Hoshi on the shoulder, but Hoshi didn't react at all. Seiji then forcefully shook Hoshi, but the latter still stood still as if he was glued to the spot.

At this moment, dense black mist appeared from everywhere, creating a large number of small monsters— no, wait, they were all large monsters!?

Gigantic black wolves, black tigers, black bears, and the velociraptor boss monster that they just faced all appeared in droves…

”Kazuko-san, take us out of here immediately!” Seiji immediately made this decision upon seeing the situation.

”I can't… I'm unable to open my portal…” Kazuko's face paled. ”The invisible something is blocking me… it blocked my portal!!”