Shuna's eyes snapped open, witnessing a scene she could scarcely have imagined.
A small figure had appeared before her and Shion, seemingly out of nowhere.
Barely over a meter tall, the figure wielded a club woven from green vines.
And this club, at that moment, stood like an impassable chasm between the two women and the bug monster's razor-sharp blade.
"The attack… it's blocked…"
Shuna and Shion could hardly believe their eyes.
That massive, razor-sharp insect blade couldn't even dent a simple wooden club.
It wasn't just that it couldn't dent it!
Cracks spread across the insect blade, extending toward the mantis-like monster's limbs.
Benimaru and the others witnessed the scene as well.
Uncertain of Ogerpon's origins, they could only sense a shared lineage from her aura.
She was one of their kind!
"Ogerpon has entered the battlefield!"
The next moment, under the stunned gazes of the Ogre Tribe, a green spiked club, brimming with surging magicules, obliterated the giant mantis before it!
Not knocked back... shattered!
And it didn't stop there!
The vine club's momentum carried forward, sweeping aside five or six bugs blocking the path between Benimaru and the two women, sending them flying!
A gust of wind roared, whipping the ogres' clothes and stirring up dust that clouded their vision, prompting them to adopt defensive stances against potential surprise attacks.
But the expected assault never came.
Instead, a figure darted through the battlefield, accompanied by the agonized screeches of bug monsters from all directions.
A single swing of the club, and a bug's body shattered into pieces.
Ogerpon dodged the splattering, foul ichor, scanning her surroundings before stomping her foot.
Instantly, green fluorescent light danced in the air, and blades of grass sprouted from the earth.
"My body… it's healing?"
"Is someone casting Healing Arts on us?"
In that moment, every ogre on the battlefield felt the effects of the grassy terrain, their wounds slowly mending.
"My back… it's so itchy."
Shion, whose spine had been injured, was among those healed.
Shion and Shuna turned their gazes forward in unison.
As the dust settled, Ogerpon, resembling a little girl, stood atop a fallen scorpion-like bug, looking down at the Ogre Tribe.
She wore a green grass mask, with three others... blue, gray, and red... floating behind her in a triangular formation.
These masks, as if carved from gemstones, gleamed like works of art in the sunlight.
Unlike her Pokémon days, Ogerpon's Mask Glow ability had evolved dramatically in this world.
Most notably, she was no longer limited to a single mask's transformation.
She could summon four masks simultaneously, using one as the core to form a quad-mask array, gaining the enhancements of all four.
Under Ogerpon's control, the grass-type energy flowed into the Well Mask, Hearth Mask, and Cornerstone Mask.
Water, fire, rock, and grass... four energies swirled around her, turning the battlefield into her personal stage.
"And a child at that?"
Ogerpon's aura felt familiar to Shuna and Shion.
But the problem was her size... she was so small.
Standing barely over a meter tall, she was dwarfed by the Ogre Tribe, whose average height neared two meters, making her seem less than a child.
The power Ogerpon displayed.
And the immense magicules she radiated silently proclaimed her strength.
Ogerpon summoned another vine club, adopting a dual-wielding stance.
Benimaru took notice of her, about to ask more, but she was already charging back into the fray.
He tried to call her back, but Ogerpon was too fast.
Empowered by the quad-mask array, Damien's Leader ability, and her own Destroyer Unique Skill, Ogerpon's strength had skyrocketed.
Her B-rank magicules were her foundation, but in her mask state, she could face B+-rank monsters head-on.
With Damien's Leader buffs, supportive magic, and her Destroyer ability, even an A-rank opponent wasn't out of reach!
What unfolded before the Ogre Tribe was a scene of utter domination.
"What kind of monster is she? That power…"
"Could she be the legendary Oni?"
Despite her petite frame, every strike from Ogerpon unleashed earth-shaking destruction.
No matter the target, a hit meant annihilation.
Weapons, armor... it didn't matter.
Unless you bore a blessing on par with Destroyer's Unique Skill, it was a rule-like judgment!
Ignoring defense entirely!
In midair, Ogerpon spun, wielding her twin vine clubs like a horizontal tornado, pulverizing surrounding bugs into dust.
Her staggering combat prowess and explosive output left the Ogre Tribe's jaws on the ground.
"What a ferocious fighting style!"
"She's so small, yet where does that monstrous strength come from?"
"Those massive bugs with their thick shells… taken out with a single swing…"
The Ogre Tribe, never having witnessed the cheat-like power of a Unique Skill, was utterly shaken by Ogerpon's otherworldly might.
"Young Lord, what do we do?"
The future Souei, now just a blue-skinned ogre trained in ninja arts, spoke up. "The tribe has regrouped, and the retreat path has been cleared by… that little girl."
Mentioning Ogerpon, Souei felt his worldview shattering.
That destructive power, that unstoppable charge.
This was the true violence of the Ogre Tribe!
100 Power Stones = 1 BC
300 Power Stones = 2 BC
500 Power Stones = 3 BC
700 Power Stones = 4 BC
1000 Power Stones = 5 BC
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