In Terra, she is a hunter and a bad woman.

It fell to the ground silently... It was completely like an iron wall!

This scene made everyone grit their teeth.

"...Your Highness, the chains have been removed."

The soldiers on the side soon noticed that the chain above the iron gate had been untied... This meant that it was basically impossible to lift the iron gate up again in a short period of time.

But...if the iron gate is not raised, how can they enter Kazdel?

With this thickness, let alone them, even if all the warlocks of the entire Military Commission cast spells together, it would take some time to break through this iron gate.

They even thought it might be easier to just make a hole in the nearby city wall.

But it can only be simpler.

After all, the current defense design of Kazdel City still follows the one left by Maria... and that was built by the Stone Winged Demons, the best builders in the entire Sakazne, after they were ready to stay in Kazdel to resist the coalition forces of the four nations.

The intensity of this situation can be imagined! This kind of scene made everyone feel a little bit confused for a while.

They all looked at Maria, hoping she would have a solution.

Maria responded quickly.

She said nothing and slowly walked to the iron gate.

The slender palm slowly stroked it.

"Is this... a secret passage?"

Everyone was thinking about it and was a little surprised.

And Maria did grope around the entire iron gate for a while.

In the end, she seemed to be convinced of something and took a step back...

"found it?"

Everyone thought.

But Maria's next move made them suddenly stunned.

Maria took a step and a half back, measured the distance between herself and the iron gate in front of her, and narrowed her eyes slightly.

Then...

“Sulfone——!”

No one could even see the movement clearly, they could only hear the sound of a sword being drawn, which seemed to be very sharp.

Then...

That iron gate, the pride of all Kazdel people, considered impenetrable by the Stonewing Demon King's court...

Just like that, silently, a huge gap appeared, five meters wide and three meters high...

"what?!"

For a moment, everyone felt a strange sense of unreality.

Especially when they saw that the iron gate was more than ten centimeters thick, or even up to fifteen or sixteen centimeters, they felt their scalps tingling.

Maria just... chopped down this iron gate with one blow?

This is not something that can be achieved simply by having great strength.

Even Tracys, even Nezrei who is known as the God of War... they can't do this, right?

Maria... just cut it open like that?

Am I crazy? Or am I still dreaming?

In an instant, everyone's expression became extremely subtle.

Maria, however, just glanced at the red and hot cut and spoke calmly.

"Don't get too close."

After saying that, she walked in by herself.

Tracy and others followed closely behind.

As for the other soldiers... after looking at each other, they also started to act without saying a word.

But everyone knew that their respect for Maria would deepen once again...

……

After entering the city, everyone realized that what they saw outside the city was still pretty good.

The situation in the city is now noticeably worse.

Logically speaking, it had only been about a week since the urgent telegram was delivered to Tracys's hands until everyone arrived, but the entire city of Kazdel seemed to have experienced decades of ups and downs.

The ground was covered in gray-black dust, and the surrounding shops had suffered a disturbing degree of weathering. The once bustling streets were now deserted, and not a single ray of sunlight shone through the gloomy sky...

It seems that every breath resonates with the heartbeat.

This... is very wrong.

Everyone didn't say anything, but continued to move forward, wanting to see if they could find any living creatures.

Soon, Godan's minions appeared before them...

It was a strange arthropod that looked like a toad.

It tiptoed, like some strange creature, and approached the two people cautiously.

Its strange posture made people feel a little irritated, but what was even more disgusting was the strange pink-white color of its skin.

It's like extremely dry sand, but on its skin, it presents a unique moist and sticky visual feeling.

And it is on this skin that human faces, stretched to the point of fear, appear.

Even in the best light, this is extremely disturbing.

What was even more disturbing was that when they discovered the monster, it seemed as if it had also discovered them.

The bulging eyeball with horizontal stripes suddenly turned, and the eye on the other side suddenly shrank into the body, and then grew again on the side facing them.

Even when turning around, his eyes did not move in space...it was as if only his body was moving.

"This……"

Even though Tracy had brought with him elite soldiers and generals, they still couldn't help but feel scared from the bottom of their hearts when they saw such a scene that went against common sense.

not right...

This... this is definitely not right!

This couldn't be normal, a life that appeared in the world they knew... It was more like a fantasy monster that had escaped from another dimension!

"Goo-"

Maria was still thinking, but the monster over there had already reacted.

Its throat trembled slightly, and it let out a slightly strange growl.

It clearly has four things that can be called hands and feet, but it only uses its obviously exaggerated and somewhat weird slender fingers to move.

When dozens of long poles are moving, there is also the illusion that creatures like centipedes are moving.

After making a sound that was unclear whether it was a warning or a show of strength, the monster immediately rushed towards the crowd.

Although its movement pattern is strange and scary, its speed is not slow at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was approaching everyone present.

Fortunately, the soldiers on the side were not really frightened. Under the command of Tracys, they almost immediately began to fight back.

Faced with this unprecedented enemy, the soldiers were indeed in a panic, and even their coordination was much worse than usual.

But fortunately, although this monster has a strange appearance, it is not a follower of Godan after all, and Godan did not give his power to it.

After the soldiers got over their initial confusion, they soon began to fight back.

With the exquisite use of Originium skills and the team's neat planning, they pulled back and forth.

It was almost effortless to deal with this toad-like arthropod with strange skin.

Various spell bombs blew it into a bloody mess!

After seeing the soldiers do it, Maria also walked over and began to check the other person's blood.

There was a change... but it seemed that it was only affected, not affected... There weren't many monsters in the city. In other words, Godan didn't spread his power and influence like other superiors after his death?

Maria frowned.

This news might be good news for the people in Kazdel... After all, it's easy to deal with monsters that are just affected and mutated. If they are really monsters created by Godan releasing his power, then they really have no way to deal with them.

but……

This was not good news for Maria.

Because this means that Godan has gotten rid of the instinctive stage and is actively trying to contact the world.

An enemy with brains is always more difficult to deal with than one without brains.

When she thought of this, Maria’s brows became tighter and tighter.

On the side, the soldier who was watching nearby suddenly noticed something was wrong.

"who?!"

He called out loudly, holding up his staff, looking like he was ready to attack at any moment.

When the people nearby heard the sound, they all turned their heads and were ready to provide support at any time.

Seeing that everyone was planning to do it for real, those who were hiding in the dark didn't dare to stay any longer. They quickly raised their hands and called for them to get up.

"Don't...don't do it."

"Ok?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the voice.

Tracy, on the other hand, took the initiative to walk out of the heavy protection and showed his appearance to the figure hiding in the ruins.

"I'm the Regent, Tracy. What happened to Kazdel?"

He spoke, his tone firm.

The refugees who heard such sounds suddenly became excited.

"Your Highness the Regent? Is it really you?"

"..."

Tracy said nothing, just looked at the other person.

However, the opponent hurriedly ran out of the dusty room, covered in dirt. Although the soldiers on the side could roughly sense the opponent's condition, out of professional instinct, they still stopped him outside the protective circle.

The other party was also aware of his extreme behavior at this moment, but he still couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart. He clenched his fists and murmured.

"We are saved... We are saved..."

"What on earth is going on here?"

Tracy also understood the other party's excitement at the moment, but what was more important now was to find out what was happening in Kazdel now. Could it be that Theresa did not resist at all?

What is going on here?

"what happened……"

Hearing Tracy's question, the man paused. After a long silence, he looked sad.

"I...we don't know either."

"Just a while ago, we were sleeping soundly at night when we suddenly heard someone screaming."

"Later on, a lot of strange things appeared on the streets... We tried to fight them at first, but they kept getting bigger and more numerous. Eventually, we couldn't defeat them at all."

"At that time, Her Highness Theresa declared a state of emergency for the entire Kazdel."

"But just one day later, Her Highness Theresa announced the establishment of a temporary shelter..."

The man looked quite stimulated, and his speech was a little incoherent, but still quite coherent.

According to the other party's words, the people present gradually reproduced the entire process of what happened in Kazdel in their minds.