The Reincarnation Of The Poor Princess
The Seventy Nine (79)

"Retreat, everyone!"

A witch walked forward and instructed everyone to be behind her. After that, the other witches stood by the witch's side, while the knights protected the priests in the rear row.

"Roaayarrr!!"

Brak!

Just then, a swarm of big cats came out from within the ground, taking out claws and exposing their sharp canines. A pair of bird-like wings were visible on both sides of their bodies. The horde of big cats stood before the witches while roaring. Their black eyes lit up with a cold light.

"Prepare a high-level magic shield!"

"Open the demon beast prison and call them now!"

"Use the new magic spell we learned!"

"Now, attack!!"

Swosh's. Swosh's. Swoshis!

Wuuushu!

The battlefield was immediately created. Magical attacks were thrown by witches at the huge swarm of cats, while the strange winged creatures shot the witches with their countless powerful claws.

"It's poisonous! Everyone, dodge immediately!"

The witches were terrified when they saw the swarm of big cats shooting at them with hundreds of extremely sharp and poisonous claws. They immediately dodged and summoned reinforcements from other groups of magicians using magic communication devices.

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Meanwhile, Stella, who was watching the fierce fight in front of him with a blank look, could not help but feel astonished. He had never seen an animal like a tiger that had a pair of wings and was the size of an elephant. Now he was completely convinced that this world was an amazing fantasy world.

'Ah, fruit!'

Then she realized something, then Stella secretly escaped while hiding her sword, after which she went the other way. To the place behind that bunch of big cats.

The swiiish!

Stella ran there.

Something strange is going on right now.

How could the guard of the Red Crystal Fruit fight here and let the fruit lie in a hiding place without being guarded by anyone?

There must be something strange.

'Is it possible that they are the monsters that rule these mountains?'

Could be right. However, rather than being curious like this, it was better for him to immediately look for an answer to his question.

Stella looked back for a moment, then turned back.

'May you all be safe. Spirit, yes.'

Stella encouraged the witches in her heart, feeling completely innocent for not helping them fight.

"Huh?"

Along the way, Stella saw a cave with black rocks covered with snow. He realized that the cave was very strange because the rocks, which should be a little dusty or look dull and dirty, actually look shiny black, like they are always cleaned every day.

At that time, the oddity of the rocks gave rise to speculation in Stella's mind.

'Don't ... The fruit is there?'

His gut tells him he's right. He also walked towards the cave while pulling out his sword, just in case there were fantasy giant animals called monsters.

It didn't take long for Stella to enter the cave, she immediately disappeared into the darkness.

However, what happened outside the cave was truly shocking. In one of the cave gaps, something was seen moving, then a wide open dark blue round eyeball was seen there, slowly becoming sharp and cold.

In fact, the cave was not a place, but the gigantic body of an animal.

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Crasssh!

A fireball the size of an adult's palm appeared beside Stella, becoming the light of her path. The cave he entered was very dark, there was not even a beam of light. While walking, Stella also used her sense of hearing to hear something approaching, but only her footsteps could be heard.

That means there are no monsters in this place.

However, Stella could not be relieved just like that as her premonition said that a great danger was coming soon.

'Why is this cave so long?'

'It feels like walking in a long tunnel.'

At that moment, his steps stopped. Stella recalled her thoughts.

'The tunnels? Wait ... It's a cave, right?'

Unbelief flashed in his eyes. Is there a cave so long as this place? Stella was convinced that such a cave did not exist anywhere.

'So where am I now?'

When the thought appeared, the place on its ground was currently shaking, like an earthquake.

"What's this about? Shit, I gotta find out don't come out."

Stella turned around quickly and ran to where she had first entered this area.

Buk. Buk. Buk up!

"W-what?"

Unfortunately, the entrance was closed.

Stella gritted her teeth.

"Damn," he lamented, then ran round from his place, trying to find another way.

At that moment, as he ran, a sensation of where powerful magic was felt around him. Stella stopped and looked around her, then followed the direction where the powerful magic was pulling her.

'There's light?'

In this dark place, there was a streak of reddish light visible several meters from its place. Stella sped up her steps and walked up to the red light. Arriving there, his red eyes widened, disbelieving the scene before him.

There was a small tree that was as tall as his body, which was like a mango tree from Asia. The gleaming green leaves were shrouded in beautiful white flowers of small size. And there, there was a fruit with a red color like an apple, sparkling like a ruby jewel.

A rare legendary fruit, bright red in color and gleaming like a gem, filled with abundant magic mana. It was certain that it was a Red Crystal Fruit!

Stella was stunned for a moment, thinking whether today was her lucky day. After which, the corners of his lips curved into a smile. His red eyes glowed.

"So I'll see you later too."

No matter whether this place was going to collapse or not, the fruit had to fall into his hands!

Basically, humans can be greedy and selfish for their survival. No human being is perfect because everything has its flaws and its bad side.

Stretching her hands towards the fruit, Stella managed to reach it. The fruit in his hand shone, then gradually dimmed, until the darkness again enveloped him.

"What...?"

Confusion hit Stella. A moment later, the tremors his feet felt grew even more intense.

"By!!!"

A familiar roar was heard. Just then, the dark "cave" moved. Immediately, sunlight barged into the area.

"H-huh?"

Now what was around Stella was not a dark place like that, but a familiar snowy ground in her eyes.

'No way. So, that wasn't a cave?'

Stella stared blankly at the giant animal in front of her, which was originally a "cave". The animal is similar to the mythological creatures in its world. His shiny body was covered in fish-like scales, yet it looked faintly and shaped like a shard of glass, it was pitch-black like ink. The body size of the animal was many times larger than that of the giant cat.

"...."

'Ah, so this is the real keeper of the Red Crystal Fruit....'

Stella nodded while smiling helplessly.

'I knew it was a fantasy world dominated by magic. But....'

He looked at the giant animal.

'Should the legendary mythical beast, the dragon, be here?!' he screamed in his heart.

After that, their situation became like this.

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TBCS!