The maid squad is too strong, what use is there for me, the Demon King?

The Shadowblade Leopard's corpse was still twitching slightly, but an even greater threat was already approaching.

The rock-armored giant lizard let out a deafening roar, clearly enraged by the death of its companion, its small eyes covered in rock armor flashing with a cruel and violent light.

It abandoned its pursuit of the fallen Taric and instead focused its attention on the weak and blood-covered Philippa—the culprit who had killed its companion.

It pawed at the ground with its four limbs, its enormous body like an out-of-control mountain, charging toward Philippa with a terrifying momentum that could crush everything. Every step it took made the earth tremble, and a stench of blood swept over them.

"Philippa!" Taric's eyes widened in horror. He struggled to get up, but the pain in his internal organs was excruciating. The claw attack had almost shattered his ribs, and he couldn't get up for a moment.

Although Sophia's magic power was greatly depleted after killing the Shadow Blade Panther, it was not completely exhausted.

Seeing Philippa on the verge of death, a resolute glint flashed in her eyes, and without hesitation, she frantically extracted all the remaining magic power from her body.

"Don't even think about it! Holy Light Barrier!"

She chanted at the top of her lungs, and the tip of her staff burst forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant light.

A massive wall of light, far thicker, more solid, and almost tangible than ever before, instantly rose from the ground, like an insurmountable sacred barrier, standing fiercely between Philippa and the charging rock-armored giant lizard.

boom! ! ! ! ! !

The Rock Armor Giant Lizard, carrying immense force, crashed into the wall of light imbued with all of Sophia's magic, like a maddened savage beast.

Amidst a deafening explosion, the wall of light trembled violently, its surface instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, but it did not shatter immediately.

It withstood the devastating impact head-on, its holy light clashing and annihilating against the giant lizard's ferocious brute force.

"Ugh!" Sofia let out a painful groan, her face turning deathly pale, her body shaking violently, and blood oozing from the corners of her mouth and nostrils.

Maintaining this overloaded wall of light was an extreme strain on her, burning through her mental and physical energy every second.

But this precious obstacle bought Philippa crucial reaction time and exhausted Sofia's last bit of strength.

After holding for a mere second or two, the wall of light finally reached its limit and exploded into countless points of light that vanished.

After casting the spell, Sophia's eyes quickly dimmed, her body went limp and she fell backward, completely losing consciousness and falling into a coma.

The shattering of the light wall was not without value; it ultimately neutralized most of the giant lizard's terrifying momentum, causing it to momentarily freeze and become dizzy.

In that life-or-death moment, a resolute glint flashed in Philippa's eyes. She knew she had to seize the opportunity!

"Aaaaah!!" Philippa let out a near-hoarse battle roar, enduring the excruciating pain of her severe injuries, and poured all the remaining light power in her body, along with the power that burned her life potential, into her legs and longsword.

Instead of retreating, she faced the giant lizard, which had stopped due to the impact, and leaped into the air.

She dodged the headbutt that was powerful enough to shatter rocks, twisting her body with difficulty in the air, gripping the hilt of her sword tightly with both hands, the tip pointing downwards, concentrating all her strength, will, and desire to survive into this one point!

"Break for me!!"

This is a pure martial arts technique attack that combines a thrusting motion with the momentum of a fall!

Pfft——! ! !

The longsword, carrying all the kinetic energy of its descent and Philippa's resolute will to die, stabbed fiercely into the gap where the rock-armored giant lizard's neck and carapace met.

However, the Rock Armored Giant Lizard was a monster with formidable defenses. Although the sword tip managed to pierce it slightly, it was firmly stuck by the dense rocky bone armor and thick, tough skin, preventing the sword from penetrating its vital points.

"Roar!!!" The excruciating pain completely ignited the monitor lizard's ferocity! It frantically stood upright, violently shaking its massive body, trying to throw Philippa off its back.

Philippa gripped the sword hilt tightly, her whole body swaying wildly in the air, her wounds reopening, blood splattering like raindrops. She felt as if her arm was about to be torn apart, and her internal organs felt displaced.

"Now! Taric!" Philippa screamed with her last breath.

No more words are needed! The moment the monitor lizard stood upright, exposing its relatively soft abdomen, which lacked the protection of thick bony armor—

"Ughhhhhh—!" Taric roared like a beast, unleashing his last bit of strength from somewhere, dragging his heavily wounded body, and charging forward like a berserker.

He abandoned the heavy giant axe and instead concentrated the remaining holy light power in his body into his right fist, which seemed to transform into a blazing holy light warhammer.

"You beast! Take this punch!"

Taric's powerful punch, imbued with all his strength and magic, landed squarely and without any fancy moves on the exposed heart of the Rock Armored Giant Lizard.

A terrifying force penetrated its body, causing the massive rock-armored giant lizard to stiffen abruptly and let out an unprecedented wail of pain. Its upright body lost its balance and crashed backward.

Meanwhile, Philippa, who had been flung into the air, took the opportunity to stomp her feet hard on the giant lizard's carapace. Using the recoil, she forcefully pulled out the jammed longsword, and at the same time, her body flipped backward and crashed heavily to the ground, rolling a long distance away, unable to move, her consciousness beginning to fade.

Boom! ! !

The mountain-sized body of the rock-armored monitor lizard crashed to the ground, causing a violent tremor.

Its heart area is clearly visible, with a huge dent, and the surrounding rocks and bones are full of cracks, so that you can even see the broken flesh and blood inside and a large amount of dark red blood that has overflowed.

Its limbs twitched, emitting painful groans as it tried to struggle to its feet, but Taric's desperate blow had completely destroyed its life.

Eventually, its struggles weakened, its cruel little eyes lost their luster, and it became completely still.

Silence once again enveloped the ravaged clearing, leaving only the heavy stench of blood and the three men's labored, painful breathing.

Philippa lay in a pool of blood, her vision blurred, her whole body aching as if it were falling apart, unable to move even a finger.

Taric collapsed to his knees, coughing up blood; that punch had almost drained him of everything.

Sofia was unconscious and her face was frighteningly pale.

All three were severely injured and paid a terrible price before they finally managed to kill the two powerful eighth-tier demons.

The space in the distance rippled slightly, and the figure of Master Phoenix, who had been hidden all along, slowly emerged from somewhere. Looking at the tragic scene before him, a complex emotion flashed in his aged eyes. He sighed softly and shook his head.

"Why is this so?"