Seeing this situation, Glass had already anticipated it, but Esdeath's actions were even more effortless than she had imagined.
Then, she took a deep breath. Her fan once again condensed into a light sword, pointing it at Esdeath. Her other hand held another fan, preparing to release a skill.
"Round Dance Breaking Form: Armor Cutter!"
As her words fell, the light sword transformed into an energy cannon and shot towards Esdeath. Watching the light sword approach, Esdeath didn't mind. She directly used her ice sword to block.
However, as the light sword touched the ice sword, the ice sword began to crack under the powerful pressure. Then, the moment the ice sword completely shattered, the light sword mercilessly flew towards Esdeath.
Afterwards, to Glass's somewhat surprised gaze, Esdeath simply extended her fist and punched the light sword, destroying it.
"Was that attack just now your strongest?" After easily blocking the attack, Esdeath asked calmly.
"Yes, I lost. Could you tell me how you blocked my attack just now?" Hearing Esdeath's words, Glass readily admitted her defeat. Then, she was curious about how Esdeath had used her fist to destroy her charged light sword attack.
"Very simple. I just used a special technique to strengthen my fist's defense." Hearing her words, Esdeath said calmly.
"A special technique?" Hearing this, Glass was even more stunned.
"Yes. It's a technique called Armament Haki." At this moment, Yui explained to Glass.
Because with Glass's surrender, Takeru had dismantled the barrier and moved the stone table and chairs back to their side.
"Armament Haki? You and Mio can use it too?" Hearing this, Glass asked curiously.
"Yes, we can." Hearing Glass's question, Yui didn't hide it.
"I see. It seems our strength is indeed still far behind." Hearing Yui's words, Glass took a deep breath.
Before, she had thought that although her strength was inferior to Yui's and Mio's, she was still among the top in her own world, not inferior to Heroes from other worlds.
But after simply seeing Esdeath's strength, she realized she had been looking at the world from the bottom of a well.
"By the way, Esdeath-san, may I ask how much of your strength you used in that fight just now?" Then, Glass thought of something and directly asked Esdeath.
"That question is meaningless. But I can tell you that I didn't even use half of my strength just now." Hearing her words, Esdeath said calmly.
In fact, let alone half, the fight just now had barely served as a warm-up. She said this only to somewhat spare Glass's feelings.
After the fight ended, the two sat back in their chairs, enjoying the food, leisurely watching everyone fighting hard below.
"Say, is this really okay?" After a while, Yui said hesitantly. Everyone below was fighting so hard, while they were here relaxing and enjoying themselves. It probably looked bad, right?
"What's wrong with it? Leveling up is their fastest way to increase strength." Hearing Yui's words, Takeru said calmly.
Hearing this, Yui couldn't find any words to refute, but she still felt something was off.
Soon, as time passed, over an hour went by. Itsuki and Motoyasu, who were fighting, also noticed something was wrong. They had been fighting for so long, why hadn't Takeru appeared yet?
Also, Motoyasu wondered why weren't Naofumi and Itsuki coming over to follow his command. Finally, why did those ordinary knights seem to be performing so effortlessly, as if they weren't consuming much energy?
"Has anyone seen Takeru?" Thinking this, Motoyasu asked the people behind him.
"Motoyasu-sama, they seem to be over there!" Hearing Motoyasu's question, a mage behind him quickly pointed to the top of the cliff.
With his super vision, Motoyasu saw Takeru, Esdeath, and the others leisurely enjoying what looked like afternoon tea?
"That guy!" Seeing Takeru's actions, Motoyasu felt anger rising. He said something to his companions and quickly jumped up towards them. Although it was somewhat difficult, three minutes later, Motoyasu reached Takeru's side.
"Takeru, what do you mean by this?" Standing before Takeru, Motoyasu frowned, questioning him.
"Watch your tone." Hearing Motoyasu's interrogation, before Takeru could speak, Esdeath suddenly appeared beside Motoyasu and kicked him away.
Crash!
Motoyasu only stopped after colliding with a large tree behind him.
Because Esdeath didn't intend to kill, Motoyasu only suffered some physical pain and lost some HP. There was no serious harm.
"Takeru, who is that guy?" Watching Motoyasu's cocky demeanor, Yui instinctively disliked him.
"One of the Four Saint Heroes, the Spear Hero. He looks decent, but unfortunately, there's something wrong with his head." Hearing Yui's words, Takeru spoke directly.
"You..." On the other side, Motoyasu, who had just stood up, felt a surge of anger hearing Takeru's words, but seeing the murderous intent in Esdeath's eyes, he quickly shut his mouth.
"What, not going back down to kill monsters properly? You came all the way here to pay respects to me? If you don't go back down, your companions won't be able to hold on much longer." Looking at Motoyasu, who was slowly walking over, Takeru said with a light laugh.
"Takeru, you should know why I came to find you." Looking at Takeru, Motoyasu spoke directly.
"If you don't tell me, how would I know? I'm not a tapeworm in your belly." Hearing his words, Takeru rolled his eyes.
Yui and Glass even snickered, feeling that Motoyasu indeed had something wrong with his head.
"You... huff... When are you going to act? The wave has been going on for over an hour. If it continues like this, we'll all be worn down and killed. If you don't know how to force out the final boss, I can tell you. Just..." Taking a deep breath, Motoyasu calmed down somewhat and spoke to Takeru.
"Stop." Before he could finish speaking, Takeru interrupted him.
"First, let me correct two points. The wave might continue and you might get worn down and killed, but we won't. Also, I know more about the final boss than you do." Shaking his head, Takeru couldn't be bothered to deal with the self-righteous Motoyasu.
Hearing this, Motoyasu was stunned. He looked below. Indeed, apart from his own team, which was struggling on the ship, elsewhere, with the knights' united efforts, they faced the endless monsters without seeming to feel too much pressure.
In fact, they even found opportunities to cover each other and gain rest time.
Of course, the reason it was so easy was partly because everyone's strength was not weak, and partly because although the monsters were endless, they didn't appear by the hundreds or thousands at once.
Basically, spread across the many squads, the pressure was only about two to three monsters per minute.
Although the monsters' appearances were uneven, elite monsters rarely appeared consecutively.
By the time a squad finished killing an elite monster, they would have already adjusted their state before the next one appeared.
Moreover, as time passed, everyone's levels had increased considerably. Also, everyone carried recovery potions. There wasn't too much pressure.
"What is your real goal? Although there's no immediate danger, a prolonged wave is also troublesome, right?" Then, Motoyasu completely calmed down.
"You can't see something so simple? What an idiot." Hearing Motoyasu's words, Beatrice, who was in Takeru's arms, couldn't help mocking him.
"You..." Hearing Beatrice's words, Motoyasu felt annoyed, but knowing her close relationship with Takeru, he didn't dare say much.
"It's obviously to train the troops. Not only do these monsters give them experience fighting monsters, but they also gain experience from killing them, and finally, they get monster materials. It's three birds with one stone. Why would I end it now?"
"So, if you want to retreat, feel free to leave. I'll still credit you with some merits for this wave." Looking at Motoyasu, Takeru shook his head, not wanting to continue talking with him.
"Train the troops?" Hearing this, Motoyasu was stunned, but also completely calmed down.
At first, he thought Takeru didn't know how to end the wave. Turned out, he and the others were the real clowns all along.
Then, seeing that Takeru didn't want to continue talking with him, Motoyasu opened his mouth but nothing came out.
Finally, after giving Takeru a deep look, he returned to the ghost ship. After speaking a few words to his companions, they also evacuated the ghost ship.