[The Second Wave Shall Now Commence]

As the second wave began, I quickly looked around and realized that the only thing to change had been the number of slothbears attacking me, not the power of them.

'Still weak... I wonder how many rounds there are.' I quickly thought to myself before shaking my head and looking straight ahead at one of the nearby slothbears.

"If you aren't going to be giving me a challenge any time soon, I might as well end these waves as quickly as possible." I muttered to myself but knew that the woman could hear me.

Taking a step forward, my body immediately became a blur before my figure disappeared into thin air. For the next few minutes, the wails and roars of the slothbears rang out with enough volume and intensity that it would scare anyone who heard it senseless.

At the end of it all, if one were to look at the arena, they would have difficulties finding a square inch of the tiles that hadn't been dyed red with the color of the slothbear's blood.

[The Fifteenth Wave Shall Now Commence]

My eyes narrowed after seeing the number, but I did not react to it much. I patiently waited with my arms crossed over my chest and my breathing steady as if everything I had just done had been a relaxing moment rather than a life or death battle. Technically, the battle was only life or death for the slothbears and not me, so one could argue that I was relaxing the whole time.

However, when the 15th round commenced, I could feel an enormous surge of mana begin to gather in one area, more mana than all of the other slothbears took combined.

'No doubt, this one is a beast compared to the other animals I fought against. It's nowhere as strong as the goblin chief, nor is it as strong as the t-rex... If I had to compare it to something...' I paused as I watched its body slowly construct itself from head to toe, eventually revealing itself as a larger and much more ferocious slothbear.

'I'd say it is as strong as the treant I fought a few months ago...' I thought to myself before quickly nodding.

As for my inner monologue, it was cut off as the slothbear immediately attacked me as soon as it appeared. However, like all the others I had fought with before it, I did not draw my spear and just looked at it with my arms crossed.

'This one is also weak huh...' I let out a repressed sigh before shaking my head with disappointment. I had been waiting to fight something that would challenge me, yet everything so far had been one disappointment after another.

*ROOOAAAAAAR*

In an instant, the slothbear gathered energy within its mouth before shooting a yellow beam of energy toward me. My eyes narrowed slightly as the beam moved at rapid speeds, yet I did not uncross my arms and simply looked at the creature before me with a bored gaze.

"I'll finish this quickly..." I muttered under my breath, and in the next instant, the slothbear could only watch my right hand become a blur as it slashed downwards.

*BOOM*

The yellow beam of light immediately tore in half and dissipated in the exact second, yet as if my hand had not been affected by the energy at all, it continued to slash down before finally-

*Shing*

Intense wind pressure in the form of an arch tore through the air between as and before the slothbear could react to the sudden attack; the wind arch had already appeared in front of it.

In the next instant, the slothbear had been turned into two pieces, falling on either side and spattering blood on the ground, staining the already tainted tiles with its dark red blood.

"Truly pathetic... Is this everything you can do, fallen star? Is this supposed to be some kind of joke?" I asked, curiosity and contempt filling my voice and working side by side to create a powerful voice that the woman could not ignore.

However, instead of hearing her voice again, I was met with nothing but silence. After a few seconds of waiting, I finally listened to her voice, but instead of her retorting to my previous comment, I heard something else entirely—something I did not expect.

"You pass the trial. You shall be ejected from this realm in the following minutes..." She spoke, her voice filled with a tint of shame.

"What? That's it?!" I exclaimed, genuinely shocked by what I had just heard.

"Yes." She spoke again, the shame even more evident in her voice, yet it felt like it had a charming quality for some reason.

"Ugh... What a waste of time." I thought before quickly shaking my head after thinking of it again. While the realm itself might have been a complete waste of time, the things I did in the realm were much more prominent such as the inheritance hall I had found.

'I guess not all if it had been a complete and utter waste of time.' I shook my head again, yet before I could look up at the sky and ask another question, I found myself being catapulted through a dark space before; finally, I was ejected out of the realm.

"Ugh." A soft grunt left my mouth as I slowly opened my eyes, yet instead of seeing the ceiling of the cave that I had entered to find the fallen star, now I was looking at the starry night that shone upon the earth with its soft and beautiful radiance.

However, my attention had been grabbed by the soft pillow-like object below my head. While usually, the feeling would have made me feel extremely comfortable, I instead felt a tinge of annoyance build up inside me.

"Good morning." a soft feminine voice entered my ears, something that only verified my earlier theory.

"Blanca... Why is my head on your thighs?"

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