I was enraptured by the grace of Princess Louisa's movements so much that I barely paid any attention to the battle.

It was only when I suddenly noticed a threatening movement towards me from the corner of my eye that I snapped out of my intense study of Princess Louisa to see what exactly was coming my way.

And what I saw were the most revolting scene I had ever seen, even to this day.

Rotten Flesh Worms.

Yes. Rotten Brain Worms.

They were exactly that.

Worms made up of rotten brain matter.

I finally realized why those beasts had such big heads.

They were filled to the brim with worms!

And those beasts that were attacking us were actually all dead, controlled by the mass of worms in their heads.

Revolting to the maximum.

And to make things worse, I was unarmed.

True, I was probably the only person that could claim that I was completely safe in the face of such horrors even in my unarmed state.

But I would be damned if I had to wade into those disgusting pieces of rotten brain worm to kill them all.

"Ah! That's right! I still have that Royal Artifact!" My mood brightened immediately and I immediately grabbed that device with my hand and squeezed it hard so that my super thick skin could be pierced by it and draw some blood.

As soon as it did so, I felt a distinct connection with the Royal Artifact and felt like I had the option of not only erecting a defensive sphere, but also manifest a light spear.

"Awesome!" I cried out happily. "This level of control I have over this Royal Artifact is probably a side effect of having Princess Louisa's blood! I am able to manifest a spear as well as stabilize the spherical outburst so that it remains a defensive layer around me instead of exploding outwards."

With that sphere of light and that spear of light, I had no more issues with dirtying myself with the Rotten Brain Worms.

Much like how Princess Louisa was destroying the megamind beasts left and right with her blue mecha, I too obliterated the worms with great ease.

"This second stage is nothing much." I laughed out loud after cleaning up the whole bunch of worms simply by bodily slamming into them and causing them to be vaporized by my searing hot light barrier.

I didn't even have to swing my spear much!

But apparently, the dumbass lunatic in charge of the trial was also a petty one.

Mere seconds after my cocky laugh, the disembodied voice rang out once more.

"Second stage extension initiated. Elite Beasts upgraded to Grand Elite Beasts."

"Bas-" I did not manage to finish my curse before the petty dumbass lunatic continued.

"Second stage extension initiated. Grand Elite Beasts upgraded to Epic Beasts. Level 1 Novice Trial Difficulty Level exceeded. Trial is reclassed to Level 2 Novice Trial. Point system initiated.

Welcome to the Level 2 Novice Trial. Each kill will reward you with a point. Collect as many points as you can to exchange them with fabulous rewards.

Ungraded life forms detected.

Point reward is quintupled. Each kill will reward you with five points. Good luck and stay alive."

My jaw dropped again.

I felt like a hamster within a cage filled with obstacles. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there were even betting spectators watching me!

"Bastards. So I am a hamster eh? Let me tear down this freaking cage and show you that I am not just a hamster. I am a monster hamster!!" I raged in my heart and decided to stop fooling around.

BA DUMP!!

BA DUMPPP!!!

My rage was like a high octane fuel which drove the red mecha core within me to greater and greater digesting speed.

Once more, I felt it speed up in response to my emotions.

By then, the red mecha core had fed on mostly on my anger, and it was ripping into the particles of Control like a maddened, hungry bear devouring its prey in big gulps.

"Soon." I vowed to myself. "As soon as Devour is done, I will destroy this damn cage and get to that petty dumbass lunatic pulling the strings behind this damned trial!"

But before that, I had a bunch of Epic Beasts to obliterate.

Right before my eyes, huge hundred meter tall portals began to appear everywhere.

Hummmmm..

The portals opened up into massive, vertical oval entryways and very quickly stabilized.

And as soon as they did, arcs of fearsome electricity started to crackle all around the portals!

"Holy macaroni! Lightning arcs? Just what the hell are these Epic Beasts!?" I groaned inwardly at what seemed like a very troublesome and "shocking" fight which I was about to get myself into.

A giant, black armored arm suddenly appeared out of the nearest portal. It looked like a normal human arm that ended in a hand with five fingers. Thankfully, it wasn't wielding anything.

But not thankfully, a massive armored body soon followed the armored arm, and very soon, a hundred meter tall humanoid knight made its way out of the nearest portal.

And similar black knights started to make their way out of all the other twenty or so portals around me.

My heart hammered within my chest, half out of anger, half out of worry.

The chief questions were very simply, "How strong were they? Can my body resist their attacks?"

As those questions swirled in my mind, I suddenly felt the whole of my right arm grow hot. But it wasn't the painful sort of hot.

It was just.. painless hot.

"Hmmm? Could it be like an ancient comic I once read that had a comic character who was able to release fire from his right hand and ice from his left hand? That would be epic!" My mind raced.

But that thought was immediately dispelled when my left arm started to grow hot as well.

"Fine. Not ice and fire, but being able to shoot fire out of my hands sounds good as well." I thought.

But alas, that was the end of it.

My arms simply grew hot, and nothing else happened.

"This might get a little bit dangerous for us." Princess Louisa said in a troubled voice.

She had very obediently positioned herself one step behind me like a faithful butler, and was actually awaiting my instructions on what we should do.

"They are big and armored like mechas. It shouldn't be too difficult defeating and then stealing one of them for us to use." I shrugged and put up a nonchalant facade even though I wholeheartedly agreed with her.

"They look quite difficult to take down, and it would be doubly so if they control the power of lightning." Princess Louisa said seriously.

"We'll find out soon enough." I narrowed my eyes as the first one put his right foot in front of him with a resounding BOOM.

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And so it began.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Twenty five, hundred meter tall Epic Beasts charged down towards me, a 1.6 meter tall ten year old boy and a twenty five meter tall alien blue mecha.

"Stay on the defensive." I warned Princess Louisa. "Avoid exchanging blows with them."

"Roger that." She said just as the first black knight reached us.

And as he raised his foot to stomp down on me, our worst fears were suddenly realized.

Crackle!!

A surge of electrical arcs covered his foot!

"Damn it!" I shouted as I dodged his ferocious stomp by bursting out my position at high speed.

BOOM!!

His giant foot slammed down to the ground meters away from me.

The good thing about being a high powered tiny person fighting against hundred meter tall beasts was that it was quite difficult for them to hit you.

They were much too big to put their inglorious strength to good use, and I was able to use my explosive speed to easily get out of their area of attacks.

But evadings attacks doesn't win fights.

I knew that I had to counter attack.

And like all small animals attacking a bunch of giants in the history of all life, I leapt on one of the beasts pivot leg when he stomped down on me, and proceeded to make my way up to its neck!

I could already see myself punching holes on its neck armor and getting to the fleshy part within, if any.

Hup!

I pulled myself up and reached the top of his foot. But just as I was about to leap to his calf and make my way up from there, I realized that I had made a huge mistake.

"Oh shit. I forgot that this dude is ele-"

BZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!

That's right.

After dodging their massive stomps this way and that way, I ended up delivering myself to their vastly more powerful electrical attack!

God knows how many volts shot into my body and submerged every single cell in dense electrical energy.