"Squeak squeak squeak~"

However, the ice crystal centipede clearly ignored the four, immediately lunging forward and opening its gaping maw to devour them.

This guy, there's no way to communicate with it.

"Bang!!"

So, as if by instinct, Shion slapped the centipede's head, which was close at hand.

The terrifying force, even though it had been restrained and controlled in advance, still produced an earth-shattering sonic boom.

"Boom!!"

The ice crystal centipede's body was entirely sent flying into the distance, without a moment's delay, crashing into a glacier on one side and being completely buried.

"…"

Shion's eyes widened instantly, her face filled with panic. "Th-that, that, Rin-sama, I, I, I already controlled my strength a lot!!"

"Sigh~"

Looking at Shion, who looked like she was about to cry, Rin sighed helplessly. "It's not your fault, Shion."

Shion did control her strength.

Otherwise, that one slap just now would probably have sent this centipede directly into outer space.

"Then?"

"I'm sighing because the natives of this world are just too unfriendly."

The moment Rin's words fell, more and more monsters surged towards them.

"Tsk!"

This time, even the usually good-tempered Shuna showed impatience. "Let me deal with all of them."

"Forget it."

After all, they were the ones who had caused the commotion first, and Rin didn't want to cause too much slaughter in this world.

"Let's change places first."

Rin raised his hand and forcibly tore open the space-time of this world.

"Ponooo!"

Seeing this, Ogerpon quickly hopped up. "The vanguard general is Ogerpon!"

"Let's go."

Rin and the two women entered the spatial passage one after another.

After they left, a large number of strangely shaped magic beasts appeared nearby.

However, facing the empty, desolate, and ruined ice field, they didn't know what to do.

After wandering for a while, the magic beasts, having found no target, slowly dispersed.

"Shuna, sense the surroundings."

Stepping out of the spatial passage, Rin and the three women appeared in another area of the ice field.

This was hundreds of kilometers away from their initial crossing point.

"Yes!"

Shuna's evolution direction was magic specialization, and she was also the one with the widest and strongest perception range among the four.

"Clap!"

The pink-haired girl clasped her hands together, and an invisible magicule wave spread out in all directions from their center.

"This is a vast, ice-bound snowfield. The further north you go, the colder it gets, while the south is very warm."

"Many strange magic beasts live around here," Shuna said, closing her eyes and relaying the information she perceived to Rin. "The aura of these magic beasts isn't very strong, the weakest are only F-class, and the strongest don't exceed D-class."

"Shion, go catch a few magic beasts and bring them back. Remember, they must be captured alive."

Rin instructed, "Also, be careful to control your strength. One-thousandth might not be enough, so make it one ten-thousandth!"

He wasn't at all worried that any existence in this world could pose a threat to Shion.

If a strong enemy were to appear, Rin and the others could reach Shion's side in the blink of an eye given their speed.

"Leave it to me."

Shion's magicule perception wasn't as strong as Shuna's, but it wasn't weak either.

Ignoring the wind and snow that obscured her vision, Shion quickly locked onto the closest magic beast.

They were a group of peculiar creatures resembling cattle, covered in thick fur. Seeing Shion suddenly appear, the yak-like magic beasts were greatly startled and fled in a mighty rush towards the distance.

There was no other way, the aura emanating from Shion was simply too terrifying.

No matter how much she restrained herself, the oppressive feeling of a High Demon Person caused immense deterrence to these yak magic beasts.

"You're the one!"

Shion casually picked a yak magic beast. She didn't use her specially crafted great tachi but instead formed a 'hand blade' with her fingers.

"Swish"

The girl's figure vanished from her original spot.

When she reappeared, she was already in front of a yak.

"Boom!!"

A fair and delicate palm descended from above, carrying an unstoppable might, stopping just above the yak's head.

The next moment, the wind pressure generated by the hand blade transformed into an invisible giant hammer, striking the yak's head fiercely, instantly knocking it unconscious.

Along with it, there was a giant pit, tens of meters deep, beneath the yak.

"Ah, not good, I still used too much force!"

Shion anxiously stepped forward. "Good, good, it's still alive, phew, you scared me, I thought I had directly killed it."

Normally, after enduring such a terrifying blow, one that even shattered the earth, the yak should have already turned into a lump of meat paste.

However, Shion had applied the combat techniques from Rin's close-combat profession in her attack.

Like striking a cow through a mountain, most of the force actually didn't act directly on the yak.

Of course, this was still the result of Shion holding back her strength.

If she were to truly unleash herself, this single hand-blade strike would likely cause nuclear-explosion-like destruction to the ice field for tens of kilometers around.

"Rin-sama, do you think this one is acceptable?"

Shion, carrying the yak magic beast, crossed space and appeared before Rin and Shuna.

"Hmm, let me see."

Rin carefully examined the ice-blue yak Shion brought back. "A strange creature. It contains an energy similar to magicules, but with a very low concentration."

If using the number of spirit particles as an analogy, the magicules of the Cardinal World contain over 5 million spirit particles per point.

However, the energy within this magic beast only has about 100 per unit, a difference of almost fifty thousand times.

"In such a weak world, will there truly be the power you need, Rin-sama?"

Shion couldn't understand. In her opinion, there was nothing here that could make Rin-sama stronger, so there was no need to continue wasting time.

"Don't be too anxious, Shion."

Shuna said, "Rin-sama needs new ideas, it has nothing to do with the strength of power."

"From what we heard from Rin-sama, the Pokémon World is also not strong in those standards."

"But Ogerpon is now stronger than us."

Shuna continued, "Although the individuals in this world are weak, we cannot guarantee that there are no strong ones here."

"Shuna is right," Rin praised. "The power system of the weak may not be without its merits."

"Although the monsters of the Cardinal World are strong, their starting point is too high, making it difficult for us to perfectly control our own power."

Being weak has its advantages, which is that these worlds have a high probability of giving birth to some technologies unimaginable to the monsters of the Cardinal World.

(To be continued.)