One Against a Thousand

"Phew"—Aurora wiped away the sweat on her forehead—"Does it have to be so hot in here?"

She felt sweaty all over. Her dress was soaked from her sweat, while her cleavage felt warm as sweat built up between her breasts. Her silver hair stuck to her skin.

'Once I return home, I'm taking a shower.' She slashed at another inferno girl who jumped out of the lava pool next to her, piercing its core as it turned into piles of volcanic rock, leaving a lava core behind. 'That brings me to my 956th kill.'

Unlike before, where she had no clue where their core was, she could now see their core after creating a skill:

[Thermal Perception:

The user has the ability to perceive temperature variations in all things.]

Since their core is lava, it would naturally be in the hottest area of their anatomy, which meant all she needed to do was to use this skill and target the core, causing the process needed to kill them to decrease drastically.

After walking along the bridge between many pools of lava for a while, she found herself in front of a corridor that led deeper into the volcano. She couldn't see the end of the corridor, making it seem that it had no end.

She entered it, noticing that the temperature once again began to rise the further she went went into the volcano.

Time passed.

She had been walking down the corridor for a long time without seeing any sign of it ending. The temperature rose with each step, but she didn't waver and kept going even with the unbearable heat.

'If I hadn't added heat immunity to this dress, I would have been dry of mana by now.' She thought.

Normally she used her sexual energy as it was much stronger than mana due to her being a succubus, but now she coated her body in a thin layer of mana so as to not waste her sexual energy before the fight with the inferno empress would begin.

Hours passed with Aurora beginning to feel sleepy, but she kept herself from falling asleep, using her diligence virtue skills, as she fully knew this could be a trap to kill her when she was completely defenseless.

If a human were to travel through this corridor, they would become exhausted quickly, just like Aurora did, but instead of resisting their sleepy state, they would collapse to the ground and fall asleep, dying peacefully shortly after in their sleep.

Aurora was relieved when she reached the end of the corridor and found herself in a vast room made entirely of volcanic rock. 'Finally, I reached the end of the corridor.'

She noticed there was an army of inferno girls taking up the majority of the room, numbering over a thousand, all armed with fire bows with the string pulled back.

*Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh!

A thousand arrows shot at Aurora, homing in on her, not giving her any freedom to move around. With each second, the arrows got closer, leaving her with only one option... to re-enter the corridor that led her here.

arrows hit their mark in the eyes of the inferno girls, disintegrating her body into dust, but in truth, that was all an illusion. What really happened was Aurora ceasing the movement of the arrows with time reduction, bringing its speed to a snail's pace.

Afterwards, she teleported above the Inferno Girls, casting mind control where she planted the false information into their minds, before cancelling the time reduction.

When they were cheering about their victory, she slaughtered them easily, killing a hundred within half a minute, as their guards were down with them believing they had won.

Within 5 minutes, the entirety of the army was slaughtered. They were all killed without feeling any pain, dying a peaceful death in their false reality.

'Without mind control, that would've been a difficult fight.' Aurora thought, as she found another corridor on the other side of the room. 'This must lead to the throne room.'

She entered the corridor and, like before, it led further deeper into the Earth.