Water Drill?

"A Beach Stone Crab..." Lillian muttered under her breath, resting the side of her blade against her shoulder. She then tilted her head side to side, checking it out.

The crab's eyes followed her, as well as tilting. It was almost adorable in a way if it wasn't for the disgusting foam exiting its mouth and the way it threatened her with snaps of its claws.

"An E-rank monster. But due to the circumstances, they're about D-rank. Now then, what do I remember about it? They have shells as tough as stone, getting their name, pretty slow, and like most crabs, their underside is their weakness."

She listed off the things about the enemy before her with her fingers. Lillian then smirked before shrugging.

"Even if past Lillian had never faced a monster of this rank or higher and had barely won against an E-rank, I'm sure I can at least take it out without any trouble."

She raised her free hand and pointed it at the crab that continued to stare curiously at her. Its claws lowered slightly.

"Past Lillian could barely form a viable blast of water. How about now, I wonder?" Saying that mana thrummed through her body and began to exit and form a sphere of water in front of her hand.

From a golf ball to a tennis ball, all the way to a basketball, it was then launched forth, colliding with the crab's stony body.

BAM!

Its large, rigid body shook slightly, shrugging off the blast.

However, that didn't deter Lillian at all. In fact, she was quite ecstatic. She felt excitement course through her as she had done something countless people in her world would perhaps kill for.

Using magic. Actual magic.

Her body trembled a bit from how happy she felt. It seemed a bit of the past Lillian's lingering presence still remained, even though she was happy with what she had done.

"Although, that didn't do much. What did I expect of something that deals with something like this on a daily basis?"

Lifting the sword off her shoulder, she began to take slow, easy steps towards the cautious crab.

"Now then... since these crabs always have such a high population, this has caused those out at sea to set up farms for these critters. And because of that..."

She dashed towards the crab. Her sword raised high before cutting through the air.

"They discovered a variety of ways to take them apart to sell!"

SWISH!

Lillian's blade aimed for the narrow gaps between its hard, grey, sharp, stony shell. She planned to slice through its unprotected joints - staring with its claws.

CLANG!

The crab nimbly raised its thick arms and parried the strike. As a counterattack, it shot out its claws and snapped at Lillian's small waist. Luckily, Lillian was just able to step back at the nick of time.

She eyes gazed at its eyes. Their stalks are unprotected like the rest of their body. With a flick of her wrist, her blade cut through the air once again, aiming to bisect the stalks of its eyes.

The crab, in response, retracted them back in. The blade narrowly passed over it. But Lillian followed up her attack by raising her palm towards one of its eyes; water appeared and flowed, circling in the palm of her hand before spinning and becoming something akin to a drill.

The liquid drill shot into the crab's eyes, digging inside it and causing the crab to flail its claws around, the sharp pain taking over its body.

Lillian backed away once again, gasping a bit, "Right... poor stamina... was this girl a shut-in or something?" She couldn't help but chuckle at that thought.

She brought her attention back to the crab—a blue liquid pooled within its missing eye.

"Wow... you really do know how to use it unconsciously..." She stared at her palm. She was sceptical if she would be able to pull off being able to control it to that degree.

In the game, it was stated that an individual's control over their element would be something that the body would be ingrained in knowing. But of course, it wouldn't mean much if someone doesn't know what to do with what they can control.

It's like giving someone the keys to a car. They may know what all the parts of it may do, move it around, and such, but if you haven't taught them to drive, how can they use it?

"And~ that's why..." She stabbed her sword into the sand and held out her palms parallel to each other. In between them, an orb of water manifested before shifting around and spinning, becoming a large version of the drill of water she had created just seconds ago.

"Having knowledge about this sort of stuff is quite important. Even though I don't really know how this works, just the idea and how it's meant to look is enough."

Her eyes lit up at the speed it was turning. Although it was using quite a bit of mana to turn, she couldn't help but use a percentage of it to overpower such an enemy.

Lillian watched as the crab's body swayed around before hurriedly scurrying off towards the sea. She turned her body around, tensed her body, and launched the drill.

The drill collided with the tough shell of the crab; the momentum from its dash towards the sea, as well as the force behind the drill, had caused it to overturn, leaving its vulnerable underside exposed.

"Like most crabs..."

The crab felt something step onto its underside. Using its last remaining eye, it stared up at the human that pointed its blade at it. A victorious grin painted their face.

This was, after all...

["Contestant Lillian Ker Arius has slain a monster, now displaying contestant on the leaderboard."]

One of her many victories ahead in this life...

Lillian breathed a sigh as she felt the crab dissipate into blue pixels that soon disappeared as well.

"Incredible... to think the pill would have this much of an effect..."

If she hadn't bought that pill, she doubted she would've pulled off that kind of attack without straining her body.

"I'm gonna need to buy more... wait... I won't overdose on them, right?"