They also heard her say, "You may think that you have trapped me, but that is not so. What you’ve done is to trap yourself with me. Better hope that I don’t find you."
She was threatening them, and the three guardians took her threat seriously. So just like before, two guardians took action while the third one held on to the symbol of authority to keep it safe.
The guardian of earth and the guardian of fire took action on both the lava around them and the rock above them. They let the lava below them flow upwards into the cracks that she had created in the space that she was in. Then they made the lava cool within that space and turned it into rock.
They were filling up the space she was in with rock. This was to rob her of the freedom of movement and trap her within the rock.
This worked to great success, and the entire space was quickly filled up. This trapped her again, so she had to control the phantom giant to shrink to a third of its normal height.
But any time she created more space, the two guardians were quick to fill it up. This frustrated her, but she was still laughing as if she was having fun.
When the phantom giant was only one-sixth of her normal size, she deactivated her phantom giant completely. This caused her true body to appear in the limited space.
Of course, this limited space was still nine times bigger than her normal height. So it looked as if she was in a large cavern.
She looked around and said, "This will do nicely."
Then she activated her phantom giant again. She did so with all of her strength without holding back.
The activation of her phantom giant made her figure swell instantly as if she were exploding. The force of this explosion struck the rock around her and smashed the whole mountain open.
She had activated the phantom giant to regrow to its full height. However, the space she had was only one-sixth of the size of the giant phantom. So something had to give in for the other.
Either her phantom giant gets squeezed and gives up on its expansion, or the surrounding rock gives up on constricting her and is forced to burst wide open. What will happen will depend on who is stronger.
As it turned out, she was stronger. So the whole mountain was forced to explode outwards to accommodate her. This created more space than she needed. It also caused the lava beneath her to erupt again.
This time, the whole mountain was lifted and scattered about because of the combined power of the explosion and the eruption of the lava. Everyone from all over the small world could see the eruption. It wasn’t just the sensitivity rank 5 that noticed that something was going on in Mountain Iris.
At the center of all the explosions and eruptions was a triumphant warrior. Hot lava and shattered rocks were flying around her while she spread out her four arms and laughed in triumph.
She roared to the world, "Witness my power. Bear witness to my great power. Am I not worthy? Is Ocelot not worthy?"
All the giants and warriors in the small world shouted back in reply wherever they were, "Ocelot is worthy! Ocelot is worthy! Ocelot is worthy!"
Their shout was unheard, though. This was because there were very few of them in this small world. But the opposite was the case in the Northern Domain.
The Northern Domain was full of warriors and giants. Many of these warriors and giants were watching her feats of strength. When they heard her question, they shouted in reply that she was worthy.
The warriors and giants that weren’t watching heard this shout and became curious about who was supposed to be worthy of becoming a divine being. In order to satiate their curiosity, they tuned in to watch her live-stream.
When Ocelot saw that the number of viewers of her live-stream was rapidly increasing, she became happier. Her heart was full of boundless joy, and she yearned to tear something apart.
So she looked down at the two guardians before her and said, "Puny feathered people, prepare to meet your makers."
The guardian of fire said, "You shall die today, despicable invader."
The guardian of Earth didn’t say anything. He simply grabbed at his surroundings, and the earth answered his call.
Rocks flew towards guardian of earth and piled up around him. The rocks combined to form a humanoid shape with a pair of wings on its back.
As more rocks answered the call of the guardian, the rock person that they formed grew bigger and bigger. Soon, there was a giant rock person with a large pair of wings standing in front of the phantom giant. This rock person was also carrying a hammer made out of rocks.
The guardian of fire had also done the same thing, but with lava. So there was a lava giant with large wings standing beside the rock giant. However, the weapon of this lava giant was a whip made out of fire.
Each elemental giant looked to be a match for her, and there were two of them against her. But she wasn’t cowered. She even threw her head and laughed fearlessly.
Then she said, "Bring it on."
But before they could bring it on, a ball of red lightning suddenly flew over to smash into their midst.
The ball of red lightning didn’t target anyone. But the two elemental giants ran away when they saw it.
The red ball of lightning looked unassuming, but these two guardians were still afraid of it. However, warrior Ocelot had the opposite reaction to the red ball of lightning.
She was only curious about the ball of lightning. But when she saw her enemies avoid it like the plague, she decided to go ahead to meet it head-on so that she could show how brave and powerful she was compared to the two guardians.