After the chimera was something never seen before at Rank 5: a chaos slime. Far from their best at the start, they fought for their lives, many of them becoming injured to the point of being knocked out of the conflict. Wanting to end it, Benedict caught the slime’s core long enough for Sadie to slice it in half… along with Ben’s hand. They survived— if gravely wounded in some cases— but the rewards? Those were greater than they’d ever thought they would be.