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After defeating all the turtles and Maria's brief apology for having provoked this huge attack from them, they began to quickly carve out the corpses and take the Nightmare Cores from them.
They had killed twenty-three of these Turtle Nightmare Beasts, three of them had their cores crushed when Maria hit them very strongly, but the others were taken down much more simply.
Maria and Nyx helped the party take the hits and also destabilize and swiftly eliminate threats, but the rest of the party also helped quite a lot themselves.
Martina used her jester's abilities to confuse foes and make them hit each other, Alma used her freezing powers to slow them down and then hit their heads with icicle projectiles, Emily used her mighty punches to paralyze and then kill them, and the same with Sofia.
If anything, they were rapidly evolving and becoming a better team over time!
"Mam- big sis! I think this is the last one!"