Chapter 38: Childhood Nightmare
"R-Reptilian!"
Hal immediately recognized the monster.
Not because he had encountered it before or stumbled upon information about the creature, but because it was a common antagonist in his mother's horror stories used to make him sleep when he was young.
Now Hal was in the very same situation that had haunted him and kept him in line as a child.
'Damn it! I should've...'
He didn't even know what rank the darned thing was.
However, what could he do except fight?
Hal raised both arms to chest level—one of them formed into a claw while the other an open palm—prompting two magic circles to emerge.
A translucent-blue sphere then emerged from one of them and a lethal shard of ice from the other, shooting towards the charging humanoid lizard.
Frozen fragments flew everywhere as the Reptilian fearlessly brandished its spear, shattering the Glacial Shard, quickly followed by an explosion as the [Weak Mana Blast] detonated upon hitting the arcane monster's shoulder.
To his horror, the explosion didn't even put a dent in the Reptilian's tough scales.