Chapter 109: Regal intent
The knight’s mandibles opened wide, preparing to chomp the pesky human in half. Reading his adversary’s intentions via Soul Vision, the young man was ready to crouch beneath the monster at a moment’s notice, clenching the half-formed sickle tightly in his fist.
Yet just as they were about to clash, something strange happened. The beast’s body suddenly relaxed, its expression easing.
‘Now what?!’
At first, Percy thought it was an act. A ruse to get him to drop his guard. But he doubted the creature was that smart. Besides, it didn’t really need to trick him to end this. Honestly, his odds of surviving the frontal assault of the elephant-sized beast were abysmal. More importantly, he could see the wasp’s bloodlust had all but evaporated, not finding any trace of hostility in its soul.
‘Who cares?!’
Whatever the reason was, he wouldn’t waste his chance. Swinging his weapon at the knight’s face, he gouged another deep wound into its soul. What was it, the sixth now?
An advantage of fighting in close range was that he could more easily maintain his constructs. A chunk of it still crumbled away, but he needed less mana to repair it than to form a new one, soon delivering another strike after the first.
No reaction.
For some reason, the towering monster that had savagely fought to slaughter them all just minutes ago was now standing motionless, eating Percy’s attacks with no intention of fighting back.