Chapter 289
A bit shallow.
Choi Hyun-woo clicked his tongue softly at the sensation in his hand and immediately adjusted his grip on the sword.
Ironically, the very excellence of the sword Yu Ji-hyeok had handed him was what threw off his sense of distance and timing. Of course, the fact that Landschi was a dragon who had lived for centuries — nearly a thousand years — and possessed an exceptionally tough body probably had something to do with it too.
"Why, you little brat."
Landschi spat out a rare flash of anger and clamped a hand over the half-severed neck dangling at his shoulder.
It was a wound that should have killed any ordinary person outright or left them unconscious, yet he didn't so much as stagger. He squared his stance and glared right back at Choi Hyun-woo instead. Flames flickered at the edges of his slightly parted lips.
"Don't know your place…!"
The words had barely left his mouth before black flames poured out, swallowing Choi Hyun-woo's body in an instant. No mere human could take fire hot enough to melt trolls and walk away unscathed. They couldn't have. They shouldn't have been able to.
"Oh, come on…."