Chapter 195: Undying
’Crap!’
Sunny rolled across the dirt floor, dodging the blade that glanced right over his head. Before him was a ferocious bestial humanoid... creature? He wasn’t too sure if it could be associated with humans, considering that it looked more like an animal than anything else.
However, it held a sword, and spoke just like human. A dark growl escaped it’s maw.
"You might as well give up, little fox. Struggle all you like, there’s nowhere to run..."
Jagged streaks of glowing purple traced along it’s limbs and torso like veins pulsing with arcane energy. It’s frame was lean but brutal, every inch sculpted for combat, with clawed hands and digitigrade legs ending in wicked talons.
Gold and teal bands wrapped its limbs like relics from some long-buried ritual, half-ornament, half-restraint. Coarse fur flared along its back and tail, streaked with violet markings like sigils of corruption. Its very form looked forged from conflict — ritualistic, regal, and ruinous.
It’s maw was hanging open, with wicked teeth and elongated fangs carved with gold peeking out.
Right now? It was too busy trying to dismember Sunny to worry about any of that.
In the middle of the coliseum, roaring crowds could be heard. Each shift in volume caused the furry appendages atop Sunny’s head to twitch — something he really didn’t want to talk about.
Something he noticed was that neither him nor his opponent were Awakened. In fact, his adversary seemed to only be blessed with superior strength. Not knowing if this was some strange Nightmare Creature or a distant offshoot of humans, Sunny at least figured that they were both mundane — despite the fox ears poking out of his hair.
’Who the hell even has fox ears?!’