Chapter 56: Blood in Each Corner (3)
Thud.
Joined with the woman's headless body was the knocked down monster, felled by the crafted fragments of a demon—made with the hands of a human less powerful than itself.
If it had any intelligence, Hope wondered how much of its pride shattered. How much of it in pieces would it have been?
Its jaw twitched. Half of its face was in tears as if it were attacked by another beast. Choking and whining in pain, the monster reached out into the fog where the sound of light steps sounded like wings on stone.
Where the shadow the monster sensed lurked beyond the black world it knew.
Wssh—
And what came next was the pitched claws for teeth again.
Slash!
Piercing through bone, between where its eyes should've been, the monster let out one last yelp as death struck its hand.
[You have slain an Awakened Monster-]
'Shut up.'