"A-Awakening?! No! That's not right! She hasn't fully awakened yet!"
The Awakened Being crawling like a spider across the roof of an abandoned building looked utterly stunned, clearly struggling to believe that his opponent could suddenly unleash such power in that state.
What baffled him even more was that he couldn't sense even the slightest trace of yoki.
"Hah... hah... hah..."
Breathing heavily, Clare finally rose slowly from beneath the collapsed wall.
At that moment, she no longer had a normal human form. She had become a monster covered from head to toe in curved bones as hard as blades.
Her arms and legs in particular barely resembled human limbs anymore. Her face was hideously twisted, and her teeth had become as razor-sharp as a shark's.
Yet, incredibly, even now, Clare's yoki hadn't run wild. It had merely risen past eighty percent.
Instead, the life energy that had surrounded her body erupted outward like a volcano, blasting rubble, dirt, and sand in every direction.
Some of the larger stones were crushed into powder on the spot and scattered on the wind.
"Damn it!"
The Awakened Being was clearly no fool. He immediately realized something was wrong with the warrior before him, cursed under his breath, and tried to flee without another word.
Although he had lost a leg, that was nothing to someone with eight of them.
But just as the Awakened Being climbed onto the roof to make his escape, he suddenly felt a burst of searing pain on his left side.
Turning to look, he discovered that all three remaining legs on that side had been severed in an instant. He slid uncontrollably down the roof and finally hit the ground with a thud.
Before he could understand what had happened, the four legs on his right side