"Watch out!!!"
Time and space seemed to freeze at that instant.
The intense sense of danger that suddenly surged within him made his attention instinctively sharpen to its peak, his keen perception quietly reaching its limit.
As Lorraine's shouted warning from the front of the party reached his ears, he could even hear the powerful, surging heartbeat of the Barbarian Aken, as well as the thin, hoarse hiss Sasha instinctively made like a feline encountering danger.
His right hand tightly gripped the [Emberfall] straight sword, the muscles in his forearm flexing and swelling, stretching the dark shirt beneath into a taut bulge; his right foot lifted, preparing to step forward and complete the charging motion required for [Tooth Hunt]'s ground release.
The reaction speed granted by 11 points of Agility made even the flow of time seem to slow in that instant.
It was precisely because of this that, after noticing movement from the pool, his gaze snapped over and locked tightly onto the Shark Beast, capturing every one of its movements in that less-than-one-second span.
In fact, the Shark Beast had not moved its body.
That enormous body, packed with exaggerated steel-like muscles, merely stood there quietly. Crystal-clear droplets still trickled down its rough skin, while a pair of cold, abyss-like dark fish eyes, devoid of any whites, stared straight at everyone on the field.
What had truly moved was the human male fused into its body.
His head, which had been hanging down, abruptly lifted, revealing a bloodless, pale face.
Those hollow, unfocused eyes, like those of a corpse, took in the six people ahead.
In Xia Nan's hyper-focused vision, where everything seemed slowed to half speed, he could even see the contours of the muscles moving beneath the skin on either side of the man's cheeks, along