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"Thud—!"
With a dull sound, the werewolf whose throat Bell had slit with his dagger collapsed onto the ground. Its entire body burst apart into ashes, leaving behind an extremely tiny Magic Stone no bigger than a fingernail.
Bell, whose face had been splattered with the werewolf's blood, seemed completely unable to believe what was happening before his eyes. He stood there frozen, not moving even slightly.
"Roar—!"
In that instant, the other werewolves lunged at him one after another.
Standing in the distance, Noah watched the werewolves pounce wildly at Bell, who was staring blankly at the ash-covered ground. He weighed several small stones in his hand, raised them over his shoulder, and hurled them one after another with an unfathomable force.
As the pebbles cut through the air with piercing whistles, nearly every joint in Bell's rather slender body was struck.
Bell's body moved with extreme agility despite not being under his own control. Like a puppet pulled by invisible strings, he stiffly twisted, hopped, and shifted again and again, evading the werewolves' bites and pounces.
At the same time, the hand gripping Bell's dagger swung repeatedly beyond his control under the pebbles' strikes. One slash went for a werewolf's throat, the next for its chest, leaving trails of blood beneath arcs of chilling light.
It was blood sprayed from werewolf bodies being cleanly and decisively cut open.
In less than three minutes.
For less than three minutes, Bell had not spent even a second conscious. His entire body seemed to no longer belong to him. By the time he stopped, werewolves that had been ferociously chasing him moments ago lay sprawled all around