At this critical moment, Barro caught sight of the road's sloping surface from the corner of his eye. He braced hard in the opposite direction and rolled along the incline.
The instant Barro rolled away, the bone club came crashing down.
The force of a single blow blasted a huge hole into the flat ground, sending dirt flying as a deafening boom rang out.
Barro had no time to marvel at Master Man's strength. The moment he finished rolling aside, he sprang to his feet, intending to flee while the bone club was embedded in the ground.
But the moment Barro turned around, he saw an enormous fist swinging straight for his face.
Master Man did not pull the bone club from the ground as Barro had expected. Instead, he flashed directly in front of Barro and engaged him in close combat.
Years of combat experience as a pirate allowed Barro to narrowly evade the punch, but he also lost his chance to escape. Left with no alternative, he could only become entangled in a fight with Master Man.
Master Man was immensely strong. Every attack felt like a cannonball slamming into Barro's body. After blocking for only a few seconds, Barro heard cracking sounds coming from inside himself.
His arm bone had been smashed apart!
Facing this humanoid beast, Barro grew more alarmed and more powerless with every exchange. But Master Man was different. He seemed to relish this savage beating, and the excitement in his scarlet eyes only grew fiercer. Compared to Lunke, who could still restrain his emotions, Master Man looked far more like the madman who had taken the secret medicine.
One side was timid from the start, while the other grew braver the more he fought. In a battle like this, even if they had