The instant the Shepherd Dog ambushed him, Kael's mind went blank. The only thing reflected in his eyes was the Shepherd Dog's smug, despicable grin.
By the time Kael came to his senses, two seconds had already passed.
What had happened during those two seconds was somewhat hazy to Kael. Or rather, his eyes had seen it... but his mind had yet to understand it.
To Kael, those two seconds had passed in a daze.
To the Shepherd Dog, those two seconds had been utterly bewildering. It remembered clearly that it had seized the opportunity and attacked that fool who always fell for fake misery, so why was it the one that ended up in pain?
Indeed, the Shepherd Dog was rolling on the ground in agony. All the claws on its forelegs had broken. Though nourished by the power of wind, they soon grew back, the pain had not lessened in the slightest.
It wailed while desperately trying to recall what had happened, its eyes filled with worry and brimming with hot tears.
"Sure enough, it's all that bastard's fault! I never should've answered its summons! Woe is me!"
Cursing did not stop the Shepherd Dog from wondering: just how had it been injured?
This Wizard Apprentice was far too strange. He had clearly been facing away from it, with his back completely undefended, yet its attack had felt as though it had struck an incomparably hard stone... No, it had been even harder than stone!
One had to understand that its claw strike was wrapped in a special cutting wind, giving it terrifying single-target destructive power. Even defensive spells could be easily pierced by it. It was a true defense-breaking skill.
The claw strike's only flaw was that it was difficult to land on anyone. Before this, as