A Moment of Feasting (Twenty-Two)

Everything had happened too fast!

When she realized something was wrong in the testing room and hurried over, Cynthia had never imagined she would come face-to-face with a monster like this.

At that moment, Fu Qian's appearance and his question, asked despite already knowing the answer, weighed on her like a suffocating pressure.

"Pachi?"

Just as Cynthia's whole body stiffened and she frantically searched for a way to escape, the monster's head had already leaned close. It uttered a name in a strange, flat tone.

"Goya?"

Huh?

Cynthia froze for a moment. It took her a while to understand what Fu Qian meant, and just as she was thinking about how to respond, she heard him continue.

Goya? Cynthia was even more confused now.

"Thank you!"

The moment his final words of thanks reached her ears, an intense sense of danger rose within her, but it was already too late.

At an unbelievable speed, a sharp limb flashed past, opening several deep wounds across Cynthia's body.

"I'm not—"

There was no time to wonder why he hadn't simply slit her throat.

Cynthia instinctively backed away to escape, explaining without thinking.

But to her despair, the monster followed like a shadow. The distance between them didn't change at all.

The next moment, something passed through her wounds, tearing at and entangling her organs.

With a scream of unbearable agony, the Abyssal Colt that Fu Qian had become withdrew his limbs and stood still, avoiding the rain of blood.

Only then did Cynthia's mutilated body crash to the ground.

The turn of events was even faster this time. Even though the guards had been on full alert, they hadn't had time to help Cynthia. By the time they reacted, the tragedy had already occurred.

The fact that Cynthia, an Intermediate Tier, had