Let's Get a Little Closer

At the sight of this, Nuobolik looked mildly surprised. Then, sitting cross-legged in midair with his cheek propped on one hand, he sighed:

"After taking a concentrated strike from me, you're still completely unscathed? Damn it, looks like you're an ability user who excels at defense."

"Ugh! I hate dealing with your kind the most! Fighting you is time-consuming and exhausting, and even if I win, there's no satisfaction in it at all!"

"How about we just pretend we never ran into each other, go around one another, and find somebody else to play with? What do you say?"

Erigat looked up at Nuobolik and calmly tested him with a retort:

"If your companions were with you and swarmed me together, then perhaps you could finish me off in one go. Of course, that's only a possibility."

Nuobolik threw back his head and burst out laughing.

"Ha ha ha! You big brat, you sure talk big!"

"Unfortunately, just like you, I'm on my own."

"Otherwise, when we clashed head-on just now, our companions would have already shown themselves and launched a surprise attack~"

Erigat nodded in agreement. This was indeed a standard one-on-one situation. Then he calmly reminded Nuobolik:

"If you really didn't want to fight me, you should have run off in a puff of smoke by now."

Nuobolik gave a wild laugh.

"Haha, I just don't want some annoying little tail following behind me! Come on, human brat, give me a straight answer! Are you going to keep fighting me to the death here, or shall we both leave each other a little room for mercy?"

Erigat gave his answer at once, his face cold.

"Mercy? What a joke. Ugly beasts like you, wearing human skin, will never deserve so-called mercy."

A vein silently bulged on Nuobolik's forehead,