But the Very Next Moment

But the very next moment, he suddenly froze as though someone had cast a binding spell on him. His entire body stiffened in place, utterly unable to move. His fingers were less than ten centimeters from Moke's head, yet those short ten centimeters had become an uncrossable chasm.

Colonel Wild Dog looked down in shock and finally realized that, at some point, his entire body had been tightly bound by mud surging up from the ground. The mud seemed alive, wrapping firmly around his limbs and torso and leaving him completely unable to move.

His face was filled with shock and confusion. He could not understand why this had suddenly happened. Where had all this mud come from? Why did it possess such overwhelming binding force?

Just as he stood there in stunned disbelief, the Sandai Kitetsu in Moke's hand traced a beautiful arc through the air and shot toward Colonel Wild Dog's neck like lightning!

"Not good!" Colonel Wild Dog's face instantly turned deathly pale. He cried out inwardly, knowing full well that with Sandai Kitetsu's sharpness, this strike would certainly be fatal.

But at this moment, he had lost all ability to act and could not dodge the lethal blow at all. He could only watch helplessly as Sandai Kitetsu drew closer and closer, the shadow of death growing larger before his eyes.

"Iron Body!" With death looming over him, Colonel Wild Dog had no other choice. Gritting his teeth, he summoned every ounce of his strength and activated the passive defensive skill, Iron Body.

"Slash..."

Sandai Kitetsu flashed across Colonel Wild Dog's neck like lightning. In an instant, a thin wound appeared on his throat. Yet that seemingly insignificant cut slowly split open as though under a spell, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

**"No... no...