Although this attack was not much different from the one it had just taken, its instinctive sense of danger told it that this time, it could not block it.
Its heels sank as its feet shifted, the braking system carving two deep tracks across the gravel bank beside the stream.
A confident smile appeared on Ando Meiko's face.
The humanoid monster had indeed noticed and reacted quickly enough, but once the attack had been launched, no matter how fast it moved, its efforts were futile.
Pfft, pfft, pfft...
The sounds of bullets tearing through flesh and blood rang out without end. The red bullets that pierced through the humanoid monster continued onward, only exhausting all their kinetic energy and magic power after burrowing several centimeters into the ground.
Drip...
Red liquid seeped from the bloody holes in the humanoid monster's body, gushing down onto the ground like a reservoir whose dam had been destroyed.
With a dull thud, having lost the strength to support itself, the humanoid monster's body tilted and fell backward onto the ground.
"Blood, that's blood... It... it can't really be human, can it?" Staring blankly at the scene, Ando Meiko's hands and voice began to tremble.
Void Beasts were things that destroyed worlds. Killing them was like swatting mosquitoes or crushing cockroaches; there was no need for sympathy. But if this monster had really been transformed from a human, then hadn't she just killed someone?
Sensing Ando Meiko's emotional turmoil, Ruby immediately explained, "Master, calm down. That isn't blood. It's just a kind of red Aether."
Ruby's words snapped Ando Meiko out of her panic. She forcibly suppressed the discomfort in her heart, and the alarm in her eyes faded considerably.
After calming down a little, she took another careful sniff and confirmed that no pungent