Fear the Monster

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The black-armored warrior gripped his sword in both hands and leaped high. As he came down, the blade struck the Giant Monster squarely in the neck!

The Giant Monster had a powerful body and skin as hard as steel. That strike should not have been able to cut him open.

Yet for some reason, when the sword slashed viciously into the Giant Monster's neck, it easily split flesh and skin, severing a major blood vessel. Scarlet blood sprayed out!

It did not stop there. The black-armored warrior's blade cut through the Giant Monster's neck as his body continued falling.

He gripped the hilt tightly, guiding the blade around the bones as it sliced through the Giant Monster's pectorals, then his abdominal muscles.

After landing, the black-armored warrior nimbly rolled across the ground, tumbling more than twenty meters away.

Having widened the distance between them, the black-armored warrior rose to his feet. Looking again at the Giant Monster, he saw a wound running all the way from the Giant Monster's neck to his abdomen.

Though that blow had not cut through bone and had only injured skin and muscle, such a horrific wound spewed an astonishing amount of blood!

Especially the wound on his neck—it had likely severed a major artery.

Blood poured down in torrents, turning the Giant Monster's already red skin an even brighter crimson.

So much blood flowed from him that it formed a small pool on the ground, staining the surrounding snow red!

After suffering such a devastating blow, the Giant Monster immediately became incomparably weak.

It was not only his body that had been wounded. He was even more horrified in his heart.

Just as the black-armored warrior had said, demons like him fed