Aah! So excited I'm getting a boner!

A few minutes later.

Behemoth's massive body crashed onto the blood-soaked sand like a collapsing mountain.

Its thick carapace, which had once driven countless Gladiators to despair, was now covered in savage cracks and deep axe gouges. Dark purple blood streamed from its wounds, gathering beneath it in a viscous pool.

Its three pairs of crimson eyes had lost their ferocity, leaving only pain and a fading glaze. Low, agonized moans rasped intermittently from its throat, and each breath tugged at its wounds, spraying bloody froth laced with fragments of its organs.

Angron stood before the dying Behemoth, his bronze skin spattered with his enemy's blood. His chest heaved from the brutal battle, but his eyes burned with the fire of victory and the cold resolve to finish his prey.

He raised his blood-drenched battleaxe high. Sunlight shone through gaps in the dome, glinting cold and blinding off its edge.

Blood slid down the blade, dripping onto the sand.

He drew a deep breath, his muscles bulging, ready to deliver the final, fatal blow to the enormous creature at his feet, ending its suffering and claiming another undisputed victory.

Yet at that critical instant, several specially made tranquilizer darts, their needles thick enough to pierce tough hide, shot from a concealed firing slit at the edge of the Gladiatorial Arena with a barely audible hiss!

Their target was not one of Angron's vital spots, but the muscular back of his neck, exposed as he raised his battleaxe!

Angron's attention was entirely fixed on the Behemoth before him, leaving him utterly unprepared for the sudden ambush!

Thwip!

With a faint, muffled sound, a bolt struck the side of his neck with perfect accuracy! A powerful tranquilizer, formulated specifically for his formidable constitution, instantly entered his bloodstream!

"Argh!"

Angron let out a