Arcane Detective of the Steam Age
Chapter 370

Dragon slaying

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"Roooaaaar!"

The Dragon let out an agonized scream, rolling and thrashing desperately. But it was pointless. The Grim Reaper Doll under Li Wei's control was rampaging through its belly. Li Wei knew nothing about a Dragon's internal anatomy, of course, but that hardly mattered. All he had to do was swing the scythe and sever everything in sight!

It had to be excruciating for the Dragon. Li Wei had once seen a movie where a beetle burrowed into someone's body, devoured his organs, then crawled out through his skin. The Dragon was probably suffering the same agony now.

The Dragon opened its jaws and roared furiously, then unleashed another torrent of flames. Clearly, though, the fire did nothing to the Grim Reaper Doll inside its body. Li Wei made the Doll swing its scythe again, cutting through another tube that might have been a blood vessel or something else entirely.

"Aaaaargh!"

At that very moment, the Dragon's legs buckled, and it collapsed.

"Whoa! What's happening, Mr. Li Wei?"

Startled by the Dragon's condition, Katie hurriedly backed away and turned to Li Wei for an explanation.

"Probably ate something that disagreed with it."

Li Wei stared at the Dragon. Although he appeared to be doing nothing, his fingers were moving ever so slightly, as though he were manipulating a puppet, directing the Grim Reaper Doll's demolition work inside the Dragon's belly. Finding something like its heart would have made things much easier, of course. For now, though, he seemed to have no choice but to hack away blindly and inflict as much damage as possible.

Through the Grim Reaper Doll's eyes, he could see that the Dragon's body was already awash with blood. Thick streams poured in from every direction, submerging the Doll. Even from outside, the Dragon's abdomen was visibly

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