He loved how he lived his life in this world, that was the reason why he was smiling right in the face of death.
The fact that he was a warrior was what was about to lead to his death now, but he still didn’t have any regrets. He was about to die a warrior, he considered that an honor.
The beast kept tightening the hand where he was in, and in the next few seconds, he’d be getting squashed completely. He could feel pains in his body as the beast was tightening its hand.
Death was getting closer and closer…
Then all of a sudden, arrows penetrated the beast’s forehead and even one of its eyes. And in the next few seconds, another set of arrows penetrated its forehead again, which disoriented it completely.
Who fired the arrows? One of the warriors that had a bow and a quiver of arrows with him. This was unexpected, the man had already given up hope any of his fellow warriors would be helping him out of the situation he found himself in.
And he couldn’t even blame them at all…but he shouldn’t have given up hope because help was definitely going to come though there’d be delay.
And the delay occurred because they needed to contemplate on what to do to save his life, rather than to end it.
After the second set of arrows penetrated the beast’s forehead, it let go of the man. The man was a warrior, so though the beast left him from a place that wasn’t that close to the ground, he still landed on the ground well.
His sword was still in his right hand, and he was so surprised to be alive. He quickly ran toward the other warriors and focused his gaze on the beast as it was still a little disoriented.
As said, it was one of the warriors that had a bow and a quiver of arrows with him that fired the arrows toward the beast to disorient it and save the man’s life.
Since running toward the beast to save the man’s life could get him killed, then the warrior decided to do so from a distance. He took out his bow and placed arrows in it after a few minutes of contemplation.
The other warriors noticed when he did all these, and the ones with bows and arrows began wondering why they didn’t think of this to save their fellow warrior’s life. Well, they didn’t say anything though, they just allowed him do what he wanted to do.
They kept hoping what he was about to do would be able to save the man’s life without getting him hurt at all…
The beast didn’t notice when the warrior took out his bow and put arrows in it, targeting them toward it. It was busy glancing at the warrior in its hand thinking of the best way to kill him.
The warrior let go of the arrows as they went straight to the beast’s face, piercing both its forehead and eye.
Noticing that the piercing wasn’t enough to disorient the beast to the extent that it would let go of the man, the warrior didn’t waste time to put another round of arrows in his bow, target the beast’s face again, and let go of the arrows.
The next piercing was enough to make the beast let go of the warrior in its hand…and that’s exactly how it happened.
That was how the warrior was able to save the man’s life.
The beast was making use of its hand to remove the arrows that penetrated its forehead currently. And after it had finished doing that, it took out the one that penetrated one of its eyes and dropped it on the ground.
Blood was oozing out of that eye right now, the beast was still disoriented. The truth of the matter was that it couldn’t make use of that eye to see properly anymore due to the damage that had been done to it.
Even with what happened to that warrior with the fire ability that almost cost him his life, one of the warriors planned on jumping toward the beast’s core to destroy it some more since the beast looked a little disoriented now.
Though a warrior almost died in the hands of the beast while heading toward its core to damage it some more, the warrior wasn’t afraid of what he was about to do right now.
He felt if all of them were afraid, then how would they be able to bring down the beast? And the fastest way to bring down the beast was to damage its core completely.
..So he planned on heading toward the beast’s core right now to damage it some more, not minding what might happen in the process.
He jumped heading toward the beast’s core, and the other warriors were so surprised by his action. How could he jump toward the beast’s core without saying anything?
Didn’t he see what happened to the warrior that tried reaching the beast’s core a few minutes ago? He almost died.
Well, as known, the warrior thought about all these but still chose to be confident, he did what he wanted to do. And you know what? He was able to reach the beast’s core successfully.
The beast didn’t try to catch him or something due to how disoriented it was…I mean, one of its eyes has been damaged.
The warrior was so happy to reach the beast’s core successfully, all that remained was to begin destroying it. A good number of damage had been done to it already by two warriors, all he needed to do was to damage it some more.
Without wasting time, he began making use of his sword to stab the beast’s core continuously. His sword kept going in and out of the beast’s core nonstop. And there was a kind of enraged expression on his face as he was stabbing the beast’s core.
Thinking about the number of people the beast had killed was what was making him enraged. As he was thinking about it, his anger was increasing, and he was increasing the pace at which he was stabbing the beast’s core as well.
He wanted to cause a good number of damage to its core before leaving it…
The other warriors just stood there watching him stab the beast’s core continuously, and the other people watching them battle the beast had their gazes focused on him and what he was doing as well.
The beast kept feeling strength leave it as its core was being damaged, then it began moving its right hand toward the warrior at the back of its neck to grab him and make use of its teeth to rip him apart immediately.
Seeing that the beast’s hand was heading toward him, the warrior jumped off its neck and began falling toward the ground.
Seeing that it didn’t succeed in grabbing him from its neck, the beast tried grabbing him while he was in the air with its other hand. The warrior had a feeling something like this could happen, so he had already prepared himself ahead of time.
He dodged the beast’s hand while in the air as its hand swung past, then he landed on the ground safely.
The moment he landed on the ground, the beast brought out a large amount of flame from its mouth as it headed toward him and the other warriors on the ground.
..This wasn’t the first time the beast was doing something like this, so they were able to dodge the flame easily though they weren’t expecting it.
And the moment they were done dodging the flame, the beast manipulated wind. It controlled a huge amount of wind to head toward the warriors so it could push them all to the ground.
And once that happens, the beast would make use of that chance to kill as many as it could kill. Just as the warriors were fast enough to dodge the flame it threw toward them, they were also fast enough to dodge the wind.
And after they were done dodging the wind, they noticed the beast stagger badly. And this was due to the damage the warrior did to its core.
It lost a good amount of strength, but it wasn’t enough to bring it down yet. In fact, it still had strength to battle them, and if they weren’t careful, it could end up killing some.
This was a fucking rank-4 beast we were talking about here, the highest rank of magical beasts…it couldn’t be brought down easily.
If not that these men battling it were well-trained warriors, and most of them were SSS-rank benders…some of them would have been killed.
“That’s an excellent job you did right there”. One of the warriors said to the warrior that damaged the beast’s core some more after they noticed it staggering.
And he wasn’t the only one that complimented him, other warriors did the same as well. And all the warrior did was to nod his head a little, with a bit of smile on his face before saying,
“Did what I had to do”.