"Fuck! I have had enough!"
Tired of getting manhandled by Roy, the horned serpent braced the mana bullet with his body and twined its tail around a thick, tall tree and, with an upward pull, uprooted it before yanking it at Roy.
Whoosh!
A large 10 feet tall and 5 feet wide tall tree fell towards him.
Its shadow covered him before it even reached him.
"Dodge it!" Arlo mentally communicated to Roy, not knowing that Roy's raw strength was equal to an aura monster already.
Roy's lips hooked up as he thought arrogantly, "Why should I?"
He advanced to the tree that was in mid-air, surpassing everyone's expectations.
Instead of dashing out of its trajectory, he jumped towards it.
His muscles threatened to pop out of his skin while his gut tightened so much that the lines of his abs became more well-defined than a man's future as he mustered up all the strength he could to grab it in mid-air, halting its advance.
"Have a taste of your own medicine!"
Roy said as he hurled it back into its face with such speed that it could not move its darn large body out of the way in time.
Pa! It got slapped by a tree so hard that it could see golden stars circling it.
That seems to have given it a concussion.
Following its example, Roy put aside his sword and used the nearby trees as his weapon.
He uprooted and hurled them at the darned serpent one by one.
Its vision cleared up in time, and its eyes widened to the size of saucers as it saw trees raining down.
Pa! Once again, it was concussed due to the same reason.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The rest of the trees landed on it, forcing it to fall.
Half of its body was crushed under them.
『Ding! The horned serpent has lost 500 more HP』
『Its HP had dropped below 2000 points』
『It has lost too much HP in too little time』
『Its self-healing can't keep up』
『It will now face the backlash of its innate self-healing ability』
『It has been inflicted with the debuff concussion』
『It will be immobilized for 2 seconds!』
Injured and exhausted, it thudded to the ground like a meek cinderella, seemingly immobilized.
Roy didn't miss this golden chance and rushed forward; this time, two swords appeared in his hand.
"No matter how good you are at something, there's always a human better than you at it."
Before it could regain its senses or mobility, Roy laughed out those words and thrust his sword into its right eye. He pushed it forward with all his force in order to plunge it deep into its brain.
『The horned serpent has lost several hundred units of HP!』
『Its HP bar has dropped to 1220 points!』
"Argh!" The horned serpent let out such a loud monstrous roar that it resounded throughout the mountain. Birds flew away, and the inhabitants of the river jumped and crawled out of it, making a run for it.
They thought it was roaring in anger when in actuality, it was crying out in pain!
What it didn't know was that worse was yet to come.
『It will be immobilized for 2 seconds!』
Black wisps of aura gushed out of his palm and jumped into its brain through the sword he had pierced into it, wreaking havoc there.
『Ding! Congratulation. You have used the special effect of the shadow manual to inflict major damage to the horned serpent, a level 1 aura monster! You have reached one step closer to advancing your swordmanship』
『The horned serpent has lost 500 HP!』
『Its HP bar has dropped to 720 points!』
A reverberating roar resounded again. Roy pulled out his sword, and blood sprayed everywhere, wetting his clothes and face and recoloring the horned serpent's scales. Its scales were blue before, but now they were colored red by its blood.
Roy was going to finish it off, but the horned serpent unleashed all of its bottled-up anger at that very moment, striking him with a huge wave of dense water mana. It was made up of 1-3rd of its remaining mana. Roy was thrown away, losing 15 points of HP. Blood trickled down the corner of his mouth as he landed on the ground, but even then, he didn't come to a stop as he skidded 30 meters backward before offsetting the force of its attack.
'Aura monster… their use of energy sure is interesting.' Roy thought as he wiped the blood on his face with the back of his hand and found himself one step away from falling off the cliff.
Roy looked at it tauntingly. "With both of your eyes go, you have no chance of winning against me. Just submit to your fate like a good doggy and accept death!"
It couldn't see its face as it was blind, but from his words, it could tell that it was being looked down upon.
A measly little prey was looking down on him.
It has killed thousands unawakened in the past, and it was raring to add Roy to the list.
"I don't need eyes to deal with the likes of you."
The horned serpent roared, murderous desires gushing out of it in the form of a stream made of countless specks of blue light seeped into the ground, forming two complicated magic runes, which were formed out of thousands of mana lines connecting with each other, creating an anarchic pattern.
A mist rose from each magic circle, transforming into clay clumps that joined together to shape into humanoid knights that were dressed in heavy armor and carried a longsword in one hand and a shield in the other.
Their head was shaped like that of a lion.
The chain mails and the breastplate they were wearing as well as the swords and shield they were holding, were made out of clay.
"Kill him!" The horned serpent commanded.
Immediately, the two knights dashed towards Roy.
