Free Web NovelChapter 511: 511. Earthquake
The moment a white light flashed on his forehead, countless people froze mid-action. Silence spread through large parts of the coliseum.
Serisca’s eyes locked onto the beast that had just materialized.
As the glow faded, colour drained from her face.
She instinctively stepped back, staring at the abomination before her.
Many narrowed their eyes. Though the dragon hatchling was small, it still unmistakably looked like a dragon.
But the roughly four-foot-tall beast standing before it looked unlike anything they had ever seen.
Carlos, meanwhile, was completely focused on the mantis. He knew exactly what it was capable of.
The dragon’s gaze fixed onto the mantis, and the mantis returned the stare.
Theo’s eyes remained locked in on the dragon as well. He needed to know whether the suppression was working on it.
Unfortunately, the dragon casually drifted a little to the right before returning to its original spot, as if it already knew what Theo had in his mind.
The moment the mantis realized that its suppression had no effect on the beast, Theo felt a wave of emotions of annoyance through their bond.
The mantis lifted its head and released a screech so horrifying that it sounded as though someone was being tortured in the center of the coliseum.
The architecture of the structure only amplified the sound, sending chills down countless spines.
Very few had ever heard a scream like that before. It was horrendous—painful and threatening to the ears.
Theo finally pulled his sword from its scabbard and muttered only one thing through the open bond.
’Go wild, Mantis.’
It was as if that was a pet line between them; the moment the mantis heard it, it seemed to have triggered something in it.
The next instant, it became a blur of blinding light and shot toward the dragon at a speed few could even react to.
The dragon remained still, only rising slightly, as if it already knew where the mantis would stop. When the white energy around the mantis vanished, it hovered in the air close to the dragon, but still nowhere close to attack directly.
Theo smiled.
The mantis did exactly what it always did.
Its mouth opened, and a spray of poison burst forth.
At such a point-blank range, the dragon had no chance to even dodge.
The mantis casually began falling back down while Theo waited for the cooldown to end. Moments later, the mantis turned into a streak of light again, descending rapidly before perching on the ground as if it were the most normal thing to do.
Serisca stared at her beast with a frozen expression and a deep frown. Blue liquid droplets covered the dragon’s body, and there was no way to tell whether any of the poison had entered its mouth.
The mantis grew even more frustrated. There were no trees or cliffs it could climb to reach the flying beast. All it could do was leap forward repeatedly.
’You take on the beast’s attention. I will go get a point so that the dragon comes down in anger,’ Theo said through the bond.
Then he suddenly started running forward.
The timing was so abrupt in that moment that Serisca could only stare at him for a moment before she could react.
The mantis’s gaze was no longer on the dragon, as it had already leapt again, weakening the suppression.
Theo closed the distance almost instantly while the dragon violently shook its body in annoyance, trying to fling the poison away.
But from the corner of its eyes, the dragon hatchling noticed the human rushing toward Serisca, and its focused eyes sharpened for a moment.
Just as it was about to dart toward her, the mantis appeared near it once more.
But all the dragon did was veer to the right before flipping midair and shooting straight toward Theo instead.
Theo ran even farther away. There was no complicated plan behind it. Theo only wanted to land a single hit on Serisca so that the dragon would always have in the back of its head that Theo could target its tamer whenever it was engaged by the mantis.
The dragon’s speed was terrifying.
Theo reached Serisca within a matter of seconds. Just to be sure that he had gotten close enough, Theo hyper-jumped forward and lunged forward, leaving Serisca with no choice but to brace for his arrival.
While Theo hyper-jumped forward, everyone else saw it as if he had simply blinked from one place to another.
The speed was so absurd that only someone with high perception and sharp eyes could tell what had actually happened.
Theo swung his sword in a horizontal slash without using any aura or power behind it.
Serisca jerked backward in a last attempt to protect herself.
But she couldn’t escape the sword’s trajectory. The blade struck her right across the waist, and she let out a small yelp, terrified that she had been cut in half.
But the shield activated instantly, sending Theo flying backward. Even so, he was able to regain his footing almost immediately.
Before Theo could properly stop himself and look around to see what was going on, his spatial awareness flared.
He instantly jumped to the right.
At that moment, the dragon was already dangerously close. Seeing it from such a short distance, Theo could make out the fury burning in its eyes and the brown scales protruding from its skin, similar to the wyvern from before, though it looked far more majestic and imposing. frёewebηovel.cѳm
But Theo realized too late that the dragon had no intention of attacking it with its claws or fangs.
Its tail, which ended in a massive boulder-like rock, slammed toward the ground directly beneath him.
When it did, Theo lost his footing and fell to his feet and hands on the ground, while his head started shaking violently.
His vision blurred, and it felt as if an unimaginable earthquake was erupting beneath him. His entire body trembled uncontrollably.
While Theo remained frozen in place, desperately trying to regain control of himself, the dragon flew past his side, staring at him with eyes that literally said, ’You’re done.’
Its tail spun in a full 360 arc toward Theo’s head, and though his spatial sense screamed warnings at him, the violent shaking left him too disoriented to dodge.
At that moment, all Theo felt was terror.
Terror of an ability he did know about.
And terror of an Epic grade beast whose killing intent was fully directed toward him.
