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Chapter 509: An Injured Monster
The larger serpent moved first.
Its thick body shot across the ground with a sharp hiss, scales scraping dirt and broken stone as it lunged straight for Gabriel. Its jaws opened wide, and at the same time its long body curved, trying to coil around him and crush what little strength he had left.
Despite seeing the massive serpent rushing toward him, Gabriel did not panic. Instead, his bare hand shot out and caught the creature by the neck just before the coil could close around him.
The impact made the ground under his feet crack slightly. The summon’s body thrashed at once, its tail whipping through the air, but Gabriel’s grip did not move. Blood ran down his arm from his own wounds while the serpent twisted harder, trying to break free.
The blindfolded summoner’s face twitched for the second time that night.
Meanwhile, Gabriel’s fingers dug deeper, veins standing out on his forearm. A second later, he pulled with brutal force, and the serpent’s body tore apart in his hands.
Flesh split. Bone snapped. Blood splashed across the dirt and onto Gabriel’s chest as the summon was ripped cleanly into two bloody halves.
The summoner coughed up a mouthful of blood.
A visible tremor passed through his shoulders, and one hand moved to his chest for a brief second before he forced it down again. He clearly had not expected one of his summons to be destroyed with bare hands, especially not by someone whose body looked ready to collapse.
The two hounds moved at once.
One rushed low while the other leaped high, their claws and teeth aimed for Gabriel’s throat and stomach. Their speed was not slow. Against an ordinary expert, the timing alone would have been enough to tear the target apart.
Gabriel’s body swayed once.
That small movement made the first hound think it saw weakness.
It was wrong.
Gabriel’s leg rose and snapped out in a brutal kick. The strike landed on the hound’s skull with terrifying force, crushing its head flat before the body was launched sideways. Bone, blood, and torn flesh burst into the air before the corpse smashed into a stone wall and slid down.
The second hound came from above with its jaws wide open.
Gabriel shifted half a step and drove his elbow upward. The blow sank into the creature’s chest, caving it inward. Its body folded around the impact point before crashing to the ground in a broken heap, legs twitching twice before going still.
The summoner stared in silence, watching his summons being erased one after another.
The second serpent hissed louder and opened its mouth.
A dark green stream of poison shot toward Gabriel’s face, cutting through the air in a narrow line. He tilted his body to the side and let it pass. The poison splashed onto the ground behind him, and the dirt began to bubble faintly.
Gabriel moved the moment the beast reached him.
He caught the serpent by the tail.
The summon tried to pull away, its body twisting and coiling through the air, but Gabriel only tightened his grip and started swinging it.
The huge body slammed into the ground on one side, cracking stone and spraying dirt. Before it could recover, he swung it the other way and smashed it down again.
Bang.
Bang.
Bang.
Each impact shook the area harder than the last. The serpent’s scales split open. Blood and torn flesh scattered across the ground. The body tried to curl around his arm once, but another violent smash broke that effort apart immediately.
The blindfolded summoner stepped back.
He still looked calm on the surface, but his breathing had changed. Summoners relied on distance, control, and rhythm. Someone like Gabriel, who ignored all that and simply tore through summons with overwhelming strength, was a nightmare for them.
Gabriel’s current strength was already in the top one percent.
Opponents like these were no threat to him.
The ones who truly mattered sat in the top zero percent. Those were the real monsters. The monarchs. The silent king above was proof enough of that. Compared to such existences, these Black Star killers were nothing more than pests.
The serpent finally stopped moving.
Gabriel let go of its ruined tail, and its body dropped into the dirt with a wet sound. The last remaining hound circled once, its growl lower than before, and for the first time hesitation appeared in its movements.
The beast lunged in desperation.
Gabriel answered with a single downward punch.
His fist crushed through its head and buried partway into the ground below. When he pulled his hand back, the hound’s body simply collapsed.
Silence filled the battlefield.
Blood covered Gabriel from chest to arm. Some of it was his. Most of it was not. His breathing had grown rougher now, and his legs looked even less steady than before, but his eyes were still clear enough to kill.
Across from him, the blindfolded summoner shifted back another step.
The man’s throat moved once.
He had kept his calm until now, but the distance between them had vanished too quickly. His summons were dying too fast. A target dragged down from the castle half dead should not have been able to tear through beasts this way.
The man began to retreat.
He widened the distance as quickly and cleanly as possible, because for a summoner, close range against a monster like Gabriel was death.
Gabriel saw through it and began to walk forward with a small smile on his face.
The summoner clicked his tongue in irritation and snapped his fingers.
Another magic circle opened between them.
A fresh summon appeared instantly, throwing itself forward without hesitation. It was a thick armored beast with a broad body, clearly meant to block and buy time.
"Hmph."
Bang!
Gabriel’s body shot forward at the same time as the summon moved.
The motion was so fast that the ground where he had stood only held a small puddle of blood behind. One blink later, he was already in front of the summoner. The air between them seemed to fold from the sheer speed.
The blindfolded man’s expression changed when saw that the distance was shortening!