Chapter 718: Chapter 280: Forgot to Tell You (Two in One Big Chapter) _3
After a brief pause of a few seconds, the two quickly resumed their exchange of blows!
Another twenty or thirty seconds passed, and Ganon was feeling somewhat annoyed because he hadn’t expected that Rein seemed to be getting more spirited as the fight went on.
Moreover, the other party’s speed had actually become a bit faster than at the beginning.
This, he was certain, was not due to his own physical decline, but rather, the opponent was indeed speeding up, which could be seen from how easily they dodged the attacks of the red snake!
But this was something he couldn’t understand even if he racked his brain: aren’t you supposed to be known for your stamina?
Isn’t stamina supposed to be about endurance?
Then why is it that the longer we fight, the faster you become?
This made Ganon feel that the young man before him was shrouded in a layer of fog, emitting an air of mystery.
He wasn’t planning on continuing to fight any longer!
He intended to pay a small price to directly end this battle!
Because he still had to break through the formation, go save Holdan, and afterwards, he needed to control the Earth Snake to leave, so it was better not to drag on for too long!
Suddenly, Ganon’s snake-scaled arm stretched out for about ten centimeters, and then, the originally normal-sized palm also suddenly expanded, becoming as large as a washbasin.
He caught Rein’s elbow as it was swinging down with an ax, lifting with the whole palm, but at that moment, Rein was executing the ax secret technique ‘Flash Cut’ with great strength, not so easily resisted.
Rein’s ax blade still heavily chopped toward Ganon’s shoulder!
But at the same time, Ganon’s shoulder muscles tensed, fibrils straining and quivering dramatically, the deltoid muscle inflating out of nowhere, the snake scales on his body violently shaking!
“Thump!” A muffled chopping sound reverberated!
After being resisted by the force of Ganon’s palm and the muscle technique to offload the force from the shoulder,
Rein’s Intermediate Secret Technique ‘Flash Cut’ did not sever Ganon’s right arm but lodged about three or four centimeters into the opponent’s shoulder before being caught by the muscles.
At this point, Ganon’s left hand, which had been supporting Rein’s forearm, began to exert force, and he quickly leaned toward Rein, once again grabbing Rein’s shield-bearing arm with his right hand.
This time, the red snake was not deploying ‘Flame Breath,’ but instead shot down from above toward Rein’s neck, biting down on it like lightning!
In the blink of an eye!
Rein barely managed to shift his body slightly, allowing the red snake’s attack to move from his neck to his shoulder.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on Ganon’s face!
His red snake was extremely poisonous, and once…
But in an instant, Ganon’s smile froze!
Because a certain sound of bone cracking echoed!
The red snake painfully opened its mouth wide, flicking its tongue and hissing a hissing sound.
It could be seen that its two fangs were both broken off.
This truly shocked Ganon!
How could this be possible?
Because on Rein’s shoulder, where the steel shoulder armor was covered in a layer of water membrane, two large holes had been bitten by his red snake, but no blood was flowing out.
Instead, it was the red snake’s fangs that had snapped?
He hadn’t felt any fluctuation of witchcraft energy at all; could it be that Rein possessed some kind of bloodline talent, like a body of stone? Or was he wearing some kind of strange inner armor?
Complications arose one after another!
At this point, Ganon stopped caring about face.
Because the battle had progressed to this extent, he felt that the face that needed to be lost had been lost.
So, he decided to use an overpowering approach to resolve the fight.
Ganon suddenly released his hands, stepped down hard with his left foot on Rein’s shield, and rapidly retreated using that leverage!
Just as Rein buffered the force and was about to pursue,
suddenly, he felt a slight tremor of the pebbles on the ground, and immediately, Rein thought of something and swiftly sidestepped.
The ground where he had been standing gave way to a huge Earth Snake that thrust out its menacing, petal-shaped mouthparts.
This time, after attacking, it did not dive back under the ground but stood upright like a cobra, raising a small part of its body.
Even so, it was higher than a two-story building, and its shadow in the sunlight engulfed Rein’s entire body.
And atop the Earth Snake’s head appeared a figure; it was none other than the Great Priest of the Secret Snake Sect, Ganon.
Ganon looked down at Rein from above, a smile on his face as he commented,
“Impressive strength for your age. Given more time, you might even surpass me.”
“But sadly, this is where your journey ends.”
“To die at the hands of a Legendary Species ‘Earth Snake’ is quite an honor, isn’t it?”
At this point, upon seeing the appearance of the giant Earth Snake, the remaining Black Flame monks exchanged looks and gathered towards the tunnel entrance previously dug by the Earth Snake before leaving.
For them, although Ganon was an ally, he was an outsider without any hierarchical relationship with them.
Furthermore, staying would not be of much use in the fight; they were more likely to become cannon fodder.
So, they thought it best to retreat first.
As a Legendary Species, the Earth Snake’s pressure felt as tangible as reality itself; Rein felt as if he was trapped in something viscous, as if the resistance in the air had suddenly increased more than twofold.
In such a situation, fighting against an ancient legendary creature increased the pressure tremendously!
“This feeling…” Rein couldn’t help but recall that time he had faced the high priest of the Meister county using dark magic to ascend.
Rein scanned around; he had been thinking of taking down another Knight-level Black Flame monk to collect ten parts and try out the core Skill Effect of the newly-learned ‘Soul Shatter Strike’!