Karin suddenly turned her head to look to the side, the huge tail of the snake was coming toward her like a drill!

She hurriedly carried her mallet and placed it in front of her body while she bent her knee to resist the incoming impact, but she had overestimated herself.

Bang!

The stone tail crashed into the mallet, a strong force traveled through the mallet and into Karin’s arms. Her eyes widened in shock as her legs left the ground and she was sent flying back.

She flew for several meters before crashing into a boulder.

Thud!

She fell to the ground while her mallet flew three meters away from her position; a pained expression appeared on her face as she bit her lips; she felt her wrist had fractured.

Raising her head, she saw the rock snake pull itself from the small pit. A wide web-like crack could be seen on its back which was a result of Karin’s attack just now; she had almost broken through the snake’s defense in one strike.

But almost wasn’t enough in this case.

The snake immediately shot at her with great speed after pulling its body from the pit, it opened its mouth wide open as it approached Karin.

Gritting her teeth, Karin got up and ran toward her mallet with a face mixed with pain and desperation. She did not dare to look back but could feel the ground tearing up as the snake got closer.

She reached the mallet in just two seconds, she did a flip over it while picking it up.

Her fingers wrapped around the handle of the mallet at the same time her feet touched the ground, she hastily raised it in front to clock herself once more.

At the same time, Karin got into a stance to defend herself, the snake was already in front of her with its mouth wide open.

Everything seemed to slow down at this moment; the mouth of the snake was like a huge gate that led to hell that suddenly spawned in front of her, its stone teeth like the ruthless claws of the abyss, ready to rip her life.

Karin’s eyes widened; she felt extreme fear at this moment; she wasn’t confident of surviving this one-way ticket to the underworld at all.

It would have been better if all she needed to do was to block against a strike, what could she do when a wide hole that was dozens of times bigger than her was crashing down on her?

‘I…I don’t want to die!’

With eyes wide open, Karin watched as milliseconds ticked by and the mouth of the snake inched closer to her and…

…

Snap!

Karin was bitten in half and blood gushed everywhere!

(Sike! Got you, didn’t I? Haha)

…..

With eyes wide open, Karin watched as milliseconds ticked by and the mouth of the snake inched closer to her.

BOOM!!

Just when the snake’s mouth was about to swallow her up, a sudden huge mass of red energy crashed into the side of the snake’s mouth, pushing its huge head to the side and away from Karin.

A strong gust of wind blew against Karin’s face as the huge body of the snake flew past her, just a few inches away from her.

Bang!

Another explosive sound followed as the snake crashed into a boulder some distance away.

Karin, unable to process what had happened immediately, could only stare at the space in front of her with a blank face.

In front of her was Ivan who was still in the posture in which he had punched the snake.

His legs were wide apart with his upper body bent forward slightly, his left elbow was pulled back a bit and his right arm stretched forward like a straight arrow; a massive amount of thick red energy gathered around the gauntlet on his right fist, pieces of broken rock like scales laid at his feet.

Ivan stood up straight after a few seconds and took a glance at Karin, his gaze was dull and expressionless. Without saying anything, he turned away before dashing toward the snake.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Thunderous sounds followed.

It took a few more seconds after Ivan left before Karin’s brain turned back on and she understood what had just happened, she had almost died and Ivan had saved her; she did not mind the kind of look he gave her just now as it was irrelevant, what was relevant was that he had saved her.

Her knees trembled, and she fell to the ground; she looked up and…burst into tears.

…..

A while ago after they had clashed with the rock snakes, Ivan had used one card and turned it into a sword before hacking at the body of the snake that had rushed up to him. Strangely enough, Ivan’s sword wasn’t able to cut through the hard scale of the snake!

This had surprised him greatly, even reaching the point of almost shocking him.

One has to know that Ivan’s sword was already so sharp that it had been able to leave a mark on James’s transformed state when he had just learned how to use it; it began to get sharper as he increased in strength. He understood that there were a lot of creatures out there with abnormal defenses that could block his sword, Miko’s sword, for example, and that turtle monster with one eye.

This had made him realize that his sword would not be able to solve every situation for him, and he had expected much later on, but who would have thought that he would meet such a creature on his very first mission to the dreamscape?

Immediately after realizing this, Ivan throws away the thought of using a sword and decides to get physical.

The rock snake was fast, but Ivan, a Partial Lord, his strength and speed were faster. He has created a gauntlet with his remaining card and pummeled the snake to pieces.

The snake was completely helpless against Ivan and could only get hit repeatedly until it crumbled into a rock pile.

After dealing with the rock snake, Ivan just happened to catch the scene of Karin getting slapped away by the tail of the snake she was fighting.

He took a quick glance around and realized that she was the only one who was struggling despite being one of the two True Kings on the team; he hesitated for a moment if he should help her.

‘We don’t know her, why should we help her?’ a voice rang in his head.

‘She is part of our group, she follows your order without complaints. Why not help her? She isn’t an enemy!’ a second voice countered.

‘So what? She’s a Nexulyte!’ the first voice reported.

‘And the snake is a creature from the dreamscape, which one is our enemy?’

All of these happened within a second as the two voices argued in his head, only after the last words of the second voice did Ivan decide to act.

Yes, the snake was the greater enemy!

His moment of hesitation had allowed the snake to arrive in front of Karin, Ivan had expended a huge amount of Nexus energy to boost his speed, letting him arrive on time.

This was why he had given Karin a dull look just now, his eyes were saying.

‘ I’m wasting energy because of you

….

Back to the present.

While Karin was crying, everyone else was rounding up with their fights.

Ralph’s undead has bullied the rock snake all throughout the fight.

The undead General tossed it around like a punching bag while the undead knight stabbed at it with its great sword. Although the great sword wasn’t able to pierce its stone scales, the black aura rising from it passed through the small gaps on the scales and wreaked havoc inside the snake’s body; its stone body was slowly turning into dust due to this.

On Glen’s side, after finally creating an opening, it didn’t take long for the white snake to expand the wound and destroy the neck of the rock snake, easily winning the fight.

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