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Beast's arrow shot forward, hitting the monster in the shoulder and causing it to recoil for a moment, but did no big damage to it, however.

"Some tough defense." Reign remarked as he cranked his neck while Beast nodded his head.

"I hit that spot 7 times so far, one good attack, and it will break like glass, you will be able to easily stab through it," Beast told Reign who smirked at him before chuckling.

"So that was what you were planning on doing with the arrow that suddenly appeared in your hand right before I cut that thing."

"I can't just stand still and let it stab me, if that bastard thinks he can take me down so easily, it is highly mistaken," Beast said as Reign nodded before moving, charging toward the monster at full speed.

With a powerful beat of his wings, he launched himself into the air, aiming straight at the creature that was hissing at him while staring with hatred in its eyes.

"Good, you should hate me, after all, I came here to kill you." Reign said with a wide grin as he charged down at the monster that quickly moved, attempting to evade to the side and attempt to attack Reign from that position, betting on the fact Reign wouldn't be able to respond well to it after failing an attack.

The abomination, however, couldn't have been more wrong.

The moment Reign saw it move, he had already planned ahead, clearly noticing what the monster was planning on doing.

The moment Reign slashed forward, and clearly missed as the abomination sidestepped, his wings flapped, making him stop in the air before he spun, and with his other sword, delivered a fierce slash with a backhand toward the monster that had just taken a step forward, attempting to use its claw to rip his flesh apart.

The monster stared at Reign as both of them were able to analyze things very quickly, in fact, when in full focus, both of them were able to see each other's moves in a way that made them seem a bit slowed down. Still, even if they could see and potentially even predict the opponent's move, they couldn't always respond to it.

Just like the abomination couldn't do anything against Reign's slash at this moment.

It had already moved forward in an attempt to attack, its body, as agile as it was, and as good as the abomination was at controlling its body, was simply unable to force it to stop mid-attack, not to mention that Reign's counter was incredibly fast as well. Thus, it knew that it could only hope to strengthen its body and somehow try to weaken the damage it would gain.

It twisted its body slightly while still continuing with its attack, trying to either scare Reign away and have him pull back or to at least damage him in return as well.

It managed to do neither of those two things.

Reign's attack came fast and only got faster, reaching the monster sooner than it had anticipated, making it unable to go through with what it had been trying to do ever since it saw what Reign was planning.

The sword struck the powerful chitin body of the monster, and unlike what one would expect, it didn't simply bounce off or glide to the side, in fact, it managed to cut through, slashing through the tough chitin that was able to tank so many attacks before, with seemingly great ease.

The reason for that was because of the way Reign had coated his sword with his light. He had not only coated the entire sword with his light, but he had also manipulated the light, making it vibrate with an incredibly high frequency.

That, coupled with the fact he had compressed the light as much as he could, made it so that when the sword got close to the chitin, it was the vibrating light that struck first, immediately clashing with the chitin and making it much weaker than usual before the sword landed on it.

The sword cut deep into the arm of the abomination which it tried to use in order to deflect the blow. It had taken Reign's sword with its shoulder, believing that the thick chitin present there would be enough to keep it safe from the sword and only gain a minor injury at worst.

It had never anticipated that not only would its chitin prove to be much frailer against Reign's sword than it had believed it to be, but that Reign would so quickly and mercilessly cut deep into the shoulder before turning his sword up and move even harder, his sword cleaving straight through the shoulder and cutting off the entire arm.

The abomination roared in pain from the wound it had suddenly gained, its severed arm landing not too far away from the two, still twitching and moving as Reign smirked.

This kind of opponent was the best he could ask. Without an incredibly large body and a massive amount of mana, an opponent would find it very difficult to try and overwhelm him simply because of his immense speed and fighting experience.

The scorpion was strong, it had speed that could only be matched by Shadow and Reign, but the problem was the fact that Reign was actually a bit faster, and because of that, the scorpion had no advantage against him. It was slower, its attacks were not as powerful, and the monster's fighting IQ was not as high.

All of that made it clear to Reign that even if he was alone, he would be able to defeat the enemy without too many problems, but he wasn't alone, which meant that this battle was going to end soon.

The scorpion suddenly stopped its roar, looking to the side with hatred as it locked on to Beast, who was holding the bowstring pulled to its fullest, aiming at the scorpion.

It growled before glancing at Laura, who was chanting a spell, her surroundings protected by the wyvern that slaughtered the monsters that tried to come at her, while the flood dragon made sure Beast could stand still and focus on hitting the scorpion, decimating all that came close.

The scorpion moved, aiming at Laura, wanting to show Beast that it had made a mistake, just as it had done previously.

"Where do you think you're going?" A cold voice echoed next to the scorpion as the monster turned its head to the side, only to be met with Reign's emotionless eyes.

The scorpion looked and then felt a sharp pain at its side as Reign stabbed it with his sword, this time using the one coated in darkness, penetrating through a small gap in the chitin armor as he stared at the scorpion who quickly backed away, its blood spilling on the ground.

In its hurry, as well as anger toward Beast, a person the scorpion thought of as nothing but prey that it was supposed to slaughter previously, it had forgotten that the same strategy it had used previously would not work.

Both Beast and Laura could rest assured that they could simply stand and channel their most powerful attacks, their surroundings guarded by the wyvern and the flood dragon while Reign would make sure the scorpion wouldn't be able to come close to them.

The monster roared at Reign, feeling immense anger, but also indignation and slight desperation toward Reign, who seemed to be a perfect counter to it.

"Come on, don't take your eyes off me, what they are doing shouldn't bother you too much, after all, if you can't defeat me, you will die no matter what they do." Reign said as he charged forward, his wings propelling him with immense speed as the monster roared, suddenly using its stinger to expel a ton of acid toward Reign who smirked and flew up in the air, the stinger following his movement, spewing more acidic poison that corroded the ground.

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Reign didn't bother with the acid, he knew that it was bad news, but he also knew that the scorpion couldn't continue using it forever, it had its limits, and it would surely reach them soon.

But even before the scorpion reached its limits, it froze, the acid stopping as it suddenly felt immense danger come from behind.

Laura had created a powerful spear made out of darkness and demonic energy, the spear was spinning as if it was a drill before being launched by Laura, who merely extended her open palm toward the scorpion.

As for Beast, he let go of the arrow he was holding, and a blast of wind that was fused with black lightning passed through the area, the wind cutting apart monsters that were near the arrow while the lightning shocked and scorched their bodies.

Both attacks reached the scorpion in less than a second, and just as the monster was about to jump away, to dodge the attacks, multiple elongated arms made out of darkness suddenly appeared from its shadow, grabbing it and holding it in place.

'I'm not as good as Shadow is with this, so I can only stop it for an instant, but it's more than enough.' Reign thought as he smirked at the scorpion, both of them aware that this was game over for it.Nôv(el)B\\jnn