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“Hmm.” Ketal caught his dislocated arm, pressed the humerus into the socket, and seated the shoulder with a sharp twist. The bones had slipped under the weight of his own power.
Then, he moved toward the Ugly Rat. In that single stride, he arrived in front of the rat. His fist drove into its chest.
Crunch.
It was not the sound of a bone breaking but of bone turning to powder. The rat flew as if struck by a siege engine, its massive body thrown end over end.
“Kiieeek!” the rat shrieked. It tumbled across the ground far, skidding for kilometers before it scraped itself to a halt.
It stabbed its claws into the earth and barely managed to arrest its flight. Without that, it would have rolled for minutes.
“Kah…You monster,” it rasped, trying to heave itself upright, only to find it had no time. Ketal was already there with an axe in hand.
The rat flinched and swept both forelegs up to protect itself. Ketal brought the axe down. The ground split, and the rat’s bulk was driven into the crack as if hammered into a mold.
“Urgh!” Bayern exclaimed. Even Bayern, well clear of the battlefield, reeled. He swallowed down the taste of blood aftershocks had shaken loose.
He finally pulled free of the pressure of their clash. To avoid the spillover, he had retreated so far that anyone lacking a Hero’s sight would not have seen the fight at all....
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