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With its tremendous muscles, the Aardgnoll brought down the axe faster than the speed of sound. The monster was blessed with innate physical strength that not even martial artists of the Tenth Degree Body Refining Tier could achieve.
Even before the sonic boom hit, Leonard felt as if his head would explode from the tension.
Boom! And then there was a squishing sound.
Hee? The Aardgnoll made a sound of frustration when the spray of blood never came. When the axe had hit Leonard’s sword, the monster’s weapon had been deflected. This had caused the axe to slip from the Aardgnoll’s hands and fly away in a random direction. The trees shook in the aftermath of the sonic boom, but the boy didn’t look the least bit bothered.
“I suppose the sword would have broken into two if I had tried to block head-on,” Leonard said, sounding as calm as always but feeling a shock of pain in his wrists.
Monsters were physically stronger than humans by a considerable amount. Forget ogres; even gnolls and orcs could rip people apart with their bare hands. Even though Leonard knew this in his head, he’d never actually experienced it before.
Leonard’s eyes flashed. I thought this was just a normal beast, but it may actually be a worthy opponent.
The gnoll was only at the Second Stage, the Mature Demon Tier, but it was stronger...
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