“Morales, I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time!”
A ferocious smile emerged on the lanky man’s face.
Even under the gloomy night sky, the bulging veins on his forehead were strikingly visible.
“From that day on, every moment, every minute, every second—even every breath! I’ve been thinking about how to plunge my blade into your body! Twist apart your heart!”
“And now, I’ve finally waited for such an opportunity!”
Morales irritably swung his axe, the heavy strike sending Dona flying far back.
“So what!”
He roared as he charged forward.
“You think you and that out-of-town kid, just the two of you, can kill me? Ridiculous!”
“Morales, you’ll regret your words now.”
Dona sneered, dodging the incoming giant axe, his voice suddenly dropping low.
“This time, I’ll make sure you go to hell and repent to them personally!”
“You mean Argo and Mia, those two idiots?”
“You bastard don’t deserve to say their names!”
Dona roared like a dragon whose reverse scale had been touched, pouncing forward.
The burly man held the giant axe with one hand, laughing as if he’d heard some unbelievable joke.
“Your memory’s getting worse and worse. Need me to remind you again?”
Morales grinned viciously, slamming the lanky man flying with one axe strike.
“Alright, I’ll say it again: I threw those two idiot kids’ corpses into some unknown wilderness, where they’ve long turned into stinking shit, shat out by who knows what wild wolf!”
“Mo! Ra! Les!”
Dona barely steadied himself, his eyes nearly splitting with rage as he growled lowly.
But soon, he took several deep breaths, calming down extremely quickly, and nodded fiercely at the boy behind Morales.
“Nord, let’s do it! I have nothing more to say to this bastard.”
“All that’s left is to make him join them in death!”
Morales’s gaze immediately sharpened.
This wasn’t the first time Dona had tried to challenge and kill him.
But every time, it ended with Dona fleeing in disgrace.
In recent years, Dona only dared to provoke him verbally, rarely confronting him directly, and he almost never left the city—Morales hadn’t even had a chance to deal with this annoying fly.
So, now that he was choosing to challenge him again, his reliance was probably that kid behind him.
He slightly turned his body, keeping an eye on Dona’s movements while shifting his gaze to Ed.
“Out-of-town kid, Dona says he found a good opportunity to kill me. Well, now I’m giving you an opportunity too.”
His voice was low, carrying a seductive tone.
“I don’t ask you to help me kill Dona. But you can’t join this fight, and you have to hand over that witch to me—I’ll split the five-thousand-gold-coin bounty with you, half and half.”
“That’s a whole two thousand five hundred gold coins—enough for you, your son, your grandson to spend until they die of old age.”
“You’d better think clearly before answering.”
Dona’s body jolted.
Damn it, he had completely forgotten about the most crucial witch bounty!
If “Nord” really backed out midway because of that money, then by himself alone, there was no way he could kill Morales today!
His expression darkened as he looked toward “Nord.”
But the boy just nodded slightly at him, without saying much.
Seeing this, Dona could only forcibly suppress the unease in his heart.
Ed’s gaze flowed between Dona and Morales’s faces.
“Not a bad proposal,” he said.
Dona’s hand gripping the short blade trembled slightly.
“But.”
Ed watched the smile emerging on the burly man’s lips suddenly freeze.
“I think hatred is more real and more trustworthy than money.”
The boy pointed his sword tip at Morales.
“So, I’ll stand with Dona.”
Dona let out a heavy sigh of relief, a relieved smile appearing on his face.
Morales’s face darkened.
“Are you sure?”
He no longer held the axe with one hand, switching to both, steadily lifting the giant axe in front of him.
“Let me say upfront—if you don’t have luck and fleeing speed like Dona, the best outcome is dying here today, then getting thrown by me to feed the dogs.”
Ed shook his head. “You’re wrong.”
With a thought, a portion of the mana in his body flowed out, and cloud-like radiance emerged once more on the sword body.
Good, the contract effect from the earlier spell chant was still there—no need to recite the incantation again.
This scene made the silver-haired witch, who was “obediently” sitting on the ground, cast a sympathetic look toward the burly man.
“This is… a spell?”
It was also the first time Dona had seen such terror, such fear on the face of this bear-like burly man.
He couldn’t help but laugh heartily.
“Look at your own face, Morales! So ridiculous and pathetic!”
“No, how could you possibly hire a mage!”
Morales suddenly twisted his head toward Dona, his eyes bloodshot.
“This is impossible—how could those high-and-mighty mages come to be some damn adventurer? Just for a few silver coins? This doesn’t make sense!”
“Who knows?”
Dona’s expression had become quite relaxed by now, his tone even carrying a hint of teasing.
“Maybe the heavens couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to come collect your dog life?”
“Idiot! You don’t understand mages at all—they’re a bunch, a bunch…”
Morales seemed to suddenly think of something, staring at Ed’s face for a moment, his tense body gradually relaxing.
“I still have a chance to win—he’s just a little brat, even if he’s a mage, he can’t be that powerful…” he murmured lowly.
“Nord!”
Dona suddenly shouted loudly.
In the next instant, two figures rapidly approached the burly man together.
“Don’t underestimate me!”
Morales roared, swinging the giant axe in a dangerous circular arc through the air.
Neither Dona nor Ed intended to take this strike head-on.
The two stopped in unison to dodge, but this gave Morales an opportunity—the man kicked Dona away with one foot, then smashed the giant axe viciously toward Ed!
In his eyes, as long as he dealt with “Nord” first, the remaining Dona was nothing to fear!
“Die, out-of-town kid! This is the price for your wrong choice!”
But such a sluggish attack couldn’t possibly hit Ed—he simply spun his foot, and the giant axe gleaming with cold light could only smash powerlessly into the ground.
“It’s not over!” the man roared.
His movements swinging the giant axe grew faster and faster, so fast that Dona, clutching his stomach as he stood up, felt a chill in his heart.
In all the previous battles with Morales, this guy had never revealed such strength!
“Nord, be careful!”
“I know!”
Ed didn’t dare take the giant axe’s attacks head-on either, only temporarily relying on dodging or deflecting, brushing past the edge of death time and again amid the chaotic axe winds.
“It’s not over yet!” the burly man roared.
Only now did Morales, this level-four adventurer who had steadily lived for decades, reveal his true speed and power!
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