Volume 6.5 Chapter 10: …He Beat It

"...I understand." Diana backed off. She was going to leave it to Keith to end. She wanted to fight against the raptor and get it over with. But the amount of pressure Keith gave off made her pause. This kid was serious about defeating it.

"Rawr!" The raptor snickered. It seemed to treat Keith as nothing more than a bug.

Keith didn't utter a word as he lunged at the raptor! The creature also charged; it was prepared to end the fight with one lethal swipe. However, to its surprise, Keith vanished right before its eyes!

Appearing above him, he slammed his fist down!

"Rawr!" The raptor felt pain, but it used its tail to attack him.

"Tch!" Despite raising his sword to block it, Keith was sent flying. It wasn't done as the raptor appeared before Keith, wanting to take a bite. Those razor-sharp teeth only landed on his sword. Keith's eyes were gazed at as he continued to fight. A relentless clash started; neither side was backing down from the other.

"You need to go help him," Titus muttered. He was able to see the fight from the sidelines. Yet it didn't assure him. Keith was fighting all alone; he needed backup.

"There's no need to worry about Keith." Diana shook her head.

"But he's fighting that thing alone." There was no way he could win.

"Don't worry, Keith will not lose this battle." His eyes displayed something she had never seen before. He's growing right now. That was what she could tell; Keith's moves became more refined and decisive.

His movements definitely increased. However, he could only fight such a monster because of Titus's attack. The beast became more sluggish; that was how Keith could fight toe to toe with it.

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And the monster realized it as well. It sent out electricity from its body, trying to burn him. However, Keith didn't care. What he did was send himself flying into the air. Titus was stunned by what happened next.

Keith went flying down at breakneck speed! That did it. The sword sliced the raptor's tail in two!

"How did he go so fast?" Titus was confused; the speed at which he came down was abnormal.

"He used gravity to increase his speed." Diana realized it. Keith had used gravity on himself. Rather than hinder the raptor's movement, he boosted his speed to crush it.

The raptor glared at Keith. Its gaze made it clear that he was an enemy! That was when it gazed at Diana and the others; without hesitation, it dashed at them!

"No!" Reflexive instinct. Keith wanted to intercept. One moment of hesitation was enough. The variant feinted as it slammed its legs right into Keith's arm!

"Gah!" Keith was slammed to the ground. The raptor stomped on him! I can't faint! His bones rattled from the force. His vision started to become white as he thought; I can't lose.

Before the raptor could deal the final blow, Diana made a move! A vine fist punched the raptor away!

"Don't you dare?" Diana stepped up. There was no way she would let Keith be defeated. She thought Keith would have won. However, the raptor made an intelligent decision to use them as bait.

"Eh?" That was because, from the rubble, Keith got up. It was not normal; he got up like a zombie. He didn't faint? The variant was visibly shocked when he got up.

Without a second, Keith dashed at the beast. This was a shock! No one had expected this. The variant was sent flying into the column!

"Keith?" Diana called out. However, the man never responded as he dashed at the raptor, not giving it time to think.

"Did Keith get faster?" Titus blinked as he stared in disbelief. Keith was faster! With all those damages, he should be slower, not faster!

The variant retaliated as it waved its claw. But the guy dodged all of them. And without a second later, he slammed the thing onto the ground!

"What the?!"

"..." Diana frowned. Never did she expect him to be like this. Turning to Aria, the owl was surprised. If she didn't know, then this was new!

The raptor went crazy as it dashed away from Keith. Instead, it went to the corpse of the mobs. Titus's face paled,

"It's eating magic stones to power up!" And it swallowed the stones and glared at Keith. From its mouth, lightning shot forth. However, Keith did the unthinkable as he smoothly dodged the stream.

Bam! Keith sent the raptor flying again!

"There's more power in his blows as well!" That was the only way to describe it. Keith was using more power than usual to do it. That could only mean one thing, Keith was holding back throughout the fight!

Just how strong is he? He was lost in thought. Keith continued to swing his fist like a madman before he stopped and fainted.

"...He beat the damn thing." No one had said a thing after that. That was because of how incredibly he dealt with it.