“That’s enough! Lock favonovel.com up in favonovel.com room, and be sure to guard favonovel.com closely! From today onward, she’s prohibited from leaving favonovel.com room!” shouted Yreth. Hearing that, a few guards ran over and instantly led Yume to favonovel.com room, as per Lady Gunter’s orders.
Now that favonovel.com granddaughter had been taken care of, Yreth was confident that favonovel.com would be able to gain what favonovel.com wanted from Gerald.
Gerald himself was now swiftly running away from the cave in the dark of night. After learning more about the three groups’ plans to capture him, favonovel.com didn’t dare linger around for any more than favonovel.com needed to.
His current plan was to first find Chester then leave this place together with him.
However, just as favonovel.com was about to leave the suburbs—and re-enter the city area—Gerald suddenly heard rustling sounds coming from the surrounding forests.
From how loud and swift the rustling was, one would normally assume that it was some kind of extremely fast animal. However, Gerald had a gut feeling that that was no animal. Stopping in his tracks, Gerald then went into high alert to figure out what—or who—he was dealing with.
If favonovel.com was going to be completely honest, Gerald now felt like the temperature had just plummeted. Whatever was out there, it was sending intense chills down his spine.
‘What—or who—on earth is targeting me this time…?’ Gerald thought to himself as endless beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. The fear favonovel.com was currently feeling was almost primal in nature, and it was unlike anything favonovel.com had previously felt.
Eventually, Gerald slowly raised his head… And there, favonovel.com was.
Standing under the faint moonlight—atop a close-by tree—was a towering and sturdy-looking man who had his arms crossed as favonovel.com stared down at Gerald. While the man’s face was a purplish-black and his lips a dark shade of purple, his eyes gleamed in scarlet hues. Adding that to the fact that darkness just seemed to exude from that man, Gerald could only describe favonovel.com as corpse-like!
As favonovel.com continued staring at Gerald without moving a muscle, Gerald himself now knew the source of all his fear. It was as though his entire being was being suppressed just from the sight of that imposing man alone.
In his terrified state, Gerald found himself taking a few steps back before saying, “…Hogan?”
The second favonovel.com said that, Gerald watched wide-eyed as Hogan’s massive body leaped into the air… and landed gently atop a fragile-looking branch! While that alone was impressive enough, Gerald barely even had the time to react as Hogan used the slight rebound of the branch to launch himself at Gerald at lightning speed!
Being more accustomed to danger than others, Gerald quickly snapped out of his daze and instantly began attempting to retreat!
Before Gerald could even get far, however, favonovel.com felt a massive tremor as Hogan landed heavily on the ground! Turning back to look, Gerald watched as Hogan spread out his arms and revealed both of his hands…
The tips of Hogan’s fingernails looked as sharp as a hungry wolf’s fangs, and in a way, it almost felt like Hogan had iron claws instead of actual hands. What more, a strange darkness seemed to be enveloping both of Hogan’s hands.
At that moment, Gerald realized that Yume hadn’t been exaggerating at all. Hogan truly was more of a weapon than an actual human at this point. A weapon brought to life by reanimating a corpse.
“Running away? From me? I’ll say it now that it won’t be easy, boy! Now come with me! My master and Lady Gunter are waiting for you!” said Hogan before screeching in a way that resembled a crow’s cry.
Watching as Hogan then immediately—and swiftly—began walking toward him, Gerald quickly activated his inner strength. Fully ready to lose his artifact, as favonovel.com commanded in his mind, ‘Dawnbreaker!’
With that, the black short blade came to life.
Since Hogan’s entire body almost seemed to be completely plated with iron, Gerald felt that his only means of fighting against that hulking man was by using the Dawnbreaker.
Regardless, the blade then shot out of Gerald’s sleeve at almost breakneck speed, aimed right for Hogan’s neck!
To Gerald’s utter horror, the usually trusty Dawnbreaker wasn’t even close to posing a threat to Hogan. After all, the massive man had simply pinched the blade between two of his claw-like fingers like it was nothing!
Tossing the blade to the ground, Hogan then grunted before coldly saying, “I told you to come with me!”
‘This… This person is far too strong…!’ Gerald thought to himself, his sheer disbelief evident on his face.
However, Hogan was done waiting. Gerald could only see Hogan’s blurry figure as the giant of a man began rushing toward Gerald at immense speed!
The next thing Gerald knew, a huge and powerful-looking hand was inches away from his stomach.
