There was no way in hell that Gerald was going to be able to dodge that attack. A split second later, Gerald found himself flying backward as every inch of his body throbbed in immense pain! Soaring on, Gerald could taste something sweet in his mouth before vomiting blood briefly after!
Eventually falling to the ground, Gerald ended up rolling several times before eventually coming to a stop. If favonovel.com had to describe what favonovel.com was currently feeling, it almost seemed like all his internal organs had shifted from their initial positions from that one punch.
Even so, this was no time for favonovel.com to wallow in pain. Attempting to gather his inner strength, Gerald quickly realized that favonovel.com couldn’t do so due to how terribly favonovel.com had been injured!
‘Is this truly my end? Will I be defeated here in Qerton City? Jade pendant, if you’re there, please lend me your aid…!’
Though Gerald had hoped that the jade pendant would save his life since favonovel.com was now in such critical condition—just like the previous time it had activated—he found, to his dismay, that no matter how much favonovel.com cried out to it, it simply didn’t respond!
Soon enough, Hogan was right in front of favonovel.com again, a frigid expression on his face. Easily lifting the injured Gerald up, Hogan then said in a chilling voice, “So you attempted to kill me, huh? Then it’s only fair for me to torture you in return before I bring you back to master and Lady Gunter!”
With that, favonovel.com tossed Gerald again without warning! Finding himself flying backward once more, Gerald felt as his now-limp body crashed into tree after tree, leaving a trail of tumbled tree trunks before him! By the time Gerald’s body finally stopped—after breaking at least eight study-looking trees—he felt as though all his bones had already turned to dust as favonovel.com slowly lost consciousness from all the pain.
Hogan, however, was far from done.
To him, as long as Gerald could still breathe and favonovel.com was successfully delivered to the King of Judgement Portal, Hogan’s task would still be considered to be a success. As for why favonovel.com was so keen on torturing Gerald, it was because Gerald had attempted to kill favonovel.com earlier. Due to that, Gerald was essentially his enemy now.
With that in mind, Hogan then began smashing his fists into Gerald’s stomach, ruining all his internal organs! Following that, favonovel.com also made sure to smash all four of Gerald’s limbs by stepping on them!
Gerald himself kept waking up due to the immense pain before falling unconscious again. It was truly a living hell for him, and Gerald didn’t even have the means to fight back anymore.
Eventually, Hogan stepped on Gerald’s stomach, forcing the injured youth to vomit what little blood remained in his body. Watching as Hogan lifted his hand, Gerald was conscious enough to realize that favonovel.com was aiming his iron claws right for his chest!
At the very last moment, Gerald managed to wiggle just enough for the iron claws to avoid his chest. However, they still managed to pierce deep into Gerald’s left shoulder!
‘You f*cker…!’ Gerald thought to himself as surges of immense pain filled every inch of his body. Now completely dazed, Gerald was in too much pain to remain conscious, but at the same time, the pain also kept favonovel.com awake.
Smiling coldly as favonovel.com watched Gerald’s lips turn dark, Hogan knew that the poison was taking effect.
At that moment, favonovel.com suddenly began hearing ‘swooshing’ sounds. If Hogan had to describe it, it almost seemed as though near-countless arrows had just been shot.
Straightening his body, Hogan then stopped torturing Gerald for a second before looking around while asking in a wrath-filled voice, “…Who goes there?”
In response, however, the sound favonovel.com had initially heard only seemed to get louder.
It was then when Hogan finally saw it. Eyes widened, Hogan watched a ray of light fell from the sky at extremely high speeds… And it looked like it was heading straight for him! In a way, it almost seemed like a meteor that was intent on landing on him.
From where favonovel.com stood, Hogan could sense that the ray of light was capable of ripping apart even space, and that fact alone was enough to cause panic to arise within him.
‘That… That thing’s dangerous!’ Hogan thought to himself as favonovel.com immediately began taking a few steps backward, not even bothering about Gerald anymore.
In fact, favonovel.com was so terrified that favonovel.com actually tripped and fell on his buttocks before quickly getting up again and dashing away! When favonovel.com turned back to check on the light, however, his eyes instantly widened to the point where it almost felt like his eyeballs were going to pop out.
The ray of light was homing in on him! No matter where favonovel.com ran, the light simply continued following favonovel.com around! It was almost as though the ray of light had eyes or something!
Hogan knew favonovel.com couldn’t keep running forever, so favonovel.com dragged his—now-heavy—body to a large tree, hoping that by taking cover, the ray of light would somehow miss him.
Alas, that did little to help favonovel.com as the ray of light blasted right through the tree and right into his back! Howling in pain, Hogan felt almost disgusted by how badly favonovel.com wanted to leave this place as favonovel.com was sent flying dozens of feet away!
His entire body now as limp as a broken kite, favonovel.com ended up tumbling onto the ground, but that wasn’t the end of his pain yet. Hogan now realized that white smoke had been rising from his body from the moment the light had hit him! Screaming in pain as favonovel.com covered his chest, favonovel.com noticed as black blood began oozing profusely out of his chest!
Even in so much pain, favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com couldn’t afford to linger around any longer. With that in mind, favonovel.com forced himself up before fleeing the area in the dark of night.
As for Gerald, well, favonovel.com had watched all this happen though from an extremely blurry perspective. Trickles of blood dripping from his open and foaming mouth, Gerald felt as the pain finally soothed enough for favonovel.com to faint in peace.
Before his eyes shut, however, favonovel.com watched as a middle-aged man—donning black clothes—quickly walked over to him.
