Qianye slowly landed and planted his sword in the ground for support, gasping for breath.

Caroline charged out from the depths of the forest. Seeing the immobile six-armed creature, she said in surprise, “You’ve killed it already?”

Qianye kept his eyes closed and said feebly, “It went a bit better than expected.”

“Our plan was to force him to retreat, wasn’t it?”

Qianye had no strength left to speak, so he merely nodded.

“You rest first, I’ll examine that fellow.” Caroline put away her whip and axe before walking toward the corpse.

The six-armed creature’s body was huge. Caroline removed some small trinkets from the body and put them away after taking a look at them. She then returned to Qianye with one of the creature’s swords.

Qianye had finally caught his breath after some rest. He took the six-armed creature’s blade to study it—the sword was three meters long and probably several tons in weight. Qianye could only say that the special material was made up of stone and metal which had been blended perfectly into one.

The blade’s...