Chapter 33 - 33: Like Killing a Chicken

"This... how... how is this possible?! That's a 9-Star Demonic Beast!!!"

The exclamation, shouted by a 7-Star Swordsman in the stands, echoed the terrified, silent question in everyone's mind. The sight of the massive, charred, and smoking heads of the Three-Headed Cold Bird crashing to the ground was too much to comprehend.

9-Star Demonic Beasts were known as the strongest Demonic Beasts in the Demon Beast Great Forest. Each one was a regional overlord, a walking natural disaster. Although there had been legends of 9-Star Swordsmen who had killed 9-Star Demonic Beasts, those were epic, desperate battles where the hero barely survived, often at the cost of their own lives. They were not... executions.

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