Chapter 6: The Revenge of the Son
The town of Durut was originally a typical land of fish and rice, and the abundance of products from the tributaries of the Santo Dolan River attracted people to build this town.
It is bordered by a vast plain to the west, and the terrain is gentle, and the wind is as strong as a knife, so that people have to build all their houses into low bungalows, and the only slightly taller buildings are either bell towers or watchtowers.
The Steel-Bone Demon Ape was afraid of Charles's numerical advantage, and followed a few people all the way to Durut Town, lurking far away at the edge of the town, waiting for an opportunity to move.
This demon ape is cunning by nature, and it will be retribution, but it is also the most maternal by nature.
Charles and it are a murderous enmity, and between this man and a beast, at the beginning of the meeting, it has been an endless situation.
The Steelbone Demon Ape has an extremely tough physique, and the pain it suffers when giving birth is extremely intense, and it is too difficult to control itself from hurting the fetus. As a result, they have a very low birth rate, often with only one in three or five litters surviving in good health.
Ever since the nearby magic beasts had inexplicably fled their original habitat a year ago, this steel-bone demon ape had become the existence at the top of the local biological chain.
Without the threat of high-level magic beasts, the territory of the demon ape suddenly enlarged by an unknown number of times.
Full of a sense of accomplishment in being crowned king, it was relieved to leave the adult child behind and went to patrol the territory by itself.
Who knew that less than two months after it left, the bear child of the little steel-bone demon ape had provoked Charles.
I wanted to change my taste and fight the tooth sacrifice, but I didn't succeed in stealing the chicken and lost a small life, but I added food to the cold Charles.
When the steel-bone demon ape returned, he found that the whereabouts of his bear child were unknown, and it was only with a hint of smell that he caught up with Charles, who was holding a sledgehammer.
When it recognized the leg bone on the sledgehammer, the grief of losing the child instantly turned into a monstrous rage, gnawing at every nerve in it.
Since then, it has been fighting with Charles to the death, vowing to tear this despicable human to life.
Revenge for the child...
Avenge yourself!
It attacked Charles like crazy, and it had killed many weak creatures like humans, but none of them were as cunning and difficult as Charles.
The frontal assault couldn't hit him, and the back-to-back assault still couldn't even touch the corners of his clothes.
And what frightened it was that the strength of this human being was getting stronger every day.
From the beginning, he was beaten around by himself, and gradually he had the strength to fight back, and even recently, Charles was able to hurt it.
After many encounters, Charles fled into Quinta City, somehow mastering a way to confuse the scent, which made it more and more difficult for the Steelbone Demon Ape to track.
During this time, in order to prevent Charles from throwing off it, it roamed the edge of Quinta City day and night.
It wasn't until two days ago that the target was finally rediscovered.
This shameless human actually hides in a manor overgrown with strange vines and plants, and acts extremely cautiously.
After many attempts, it has found itself that it will be spotted by Charles as soon as he gets a certain distance away.
So the Steelbone Demon Ape decided to follow its instincts, and the ancestor's lineage in the bloodline told it that the dark hour before dawn was the best time to hunt.
Who knows, he is still a little far from the target's warning range, but for some reason, he still alarmed the target.
It, again, failed.
The anger of the demon ape who had lost its target again was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, when three more humans entered its field of vision...
Faced with the joint efforts of several people, the steel-bone demon ape finally chose to retreat.
But for it, retreat is only temporary, as long as there is no existence that can directly threaten its life, no matter how cunning the prey is, it will one day die at its hands.
Because Charles, who chose to act with the other three, no longer wandered around, on the contrary, as long as he hid in the shadows and quietly followed the four people, he would definitely find an opportunity to kill Charles.
Sure enough, the opportunity soon came.
The cunning human, for some unknown reason, broke away from the other three and jumped up the tower alone, only to jump down in panic a moment later.
Instinct tells the Steelbone Demon Ape that this is the best time for it to kill this human.
So it no longer hesitated, and rushed out of the low building where it was hiding at full speed, and a huge fist of steel was like a cannonball, gathering all the strength of its whole body, and smashed into Charles's chest with great ferocity.
"Big horse monkey?!"
Charles, who was in mid-air, didn't have time to dodge, he was pressed into the chest by this murderous punch, and smashed the already crumbling watchtower with his fists, destroying more than a dozen buildings along the way, and finally being pressed into the solid stone path.
The collapse of the watchtower brought up a large cloud of flying dust.
Cecilia, who had just heard Charles's warning, didn't have time to respond, when she saw that he was hit by a ferocious punch from the steel bone demon ape, crashing into a street building, and she couldn't help screaming in horror:
"Master Griffin!"
Ezek was also shocked and rushed to Charles first, and when he ran closer, he saw that the heavy fist of the Steelbone Demon Ape was still pressing on Charles's chest, and his whole body was leaning on this right fist, crushing him into the shattered stone slab.
Just when Ezek thought that Charles had been killed and was about to shout to Cecilia to escape, a low cough came from the smoke and dust:
"Ahem..."
Azek was shocked, even if he was a senior Chosen One, fully armed, it was difficult to survive under this punch.
A problem that has plagued him all his life has since surfaced in his mind:
This Charles Griffin, is he still not human at all?
Of course, the current situation did not allow him to look stupidly, and the steel-bone demon ape was probably a little out of strength, just pressing Charles while panting heavily.
At this time, it had already found that the target was not dead, and was slightly stunned, and immediately raised its left hand, stretched out five sharp claws, and was about to grab Charles's neck.
"Khooth!"
Ezek clenched the long sword with both hands, struggled to block the grasp of the steel-bone demon ape, hurriedly saved Charles's life, and as soon as he stood still, he took a stance and launched a stormy attack on the steel-bone demon ape, and at the same time shouted to Hawke for help:
"Hawke, this guy isn't dead yet!
"Blahh
The goal of the long-term hunt is in sight, and the steel-bone demon ape is eager to break Charles's neck immediately, but Ezek is also its prey, after all, the scars on its face are due to him.
"Khooth!"
The steel-bone demon ape parried a few swords, but finally it was overwhelmed, waving the claw of his left hand, trying to force Ezek away, and the right claw...
Still pressing Charles.
Charles opened the door wide and received this devastating punch, and at that time he only felt that his eyes were black, and for a while, there was no second sensation except pain in his body, limbs, and bones.
The intense pain left his mind blank, and it wasn't until his body instinctively twitched from the lack of oxygen that he began to inhale hard, and he felt the tremendous pressure coming from his chest.
This made it difficult for him to even breathe, and he was so sad that he almost passed out.
"Eat me a shield!"
Hawke's right hand shield blade came fiercely, and slashed straight at the head of the steel-bone demon ape, although it was a little late, but it still caught up with Charles's last breath.
"Sonorous!"
The Steel-Bone Demon Ape finally couldn't parry, and could only raise his right claw pressed against Charles's chest to block the shield blade.
At this point, Charles took his first breath after being hit.
However, the Steel-Bone Demon Ape apparently noticed his movements, and his right claw opened Hawke, and immediately pressed down on him again.
Charles's eyes were blurred at this time, his consciousness was not yet awake, and he was still hovering on the edge of a coma, where did he know how to dodge.
Seeing that he was about to add his claws, a green vine quickly drilled into the battle circle, rolled up Charles, and pulled him out seven or eight meters away in an instant.
"Master Griffin!"
Cecilia also thought that Charles was no longer lucky, and tears had already filled her eyes.
At this moment, when she heard Azek's call, she couldn't care about the tears in her eyes, so she left the three main tooth hunters who had packed up, rushed to help, and finally rescued Charles in a daze.
In just a few moments, Charles had already wandered around the ghost gate a few times in a daze.
He gasped for a while, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and then gradually regained consciousness, looked at the tear-eyed girl in front of him, grinned, and wanted to give her a handsome smile when he first saw him, but coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The boiled duck actually flew away, and the steel-boned demon ape swung its tail in anger, and at the same time that it repelled Hawke with one punch, a monkey tail was like a big iron rod and slashed towards Azek, regardless of how Azek fought back, it directly dropped the two of them and ran towards Charles hand and foot.
"Be careful!"
Ezek instinctively avoided the tail swing of the steel-bone demon ape, and then found its true target, and it was too late to reach out and pull the monkey's tail, so he could only shout a warning and grit his teeth and chase after it.
"Thorns!"
Cecilia was a little panicked when she faced the Steelbone Demon Ape alone again, but she still kept Charles behind like a hen guarding her nest.
At this time, Charles behind him finally came back to his senses, he looked at the back of this person who didn't know whether he was trembling because he was nervous or scared, he couldn't help but be a little moved, and he gently comforted:
"Don't worry, one thorn will cut off, ten... Ahem, it doesn't work..."
Cecilia's eyes lit up suddenly when she heard this, and the rattan stick pointed at the steel-bone demon ape that was rushing forward, summoning more than a dozen thorns in one breath, twisting into a huge thorn in the air and sweeping forward head-on.
"Whew!"
The steel-bone demon ape rushed too violently, and suddenly swept a giant thorn thicker than its thigh, and before it could react, it was slapped in the face fiercely, and it fell backwards.
Hawke hurried over, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Well done!
Azek also secretly praised, taking advantage of this moment, he had already re-glued the steel bone demon ape, and an arrow step rose into the air, and turned around skillfully with his arm:
"Falling silver--slashing!"
"Sonorous!"
The steel-bone demon ape met the blade with its backclaws, but it was drenched in blood by this fierce and unforged move, and it screamed in pain.
Bleeding from a second wound in three days, it could no longer contain its anger, and the monkey's claws grew a few points again, taking Ezek's head.
Rao is as fast as thunder when Ezek advances and retreats, and it is still difficult to guard against this sudden elongation of claws.
Just listen to the "snort".
A very small mistake in estimation instantly made his right shoulder hang, and the blood gushing out instantly stained half of his shirt red.