Chapter 11: Ro—bert—

The battle within the polluted zone had officially reached a fever pitch.

After its outer shell cracked, the mechanical hellhound entered a desperate, last-ditch phase—attacking with frenzied frequency, spewing molten lava in all directions...

A blade that was both extraordinarily fast and slow, combined with the contaminated battlefield—this was a first in his life.

Even the spectators outside the arena felt queasy watching it.

Yet Sir Solar Knight engaged it with relish, his relaxed footwork like an elegant waltz, showing no signs of strain whatsoever.

With every attack from the hellhound, he found the most logical way to evade, as if he knew every move of the beast by heart.

This only fueled the monster’s rage, and its strikes grew wider and more forceful. To land a hit on Li Xingming, it ventured perilously close to the cliff’s edge multiple times.

“It’s time,” Li Xingming thought.

After narrowly dodging a flurry of blows, he crouched and rolled, then sprang to his feet and quickly put distance between himself and the hellhound, standing with his back to the cliff, facing the beast.

He pulled an unopened chocolate bar from his pocket, tore off the wrapper, and flung it into the air.

The dark chocolate blended into the night, slipping into the mechanical hellhound’s jaws.

“Argh!!!”

Though the chocolate caused no real harm, the creature despised the taste—just as much as it despised the despicable being before it!

Despite its weak aura, it exerted every ounce of effort but could never touch him.

That chocolate bar became the final straw, driving the hellhound into a blind rage.

It thrust its massive sword forward, then kicked off with brutal force, charging at Li Xingming like an unstoppable battering ram!

Its explosive speed, fueled by the uncontrollable fury of a mid-tier second-stage supernatural being, was so swift that Li Xingming had no chance to sidestep.

He didn’t even try to dodge sideways; instead, he bent his knees and leapt straight up.

His astonishing physical strength came into play at this moment—he jumped high, using a forward somersault to shift his center of gravity, barely avoiding the hellhound’s fatal “dragon chariot” strike... or rather, the “dog chariot”!

While spinning midair, at the apex of his jump, the Solar Knight reached out and grasped the black pin lodged at the back of the hellhound’s head.

The pin was made of neither metal nor jade but seemed a critical component. During the previous challenge, Ye Sheng had noticed it and tried attacking it, but to no effect. She had considered that pulling it out might significantly reduce the difficulty of defeating the beast, but being a ranged fighter, agility wasn’t her strong suit.

Li Xingming, however, realized Ye Sheng’s idea in a brilliant way.

“Cing~”

The grating sound of metal against metal grated on the ears as Li Xingming, using their relative velocities, yanked the pin from the hellhound’s skull with a sharp tug. Molten-colored liquid splattered, casting a dazzling, spectacular glow in the air.

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