
There was no way Gerald could have avoided the attack. A split second later, Gerald found himself flying backwards as every inch of his body pulsed in pain! Soaring, Gerald could feel something sweet in his mouth before vomiting blood for a moment afterwards!
Finally falling to the ground, Gerald finally rolled several times before finally stopping. If he were to describe what he was feeling at the moment, it seemed like all of his internal organs had shifted from their starting positions from that one punch.
Even so, this was not the time for him to wallow in pain. Trying to gather his inner strength, Gerald quickly realized that he was unable to do so because of how badly he had been injured!
'Is this really my end? Will I be defeated here in Qerton City? Jade pendant, if you are there, please lend me your help…!'
Although Gerald hoped that the jade pendant would save his life because he was now in a critical condition—like when the pendant was activated earlier—he discovered, anxiously, that no matter how much he yelled at her, that no matter how much he yelled at her, it just doesn't respond!
Before long, Hogan was right in front of him again, a cold expression on his face. Easily picked up the injured Gerald, Hogan then said in a cold voice, “So you tried to kill me, huh? Then it's fair for me to torture you in return before I take you back to master and Miss Gunter!”
With that, he threw Gerald again without warning! Finding himself flying backwards once more, Gerald felt his now limp body crash into tree after tree, leaving a trail of fallen tree trunks in front of him! By the time Gerald's body finally stopped—after breaking off at least eight trees that looked like a learning space—he felt as if all of his bones had turned to dust as he slowly lost consciousness due to all the flavors be ill.
Hogan, however, was far from finished.
To him, as long as Gerald could still breathe and he was successfully sent to the Portal of the King of Judgment, Hogan's duties would still be considered a success. As for why he was so anxious to torture Gerald, it was because Gerald had tried to kill him before. Therefore, Gerald was basically his enemy now.
With that in mind, Hogan then began to punch his fist into Gerald's stomach, destroying all of his internal organs! After that, he also made sure to destroy all four of Gerald's limbs by stepping on it!
Gerald himself continued to wake up from the excruciating pain before falling unconscious again. It was truly a living hell for him, and Gerald didn't even have the means to fight anymore.
Finally, Hogan stomped on Gerald's stomach, forcing the injured young man to spit out the remaining bit of blood on his body. Watching Hogan raise his hand, Gerald was conscious enough to realize that he aimed his iron claws right at his chest!
At the last moment, Gerald managed to shake enough iron claws to dodge his chest. However, they still managed to pierce deep into Gerald's left shoulder!
'You bastard ...!' Gerald thought to himself as a tremendous wave of 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 him awake.
Smiling coldly at the sight of Gerald's lips turning dark, Hogan knew that the poison was starting to work.
Straightening his body, Hogan then stopped tormenting Gerald for a moment before looking around while asking in a voice full of anger, "...Who went there?"
However, in response, the voice he initially heard seemed to be getting louder.
That was when Hogan finally saw her. Eyes wide, Hogan watched as a beam of light fell from the sky at an extremely high speed! On one hand, it almost looked like a meteor intent on landing on it.
From where he stood, Hogan could feel that a ray of light was capable of tearing through even space, and that fact alone was enough to cause panic within him.
'That's... That thing is dangerous!' Hogan thought to himself as he immediately started to take a few steps back, not even caring about Gerald anymore.
In fact, he was so frightened that he actually stumbled and fell on his butt before quickly getting up again and running away! However, when he turned to check the lights, his eyes instantly widened to the point where it almost felt like his eyeballs were about to pop out.
A ray of light was pointing at him! Wherever he ran, the light continued to follow him! It was almost as if a ray of light had eyes or something!
Hogan knew he could not keep running forever, so he dragged his body—which was now heavy— onto a large tree, hoping that with shelter, a ray of light would somehow miss him.
Unfortunately, it did not help him much as the light beam pierced through the tree and right onto his back! Howling in pain, Hogan felt almost fed up with how badly he wanted to leave this place as he was thrown dozens of feet away!
His entire body was now limp like a broken kite, he finally fell to the ground, but that was not the end of his pain. Hogan now realized that white smoke had been rising from his body ever since that light hit him! Screaming in pain as he covered his chest, he noticed as black blood started pouring profusely out of his chest!
Even in such great pain, he knew that he could not linger any longer. With that thought, he forced himself before fleeing the area in the darkness of the night.
As for Gerald, well, he had witnessed all of this happen though from a very vague perspective. Droplets of blood dripping from his open, frothy mouth, Gerald felt a pain that finally calmed him down enough that he fainted quietly.
However, before his eyes closed, he watched a middle-aged man — dressed in black clothes — quickly walk towards him …