A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5189

The golden arc tore through the air, its promise of annihilation locking the elder in place. He could only stare as the blade-radiance swelled, filling his pupils with blinding light. A wet crack followed. His head spiraled skyward, blood fountaining from the severed neck and streaking the clouds crimson. The wide-eyed head tumbled a few times before thudding onto the broken earth, life already fled.

Flaxseed hauled himself from the crater, one hand pressed to his bruised chest. He stopped beside Jared and studied the severed head, then the demon cultivators shaking nearby. “Kid, that was a little extreme,” he muttered.

Jared replied, “Mercy toward an enemy is cruelty toward yourself. When they treat human lives like weeds, we owe them nothing.”

Flaxseed was speechless. This man’s becoming more and more arrogant!

The air quivered. A middle-aged man clad in dark armor materialized before Jared and Flaxseed.

“Humans, you dared kill a member of the demon clan?” His stare was colder than winter stone.

Jared sighed. “Another one.”

“Two ignorant humans trespass on demon land,” the newcomer roared. “Do you truly wish to die?”

Jared tilted his head. “Your turn.”

Flaxseed stepped forward. “This valley belonged to my family long before your kind slithered in. It was human soil first.”

The man’s brow tightened. “Rubbish.”

If I had not burned through my power over countless reincarnations, I would have ended him already, Flaxseed thought, seething.

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