To His Knees

Elorin froze.

He was too powerful by this point; their teeth couldn't even penetrate his skin. In fact, his father ended up shattering his own, seemingly having awakened a kind of broken strength Ability Index.

However, his father, the man he thought about almost every day without rest or pause, didn't seem to notice this pain. It was a pain that should have put even elite warriors at bay, and yet he didn't even pause before he moved to chomp down again.

The second one hurt. Not to Elorin's father, or even in terms of physically for Elorin, but rather to the very depths of the latter's soul.

There was no humanity left. Even pain wasn't any sort of barrier. All his father wanted to do was to shred him apart and use him as a step ladder to increase his evolution.