Chapter 170 - Benefits

Flying in the air, Cole abruptly lunged himself towards the brown, hideous-looking thorny toad monster. With his sword in hand, he struck down towards the unsuspecting beast's head, his decisive motion made the short sword in his hand pierce deeply into the beast's skull. Amidst the sound of the bones breaking under the sharpness of the steel blade a crunchy, mushy sound could also be faintly made out.

The whole event happened in a split second, the toad didn't even have the time to let out a croak before it succumbed to the fatal attack and sprawled and briefly spasm on the ground, becoming motionless a few seconds later.

With one swift motion, Cole retrieved his weapon from the shattered skull and wiped it clean with a piece of now-dirty, bloodstained cloth that he used for such activities. As the blade wasn't clean, to begin with, his action merely smeared the gooey substance all around the blade of the weapon instead of neatly removing all the stains.