Can't regenerate that.

The hunters of the association couldn't find the source of the arrow. But they all had already reached a conclusion. The arrow made of blood, there was only a single person known in the empire who is capable of crafting something out of Blood. White Tiger's guild leader, Maragmus Lee. 

They all knew that Maragmus had just openly targeted Blaze's life, but no one said it out loud. It was because the association was very weak; be it influence, power or actual strength compared to the three big guilds, the association had nothing. They simply could not afford to make an enemy out of them. Everyone present there fell silent, there were no sounds other than the movements of the monster.

The Monoirister focused all of its eyes on Blaze, who had fallen to the ground with a great impact. It curled the newly 'grown' fingers and formed a punch.

It wanted to smash this toy to a pulp while there was still a chance to do it. The creature launched the punch layered by spikes in Blaze's direction.

After cursing Maragmus inwardly to his heart's content, Blaze silently lay on the ground without any movement. 

Blaze wasn't getting up immediately to fight or defend against the monster's attack because he knew that the Monoirister was not a threat to him. Also, because he wanted to test this 'savior' of his, who had diverted the attack from Maragmus Lee to save his life. 

Blaze had already figured out who it is, but he still wanted to do a little check. He calmly continued to analyze the situation. 

{A highly skilled mage from the White Tigers mixed into the association hunters' group, huh? Maragmus Lee erased his presence, while the mage used invisibility magic on him.}

{My injuries are healing way slower than usual. He must have mixed something into that bloody arrow...}

Blaze's regeneration can be considered to be quite strong, and most of his internal injuries can be healed without the help of a healer. However, that is not the case for fractures or dismembered body parts. He would still need a healer to deal with those injuries. 

He held back a sigh and waited for the attack to reach him.

Meanwhile.

Frore who was hidden inside a building, a bit far away, bit down on his lower lip. He felt frustrated, because he had failed to protect Blaze once again. True, he had managed to prevent the worst-case scenario, but Blaze still ended up getting injured. 

He had already expected this sort of outcome, based on his recent encounter with Maragmus Lee. Frore had already accepted Blaze's advice, but he knew that it was still the truth that his current strength was far from satisfactory. 

Frore decided to leave the matter aside for now and reflect on it later. For now, he peeked his head out to get an idea about the current situation and was caught by surprise. 

With Blaze's strength it wouldn't be surprising if he was unaffected by the fall and the arrow. However, contrary to what Frore had expected, Blaze hadn't moved from his position at all, even though he was about to get attacked again.

{I am certain that Blaze should be able to easily move around, even with the injuries he had sustained. Did something happen? Was there something mixed in that arrow?}

Black shadow vines grew out from the destroyed buildings' shadows near Blaze.

{Even if I can't control them properly, the elemental is the only thing I can use to get Blaze out of there.}

Just as the vines wound themselves around Blaze's waist and arms, Frore heard a voice in his head .

[....found you.]

Frore was almost shocked out of his hiding place and turned his head to look at Blaze, who was bound tightly by the shadow vines.

Blaze wasn't even looking in his direction, but he still heard his voice, directly in his mind !

[If you are wondering how I can speak in your mind, it's thanks to a skill I obtained recently. I will explain about it to you later. Right now, you can answer me using your thoughts.]

[Retrieve your elemental, you don't need to help me. You should have adhered to the warning Frore...this place is very dangerous for you.]

{But--}

[I know that you just wanted to help me. That Maragmus Lee is targeting us, not that monster. You should move at least 700m away from your current location. He is using invisiblity magic. If you feel a sudden fluctuation in aura around you, know that it's him . I am sure he is going to figure out your location soon enough, so get out of there. Just watch me beat up this monster, have faith in me.]

Blaze's tone had changed from strict to gentle by the end of the conversation.

Frore tactically understood that Blaze had a plan and accepted Blaze's order.

{...Ok}

When the punch was right in front of Blaze's face, Blaze raised his own fist and bumped it into that monster's fist with a little more than half his strength. A strong guest of wind flew around in all directions from the collision.

This time the monster was the one who was injured, all the veins in it's arm burst and black blood dripped down its spikes.

All the hunters looking at this scene had their jaws dropping to the floor. They all had the same thought.

{"Just how strong is he?! This is not the strength of someone who is fighting against a being of similar level."}

"Flight magic is useful. But, it's fine even if I don't use it."

Blaze finally got up and leaped up the monster's body and landed on its shoulder. During the time Blaze reached there, its arm had already healed and it used it's palm to catch him.

"You really think you can catch me with that speed?"

Blaze unsheathed Kaiser and slashed its eyes . The black blood splashed on Blaze's clothes and hands, it worked like acid and burnt holes appeared in his shirt on his arms.

*Tsk*

The monster covered it's face with both of its palms and staggered backwards, it appeared to be in deep agony.

Blaze smirked.

"Can't regenerate that, can you?"

Blaze leaped off, of its body and landed on the ground.