"Tell me who that cowardly bastard is, and I won’t mind giving you a quick death."

Lu-el took his stance, gripping his battle axe tightly to steady the trembling of his hands.

He kicked off with all his strength, trying to resist his weakened legs, leaving a large crater in the ground as he launched himself straight at his opponent, covering dozens of meters in a blink of an eye.

Dragging the fight even a minute longer would only put him at a disadvantage, with the poison spreading more rapidly through his body with every movement.

That simple conclusion forced Lu-el to rely on direct attacks and brute strength—not that he had any other fighting style.

He raised his weapon the moment he halted his charge, reaching his opponent within range. It was followed by a swift, powerful downward strike aimed at cleaving his opponent in half.

BAMM!

Yet his strike cut nothing but air, shattering only the ground.

"You’re the one who’s already dead—Hahaha!"

Despite being more skilled in combat—enough to overwhelm Lu-el’s raw power, as he hated to admit—the assassin still chose to retreat, distancing himself further into the darkness beyond the reach of the lanterns’ light.

Lu-el understood what his opponent was aiming for: to watch him suffer in pain as he desperately tried to chase him like a fool, blindly running through the darkness while slowly dying from the poison.

"Pfft—so you’re more of a coward than the little guy who hired you—Hahaha!" Lu-el mocked, taunting his opponent while laughing in ecstasy as if the poison had already reached his brain and was affecting his mind.

"I could have killed you even before you left the town!"

The assassin’s creepy voice echoed within the darkness. And just before it faded into silence, multiple throwing knives shot forth from all directions.

Lu-el didn’t even bother dodging, since he wouldn’t be able to avoid most of them with his numbing, trembling body.

He simply lifted his axe, using its massive blade to shield his massive erection, and raised his left hand to protect his face—especially his eyes.

Dozens of throwing knives pierced his body—into his arms, back, flanks, and legs.

The excruciating pain surged through him like high-voltage electricity, growing more intense with each passing moment, indicating that the knives were laced with poison.

Yet Lu-el remained standing, waiting for the right opportunity to fight back. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"You can keep throwing these petty knives that are probably as small as your dick—but I can take them all night!"

Lu-el continued his taunting, only to realize he might have phrased it a bit misleadingly.

"Pfft—wait, I think that came out wrong—Hahaha!"

[Poru@Knight: What the heck is wrong with you—why are you laughing like a drunkard?!]

[Poru@Sage: Maybe the creepy guy’s poison is alcohol-based?]

[Poru@Astronaut: This is not a good time to get drunk!]

"If you want something bigger, then here’s something as big as mine!"

The assassin rushed toward Lu-el with dagger in hand—not because he had fallen for Lu-el’s taunting, but simply because he wanted to make him suffer in pain rather than laugh to death, which wasn’t the effect of his poison.

Lu-el could barely react to his opponent’s speed, nor could he dodge or defend as the dagger pierced through his chest, narrowly missing his heart by an inch.

"Pfft—how does it feel to have something as big as six inches stabbed inside you?—HAHAHA!" said the assassin, laughing in ecstasy as he twisted the dagger, which he had deliberately aimed to miss Lu-el’s heart, just to make him suffer more and more until the poison killed him.

"UGH—ARGH!"

Lu-el coughed blood as he groaned in pain.

His left hand grabbed his opponent’s right wrist, as if desperately trying to stop him from twisting the dagger, while his weapon slipped from his right hand and fell to the ground, exposing his manhood.

He was at the brink of death.

But like his massive erection, he wasn’t about to go down yet.

"You should have aimed for the head, bastard..." Lu-el sneered with a confident smirk.

[Poru@Beast: ROAR—!]

[Poru@Ghost: Get that creepy bastard!]

[Poru@Undead: DEATH—!]

Before the assassin could retreat, Lu-el grabbed him by the neck with his right hand.

Before the dagger could be twisted or pulled out, Lu-el wrapped his left arm around the assassin’s right arm.

He forced the assassin down, pinning him to the ground and straddling him.

"Fuck off, you fuckin’ corpse!"

The assassin’s composure immediately crumbled upon realizing he couldn’t break free from Lu-el’s grip.

He frantically drew another dagger with his free left hand.

But before he could strike again, Lu-el proceeded with the plan he had been waiting for since earlier—betting that the assassin wouldn’t kill him on the spot.

"Let’s see if there’s magic that can grow an entire arm back—WARGH!"

With a war cry to muster what was left of his enhanced strength, Lu-el yanked the assassin’s right arm, tearing it clean from the shoulder.

"ARGH—!"

A scream of pain and agony echoed through the darkness of the Labyrinth Canyon.

Lu-el collapsed sideways, still clutching the severed arm.

His consciousness slowly faded despite his will to stay awake and keep his eyes open.

The last thing he remembered before his vision went dark was the sight of his opponent writhing on the ground, blood gushing from his torn shoulder.

***

"If this is a wet dream, I’d be really disappointed if I don’t get to finish before waking up."

"Don’t worry, I will make sure you get to climax until you empty your large balls."

The next time Lu-el opened his eyes, he found himself inside a large, spacious tent, strapped to a soft bed.

He was naked and aroused, though wrapped in bandages, with a strikingly attractive girl sitting on top of him in a seductive, revealing red mini-dress, holding a rope connected and wrapped around his neck like a collar.

"You really had me worried there, Lu~el," said the girl as she pulled the rope with her left hand and began giving him a handjob with her right.

"I thought you were going to die without me getting a taste of you."

"Could you at least explain to me what happened... Sera."