Hellbound: Rebirth Of The Strongest Slayer.-Chapter 74: Finding the opponent Weakness (2)

All beings have a weakness.

Race. Realm. Existence grade. It doesn't matter.

No matter what they are, who they were, or how they came to be... there is always a crack somewhere.

Even Vastro, at his peak, knew he had one. To most, it wouldn't even count as a weakness. But it was there.

And Rayden?

Rayden knew better than anyone that the Inse Bears weren't all-powerful.

They just hadn't been hit where it hurt.

Until now.

The Inse Bear standing before him didn't look threatened. Why would it? To him, Rayden was nothing more than a child scribbling in the dirt. A nuisance.

So it charged.

Full force.

"Raoth. Now."

The mind link was already open.

From the side, where he had looked like he was out of the fight, Raoth exploded into motion. A red blur. A flash of horn and fang.

He leapt.

His jaws clamped down on the Inse Bear's shoulder.

Crunch.

Blood spilled from the deep, gaping bite wound.

The Inse Bear didn't scream. Didn't panic.

It looked… annoyed.

Like someone had tugged its fur.

With one brutal motion, it grabbed Raoth and ripped him off its body, then slammed the red-horned wolf into the ground.

Hard.

The impact shook the earth.

Raoth's vision blurred through the link. Pain pulsed. The world tilted.

Before the beast could finish him—

Rayden was already there.

"Ember of Will."

The skill ignited.

A spark of fire appeared directly on the wound Raoth had created.

Then it erupted.

Flames swallowed the torn flesh, searing deeper, burning hotter. The wound widened under the inferno, pain magnified tenfold.

The Inse Bear staggered.

For the first time—

It felt it.

Rayden didn't hesitate.

"Abyssal Pulse."

The first blast slammed into its mind.

Then another.

And another.

Each one invisible. Each one warping perception, disrupting thought, twisting reality inside its skull.

The Inse Bear roared, shaking its head violently.

"Grah. Now."

The blue-horned wolf shot forward like lightning.

Fast—one of the fastest beasts in Rayden's growing pack.

He didn't attack.

He circled.

Again.

Again.

Again.

The Inse Bear swiped.

Missed.

Swiped again.

Missed again.

In its eyes, there weren't one Grah.

There were ten.

Ten blue-horned wolves, all encircling it. All laughing. All darting just beyond reach.

Humiliation.

Rage.

How dare a lowly wolf mock it?

The Inse Bear thrashed wildly, smashing one Grah after another—

Except it wasn't hitting anything.

Just air.

Rayden smiled.

It seems Abyssal Pulse is far stronger than I gave it credit for.

Three consecutive blasts.

And the beast's mind was already fracturing.

Perfect.

Suddenly, in the Inse Bear's distorted vision, the ten wolves lunged at once. Teeth bared. Fangs flashing.

It swung frantically.

Endless.

They wouldn't stop.

"What is happening?!" its instincts screamed.

Then—

The illusions vanished.

A sharp, stinging pain exploded from its left leg.

The real Grah had bitten deep.

Blood poured down its fur.

The Inse Bear screeched—half roar, half distorted shriek—before slamming a massive paw down to crush the wolf's skull.

"Abyssal Pulse."

Another blast.

Its mind staggered.

Grah bit deeper.

Twisted.

Ripped.

The leg tore free.

The Inse Bear stumbled backward, howling. Blood sprayed across the ground.

With a surge of feral influence, Rayden disrupted the earth beneath it. The ground tilted slightly—just enough.

The massive beast lost balance.

And fell.

The crash shook the battlefield.

Rayden's smile widened.

"My turn to end this."

The ethereal shroud around his body dissolved.

He had already leapt into the air.

"Hellskin Fortification."

His skin hardened, veins glowing faintly beneath the surface.

"Ultra Boost."

Power surged through his limbs.

"Soul Echo Vision."

The world sharpened. Energy pathways. Fractures. Weaknesses.

"Ember of Will."

Flames curled around his fists.

Everything aligned.

The weakness wasn't in its body.

It was in its mind.

And Rayden had shattered it.

Suspended in the air above the fallen Inse Bear, flames roaring around him, eyes cold and merciless.

He drew his fist back.

Rayden plummeted as a small flame sparked to life on his fist.

His arm was already cocked back.

The spark grew.

The spark roared.

In a breath, the small flame erupted into a raging inferno that swallowed his entire fist. Fire wrapped around his knuckles, coiling tight, hungry.

He dropped.

Practice. Precision. Momentum.

He fell straight onto the Inse Bear's chest and drove his fully powered fist down with everything he had.

But not at its head.

Not at its face.

Not at its chest.

His fist slammed directly into the thin metallic neck of the Inse Bear.

Shatter.

The metal cracked instantly under the impact.

Burned away the next second.

The Inse Bear twitched once.

Then went completely limp.

Dead.

Rayden stood atop the massive corpse, flames dying down around his arm. To anyone watching, it looked like he was staring at the fallen beast.

He wasn't.

He was looking at his system.

Still partially locked.

"I guess… no reward again."

Annoying.

Before he could receive proper quests, he needed to become a cultivator first. That was the condition. And that was something he still could not do yet for reasons beyond his control.

He had killed so many.

Some of them should have been recognized as boss fights.

He should have received tons of rewards. Skills. Items. Anything that would help him prepare against the Scavenger.

Instead, nothing.

Rayden exhaled slowly.

No time to sulk.

He never truly killed and gained nothing.

A flow of soul energy surged into him from the Inse Bear's corpse.

It was thick.

Heavy.

Far more potent than usual.

Rayden smiled faintly.

That alone made it worth it.

He turned his gaze toward the battlefield.

Through Soul Echo Vision he had already seen it.

The Inse Bears had another weakness.

Once their leader died, they broke.

The moment the general fell, their coordination shattered. Their confidence cracked. Fear took over.

Now the once mighty beasts that had charged with such arrogance were trembling.

Some were already turning to flee.

Rayden's smile deepened.

With a calm mental voice, he issued a single command through the link.

"Kill them all."

His beast army exploded into motion.

The battle did not last long.

It was brutal.

Fast.

Merciless.

The easiest enemies to kill were those who had already given up on fighting.

Within minutes, it was over.

Victory.

Rayden felt it immediately.

Soul energy poured in from every direction. His Soul Energy Bar surged upward, filling to a staggering height.

He was not surprised the system counted his beasts as part of his power. They were extensions of his will. Extensions of his strength.

Every kill they made fed him.

What did surprise him was the difference.

The soul energy from the Inse Bear general was far more potent than anything he had absorbed before.

Among beasts of the same power level, the Inse Bears were top notch.

No wonder that general had been such a nightmare.

With this amount of soul energy, he could use his skills almost indefinitely for at least a full day.

That was good.

Very good.

But he would save it.

The real target was still the Scavenger.

And before that, he needed the White Gorillas to join hands with him.

"Well done everyone. Another troublesome opponent has been dealt with."

His voice echoed across the mind link.

Cheers erupted in response. Pride. Relief. Joy.

Their emotions lit up inside his head.

Rayden smiled.

But deep down, he knew something had shifted.

The Inse Bears noticing them was the last thing he wanted.

Now one of their generals was dead.

Along with multiple soldiers.

Revenge would come.

Sooner or later.

If one general was this difficult to deal with, what about the entire army?

What about their King?

Their Queen?

He did not even want to imagine facing both at once.

Rayden stepped back into his cave and rubbed his head.

Problems never ended.

Clear one trouble and another comes knocking.

Troublesome.

To be continued.....