World Alliance (57)

★ Underground City, Outer District ★

The battle did not last long.

No matter how well Salme had mastered 【Physical Enhancement★★】, her original body had never been trained at all.

By contrast, the Mimic Man had lived in the wild despite its incomparable size.

When the Marshal arrived, he saw massive slashes striking the Mimic Man's huge black body, making its frame shake and stagger.

A startled murmur rose from the people around them.

But that lasted only a short while.

The relentless slashes became sporadic, then dwindled into drops falling one by one from a faucet left not quite shut.

It might have been like labored breathing. And that was not a metaphor; it was actually happening.

The Mimic Man grew accustomed to the slashes...