Gladiator's Glory

Chapter 29

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Eric smiled cheekily, he finally killed a vicious level beast that came charging straight at him, like a sacrificed bull to the gods.

No one took note of this scene, too engaged in the ongoing battle, a single mistake could cost their lives.

So killing a vicious beast while still a bronze rank mystic didn't cause a commotion like he'd thought.

Bam!

A silver horned rhino finally slipped through the flanks of beasts, with astonishing speed that would have raised clouds of dust behind it, if the ground wasn't already wet with streaming bloods.

It charged fort ignoring the attacks thrown at it.

Among E ranked beasts , silver horned rhinos were known to be very furious, increasing it's strength and speed out put , the crazier it got the more strong and fast it became.

Channeling his physical strength, Eric got into a battle stance, finally getting serious witnessing a formidable foe , the incoming silver horned rhino who emitted a mild Vicious beast aura.

Everyone gasped looking at the incoming beast before them, most Bronze rank mystics rushed to get out of it's way in fear of being crushed.

Meanwhile the unlucky ones who couldn't move since they were still engaged in a battle, unprepared against the rhino's sudden bizz're charge.

"Ah!" someone sherieked looking at the mashed meats and bones , remains of both beast and man on the part that had just been cleared.

What an horrific sight to behold.

The mystic who had just lost their team mates or relative stood in silence, still not believing that someone they a fighting and charging through the battlefield a moment ago was turned into mashed beast, gone without any good byes , or warning.

The cruel reality of life.

Anyone was reliable to die at any time, and war made it even more crueler , war was a mass harvesting of lives, and there was no reason to judge who was right who was wrong, it depends on which sides you're on.

They all had reason to kill, kill to provide kill to protect , it is all about survival.

There was no righteous ground in war, excepts those hypocrites who wanted to justify their reason to take lives.

War is something that shouldn't be prayed for , no matter how much you wanted to look good in shinning amours, either for fun or to attract the girl of your dream as you valiantly fight your opposing enemy.

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Never pray for war, and instead for everyday you wake up in a peaceful environment be grateful.

Born from Emotions, Filled with Emotions, Die with Emotions

No human could watch someone close to them die without expressing different kinds of emotions, and that was one important fact that differentiated them from beast.

"Emotions and Intellect"

It was very common to refer to murderers in the human society as monsters or beast.

This extreme set of people weren't human, because they had some of their emotions removed, sometimes conciously or due to past trauma and situations where you become on unfeeling, uncaring.

But non of that applied to this world, it was kill or die, that was the rule.

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Taking a look at their grieving comrades, no one bothered to comfort them, since they may also be among those dead comrades at anytime, if they made any error or mistake in their attacks, hardening their hearts as they furiously exchanged blows.

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Eric confronted the rhino head on, some gave shocked glance at this site, leaving deep trails on the ground as he was continuously pushed backward.

Loosing the confrontation on first clash, he flipped side ways , gripping the blade with his left hand as he slash towards the rhino's neck in a beheading motion, like a butcher about to slice off the cows head in offering if a sacrifice, a fantasy indeed.

Clang!

Only a bloody gash was left as the blade rebounded, with it's mission to slice off the rhino's head unaccomplished.

Eric once again rolled backwards due to his momentum suddenly pushed to a stop.

It worked once didn't mean it would work again.

He earlier thought of confronting it head on with his blade, ending it like he had done with the Lava Python, slicing off it's horn to it's brain.

Thankfully he listened to his guts feeling and changed tactics, punching out, thinking of the out come just now, Eric shivered with cold sweats .

If he went ahead in that confrontation while listening to his arrogant self, he would have ended up pinned on the rhino's horn , rampaging through the battlefield as a meat shield, even though he had a skill that could easily end the rhino's life, his Supreme Dragon Bloodline wasted wasted in a battle between rug bottom level beasts, they one day a monster lucky enough to eat Eric's corpse , would rise through the universe bringing with it unspoken terror of a fallen Supreme, Eric the owner of this bloodline would remain unknown for eternity.

Looking at his profoundly pleading palm, that slowly mended together due to his outrageous vitality.

Confronting a beast head on with pure physical strength was something anybody will laugh at, if said out loud.

But Eric did, ending up with a bloodied hand.

Physically swinging a weapon with pure brute strength without channeling mana during a fight was the same as courting death.

If Eric had channelled at least a little bit of mana through the blade or used a skill, his last attempt would have ended up brutally cutting off it's head, with it's headless head charging straight ahead.

Well... Eric already learnt his lesson in preparation for a next time.

"Fruhh!"

"Fruh!"

The Rhino ruffed after it discovered Eric had somehow dodge it's attack, and instead ended up hitting it with an iron , delivering a bloody injury.

It furiously ruffed hot breaths as it turned, stampeding it's legs on the ground in preparation to run through Eric.

Eric looked at the rhino behaving bull with a solemn expression, the rhino's speed was no joke to be messed with.

Since he channel his Mana through his body without the use of skill or spell.

There was no other options available than using "Dragon Slash", with a thought he activated this forbidden skill, muttering under his breath to avoid further questioning of its name after this ordeal.

Leaping through the air like there was no gravity restrictions, the rhino's long silver horned was raised in order to counter Eric's incoming attack through the air, standing on it's two hind legs with it's two large hoof raised[1]

A magnificent scene to behold.

Eric's aura began to rise , and so was his momentum .

Boom!

It climbed to peak silver rank in an instant , scaring the shit out of the rhino fellow , it attracted the attention of the expert of both sides, pausing in their attack in awe of the bright light that shined through Eric's blade.

Like a gladiator in his glory, Eric swept down both hands.

The rhino's 20 inch silver horn, with it's huge body equal to an average human adult in height, almost two meter wide body enough to intimidate any human, struggled in horror to shift it's head from the incoming counter kill attack,but..... it was too late.

It was only able to tilt the tip of the blade with it's horn a little bit, diverting it from it's original destination, but that didn't change it's already sealed fate to not breath in tomorrow's fresh breaths after confronting Eric's blade.

The blade cleaved down towards it's left eye , passing through it's brain, dividing it's left eye to cutting off it's left front leg as a whole, separating them from the main body .

Sadly the body as a living being couldn't do without it's brain

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(AN^_^ Thank you guys so far, especially the new readers)

[1 The scene of two goats fighting]

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