The monster did not see this sudden attack coming, but it was fast enough to move the sword right in front of itself, only with the edge of the sword facing forward. When the head of the silver spear clashed into the sharp edge of the blade, it got sliced into two smaller halves, one shooting at the monster’s waist, and one half shooting at the monster’s foot.

“Crack!” Jason forcefully burst his silver energy spear in front of him to shoot out several silver shards against the monster just like pellets from a shotgun.

The monster took a few steps back from the impact of the two halves of the tip of his spear, and the exploded shards from Jason’s spear. The sharp shards got embedded inside the monster’s body, which also made it bleed in some kind of shimmering blue liquid.

“This is similar. This is similar.” the monster readied its pose once again, then both halves of its face became smiley and it raised its weapons again: “This is dangerous… This is very dangerous … But exciting! But exciting! We shall have him! We will have him!”

“Have this!” Jason jabbed the pen-spear in his right hand down into the ground, and at the same time he conjured a silver energy ball on his left hand and threw it at the monster. In the midair, the silver energy ball grew several spikes that looked like actual tips of spears, then the spikes grew longer and sharper. And finally, the spikes became short spears launching at the monster in a flurry, while the silver energy ball disappeared halfway through its trajectory.

“Ah!” the humanoid monster swung its short arm and the spine whip spun and curled in the air, accurately knocking all the short spears out of the air and shattering them into pieces of shards all over the floor: “Come with me! We shall have you!”

The monster swung his sword at Jason once again, and unleashed an energy blade with the shape of half of a crescent which left a thin fissure in the ground on which it traveled. Jason raised his left hand at the incoming energy blade, and a silver ball of energy that looked like it was made of several layers of scales and shells shot out of his left palm. The silver energy ball expanded into a layered globe in the air when it came close to the energy blade, and when it came into direct contact with the energy blade, it absorbed the impact and dispersed it across the entirety of the silver globe.

All the silver scales and shells on the globe splintered out from the impact, many of which cracked, crumbled and turned to countless much smaller pieces and even little grains of silver sand, almost completely blocking the view of Jason.

The monster’s body burst through the temporary wall of silver sand and shards in the air, with his smile turned completely upside down and his sword raised up high glowing in a pale blue light.

“Come with me! ” the monster cried as it swung the sword down, aiming at Jason’s head. While Jason finally took the pen-spear in his right hand out from the ground and swung it right against the sword. The pen-spear was glowing in pale blue light as well, just like the monster’s sword.

“Ting!” the sword and the silver pen-spear made a loud sound of two hard pieces of metal crashing into each other. The shock and vibration from the clash created a powerful shockwave that pushed both Jason and the monster away. And this time, Jason’s weapon did not break.

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Caroline clenched her teeth so hard, that she felt as if she was about to crack them at any moment. This was partially because of the claw attack with great force she was trying to fend off from the female lycan with silvery white fur, and partially because of the ear piercingly high pitched sound the claws made when they scratched on the surface of her shield.

A tail covered with dark purple hairs that were hardened and sharp like razors and spear tips flailed at Caroline’s back for another time, and once again, Caroline had to raise her battle axe in an attempt to block it because her left arm was occupied trying to block and push back against the other lycan.

The dark red-violet moon’s light seemed to have not only healed the injuries dealt by Caroline to these two wolves, it also seemed to have greatly strengthened their speed, their physical power and their endurance. They even seemed to have gained resistance to the direct attacks or hindrance spells dished out by Caroline.

Caroline’s situation was made worse by the fact that two groups of quite powerful individuals were fighting in a not so far away place - the lycans seemed to have boosted their power tremendously by conjuring the dark red-violet moon, while the group fighting them utilized many artifacts and even summoning spells to aid them. And on the other hand, Caroline was trying her best to defend this particular corner where some parts of a civilian apartment complex building still stood, when Detective Kuhn and Thomas were still inside trying to get some of the civilians out.

“Boom!” the wolf with silvery white fur hopped to the side and spit out a condensed ball of energy at Caroline at almost point blank range. The explosion almost sent Caroline through the base of the apartment complex building. But she forced herself to stop midway and absorb all of the shock by herself so that she did not cause any more damage to the building’s foundation and further endanger the remaining people in the building.

Showing no intention whatsoever to give her any room to breathe, the wolf with the dark purple fur lunged at Caroline from her right side, aiming at her battle axe. The dark purple energy she used to speed herself up was in full throttle and it created several sonic booms in the air in the span of her very short distance charge.

Caroline roared, with blood coming out of the corner of her mouth from pushing her Xuanli into overdrive, and swung her battle axe up in the form of a rising slash. A tornado glowing orange and red from the inside with tens of mini wind blades and a fiery core appeared in front of her. The wolf with dark purple hair was too fast and too close to change course and was instantly blown to the side by the turbulence, the wind blades inside left a number of cuts of different depth on her body, and her body crashed into the road and dirt several yards away from Caroline.

A giant mantis with a translucent grey body that might have come over through one of the portals conjured by someone fighting the lycans glided through the sky and flew towards some of the civilians that were too slow or too scared to make it very far, with its sharp front claws ready to attack.

Caroline’s spinning battle axe shot through the air, striking the giant mantis just in time and at just the right angle to shatter its entire body. This move saved quite a few civilians’ lives, but it also left Caroline’s right side wide open, and the wolf with silvery white fur took the opportunity without much hesitation.

Caroline could almost hear her bones crack as she tried to block another bite attack from this giant wolf’s head using only her bare right arm. If she wasn’t fighting gritting her teeth, she probably would have screamed in extreme agony.