An Extra’s POV

All the assaulters were ready to begin their counterattack.

With the window that Justin opened for them, and the other minor traps and debuffs like Eric's [Blindness], they were set to go.

Then—

"KRIIIIIIIIIKKKKK!!!"

—The most unexpected occurred.

~SWIIIISHHH!~

One of the centipedes wiggled its way through the strings and rushed towards Justin in a bid to devour him.

Perhaps even crush him.

"Justin, no!" Swiftly leaving his own position in the formation, Clark rushed towards his friend.

Shockwaves radiated as a result of his impulsive action, causing others to shift ever so slightly from their formation.

Justin, who was too distracted in his celebration, did not notice anything off until Clark called out his name.

Once he opened his eyes wide, he noticed the centipede which lunged at him with dangerous precision.

It's disgustingly black body was about to crash on him when Clark charged towards it and knocked it away.

~BOOOOOM!~

The knockback effect caused the centipede to wriggle and try to gain its footing.

Clark rushed towards it before it could recover and sent it a flurry of punches while burning it with his Heat Vision.

"JUST! STAY! DOWN!" He screamed, finally dispatching the Centipede with a powerful strike involving a clasped fist descending on the wounded Centipede's head.

Yes, he was able to defeat that single Centipede.

However, thanks to his disturbance, the restrained Centipedes not only woke from their slumbering states, but they grew erratic and wriggled out of their restraints as well.

With Justin too startled to tighten the hood of his strings, they successfully escaped their constraints and charged at Clark all at once.

"Clark!"

"Look out!"

massive insects, but even they could not make

though all

"Dissipate."

of the Centipedes

to the ground, instantly eliminating the danger that would have ended the

even two, if Justin was

they were able to survive was due to the masked man who appeared before the kneeling Clark and glared at him with

extinguished, a powerful pressure

danger than the swarm

all of it stemmed

formation?" He asked,

undertone clearly displayed his dissatisfaction with the

waited patiently for

I couldn't just watch while

would have saved

that none of the Otherworlders would

had managed to keep

giving them so much trouble meant they really weren't anything to him in the

would have helped Justin even without Clark's impulsive

should have

But—

I just can't sit by and watch someone get hurt right in

fell,

still looked at him with his cold, crimson eyes. No mercy or compassion could be found in his

"Sir Ralyks, maybe—"

the moment Adonis spoke up, instantly

and

put the rest in greater danger. Is that truly

He just

me do? Just watch my friend die…?"

for sure, but at that moment, nothing of the sort registered

simply wanted to

desire to protect is indeed an

beamed and looked at the Dark Adventurer

"Exactly! I just—!"

only the predator and the prey. The