Volume 2, Chapter 51 – Battle

But…

The girl still knew that with her current combat power, if she were to take action directly, there would be no good outcome.

On the contrary, she might end up suffering a double loss trying to gain a small advantage.

While she was thinking about how to handle this, that massive figure dragging a rusted chain finally reached the ground not far from Tianyin.

Lifting its hideous face, its murky eyes, filled with murderous intent, locked tightly onto her.

“A mere human… little girl…”

The low voice sounded again, and this time, the girl finally recognized who that towering figure was.

That was… among the undead of the Graveyard, one of the strongest in terms of defense, a Legendary-tier Abomination.

Of course, the girl only knew this from reading about it on the online forums. Tianyin and Samael, however, weren’t familiar with the Graveyard’s monsters, so they didn’t know the creature before them was an Abomination.

“What about me being a little girl?”

Tilting her small head slightly, Tianyin blinked.

“Even if I’m just a little girl, you shouldn’t underestimate me, you know~”

Of course, the real Tianyin wouldn’t normally say something like that.

“Hmph!”

The Abomination snorted coldly, its eyes still locked tightly on her.

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“Of course I wouldn’t underestimate you. Someone who can destroy a fortress with a single strike… I’d be a fool to take you lightly. However…”

The Abomination slowly lifted its enormous iron hook. It was only now that Tianyin noticed just how massive that hook really was.

Even the curved front part alone was huge, and in the Abomination’s hand, that colossal hook was almost as large as half of its body.

“Human, you will pay the price for your provocation against the Graveyard!”

In truth, the Abomination’s target this time wasn’t Tianyin. It had come to capture an outsider who possessed a growth-type divine artifact, that is, a player.

But Tianyin’s sudden appearance, followed by her straightforward destruction of an entire fortress right before its eyes…

Such an act was no different from a direct challenge to the Abomination stationed nearby.

The Abomination was a Legendary monster, one of the Thrones of the Graveyard powerful enough to overwhelm both major factions.

And yet, moments ago, right in the heart of the Graveyard’s occupied territory, a little girl had appeared before its eyes and split a fortress clean in two.

That wasn’t just a slap in the face, it was a declaration of contempt.

After all, this was the Graveyard’s inner domain, and it happened right under its nose.

No matter what, if Grand Duke Sargus learned of this, the consequences would be severe…

It might even lose the right to ever join the front lines of the Graveyard’s wars again. Even seizing the growth-type divine artifact from that “outsider” wouldn’t make up for such a failure.

This kind of thing…

For an Abomination who longed to contribute and earn glory, was absolutely unacceptable.

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Therefore, this little girl before it… must be dealt with.

“Die!”

With that thought, the Abomination finally launched its attack on Tianyin. It hurled the massive iron hook toward her, the long chain extending on its own as the weapon traced a perfect arc through the air.

At the same moment, Tianyin saw it raise its hand to throw, and she instantly vanished from her original spot.

However, just as she reappeared on the other side of the sky, the iron hook that had flown toward where she’d stood suddenly curved midair as if it had eyes, and came flying straight at her again.

And in Tianyin’s perception, its speed was only increasing.

“Since when can hooks track their targets automatically…”

She had only meant to dodge casually, but never imagined that the Abomination’s hook would actually home in on her.

As she muttered to herself in annoyance, Tianyin once again vanished just a split second before the turning hook could hit her.

“Whew…”

The sharp wind sliced past her ears.

And in the very next moment, the hook that had struck nothing turned again in midair, still chasing after Tianyin.

“Wuu… can’t you just stop already…”

Even though the hook’s speed was growing faster and faster, Tianyin easily dodged it again, slipping away from the attack with graceful precision.

And then, a bold idea flashed through her mind.

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Her blood-red eyes narrowed slightly.

Then, Tianyin suddenly stopped dodging altogether, her small body hovering still in midair.

“Hmm… what’s she doing?”

Though intelligent compared to other stitched monsters, the Abomination was the first of its kind to gain independent thought and reach the Legendary level.

Despite its years of battle experience, Tianyin’s sudden decision to stop resisting and take a direct hit made even the Abomination pause in confusion.

“Big guy, you really are dumb, aren’t you~”

As the Abomination tried to figure out what she was planning, Tianyin, still floating motionless in the air as if waiting for the hook, suddenly smiled sweetly at it.

Then…

The moment the giant hook struck where she floated, her figure vanished.

If that were all, the Abomination might have thought her words just now was nothing more than taunt.

But…

In the next instant, Tianyin reappeared only a few dozen meters away from the flying hook…

“What is she… trying to do?”

The Abomination couldn’t make sense of it.

In the Graveyard, it had used this very technique to crush countless opponents, the iron hook that could endlessly track its target, pulling them back the moment it caught them.

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Yet now, the girl only dodged to a spot barely a few dozen meters away.

At such a close distance, with the hook accelerating each time it turned, it would only take a blink to reach her again.

And just as it expected, the hook swiftly turned back, shooting straight toward Tianyin once more.

Of course, the Abomination still believed that with her speed, she would dodge again.

And the next second, she did disappear once more.

Not far away, both the Abomination and a certain elf girl watching from a distance fixed their eyes on the sky, on Tianyin.

As the Abomination looked up, its once-brutal expression slowly turned into one of growing shock.

“Wait… don’t! Come back!”

But by the time it realized what was happening, it was already too late.

In Tianyin’s eyes, all the chains that had twisted and crossed midair from the hook’s repeated turns were…

Closing tightly together at once.

Clang!

They snapped shut, completely trapping the massive hook inside.