Chapter 378 – We Lost the Little Boy
Cassius knew he had no other choice. The gravity still pressed down on him, choking him from within. And the barrier he'd placed around his three teammates was cracking, on the verge of collapse.
He didn't have much time left. He had to act now, and hope for the best. Hope…that was the only thing he had left, standing in front of a Fourth Rank being.
He could have summoned Scarlet in that moment. Or at least called out and waited for her answer. But that was exactly the problem.
His relationship with his spirit was still a reluctant one, and the Last Born had neither the time nor the spare energy for that kind of negotiation with a death sentence hanging over him.
So he decided to handle it alone.
As Cassius thought it through, he realized the most effective way to fatally wound a dragon of this caliber was to strike from the inside, not its scale-armored body.
