Reiji quietly pulled the Long Bone Sword back and immediately retreated several steps.
The wound remained.
Dark crimson blood slowly dripped from the creature's shoulder onto the ancient stone floor.
It wasn't healing.
Reiji's calm eyes observed it in silence.
'So it doesn't regenerate.'
His gaze lingered on the wound for another heartbeat.
The surrounding mana wasn't gathering around the injury the way it normally would.
When monsters regenerated, mana naturally converged toward the damaged area before reconstructing flesh and bone.
This creature was different.
The mana wasn't gathering.
It was circulating.
Like countless invisible streams weaving through its body before disappearing somewhere deeper inside.
'It's redirecting it...?'
Reiji silently stored the observation away.
Every anomaly followed its own set of rules.
He simply hadn't discovered this one's yet.
That alone ruled out one possibility.
As long as enough damage was dealt, it could be killed.
