120 Affection? (1/2)

The female drake had just pounced towards Ozul when the blade suddenly slashed in its direction.

Although others could not see it, the drake was able to notice the blade, but it couldn't do anything in midair. She realized that it meant her death, so without anyone realizing it, she shot a worried glance at a particular direction before her head was cut off.

In the surrounding people's eyes, all they could see was the drake jumping at Ozul and then dropped headless on the ground a little behind him.

The male drake looked at Ozul with eyes filled with hatred before pouncing in his direction.

The mages stood rooted on the ground, in shock of what had transpired in a couple of seconds. Still on the adrenaline rush, they did not have time to calm down before they were forced out of their thoughts by the loud growl of the other drake.

They turned their heads to see that it rushed towards Ozul, intending to hack him into pieces.

In contrast, Ozul stood nonchalantly in his place. His face looked as if he did not see the male drake rushing towards him.

Some of the slow-minded mercenaries still could not accept that it was him that had decapitated the beast in the blink of an eye. They thought even now he was not moving from his place just because he was too afraid to move.

However, the next scene almost caused all of their eyes to fall out of their socket.

The male drake was only a few meters away from Ozul when he took a long leap, determined to kill him. Nevertheless, just when the male drake had jumped towards him, another flash of black blinked by.

The beast, which was supposed to be pouncing on him, only passed by Ozul as it landed on the ground.

The male drake did not look at Ozul, but at his partner, the female drake's corpse, before a splash of blood sprang from his neck and he fell to the ground.

Ozul looked at this scene with a stoic face, but he was confused inside his mind. His ability to sense emotions had made him aware of what most felt during death.

In the case of the beasts, there was always fear and resentment when they were about to die. However, the emotions that he felt from the male drake just now were that of sadness!

When Ozul turned around to look at the male drake, he saw that even in his final moments, the beast looked at his partner's corpse with his gaze filled with affection.

Now, this would not have been a big deal to him, but the scene suddenly reminded him of the time when he first came into this world of light.

The day he was born, his mother took her last breaths. But even in death, she looked at him with affection rather than the fear of dying or any sort of resentment.

This thought made Ozul sympathize with the now-dead beasts. However, sympathy did not mean that he felt bad for killing them.

But that also brought a sense of foreboding—telling him if he were to accept those feelings, he would only regret it later.

Ozul shook his head out of his thoughts and keenly looked at the beasts on the ground before shifting his attention to Raven and Blaze, who stood in the distance.

”What are you waiting for? Come here,” said Ozul before the duo started running towards him.

Far off in the distance, Rufus had been intensely analyzing everything since Ozul had stepped in the battle.

When Ozul had killed the female drake, he also only saw the blade blink in its place before the head of the beast fell to the ground. And that was precisely why he had prepared an augmentation spell to improve his sight beforehand.