As his eyes adjusted from luminous to pitch black, Dick felt his clothes disintegrate in an instant, as if devoured by an invisible flame. His skin seared as though engulfed by fire, sending waves of excruciating pain throughout his body, his flesh seeming to melt away.
In just a heartbeat, Dick experienced a level of agony beyond anything he had known before.
Yet, hardened by years of enduring physical torment and fortified by the harsh upbringing under Kylie, his beast of a mother, Dick's spirit remained unbroken, his resolve as steely as ever.
Fearful that the Sword Saint might be the end of him, Dick gritted his teeth against the pain and hastily invoked his Goblin Summoner skill, sacrificing his decoy in his stead and in an instant he activated the mother child teleportation gate to escape.
