After a few moments passed with Grendel's colossal body lying motionless, a grey portal flickering with unstable energy slowly materialised at the centre of the hall.
"I-is… this… the exit?" I murmured, my voice barely above a whisper. The ordeal of the long battle against the trolls had taken a heavy toll on my body.
My internal organs were crushed, my ribs fractured, and my right arm was completely limp from excessive blood loss. To prevent a complete drainage of blood from my body due to Curse of Binding, I had ordered Vivi to stop the blood flow to my right arm, which in turn had rendered it completely useless.
Still, even as my body screamed in agony, an uncontrollable smirk crept across my face—twisted, feral, and unmistakably demonic when paired with the blood-smeared skin and gaping wounds that framed it.
"Ume… I… I will...meet you... soon."
