Chapter 5493

Just as the claw’s shadow reached him, Jared moved.

The gesture looked unhurried-almost polite. He merely raised his right hand, palm facing the oncoming horror, as though greeting an insect on a summer evening.

Boom!

The demon claw shattered, bursting into a storm of black vapor that the wind carried away in a heartbeat. In the sudden quiet, the sky seemed cleaner, scrubbed by invisible hands.

An unseen force lashed backward along the man in black’s arm, a venomous current racing toward his heart.

The sneer froze on his lips, fear chiseling new lines across his face.

That same force flooded his meridians, tore through his elixir field, and left ruin wherever it traveled. Bones splintered. Essence crumbled.