The masked inquisitor watched from the relative safety of the outer ridge, entirely paralyzed by the sheer impossibility of the spectacle.
'Eight elite Holy Knights and twenty-seven Azure Moon Knights fought that serpent for hours,' the inquisitor thought to himself, his hands trembling. 'They could not even make the beast shriek. They only managed to wound its outer scales after executing complex, synchronized combo attacks with vanguard formations, and even those minor lacerations healed within seconds.'
He recalled the grim survival report. The remaining three Azure knights and seven Holy Knights only managed to survive because they were delayed entering the final boss area. The main vanguard had already triggered the engagement condition, locking the stragglers out of the slaughter zone.
'That delay saved their lives. Even Prince Ryu only survived because he was resting in a nearby cavern after sustaining injuries from the lesser mobs on the previous area.'
