The Guardian System: The strongest Summoner's quest to save his family Chapter 374 374: Straight Lines in a Crooked World (6)

Reidar picked his way through the collapsed zzanine, stepping over twisted tal beams and shattered concrete that littered the disastrous warehouse floor, where equipnt lay scattered everywhere—so crushed flat and others bent at impossible angles.

Although the Ignis was buried sowhere under all of it and Reidar couldn't completely see the creature, but he could clearly feel the heat still radiating from the piles that hid its body.

He waited, but no notifications appeared.

The debris pile shifted.

As tal scraped against tal and a support beam rolled off the top of the heap, signaling that sothing underneath was moving, Reidar took a step back and watched until the pile lurched.

A blade-arm punched through the debris to slash at the air, revealing that the creature was trying to dig itself out, though the weight pressing down on it was massive even for a monster of its strength.

The blade-arm got out of the ss first, trying to catch a tal container and push it aside, but although the container rolled off the pile and crashed onto the floor a few ters away, that was all the creature could manage.

The rest of the debris stayed in place to pin the Ignis down, and as the creature thrashed again, Reidar saw part of its body writhing through a gap in the wreckage as it tried to force its way free, only to find that the collapsed zzanine had it pinned from multiple angles.

"Good. Stay there."

The muffled screech vibrating through the floorboards sounded like pure frustration. The monster knew it was buried alive.

Reidar held his breath as he watched the heap of scrap, waiting for it to shift or for the beast to burst free, but when the pile settled into silence, he exhaled and crept toward the edge of the wreckage where the air tasted like dust and burning ozone.

A severed blade-arm smoked against the concrete near the wall, radiating enough heat to singe his eyebrows as he crouched beside it.

It wasn't just hot tal but a sort of living weapon that made his skin crawl. Up close, Reidar could see veins pulsing within channels of blackened flesh, binding the organic tissue to the lethal edge.