The monster crumpled into wisps of darkness.
The divine energy churned, and another Minotaur appeared.
Before it could attack, the boy wrapped his blade in Death and Darkness.
The sword's size increased.
He slashed and sliced off the Minotaur's ankles.
The monster fell.
The boy jumped high in the air, wrapped in a condensed bolt of red lightning, his sword raised high, and stabbed it into the Minotaur's head.
The giant monster roared, but before it could react, the boy pushed red lightning inside its head through the sword.
The Minotaur's body started to crack.
Red lightning glowed beneath its skin.
Just when it seemed the Minotaur would die and revive, the boy's shadow moved.
The darkness hiding within it bloomed.
It spread out like a flower and bit off half of the Minotaur's body in one go.
The monster roared, not in anger but in pain and fear.
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**Ten minutes earlier**
