Bob was once again sent flying by the Behemoth's repeated, but fierce, attack pattern. Despite its predictability, Bob had to exert all his strength just to dodge, which delayed his thinking and made it difficult for him to improvise a counter attack.

  "I'm going to die at this rate," Bob thought, deciding to take a risk; he charged toward the Behemoth before it turned around.

  "This time, I charged toward it before dodging, so the Stone Lances should now be behind me." Bob thought, analyzing the situation. "The Behemoth always turns around to its left after it charges. Let me try to get to its left side and see if I can attack."

  As expected, the Behemoth accelerated toward him as soon as it turned around. Bob attempted to jump to the Behemoth's blind-side to dodge its charge. However, as if the Behemoth had predicted Bob's plan, it cast Stone Lances on its rear-left to protect its blind spot.

  "Uh oh." Bob was going to jump into the lances and skewer himself. He immediately used all his strength to change his dash from right to left. Bob was able to prevent himself from getting skewered, he was going to be slammed hard from the Behemoth's frontal charging attack at this rate.

  "Divine Spell: Stone Wall!" Bob's Stone Wall slightly lifted the Behemoth's left leg. Because the beast turned its head to its right before the tusk swing, this caused it to lose its balance and turn to its right. Although this delayed the Behemoth's tusk swing, the beast quickly regained its balance, and Bob was violently struck by the fierce assault.

  Bob was sent flying by the swing. His back crashed into a tree, knocking it down. Immediately, he grimaced as a sharp pain stung his left arm. It was injured from blocking the tusk. In this exchange, he took a risk charging forward, but it did not work out. However, if not for his quick thinking, things could have been worse.

  "Close one." Bob thought, feeling distress. At a loss for how to survive this fight, he reminisced about his life. The Behemoth temporary stopped its assault and growled again, staring at Bob. Bob did not know whether the beast was complimenting him or if it was telling him that this battle would end with its next attack.

  "Activate the Advanced Skill: Danger Sense." A man's voice suddenly echoed in Bob's head.

  "It has been a while," Bob replied.

  "Focus on the fight," the voice urged.

  Bob then chanted, "Advanced Skill: Danger Sense."

  The Behemoth growled again, and the ground began to shake violently. The ground beneath Bob started to liquefy. This time, Stone Lances came from all directions except in front of him.

  Bob had an urge to jump to his right, because of the repeated Stone Lance attacks from his left. However, before the Stone Lances even appeared on the ground, Bob saw a vision of himself getting skewered by jumping to his right.

  "So, this is Danger Sense." Bob remarked on the skill's functionality.

  Bob dashed forward, even before the Stone Lances appeared on the ground. "I can't dodge its next attack because of the liquefied ground anyway. I will attack."

  The Behemoth appeared taken aback, but it made no difference. Instead of swinging its tusks, the Behemoth charged straight toward Bob with the intention of ending the fight.

  "Divine Spell: Stone Wall." Bob cast a wide, but thin, wall to block the Behemoth's view of vision.

  "Without Danger Sense, this would have been a direct hit," Bob thought, smiling confidently, "but not anymore."

  Right now, Bob could clearly feel and see multiple ways he could die or be injured in the next two seconds. With this information, he could tell where the Behemoth would emerge from behind the Stone Wall, and where it would step on. He took one small step toward a tiny safe spot that the Behemoth would miss, crouched down, and pointed his long sword upward. Throughout the fight, he had been pouring his Mana into the blade. Bob's sword was now way sharper and stronger than when he stabbed the beast on its forehead.

  The Behemoth was certain of its victory, planning to trample everything: the Stone Wall, the trees, and, of course, its adversary. However, upon shattering the Stone Wall, something unbelievable happened: Bob was crouching in a tiny gap between its nose and its tusk. At this moment, Bob stabbed the Behemoth from below it. With the momentum of the Behemoth's charge, Bob slashed through its chest by simply raising and holding on to his sword, which wounded the beast badly as blood gushed out from its laceration.

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  "How did he do this?" The Behemoth growled, turned around and fell. Bob remained alert for another minute, during which the beast stayed on the ground without moving.

  "Phew... That was close. Danger Sense drains a lot of Divine Power." Bob thought and sat on the ground, breathing heavily.

  Meanwhile, the tsunami arrived. Bob had led the Behemoth uphill onto the mountain, so the water did not reach him. He jumped onto a tree and made his way to the river side by traversing the treetops. He looked toward the southeast and saw that his family's stone house was unharmed. Yet, when he cast Appraisal on the stone house, Adrian, Winnie and Tiffany were not there.

  More importantly, Bob felt a powerful Aura approaching from the south, arriving within half a minute. Bob picked up his shield and sword again and flexed his injured left arm. An abrupt sharp pain fiercely surged through his mind from his left arm and chest. Bob uncontrollably grimaced and let out a sound in agony. "Oww..." But he had no time to check his injury. Instead, the father steeled himself from the pain, and took deep breaths to restore as much Divine Power as possible.

  "Found you!" Boom! A fair-skinned woman in her thirties landed around 20 feet away from Bob. Her choppy-bob-styled blue hair waved as debris blown up from her landing fell back down. She coldly stared at Bob with her Sapphire eyes just like a hunter eyeing its prey.

  "My name is Bob. May I ask who you are?" Bob initiated the conversation. If possible, he would like to avoid fighting such a powerful opponent with an injury.

  "I am Saint Levi. Good job defeating Travis. What happened to him and his follower? That blue haired girl." Levi said as she focused her gaze at Bob.

  "Um…" Bob paused for an instant before answering. "They are dead. What do you want?" The opponent was a Saint. Telling the truth would mean betraying N and exposing his location.

  "Finish the job." said Levi as her face darkened. She extended her Divine Power to the vicinity as Bob also extended his.

  Levi's Divine Power was at least one magnitude more powerful than Bob's. Bob had to concentrate his Mana into a tight, small sphere, barely keeping Levi's overwhelming Divine Power at bay. Bob chanted, "Appraisal," but the spell's Mana could not reach Levi and thus failed. Levi confidently walked toward Bob and chanted. "Divine Spell: Water Dragon." A dragon made of water from the tsunami emerged and surged toward Bob on his right. Bob charged toward Levi to avoid the dragon, and at the same time attacked with his sword. Levi blocked Bob's attack with her shield and kicked him toward the dragon. The dragon violently engulfed Bob, knocking him back, falling several trees before dispersing and letting the man onto the ground.

  "Your Stoneskin and Elemental Shield are pretty solid." Levi commented with a hint of approval, her gaze fixed on Bob.

  "Thanks for noticing," Bob said, standing up, "but your Water Dragon was rather underwhelming." Another torment of pain gushed from his abdomen and back, but Bob gritted his teeth and acted as if he wasn't injured.

  "I don't believe in overkill. You see, I usually test out people's strengths before deciding how to kill them." Levi said with a hint of anger and confidence.

  "Octa-cast Divine Spells: Kill Zone." Tiffany chanted from her hiding spot.

  Six high pressure Water Guns mixed with Stone Bullets surrounded Levi and shot at her. She dashed back, and a Stone Wall Trap appeared behind her. A few days ago, Julie was trapped by this Stone Wall and had to defend against the attack. However, unlike Julie, Levi effortlessly shattered the Stone Wall with her elbow and dashed through it. Using a combination of Stone Walls, acrobatics and flying slashes, she quickly destroyed all of the glyphs composing the Kill Zone spell. Lastly, she sent a flying slash in Tiffany's direction, but Tiffany skillfully dodged it.

  Although Bob was acting fine and standing, he could not assist his wife due to the agony from the previous attack.

  "Octa-cast? Are you Tiffany?" Levi's eyes widened as she asked, but Tiffany did not answer.

  "Damn the Royal Family. They never mentioned Tiffany in their report. This is why Travis is..." Levi gulped as she thought. "In any case, I must bring this fight to an end."

  "Tiffany, stay back and cast another one," Bob said urgently to his wife. "I'll hold her off for a little longer."

  "Okay!" Tiffany understood how dire the situation was. However, she was not going to abandon her husband.

  "You should find this... sufficient." Levi said with a cold smile, and then chanted. "Divine Spell: Ice Lance." Water from the rain raised and gathered to form lances. Then, they were frozen at an incredible speed before launching toward Bob from his left.

  "Lances on my left again?" Bob thought as he charged toward Levi. Levi attacked Bob using her sword. In just a few seconds, they exchanged multiple hits.

  "Nice swordsmanship. They say that the Death Blade School counters the Thousand Blades. Let's see how you try it." Levi complimented Bob like a superior.

  "Advanced Skill: Danger Sense." Bob whispered to himself. "I see." Bob thought as he saw Levi's plan.

  "Divine Spell: Water Slicer," she whispered quietly, creating a glyph two meters away at Bob's blind spot on his right side. As she did so, Levi tried to slash across Bob's left shoulder from above.

  Using Danger Sense, the trajectories of both fatal attacks appeared in Bob's mind. "Divine Spell: Stone Wall." He swiftly created a Stone Wall at an angle to the Water Slicer, which splashed and shattered in a mist. He then skillfully parried the slash to his left shoulder with his shield, albeit painfully for his left arm's injury, and promptly countered Levi.

  Bob delivered a downward slash with both hands at Levi's right shoulder. His Aura focused on the tip of his sword, creating a crescent moon in the air. "Death Blade School: Crescent Moon Slash."

  Despite Levi's superior strength, Bob managed to hit the Saint's shoulder. This surprised both Bob and Levi. "Thanks my ancestors. The Danger Sense skill is very useful."

  "Focus on the fight. It's not over yet." the voice from earlier urged Bob to concentrate.