Unreliable Memories

*Swish*

Klautz didn't stop as before he gave the beast a few slashes. But he stepped back as he realized there was something strange.

Klautz furrowed his brows as he narrowed his eyes, fixing them on the beast.

"The poison seems effective," he whispered to himself.

He could deduce that the beast had slowed down albeit a little and this could lead to only one conclusion.  The poison was running through its veins making it sluggish.

Klautz had thought that the death worm in front of him would have been as strong as the fiery ape back in the trial of control but it turns out that he had overestimated the beast.