The steam pressure building beneath Gharok's muscles reached its absolute boiling point. The eight-foot-tall monster thrashed around like a fish tossed onto dry land, right up until his main arteries could no longer withstand the temperature of the blood being boiled alive inside him.BOOM!Gharok's body exploded.It was not a fiery explosion, but a deeply sickening biological one. Bone fragments, shreds of cooked internal organs, and gallons of black blood sprayed in every direction like a storm of shrapnel.That rain of boiled flesh and thick liquid drenched the forest, soaking Roy's face, coating Henry's armor, and splashing onto Ivan and Faried. The stench of sulfur, mixed with the metallic tang of blood and cooked meat, instantly choked the air, enough to make the stomach of anyone with an ounce of sanity churn violently.The thousands of blood droplets that had been orbiting Roy suddenly lost their magical power. The crimson beads dropped simultaneously into the muddy puddles wi