The hard crack came as Gil's three arrows managed to hit the tail of the lightning eater lizard. It had moved with extreme speed and used a significant amount of lightning to even move through the air to the side of the rocky canyon ahead of them.
The arrow had caused the scales and part of the tail to break off with each impact. However, the lizard had been fast enough that the main body had not been hit and the tail was the only damage.
This didn't mean that the lizard was not angry. There was a small bit of lightning flaring up around its body and its yellowed scales were not glowing with the light mana, fire mana, and water mana it had consumed through elemental mana crystals.
