novelraw Chapter 1871 - 1872: Defeat
Chapter 1871 - 1872: Defeat
"Let me see if this thing is truly invincible."
Feng Yuan did not flee but pointed his finger; the shadowy figure behind him in a black robe swung its sickle to meet the incoming giant metal rhinoceros, while Xiao Ji let out a long cry releasing a Death Storm to strike the approaching rhino-like beast.
Although the metal rhinoceros resembled a typical rhinoceros, albeit slightly larger, its body oddly merged with various peculiar elements — metallic head and bizarre torso integrated into the metal rhinoceros making it appear inexplicably eerie.
Feng Yuan wasn’t particularly surprised by its appearance; it’s a haunted house after all, so you’re not going to be scared by cute monsters, right? That’s just not frightening.
However, Feng Yuan felt this thing was more disgusting than scary, at least the strange amalgamation made him feel a bit nauseated.
As the shadowy figure approached, the metal rhinoceros suddenly stomped, several metallic tentacles sprouted from its back trying to grasp the shadowy figure but the shadowy figure had no substance, and the unique energy forming its shape corroded the metallic tentacles upon contact.
"Xiao Ji! Stay away from it!"
Feng Yuan squinted and warned loudly, although it didn’t succeed, recalling the capability of metal transformation, Feng Yuan had no doubt that if it touched Xiao Ji, it would definitely have effects.
Maybe not lethal damage, but certainly some minor troubles.
Xiao Ji knew the danger and didn’t approach, staying beside Feng Yuan and continuously attacking the metal rhinoceros, yet even the shadowy figure released by Feng Yuan couldn’t inflict fatal damage to the metal rhinoceros.
"There’s something odd about that thing, it appears to have super-speed recovery abilities."
Feng Yuan frowned and said, Najia sitting on Yang Hongzhi’s shoulder nodded and began to hum softly, though Najia wasn’t quite sure what Feng Yuan’s shadowy figure was, it could sense its own ultimate move could strengthen the shadowy figure’s power.
As for taking direct action? Most of Najia’s offensive ultimate moves require extensive preparation time, and if the metal rhinoceros wasn’t blocked, it wouldn’t take long to charge forward.
Amid Najia’s song, the sickle blade held by the shadowy figure sparkled with starry light; the sickle gained strength at this moment and the metal rhinoceros could no longer withstand the shadowy figure’s attack and was sliced in two, yet the divided metal rhinoceros transformed like liquid metal into two smaller metal rhinoceroses.
"Tsk! This is cheating!"
Feng Yuan, noticing the wounds inflicted by the Death Storm on the metal rhinoceros, said to Xiao Ji
"Use the strongest life-depriving ultimate move on that thing; it doesn’t need to have great power, just strong life-deprivation effect."
Xiao Ji glanced at Feng Yuan puzzled, not quite understanding why, but didn’t ponder much, flapped its wings, and a cold eerie song sent a gentle breeze towards the metal rhinoceros.
The wind appeared powerless, not comparable to ultimate moves that destroy objects with extreme wind speeds, but as it reached the metal rhinoceros, a highly remarkable change occurred.
The metal rhinoceros, pressing closer to the shadowy figure arrogantly, became mottled under the gentle breeze, the metal rhinoceros body with its ugly composite parts partially turned black gray and fell off, leaving a large pit on the metal rhinoceros.
"Indeed, even metal transformations still belong within the life category, and all transformations focus on life force."
Touching his chin, Feng Yuan spoke thoughtfully; in normal cases, Xiao Ji’s recent exclusive Divine Beast Technique shouldn’t have such power, but every life’s total ability value is relatively fixed, and the metal rhinoceros itself had life force disproportionate to its identity, which is definitely problematic.
Furthermore, Feng Yuan noticed earlier that Xiao Ji’s Death Storm could effectively harm the metal rhinoceros, which was peculiar because before Najia’s ultimate move amplification, even the shadowy figure couldn’t completely cleave the metal rhinoceros.
Considering this information altogether, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but suspect it had converted abilities like defense entirely into life force to achieve virtual immortality — but, as a result, lacked sufficient resistance against alien energy.
If it was a normal life, although Xiao Ji’s move could still drain a lot of life force, it couldn’t achieve such effects because normal life has innate resistance against alien energy.
Only this extremely unique existence would suffer such severe damage.
Though Xiao Ji didn’t fully understand the reasons, seeing the metal rhinoceros wounded with just one hit lit up its eyes, and it launched attacks more vigorously.
This time, in Xiao Ji’s ultimate move, the metal rhinoceros was soon completely drained of life force, and seeing the black-gray metallic statue of the metal rhinoceros, Feng Yuan touched his chin and said
"This thing truly isn’t invincible, but can ordinary people really defeat it?"
Ignoring that Xiao Ji used its exclusive Divine Beast Technique, even ordinary Death Series ultimate moves can take away much of its life, but there’s a problem — Death-type Spirit Beasts aren’t the choice for most Beastmasters, so how many would have Death-type Spirit Beasts upon entering this area, is questionable.
"Perhaps special measures are needed? Yet, at least for now, no abnormal phenomena have appeared."
Najia pondered for a moment and said, just then Veronia walked out of the room, seeing the "metallic statue" in the corridor and Feng Yuan’s group still in combat mode, Veronia said in a strange tone
"Oh dear, seems I came out a bit late; is this thing... an enemy?"
Inspecting the metallic rhinoceros statue, Veronia couldn’t comprehend its situation; based on Feng Yuan and his group’s state, it seemed troublesome.
Briefly recounting recent events, Feng Yuan looked at Veronia and asked
"How was your side, any discoveries?"
"You mean the last room? No results, just various metal life specimens, not even decent text records, probably all archives are in the room you went."
Shaking her head, Veronia said, Feng Yuan frowned, recalling those archives and sighed
"So, actually, this place hasn’t provided much clue?"
"It’s inconsequential; our aim isn’t to explore the Mad Doctor’s research lab backstory. What would you think of the likelihood that, at the end of the corridor, there’s a key to the next area?"
Indifferently, Veronia remarked, glancing at the direction the metal rhinoceros originated from. Feng Yuan contemplated and suggested
"Let’s go check it out together."
Although curious about the theme park’s background story, he knew they didn’t have time to waste.
Najia took Feng Yuan’s phone to examine the captured data deemed useful; after a while, Najia said
"This looks like Tasang Puppet Syndrome? Or rather, excluding metal transformation features, almost identical to Tasang Puppet Syndrome."
"Tasang Puppet Syndrome? Oh, I remember, that’s it, could this metal transformation illness be modified from Tasang Puppet Syndrome? That’s troublesome."
When Najia mentioned it, Feng Yuan instantly grasped the previous familiar feeling but it indicated danger here.
Tasang Puppet Syndrome, even in modern times, is terminal due to its rare alien energy infection mutation, named after its earliest discovery and research verified in Omeilia’s Tasang Area.
This illness causes those infected to gradually lose consciousness and joint stiffness, eventually making any sound heard become an imperative, or the body becomes uncontrollable, additionally as alien energy infects, during the later stage the patient’s body rapidly approaches collapse.
Although not entirely untreatable, only Life-series Divine Beasts possess the capability to clear the Tasang Puppet Syndrome, as for Divine Beasts other than spirit beasts...
They’re powerless against this illness.