I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 173-2: The Special Ability of the Three-Headed Lion, the Abyss Cave (2)

Lin Xun grinned broadly. Heaven rewards those who persevere.

At last, he’d encountered a behemoth!

Last time, after handing over four complete Divine items to the black stocking lady, he still had two Rare+-grade ones left. As long as he killed this behemoth, he could gather another complete Divine item.

[The carriage stopped advancing. You stepped down from the compartment…]

[You looked toward the direction of the heavy footsteps. In the layers of mist, a massive, terrifying silhouette slowly emerged…]

Lin Xun moved with practiced ease, about to summon the Valkyrie to complete the behemoth-killing routine.

But suddenly he thought of how the Three-Headed Lion had just undergone a round of transformation. He wasn’t sure if it had succeeded, or how effective it was.

Might as well let the Three-Headed Lion try its hand on the behemoth.

If the Three-Headed Lion hadn’t changed much and was still as weak as before, he would summon the Valkyrie right away, making sure the lion wouldn’t get killed and waste soul strength.

[You blew the Brass Whistle…][With a crisp whistle, you summoned the ferocious and muscular Corrupted Three-Headed Lion.]

Lin Xun worried that this fool would once again charge off pulling a train of monsters, so the moment it appeared he immediately pressed the combat command.

[The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion looked at the enormous creature slowly approaching through the mist. It let out an excited roar and lunged forward…]

[Compared to the size difference, the Three-Headed Lion was like a toddler just learning to walk, charging a burly man packed with muscle.]

“Come on! You can do it!”

Lin Xun cheered the lion aloud while his hand hovered over the Refined Copper Sand Maraca, ready to summon the Valkyrie at any moment.

[The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion charged the Veiled Aberration without hesitation. Facing the sweeping tentacles, it leaped and dodged nimbly, quickly arriving at the behemoth’s foot.]

[Its sharp claws left one bloody gash after another on the Veiled Aberration’s massive leg. The creature let out a howl and lifted its giant foot to stomp.]

[The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion braced its hind legs and raised its forelimbs, refusing to dodge the descending foot. Incredibly, it held the enormous foot in place through sheer force!]

Lin Xun’s eyes lit up.

“This fighting power is about the same as an Earth Giant, isn’t it?”

He continued spectating, hoping the lion would surprise him further.

[The Veiled Aberration roared in fury. Its huge foot abruptly pressed down, slamming to the ground and flattening everything underneath.]

[Blood and flesh splattered. The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion had already been crushed into a pool of meat paste…]

[After destroying the lion, the Veiled Aberration strode toward you.]

The reversal happened too quickly, before Lin Xun could react, the lion was already dead.

“You’ve got to be kidding me… So fragile… Why are you wrestling a behemoth toe-to-toe? Don’t you know how to kite?”

Losing one point of soul strength for nothing made Lin Xun grind his teeth.

He prepared to summon the Valkyrie to avenge the lion.

[You took out the Refined Copper Sand Maraca and gently shook it…]

[You cannot summon two creatures at the same time!]

[If you forcibly summon the Battle Angel – Valkyrie, the Corrupted Three-Headed Lion will automatically be dismissed.]

[Do you wish to forcibly summon?]

“Didn’t the Three-Headed Lion just die?”

Lin Xun suddenly realized that, although the behemoth had stomped the lion into minced meat, the cursed game hadn’t displayed the message [Your summoned creature Corrupted Three-Headed Lion has died!]

“Could it be…”

[The pool of meat and bone fragments behind the behemoth began to squirm, gathering into a beast-like shape. In an instant, skin, mane, and claws regrew… and a fully intact Three-Headed Lion appeared before your eyes.]

[The Corrupted Three-Headed Lion roared again and pounced once more upon the Veiled Aberration!]

Lin Xun was dumbfounded.

He had never imagined that, after its flesh transformation, the Three-Headed Lion had not only greatly improved its strength but also gained the monstrous regeneration ability of a Lesser Star Demon Test Subject.

In the future, he could call the Three-Headed Lion an undying cockroach.

“You thought I was the one cheating, but it turns out the Three-Headed Lion is the real cheat.”

Lin Xun continued watching the battle.

The Three-Headed Lion remained as fierce as ever, steadily dealing damage to the behemoth.

During the fight, it was occasionally stomped to death a few times, but its regeneration speed never slowed in the slightest and remained astonishingly resilient.

He silently waited for the Three-Headed Lion to wear the behemoth down to death.

Its uninterrupted resurrection was truly monstrous. As long as it wasn’t a rule-based instant kill like the Mystic Eye of Instant Death, the Three-Headed Lion could always recover.

The longer Lin Xun watched the lion, the more he felt it was utterly broken.

So long as he, the master, didn’t die, the Three-Headed Lion could keep fighting indefinitely. Even if faced with an ultra-difficult boss, the lion could still grind it to death.

[The Veiled Aberration was now covered in wounds. Its miserable howls were no longer deafening but sounded weak and feeble.]

[With the last of its strength, the behemoth stomped the Three-Headed Lion underfoot again and crushed it into a pulp.]

[Perhaps because its injuries were too severe, after killing the lion, it didn’t approach you. Instead, it lowered its massive body and began devouring the flesh the lion had left behind, attempting to restore itself…]

[Your summoned creature Corrupted Three-Headed Lion is on the verge of death!]

“Damn! So this is the weakness of that broken regeneration…”

If the Veiled Aberration completely devoured the Three-Headed Lion, no matter how powerful its regeneration, it wouldn’t be able to revive.

There was no way the Three-Headed Lion could resurrect inside a behemoth’s stomach, right?

Lin Xun quickly summoned the Valkyrie to knock the behemoth away from the lion.

Afterward, he unleashed a Falling Starlight that finished off the dying behemoth.

[You have defeated the Knowledge-Seeking Veiled Aberration. Greatly increased experience gained!]

[You have obtained Crystalline Core of the Veiled Aberration (Rare+-grade item).]

Through this behemoth, Lin Xun had roughly gauged the Three-Headed Lion’s strength.

In terms of sheer physical power alone, the lion might still fall short of an Earth Giant. But if he factored in that near-bug-level regeneration, even an Earth Giant probably couldn’t beat the lion.

If the two fought to the death, the Earth Giant would most likely get worn down and killed by the Three-Headed Lion.

“Its regeneration isn’t just useful as a meat shield. I need to properly develop and train the Three-Headed Lion’s potential…”

Lin Xun returned to the carriage and continued heading for the Abyss Cave.

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[The Refined Copper Carriage gradually came to a stop. You stepped down from the compartment…]

[Amid the surrounding mist, you could vaguely make out sparse, withered trees. You were at the foot of a mountain in the wilderness, and at the point where the mountain met the ground was an enormous cave.]

[The cave was pitch black. By starlight alone, you could only see the area near the entrance.]

[You opened the Eyeball of the Subterranean Skeletal Demon. Instantly, your vision became clear.]

[Inside the cave, the passage sloped downward into the depths. It twisted and curved, and the view ahead was blocked by a bend in the rock walls.]

[You were about to look away when, deep in the cave, a shadow flickered past…]

[When you looked again carefully, you saw nothing unusual.]

[Do you wish to enter the Cave Leading to the Underground Abyss?]