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Chapter 58 A Pyrrhic Victory
If it had only been Travis's stabs that injured his lungs, that would have been one thing. But more strangely, after being severely injured, Fang Senyan's life energy was also rapidly absorbed by Travis. This fresh and vigorous life force was greedily converted by Travis's hungry body and rapidly gathered at the monster's spine, which had been cut by the blade. Immediately, tendons and flesh grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, densely surrounding the advancing blade, greatly increasing the resistance to Fang Senyan's violent cuts with the Mouth Ripper.
Just as the battle had begun to turn extremely unfavorable for Fang Senyan, his persistent attacks finally triggered a passive ability: the special effect of the deformed thick scales on the gloves he wore: Tidal Surge!
………When performing a melee attack on an enemy, there is a certain chance to absorb moisture from the surrounding environment to impact the enemy, dealing (50-130) damage based on the environment. At the same time, a bubble forms on the enemy's body. Before the bubble is broken, the surrounded enemy will suffer an abnormal state of 80% reduced movement speed due to suffocation. The bubble's health is equal to the Tidal Surge's damage value!!!
As soon as the special effect was triggered, the clear roar of the sea suddenly echoed in the air, as if waves were gently lapping against the beach.
The surrounding moisture was rapidly absorbed into Fang Senyan's left hand, immediately forming a swift and unparalleled Tidal Surge, which slammed Travis's body away with a crash, and even trapped him in a giant bubble.
Travis's reaction was also quite strange. He seemed to have suffered a great blow, letting out a long, shrill scream. His body surface actually seemed to be corroded by sulfuric acid, not only emitting a large amount of pungent black-gray gas but also developing a large number of speckled pits. It seemed that this Tidal Surge had brought him unimaginable damage.
Panting heavily, Fang Senyan narrowly escaped death. After a backward roll, he used his long knife to support his body and forcefully covered his wound. His heart was filled with a mix of confusion and relief, and he didn't know what had happened for a moment.
But now, looking at the surface of the bubble surrounding Travis, there was a faint purple light shining faintly in the sunlight! Fang Senyan immediately understood that the essence of the Tidal Surge was to absorb moisture from the surrounding environment to deal damage to the enemy. Therefore, the damage would fluctuate with changes in the environment. The attack would inevitably be at its lowest in the desert. Although the environment here was humid and hot, the only place with a direct flow of water was the pale purple liquid in the ditch next to the flower stand where the Stairway to the Sun was cultivated.
Previously, the parasitic organisms were directly corroded upon contact with that liquid! It was evident that this strange liquid had a remarkably restraining effect on Travis. The damage from the Tidal Surge was insignificant, but the liquid it drew in was a highly poisonous and deadly toxin, naturally inflicting immense damage on Travis.
After a frenzy of scratching, Travis finally broke through the bubble surrounding him, but he was now even more disheveled. Even the top of his head was stained with that purple liquid, corroding several holes. The largest hole even corroded away a palm-sized piece of his skull.
The brain tissue inside Travis's skull could be clearly seen. The folds of that deathly white brain were constantly changing and even wriggling in a disgusting manner, as if containing thousands of fat white maggots.
Both sides in the battle had suffered considerable damage and seemed unable to fight for the time being.
But Fang Senyan had come all this way relying on a fierce spirit of "the brave win when paths cross"!
He covered the wound on his chest and stood up shakily, his eyes flashing with an incomparably ferocious light. He raised the Mouth Ripper again and lunged at the monster in front of him, slashing the knife fiercely at Travis's neck! At the same time, he was punched in the chest by Travis, almost collapsing half of his left chest!
Fang Senyan's slash undoubtedly sent Travis's head flying, but strangely, beneath his head, there were still a large number of tapeworm-like blood vessels intertwined, densely surrounding the spine and connecting to the body. Those blood vessels were still automatically twisting and wriggling, displaying a cyan-black and purple-black color, extremely disgusting. They even seemed to be trying to pull the head back.
Despite suffering repeated heavy blows, Fang Senyan now seemed to have completely shut down his mind and senses. All negative emotions that were detrimental to the battle were forcibly suppressed. What remained was a feeling of coldness, bloodlust, ferocity, and unyielding. In those terrifying dark red eyes, there was only the violence and brutality that had been triggered by the pain!
"Die, you monster who has lived long enough!"
Fang Senyan heavily kicked Travis's head. He could feel that his decayed skull immediately shattered like a thin walnut shell, and then Fang Senyan exerted force again, feeling like he was forcefully trampling and crushing a piece of tofu.
Fang Senyan casually dragged his knife across, immediately severing several more blood vessels connected to Travis's neck. Travis immediately felt a fatal threat and struggled frantically, letting out a shrill howl from his chest cavity. Unexpectedly, Travis's right foot kicked back in a strange, reverse-jointed manner, and the immense force kicked Fang Senyan staggering backward. The place that was kicked probably had several broken bones, and another mouthful of blood was vomited, containing dark red pieces of internal organs!!
Fang Senyan's body swayed for a moment. He glanced back at the Sun Altar. The branches and leaves of the enraged Stairway to the Sun were still puffed up, like a provoked beast. Obviously, it was unrealistic to directly take the unknown liquid to deal with Travis. Fang Senyan could only stagger backward, trying to lure the desperate Travis over for a final desperate fight.
At this time, Travis's condition was no better than Fang Senyan's. His head was almost completely crushed, and at least half of the blood vessels on his neck had been severed by Fang Senyan, constantly twisting and spraying a viscous fluid mixed with lymph and blood. His head was tilted in a strange way, and his body was convulsing violently.
The guy suddenly let out a shrill scream, opening his mouth to its limit and aiming it at Fang Senyan's mouth. From his mouth, those disgusting and terrifying parasitic organisms began to spew out again. In addition to the parasitic tapeworms that Fang Senyan had already seen, there were also fat giant maggots, parasitic beasts whose bodies looked like dogs but whose heads were strangely divided into four lobes, and huge hookworms with hooks…
If these parasitic organisms all came into contact with Fang Senyan, then Fang Senyan would probably become a pool of blood in an instant. No, he wouldn't even have blood left, at most leaving a few teeth!
However, Fang Senyan also noticed that while Travis was spewing out these parasites, his body was also rapidly collapsing and dissolving. The surfaces of the spewed-out parasitic organisms also appeared gray-black. Although they were constantly approaching Fang Senyan, they had lost that strange flexibility and had a mechanical stiffness.
After Travis's body had completely dissolved, these parasitic beasts were also completely frozen in place, like black volcanic stone statues, and then turned into dust and dissolved into the ground.
Fang Senyan, who was watching all of this coldly from the side, also understood the whole story. Travis was still a beast dominated by desire and could never regain human rationality. After being severely injured by Fang Senyan, the original parasitic worm nerve knots sensed the threat to their lives and activated the final defense mechanism, trying their best to drive all the parasitic organisms in their bodies to attack.
However, driving these creatures required life energy as fuel. Travis, who had been imprisoned for hundreds of years, would inevitably have his energy reserves drop to the lowest point, no matter how much he was in hibernation. If he still used a big move under such circumstances to summon all the parasites in his body, the end would be simple: the body would not be able to withstand it and would completely collapse. At this time, Fang Senyan understood another thing. So far, he was sure that the various biochemical mutations in the Dubaiya Great Marsh were related to this "Stairway to the Sun." However, as it stood now, Fang Senyan realized that the biochemical monsters he had encountered were divided into two distinct categories. The first category was monsters that appeared due to their own genetic imbalance, the most typical of which was the Devourer. The second category was monsters whose bodies were completely controlled by parasites: mutated mature forms!
More importantly, Fang Senyan also noticed that almost all the mutated mature forms he encountered were those foreign Europeans! Considering what was mentioned in Diaz's last words: "What a pity, what a pity, ..., we foreigners are different from the local natives. In our bodies, there is something for them to share this power!!" Another mystery in Fang Senyan's heart was also solved at this time.
What was the difference between Europeans and the local Dubaiya natives? Moreover, this difference had been clearly pointed out, coming from "inside the body"! Africans have greater muscle density than European whites, Africans have strong physical fitness, Africans are not good at swimming... Fang Senyan had envisioned these aspects one by one, and then overturned them one by one!!