Gamers Are Fierce

The Mountain Demon tilted its head, a ferocious and brutal smile splitting its face, as it asked Li Ang, "Why aren't you running anymore?"

"..."

Li Ang slowly exhaled a misty wisp of pale smoke from his mouth and said, "There's no need to run anymore."

In his mind, a prompt from the System softly rang out.

[Abnormal Embryo Divinity Extraction Progress: 100%]

[Divinity has been extracted]

[Name: Roanoke Divine Spark]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Type: Divine Relic (Consumable)]

[Special Effect: Inherit divinity. Upon use, you will gain the divinity of the Swamp God Roanoke and can exhibit Roanoke's innate supernatural abilities such as Plant Communication, Promote Plant Birth, Animate Soil, Purification of Water Sources, Evolve Life, Trigger Plague, Cure Disease, etc.]

[Usage Requirement: Sanity Value must be 400 points or higher]

[Note: After use, a random Divine Mark will appear on the body of the divinity's possessor. The Divine Mark can be hidden or erased at will.]

[Note: The Divine Spark cannot be directly transferred; it can be extracted from the possessor through special ritual tracks, or by killing and stripping the owner.]

[Note: The strength of the supernatural abilities granted by the Divine Spark will not exceed the user's current level. The effects, consumption, and cooldown time of Divine Arts are equivalent to skills of the same level.]

[Note: Alder as armor, moss as clothing, painted snipes for eyes, peat for feet. The seas may change into mulberry fields, but the swamp remains unchanged.]

After killing the Resentful Demon and Gulu Lugu, Li Ang's total Game Currency had reached 8,406.

Back at the subway station, he had spent 7,000 Game Coins to extract the divinity from the Abnormal Embryo.

Only now had the divinity been completely stripped away and, under Li Ang's willful control, it had attached itself to his body.

A torrent of chaotic, swamp-related fragmentary information flooded his brain. With the assistance of the King Slime, however, this information didn't overwhelm him. Instead, he rapidly comprehended everything about the swamp.

A mark quietly emerged on the back of his left hand.

The mark was based in gray-black, with three wooden vines overlapped to form a triangle; outside the triangle flowed rivulets of water, while the inside was dotted with colorful rare flowers.

Both the water and the vines and flowers would subtly change over time—water levels rising and falling, vines growing and withering, flowers blooming and fading, all pulsating with the rhythm of life.

Li Ang looked at the divine seal on his hand with a somewhat odd expression on his face.

The divinity of the Swamp God, like the swamp itself, excelled in creation and healing.

It could be paired with the [Biological Template] and [Automated Pet Box] to manufacture various creations. It wasn't adept at combat.

Moreover, this was the fake Misty Territory created by the Mirage Dragon, devoid of water, soil, and plants—the three elements comprising a swamp—hence unable to fully unleash the strength of the divinity.

However, it was enough to deal with the Mountain Demon.

Li Ang exhaled the pale smoke, casually stroked the Triangular Bone Tipped Spear, and pushed off the ground, vanishing from his spot.

Dominated by the flesh buds controlling its mind, the Mountain Demon felt an inexplicable sharp pain in its head and subconsciously extended its large, door-sized palm, attempting to guard its bisected face.

Li Ang, gripping the Triangular Bone Tipped Spear, smashed it down fiercely, its sturdy shaft bending into an exaggerated arc under the savage force, striking directly between the fingers of the Mountain Demon's hand.

BANG—

The muffled sound erupted suddenly.

The spear blade, now integrated with Ripple Energy, effortlessly sliced through countless flesh buds, severing nearly half of the Mountain Demon's palm.

The gap between the ring and middle fingers was almost torn to the wrist.

Crimson blood surged out wildly, spraying like a fountain and splattering onto the ground.

As Li Ang landed, he swiftly dodged another of the Mountain Demon's hammer-like descending arms and burrowed beneath its looming figure. He then flung the Triangular Bone Tipped Spear, fiercely slashing a massive gash across the heel of the Mountain Demon's left foot.

The hefty frame of the Mountain Demon instantly lost its balance, uncontrollably collapsing onto one knee, the ground beneath stained thoroughly with blood.

The effect of the King Slime was to comprehensively boost the user's attribute values, physical capabilities, Spirit Energy Value, Sanity Value, shorten the cooldown of skills and equipment, reduce consumption, and enhance the Self-healing Ability.

With the addition of the Ripple Breathing Method, Adrenaline, and the BGM skills, he moved with the fleeting insubstantiality of a spectral creature, navigating through blind spots such as behind and beneath the Mountain Demon, avoiding pursuit.

Li Ang continuously slashed open gashes in the Mountain Demon's flesh with his Triangular Bone Tipped Spear and threw thermite incendiary grenades into the wounds.

Heat soared, waves of heat rolled through the air, and smoke rose from the Mountain Demon's shoulders and ankles, filling the air with the aroma of roasting meat.

The Mountain Demon's entire body was scorched by temperatures reaching thousands of degrees, and its flesh buds writhed in severe pain.

Worse yet, Li Ang also harnessed the divinity of the Swamp Reindeer, imbuing a curse toxin on the blade of the Triangular Bone Tipped Spear that withered flesh and blood.

Its flesh-bud body was easily cut open by the spear blade, which glowed with an ominous black light. The wounds began to turn black and shrivel, losing their vitality.

The Mountain Demon clearly felt the rate of its flesh buds' self-healing slow down, and its entire demonic body became sluggish and unresponsive.

In the midst of their struggle, a two-meter-tall Giant Wooden Arrow silently streaked from a distance, striking the Mountain Demon's left eye socket without causing a ripple and piercing through the washbasin-sized eyeball.

"AAAARGH!"

The Mountain Demon roared towards the sky, ignoring Li Ang's attack. It grabbed the Wooden Arrow, yanked it out, and crushed both arrow and eyeball in a single, powerful squeeze.

Wood chips flew everywhere, and the Mountain Demon's surface flesh buds suddenly burst forth in growth.

It bunched up the flesh buds containing the thermite incendiary grenades into a large, ball-like mass and forcibly ejected them from its body.

With them were also ejected parts of the body affected by the Triangular Bone Tipped Spear's curse toxin.

At this moment, the Mountain Demon's surface flesh buds bloomed like flowers, enwrapping it in a dense, fluffy, elongated mass of "flower hearts."

Clusters of these "flower hearts" quickly solidified into six tentacle arms, extending out from above the Mountain Demon's shoulders, under its armpits, and behind its shoulder blades.

"You're forcing my hand..."

The Mountain Demon growled lowly. An arm lashed out from behind its shoulder blades as if it had eyes of its own, striking the unprepared Li Ang.

The punch was both swift and fierce, so much so that even Miss Chai far away couldn't react in time and saw Li Ang being flung through the air, his body drifting like a lonely leaf.

He had barely blocked the punch with his Triangular Bone Tipped Spear, but the immense force transferred from the Mountain Demon's punch still left his palm throbbing with pain.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Between one breath and the next, the King Slime had completely healed his injuries, and Li Ang twirled his spear blade, entered the Gray-white World,

all while his tiptoes tapped the ground in rapid succession, propelling him forward like a speeding bullet.

When he reappeared in the real world, Li Ang was already above the Mountain Demon's head.

With his spear pointed obliquely downward, he took advantage of the momentum of his fall to slice the Mountain Demon from its neck, through its chest and abdomen, and then threw several thermite incendiary grenades into the opened thoracic and abdominal cavity.

GUSH—

From the chest wound, a continuous flow of crimson blood poured out,

and the Mountain Demon roared in rage as if insensible to the pain, bending its body as all eight arms trembled violently, swinging at Li Ang in midair.

Li Ang instantly activated his Phase Boots to dodge the flurry of punches, then immediately deactivated their special effect. He tapped heavily on the Mountain Demon's fist with his bone spear, using the impact to propel himself toward the demon's skull.

THUD!

A kick as powerful as a battering ram struck the Mountain Demon's left jaw, twisting that half of its head completely around its neck.

Using the momentum of that kick, Li Ang landed heavily on the Mountain Demon's neck.

Holding his spear midway, his face expressionless, he resolutely and steadily drove the spear into the Mountain Demon's right jaw, bursting its remaining right eye.

The bone spear, embedded in the Mountain Demon's skull, instantly unleashed a burst of Ripple Energy, scorching its head.

One second, two seconds,

The Mountain Demon's massive body staggered backward half a step in slow motion, then, facing upward, it slowly collapsed to the ground.

Within its gaping chest cavity, the thermite burned wildly, consuming the agitated flesh buds.

Amid the scent of roasting meat, the flesh buds gradually subsided.