Chapter 429 - 206: Deep into the Labyrinth, Fierce Battle with the Corrosive Eye
Chapter 429: Chapter 206: Deep into the Labyrinth, Fierce Battle with the Corrosive Eye
[Rot Eye Race]
[Level: LV.47]
[Evolution Tier: 2.0]
A flash of light appeared in Lin Ye’s hand, the Star-Piercing Spear already in his grasp. Golden Gang Sha instantly coated its shaft!
Lin Ye lunged forward, his form blurring into an afterimage. With unstoppable momentum, his spear thrust straight toward the core eye at the center of the Rot Eye Race’s body!
However, the Rot Eye Race seemed to feel no pain. Faced with a strike powerful enough to shatter mountains, it made no attempt to dodge. Instead, it spewed even more green slime from its body, aiming to intercept the tip of Lin Ye’s spear!
TSSSSS—!
A sickening, corrosive sound filled the air!
Lin Ye’s pupils shrank. He could clearly feel the tip of his indestructible Star-Piercing Spear, along with the Gang Sha covering it, being rapidly disintegrated the moment it made contact with the green slime!
In less than a second, a large section of the tip of his weapon, which was forged from a special alloy, had already vanished!
Wincing at the loss, Lin Ye made a split-second decision and retreated.
Having landed a successful blow, the Rot Eye Race seemed to grow even more frenzied. The single eye at its center spun wildly as its eight tentacles pushed off with immense force, launching its entire body through the air like a cannonball.
At the same time, an overwhelming deluge of corrosive acid rained down on Lin Ye like a torrential storm!
The acid ate away at everything around it indiscriminately; the walls and floor of the passage rapidly melted away under the terrifying downpour.
Innumerable purple crystals condensed out of thin air, forming a thick, sturdy crystal shield in front of Lin Ye.
The corrosive liquid pattered against the shield, creating a series of sharp cracks. Although it was constantly eating away at the shield’s surface, it couldn’t break through—at least, not for the time being.
However, that situation quickly changed.
The Rot Eye Race seemed to possess a terrifying ability to learn and adapt.
After discovering that the crystal shield could effectively block its liquid spray, it began to change its method of attack.
The acid it spat out began to change in mid-air, transforming from a pure liquid into a semi-solid state.
Taking the form of long whips and sharp arrows, the acid deftly bypassed Lin Ye’s Crystal Defense, striking at his body from all sorts of cunning angles!
Lin Ye blocked them all.
As the battle wore on, Lin Ye gradually got a handle on the strange creature’s attack patterns and abilities.
The trickiest part was, of course, its terrifying, all-dissolving bodily fluids.
Still, while it was a nuisance, it was far from a real threat.
With a thought from Lin Ye, an invisible Gravity Field slammed down, pinning the Rot Eye Race that was scuttling at high speed along the wall!
The Rot Eye Race’s movements immediately faltered, as if it had been plunged into an invisible mire.
Lin Ye didn’t use the Star-Piercing Spear again. Instead, he raised his right hand and aimed at the enormous eyeball.
At his command, a sharp prism condensed from purple crystal broke the sound barrier with a piercing shriek, blasting with unerring accuracy toward the Rot Eye Race’s core!
BOOM!
This time, the Rot Eye Race could no longer evade.
Its core eye was instantly pierced and shattered by the crystalline prism!
However, the expected system notification for a kill never sounded.
Instead of dying when its core was shattered, the Rot Eye Race’s slime-like body violently burst apart!
It had disintegrated into dozens of smaller entities!
Each one had eight slender, jointed limbs, resembling a spider, and at the core of its body was still a small, single eye.
These newly-split Rot Eye spiders let out a series of shrill hisses. With no intention of fighting, they scattered as dozens of green shadows, frantically escaping into different passages in all directions!
At the same time, as the Rot Eye Race’s main body burst, a massive volume of corrosive liquid erupted like a flash flood, completely melting through the floor of the passage!
The floor beneath Lin Ye vanished, and he was caught off guard as he plummeted downward!
He activated his gravity powers to stabilize his fall, but he didn’t chase after the fleeing Rot Eye spiders.
He could only use a spreading wave of gravity to forcibly crush some of them; the rest vanished deep into the labyrinth, beyond his reach.
Lin Ye passed through the melted-open hole and landed in another, completely unfamiliar passage below.
He steadied himself and observed his surroundings.
The scenery here was monotonously identical to the passage above, with no discernible difference.
’This type of Rot Eye Race must be a gestalt entity, a collective formed from innumerable smaller individuals.’
’They can merge into a single, stronger being, or split into countless avatars to escape when facing mortal danger.’
’An accident like that is more than enough to completely ruin the plans of any explorer trying to retrace their steps by memory.’
[You have slain Rot Eye Race (Aggregate) x1, Rot Eye Race (Fragment) x13]
[Some targets escaped. Final experience and reward calculations will be discounted...]
[Taotie mechanism triggered!]
[You have gained a total of 54.5 Strength, 55.8 Agility, 30.1 Stamina, and 28.2 Spirit.]
[Killing a higher-level enemy has triggered a bonus experience reward. Experience gain increased by 80%!]
[You have gained a total of 45,877 experience points!]
[You have obtained a new minion template: Rot Eye Race!]
The experience points were quite a bit less than he’d anticipated. More importantly, he hadn’t been able to plunder the Rot Eye Race’s traits and skills through the Taotie mechanism.
It was a shame.
Lin Ye closed his eyes, his mind sinking into his Sea of Consciousness.
Within the new template granted by the system, all the information about one of the escaped Rot Eye Race fragments was presented before him in the most intuitive way possible.
From its murky, single eye and eight slender, jointed limbs down to the internal sacs that stored its corrosive bodily fluids, every last detail was rendered with perfect clarity.
Lin Ye began to channel his Spiritual Power, using the template as a blueprint to attempt his first creation.
The process was more complex than he had imagined.
The body structure of a Rot Eye Race was far more intricate than that of an insect like a fly.
However, thanks to his previous experience, Lin Ye completed the minion summoning with practiced ease.
Several minutes later, a palm-sized, vibrant green spider with a single eye embedded in its core slowly materialized before him.
Lin Ye glanced at the Star-Piercing Spear in his hand. Its tip was completely corroded, rendering it all but useless. He felt a pang of regret.
This weapon had seen him through countless battles, yet he never expected it to be destroyed here.
’Then again, it just goes to show how absurdly potent the Rot Eye Race’s corrosive ability is.’
’If I could get my hands on that power, it would have immense strategic value, whether for fighting enemies or breaking through obstacles in special environments.’
’I have to get it!’