Chapter 274: Conclusion

Xia Nan witnessed the entire process of the mummy's body changing.

That shriveled mummy head with sparse, grey, withered hair still lay quietly on the ground, but its equally collapsed corpse began to twitch violently.

Accompanied by an increasingly clear hissing sound in the air, a fist-sized, blood-drenched spherical outline rose slowly like a sprout from the severed neck.

"Plop."

The purple-red rotting flesh was squeezed open by the foul-smelling pus and blood, and the meat ball exploded instantly.

What came into view was a long, powerful, deep green snake head covered with dark, fine, dense scales.

The bright yellow slit pupils were almost identical to the pair of turbid snake eyes on the mummy head on the ground in front.

Sizzle—

Like some kind of shoddy assembly toy, the mummy's left arm, which was twitching the most, snapped off from the hideous wound on its shoulder.

The severed arm in the viscous pus and blood struggled incessantly like a fish out of water.

The severed end of the arm, however, had bulged into a meat ball that was gradually expanding, just like its head.

It wasn't a cutscene in a game from his past life where one could only choose to "watch" or "skip."

Xia Nan naturally couldn't just watch the opponent transform while doing nothing.

In fact, the moment he turned around and noticed the change in the corpse, he had already rushed toward the mummy, carrying the wooden sword wreathed in flames.

It was just that the indescribable sense of fatal danger from his high perception forced him to stop.

His adventure career was still short; even if his speed of improvement far exceeded others, his accumulation was still not deep.

Every combat technique was useful and of high quality, but the number of combat techniques he had mastered was very small.

This caused Xia Nan to be unable to do anything but test the waters by throwing fire oil bombs in his haste, as he lacked long-range attack methods in the face of the current situation.

"Boom!"

Dust and grease turned into surging flames under the spark of a single fire, instantly swallowing the wriggling, expanding shriveled body in front.

The flames burned, almost igniting the figure into a human torch.

Yet there was not a single sound of wailing or pain.

Sizzle—

The scorching high temperature evaporated the mucus dripping from the snake scales and wounds, turning it into streams of pus-green mist that one could tell were bad news just by looking at them, spreading to the surroundings.

Even though the concentration had been greatly reduced due to gasification, those pus-green water mists still possessed an extremely astonishing corrosive ability.

Wherever they passed, not only the surrounding broken metal utensils, but even the marble brick floor and the walls on both sides sizzled and eroded away.

He felt fortunate that he had tested the waters with a fire oil bomb; otherwise, if he had directly slashed at it with his sword, the toxic mist gasified by 【Pine-Green】's high temperature would have caught him off guard first.

At the same time, he focused his mind.

【Gravity Control】 took effect silently, creating gravity suction points out of thin air above his head and on both sides of his body.

Those toxic mists surging toward him in the air seemed to encounter some kind of invisible barrier, naturally sliding away to both sides and above, being isolated outside.

The shriveled skin and flesh were difficult to serve as fuel for maintaining the flame burning; it was originally water without a source. When the dust and grease of the fire bomb were consumed in the time it took to breathe, the bloated, deformed figure, carrying thick toxic mist, was finally revealed in front of Xia Nan after completing its "second-stage" transformation.

First, it was the greasy snake head that protruded from the severed neck, replacing the original head.

The dark green scales on its surface were more complete and dense than other parts of the body, presenting a cold, pure, reptilian texture;

That pair of bright yellow snake-like slit pupils no longer had the turbidity and emptiness from before; instead, they were replaced by an indescribable coldness that made one shudder to look at, with no emotional ups and downs. Looking into them, one could even absurdly feel a hint of strange holiness.

At this moment, it was tilted upward at an awkward angle, swaying gently with the jumping firelight in front.

Secondly, it was the mummy's left arm.

No, perhaps it shouldn't be described as an "arm" anymore.

It wasn't a humanoid structure composed of "shoulder," "forearm/upper arm," "elbow/wrist," and "fingers/palm" as in the impression of ordinary people.

What burst out from the meat tumor at the severed left arm was three snake-like heads, also covered with dark green scales and bright yellow slit pupils.

They intertwined and bumped into each other, winding and intersecting in the air, while the flesh at the ends was mutated and tightly fused.

The overall feeling was that the mummy in front of him was like being parasitized by some kind of hair-raising, terrifying creature.

The humanoid body was just a warm bed for absorbing nutrients and providing a habitat for flesh and blood; the long snakes extending from the severed limbs were its true body.

At a glance, it gave one a nauseating, blasphemous feeling of flesh and blood forcibly blended with alien matter; it was the embodiment of curses, distortion, and pain.

Eight slit pupils, four pairs of snake eyes.

Almost at the same time, they looked at Xia Nan in front in unison.

Goosebumps rose, his Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed dryly.

Encountering this kind of weird existence for the first time, his scalp went numb.

Only the scorching heat of the wooden sword 【Pine-Green】 in his palm brought Xia Nan some sense of security.

Ang—

The wolf howl suddenly sounded in the air.

The pitch-black winter wolf with dense mane rushed toward the prey in front, and the sharp teeth wreathed in flames vowed to tear its flesh and blood to pieces.

The explosive power of the max-level 【Tooth Hunt】 in an instant had far exceeded the range that ordinary adventurers could react to.

Whether it was a charge or a feint and retreat, Xia Nan was invincible.

But at this moment, flying in mid-air, he clearly saw the snake eyes that were staring at him every moment, turning slightly as his body moved, and the snake heads swaying accordingly.

"It... reacted?"

The snake-scaled mummy proved Xia Nan's conjecture with its actual actions.

The pitch-black winter wolf failed to capture the prey he had expected, and only air remained under the flame fangs that bit down fiercely.

The enemy displayed a reaction speed and instantaneous movement capability far more exaggerated than just now.

Even with Xia Nan's current eyesight, he only captured a flash of dark green shadow passing quickly from the corner of his eye.

His perception ability acted quietly, and his hands held the wooden sword by instinct, blocking to his side.

"Sizzle!"

The scorching flame flow forced back the snake head that was lunging at his vital point.

But the thick toxic mist sprayed from its throat covered Xia Nan opposite.

Most of it was blocked and dissolved by the scorching flame flow on the surface of the wooden sword, and the remaining small part was guided to other places under the effect of his urgently activated 【Gravity Control】.

But a small cluster still landed on the plate-chain composite armor on Xia Nan's chest. ===== CHAPTER 275 =====