Chapter 1751: Divided in Two, Fireball Ineffective

After a few sword strikes, Xia Duo felt he had pierced a tough object inside the mutated hyena; the Touch was completely different from the hyena itself, like a sac wrapped in very thick leather.

Once this strike landed, the mutated hyena twitched violently a few times as if a robot had lost power, then collapsed to the ground and went still.

Xia Duo did not pull out his sword, maintaining the state of the blade being inserted; at this moment, he clearly felt the tip of the sword being squeezed and shifted by some force. He did not deliberately exert Suppression, but instead followed this force and slowly drew the sword out.

The next moment, the hyena jumped up from the ground with a low growl as if it had been "electrocuted"; its recovery speed was so fast that it hardly seemed like it had just died.

And after this hyena resurrected—let's call it resurrected—it once again launched a fierce charge at the shield Xia Duo was holding in front of him. Regarding the control of limb strength, Xia Duo considered himself decent.

However, he did not have much experience in judging the magnitude of force like "listening to energy"; at least in his view, there was no significant difference in strength before and after the hyena died.

Of course, he did not think Yalun was lying to him; in fact, he had already sensed the troublesome nature of these mutated hyenas—

The weapons and equipment he had brought to Yalun previously, while not top-tier, were standard equipment of the Savile Territory and much better than what ordinary Adventurers used for themselves. Yet, in the process of killing the hyena just now, spots of corrosion appeared on the blade wherever it touched the hyena's blood.

If there were more contacts, perhaps the sword in his hand would be ruined.

Originally, Xia Duo had wanted to try the Blade of Veto, but given the current situation, he gave up that thought. Next, he quickly struck with his sword again.

Great strength plus a still-sharp standard one-handed sword allowed Xia Duo to decapitate the mutated hyena that was constantly leaping and crashing against his shield with a single swing.

The Touch was second only to hitting the heart just now. In the Main Plane, Xia Duo had never encountered such a "thick-skinned" creature—except for dragons.

However, the hyena's neck bone was not severed by the blade, but rather torn apart by the sheer force of the high-speed impact of the sword.

But unfortunately, just as Yalun had said earlier—only hitting the heart could kill them. The decapitated mutated hyena was still using its severed neck to continuously charge at the shield.

This scene was somewhat comical, but from another perspective, it was truly hair-raising. Even with its head gone, it still wanted to continue attacking; how much hatred and grudge must it have!

And that severed dog head did not settle down at all; the dog's mouth kept opening and closing, attempting to roll toward Xia Duo's side.

At the same time, both severed necks—whether on the body or on the severed dog head—were constantly sprouting granulation tissue.

Xia Duo watched this scene quietly, feeling a chill in his heart. Before long, a brand-new dog head had grown on the body's severed neck. The one attached to the severed head was slower, but traces of shoulders, neck, and front legs could already be seen.

Just then, Yalun leaned in to remind him:

"Lord, while this smaller half hasn't fully resurrected yet, killing the main body once can completely kill it. If you wait until that smaller half grows a heart, it won't be killable."

"Is that so? Have you tried it before?" Xia Duo asked.

"Yes, at first because we couldn't kill them, we thought of dismemberment, but later we could only watch helplessly as they multiplied."

Speaking of this, Yalun's face showed both lingering fear and regret.

"I see!"

Xia Duo still did not act immediately; there were nearly twenty mutated hyenas inside the Force Barrier, and one more wouldn't make any essential difference.

This characteristic of the mutated hyena reminded him of a Troll, but a Troll would only regenerate from severed limbs and could not possibly turn into two or more.

Soon, the scene Xia Duo wanted to see appeared—

When the dog head part grew a heart, the recovery speed increased sharply, and before long, it had almost become the same existence as its other half.

It was just that, perhaps because something went wrong during the recovery process, the final product had an underdeveloped little leg on its abdomen.

That little leg seemed redundant, but it could still stretch and kick; when the hyena leaned down, it could even provide a little extra leverage.

For a single hyena, even if the increase in strength after resurrection wasn't huge, the fact that it suddenly became two made the amplification obvious.

Next, Xia Duo did not try to kill them with a sword again. He had already seen the scene just now with his own eyes; with just a blade, this mutated hyena was an even more troublesome existence than a Troll from the Main Plane.

At least a Troll wouldn't get stronger when recovering; it would only weaken, and once it weakened to the limit, it would die, and once dead, it wouldn't resurrect.

Furthermore, besides blades, Trolls could be drowned, suffocated, burned to death, and other various ways of dying, none of which would lead to resurrection.

But these mutated hyenas were different; at least Xia Duo had seen with his own eyes a dog head proliferate into a complete mutated hyena. This was just unbelievable.

Although Xia Duo did not believe these mutated hyenas could truly become infinitely strong or divide infinitely, at least what would happen before reaching a certain limit was something he did not want to see.

"Then it's up to Magic?"

One thing Xia Duo felt fortunate about now was that—besides their perverted regenerative ability, these mutated hyenas had not shown any Spellcasting ability.

But could Magic really kill them?

Xia Duo couldn't help but feel some doubt, but he had to do it even if he doubted. If he couldn't completely clear out these mutated hyenas, he would have to find a way for Yalun and the others to move.

But judging from the previous descriptions by Yalun and Mengte, these mutated hyenas clearly had some tracking ability. Xia Duo wasn't sure if moving would be useful; to be safe, he would have to move to the Kingdom of Radiance.

Thinking this, Xia Duo casually pointed out a Blazing Fire Bead, which flew into the mutated hyena's open mouth with lightning speed, and immediately exploded completely.

But the result was hard for Xia Duo to accept—

He saw that the mutated hyena, which had taken a full 3rd-circle Fireball with its relatively fragile mouth, just opened its mouth to spit out a lump of black ash mixed with unknown acid, and nothing else happened.

It was still jumping around.

Even a dragon couldn't take a Fireball to the mouth and remain unscathed, yet now, this mutated hyena in front of Xia Duo, which clearly exuded a cheap aura, had managed to do just that.

"This—"

Xia Duo immediately suspected whether he hadn't mastered the true secret of Spellcasting in the Outer Planes, causing the Spell power to be far less than expected.

—Try another Fireball.

This time, Xia Duo's target was not the mutated hyena, but a Mingshui Gold Coin he tossed out. The Fireball was presented in the form of an Elemental Burst, and the range was already determined at the time of Spellcasting.

Adding the one that exploded in the dog's mouth earlier as a reference, Xia Duo was not worried about causing collateral damage.

But the result this time still made him somewhat unable to accept it.