Oops, I forgot!
My mentor, radiating a faint glow, passed through my body like a female ghost. With her hands behind her back, she floated lightly in mid-air, turned around with a smile, and looked at me.
"However, my dear disciple, dealing with this weak creature shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?"
Or do you want to leave it to those outside who are completely helpless? That would cause a lot of casualties, wouldn't it?
I remained silent, then couldn't help but clench my teeth.
Damn it, I'm completely under the thumb of this voyeur and riddle-solving mentor.
I was worried that those people would be harmed before my eyes, which is why I chose not to escape on my own, but instead borrowed power from my mentor to free them from their predicament. But if I were to leave this dragon beast, which had suddenly sprung from the ground for some unknown reason, unchecked, allowing it to wreak havoc and slaughter all living things nearby, wouldn't all my previous efforts have been in vain?!
Isn't this just like trying to complete the first 99 challenges of a game with only 100 challenges, only to give up on the last one halfway through?
I would never allow that kind of thing!
"Hmm, very good, very good. It seems you've got the fighting spirit." The instructor, who had been observing with a smile, nodded slightly, his figure gradually fading away. "However, fighting spirit alone isn't enough."
[Pay attention below, the first challenge is here~]
Now that the borrowing process is complete, it's understandable that the connection with my mentor has been severed. In fact, the fact that I was able to immediately receive my mentor's help, and even summon her consciousness projection, is an extremely rare occurrence in the history of previous borrowing processes.
This shows how much she values me.
Of course, I didn't expect to get any more help from her, and the conversation just now and the reminder afterwards were completely unexpected.
Perhaps because the creation I caused continued to expand as I fell, the dragon beast, stimulated by the pain, struggled incessantly, violently shaking its head. Every now and then, acidic juices would leak uncontrollably from the pouch, splashing onto the surface of the protective barrier, making the already dim barrier flicker even more intensely.
This also made it even harder for me to maintain my balance. I could only hang on the flesh wall by the thin, sharp blade that was deeply embedded in it, feeling as if I were minced meat in a meat grinder, or a sugar cube that was constantly being spun around with a stirring spoon that was deep in the liquid. I was being hit back and forth, and an annoying buzzing sounded in my ears as the dizziness intensified.
This was not a long-term solution. As the dragon beast struggled more, the sharp blade embedded deep in its flesh began to sway precariously under my weight.
Looking down, in the dim light of the flickering protective barrier, the gate-like throat was within reach. In just a few moments, it could easily and cleanly sever my legs hanging down below, and then slice my body apart from bottom to top.
I had absolutely no intention of taking it head-on. That bony throat, gleaming with a pale white color, was clearly not to be trifled with. Even with the defensive barrier intact, it would be difficult to guarantee that I wouldn't get injured while passing through.
Only by choosing to respond proactively can we find a way out of the crisis.
Thoughts flashed through my mind like lightning. Holding my breath, I pushed off the approaching flesh wall and pulled the blade from it, adding a directional burst of lightning and fire. I adjusted my stance and thrust it fiercely at the pre-selected location.
[Liquid Metal] truly lives up to its reputation as a good conductor of magic. The added spell was successfully applied without any loss, landing two inches to the right of the marked location—it seems the dragon beast was hit by a strong impact from the left, or perhaps those outside were also working hard to subdue it. Fortunately, the attack was still effective.
The pale bones shattered instantly under the intense explosion and impact. The sudden backward tilt of the neck caused the esophagus to form a natural vertical passage. Aiming at it, I felt almost no friction before plummeting down.
Of course, how could I let such a great opportunity slip by?
As a return gift from the dragon beast, which showered me with acidic slime, I naturally reciprocated with a warm welcome—the horizontal blade easily sliced into the soft and unprotected esophagus, destroying its integrity and functionality.
Even the few chimeras that have mastered the ability to self-recover through repeated experiments can hardly withstand such attacks from within their bodies. Even if they can withstand them, they are very likely to go berserk due to pain for a period of time.
After some time, I broke through another barrier that prevented the cutting and grinding of foreign objects from entering the stomach sac, and finally fell into the stomach of this struggling and twisting dragon beast.
The expected onslaught of stomach acid did not materialize. Although the ground beneath my feet was soft and slightly damp, there was little acidic residue. Looking into the distance, illuminated by tiny, lit orbs of light, I saw a vast array of animal skeletons, reduced to mere remnants of bone and flesh, digested to a few pieces. With the occasional pulsating of thick veins and the sound of a heartbeat, everything before me resembled a desolate and cruel slaughterhouse of colossal beasts after a long period of time, with only a few not-yet-completely-rotted bones remaining to tell the stories that had once unfolded there.
It was obvious that the dragon beast the cleaning team had encountered outside was actually one of the countless monsters that had followed the scent and swarmed in, now taking a nap in a huddle. The reason they let the cleaning team go was twofold: firstly, their numbers were too small to be of much use, and secondly, they were too full to move.
This might explain why we didn't notice the approaching beast tide at all along the way.
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