And almost at the exact moment he heard the prompt.
Lynn immediately sensed a distinct difference in the Hunter before him. Compared to its previous gaze, the Hunter's eyes now appeared icy cold and intelligent.
No longer mechanical!
More like a human!
"Not good!"
An overwhelming sense of danger crashed over him like thunder.
"Left Hand! Be careful!" Lynn shouted.
He instantly tried to retreat, but the Hunter suddenly raised its head and shot toward him at lightning speed.
Left Hand immediately opened its massive mouth, repeating its previous tactic as its sharp tongue surged wildly toward the Hunter.
"Conversion! High temperature! Extreme heat attribute!"The Hunter's pupils instantly became covered with a fiery glow of intense heat.
The mantis blades on its arms simultaneously began flowing with scorching light streams, emitting countless sparks.
Swoosh—
A loud noise echoed.
Amid the chaotic storm, the high-temperature blade sliced through the air.
Left Hand's long tongue was instantly and cleanly severed by the extreme heat.
A pained scream followed.
Left Hand quickly retracted, its long tongue now reduced to a smoking half-length.
"My tongue is gone!!"
It complained to Lynn with an angry pouting expression.
Lynn rapidly retreated while gritting his teeth. "Can it regenerate?"
Left Hand flicked its remaining tongue with a fierce expression, and the severed portion instantly began regrowing.
"It grew back!!"
Almost simultaneously, the Hunter appeared before Lynn like a phantom, its blade glowing with scorching heat instantly slashing toward him.
"I'll handle this!"
Left Hand immediately grabbed the Boning Knife wrapped around one of Lynn's tentacles with a fierce expression.
Clang—
Intense flames burst forth.
The arm elongated like a snake as Left Hand wielded the knife, engaging in direct blade combat with the Hunter with clanging strikes.
Clearly, the resentment from having its tongue severed moments ago was now exploding forth.
Clang—
Blades clashed, sparks flying everywhere.
But Lynn could immediately tell the Hunter seemed like a completely different entity—extremely experienced in combat, every move executed with effortless precision.
While Left Hand's attacks were fierce, they lacked proper technique, resembling more of a wild, brute-force hacking style.
"Zuo Zuo!"
Lynn quickly raised his gun, continuously firing at the Hunter from the flank while gritting his teeth.
"Show me the power you used to take down that Flesh Puppet! Weren't you super brave yesterday?"
Left Hand continued slashing as it replied with a fierce expression:
"That was from the inside! This is outside! Even if I wanted to eat it, it would slice my mouth full of cuts!"
Lynn shouted back: "I'm a doctor! If it cuts you up, I'll stitch you back together!"
Left Hand responded with a panicked expression: "But there's no opportunity!"
Lynn rapidly retreated, his eyes constantly shifting.
This truly was an otherworld where death could come at any moment!
Opportunity?!
Fine!
Then I'll create that opportunity for you!
Lynn immediately reached into his chest and pulled out a pitch-black eyeball covered with cysts.
【Focusing Eye】
【Type】: Cursed Object
【Ability】: When used by a Flesh Puppet, can activate a Gaze Curse.
【Limitation】: Must be fully integrated with the body before activation.
【Description】: The cursed eye of a Flesh Puppet Type 3. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you. Its eyes are filled with curses and resentment. Everything within its sight dissolves in its vision, everything melting, everything disintegrating...
This eyeball was something he had dug out from Left Hand's stomach.
During his earlier ambush time, he had studied it carefully.
It could be said.
If any other creature obtained this eyeball, it would be useless.
But he was different!
After acquiring the flesh calamity ability, he could integrate this eyeball into his own body.
In that case...
Sizzle—
Lynn immediately extended his fingers, gritted his teeth, and forcefully pushed them into his right eye socket.
【Ding! Your vitality is decreasing!】
And in the next moment.
Squelch—
A bloody eyeball was gouged out from his right eye socket.
He blew on it, gritted his teeth as he took out a small bottle from his chest, carefully placed his own eyeball inside, then picked up the monster's eyeball and forcefully punched it into his empty eye socket.
"Ah! Damn that hurts!"
Squelch—
Two of the tentacles on his back instantly withered and disintegrated.
But it was enough!
Because...
"Left Hand!! Move aside!!"
Lynn suddenly roared, grimacing as he clutched his bleeding right eye, his entire body hunched over in pain from the enormous strain the right eye was causing.
The moment it heard the command, Left Hand instantly retracted.
When it saw Lynn's right eye, it immediately showed a shocked expression.
"You used that puppet's eye?!"
And almost the moment it finished speaking.
Lynn suddenly raised his head, grimacing as he focused his gaze directly on the Hunter.
Gaze Curse!
Activate!!
Hum—
A sound like a snapped string reverberated.
Lynn's right pupil instantly contracted, countless densely packed black lines rapidly converging to a single point at the center of his pupil.
The Hunter instantly shuddered, sensing overwhelming danger approaching.
Almost instantly.
It instinctively accelerated to maximum speed, moving so fast it left afterimages.
But the curse had already been activated.
Screech—
A sharp screech like a burning evil spirit echoed.
Everything within sight—the surrounding walls, the stone bricks on the ground—instantly began dissolving into viscous slurry at an unimaginable rate.
And this was an open area with nowhere to hide.
No matter how fast the Hunter moved, in this open space, its mechanical body was instantly affected, its surface rapidly showing extensive corrosion.
"Focusing Eye?!"
Mechanus, who was controlling the Hunter, paled dramatically.
"How is this possible!"
And in this moment, he finally confirmed—even if this youth didn't personally kill his Flesh Puppet, he was definitely involved!
This person must be eliminated!