“This design…
in the game, it looked like a reskin of the Antimatter Legion, but seeing it in reality, it’s really…
terrifying!” Feeling the eerie aura emanating from the Black Tide creation with an energy ball on its neck and blades strapped to its arms, Gwyn’s muscles tensed up, and he watched the opponent’s movements closely.
Fighting armored with no armor, barehanded against dual blades, a newbie against such a seasoned monster—he had basically no room for error and could only hope that the stats brought by the Golden Blood in his body could make up for some of his deficiencies.
“￥%＆…!” When the two were no more than three meters apart, the Black Tide creation, with viscous liquid still dripping from its body, suddenly let out a sharp, ear-piercing shriek.
Its body, like that of a dead thing, suddenly lunged forward, raising the dual blades in its hands and slashing down directly at Gwyn.
“!” Gwyn dared not be careless in the slightest.
He watched the Black Tide creation lunge, jump, and raise its blades—now!
His tensed body suddenly sprang into action.
Lowering his body, he lunged forward to the left, and Gwyn narrowly avoided the blade that the Black Tide creation had suddenly slashed down in response to his sudden movement.
Having avoided the first move, Gwyn did not pause for a second.
Relying on the physical advantages of a Chrysos Heir, he quickly turned his body and charged toward the Black Tide creation, which was trying to slow down but was still moving forward due to momentum.
Knowing that he might only have this one chance, Gwyn ran with all his might, bursting with a speed he had never imagined.
He slammed directly into the Black Tide creation that had just landed, knocking it to the ground, and with veins bulging, he smashed his fist down onto the energy ball on the Black Tide creation’s neck.
If you don’t know the weak point, hit the head!
Bang!
Super effective!
To Gwyn’s surprise, the energy core on the head of this Black Tide creation had no power to struggle under his full-force blow and was smashed to pieces directly.
The Black Tide creation beneath him, which had been trying to struggle, suddenly stopped moving.
“Hoo…” Realizing that he had successfully killed a Black Tide creation, Gwyn suddenly heard a violent heartbeat in his ears—he had succeeded!
With nothing, he, who only possessed undeveloped Golden Blood, had successfully taken out a Black Tide creation barehanded!
In a game, this would probably just be a simple operation of rolling, turning, sprinting, and backstabbing, but in reality, if Gwyn had the slightest deviation, it would result in his head being sliced in half, treating this Black Tide creation to brain matter mixed with Black Tide.
However, there was no time to be happy.
Noticing that the body of the Black Tide creation beneath him seemed to be dissolving, Gwyn quickly got up and snatched the two oddly shaped blades from the Black Tide creation’s hands—never mind if this thing had any contamination, it was better than being empty-handed!
“Not bad, not too heavy, and it didn’t dissolve directly.” Giving the blades in his hands a hard shake, before Gwyn could specifically think about how to use this pair of weapons, the Black Tide not far away suddenly trembled, then exploded, and two figures quickly solidified— One was the dual-blade Black Tide creation that Gwyn had just killed once, the Black Tide Erosion Blade; the other was not a Black Tide Erosion Blade with blades strapped to its arms, but a Black Tide Decay Bow holding a bow and arrow.
“Starting with an archer right off the bat; even Hidetaka Miyazaki would know to only place two hollow swordsmen.” Cursing inwardly, Gwyn gripped the dual blades in his hands and charged over while the opponent’s form had not yet solidified—take advantage of his illness to take his life!
It was a pity that although Gwyn could burst forth with a speed he hadn’t expected, the speed of the Black Tide creation was a step faster—he had only charged halfway when the Black Tide Erosion Blade had already solidified and was charging toward him.
And this time, the dual-blade mob didn’t charge straight over to slash; instead, it leaped, rotated, and held the blades on its arms outward, playing a tornado.
“Damn it!” Gwyn, who was prepared, cursed inwardly and had to veer a few degrees to the left, avoiding the dual-blade guy’s tornado of parking lot destruction.
Without even looking at it, he continued to charge toward the archer— The previous move was a sneak attack that caught it off guard; if he really had to fight head-on, Gwyn wasn’t sure he could steadily take down the Black Tide Erosion Blade.
If there was an archer trailing behind, Gwyn felt he might as well give up—even in MOBA games, everyone knows to kill the ADC first.
However, with the obstruction of the Black Tide Erosion Blade, before Gwyn could charge over, the Black Tide Decay Bow had completely solidified and, without any courtesy, raised its bow and shot at Gwyn.
At a distance of three steps, Gwyn had no room to dodge, so he simply held the dual blades in front of him, his eyes fixed on the arrow nocked on the bow— Bang!
The arrow instantly reached Gwyn, and just before it could pierce his body, it was narrowly deflected by the blades in Gwyn’s hands, with every hair on his body standing on end.
Gwyn, his web between thumb and index finger aching, didn’t care about his numb right arm.
He charged forward at full speed, raised the blade in his left arm, and, while the lower blade bypassed the protection on the opponent’s head, he stabbed with all his might at the energy ball on the Black Tide archer’s head.
The Black Tide archer tried to dodge, and at the same time, the longbow in its hand whipped toward Gwyn— Crack!
Bang!
The energy ball on top of the Black Tide archer’s head was smashed by the blade in Gwyn’s left hand, but at the same time, Gwyn was also smashed by the Black Tide archer with its longbow into the Black Tide behind him.
“Ugh—ptui!
Ptui!” Gwyn, who felt like his ribs were about to shatter from that hit, rolled twice in the Black Tide.
Ignoring the secondary injuries caused by the movement, he quickly got up, retched twice, spat out the Black Tide sticking to his mouth, and hurriedly tried to leave the coverage area of the Black Tide— He had just killed one and two more spawned; if he fell into the Black Tide now, even if he wasn’t directly swallowed by the Black Tide, he would be swarmed to death by the monsters.
Staying on the edge of the Black Tide was the only way he could fight.
But before Gwyn could wade out of the viscous, foul-smelling Black Tide, the surrounding Black Tide rolled again, and three monsters resembling wolves and dogs, but with the characteristic energy balls of Black Tide creations on their heads, surrounded Gwyn.
“So you’re giving me a Three-Dog Slaughter Formation right up to my death, huh?” Gwyn, though complaining endlessly in his heart, had no intention of giving up.
He coiled his legs, gathering strength, and leaped with all his might toward an area ahead that had not yet been covered by the Black Tide.
“Pffft—” With a strange sound, his legs were suddenly pulled from the Black Tide.
Gwyn managed to jump from the sludge, which had been halfway up his calves, to an area the Black Tide had just begun to erode.
“It seems the stats boosted by level 2 Golden Blood are quite high.
With intensive training, I should easily reach the level of an elite soldier.” Amazed that he had actually jumped nearly five meters, Gwyn sprinted toward the area untouched by the Black Tide while turning his head to look at the three-dog formation that had almost surrounded him, wondering if he could take those three dogs out— “Once they lose their mouths as a weapon…” But before Gwyn could come up with a plan, he saw the entire Black Tide in the distance suddenly surge violently, as if some massive creature was about to appear.
The next moment, the Black Tide splashed up into the sky like seawater, and a massive shark leaped out from within.
Its enormous body soared into the sky, blocking out the dim moonlight.
A black shadow loomed over Gwyn, and its gaping maw, dripping with black slime, opened wide, crashing down toward him as if intending to swallow him in one gulp.
“Damn it!
Do you think I’m Japanese or something!” Seeing that the Black Tide was leaving him no path to survival, Gwyn looked up at the black shark that was about to swallow him whole— “Screw it, I’m done!” Gritting his teeth, Gwyn gripped his scimitar and bent his knees slightly, preparing to slash the inside of this monster’s mouth before he died.
Based on its size alone, this thing was not something he could contend with; he would take whatever strike he could get.
Meanwhile, in the Black Tide not far away, Hysilens, who had just scattered a group of Black Tide creations, sensed something.
She turned her head and saw the falling shark about to swallow Gwyn whole.!
Hysilens’s pupils constricted.
Without hesitation, she raised her hand and hurled the harp bow in her grasp toward the distant shark—