The Champion Giant, letting out a piercing wail, was clutching its single eye tightly with both hands, rolling on the ground as if the earth itself was shaking.
However, such violent movement only served to further accelerate the liquid spraying from between its fingers.
This was a mixture of blood and aqueous humor flowing out after the Giant's eyeball was pierced by the Metal Claw.
While the single eye granted the Giant powerful long-range vision, it also added a massive weakness that it originally did not possess.
That weakness was the single eye itself.
High Strength indeed brings superior physical conditioning, but it doesn't mean every part of the body is reinforced uniformly.
For example, the eyeballs, the eardrums, or the testicles—unless you possess the physical level of a Superman, these areas remain fragile.
Giants only have dulled pain nerves; similar to large organisms like giraffes or elephants, the transmission delay for injuries to extremities is extremely high. But the problem is, the eyeball is one of the organs closest to the Brain. As long as the sense of pain isn't completely lost, even a Giant cannot endure the immense agony of having its eyeball gouged out.
Only the Uchiha clan could probably perform eyeball hot-swapping without regard for pain...
Compared to ordinary two-eyed Giants, the Cyclops has significantly more sensitive nerve endings in its eye. Not only does it suffer greater pain, but any attack that directly hits its exposed eyeball will trigger the "Weak Point Critical Hit" effect without any damage attenuation.
This time, Ghost Cicada's Metal Claw went further, landing a triple critical hit, immediately scratching out the aqueous humor!
If someone could set up a Dragon Slaying Arrow siege crossbow or something similar, instantly killing this Cyclops probably wouldn't be difficult.
Of course, such a precious Weak Point Critical Hit opportunity would only happen once, because the Giant's left hand was already firmly pressed against its injured single eye, and the intense pain was rapidly transforming into berserk rage and killing intent.
Its miniature Brain naturally couldn't support linking "eye injury" with "human scent," but that didn't stop it from venting its fury by trying to kill every living thing.
It let out muffled, slurred roars while drooling everywhere, staggering towards Cheng Tian, guided by the distinct human scent... However, Cheng Tian, who remained in place, watched as the opponent started veering left while walking.
Even Giants cannot escape the physical structural limitations of Humanoid Creatures. After temporarily or permanently losing its sight, the Giant, which already lacked fine motor Control, could barely walk in a straight line.
If it weren't for the human scent guiding it, it might never have been able to reach Cheng Tian in its lifetime.
...Coincidentally, Cheng Mouren had also noticed this.
When he saw the Giant, which had clearly deviated from its path, pause briefly before turning its face, still covering its eye, back towards him, he knew what method the creature was using to pinpoint his location.
And Cheng Tian's countermeasure was—
"Avada Kedavra!!!"
With a casual hand switch, Cheng Tian aimed his Gentleman's Staff at the Cyclops, which was almost within arm's reach, feeling like it only needed two or three more steps and an outstretched hand to touch him.
And during the one second of channeling and the subsequent launch of the Hexagram Missile, Cheng Tian seized the opportunity to issue a second command.
"Ghost Cicada! Hover in Standby! Await my command!"
While issuing the command, Cheng Tian himself charged forward, chasing after the Hexagram Missile instead of retreating.
The Transfiguration Missile struck the Cyclops, which couldn't see anything at all.
With a 'thump,' a duck appeared, clearly a size larger than a normal duck, flapping its Wings wildly, emitting a terrible stench, and bearing the signature bleeding single eye and single horn on its head.
Here, the Cyclops Duck's already injured eye fully demonstrated the dual-directional form influence of the Polymorph spell.
As a Champion Template unit, the duration of the Polymorph spell was further compressed, lasting less than two seconds.
Counting the missile impact and Cheng Tian's charge, the Polymorph would likely expire before he even touched the foul-smelling Cyclops Duck.
But, this was exactly what Cheng Tian wanted!
Cheng Tian leaped towards the Cyclops Duck, which was now at sufficient range, looking as if he intended to crush it with a heavy stomp. At that moment, the Polymorph spell failed, and the duck rapidly inflated back to the Giant's original volume. Cheng Tian, who should have been falling down, instead landed squarely on the Giant's head and was immediately propelled upwards.
Before the Giant could process what had happened to its body over those few seconds, a pain almost equal to that of its eye injury instantly struck its walnut-sized Brain!
Cheng Tian, seemingly completely unaffected by the Giant's foul odor, grabbed the Giant's single horn as a handle to hang onto, suspending his entire body on the Giant's face. Then, he thrust the straight sword held in his right hand sharply upwards and diagonally—
The blade plunged directly into the Giant's Nasal Cavity!
Cheng Tian, that bastard, even gave it a few vigorous twists!
The previous spray was blood mixed with the aqueous humor from the eyeball, but now it was blood mixed with thick snot flowing out!
The level of Disgustingness increased by another notch!
It is said that a wounded beast is the most dangerous; this saying also applies to Giants.
The enraged Giant, writhing in extreme pain, instantly erupted with unimaginable Agility. Its fan-sized left hand violently grabbed Cheng Tian's waist, lifting him effortlessly into the air like picking up a claw machine prize, and then, using almost all its strength, it violently slammed Cheng Tian towards the ground!
Simply eating him raw was clearly not enough to vent the Giant's anger; it wanted to smash this Human into meat paste and then defecate a large pile right onto the paste!
However, the Giant failed to notice that just as it raised the Human in its grasp above its head, the grip it had on the person underwent an "imperceptible" change.
"Die!"
Accompanied by the Giant's roar, a Humanoid Pit instantly appeared on the ground.
Grappling techniques are perhaps the most dangerous of close-quarters Fighting skills for Humans, and if the fighting ground is hard earth, the mortality rate increases by another few tens of percent.
The enraged strike from the Cyclops, possessing a height over 6 meters and a Strength Attribute of 29, was absolutely enough to Instant Kill Cheng Tian. Even if he didn't die, his internal organs would likely rupture and his Bones shatter, leaving him completely paralyzed—
Yet, as dust billowed, a large quantity of Metal Fragments flew out along with... the completely intact Cheng Tian himself!
And he didn't look like a doll that had been smashed!
It turned out that at the very moment he was about to be seized and smashed down by the Giant, Cheng Tian utilized the mechanism allowing instant equipping from an empty Equipment Slot without cooldown, temporarily equipping the Knight Armor.
And the Knight Armor lived up to its Mission; while Cheng Tian was being "Slammed by Grappling techniques," it absorbed the full damage and extra Kinetic Energy of the throw at the cost of being completely shattered, immediately triggering the Ricochet effect and the Phase Shift Effect, throwing Cheng Tian backward about three meters.
The Giant's Nasal Cavity was filled with snot and blood, and the fragile nasal septum was pierced through by Cheng Tian's two vigorous twists. Its sense of smell was completely disabled, and under emotional agitation, more aqueous humor and blood sprayed from beneath its eyelids.
Cheng Tian, at the cost of the Knight Armor shattering, was almost completely unharmed!
A manic expression reappeared on Cheng Tian's face as he sprang back up.