Special Research

Xi Xiu switched to a different weapon.

It was a long blade designed for her by Xue Fanhui, forged from an entirely new material.

Unlike conventional cold weapons, its special quality lay in the material used to make it.

After the previous Insects incident, every master craftsman in the Alliance had been working day and night.

So that if such creatures appeared again in the future, the Alliance would have sufficiently powerful weapons for its warriors.

The weapon in Xi Xiu's hand was specifically made to slice through creatures with tough skin.

The raw materials used to make it were extremely sharp and incorporated special biotechnology capable of breaking down resilient skin.

This biotechnology could dissolve the skin of their shells.

Furthermore, wounds inflicted by this weapon could suppress their recovery speed.

This was the Alliance's special research in response to the many recently appearing creatures with extremely rapid self-healing abilities.

The weapons had already been distributed to the various garrisons.

Everyone else was using this kind of weapon as well.

Xi Xiu picked her target and advanced in a curved path, the wind howling past her ears.

Xi Xiu threw out several hoverboards in midair. With the assistance of her wearable mech, she leaped onto them, flashed around once before her opponent's eyes at such speed that she left afterimages, then unexpectedly moved behind it.

Before its tentacles could lash toward her, she slashed from one shoulder blade all the way across to the other side of its back.

Before long, the flesh on its back curled open and dissolved at a visible rate.

After Xi Xiu cut it, the creature felt an unfamiliar kind of pain.

But it did not care.

Such a minor wound would recover within minutes.

Yet during the battle that followed, it discovered that