"Proficiency +1"
As the translucent characters flashed before his eyes, the ochre-red glow that had already gathered over the iron-gray blade the moment his palm closed around the hilt suddenly flared bright.
The Beheading Longsword, driven straight into the giant snake's throat, was swallowed in an instant by a burst of force-field energy that exploded like fireworks.
It ignored physical defense.
From the inside out, bone, sinew, flesh, scales, and skin—the body that could easily withstand a full-power blow from a professional-level powerhouse—offered not the slightest resistance under the impact of that ochre-red force-field energy erupting from within.
As if a time bomb had been planted deep in its throat, the powerful shock shattered its vertebrae into powder, and pus-blood wrapped around chunks of flesh burst outward in every direction.
Boom—the Dried Corpse, frozen in place after the longsword pierced its throat, turned in the blink of an eye back into the headless mangled body it had been dozens of seconds earlier.
At the same time, the Wooden Sword in his right hand kept driving forward. With a turn of his wrist, the two snake heads biting tightly into Xia Nan's arm were also burned and severed, twitching and writhing as they fell to the ground.
Forcing down the sharp pain in his shoulder, he took the lesson from just now to heart. Even though all four giant snakes that had emerged from the Dried Corpse's body had already been hacked apart, he did not withdraw his sword.
"!!!"
The pitch-black Wooden Sword wreathed in crimson flame kept swinging through the air. Amid the harsh noises of sharp edges tearing flesh and fire searing meat, the Dried Corpse's already even more mutilated, gaunt body after its transformation was reduced in an instant to a pile of charred black corpse chunks