Have You Ever Had the Experience of Sticking Your Little Finger Deep into Your Nostril While Washing Your Face, Causing Bleeding?

The champion cyclops, letting out a piercing wail, clutched its single eye with both hands, rolling on the ground as if the earth itself was shaking.

Its violent thrashing, however, only accelerated the liquid spewing from between its fingers.

This was a mixture of blood and aqueous humor, flowing from the cyclops's eye after it had been gouged by the Metal Claw.

While the single eye granted the cyclops powerful long-range vision, it also created a massive weakness that hadn't existed before.

That weakness was the eye itself.

High strength did indeed lead to superior physical conditioning, but it didn't mean every part of the body was strengthened equally.

For instance, eyes, eardrums, and testicles—unless you were on the level of Superman, these areas remained vulnerable.

The cyclops merely had dulled pain receptors, similar to large creatures like giraffes or elephants. The transmission of damage to extremities was significantly delayed. But the eye, being one of the organs closest to the brain, meant that even a cyclops, unless its pain sensation was completely gone, couldn't endure the immense agony of having its eyeball plucked out.

The only ones who could probably casually hot-swap their eyeballs without regard for pain were from the Uchiha clan...

Compared to a regular two-eyed cyclops, the single-eyed cyclops's eyeball had a much denser distribution of sensitive nerves. Not only did it have to endure greater pain, but any attack that directly hit its exposed eyeball would trigger a "weak point critical hit" effect with no damage reduction.

This time, the Ghost Cicada's Metal Claw was even more brutal, landing a triple critical hit that directly ruptured the aqueous humor!

If someone had a dragon-slaying arrow siege crossbow or something similar, it probably wouldn't be difficult to instantly kill this cyclops with a single shot.

Of course, such a precious opportunity for a critical hit was a one-time thing, as the cyclops's left hand was already firmly pressed against its injured eye. The intense pain had rapidly transformed into berserk rage and killing intent.

Its tiny brain naturally couldn't connect the "injured eye" with the "scent of humans," but that didn't stop it from venting its fury by trying to kill every living thing.

It let out muffled, guttural roars, spraying saliva everywhere, and stumbled towards Cheng Tian, following the distinct human scent... However, Cheng Tian, who remained in place, watched as the creature started veering left as it walked.

Even a cyclops couldn't escape the limitations of a humanoid body structure. After temporarily or permanently losing its vision, the cyclops, 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 found Cheng Tian.

...Unfortunately, Cheng Tian had also noticed this.

He saw that the cyclops, which had clearly deviated from its path, paused briefly before turning its face, still covering its eye, back towards him. He knew then how it had likely determined his position.

And Cheng Tian's countermeasure was—

"Avada Kedavra!!!"

With a casual shift of his grip, Cheng Tian aimed his Gentleman's Staff at the cyclops, which was now almost within reach, feeling like it could grab him with just two or three more steps.

During the one-second channeling and the subsequent release of the hexagram missile, Cheng Tian also took the opportunity to issue a second command.

"Ghost Cicada! Hover and await orders!"

As he gave the command, Cheng Tian himself charged forward, chasing after the hexagram missile instead of retreating.

The Polymorph missile struck the cyclops, which couldn't see anything at all.

With a "bang," a duck noticeably larger than a normal one appeared, flapping its wings, emitting a terrible stench, and sporting the characteristic bleeding single eye and horn on its head.

Here, the cyclops duck's already injured eye fully demonstrated the dual form influence of Polymorph.

As a champion-tier unit, the duration of the Polymorph was further compressed, lasting less than two seconds.

Considering the missile impact and Cheng Tian's charge, the Polymorph would likely have worn off 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 a sufficient distance, looking as if he intended to stomp it flat with a "thousand-pound drop." Just then, the Polymorph failed. The duck rapidly expanded back to its original cyclops size. Cheng Tian, who should have been falling, landed directly on the cyclops's head and was immediately propelled upwards.

Before the cyclops could even react to what had happened to its body in those few seconds, a pain almost as intense as the injury to its eye instantly surged into its walnut-sized brain!

Cheng Tian, seemingly unaffected by the cyclops's stench, grabbed the cyclops's horn with his left hand to hang on, suspending himself on the cyclops's face. Then, with his right hand, he fiercely thrust his straight sword upwards at an angle—

The blade plunged directly into the cyclops's nostril!

Cheng Tian, the scoundrel, even gave it a good twist!

Previously, it was blood mixed with eye fluid; now, it was blood mixed with thick snot!

The disgustingness level had gone up another notch!

They say a wounded beast is the most dangerous, and this held true for the cyclops.

The cyclops, in its agonizing rage, instantly unleashed unimaginable agility. Its massive left hand clamped around Cheng Tian's waist, lifting him effortlessly into the air like a prize from a claw machine. Then, using almost all its strength, it violently slammed Cheng Tian towards the ground!

Simply eating him raw was no longer enough to vent its rage; it wanted to smash this human into a pulp and then defecate on the remains!

However, the cyclops failed to notice that as it lifted the human high above its head, the grip it held underwent an "imperceptible" change.

"Die!"

Accompanied by the cyclops's roar, a human-shaped crater appeared directly on the ground.

A slam throw is probably the most dangerous human close-combat technique. If the fighting arena is also hard ground, the fatality rate increases by several more percentage points.

The enraged attack of a cyclops with a height exceeding 6 meters and a strength stat of 29 was more than enough to instantly kill Cheng Tian. Even if he didn't die, his internal organs would likely rupture, his bones shatter, and he would be completely paralyzed—

Yet, as dust flew, so did a large amount of metal fragments and... Cheng Tian himself, completely intact!

And he didn't look like a smashed rag doll at all!

It turned out that at the very moment he was about to be grabbed and slammed down by the cyclops, Cheng Tian had utilized the mechanism of his empty equipment slots allowing him to equip items without a cooldown, and temporarily put on the Knight Armor.

The Knight Armor lived up to its mission. As Cheng Tian was subjected to the "slam throw," it absorbed the full damage and extra kinetic energy of the throw at the cost of its own complete destruction. It then immediately triggered a bounce effect and a Phase Shift effect, throwing Cheng Tian back about three meters.

The cyclops, its nasal cavity filled with snot and blood, its fragile nasal septum pierced by Cheng Tian's two vigorous twists, had its sense of smell completely incapacitated. In its agitated state, more aqueous humor and blood spurted from beneath its eyelids.

Cheng Tian, at the cost of the Knight Armor shattering, was almost completely unharmed!

A fierce expression once again appeared on Cheng Tian's face as he sprang up from the ground.