Have You Ever Jabbed Your Pinky into Your Nostril While Washing Your Face and Made It Spray Blood?

The Champion Giant let out a shrill wail as it clutched its single eye tightly with both hands and rolled across the ground like the earth was shaking.

Yet those violent movements only made the fluid between its fingers spray out even faster.

It was a mixture of blood and aqueous humor that had flowed out when the Metal Claw tore open the giant's eyeball.

While its single eye granted the giant powerful long-range vision, it also gave it a massive weakness it had never possessed before.

That weakness was the single eye itself.

High Strength Attributes did bring greater physical fitness, but they did not strengthen every part of the body equally.

Eyeballs, eardrums, balls—unless your body was on Superman's level, those areas remained fragile.

The giant merely had dull pain nerves. Like large creatures such as giraffes and elephants, injuries to its extremities took an extremely long time to register. But the eyeball was practically one of the organs closest to the brain. As long as its sense of pain had not failed completely, even a giant could not endure the agony of having its eye gouged out.

The only people who could probably casually swap out eyeballs while ignoring the pain were the Uchiha clan...

Compared to ordinary two-eyed giants, a Cyclops had noticeably more sensitive nerves concentrated in its eye. Not only did it have to endure greater pain, but any attack that landed directly on its exposed eyeball triggered a Weakness Critical effect without any damage reduction.

This time, Ghost Cicada's Metal Claw was even nastier. It landed a triple critical and scratched out the aqueous humor on the spot!

If someone could get hold of something like a dragon-slaying bolt or a siege crossbow, one-shotting this Cyclops probably would not be difficult.

Of course, such a precious chance to land a weakness critical only came once. The giant's left hand had already firmly covered its injured eye, and the intense pain swiftly transformed into frenzied rage and killing intent.

Its tiny brain naturally could not support connecting "injured eye" with "human scent," but that did not stop it from venting its rage by killing every living thing around it.

It let out a muffled, saliva-spraying roar as it staggered toward Cheng Tian along the distinct human scent... Yet Cheng Tian, who remained where he was, watched as it gradually started veering left while walking.

Even giants could not escape the physical limitations of humanoid creatures. After losing its vision, whether temporarily or permanently, the giant—already woefully lacking in fine bodily control—could barely walk in a straight line.

If human scent had not guided it, it might never have been able to reach Cheng Tian for the rest of its life.

...Unfortunately, Cheng Tian noticed that as well.

When he saw the giant, which had clearly drifted off course, briefly pause before turning its eye-covering face back toward him, he knew it had some way of determining his position.

And Cheng Tian's response was—

"Avada Kedavra!!!"

With an easy switch of hands, Cheng Tian aimed his gentleman's cane at the Cyclops, which was nearly within arm's reach and looked as though it only needed to take another two or three steps and raise a hand to touch him.

During the one-second channeling and the subsequent launch of the hexagram projectile, Cheng Tian hurriedly issued a second command.

"Ghost Cicada! Hover on standby! Wait for my command!"

As he gave the order, Cheng Tian advanced rather than retreated, charging forward behind the hexagram projectile.

The Transfiguration projectile struck the Cyclops, which could not see a thing.

With a bang, a duck appeared—clearly a size larger than an ordinary duck, flapping its wings wildly and reeking horribly, with a distinctive bleeding single eye and horn on its head.

The injured eye of this Cyclops duck fully demonstrated Transfiguration's two-way effect on forms.

As a Champion Template unit, the duration of the Transfiguration had been compressed even further, to less than two seconds.

Factoring in the projectile's impact and Cheng Tian's charge, the Transfiguration would likely wear off before he even reached the foul-smelling one-eyed duck.

But that was exactly what Cheng Tian wanted!

He leaped at the Cyclops duck now within range, looking as if he intended to crush it flat with a falling stomp. At that moment, the Transfiguration wore off. The duck rapidly expanded back to the giant's original size, and Cheng Tian, who should have fallen, instead planted his feet directly atop the giant's head before being lifted high into the air.

Before the giant could figure out what had happened to it in those few seconds, a pain nearly equal to its injured eye instantly surged into its pine-nut-sized brain!

Apparently completely unaffected by the giant's foul stench, Cheng Tian seized its horn with his left hand and hung from it like a handle, leaving his whole body dangling from the giant's face. Then, with the straight sword in his right hand, he viciously thrust upward at an angle—

The blade drove straight into the giant's nostril!

And that bastard Cheng Tian even twisted it twice with force!

Just moments ago, blood mixed with aqueous humor had been spraying everywhere. Now, blood mixed with thick snot came flowing out!

The disgust factor rose to a whole new level!

They said wounded beasts were the most dangerous, and that was equally true of giants.

Blinded by excruciating pain and rage, the giant suddenly erupted with unimaginable agility. Its fan-sized left hand grabbed Cheng Tian around the waist, effortlessly lifted him into the air like a claw machine prize, then hurled him viciously toward the ground with nearly all its strength!

Simply eating him alive was clearly no longer enough to vent its fury. It wanted to smash this human into meat paste, then take a huge dump right on top of it!

Yet the giant failed to notice that when it lifted the human in its hand above its head, the sensation of its grip underwent an "imperceptible" change.

"Die!"

Along with the giant's roar, a human-shaped crater appeared in the ground.

Throws were probably the most dangerous techniques in close-quarters human combat. If the fight took place on hard ground, the fatality rate rose even higher.

The enraged blow of a Cyclops over six meters tall with a Strength Attribute of 29 was more than enough to instantly kill Cheng Tian. Even if he survived, his organs would likely rupture and his bones be shattered, leaving him completely paralyzed—

Yet amid the billowing dust, a huge number of metal fragments flew out as well as... Cheng Tian himself, completely intact!

And he looked nothing like a smashed rag doll!

It turned out that at the instant the giant grabbed him and was about to slam him down, Cheng Tian exploited the small mechanic that allowed an empty Equipment Slot to equip something instantly without cooldown, temporarily putting on the Knight Armor.

And the Knight Armor lived up to its duty. When Cheng Tian was violently thrown, it completely shattered itself to absorb the throw's full damage and additional kinetic force, immediately triggering the launch effect and Phase Shift effect, throwing Cheng Tian roughly three meters backward.

The giant's nasal cavity was filled with snot and blood, its fragile nasal septum had been pierced straight through by Cheng Tian's two savage twists, and its sense of smell had completely failed. In its emotional agitation, even more aqueous humor and blood sprayed out from beneath its eyelid.

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

A crazed expression appeared once more on Cheng Tian's face as he sprang back to his feet.