Namo Diamondhead Gatling Bodhisattva

Diamondhead.

Petrosapiens were silicon-based lifeforms, their entire bodies composed of pale green crystals.

These crystals resembled Sky Crystal Jade, though they were not actually the same. But without a doubt, Diamondhead's body was incredibly tough. To him, steel was no different from papier-mâché.

"I didn't expect Diamondhead. Honestly, I think Heatblast would have been better suited for this situation."

The situation had been too urgent just now for Ben to check which Alien Hero had appeared on the Little Broken Watch. Otherwise, Heatblast would definitely have been his first choice. Burn all these monsters to ashes and see how they recovered!

"But Diamondhead isn't bad either!"

Ben glanced at his hands and lightly clenched his fists. He felt powerful strength coursing through his entire body.

Of course. Diamondhead had once defeated Vilgax in a one-on-one fight, and he had the glorious record of beating Goop.

At that moment, Ben's eyes brimmed with fighting spirit, the hideous faces of the monsters reflected in his emerald pupils—

"Come on, monsters!"

He flexed his limbs. The enormous Spider Monster before him posed no threat at all in his eyes. He raised his right arm, pressed his fingertips together, and turned his palm into a blade—

Green crystals spread across it in an instant, transforming his arm into a sharp longsword!

Petrosapiens possessed the ability to manipulate molecular restructuring and alter their body's structure at will. It could be said that their own bodies were an all-purpose armory.

"Roar!!!"

The Spider Monster had just had both pincers snapped off. Pain and rage drove it to unleash a terrifying roar. It was as towering as an artificial hill; even standing still, its massive body made it hard to breathe.

Not to mention that it was now consumed by fury. Its mutated arthropods wrapped around it like bones, yet also formed an indestructible suit of black armor.

The instant it moved, the armor across its body clashed with a thunderous metallic roar!

It wanted to tear the thing before it to pieces!

However...

"Whoosh!"

A flash of blade-light cut through the air!

Ben raised his arm high, the reverse edge angled upward as though cleaving down a flying swallow—

In that instant, the Spider Monster seemed not to realize what had happened. Its body continued forward, but it lost its balance, and even the scene in its compound eyes shifted, as if the world itself had been cut apart.

Then, a crack bloomed down the center of its body—green blood erupted like a waterfall, splattering across the inner walls of the tower and streaming into the central hall.

"Boom!!!"

The tank-sized Spider Monster was split in half by Ben's single slash. Its reinforced bones, tougher than steel, were more fragile than tofu before Diamondhead's blade.

It no longer had the strength to support itself against the wall. Its spear-like legs curled upward as it fell toward the ground dozens of meters below.

"Thud!"

The tower seemed to shake three times.

Ben coldly withdrew his blade and fixed his sharp gaze on the Lizard Monsters still clinging around the area, surrounding him. This time, it was the monsters' turn to tremble!

These monsters, which should have obeyed Doctor Animo without question, felt fear rise from the depths of their hearts.

On one hand, after Animo left, the effects of his controller over the monsters had weakened. On the other, Diamondhead's overwhelming strength reminded them of a living creature's instinct—

The fear of death!

They began to retreat. Their crawling limbs trembled as they cautiously stepped back, gray fur threaded with scales standing on end in terror, while weak, threatening hisses came from their mouths.

Ben altered his feet, restructuring them so they could grip the wall firmly.

For every step he took forward, the monsters fearfully backed away one step.

Their knotted tails curled up, waiting only for the first monster to be overwhelmed by fear and flee. Then they would scatter at once.

None of them wanted to be the first to run—not because they possessed any sense of honor, but because they knew that the first to flee would inevitably draw all of Ben's firepower.

But even so, if they did not run, they would still be slaughtered!

Killing intent gathered in Ben's eyes.

Then, he moved.

The wall of the tower beneath his feet shattered under a single stomp!

He dove downward like a cannonball, his body spinning as he fell.

At that moment, sharp blades grew from his back and both arms. His rapidly spinning body made those blades too fast to follow—

"Splat, splat, splat—"

The sounds of flesh bursting rang out one after another!

Ben had become a moving meat grinder!

He carved a bloody path through the monsters, his spinning blades tearing up a hurricane and drawing the Lizard Monsters in along the way!

The blades flashed like afterimages, slicing apart the monsters as easily as a sword cutting wildflowers along a country road—beheading some, cutting others in half at the waist, and grinding still others into pulp.

In the blink of an eye, the monsters caught within were ground into mush and burst apart. A torrential rain of blood and minced flesh poured down inside Osborn Tower, flooding the floor of the main hall with a splatter.

Thud!

Ben landed like a god of war!

"So cutting off the torso and head prevents them from regenerating?"

Looking at the severed limbs and chunks of flesh scattered everywhere, as well as the bodies left with only half their forms, Ben gained a clearer understanding of the Lizard Monsters' regenerative abilities.

It seemed Doctor Animo's mutagenic genes had not enhanced these monsters' regenerative abilities.

At that moment, he looked at the remaining monsters above him and coldly shook the thick blood from his arm blades.

Next, he would wipe out every last one of these monsters!

When the remaining Lizard Monsters saw this, their pitifully small brains could no longer hold anything else. They only wanted to escape this hell immediately!

However,

"Trying to run?"

Ben sneered.

Those monsters had chased him for so long. Now that the Little Broken Watch's cooldown had finally ended, how could he possibly let them escape?

He retracted his arm blades. Without even looking at the Lizard Monsters trying to smash through the tower walls and flee, he drove a heavy fist into the ground beneath his feet!

The next moment,

With his fist as the center, crystal spread through the tower in an instant!

In less than a moment, Osborn Tower seemed to have been frozen in pale green crystal, becoming an indestructible diamond tower!

The Lizard Monsters tried to break through the walls, only to smash their heads bloody.

Ben sneered and raised both arms. His palms vanished, replaced by thorn-like structures. Protruding crystals aimed at the Lizard Monsters like loaded Gatling guns.

"Taste the power of Namo Gatling Bodhisattva!"

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat—"