"Hiss—hiss!"
The Golden Beetle suffered a devastating blow and let out an utterly miserable cry, but the sound abruptly cut off.
Richard's hands were wrapped in energy as he viciously grabbed both sides of the Golden Beetle's head. With a sudden exertion of force, there was a ripping sound as he tore its entire head off.
After losing its head, the Golden Beetle did not die. Instead, a pair of new eyes appeared within the wound at its neck—these were its real eyes, and behind them lay its true head. The eyes Richard had shattered and the head he had torn off had merely been camouflage, a substitute.
Richard was not surprised. After observing it for a long time with the Gaze of the Eye, he had already discovered this.
He reached for the eyes exposed in the wound on its neck, but the Golden Beetle was extremely wary. It swiftly retracted its real eyes and true head into its body, sealing the wound and denying Richard his chance.
Having lost its fake head, the Golden Beetle's entire body now appeared almost seamless, like an egg without a single crack. It was impossible to tell where to strike.
But Richard knew.
He did not possess Molly's mysterious eyes that could see through an enemy's weaknesses, but through his own penetrating vision, he had already identified several ways to break through the Golden Beetle's monstrous defenses.
The next moment, without hesitation, energy erupted from his hands as he slammed them into one spot on the Golden Beetle's side. As the energy poured forth, that section immediately caved in, and cracks spread across the surrounding shell.
This was only the beginning. The four Energy Furnaces in his body operated at full capacity, firing out an unending barrage of energy that blasted countless