Have You Ever Jabbed Your Little Finger Deep into Your Nostril While Washing Your Face and Made It Bleed?

The Champion Cyclops let out a shrill howl as it clutched its single eye tightly with both hands and rolled across the ground, making the earth tremble.

Yet such violent movement only made the fluid spray out faster through the gaps between its fingers.

It was a mixture of blood and aqueous humor leaking from the Cyclops's eyeball after the Metal Claw had torn it open.

The single eye granted the Cyclops powerful long-range vision, but it had also given it a huge weakness that had not existed before.

That weakness was the eye itself.

High Strength did indeed bring greater physical prowess, but it did not strengthen every part of the body equally.

Take the eyeballs, eardrums, and testicles, for example. Unless you had a body on Superman's level, those places would remain fragile.

The Cyclops merely had dull pain nerves. Like giraffes, elephants, and other large-bodied creatures, it had an extremely long delay in feeling injuries to its extremities. But the eyeball was one of the organs closest to the brain. Unless its sense of pain was completely impaired, even a Cyclops could not endure the excruciating agony of having its eyeball gouged out.

The only people who could probably ignore the pain and casually hot-swap their eyeballs were the Uchiha...

Compared to ordinary two-eyed Cyclopes, the single-eyed Cyclops had a much denser distribution of sensitive nerves in its eyeball. Not only did it have to endure more pain, but any attack that directly struck its exposed eyeball would trigger the "Weak-Point Critical Hit" effect without any damage reduction.

This time, Demon Cicada's Metal Claw had gone even further, landing a triple critical hit and scratching the aqueous humor right out!

If someone could build something like a dragon-slaying arrow or a siege crossbow, killing this Cyclops in a single shot probably would not be difficult.

Of course, there would only be one chance to land such a precious Weak-Point Critical Hit. The Cyclops's left hand had already clamped firmly over its injured eye, and its intense pain had rapidly transformed into berserk rage and murderous intent.

Its tiny brain naturally could not connect "eye injury" with "human scent," but that did not stop it from venting its fury by killing every living thing around it.

It let out an indistinct, muffled roar, spraying saliva everywhere as it staggered toward Cheng Tian, following the unmistakable human scent... However, Cheng Tian remained where he was, watching as the creature gradually began veering to the left while it walked.

Even a Cyclops could not escape the limitations of a humanoid body. After losing its sight, whether temporarily or permanently, its already poor fine control over its body had made it almost impossible for it to walk in a straight line.

Without the human scent guiding it, it might never have managed to reach Cheng Tian in its entire life.

Unfortunately, Cheng noticed this as well.

When he saw the Cyclops, despite having veered off course, pause briefly before turning its blind, eye-covering face toward him again, he knew it had probably found some way to determine his position.

Cheng Tian's countermeasure was—

"Avada Kedavra!!!"

With an easy change of grip, Cheng Tian aimed the Gentleman's Staff at the Cyclops, which was already practically within arm's reach. It seemed that after two or three more steps, it would be able to raise a hand and touch him.

During the one-second casting time and the subsequent flight of the hexagram missile, Cheng Tian hurriedly issued a second command.

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

While giving the order, Cheng Tian himself charged forward instead of retreating, chasing after the hexagram missile.

The Polymorph missile struck the Cyclops, which could not see a thing.

With a bang, a duck appeared. It was noticeably larger than an ordinary duck, its wings flapping wildly, a terrifying stench radiating from it, and its head bearing the Cyclops's signature bleeding single eye and horn.

The injured eye of the Cyclops Duck fully demonstrated the two-way effect of Polymorph's transformation.

As a Champion Template unit, the duration of Polymorph had been further reduced, dropping to less than two seconds.

After accounting for the missile's impact and Cheng Tian's forward charge, Polymorph would probably wear off before he could even touch the foul-smelling Cyclops Duck.

But that was exactly what Cheng Tian wanted!

When he saw that the Cyclops Duck was close enough, Cheng Tian leaped into the air, looking as though he intended to crush it beneath a thousand-jin stomp. At that very moment, Polymorph ended. The duck rapidly expanded back to the Cyclops's original size, and Cheng Tian, who should have been falling, landed directly on the monster's head before being launched upward by it.

Before the Cyclops could figure out what had happened to it over the past few seconds, agony nearly equal to the pain in its eye surged into its pine-nut-sized brain!

Apparently completely unaffected by the Cyclops's foul stench, Cheng Tian grabbed its horn with his left hand and hung on as though it were a handle, leaving his entire body suspended against the monster's face. Then he gripped the straight sword in his right hand and drove it hard upward at an angle—

The blade plunged straight into the Cyclops's nostril!

That bastard Cheng Tian even twisted it around twice!

Before, blood mixed with aqueous humor had sprayed out. Now, blood mixed with thick mucus was flowing down!

The disgustingness had reached an entirely new level!

People said that wounded beasts were the most dangerous. The same held true for Cyclopes.

The Cyclops, overcome by agony and rage, instantly burst into unimaginable speed. Its enormous left hand clamped around Cheng Tian's waist, lifting him effortlessly into the air like a claw machine grabbing a toy. Then, using nearly all its strength, it slammed Cheng Tian violently toward the ground!

Simply eating him alive clearly could not vent the Cyclops's fury anymore. It wanted to smash this human into mincemeat, then take a huge dump directly on the meat paste!

However, the Cyclops failed to notice that when it lifted the human in its hand high above its head, the sensation of what it was holding had changed in a way that was "difficult to detect."

"Die!"

Accompanied by the Cyclops's roar, a human-shaped crater appeared in the ground.

A throwing technique was probably the most dangerous move in close-quarters combat. If the fight took place on hard ground, the mortality rate would rise by several more percentage points.

The single-eyed Cyclops stood over six meters tall and possessed 29 points of Strength. Its enraged strike was more than enough to kill Cheng Tian instantly. Even if he survived, his internal organs would likely rupture and his bones shatter, leaving him completely paralyzed—

Yet as dust billowed into the air, a large number of metal fragments flew out as well, along with Cheng Tian himself, perfectly intact!

He did not look even slightly like a smashed rag doll!

As it turned out, at the instant before the Cyclops grabbed him and smashed him down, Cheng Tian had taken advantage of the empty equipment slot's mechanic, which allowed him to equip items without a cooldown, and temporarily put on the Knight Armor.

The Knight Armor had lived up to its duty. When Cheng Tian was "violently slammed by the throwing technique," it absorbed the attack's full damage and additional kinetic energy at the cost of completely shattering itself. It then immediately triggered its ejection and Phase Shift effects, throwing Cheng Tian nearly three meters backward.

The Cyclops's nasal cavity was packed with mucus and blood, and its fragile nasal septum had been pierced through by Cheng Tian's vigorous twisting. Its sense of smell had completely failed, while its emotional agitation caused even more aqueous humor and blood to spray from beneath its eyelid.

Cheng Tian, at the cost of shattering the Knight Armor, was practically unscathed himself!

A crazed expression appeared once more on Cheng Tian's face as he sprang up from the ground like a carp leaping upright.