Another "Treasure"

Linsey's vision turned blood-red.

Inside the Flesh Lake, severed limbs were everywhere, mixed with all sorts of inexplicable, disgusting substances.

Swimming here...

was like moving through a mudslide—excruciatingly difficult.

Even with the perfect swimming ability granted by his equipment, Linsey could only move about as fast as an ordinary person wading through a river.

And after he jumped into the Flesh Lake...

the Corruption Poison permeating the area found its target and swarmed toward him.

Then...

there was no then.

The seeds of the Withered Overlord Flower, the Healthy Body obtained by killing Mutated Ones, the resistance boosts from his equipment, and Life Source Material's innate restraint over Corruption Poison.

All those buffs on Linsey directly kept every trace of Corruption Poison outside his body.

Even within this lake water specifically meant to corrupt and infect living beings,

the enemy's power could do nothing to him.

Watching his position on the map, Linsey continued onward and soon arrived near the Hidden Space.

Plop—

Linsey came to a halt in the bloody lake water.

An obstacle appeared ahead.

Deep within the lake, the Corruption Poison connected and converged.

It fused with the nearby flesh, forming an enormous flesh cocoon beneath the water's surface.

When Linsey reached out and touched it, he could even sense a faint flow of source material.

The cocoon was devouring something, drawing out the other party's source material power and releasing it into the surrounding Flesh Lake water.

"This is the place."

A longsword instantly appeared in Linsey's hand.

He swung it forward, and a scorching torrent of fire immediately cleaved a crack into the flesh cocoon before him.

Slash—

The strike came to nothing.

The cocoon's toughness truly could not withstand Linsey's attack.

But it possessed an absurdly fast recovery speed!

The instant Linsey's sword cut