Cold sweat beaded on Lu Feng's forehead. For one fleeting instant, he even felt that the hulking figure before him was not a puppet at all, but a living person.
With its thick hide, utter lack of pain or fear of death, and ability to heal itself, it was simply more terrifying than a living person.
Filled with shock and doubt, Lu Feng dodged again and again. Relying on the speed and agility of Exquisite Steps, he tried to break free from the aura locking onto him from the puppet, only to discover that no matter what he did, the puppet reacted at once. It could even foresee where he would land the instant he took a step and unleash a terrifying attack in advance.
Lu Feng had not wanted to admit that he could not even handle a single puppet. Unwilling and unconvinced, he tried to keep tangling with it, hoping to find a flaw or weak point.
Yet as he dodged, the corner of his eye caught sight of a ruined spiderweb behind a heap of rubble, and his heart suddenly jolted.
A thread of realization surged into his mind.
When he looked once more at the star charts covering the puppet's body, intense fear and timidity had appeared in his eyes.
"Senior! This junior was wrong! Please stop this thing!"
Lu Feng frantically dodged and cried for help. Having glimpsed the puppet's "foundation," he no longer dared harbor even the slightest will to resist.
At last, he understood what the words "great killing weapon" truly meant.
Amid a burst of wild laughter, Artisan Hero used the Source Aura left within the puppet to halt it.
He walked toward Lu Feng. "Boy, how was that? Do you understand now that this old man wasn't lying to you?"
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