Within the dark-blue flames, yellow-green viscous blood sprayed from the charred wounds, burning into pungent green mist the instant it touched the flames.
The cracks in the shattered carapace spread rapidly under the intense heat, producing crisp crack-crack sounds like glass being tempered.
The seemingly indestructible chitinous shell began peeling away piece by piece, exposing the rope-like fibrous muscle tissue beneath. As the blue flames clinging to the spores gnawed at it, they released the stench of scorched protein.
"Can it burn it to death?"
Watching the Mantis Person blaze within the fireball, Gauss, who still hadn't received a kill notification from the panel, could only drag the nearby Edith, whose hands and feet had gone weak, farther away.
After confirming that she wasn't injured, he casually picked up the Hand Crossbow beside her and the short arrows scattered across the ground.
Arrow into the groove, draw the string, aim, fire!
Just like that, he shot arrow after arrow toward the Mantis Person.
The others also came over to stand beside him, equally unwilling to approach the Mantis Person.
Even though it had been burned into a miserable state, especially its compound eyes, which had been blasted into tiny fragments scattered all over the ground by the shock wave from the Spore Bomb.
Yet, intimidated by the psychological trauma it had caused earlier, no one dared step forward to finish it off.
They feared that the badly wounded Mantis Person still possessed enough strength to kill them.
"Careful. It's not dead yet. Don't go over." Gauss reminded them.
That was another function of the panel.
As long as the panel didn't display a kill notification, it meant the enemy wasn't completely dead.
This also kept him from being caught by an enemy faking its death and then launching a dying