Mutated Snakefolk

The snakefolk had mutated in different ways, but they could generally be divided into three types.

The first type had swollen arms, puffed up like balloons, with stark white exoskeletons growing over their hands.

The second type had mutated tails, now thin and extraordinarily long, like flexible whips.

The third type had enlarged, misshapen heads.

The two snakefolk leaders beside Observer Halofenson had not transformed. They still stood like a pair of guardians, protecting him on either side. Judging by their stance, they had no intention of fighting. They meant to leave this battle entirely to the Mutant Snakefolk.

"That confident?" Bai Xiaowen swiftly used Insight on each of the three types.

He soon understood where Halofenson's confidence came from.

One snakefolk with swollen arms brought an arm down like a battering ram, smashing a Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier into fragments despite its Block stance. The blow had so much force left that deep cracks spread across the deck.

Li Shuyi decided to go straight for their leader and charged toward Halofenson. But two whip-like shadows lashed out from either side, cutting off her advance with a howl of wind.

She twisted aside, her extraordinary agility carrying her past both strikes, and kept charging. The shadows silently doubled back, reversing in defiance of momentum to lash at her back like living snakes.

They were, in fact, the unusually long tails of two snakefolk whose tails had mutated.

Seeing that Li Shuyi was about to be caught, Bai Xiaowen had no choice but to release the Bone Warlock and deploy Delifa with Targeted Airdrop.

Delifa thrust out her Ectoplasmic Spear, letting one tail coil around it. The Bone Warlock cast Ghost Path on the other snakefolk. Both were elites, so the technique worked at full strength and stopped the second snakefolk as