The grayish-white scythe scraped across the purple shell, and the shrill sound of friction instantly spread across the battlefield.
The blade left only a shallow mark.
"Did I miss?"
The smug expression on [Knight Who Kills the Abyss]'s face froze. The shadow beneath his feet immediately burst apart. Two forelimbs slashed past his chest armor, and the more-than-ten-meter-long insect shot over a thousand meters away, smashing through a distant purple crystal pillar.
[Void Flea (LV.39 Elite)] [Knight Who Kills the Abyss (LV.39, Ghost Blade)]
He wore black light armor. Whenever he killed a new kind of insect, he would pry open its shell and memorize the locations of its leg joints and internal organs. The more weaknesses he remembered, the fewer strikes he would need next time.
[Dreaming of Stars (LV.38, Life Sage)] carried a translucent soft sac on his back, constantly changing positions across the Creep while always staying several kilometers away from the monster.
Before setting out, he had spent Bio-Energy to use the Life Weaver's Psychic Power to cultivate the cells inside the sac. They were responsible for transporting oxygen, allowing a teammate to maintain high-speed movement for a long time.
After the Void Devouring Insect died, all the players had gone to the old Insect Nest to gather materials. One needed to maintain his stamina, while the other wanted to know how long these cells could last, so they formed a party through the nearby channel and agreed to split the gains fifty-fifty.
"You said you remembered its weakness just now." [Dreaming of Stars] raised his voice anxiously. "How did that strike not even break its shell?"
"The gaps on the insects I killed before were three inches lower." [Knight Who Kills the Abyss] stared fixedly at the incoming insect, the surprise in his