The giant axe hacked into the congealed blood clot, sending large chunks of black-red debris flying.
[Dragon Fighting in the Wild] exerted both arms and pulled the axe free from where it was lodged. After half an hour of work, they had only made a pit over ten meters deep.
Yet the substance blocking the blood vessel stretched for dozens of kilometers.
"At this rate, we might not clear it by next month." [Dragon Fighting in the Wild] shook the debris from his axe blade, his expression grim. "And there's living vessel wall beneath this stuff. Whoever digs through that too can explain it to the entire server himself."
Several players swinging war hammers froze and hurriedly stepped back.
[Data Maniac] had been staring at the tremors coming from behind the blockage. Upstream, blood was still striking the congealed clot again and again. The force was weak, but it never stopped.
Continuing to dig from the front was too slow.
But expanding the attack range might destroy the blood vessel first.
[Thunder King] flew around the blockage once, growing more impatient the longer he looked.
"Move aside. I'll give it a strike first!"
"Old Lei, don't—"
Before [Data Maniac] could finish, blue-white lightning had already slammed into the edge of the blockage.
Only a layer of debris fell from the congealed clot. The lightning spread along the damp inner wall, but a large section of vessel wall beside it suddenly contracted!
Everyone felt the ground beneath their feet pull inward.
A finger-thick stream of black-red blood sprayed from a crack, striking a player dozens of meters away in the face and knocking him flat.
[Data Maniac] froze for half a second, then abruptly turned toward the Dharma King.
"Again! Reduce the power to one-tenth of that strike, and only hit