While the two spoke, the thorny vines destroyed earlier grew back, and more and more roots gathered below.
"It's no use. All your struggling is futile!" the Immortal declared, launching an even fiercer round of attacks!
Over the next few moments, Rose witnessed the art of combat.
Although its large, plump head looked rather adorably dopey, its agile tentacles were precision weapons, each with a clearly defined role and working in perfect coordination!
Some fired tractor beams to rapidly shift its position and dodge attacks. Two tractor beams working together created a fully three-dimensional combat system, allowing it to dart around right under the giant Immortal's nose.
Others turned into blades of light to clear away approaching thorny vines. The blades extended and retracted, sometimes long, sometimes short, striking at any range with the deadly precision of a peerless swordsman.
The giant octopus's movements and predictions were unbelievably accurate. Each time, it avoided the enemy's attacks by a hair's breadth, like an agile fat man weaving through a hail of gunfire, facing death head-on yet always emerging unscathed.
The difference in their sizes was enormous, but this battle against a giant resembled a ballet on a knife's edge. Rose actually found it rather pleasing to watch.
The Immortal's massive body gave it an overwhelming advantage in strength, but that advantage came with a drawback. Its enormous size meant a longer reflex pathway for the signals controlling its body. To an ordinary person, that delay might amount to nothing more than reacting a beat too slowly, but it made its attacks easier to read.
Even between dodging the Immortal's attacks, the giant octopus found time to become an "octopus Gatling gun," leaving rows of bullet holes across the Immortal's enormous body. Its humanoid face was the primary target, with at least