Stone-Petrifying Siren Jupetz

(Damn it, she's too close!)

Faced with Jupetz pressing right up against her, Firona had no choice but to abandon her attack and instead use the six steel plates of "Hidden Kill Bastion" to form a cubic steel barrier around her body.

Immediately afterward, Jupetz's conch relic burst forth with an incomparably dazzling azure radiance.

The deafening roar of ocean waves suddenly erupted from within the conch, as though it held the raging fury of the entire sea compressed inside. In an instant, it crushed the shell's surface and the warhead Firona had not had time to detonate, then slammed into Firona's steel plates with overwhelming force.

THOOM!

Like muffled thunder exploding, Firona and her "Hidden Kill Bastion" were sent flying on the spot by Jupetz's conch ram. They streaked through the air for a full half-kilometer before crashing down hard on the far end of the beach.

"Ugh..."

After a violent bout of shaking, Firona struggled to climb up from within the steel plates.

Her "Hidden Kill Bastion" possessed formidable defensive power as well. Thus, although Jupetz's close-range attack had hit with ferocious momentum, it had not inflicted any obvious wounds on Firona. It merely left her head spinning.

However, more than Jupetz's physical assault, what Firona needed to pay attention to was the abnormal change in her own body.

She reached up to touch her left eye, which had suddenly lost its vision, and a hard, rigid sensation met her fingertips.

Sure enough, just like her right hand, Firona's left eye had now been petrified as well.

Moreover, her entire face was suffused with numbness, as though her facial muscles were gradually stiffening.

The Missile Hunter wore a conflicted expression, her breaths growing increasingly ragged.

"Ha... ha..."

Firona felt that the situation had completely veered away from what