Human Experiments

First Ring: Twisted Treant...

First Ring: Winged Serpent...

Second Ring: Lava Troll...

Yin Ming formally entered the vortex from its edge, preparing for attacks that could come at any moment.

Yin Ming took out three metal spheres and lightly tapped them with a finger.

The True Name Rune totem lit up, revealing the savage, terrifying Dharma forms of three External Cores.

The Second Ring Lava Troll stood in the center, its entire body burning with molten flames. The searing heat warped the air, while an obsidian suit of armor condensed over its shell.

Having broken through from the First Ring to the Second Ring, it had grown even larger, transforming into a twenty-meter-tall Lava Giant. This made the Twisted Treant and Winged Serpent seem like parasites clinging to its body.

The Winged Serpent coiled around it, its gray wings folded together as it hung from the Lava Troll like an ornament. Its snake eyes flickered as it waited for the chance to launch a lethal ambush.

The weakest attacker, the Twisted Treant, held a strange weapon made of six iron tubes wrapped in vines. It had no sharp edges and looked utterly harmless.

With this setup, even in the First Ring region, it had to count as upper-tier.

Yin Ming entered the vortex. No one stopped him at the outskirts; quite a few wizards even took the initiative to make way.

In the Nightmare World, wizards could roughly be divided into two kinds: hunters who believed themselves strong, and prey who believed themselves weak.

The outer layer of the vortex was relatively less dangerous. Crystal Wall Bubbles moved at roughly the same speed, and when another bubble came crashing over, one could simply plunge into the void and flee. The only concern was running into a Void Spirit.

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