"It should be... dead, right?"
The dust slowly cleared.
Then everyone sucked in a breath.
At the center of the enormous crater, the flesh ball had not been destroyed. Instead, it had become even denser.
Its surface now radiated a dangerously dazzling light, like a star on the verge of exploding.
"Oh..." Liu Zhipeng's voice came from inside the sphere, this time tinged with anger. "You people... really have no manners."
"I'm trying to enjoy my meal, and you spit in my food?"
"In that case..."
The smiling face on the sphere instantly twisted into a furious grimace: "(╬▔皿▔)"
"I'm done pretending."
"Time to show my hand."
"I'm going to-get serious about eating!!!"
The next second, the flesh ball sprang up and shot straight at the Helbrute, moving several times faster than before!
BAM!!!
The flesh ball slammed into the Helbrute's chest armor.
The terrifying impact actually knocked the five-meter-tall behemoth back several steps!
The Helbrute's operator froze for a second, then activated its melee weapons.
Two enormous power claws rose high and clamped down viciously on the flesh ball!
CRUNCH!
The power claws closed, trapping the flesh ball firmly between them.
"Hahahaha!" Karathes laughed wildly at the sight. "Crush it! Crush it with a hundred thousand tonnes of hydraulic pressure-"
But the next second, his laughter abruptly stopped.
Countless tiny, densely packed mouths split open across the sphere's surface.
Like parasites, those mouths rapidly spread over the entire surface of the power claws.
SLURP!!!
A distinct slurping sound rang out, amplified countless times.
The Helbrute began trembling violently.
Its operator discovered, to his horror, that the flesh inside the power claws had begun to wither.
The daemonic muscle tissue implanted in the claws to supply biological energy was shriveling at a rate visible to the naked eye.
It was