After Lin Yuan smashed the Crawler apart with a single swing, his figure dissolved into shadows.
The Time-Void Prism he had been holding high continued to float in the air.
Just a few seconds later, light shone from the prism, and the Crawler appeared before Lin Yuan again.
"So impatient. Actually, you'll soon discover..."
Bang!
With another swing, Lin Yuan smashed both the Crawler's projection and his unfinished words apart.
The prism shone again, and the Crawler reappeared.
"It's useless. Your fate has long since..."
Bang!
"When you discover the truth, despair will..."
Bang!
"Can you fucking let someone finish a sen-"
Bang!
Lin Yuan swung the Sanctum Light Stick, giving his opponent no chance to finish a sentence.
This Crawler was full of tricks. His words would only mislead people, so what was the point of listening?
Even if he did reveal something important, it would surely be intended to mislead them.
So it was better to treat it all as meaningless chatter.
Kill him first!
Lin Yuan followed this approach to the bitter end. Whatever his opponent wanted to say, he treated it all as bullshit, focusing solely on killing this Crawler.
The Crawler noticed this too. The corners of his mouth twitched, as though being unable to finish speaking was making him uncomfortable.
So he simply stopped talking and focused on fighting.
Though it was called a fight, it was really just a one-sided thrashing.
When Lin Yuan first entered the Artisan Academy, he had already been able to kill the Crawler's clone despite the severe "Beached" debuff.
Although the Crawler before him was nominally the original, he was essentially the same as the clone: both were imprint projections of the Time-Void Prism, so their strength differed little.
Lin Yuan, however, was no longer the same as