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Even a level 6 adventurer would be killed instantly if caught off guard by this Zagnat. It's a monster with an extremely high kill potential on first encounter.

A naked hunter.

"I won't let you succeed..." Liu groaned, the blackness of the wound on his abdomen gradually spreading.

"I've succeeded..." Jaluo sneered disdainfully, "Besides, you should be unable to move now. That's the poison of the Poisonous Demon Maggot; ordinary antidotes won't work."

With a smug look on his face, he lashed the ground with his red whip and gave the order to Zagnat: "Go! Get this troublesome rabbit out of your way and kill it!"

The jewel around Zagnat's neck emitted an eerie red light, causing its body to tremble slightly.

Ryu noticed this.

The collar's effectiveness is insufficient to capture monsters of Zagnat's caliber. Judging from past experience, even if the Dark Faction possesses monsters with potential abilities exceeding level 5, they are cultivated through enhanced species.

Level 4 represents the collar's perfect control over monsters, while level 5 has a chance of becoming disobedient and requires a tamer to subdue it.

Therefore, Zagnat, who was not defeated by Jara himself, will absolutely not obey Jara's orders now!

She gazed quietly ahead.

I saw the twisted, grinning face of the Jaro, and the tail of the Zagnat raised high.

"Jaruo, farewell..."

"Hiss—" Zagnat roared, then dropped its tail.

Snapped----

Before Jaluo could understand what Liu was saying, he first felt a sense of weightlessness, his vision suddenly tilted upwards, followed by a sharp pain.

Half of his body was severed by the force, floated high into the air, and crashed into the ruins 20 meters away.

He looked up at the ceiling, a hint of confusion on his face. Then, he forced himself to look up at his vanished lower body and the monster in the distance that had resumed its fight with Liu. Disbelief filled his face.

"Why... why did this happen?! Ughhhhhh..."

Something was constantly flowing out of his body, but the power of grace was holding back his soul, preventing him from dying so easily.

"Finally... I reached level 5! Why now? Why did you betray me? Answer me, Zagnat!"

Why, why did this happen?!

He flipped himself over with his arms, his eyes fixed on the duel between the white-haired girl and the fossil dinosaur in front of him.

"Kill her... at least kill her!" Jarrow's eyes were bloodshot; he wanted to see Jester die before he could die content.

however……

Looking at the white-haired girl who still dodged with the agility of the wind, Jaluo showed an expression of disbelief:

"Why, why is the poison ineffective against her! How can she continue fighting despite suffering such injuries!?"

"It's the same obsession as yours, isn't it?" At that moment, another voice rang out beside Jāluó.

Jaluo saw the black boots of the person approaching from the side, and the black cloak billowing in his face drew all his attention.

"Seriously, I gave you a chance but you couldn't do it..." Charles looked down at the half-dead Jarrow with a regretful expression: "I already upgraded you to level 5, and you just used it to live a little longer... what a waste."

"Charles—" Jalluo's face lit up with joy as his blood-stained hand grabbed the hem of the man's robe. "Save me... Brother, no, elder brother, save me!"

Charles frowned and stepped on Jarrow's face: "Don't touch my clothes with your filthy hands. If you get them dirty, Alfia will be unhappy."

Jarrow showed no anger whatsoever, letting Charles stomp on his face until it was distorted, his face plastered with a smile: "Please, Lord Charles, save me. I finally became a Level 1 adventurer, I... I don't want to die yet."

"Unfortunately, brother, I'm not good at any healing spells," Charles said with a playful tone.

"I...I know, any method will do, just let me live, you can definitely do it! Just one step away, just a little bit more..." Jaluo supported himself with his arms and slammed his head to the ground, a large red welt running down his forehead.

Seeing that Charles remained unmoved, Jalal kowtowed again.

Charles curled his lips into a smile, his gaze sweeping across the battlefield before finally settling on Jallu.

Seeing Charles's gaze, Jaluo kowtowed even harder, once, twice, ten times, until his forehead revealed white bone, his eyes bulged, all his blood drained away, and his body gradually grew cold.

Looking at Jaluo's corpse, Charles sighed at the cat people's shrewdness.

Although Jallu had a bad reputation, he was still a level 5 that had taken time and effort to raise. It was a pity that he died here.

He sighed, took out a jet-black magic stone that emitted a rainbow-colored glow: "I'll give you one more chance. I hope you can seize it and not disappoint me..."

In Ciel's hand was the "Colored Magic Stone" possessed by the Rimuru Minotaur.

Since Rimuru absorbed the properties of the Fallen Fairy, he can naturally create his own tentacles.

This technology has been researched with the assistance of Haski and Fels, and Haski's complete transformation into a beast is one of the byproducts of this experiment.

This technology, which combines 'human' and 'monster', sounds evil, and Fels was initially reluctant to research it. However, under the influence of Ciel's persuasive words that 'power itself is neither good nor evil, but rather the person wielding it' and 'everything is for the end,' he completed the prototype.

This 'black magic stone' can grant modern adventurers the power of 'monster,' 'human,' and 'fairy' simultaneously, but Xia Er is unsure of the specific side effects, so he needs test subjects?

He looked at Jaluo, chuckled, and buried the magic stone in his hand into Jaluo's still-warm body.

The strange, pitch-black magic caused the dungeon to be stunned and shaken.

Under the influence of the magic stone, a black, viscous substance seeped from the lower half of Jaluo's body, filling the missing flesh.

From bones to skin, it gradually becomes covered in hair.

In an instant, his lower body transformed into the legs of a saber-toothed tiger, and the bones in his face slowly changed. His tiger teeth lengthened, his bones turned outward, and two tiger-like bony fangs, like masks, appeared from below his eye sockets to his ears, revealing a human nose and mouth.

His arms had also fully transformed into a beast, and his entire body was covered in white fur with black tiger stripes, revealing his muscular chest. A black magic stone emitting iridescent light appeared on his chest, gradually being covered by his white armor.

Having completed his complete transformation, Jaluo propped himself up, his scarlet eyes radiating a ferocious intensity like a demon, and a mournful roar emanating from his throat.

Chapter 441 Weird? Arrancar?

Looking at the half-human, half-beast monster whose face was covered in animal bones and whose height had increased to 2 meters, Xia Er smiled with satisfaction.

"Hey bro, how's it going?"

"Roar——————" A deep, hoarse roar came from Jaluo's throat. His eyes were devoid of any color, only wild madness.

"I'll teach you to yell!" Charles didn't tolerate him. He kicked and bent Jalho's knee, and the two-meter-tall body knelt in front of Charles, his eyes gradually becoming clear.

"Brother, brother..."

"Call the boss."

"Yes, boss." Jāro was very honest, and Rimuru's power within him completely locked onto him.

The person who named Rimuru was the boss of Boss Jala.

Charles looked Jarrow up and down: "How is it? How do you feel? Have you developed any new abilities?"

Jaluo shook his head: "Aside from the beast transformation, we haven't found anything else yet."

"Then let's give it a try..."

“But, Jester…” Jarrow felt that he might still be no match for Jester, and he shrank back.

Where did your arrogance go?

Charles felt a surge of disdain as he turned to gaze at the approaching figure in the distance: "I didn't ask you to cause trouble for Jester. Your opponent has arrived."

……

A battlefield in the forest.

Flames shot from beneath the white-haired girl's feet, mingling with the flickering, broken claws. The roars of monsters and the girl's chants rose and fell in waves.

Zagnat lost a forepaw and anti-magic armor, while the girl was poisoned and exhausted.

As they went back and forth, they were both expending their energy.

When both the human and the monster were on the verge of their breaking point, the roar of the demon rang out.

Out of the corner of her eye, Liu unconsciously caught sight of the change on the other side.

"What?!" Jaluo's posture further distracted her.

In that instant when he turned his head, a diagonal line flashed by, and an arm flew high into the air.

Zagnat's claws tore half of Ryu's body apart, and fragments of magic scattered in the air.

“Hmm—” No pain appeared on Liu’s face.

She was right; this body, like the puppet she had seen at the bottom of the shaft, was a product of magic.

Although it's unknown how Lady Astrea's collaborator mastered such excellent prosthetic technology, for her, a prosthetic made of magic eliminates concerns about injury or strain on the body, and toxins don't affect her current actions; they only slowly diminish her life force.

"Even if I'm shattered to pieces, I'll kill you!" The moment her arm hit the ground, Liu came to her senses and forcefully swung the Black Tyrant Sword. The flaming blade tore through Zagnat's hind legs, completely robbing it of its prized mobility.

With only one limb remaining, Zagnat had to use its tail for support, staring fearfully at the white-haired girl panting as she leaned on the sword, a fierce glint in its eyes.

"Hey—eat! My pets, turn their corpses into your flesh!"

As Jalal's arrogant voice faded, several dying monsters emerged from the ground with a crack of a whip. Zagnat, receiving orders, grabbed the monsters' bodies and forcibly transplanted them into his own.

In an instant, half of Zagnat's body was completely replaced by twisted tree roots, rolling giant snakes, and thick, bloodstained dragon hooves.

An angry and frenzied roar once again came from the sky above the Destroyer, launching another attack on Ryu.

"Kill—I'll kill you..."

Controlled by Jhara's collar, Zagnat had only one thought in his mind: to kill Ryu.

but……

“You’ve slowed down…” Liu Gang tried to dodge the tearing claws, but his body involuntarily fell to one side.

Liu knelt on one knee, the Black Tyrant Sword braced against the broken claw, and was pushed back 10 meters before slowly coming to a stop.

"Have I... reached my limit?" The black toxin had already spread to half of Ryu's body and even adhered to her face.

She looked up at Zagnat's raised spear, her eyes turning fierce: "I will absolutely... kill you!"

Faint blue magical lightning appeared, and one after another, Great Wind Jade appeared around Liu.

Just as Ryu was about to unleash the self-destructive winds...

"Liang——————"

The familiar call drew her attention to a red figure riding on flames, hurtling towards them from afar… and to the side of that figure, a grinning Jāra, claws raised, closed in at a speed far exceeding that of a second-tier adventurer…

"Alicie? Damn it, don't come any closer!!!"