I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

"Should we go?"

Hank lowered his voice, his eyes never leaving the battlefield.

Lu Yuan saw this and didn't pause.

"superior."

His gaze swept across the entire street.

Two second-tier members of the Ascension Society were entangled with the mutated creature on the left. Their short blades trembled as they struck the branches, but the wounds healed in the blink of an eye.

The mutated creature on the right was still wildly sprouting branches, and no one could pay attention to it for the time being.

The division of labor needs to be done quickly.

"Hank, you take Frank and surround the mutated creature on the right."

Lu Yuan gestured with his chin toward the night watchman standing on the perimeter.

"Milo, prepare for any eventuality from the outside. Shout immediately if anything else appears."

"Understood." Milo nodded, took two steps back, and placed his hands on his sides.

"Ascension and I will keep an eye on the mutated entity on the left."

Beren, leaning on his cane, had already moved. Before Lu Yuan could say anything, the old man slowly shuffled toward the mutated creature on the right.

Kai glanced at Lu Yuan, then at Bo Lun, and finally jogged to catch up with the old man.

"Stay close to me." Without turning around, Burren said, "Don't move."

"Okay." Kel's voice was somewhat complicated.

This is clearly his first real encounter with the bizarre.

Lu Yuan looked away and placed his thumb on the hammer.

The two who had ascended to the top were still fighting, wildly slashing with their chain blades.

"We can't stop them!" one of them roared, panting heavily.

"Joint!" another replied.

The two switched positions in tacit agreement, one holding the front while the other went around to the side and back. At this moment, the upper body of the mutated creature had almost lost its human form, and the Ascension Society members focused their attention on the knees of the lower body, which still had half a human form.

The short blade of the gear cut into the joint of the wood, opening the crack and revealing the fibers inside.

With the next breath, the fibers re-weave themselves, and the tear closes.

It's almost useless; clearly, they don't have a good way to deal with this.

Just then, the spot on the right side of the mutated body's thorax where the branches were growing suddenly burst open, and blackish-red blood mixed with a pungent liquid was flung wildly in all directions as the branches twitched.

In an instant, a large amount of liquid covered almost the entire alley, especially on Hank's side.

When Hank saw this, he hadn't even adjusted his stance yet, and the two Night's Watchmen behind him were in an even worse position.

Clearly, there was no time to dodge. Hank made a quick decision, letting out a loud shout as a layer of dark lines spread from his flesh and blood, and at the same time, his entire body suddenly grew larger.

This was to shield his companions behind him from all the liquid.

"clang"

A low note falls on the Heimon stringed instrument.

The liquid that was heading towards Hank Lu Yuan and his group seemed to encounter some kind of resistance in the air, and in the next moment it all deviated at an incredible angle.

Not too far off.

Each drop was slightly off course, landing on the stone slab at Hank and his companions' feet, hissing and smoking, corroding several shallow pits.

Not a single drop splashed on anyone.

Upon seeing this, Hank didn't even bother to express his gratitude. Without stopping, he pulled out the axe he carried with him, its dark patterns almost completely enveloping him.

Make it look like a giant rotting corpse.

Lu Yuan glanced at Hai Meng out of the corner of his eye.

Haimon remained in the same position, his fingers resting on the strings, his gaze fixed on the mutated creature before him.

As Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze...

Burren has arrived.

The old man stopped a few steps in front of the mutated creature on the right and did not go any further.

The cane was pointing downwards, its metal tip touching the stone slab.

The next moment, a faint blue light appeared on the ground where Beren had walked, and then, as if it came to life, it gradually began to move from its initial straight line.

Finally, a circle is formed, completely surrounding the alien entity.

Dark gold inscriptions emerged from every point the cane touched, forming a complete ring.

The air inside the ring began to heat up, and visible heat waves rose from the stone slabs.

The alien's foot on the right looks like it's nailed to a stone slab.

It struggled to move forward, but its feet wouldn't move, and its whole body swayed, almost falling over.

The thick branches were still waving, whipping towards Beren and Kel, but their bodies were immobile, the angle of the branches was twisted, and their strength had dissipated.

The atmosphere within the inscription circle is heating up.

The mutated creature on the right started smoking from its feet, then its calves, burning inch by inch upwards from the bottom.

Beren didn't look at it, but turned around and called out to Hank.

"Get out of the way, don't go into the circle."

"I know," Hank replied, walking around to the side of the mutated creature on the right.

He swung the hand axe.

Hank didn't cut the wooden surface; he'd tried it once before, and it would heal itself after being cut. He aimed for the mutated creature's chest cavity.

The axe blade smashed in from the side.

The mutated creature on the right is unable to move at this moment, and cannot even dodge.

The axe blade cleaved deep into the joint between the waist and abdomen, tearing a slit in the wood fibers.

The dark green liquid gushed out, but before it could spread, it was evaporated by the high temperature of the inscription circle.

The second-tier member of the Ascension Society, who hadn't participated in the battle against the mutant on the left, circled around to the back of the mutant on the right.

The short, rotating gear blade embedded itself in the neck.

The blade rotates inside the wood fibers, shredding the structure.

With a snap, the connection between the head and torso of the mutated creature on the right broke.

Frank used his hooked short spear to grab a main branch that the mutated creature on the right was swinging, and pulled hard outwards using his waist strength. The branch was pulled away from the main body, and the entire body lost its balance.

The three parties work together.

The mutated form on the right didn't last long in the inscription circle.

The bottom was burned and collapsed, the middle and abdomen were split, the neck was twisted, and the branches were pulled away.

When it fell, its entire body had already broken into several pieces, and it was still smoking when it hit the stone slab.

Beren lifted the head of his cane off the stone slab.

The inscription circle darkened, leaving a faint burn mark on the surface of the stone slab, like the remnants of some kind of seal.

The old man took a breath.

He took two steps back, leaning on his cane, his face paler than usual.

But no one was hurt.

Kel stood half a step behind and to the side of Beren, his eyes wide and his mouth slightly open.

This was the first time in his life that he had witnessed a third-tier inscription master make a move up close, and he was still reeling from the shock.

Buren glanced at him.

"Have you seen enough?"

"Oh!" Kel came to her senses. "Sir, your hands are shaking..."

"Nonsense." Beren tapped his cane on the ground. "How old am I?"

The old man didn't say anything more, and looked up at Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan hadn't made a move yet, because he was asking the Worm of Knowledge if it wanted to eat.

The worm of knowledge merely wriggled silently a few times before expressing its disgust for the thing.

"Looks like he's a picky eater."

Lu Yuan silently took a few steps to the side, close to the base of the wall.

The two second-tier members of the Ascension Society continued to entangle the mutated entity on the left, whose attention was entirely focused on them.

Lu Yuan only needs to take two more steps to reach the side and rear of the mutated entity on the left.

A dead end where no one attacks.

Just at this time.

He caught something unusual out of the corner of his eye.

Inside the remains of the mutated entity on the right.

From the pile of charred fragments that were still smoking, a very thin, dark green vine emerged from the center of the largest piece of debris.

It was as fast as a living thing.

As soon as the vines emerged, they crawled forward along the stone slab, their target the ankle of the mutated creature on the left.

The instant I saw that moment, a line of gray text appeared.

[Detection Target: Forest Plant (Incomplete)]

This thing seems to have the ability to attach itself to and merge with its own kind.

[Weakness: Core weakness.]

Lu Yuan's gaze followed the roots of the vines back to where they started.

It was right under the largest piece of charred wood chips in the pile of debris.

A dark green mass was pulsating, half-buried in the debris, constantly trying to squeeze into deeper crevices.

is the core.

The mutated creature on the right isn't completely dead.

He cursed inwardly.

Beren had already broken the body of the right-hand mutant into eight pieces, but the core was still throbbing.

It is hiding in a piece of debris, trying to find a new host.

"Stop that thing!"

As Lu Yuan shouted, the flames were already ignited.

boom.

The copper-cased incendiary bomb spewed from the muzzle, its orange-red flame leaving a short trail under the streetlights before crashing directly into the dark green mass in the pile of debris.

But the small core shrank to the side just as the warhead was about to hit it.

As it burrowed into a deeper crevice, it knocked over several pieces of charred wood chips in front of it.

The warhead struck the edge of the swirling sawdust and exploded, with orange-red flames igniting on the surface of the debris pile, but failing to reach the core.

It missed.

Lu Yuan frowned and stopped in his tracks.

This time he stopped.

Hold the gun steadily with your left hand, and grip the hammer with your thumb.

The vines have already climbed halfway up the mountain.

Haimon reacted the fastest.

A series of short, high notes fell from the stringed instrument in quick succession, the rhythm rapid.

The growth rhythm of that vine was disrupted.

The tip of the vine tilted slightly as it extended forward, slowing down. The entire vine swayed in the air for half a second, as if it had momentarily forgotten what it was originally trying to do.

But it only shook for half a second.

Then it remembered.

The vines accelerated again.

boom.

The second copper-cased incendiary projectile was fired.

The shot hit.

Blue and white alchemical flames exploded directly on the surface of the small core, spreading along the dark green mass.

The core pulsed violently, and a layer of outer shell was shaved off, revealing a deeper and brighter dark green inside.

But the core didn't break.

That outer shell seemed to be a protective layer that had been prepared in advance.

The first layer has been removed, but there's another layer underneath.

Lu Yuan paused for a moment while holding the gun.

"It protects the core."

In that instant, the vines attached themselves to the ankle of the mutated creature on the left.

Two bodies were held together by invisible ropes.

"Oh no."

He knew what was going to happen next.

The fragments of the mutated entity on the right were pulled up from the stone slab.

Charred wood chips, half-burnt flesh and viscera fragments, and broken branches all floated up from the ground, dragging towards the mutated entity on the left.

The dark green vine in the middle is a rope, and the fragments of the mutated creature on the right look like cargo being pulled along by the rope.

The mutated creature on the left had its ankle entangled in vines, and its own body was being pulled towards the mutated creature on the right. The force was exerted from both directions simultaneously.

The two bodies collided right in the middle of the stone slab.

"Creak."

The sound of wood being forcibly twisted off.

"Pop."

The sound of flesh being crushed.

Deep green veins burst forth from the point of contact between the two bodies, as if they were simultaneously taking root in each other.