"Transform." She whispered to herself.

In the next moment, fine insect shells spread from the "belt" to her body and limbs, and in the blink of an eye, she transformed into... the form she had when she was parasitized by the Insect King earlier!?

On the other side, Fanen and Isha could barely hold on as the limb-connecting noble’s Golden Tombstone began to radiate light, seemingly ready to use some Combat Skill, but they had no time to interrupt.

At this critical moment, a dependable figure appeared before the two of them, Uffie, whose fist covered by an exoskeleton struck the limb-connecting noble’s face, causing it to stagger backward, interrupting its Combat Skill. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"Uffie?" The siblings widened their eyes, looking at the Insect King form returning for a limited time, their expressions akin to seeing a ghost.

Tepi was different; he looked at Uffie’s form, thinking that the young people nowadays dressed quite non-mainstream.

"Just some harmless aftereffects, I am still me."

Seeing the limb-connecting noble ram into the crowd after snapping back to its senses, Uffie stretched his large hand to wrestle with it, then exploded with full force, tossing the limb-connecting noble to the edge of the empty ground, almost causing it to fall off the cliff.

Back then, although she restored her human form with the Tear-Drop Embryo, the Insect King left her a transformation form, maybe not the best, but that’s the form she has now.

With the transformation, her overall strength increased, almost like the Terrible-monster without any pain perception, yet the transformation was quite unstable. Sometimes, a slight exertion would trigger it, forcing her to cautiously control her strength daily.

Aside from boosting her stats, the transformation granted her another signature ability of the Insect King.

Uffie rushed to the field’s edge, raised her hand to smash the limb-connecting noble’s Big Shield that wasn’t ready yet, ignoring the opponent’s weapon pierced into her body, she matched eyes with the limb-connecting noble and cried aloud:

"Exchange!"

A gleam burst from both parties’ eyes, both Uffie and the limb-connecting noble felt a spiritual shock like being struck by lightning, their auras visibly waning.

Indeed, one of the Insect King’s signature abilities, body exchange, was retained by Uffie!

However, humans apparently couldn’t support exchanging bodies, even forcibly exchanging couldn’t succeed, merely causing severe spiritual shocks to both parties, as if their souls collided at high speed, the pain being utterly intense!

Thus, Uffie developed a sinister trick targeting this ability, turning exchange into a spiritual shock.

A spiritual shock guaranteed to hit and be effective, something ordinary Magic couldn’t compare to!

"Fall down!"

Accustomed to the pain brought by exchange, she quickly regained her mobility, grabbed the limb-connecting noble’s body with her large exoskeletal hand, and hurled it fiercely towards the cliff!

No edge protection here!

"Well done!" Tepi applauded first, progress was indeed significant.

Fanen followed closely, and when Isha belatedly wanted to cheer.

Uffie’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

The applause suddenly halted.

The remaining three exchanged glances, bewilderment evident in their eyes, they had just seen something they couldn’t believe, finally Isha trembled and spoke:

"Uffie she... was dragged down?"

Although Uffie had tossed the limb-connecting noble off the cliff, its weapon was still stuck in her, causing her to be dragged along off the cliff.

She should have noticed this, but in her transformed state, the pain perception weakened significantly, and under spiritual shock, she forgot the limb-connecting noble’s weapon was still in her!

This... can only be attributed to the infrequent use of the transformation form and lack of experience.

The few of them quickly rushed to the cliff’s edge, yet no trace of Uffie was seen, but a moment later, a golden stream of light entered their bodies, the reward after defeating the limb-connecting noble—Lune.

The three gazed at the empty cliff in silence, Tepi said numbly: "Lady Uffie, she’s not just—"

"Shut up and don’t say it!"

Fanen quickly stopped him, saying: "What if there’s still a chance, we can’t give up hope."

Tepi fell silent and sighed, moving towards the door previously blocked by fog, besides the door they entered, another existed, the only path to proceed.

Fanen and Isha followed, unable to stop worrying for Uffie, perhaps deep down they felt surviving a fall from a cliff was unlikely.

But then, Tepi’s voice came across:

"Why is this a dead end?"

The two moved to see, behind the door was only a small cliff, no path forward.

Fanen tossed a stone towards the cliff, confirming there wasn’t an air bridge, puzzling him further.

Typically, defeating an Elite Monster would open a path forward, a common rule in every Dungeon, yet what’s with this cliff?

"Could we have missed something here?"

In the midst of pondering, Fanen felt everything around suspicious, walked to the cliff’s edge to inspect, pointed at a protruding rock and asked: "Doesn’t that look like a mechanism, what would happen if hit?"

"Where?" Tepi and Isha moved closer, standing on the cliff.

If the Sain Dungeon could talk, it would say:

[The timing has come]

"Crackling—"

"Do you hear something strange?" Fanen raised his head, looking around.

"Nothing, I... Ahhhh!"

The cliff suddenly shattered, interrupting Isha’s words with a long scream.

With a "boom," the cliff beneath them instantly fractured, the three plummeting rapidly!

At such a moment, who could possibly refrain from yelling!?

Fanen almost cried out, but he stayed somewhat calm during the fall, turning around realizing the cliff fragments forming unnatural shapes looked like already broken stones pieced together artificially appearing intact!

Wait, it’s a trap!

Realizing the truth made his scalp tingle, spiritual power dissipating extensively, breaking his composure completely.

What kind of monster would design a trap here, damn it!

No time left to think, he felt himself nearing the ground, about to become a pulp. People say you see flashes-of-life before death, but this fall left him mentally chaotic, forgetting about flashes-of-life entirely.

Then something miraculous happened.

The leaden gray sky vanished, surroundings plunged into darkness, starlit light dots illuminated like cross stars emerged behind him, akin to a backwards meteor.

He continued to fall, but seemingly no ground in sight, endlessly descending, the cliff’s fierce wind no longer felt, yet upon seeing the lights, he felt a slight inner tranquility, as if they whispered safety ahead.

What’s happening?

Fanen’s query quickly answered.

As shadows enveloping the sky transformed, a human-like apparition emerged.

She was cloaked in a thick white robe, the upper half obscured, shrouded in mystery, yet perplexingly, her skin was an unusual blue adorned with four delicate hands.

Not human?

The woman’s voice reached his ears, calm and mysterious, akin to the Dark Moon high in Skyrim.

[That was a long time ago]

Her voice altered the sight in the darkness.

[But for me, it is vivid]

If previously Uffie’s hazy visions were accidental.

Then Fanen’s current sight was planned in this Sain area for everyone to see, truly...

A new story unfolds!