Bear’s Strength!

The bear’s head attached to Greg’s arm roared loudly, an invisible powerful force directly pouncing towards Tepi.

Tepi could dodge the Fast and Slow Blade of the Omen Demon with ease, let alone this roar. With a light step, he dodged the roar by a hair’s breadth.

Then Edgar, who had just crawled out from the ruins with great difficulty, was knocked down by this attack.

Puppet’s Hand Speed!

The repeating crossbows equipped on Greg’s back clattered, and in an instant, arrows rained down, the scene as spectacular as the Left Bow at maximum power, making up in quantity what lacked in quality.

Uffie, who was about to get in close, was forced back immediately, not because she couldn’t withstand mere arrows to launch an attack, but because defending them would inevitably require exerting Fighting Qi and deplete her stamina.

Who knows what sinister tricks Greg has up his sleeve, or rather, what underworld materials he hasn’t revealed yet. She needs to conserve her Fighting Qi! 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

It’s okay, once this wave of arrows finishes shooting, he must command the soldiers to reload, then she can seize the opportunity to attack. She comforted herself with this thought.

But then she saw those arms holding repeating crossbows swiftly reload them with very deft motions in an instant!

These were the arms from the Faded, known for their dexterity.

And in this time, she had just covered half the distance and hadn’t yet reached Greg! Unless she throws her weapon!

A rain of arrows shot forth, forcing Uffie to coat her spear with Fighting Qi and spin it rapidly to form a Protective Shield; it was time to stop holding back strength.

During the pause in defense, she pulled out a pot from her waist and hurled it fiercely towards Greg.

Rest assured, this isn’t one of those dung pots Leon likes to play with, but a Black Flame Pot more potent than a regular Flame Pot, a respectable tool indeed.

And then she saw Greg turning around.

"Boom boom boom——"

The Black Flame Pot exploded with fearsome power. Under such might, even an armored Molten Furnace Knight couldn’t avoid being injured, let alone Greg relying solely on his flesh to withstand the damage.

However, as the flames dissipated, and seeing the actual situation, Uffie’s expression darkened like the Black Flame Pot.

On Greg’s back, the crab shell covering his Mountain Monster-like body had shattered completely!

He had somehow raised the crab shell to his back using his arms, at first glance appearing as though he attached the crab shell to his body.

Crab’s Defense!

Fragments of the crab shell scattered on the ground; thanks to its presence, Greg was hardly injured, only suffering some burns where there wasn’t any shell cover.

Shrimp Head emitted a high-pressure Water Jet again, followed closely by the bear head’s impactful roar, crashing into Uffie’s spinning spear, breaking through her defense instantly.

This strike forced Uffie to reveal the Insect King’s form, the shell on her chest breaking but instantly restoring to original.

She glanced back at Tepi, who had been running actively at the edge like a paparazzo; the latter ran to where Edgar had fallen.

"Finally... someone... to rescue me." Edgar’s expression carried a hint of resentment and blame.

A hole was opened in his abdomen, a severe injury caused by the compressed lobster’s water stream, if not for the timely deployment of a Protective Shield, half his body might have been gone.

In this light, Professor Turci’s magic indeed seems quite valuable.

"Healing Potion is... in my bag, the green one..." he said weakly.

So Tepi pulled out a deep green potion, quickly sprinkling it on him.

"Wait, not that one..."

Before Edgar could finish, he cried out in pain and passed out completely, yet the wound healed at an eerie pace, the new flesh buds growing visibly fast.

"What kind of sinister potion is this?" Tepi frowned; the Elemental Bottle could achieve similar effects but looked far better.

No matter how much he shook, he couldn’t wake Edgar, so Tepi crawled from the ruins, shaking his head at Uffie, who, seeing this, had no choice but to fight without beneficial magic on her.

Under normal circumstances, adventurers on a quest usually have two to three beneficial magics active on them when challenging a boss.

Unfortunately, Edgar was idealistic, having honed all his skills in professorial magic abilities, learning miscellaneously without much practical combat use, resulting in him indulging in output, forgetting to cast beneficial magic on everyone.

Uffie transformed into the Insect King form, taking the fight seriously, Fanen hyped up on Beast Ball, both looking terrifying enough to scare children at night, stormed into the battleground, Tepi joined the battle after stabilizing the Image Stone, while Isha responded by dealing with the soldiers, trying to destroy unused limbs.

The battle instantly became intense with everyone’s awakening.

Injuries started to appear on Greg as well, more crucially, his limb-connecting ability wasn’t fast enough for on-the-fly switches, faced with the increased attack frequency, his limb attachment actions became limited.

But fortunately for him, his soldiers were still present and had not fled!

The soldiers, no longer holding limb attachment materials, drew their weapons to join the fight. Though ordinary soldiers, being near their king, their morale and resilience were significantly boosted, certainly not just "grunts"!

A great melee battle erupted instantly here, swords clashing and non-human, non-beast roars everywhere, like a small battlefield.

"Is this our punishment?"

Uffie thought to herself while maneuvering around Greg, who had turned into a Sewn Monster, dodging his sinister attacks born from multiple limb attachments.

If they had explored Stoneveil city according to the normal order... no, without needing the so-called normal order, just need to eliminate the soldiers before challenging Greg, this battle would undoubtedly be easier than it is now!

Must interrupt Greg before he attaches limbs, never just watch him transform slowly like now, there are too many improvements to be made in this fight against Greg.

These lessons need to be etched in her mind.

They must be used in the next fight!

The Insect King’s form boosts Uffie’s power several times over her normal state, the enhancement even surpassing Wolf Blood’s enhancement on Dal.

The former is the ability brought by the leader of the Sealed Item, while Dal’s is the incomplete Wolf Blood shared with the Wolf pack, so naturally there is a gap.

And under the Insect King form’s enhancement, Uffie’s power in the Dungeon rating is undoubtedly surpassing grade C, but still not enough to touch grade B.

However, when fighting with Greg, there is no overly huge disadvantage in terms of statistics!

Even, due to the difference in technique, once she completely understands Greg’s move habits, she can slightly cooperate with others to fight.

Victory is just a matter of time!

That’s the theory.

"Ha!"

Uffie dodged the swing of the Golden Giant Axe, stepping on the axe face with her toes to leap into the sky, the Fighting Qi on her long spear about to launch a fierce attack against Greg’s weakest neck part.

This guy, though his entire body has turned into the shape of a Sewn Monster, still possesses some of his own flesh; his head, neck, and a small part of his shoulders are his own.

Instinct tells Uffie that those parts would be more vulnerable than others!

But just at this moment, Greg actually tilted his huge body backward painfully to dodge Fanen’s assault, and simultaneously, something in his abdomen aimed at Uffie.

"Pshu—"

A jet stream, compressed to the extremity and as thin as a finger, suddenly erupted and pierced her chest at high speed.

"Ugh!" Uffie spewed fresh blood immediately, her body dropping to the ground, the attack accurately pierced her heart.

The thing that launched the Water Jet Emission is evident—it’s the Shrimp Head!

Greg’s arm that previously attached the Shrimp Head is now bloody and empty; he had at some point attached the Shrimp Head to his abdomen, just waiting for this stealthy move.

When exactly did that happen?

Injury to other parts wouldn’t be an issue, but a heart injury truly needs time to repair, temporarily losing her combat power.

And at this moment, Greg also reached his timing, choosing to clear the scene!

"Mighty dragon!"

He violently inserted the severed limb into the dragon head, forcefully tore it down.

The dragon head, initially with eyes tightly shut and having lost all Life Force, suddenly opened its eyes at this moment!

Even if it’s a not-up-to-standard small dragon, its high-ranking food chain majesty was revealed, with scorching flames uncontrollably gushing from its mouth corners.

"Ancestor! Please witness!"

In the last scene witnessed before everyone lost consciousness, Greg raised the dragon head high, fiery rain fell onto the world, covering the entire field.

Wasn’t that quite imposing...

This was Uffie’s last thought.

"Dong dong..."

When everyone regained consciousness again, they happened to hear the clock sounding less than half an hour before the Dungeon closed.

Uffie seemed to hear strange water sounds, turned around, and saw Fanen aggressively washing his fur with water.

"What are you doing?"

"All my fur was scorched."

He said irritably, "Why does Greg keep repeating fire attacks, I really hate fire now."

At the last moment, Greg kept repeating the coverage of a huge fire emission.

The filthy status already compared to the Overlord Vonier constantly repeating Divine Wrath.

The group had nothing to summarize post-battle; they unanimously concluded: without those limb-attachment materials, perhaps they might achieve victory at first sight.

The place where people are now, is in a certain room at the top of Stoneveil city’s elevator, where there’s blessing to save lives.

"I want to try again, this time try killing all the Soldiers." Uffie said, Fanen immediately nodded, others had no objections either.

This time, the group chose to steadily advance, sparing no living creature encountered by the roadside, even earthworms had to be split vertically in half.

Thus smoothly reaching the lowest level, which has the limb-connecting nobles, Roger, and a lot of severed limbs hanging from the ceiling.

But now Roger is gone, the limb-connecting nobles’ corpse remains quietly lying on the ground motionless, with an eerie silence in the scene.

"Do you think some of Greg’s limb materials might come from here?" Uffie suddenly thought, "How about we destroy this place?"

"Good idea, I want to capture it." Tepi nodded.

"If it can weaken that guy, I agree." Edgar’s palms already sparked flames, preparing to burn the place down.

But just as everyone was preparing to act, Isha’s face changed, her little face turned somewhat fearful, pointing somewhere and said:

"Look over there... don’t those arms give a sense of déjà vu?"

Everyone followed her direction, examined carefully for a while, and their faces changed too.

There were several new arms hanging, some covered with bug-like shells, some furry like Wolfmen, and some tender like Magicians.

Those arms...

they are identical to their arms!!!