Just as the fist was about to hit Liam from above, cracking his neck and crushing his organs, sothing happened.
No, it wasn’t a clone.
There was no ti for that.
No, it wasn’t a Void attack.
There was no ti for that.
No, it wasn’t a White Matter puppet that could take the hit for him.
There was no ti for that.
Instead, what had happened was so stupid, it was almost funny.
The punch... simply slipped off!
Had the scene been a movie, the sa move would be repeated over and over again from different angles.
All showing the sa thing.
The punch, which would’ve killed a Rank 5 cultivator in one go, ricocheting off and hitting the air.
The monster looked utterly incredulous, but only for a mont before realizing what had happened.
There was sothing different about Liam.
He was covered by sothing!
A suit of sothing wet and soft-like.
But the surprise hadn’t ended there.
On Liam’s hand, there was a huge glove.
It looked blocky and sort of ridiculous, with hundreds of little bumps on its surface.
Liam ford a fist with the glove.
Then, taking advantage of the slipped punch, rushed straight at the monster.
What followed next was a strike with 150% power.
The Knock Back Glove amplified Liam’s power to a devastating amount. He had physically felt one or two of the monster’s organs rupture.
As it fell back, the dozen-eyed beast vomited out heaps of blood and guts.
Liam wasn’t about to let it get off that easy.
Of course not.
His Dusk Blades appeared on his hands next, while the gloves — which were now on cooldown – entered his ring.
The dual blades practically buzzed with raw excitent and joy as it shredded through the monster’s soft, fleshy eye tissue, spraying lines of red across the chamber walls.
Sense of vision, gone.
Imdiately after, Liam bombarded the monster with Chaos.
One after the other, booms echoed within the chamber — extending the monster’s disorientation — followed imdiately by a flurry of slashes and cuts with both the Dusks and Black Blade.
After a while of this, the monster fell limp.
Liam didn’t put his guard down. Just to be sure, he fell back, made sure the monster was just below the chandelier, then severed the chain that held the weighty chandelier up.
SHING!
BOOM!
Now, the chandelier was like an anchor, pinning the monster to the ground and making sure it didn’t move.
And it didn’t seem like it was going to move any ti soon, with its wings cut off, its sword arm chipped, and its muscular arm hacked off.
Liam didn’t even catch his breath... well, he didn’t need to catch his breath, but he was still tired. His face was paler than usual, and his ntal energy was quite low – barely a quarter filled.
Still, he took this ti to search for the monster’s ntal organ via his own ntal waves.
Did it have a sea of consciousness?
’I’m gonna find out.’
The ntal waves had erged from the monster’s eyes... but that didn’t an the ntal energy had been produced there.
Liam’s sharp ntal energy penetrated through the monster’s thick flesh and probed within. To his surprise, there was a thin layer of protection... or was it? It seed like a cracked, almost corrupted ntal barrier that teetered on the edge of broken.
And his previous thought proved true.
It did have a sea of consciousness.
Which ant one thing.
This monster was no monster at all.
It was a human.
***
Most likely, what the monster was, was a severely experinted and biologically altered human being.
’No wonder it could speak like one.’
No other living thing in the animal kingdom ca with a sea of consciousness... but there were very few exceptions, such as the Kitsune.
Of course, not all Magical Beasts required a sea of consciousness for ntal attacks. However, their capabilities were limited and unable to expand beyond that small scope.
That aside, Liam wondered if he should kill it.
It was incapacitated, and all it would take is a decent amount of pressure to shatter its already ruined ntal barrier.
But he stopped himself.
This monster/human... the only thing that was keeping it relatively sane was its ntal barrier.
It most likely separated his human side with his monstrous side.
Which ant that, if Liam shattered it, all that would remain is a monster which may or may not go berserk.
He could kill that too, but still.
Why not take advantage of the situation?
Liam obviously wasn’t planning on becoming friends with the thing... but he could probe it for so information. Especially since it seed offended at Naxathra’s ntion.
Which was Liam’s next point.
Naxathra obviously did this to him.
Whether or not the Dreaded made sure his thods of torture and genetic modification were forgotton by the monster, Liam was interested enough to find out.
Speaking of which, the monster/human hybrid ogre beast was making groaning noises.
"Wakey wakey!" Liam said, the odachi in his hand was aid straight at the monster’s throat. "No sudden movents, alright? Let’s be civil here."
The hybrid creature made a low groaning noise.
"I also have a corrosive wave of ntal energy wrapped around your ntal barrier, just a centiter from contact. I can kill you ntally and physically in a heartbeat."
"So much for being civil," the monster said, its tone pained from all the damage it suffered. Honestly, any intimidation it had before had disappeared.
"Can’t bla ," Liam said. "Alright, first things first. Are you a human?"
"No."
"Were you human, I an?" Liam corrected.
Silence.
"Yes."
"Do you rember anything significant from your ti as a human?"
Silence.
"No," it responded with more pain in its voice. It seed like even thinking caused it pain.
Most likely on purpose, all things considered.
Naxathra probably wanted its attacks to be smart and calculated like a human’s, but not enough for it to attempt any form of escape via communication with those who challenge the Tomb.
What a monster.
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