How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?
Chapter 214 - 135: Scale Leader Galasha (2)
The moment he saw the youngling kowtowing and begging for its life, his heart, long as hard as stone, actually wavered for an imperceptible instant.
’Am I being too cruel? Too cold-blooded? Inhuman?’
However, this thought lasted for less than a tenth of a second.
The next moment, Lin Ye’s pupils constricted!
The Shadow Scale youngling, kneeling on the ground with pleading eyes, used its kowtow as cover to abruptly open its mouth!
SPIT—!
A spray of eerie green corrosive liquid shot from its mouth like a high-pressure water jet, aimed straight for Lin Ye’s face!
At the same time, a piercing whistle sounded from behind him!
The decrepit old Shadow Scale crone, who had been prostrate on the ground, had suddenly sprung into action. Her tail, now like a long-coiled steel whip, whistled through the air as it lashed straight for the back of Lin Ye’s head!
Not a trace of humility remained in its murky, vertical pupils—only a venomous hatred and killing intent so thick it was almost tangible!
A semi-transparent purple crystal wall materialized out of thin air in front of Lin Ye.
The corrosive acid splashed against the crystal wall, creating a harsh SIZZLING sound, but it failed to damage it in the slightest.
Meanwhile, Lin Ye didn’t even turn his head.
A crystal blade, thin as a cicada’s wing and almost completely transparent, flashed behind him!
SCHLICK!
The lashing tail was instantly severed!
The mid-air crystal blade and the crystal wall in front of Lin Ye both dissipated.
In that moment, the last trace of hesitation and the final shred of pity in Lin Ye’s heart were utterly obliterated.
These aliens, from the old to the young, were filled to the bone with cunning and savagery.
Even while kneeling and begging for their lives, all they thought about was how to kill you in the most vicious way possible!
His spear flashed.
Two soft thuds.
In the most direct and efficient manner, Lin Ye sent the last of the Shadow Scales, the old crone and the youngling, to hell.
He bent down and, with a few flicks of his long spear, pried the Origin Life Crystals from the skulls of all the Shadow Scale corpses in the house.
Seven pitch-black, diamond-shaped crystals of varying sizes lay quietly in his palm.
Lin Ye clenched his fist.
He suddenly discovered that, just like with Source Crystals, he didn’t seem to need to swallow these things as he had before.
As he held these life crystals, streams of cold, chaotic energy flowed out of them on their own, surging continuously into his body through the skin of his palm.
The Taotie mechanism was working as intended.
Lin Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
He had always found it disgusting to swallow things dug out of alien brains, and he instinctively resisted doing so.
But to become stronger, he had been forced to accept it.
Humanoid creatures like the Shadow Scale Race were actually not so bad.
Lin Ye only had to use a little imagination to picture the countless, far more twisted and disgusting alien races that must exist throughout the Celestial Abyss Realm. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
For example, the Insect Race, or some sort of ooze-like creatures.
If he really had to swallow the cores of things like that, he would probably puke his guts out.
’Being able to absorb them directly through my hand must be the system’s final act of mercy.’
Lin Ye left the shack he had just completely wiped out.
He repeated the process, his figure melting back into the shadows as he silently slipped into a larger stone house not far away.
This time, Lin Ye’s heart felt not a single ripple of emotion.
Whether he encountered able-bodied Shadow Scale Warriors, the frail women and children, the elderly, or the young—
He killed on sight!
Every thrust of his spear drew blood!
Just as he had eliminated all life within the stone house and was about to leave—
His keen Spiritual Power suddenly detected an extremely faint life signature coming from the ground beneath his feet.
Lin Ye bent down to get a better sense of it.
Soon, he raised his Star-Piercing Spear and flicked aside the thick layer of dried grass and animal hides covering the ground.
A crude, earthen hollow appeared before him.
Nestled in the hollow were five or six giant eggs, each the size of an ostrich egg and covered in strange black markings.
The eggshells were even trembling slightly, as if the life within could hatch at any moment.
’The Shadow Scale Race lays eggs?’
Lin Ye didn’t spare it a second thought, not even hesitating for a moment.
He raised his Star-Piercing Spear and pierced the giant eggs, one by one.
POP! POP! POP!
The hard shells were easily pierced, and a foul-smelling liquid, mixed with the already-forming Shadow Scale embryos, spilled all over the ground.
’Cut the weeds, pull out the roots.’
Having done all this, Lin Ye turned and left.
He was like the Grim Reaper himself—silent and efficient.
He moved continuously through the outskirts of the sprawling settlement, entering one shack and stone house after another.
He spent only a few short minutes inside each one.
And when he left, there were no survivors inside.
...
「Southern Outskirts, Temporary Command Post.」
"Sir, we’ve sent the directive to Candidate 37’s wrist device, confirming the end of the selection and his first-place finish, but... there’s no response," a communications specialist suddenly reported.
"No response?" Wang Lingchuan frowned.
"Is the signal being jammed? The environment in the Northern Great Rift Valley is certainly complex."
"No, the signal connection is stable."
The specialist had a strange expression.
"It’s just... he doesn’t seem to be receiving. And..."
"Candidate 37’s points are still going up!"
Soon, the number representing Lin Ye’s score was brought up on the main screen.
77,891.
The number only remained on the screen for less than three seconds.