Life Game In Other World
Chapter 561: Monster (Big - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 561: Chapter 561: Monster (Big Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

"Roar!!!!"

Angry roars vibrated He Ao’s eardrums.

When the wind of bones and flesh had settled, a gigantic monster nearly five meters tall appeared before He Ao.

This creature had a humanoid shape with a head, torso, and limbs. Its thick arms were covered with a dense array of bony spikes, encircling a massive bone pillar made up of stacked human skeletons.

The dense skeleton extended from the arms to the bone pillar as if it had grown together with the pillar.

Its legs spread apart, the bone pillar planted on the ground, it stood there, staring at He Ao.

It was staring, but where the creature’s eyes should be, there were only gaping mouths filled with sharp teeth, and at the mouth’s usual location was a large, slightly protruding red eyeball that took up half of its face.

At that moment, the eyeball was fixed on He Ao, its angry gaze as if about to burst into flames.

The monster had no hair, but instead of a beard, there were thick, rope-like tendrils of flesh at its chin. These tendrils writhed and swayed, giving the creature’s head the appearance of an octopus freshly pulled from the depths of the sea.

"Eat him!!!!"

"Eat him!!!!"

From the bottom of these swaying tendrils, at the thin tips, small, slender mouths had formed. These mouths voice simultaneously with the two on the giant’s face, producing a shrill, ear-piercing screech.

"Federation Constitution Amendment I, Clause Two,"

He Ao watched the terrifying creature calmly, "All life forms, unless mechanically modified and lacking the morphology of ordinary humans, are not considered human unless included in the Federation’s Special Citizen List. If the entity was a Federation citizen, it will automatically lose its citizenship status."

"What are you saying, Profaner?"

The two mouths on the monster that Arent had become flapped open as it questioned with a piercing voice.

"I’m sorry," He Ao firmly gripped the dagger, slowly lifting his hand with the blade pointing backward, "but you’re not on the Special Citizen List."

Federation laws protect only humans and special citizens.

"He’s saying we’re not human!"

"We were never human!"

"This isn’t mutation! This is evolution!"

"Foolish humans!"

The beard-like tentacles began to flutter.

"Profaner, you must die!"

And Arent raised the heavy bone pillar in his hand, forcefully smashing it towards He Ao.

Although the creature’s form was massive, it moved extremely fast, and the huge bone pillar almost instantly reached where He Ao stood.

But He Ao had already leaped to the side before the strike came; thus, the seemingly heavy bone pillar brushed past the edge of his clothes and smashed into the ground.

In an instant, the entire floor shattered, and the strange, inscribed lines on the ground lit up quickly, shining a bright purple light throughout the space.

The glowing runes, like a resilient web, absorbed the force of Arent’s blow, preventing the floor from being easily breached.

Still, long cracks spread out three to four meters, with dense, intercrossing fractures.

The entire floor looked like stones bound together by a strong spider web.

He Ao, who had dodged and was now leaning against the wall’s edge, watched Arent.

The bone pillar in Arent’s hand was over four meters high and over a meter in diameter. Judging by the force as he swung it, the pillar’s weight must have been measured in tons.

The hall seemed spacious, but it was at most twenty meters in diameter and about seven meters high. Under Arent’s massive size and the swing of the huge bone pillar, the hall suddenly felt cramped.

This crowdedness also reduced He Ao’s time to dodge.

From the recent attack, it was apparent that Arent, now a monster, had physical abilities far exceeding He Ao’s at that moment, but he hadn’t reached the B-level.

Stronger than the C-level limit monster He Ao had encountered in Limen City, but weaker than a true B-level.

The strength growth of Talent Sequences isn’t as direct as Martial Arts; it’s a gradual process, where each promotion in Talent Sequence often results in exponential physical enhancements.

Although the limit of C-level is close to B-level, there’s still a significant gap from reaching the true B-level.

Between the two levels, there’s a stair-like discrepancy in power.

Upon entering C-level, everyone gains an understanding of their own body and knows roughly where their limits are.

He Ao had been promoted through C-level many times, so his experience was slightly more than that of ordinary people. He could roughly ascertain that the physical limit for C-level should be around a physical quality of 800.

However, the weakest B-level Transcendents He Ao had seen all seemed to far surpass this limit of 800 in terms of physical quality.

But only a few Talent Sequences, such as ’warrior,’ which primarily enhance the body, can come close to that limit.

Of course, physical quality doesn’t represent absolute strength. After entering C-level, almost all Transcendents possess various bizarre abilities.

Combat skills, ability usage, weapon control, and physical quality—these are the comprehensive strengths of a Transcendent.

Through the reasoned use of abilities, Talent Sequences with weaker physical quality can defeat those with stronger physical attributes.

From the B-level Transcendents He Ao had encountered so far, after reaching B-level, this differentiation is probably even more pronounced.

However, the monster that Arent had transformed into was likely closer to a strength-type Talent Sequence Transcendent, with power being one of his main indicators of strength.

His strength had clearly surpassed the 800 limit but had not yet crossed the threshold of B-level.

The main world’s He Ao, with a physical quality of over a thousand, was also stuck at this stage.

At the moment, with He Ao possessing the Terrorist and a base physical quality of over five hundred, which, after activation of Super Memory, exceeded a thousand, he too was stuck at this stage.

He Ao estimated that the power Arent unleashed just then was much stronger than his own with the boost from Super Memory.

At this level, such formidable physical quality made dealing with ordinary C-levels as easy as slaughtering chickens, as long as one doesn’t carelessly step into a trap or get outmaneuvered.

This was perhaps the source of Arent’s confidence.

Even for He Ao, Arent was sufficiently oppressive.

He Ao watched the muscles on Arent’s shoulder, and the moment they twitched, he quickly leapt forward.

The next second, a massive bone pillar once again struck the spot where he had just been standing.

This time, however, He Ao didn’t dodge to the side but instead rushed in front of Arent and stabbed his thigh with a dagger.

"Ah!!!"

Accompanied by the eerie splatter of purple-red blood, Arent bellowed and swung his bone pillar toward He Ao.

By then, He Ao had already jumped to the other side. After dodging Arent’s attack, he once again violently stabbed at Arent’s other thigh several times.

With Arent’s towering height of over six meters, Jess’s body, standing at 1.8 meters, could barely reach his thighs.

Although He Ao was tactically dismissive of the enemy, he did not underestimate Arent strategically.

This was an enemy who far exceeded his current comprehensive strength, and even grazes from the enormous bone pillars would likely result in severe injuries.

After all, the physical quality brought about by Super Memory was temporary; Jess’s body was still that of an ordinary C-level and not like He Ao’s main body—a truly stable enhancement.

In facing this formidable enemy, He Ao also had to consider another issue: how much damage his body could withstand.

Having witnessed that seemingly dormant unknown entity in the corridor, He Ao realized that the enemies he was about to face were likely extraordinarily strong.

Arent was merely a ’watcher,’ and that hidden existence may have other, more powerful servants.

And He Ao had just been promoted—without the means to quickly recover his physical quality. But from what had happened before, each Copy World didn’t last long. The ultimate pivotal event might explode in the next few days.

That is to say, if He Ao were seriously injured here, he would have no time to heal.

Thus here, he not only had to defeat Arent but also ensure that he sustained no severe injuries to his own body.

The difficulty of the battle had just escalated.

Super Memory could be used only for a limited time, so if he wanted to ensure that his Soul also didn’t suffer significant damage, He Ao had to defeat Arent successfully within these few tens of seconds.

The longer the battle dragged on, the more disadvantaged He Ao became.

Countless thoughts whirled through He Ao’s mind as the attacked Arent took half a step back, crouched slightly, and swept the bone pillar horizontally toward He Ao’s direction.

Given He Ao’s evasion speed, it was simply impossible to dodge the four-meter-long bone pillar in such a short amount of time, even if he, like before, sensed something amiss and tried to dodge in advance.

Although Arent was filled with terrifying rage, his combat instincts had not vanished.

And indeed, just as Arent had calculated, He Ao definitely couldn’t have dodged the swinging bone pillar by moving backward.

So this time, He Ao rolled forward, following Arent’s retreating movement, and ended up behind him,

He Ao predicted Arent’s attack, and once again managed to evade it without a scratch.

This kind of prediction was risky, but He Ao had no choice. He could only bet on his own judgment being correct. Super Memory was still in the process of absorbing Arent’s combat data and was unable to construct a combat model to assist him in making decisions.

He had to rely on himself alone.

He Ao felt his hand, gripping the hilt of the dagger, begin to sweat slightly, but fortunately, the handle of the dagger was slip-resistant, which wouldn’t affect his attacks.

He charged from behind, stabbing fiercely at the back of Arent’s knees several times.

In Divine Sense’s probing, Arent’s energy also adopted a multi-center approach. Most of his energy nodes were concentrated in his legs, a smaller part in his shoulders and elbows, and only a few strong nodes were amassed near his head.

Such an energy distribution allowed this giant figure to maintain powerful agility and speed.

What He Ao needed to do now was to prioritize demolishing most of the energy nodes in Arent’s legs.

The only effective thing in his hand was the dagger; he had to engage in close combat. At close range, his advantage over Arent’s large but agile physique became evident; Arent’s bone pillar was not as convenient to swing at close quarters.

But this position wasn’t stable. At the start, He Ao had taken advantage of Arent’s lack of defense to close the distance. If he were pushed back, it would be difficult to get close again next time.

So, with every attack, He Ao tried to lengthen the wounds, destroying more of Arent’s energy nodes.

"Ahh!!!"

Arent also realized he had to increase the distance from He Ao. He suddenly lifted his foot and stomped toward He Ao. As He Ao dodged and was suspended in mid-air, Arent let out a roar and swung the bone pillar like a battering ram.

The bone pillar, accompanied by a gigantic whooshing sound, swung directly toward the direction He Ao had dodged.

This time, his speed was even faster, and the preparatory move forced He Ao to leave the ground, leaving him almost no time to react.

However, with the help of Super Memory’s incomplete combat model analysis, He Ao grasped the possible attack of Arent. Before the giant bone pillar could hit him, he had already landed on the tip of one foot, and the muscles in that leg suddenly tensed, pushing against the fabric of his pants.

He Ao concentrated all his strength on his landing foot, explosively burst forth, and just as the bone pillar was about to hit him, he rolled forward and once again rushed beneath the giant’s feet.

His speed was so fast that it seemed as though Arent’s attack passed through the afterimage he left behind.

At that moment, He Ao, going with the flow, attached his Divine Sense to the curled blade of the dagger, slicing across Arent’s calf and drawing a long bloody mark, with purple-red blood splashing out.

But He Ao didn’t pause; he turned around for another slash, opening up another wound on Arent’s other calf.

These two slashes destroyed most of the remaining energy nodes in both legs.

"You’re going to die!!!"

Arent suddenly embraced the bone pillar, his upper body muscles bulging like small hills, and his terrifying explosive power burst forth.

Seeing this, He Ao glanced at the last undestroyed energy node on the leg, didn’t hesitate, and rapidly retreated.

As he retreated, Arent had already grabbed one end of the bone pillar and, using himself as the center, swung it around.

He spun like a huge top, with a terrifying momentum.

And the retreating He Ao, barely grazing the edge of the spinning top, moved out of the range of the attack.

The bone pillar, with its intimidating force, nearly brushed past his chest, and the fierce wind whipped against his cheek.

Just as He Ao anticipated Arent’s possible area attack, he hesitated for a moment, whether to advance and try to destroy the last energy node on the leg or to retreat.

But at that time, he had no time to hesitate or think, quickly making a decision.

The fact proved that even after most energy nodes were destroyed, Arent could still rely on other energy nodes in his body to keep moving, just not as nimbly.

If He Ao had just stood in place, he would probably have been smashed against the wall by Arent’s bone column, his bones shattering to pieces.

After dodging Arent’s attack, He Ao’s body flipped vertically through the air like a fish soaring into the sky, continuing to fly backward with agility.

His hand swiftly grazed the ground, grabbing the hilt of a short knife, then he quickly rolled forward, grasping the handle of another short knife.

The tips were broken, and the blades of the daggers curled upon hitting the ground.

These two short knives were weapons the maid had just used; made of the same material as the daggers but obviously infused with a lot more impurities, thus their hardness and durability were not as good.

But they would do for a temporary use.

At this time, Arent, who had been spinning rapidly, also came to a halt, planting his bone column back into the ground, looking at He Ao who he had finally managed to drive back.

By now, due to the recent fight between the two, the entire hall’s ground had been shattered into messy rubble, forcibly bound together by those purple lines.

"Ah!!!"

Watching, Arent’s face with two mouths opened again, letting out a deafening screech as the flesh tendrils on his chin fell one after another to the ground.

"I’m alive!"

"Eat the Profaner!"

"Eat him! Eat him!"

"I’m so hungry!"

These dense tendrils fell to the ground, the blood splattering on the purple lines, lighting up with a brilliant glow.

These tendrils quickly began to wriggle, transforming into soft human-like shapes.

And at this time, Arent charged at He Ao once more, swinging the bone column at him.

Once again, He Ao dodged the attack.

But this time, when the huge bone column hit the ground, it didn’t remain unchanged; instead, countless pieces of bone fell from it.

The soft humanoid monsters around quickly swarmed up, enveloping those pieces of bone, propping up their bodies.

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"This is mine!"

They fought over the bones, merging them into their bodies and then, after a brief period of wriggling, pulled bone swords and bone bows out of their bodies.

And at this time, Arent swung his bone column down towards He Ao again.

This time, as He Ao was dodging, a white bone arrow suddenly flew towards him, aimed directly at his head.

He quickly turned his head, letting the bone arrow fly over his cheek.

Thump—

With a light sound, the bone arrow struck the wall and shattered into numerous fragments again.

He Ao landed on the ground and glanced over, only to see a soft humanoid holding a bone bow aimed at him, already notching a new bone arrow.

Without hesitation, He Ao violently threw one of the short knives in his hand.

Whiz—

Accompanied by a crisp sound of tearing through the air.

The short knife pierced the soft humanoid’s body, carrying it backward and nailing it to the wall.

Then He Ao quickly scanned the surrounding soft humanoids that were gradually closing in, and after a brief moment of thought, charged towards Arent once again.

And this time, his target was no longer the legs.