Chapter 96: When You Need It.

Seeing Xiao Fen’s body become somewhat different, that monster was obviously also a little surprised. Even its pupils, like a human’s, suddenly contracted, becoming a narrow slit.

However, this judgment was also just an instant matter. Almost as soon as Xiao Fen stood firm, this smooth-skinned monster pounced fiercely at Xiao Fen.

Xiao Fen’s body leaned slightly to one side, and the dagger in his hand swung out as well.

This time, his dagger had a tiny change in angle compared to before, but it was precisely this change that made the blocking result obviously different.

With a “ding” sound, the dagger blocked the monster’s claw. At the same time, the sharp blade of the dagger cut a long blood line on this monster’s claw.

“You dealt 23 damage to the Blood-Polluted Evil Beast.”

“Cutting dealt 12 damage to the Blood-Polluted Evil Beast.”

“The Blood-Polluted Evil Beast is bleeding continuously, losing 5 Health Value every three seconds for the next 15 seconds.”

Green liquid suddenly gushed out, flowing along the blood groove of the dagger towards Xiao Fen’s arm. Xiao Fen hurriedly withdrew his hand and took a step back.

The monster’s power had also caused a significant impact on his defense just now. Although he blocked it with the dagger, the huge impact force still made Xiao Fen a bit short of breath.

The wound on his right hand holding the knife burst open again, and he had no strength to continue controlling the dagger. He had no choice but to let his left hand hold the dagger. His chest also felt faintly stuffy. The huge power impact was enough to make various force-unloading techniques meaningless.

Besides this, the spine behind him started to hurt again. If he guessed correctly, cracks had already appeared in his spine.

Compared to Xiao Fen, the monster, which did not notice when Xiao Fen had an extra dagger in his hand, was injured even more heavily. It let out a roar. Just as it placed the injured claw on the ground, it let out another new roar.

The severe pain made it equally irritable, and it had to raise its claw and lick it cautiously.

Before the wound on the claw completely healed, this monster only stared dead at Xiao Fen. The fierceness in its eyes could almost interfere with Xiao Fen’s thoughts.

“This is probably the so-called morale influence. Brainwaves are interfered with. Under such a gaze, one would feel fear.”

Xiao Fen thought randomly like this. After pushing aside the panic that had just risen from his heart, he stared at his opponent again and began to slowly retreat. Facing such a fast-striking opponent, he needed to open up a greater distance to leave himself more reaction time.

A minute of stalemate left both sides with a certain amount of breathing time. At the same time, both sides also made new judgments about the next action. That monster began to walk slowly towards Xiao Fen.

Just like Xiao Fen wanted to open the distance as much as possible, this monster needed to shorten the distance as much as possible to ensure that Xiao Fen’s reaction time was as short as possible. If it could be shortened to the point where Xiao Fen could not make a judgment to block in time, then the next step would be the time for the monster’s victory.

The corner of Xiao Fen’s mouth rose slightly. Although his body was still slowly retreating, his entire body had lowered down.

If it were a normal human, they would mostly be able to guess that this was a standard movement for Xiao Fen before launching an assault. Lower the center of gravity as much as possible, and then concentrate all strength together, allowing oneself to rush faster and have greater impact power.

However, this kind of thing was still unable to be fully understood by a monster. In its eyes, the human in front of it was constantly retreating, and it did not expect at all that this human would actually want to rush up to fight to the death.

Just at the instant when the monster was slightly relaxed, a “crack” sound suddenly came from this basement. That was the sound of human bones being stepped on and crushed.

At the same time, the monster’s vision suddenly blurred. A human skeleton pounced towards it face to face. That was something Xiao Fen had touched with his right hand while lowering his body and retreating.

While stepping on and breaking a human bone, Xiao Fen suddenly threw the skeleton in his hand towards the monster. At the same time, his body exerted force abruptly, following behind the skeleton, and quickly rushed towards the monster’s head.

The monster’s strength might be a bit higher than the human Lieutenant Colonel, but there was still a gap in intelligence.

It did not expect Xiao Fen to use this kind of “throwing sand” tactic, nor did it expect Xiao Fen to launch a surprise attack from behind.

Watching that pale skeleton pouncing towards it, it just subconsciously used its front claw to swat the skeleton away.

The next second, its intuition told it that danger was right before its eyes.

In that instant, its whole body suddenly tensed up, and its body tried to dodge, but it was too late; with a “puh” sound, the dagger in Xiao Fen’s hand had fiercely stabbed into the monster’s right eye.

Xiao Fen’s physical fitness was already far beyond that of ordinary people, and coupled with the precise control brought by his high agility, he was able to seize the only opening at the most critical moment, precisely controlling his left hand to stab the dagger into the monster’s eye, scoring a hit with one strike.

“You inflicted a critical hit on the Blood-Tainted Beast, you dealt 46 damage to the Blood-Tainted Beast.”

Xiao Fen’s left hand twisted slightly beyond his control, actually causing another destructive damage inside the monster’s eye socket.

“Slashing dealt 23 damage to the Blood-Tainted Beast.”

“You caused the Blood-Tainted Beast’s critical area to bleed profusely; for the next 30 seconds, it will lose 5 Health Value every 3 seconds.”

Before he could pull out the dagger, the monster’s retaliating front claw had already swept over; with another “bang”, it once again flung Xiao Fen far away.

Xiao Fen’s body slammed into the wall again; this time, he could not stand up no matter what. Blood flowed from the corners of his eyes, nostrils, and ears; even a single breath made him feel excruciating pain.

“You were hit by the Blood-Tainted Beast, losing 25 Health Value.”

“You have entered a critically injured state.”

However, compared to Xiao Fen, that monster wasn’t much better off.

The green monster kept letting out low hisses, half-kneeling on the ground, and a large amount of green pus flowing from its eye socket spread all around it.

This pus seemed endless; even the monster’s super-high self-healing ability could not stop the constant gushing of this pus.

Xiao Fen watched this scene, and his heart understood a little.

With such a knife, if it were an ordinary creature, it would probably have been completely stabbed into the brain, and with that twist, an ordinary creature’s brains would probably have come out with it, dying on the spot. That this monster could still survive was already an incredible situation.

Lying on the ground for about twenty-odd seconds, watching the pus stop flowing from the monster’s eye, Xiao Fen also felt that his body could barely manage to stand up.

Although all the bones in his body felt as if they were completely shattered, he still shakily climbed up, stumbled to the monster’s side, and delivered another knife strike right on the monster’s head while it was defenseless.

This knife strike was not very powerful, but for the monster, it was no different from the last straw on a camel’s back.

After a bright flash, the dagger in Xiao Fen’s hand shattered into countless fragments. A huge wound was cut open on the monster’s neck, and more pus rolled out. Finally, the monster no longer made any sound and lay on the ground, completely dead.

“You inflicted a critical hit on the Blood-Tainted Beast, you dealt 46 damage to the Blood-Tainted Beast.”

“Slashing dealt 23 secondary damage to the Blood-Tainted Beast.”

“Congratulations, you have killed the Blood-Tainted Beast.”

Xiao Fen fell backward, all the strength in his body disappeared. He believed that if he continued to lie there, death would come at any moment.

With a “bang”, a figure jumped down from the elevator. With the sound of several steel cables moving, Sabova appeared before Xiao Fen’s eyes.

“Great,” Xiao Fen smiled, “You always appear when I need you most.”