Outside his window, there was a monstrous creature with a hideous face crouching there.
It was large in size but clung to the wall with remarkable agility. Its face was grotesque and terrifying, with crimson lips turned outward revealing fangs inside. But it was certainly no ordinary being; through the messy fur covering its chest shone a metallic gleam. Its left arm was entirely made up of mechanical parts, while the right arm from shoulder to elbow appeared flesh and blood before transitioning into metal components.
The whole appearance of this strange creature resembled a hybrid between an ape and a mechanical creation.
Li Wei recognized this monster because just before, when he was taking a break from training in the practice room, he also looked up some information about hunters. Top of that, were the guides and intelligence on various monsters. Coincidentally, he had seen this kind of monster.
This is a Yayuan, at least, the physical part is that of a Yayuan. This guy should be based on a Yayuan and has undergone mechanical modification.
Being stared at by such a guy is very uncomfortable. And Li Wei is 100% sure that the half-mechanical Yayuan's eyes, which are red, absolutely do not come with good intentions.
This is the upper district! It's the Four Leaf Clover branch! It's the lair of the demon hunters! When did this kind of monster even have the courage to this extent? Is this the end of an era?
Li Wei cursed incessantly in his heart. But the enemy still had to be dealt with, and he decided to take the initiative.
With one hand gripping the hilt of his blade at his waist, he used the other hand to draw the pistol he had just holstered back into the armed belt.
The Sharingan activated, aiming the gun at the head of the cyborg ape.
Fire!
Penetrating bullets shattered the glass, and three consecutive rounds struck the ape's skull. One was embedded in its forehead, another pierced through its mouth, and the last one blinded it in one eye.
For ordinary people, this injury would have been fatal, but at most, it only inflicted minor wounds on this monster. The monster roared loudly, hoisting itself up with its arm dangling outside the window. Its entire body then leaped into Li Wei's room, charging at him with claws bared and teeth gnashing.
"Secondary penetrating bullets can't penetrate this thing..." He cursed inwardly, but fortunately, he did not pin all his hopes on the bullets.
As he fired the rifle, his other hand gripped the hilt, charging up the Ghost Slash's power. And when the monster charged, the accumulation of Ghost God's power was already complete.
[Ghost Slash]is a move with a slow execution speed, and the key lies in this charging. According to Li Wei's current abilities, he would need at least half a second of charging time to complete the Ghost Slash, with a maximum of three seconds at most. The longer the charging time, the greater the power of the released Ghost Slash.
A fully charged Ghost Slash at three seconds should have almost ten times the power of a half-second charge, and it should be the most lethal skill he currently masters.
When this half-mechanical mutant ape rushed into his face after one or two breaths, the hand that tightly gripped the hilt moved.
The short sword was pulled out of the sheath, while surging Ghost God's power stormed on the blade, dyeing the blade light into a violet color.
This Ghost Slash, although it did not reach the maximum charging level, its power was already quite formidable. The half-mechanical mutant ape, faster than when it charged over, was directly slashed and sent flying by Li Wei's blade, slamming into the room's wall and even causing a spider web-like pattern of cracks.
Li Wei squinted to see that the monster seemed to have lost its mobility. His Ghost Slash had struck the chest of the half-mechanical mutant ape. The coarse black fur charred by the power of the Ghostly God, inside the machinery was chopped into a massive crack.
Through the Insight ability of the Mangekyou Sharingan, Li Wei also saw a core inside the half-mechanical, half-flesh body that was still sparking loudly.
Stepping forward, Li Wei delivered a fatal blow, severing the head of the defenseless, twitching Yixian ape lying on the ground and putting an end to its pitiful life.
Recalling the sensation of using the spectral strike earlier and the speed at which this monster charged toward him, Li Wei made a rough assessment of its strength: it should be around the level of a human who has just entered the realm of limits.
Li Wei had expected it to be stronger; he still remembered the information about the Yixian ape from the monster catalog: "This creature possesses great power and an extremely agile, flexible body. It is not advised for hunters of the limit realm to face it alone, and it is recommended that three to five hunters hunt it in a team."
However, the semi-mechanized creature before him clearly did not reach the level of the Yixian ape, which was stated as needing a three-to-five-person team to hunt it.
Never mind that this gadget couldn't even withstand a single Ghost Slaying move, after all, since Li Wei's strength broke through, it has definitely exceeded the ordinary level of the Extreme Tier. Just talking about the most ordinary Extreme Tier hunter, there should be no big problem in dealing with this mechanical mutant ape.
I see, the mechanical modification seems not to have enhanced the monster's strength but rather reduced it.
Li Wei feels that the original intention of this kind of mechanical modification may not be to enhance the monster's strength, but rather to "control". Some force has captured some monsters with a certain cost using this modification technology, and then modified and controlled them for their own use.
Crouching down, Li Wei checked the headless corpse of this semi-mechanized mutant ape. He wants to look for whether this monster also has a flesh and blood core like a normal demon.
Li Wei indeed found the fleshy core - it was the thing that was previously blown up by him, sparking inside the chest cavity of the strange ape.
He dug it out and placed it in front of him. Li Wei recognized it as the fleshy core, but it had been modified.
Half of this thing's structure had been replaced with mechanical devices. An energy core, the size of half a fist, made from compressed amethyst, powered this semi-mechanical heart.
Upon further inspection, Li Wei could sense an extremely minuscule amount of life energy within the other part of the semi-mechanical heart structure; it was roughly just a fifth of an D-grade gene solution.
Li Wei was slightly depressed. With this monster, he would have to kill fifty of them to obtain an amount of life force equivalent to an C-grade fleshy core, which was too much of a loss.
Nevertheless, even if a mosquito is small, it is still flesh. Li Wei still put in some effort to collect the energy from these blood and flesh cores into the Book of Ten Thousand Laws.
After inspecting the blood and flesh core, Li Wei continued to rummage through the head monster's corpse to see if there were any other gains.
He didn't find anything he could use, but he noticed a very special pattern on the monster's purely mechanical left arm.
"Black Double-headed Bird emblem? Is this monster a product of Black Bird Heavy Industries?"
Li Wei pondered when he suddenly heard a loud noise outside the door!