Chapter 48.
Grant's arm was raised high.
The blade flashed with a chilling, cold light right above Eugene's defenseless back of the head!
"Die!" the desperate adventurer shrieked!
Clap!
However, even in this situation, his movement had been anticipated by Eugene!
His massive hand accurately gripped Grant's wrist from the side. In this posture, the two men entered a deadlock!
Even if his technique and experience were inferior to the opponent's, if there was only one path left, the struggle would convert into a pure test of strength!
A top-tier Lv3 adventurer versus an overpowered Lv1 in a test of raw strength!
Skill activated: Frenzy VII!!
The moment their forces were locked in opposition, Eugene had already unleashed the Silverback Ape's Frenzy.
His already heavily muscled body swelled up dramatically, like an inflated air bladder, radiating an explosive sense of power.
But even so, Grant still held on!
The human body possesses limiters.
To protect the body, a person is able to unleash less than half of their potential strength.
In other words, this potential is only fully unleashed in the most critical life-or-death moments!
"Ooooh! Ooooh!!"
Crunch!
The sounds of grinding teeth and bursting blood vessels were densely ringing in their ears.
But these two males ignored it, pushing forward with all their might!
In this moment, they had cast aside all thoughts, wanting only to determine the winner through the most primal struggle.
Crackle crackle!
The tree trunk behind them split open with a huge crack, and the earth and stones beneath them crumbled under their forceful backward push.
A powerful aura spread wantonly, seemingly boiling the surrounding air!
Grant's eyes were bloodshot. At this point, he could no longer feel the intense pain from his shredded flesh.
It was either death or victory!
Feeling the opponent's will to survive at all costs, a cold, mocking laugh echoed in Eugene's heart.
In that case, you must also be feeling what those persecuted Xenos felt.
They only wanted to live, with no other distractions.
But even such a simple pursuit became a luxury.
It was time. Eugene's gaze grew cold. This was not a fair duel between men wagering their honor.
It was a hunt, it was punishment.
"Demonize,"
Eugene's thoughts flickered.
A wicked magic circulated through his body. In a single breath, his vision turned dark.
Everything plunged into eternal silence.
[Offer your sacrifice]
The Demon's Scales appeared before his eyes. The skull's eye sockets glowed with a greedy light, and deep purple spectral flames hovered around them.
"I offer my hair."
Eugene felt sorrow.
"Additional condition: Never to grow back!"
Whoosh! Another tuft of Minotaur hair was incinerated on the scales.
In its place surged the forbidden power from the depths of hell: Spectral Ghost Fire!
[You have completed the sacrifice]
[Gained Super Amplified Enhancement for 10 seconds!]
"Th-this is impossible!!"
In Grant's blood-red vision, strands of extremely wicked flames erupted from the Minotaur's unusually broad back! Like lava overflowing from a volcano!
Crack!
Pain!
Intense pain!
Grant looked at his right wrist in shock. He didn't understand why the two of them, who were barely able to maintain a stalemate a second ago, now had such a huge difference in strength!
Eugene's giant hand had completely turned into an iron vise. Facing the human arm bone, his five fingers closed inward without mercy.
Both men could clearly feel the process of the bone reaching its limit and constantly shattering!
No, don't!!
The fear of impending loss instantly overwhelmed his mind. The crushing power brought despair.
[Countdown 5, 4, ...]
Finally! As Grant's pupils violently shook, Eugene's seemingly infinite power reached its peak.
The veins on the back of his hand bulged like moving green snakes, his sinews practically tearing through his skin.
CRUNCH!
Grant's remaining arm was crushed at the wrist bone!
As his useless hand drooped, the tightly gripped weapon fell toward the ground.
Along with it went Grant's last chance at life.
"Now that you've had a taste, go to hell and repent."
Purple flames enveloped Eugene's body. The horn that had pierced Grant's abdomen was plunged in deeper!
"Sacrifice all Super Amplified attributes! Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, and Agility, totaling 1,400 points! Unleash all at once!"
"Limitless!"
Infinite power, infinite possibilities. There is no limit to the method of release!
Deep inside Grant's abdomen, at the tips of the two horns, a ball of light, symbolizing pure energy, burst forth with a dazzling glow!
BOOM!!
An expanding ball of energy exploded from the center of the villain, rupturing his belly, burning his internal organs, and then scattering in all directions!
Grant's chest cavity, throat, eyes, nostrils-every opening that led to the outside-ejected brilliant columns of light.
Like an over-inflated balloon, he didn't even have time to utter a scream before he was incinerated into fragments!
The next second, an all-clearing shockwave spread out, carving a huge, spherical crater in the ground where Eugene stood!
"Holy cow, the effect is still this exaggerated."
Eugene, whose face was covered in ash from the airflow, quickly rubbed his precious big horns.
Well, that was quite exciting the first time playing with that. It gave him an inexplicable feeling of Vasto Lorde Ichigo.
But reflecting on it made him fear.
What if the Limitless energy was too powerful and melted his horns as well? That would be a huge loss.
Fortunately, the pair of big horns were only scorching hot, still firmly in place.
"Hmm..."
Eugene ripped open Grant's belt pouch, which he had snatched at the last moment.
Inside, besides money and a pile of miscellaneous items,
was the key to the Man-made Dungeon.
A blood-red eyeball was embedded in the center of the brass ball.
It was said that this was the eye dug out by the "dutiful son," Dix, from his own ancestor.
Apparently, he had many of these, showing how crazy he was.
"Ugh~~ A fight sure makes you feel refreshed."
Eugene looked around and pulled Grant's decent-looking cleaver out of the dirt.
He also found a piece of Grant's flesh stuck to it.
"Hehe, saves me the trouble of looking for it."
Next up was the part everyone liked: the lottery draw.
Plunder!
Eugene used Plunder simultaneously on the knife and the flesh in his hand. After a moment of illusory chewing sounds, large prompts appeared before his eyes.
[Ding! You have completed Deep Plunder]
[The target will automatically be corrected into the form most suitable for your current state]
[Ding! You have completed Plunder!]
[Gained the target's most prominent attributes-Endurance +605, Strength +615 +650 (Lv2), Dexterity +505 +610 (Lv2) +700 (Lv3)]
[Gained the target's strongest Skill-Gale Slash, a sharp strike delivered during a rapid dash]
[Gained the target's most proficient Ability-Escape C]
[Gained all the target's dropped items: A certain amount of money]
"What the heck?" Eugene was astonished.
The amount of attributes drawn from Grant was surprisingly high, which left him a bit baffled.
However, after looking a little closer, Eugene understood the mystery.
This attribute value fully reflected Grant's life.
When he first started out, he was unknown, could only passively take a beating, and relied on team large-scale raids to gain experience and level up.
Upon reaching Lv2, he began training, gradually becoming a solid vanguard, but still needed overall refinement.
By now, at Lv3, Grant could be considered an expert in his own right.
His technique was fully reflected in his Dexterity. Although he had no magic and his skills were ordinary, his combat experience could be accumulated.
A whopping 700 points in one attribute was quite outstanding.
What Eugene didn't expect was that when he drew the attributes, they were drawn line by line.
He could only say that the System was giving him a boost.
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