Tinnitus replaced the Giant Spider's excited roar of successful attack. Durin felt his head and chest swell more and more, and he vomited a mouthful of blood, but he had no time to look. He felt a burning sensation all over his body and severe nausea, while his vision was blurred by something green...
The Noise in his ears grew fainter and fainter, as if a movie had been muted, and he could no longer hear any sound.
Until a spider spear suddenly shot towards Durin, even though he couldn't hear anything and was gradually losing his vision, Durin, relying on his body's instinctive reaction, still quickly cast the Mage Armor spell rune model with his left hand.
With the blessing of Arcane Wisdom, he cast it unexpectedly smoothly this time. When the last stroke of the composite rune model was finalized, as Durin suddenly clenched his left hand, all the magic power and Arcane energy instantly solidified and remained still.
In an instant, a translucent layer of Arcane energy, like moonlight, covered Durin's Mage Robe, creating a ripple in the air, and Durin's tied-up black hair also fluttered with the air's movement.
Buzz!
The moment the spider spear touched the Mage Armor, it emitted a buzzing sound like cicadas, as if it had pierced into several layers of thick cowhide armor, unable to advance further.
After a moment of daze, Durin's heart in his left chest suddenly beat violently, much more intensely than before. His chest thumped, and his sternum seemed unable to restrain his heart. The next moment, his heart seemed about to break through the protection of his sternum and rush out of his chest with an endless supply of blood.
With a wave of nausea, Durin vomited the undigested food from his stomach.
Immediately after, his violently beating heart stopped in an instant.
This stop wasn't a gradual deceleration from intense to slow; rather, it was like a machine that was operating intensely suddenly had its plug pulled, stopping abruptly in a mere flash, without any buffer whatsoever.
It was as if fiercely burning coal had been suddenly plunged into icy, bone-chilling water.
Durin's heart thus stilled within his chest, the blood that had been pumped to his brain instantly fell back into his chest cavity like a free fall, and the blood in his chest cavity congealed into a large hand, which in turn gripped Durin's heart tightly.
Although Durin felt his chest hurt as if it had been severely struck by a hammer, his vision and hearing both recovered.
He subconsciously lowered his head, wanting to check if there were any signs of corrosion on his body from the venom sprayed by the Giant Spider, but everything was normal.
To be precise, other than some suspected burn marks, he had not sustained any other severe external injuries.
Although Durin felt uncomfortable all over now, he quickly thought of a possible explanation for why he hadn't been corroded.
When Stellatou the Darkin took over his body and transformed it, a complete overhaul was needed to adapt to the scorching flames.
And high-intensity venom corrosion also had a scorching effect.
Referencing the alchemist Singed, the alchemical bombs he would develop in the future, in a sense, were also a type of alchemical tool with both corrosive and scorching effects.
This meant that the Darkin's transformation first laid a very solid and rich foundation for Durin, a foundation that gave him both super adaptive abilities and super healing abilities.
Therefore, every subsequent enhancement of the character card system was a secondary enhancement based on this foundation.
The current Durin was no longer the same as before; he possessed high-intensity resistance to corrosion and scorching, so there was no hesitation or restraint when fighting.
After confirming that he was unharmed, a fierce glint flashed in Durin's eyes.
The speed at which he swung the scimitar in his hand became faster and faster; in a trance, Durin seemed to feel that his breathing frequency had overlapped with his swinging speed.
Not fast enough, far from enough!
He had to be faster!
How could this speed defeat the enemy, how could it kill this Giant Spider in front of him?
If he couldn't even deal with this spider, how could he talk about dealing with Silco's subordinates, how could he deal with countless gangs, and how could he defeat the skilled individuals in Black Alley?
Too slow, it was really too slow.
[One-Handed +2, Current Proficiency: 107/125]
Moreover, with each swing of his sword, his stamina was rapidly depleting, and the food originally stored in his body had been vomited out again, a strong sense of hunger rushing to his brain.
That craving for meat, that thirst for blood, made Durin even want to directly devour this Giant Spider alive, but his remaining rationality made Durin understand that he couldn't act like a savage.
He had to resolve it quickly; Durin could feel every cell in his body cheering, applauding for the pleasure brought by blood and taking lives.
Clang!
When the Giant Spider saw that Durin, after being attacked by its charged venom, was not corroded into white bones, its mentality instantly exploded, and it let out an angry roar, its sharp spider legs also waving into blurs of light, accompanied by whooshing sounds.
Durin knew very well that even a soldier wearing chainmail would struggle to withstand this terrifying force, let alone a flesh-and-blood body!
However, he was completely fearless, with an enchanted shield in one hand and an enchanted scimitar in the other, then instantly drew his scimitar, which flashed with a cold light, moving faster than before; he could even feel the blade cutting through the air.
Pfft—
The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh was fleeting, as the figures of one man and one beast crossed paths.
To be precise, this was not the sound of a spider leg piercing a body, but the sound of a blade slicing a neck.
[One-Handed +3, Current Proficiency: 110/125]
[Running +2, Current Proficiency: 88/100]
Durin felt no obstruction at the moment of the slash; no strength was wasted, and the weapon was like a part of his body; he knew how to use it to unleash its power at a single point.
The upward-moving blade would easily cut through the spider's head, the sharp edge sliding into the gaps between the bones, and then the thick blade would push open the wound, expanding the cut.
Thud.
The enormous spider head fell to the ground, along with its legs, which had broken into four sections.
The Giant Spider's massive body finally collapsed with a crash, like a collapsing building, sending scattered debris flying like bullets in all directions.
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