The dim sky made it impossible to distinguish the time, and Yang Tao didn't care about it as more and more Mutated Iron Golems came through the wooden door to this level.
Entities fell in swaths, picked up by the Villagers of the clean-up crew and put into their backpacks.
"It's just an island..."
Yang Tao felt a bit of a pity; if this level were an endless plain, he could at least maintain the 'infinite' for a month or so, but if it was just an island, the hope for 'infinite' was too small.
Escorted by several Mutated Iron Golems, Yang Tao and CORAN arrived at the seaside, and through their night vision, they could clearly see that the sea was densely packed with Entities.
These Entities were not recorded in the M.E.G. database at all.
'Dimensional Slash!'
A sphere of blade energy appeared on the calm sea surface; the seawater remained unaffected, but the Entities in the water struggled, being sucked into the Dimensional Slash.
One by one, the aquatic Entities had their health depleted and fell back into the sea, and these corpses immediately caused a violent disturbance.
The sea seemed to boil at this moment.
Countless Entities swarmed around these few corpses, feasting on them, with various bizarre and diverse attack methods such as chelipeds, tentacles, and sharp mouths.
"They're so lively, but it's a pity they're in the sea..."
The number of Entities in the sea was clearly much greater than on land; if all of them were killed, it might even allow the Overworld to advance a level.
"Watch out!"
CORAN suddenly warned, quickly blocking Yang Tao and raising his greatsword.
The next moment.
A hound sprang out of the sea, and CORAN, wielding his greatsword, clashed with its mutated sharp claws.
"Holy hell, this is a hound??"
This hound that sprang from the sea was at least four or five times the size of a normal hound, and its normally bare skin had grown a layer of scales.
Health: 60,000 / 60,000.
CORAN's strength was equally formidable; even with a 20,000 health difference, he could still fight this hound back and forth.
The shaggy-haired hound opened its mouth, and a bloody mist continuously wafted out; the blood mist was extremely corrosive, and CORAN's skin was instantly corroded just by touching a little.
However, after CORAN left the range of the blood mist, the corroded wound visibly began to heal.
As the blood mist spread, the health bar above the Mutated Iron Golem's head rapidly dropped, and those Entities fared even worse; a completely black the Duller silently turned into a pool of blood and merged into the ground.
'Could it be that this super hound is responsible for the land in this level looking like this?'
It's very possible that this island was just an ordinary island, and too many Entities died here, turning the land into this state.
'But... who the hell gave you the courage to take advantage of my Iron Bro?'
The Mutated Iron Golem's health had dropped by a third in just this short time, and Yang Tao directly passed through the blood mist, arriving below the super hound's mouth.
Poison V 00:05
Fortunately, he had an antidote accessory; the quantum armor wasn't poison-resistant...
"Shut up!"
A Rising Dragon Punch struck the super hound's chin, sealing its open mouth with one blow, and two fangs flew out.
Woof woof~
The super hound whimpered and turned to run into the sea, but Yang Tao didn't give it the chance; an obsidian wall rose out of nowhere, blocking its path.
However, the hardness of obsidian was clearly not quite enough against an Entity with over ten thousand health, though it did stop it for over a second.
Yang Tao took this opportunity to use the Yamato's 'Dash' to appear in front of the hound, quickly swinging out several blood-colored blade energies that rapidly pushed the massive hound back dozens of meters.
Seeing its path blocked, the hound directly turned its body and ran in another direction, showing no desire to attack throughout.
"???"
'Could it be that this super hound has the same habits as ordinary hounds?'
Hounds become hostile when they see Wanderers; however, when you make direct eye contact and stare at them, they become afraid.
To verify his inner guess.
Yang Tao put away the Yamato and quickly blocked the super hound, staring intently at the hound's eyes hidden behind its messy hair.
"Woof woof..."
The massive hound whimpered like a startled puppy and turned to flee.
"Holy hell, it's that simple?"
He turned to CORAN and said, "You handle this..."
Mid-sentence, he saw CORAN's empty eye sockets, and Yang Tao silently tapped a wooden fish in his mind.
'My sin, my sin...'
To cover his embarrassment, Yang Tao directly entered the Seven Gates and reappeared in front of the hound, swiftly unleashing a series of skilled combos that instantly depleted the super hound's health.
CORAN might have sensed the hound's death, as he said with great emotion, "Thank you for avenging me. To be honest, your strength is far greater than I imagined."
He walked to the hound's side, raised his bone knife, and precisely stabbed it into the hound's abdomen, then reached his hand into the wound, constantly searching.
"What are you looking for?"
Yang Tao curiously landed next to CORAN and asked.
"My eye. It swallowed one of my eyes. Found it!"
With that, CORAN pulled his hand out of the hound's abdomen; his arm was now covered in blood, and in his hand, he held a black bead the size of a dragon's eye.
"Is this your eye?"
Yang Tao's surprise was understandable, as CORAN wore a necklace around his neck, and on it was strung an identical black bead.
"Yes, when I first arrived here, a tide of Entities attacked me, and I could only fight and retreat. Slowly, I reached the seaside, and it leaped out of the sea and ambushed me."
As he spoke, he pointed to the hideous wound on his face and continued, "This is the wound it gave me; its claws are very special and have the ability to prevent healing. Even with my super healing ability, I can only stop the wound from worsening..."
Is this super hound that fierce?
He had seen the red mist it spat out earlier; CORAN's arm had been corroded but recovered in an instant, yet it still left such a wound on his face, indicating that the poison on this hound's claws was definitely stronger than the red mist.
Dispelling the idea of exchanging it for energy value, he reached out and put the hound into his backpack, planning to give it to the Tinkers Construct Blacksmith or Professor Connors when he had time, to see if anything useful could be made from it.
He took a bucket of milk from his backpack and tossed it to CORAN, saying, "This can eliminate all statuses, such as the toxins that prevent your wound from healing."
"However, some beneficial statuses will also be cleared, so you should consider carefully whether to use it or not."
With that, his gaze turned to the calm yet crisis-filled sea.
"If this level has an exit, it can only be in the sea..."