CHAPTER 82: CHAPTER 51: RAIN

Hiss——!

The City-breaking Level Demon Spider lurking on the ground suddenly shook its plump abdomen, and under the cover of its hiss, infrasound waves abruptly spread out.

At this moment, the motorcycle remotely controlled by Yan Luo, hidden in the bushes not far away, suddenly rushed out at an extremely fast speed toward the City-breaking Level Demon Spider.

The spider reacted swiftly, leaping up before being hit by the motorcycle, but its infrasound attack was interrupted.

Yan Luo predicted its landing point and tossed a grenade towards that location.

The grenade blasted the tree chosen by the spider as its landing point, and as the upper half of the tree collapsed, the City-breaking Level Demon Spider’s body drew a parabolic arc, falling from the air.

Even so, the three-meter-long giant spider could still adjust its body in mid-air, spraying a special structure of liquid protein from its silk glands, which quickly solidified into threads when exposed to air.

The City-breaking Level Demon Spider used the silk to catch itself, preventing it from falling to the ground.

At that moment, the stiff hairs covering the spider’s body sensed the air currents, and its eight legs, which had just landed on the tree trunk, began to shake in succession, allowing the spider to swiftly dash towards the ground.

It had sensed similar air currents a few times before; every time such a situation occurred, the enemy would immediately appear at the end of that trail.

Aside from its appearance, the City-breaking Level Demon Spider had traits similar to a wolf spider, hence the name ’City-breaking Level Demon Spider.’

This Demon had a certain level of recognition and memory but could not perform complex thinking.

Just like now—

Yan Luo fired the hook gun and released it, allowing it to retract on its own.

He had already used the hook gun a few times while dealing with the City-breaking Level Demon Spider, so the Demon probably thought he was being pulled by it now.

In fact, Yan Luo was just running alongside the hook gun.

The City-breaking Level Demon Spider quietly landed, its weight of 52 kilograms evenly distributed over its eight long legs on the ground, making no sound except for the brushing of toes against the grass.

It raised its fangs, intending to bite at Yan Luo, only to find that there was no human body behind the rapidly retracting hook gun.

Yan Luo burst out at the right moment, raised the shotgun in his hand, and shot at close range.

Accompanied by the burst of muzzle flash, numerous pellets sprayed out, hitting the City-breaking Level Demon Spider’s head.

Yan Luo couldn’t control where the pellets landed, but he didn’t expect them to shatter all six eyes of the giant spider.

The spider’s body jumped back violently, letting out a piercing cry.

Vision, for the City-breaking Level Demon Spider, was also an important sense, and suddenly losing six eyes was a severe blow to it.

If Demons had any fear, the City-breaking Level Demon Spider would certainly want to flee instead of relentlessly pursuing Yan Luo.

The spider hissed and made three lunges, each of which Yan Luo dodged, unaware that the temperature in the air was rising.

Just as the spider lunged at Yan Luo for the fourth time, Yan Luo drew a preheated thermite axe from behind and brought the searing axe blade down onto the spider’s head.

Even the body of a Deadly-level Demon could only yield before a thermite weapon.

The City-breaking Level Demon Spider was cleaved in two by the thermite axe, its body suspended mid-air for half a second before shattering into Magic Power particles, forming a vortex, condensing into a material, and falling before Yan Luo.

Turning off the thermite axe’s heating, Yan Luo grasped the handle with his right hand, allowing the axe blade to slowly cool to prevent rapid cooling from damaging the axe blade’s lifespan, while bending down to pick up a large bundle of spider silk on the ground.

Yan Luo sensed a drone hovering nearby; otherwise, he might have bitten into the City-breaking Level Demon Spider to have a taste.

The Hunters watching Yan Luo’s battle through the drone looked at each other blankly (their expressions hidden by masks and goggles).

"...Just now, that was a Deadly-level City-breaking Level Demon Spider, right?"

The City-breaking Level Demon Spider is a difficult Demon to deal with, not only interfering with Magic but also with the use of Engravings.

If the materials produced by the City-breaking Level Demon Spider were valuable, many would risk hunting it for those, but the most valuable material it produces is just a bundle of spider silk. Beyond that, it’s all worthless things like rotten meat or shells.

Hunters mostly despise this kind of Demon.

The ability of the City-breaking Level Demon Spider to interfere with Engravings manifests as infrasound, which is effective even on ordinary people.

Infrasound is difficult to defend against and has strong penetrative power, rendering even the best exoskeletons ineffective. The only option is to endure it with the body.

Yan Luo’s victory over a Deadly-level City-breaking Level Demon Spider was unexpected for everyone present.

This kid is getting stronger and stronger...

And to think he’s just an ordinary person...

......

Yan Luo drove the motorcycle away from the Hunters, checking the reduced internal Magic Power displayed on the visor through the cracked Magic Power measuring device Sasa somehow obtained.

Having one less meal of a Deadly-level Demon’s flesh had a significant impact on him. Urgently, he needed to find one or several Dangerous-level Demons to ’supplement’ himself.

Otherwise, his internal Magic Power would be entirely depleted before his injuries fully healed.

With that in mind, Yan Luo turned the motorcycle towards the direction of the Rusty Iron Hills.

Few Hunters ventured into the Rusty Iron Hills. It was more suited to his hunting grounds, although some Demons there were not edible for him, unlike the Dark Forest, where even plant-type Demons were consumable.

Yan Luo had been in the Abyss for twenty hours, with the first two hours spent adjusting to this new exoskeleton. For the remaining eighteen hours, he had been replicating his previous twenty-two-hour slaughter.

Back then, while he was in a frenzy, he wouldn’t provoke unmanageable Demons, only a shadow wolf or similarly weak creatures.

This time, with a new exoskeleton and significantly enhanced physical functions, Yan Luo dared to engage in combat with relatively dangerous Deadly-level Demons like the City-breaking Level Demon Spider.

During his battle with the City-breaking Level Demon Spider, Yan Luo discovered that he was indeed stronger than before. Now, even without the exoskeleton, he might stand a chance against certain more powerful Dangerous-level Demons.

At this rate, he might grow strong enough to fight Deadly-level, and even City-breaking Level Demons with bare hands!

The only issue was that as a purely carbon-based life form, unlike mutated life forms supported by Magic Power, could his body truly reach that level, or would there be a physical limit?

Yan Luo didn’t know the answers to these questions; he could only strive as hard as possible to get closer to the truth.

And materially, this manifested as continuous killing and consumption!

The slaughter and consumption targeting Demons!

——Ding!

The flames surging within Yan Luo’s chest were extinguished by a raindrop falling from the sky.

Raindrops struck his visor, quickly transforming into rivulets that rolled down.

Yet, Yan Luo couldn’t help but be astonished, stopping his vehicle to look up.

The rain just now was a stray drop passing through the gaps in the branches and leaves. Yan Luo’s gaze pierced through the overlapping treetops, detecting the sound of light rain gently tapping the leaves amidst the swaying wind.

It was like a mother softly humming a melody to soothe a child reluctant to sleep. The rain’s soft droning noise blanketed all sounds in the forest beneath it.

"Rain...?" Yan Luo inhaled sharply in disbelief.

The Crimson Abyss never experienced weather changes; it was always a crimson moon hanging high in the sky, without even changing phases.

If that’s the case, what was he witnessing now?

Where did this rain come from?