"Bruto! Climb onto my shoulder!"

    The young Dwarf was seizing this rare opportunity, attacking the supports behind the Shark Lizard Beast’s hind legs with ferocity when he heard the call. Startled, he hesitated for a moment, but his unquestioning trust in Lancelot kicked in immediately. He dashed over, dropped his hammer, and clambered onto Lancelot’s ten-foot-tall frame using his hands and feet.

    Lancelot’s body felt to him like freshly forged steel, hot and hard.

    It must be the effect of the Enlarge Spell, the Dwarf muttered to himself.

    As he climbed, Lancelot’s arms continued to lift; his lips were tightly shut, and the muscles in his arms and shoulders bulged, indicating he was exerting all his strength.

    The Knight’s current posture resembled that of a farmer wrestling a chayote, except his prey was twice his size.

    "Dimensional Bag!" Lancelot managed to utter between grunts, "Acid!"

    Bruto hesitated for a moment, then his face lit up with surprise.

    He absolutely loved Lancelot’s idea.

    The Dwarf stepped onto the enlarged Frostslash and moved in front of the Shark Lizard Beast’s gaping maw. He glanced down and nearly vomited. Starting from the throat, the beast’s maw was filled with teeth—its blood-red, razor-sharp teeth evoked images of the meat grinders Dwarves use to make sausages.

    Taking a deep breath, he took off the Dimensional Belt he had previously looted from the Mud Monster’s body. With a flick of his wrist, he untied the rope around the bag’s opening and upended it into the Shark Lizard Beast’s mouth.

    A full 150 gallons of acid poured from the extradimensional space down the creature’s gullet, which was thicker than Bruto’s waist, straight into its belly.

    "How’s the taste?"

    A triumphant smile spread across the Dwarf’s face as the hissing sound of strong acid corroding flesh rose, and a potent, pungent odor filled the air.

    The Shark Lizard Beast’s limbs twitched at a frequency only a dying animal could achieve, its movements so violent that even Lancelot, exerting himself to the maximum, could not hold onto his sword tightly.

    Bruto began to sway, on the verge of falling off the Sword Blade. But before he dropped, he took out two small bottles from his pocket and threw them into the Shark Lizard Beast’s mouth.

    "Like that? Want me to season it more for you?"

    It had been used by the Malevolent Spirit Demon for hundreds of years, providing it with countless fresh corpses without raising any suspicion, after all, this was the Abyss—where it would be strange if a mining pit never had any miner deaths.

    But the gift had another effect: once the recipient died, as long as the Malevolent Spirit Demon was on the same plane of existence, it could immediately occupy their corpse, regardless of the distance between them.

    "You damned fiend, will this never end!"

    Bruto, who had just been sitting deflated on the ground like a punctured ball, suddenly sprang up, running towards his hammer and shield that he had tossed aside earlier.

    Lancelot didn’t understand how the Malevolent Spirit Demon managed all this, but he was very clear about the situation at hand.

    He was not unprepared, either. During the battle with the shark lizard, he had never used his most powerful move—Innate True Qi—intending to save it for this threat that had previously slipped away from him.

    The original plan of the Malevolent Spirit Demon was to command the shark lizard to kill these people, but the Human Knight had proven to be exceptionally strong under the effect of the Enlarge Spell, further fueling its desire for that body. In the last view of the shark lizard, it saw the effects of the Enlarge Spell dissipate, deciding it was time to take matters into its own hands.

    In fact, Kalalin had already used up all of his second-ring Spell slots, the only thing he could do now was to make sure he didn’t become a burden to Lancelot.

    However, the Malevolent Spirit Demon had no plans to let him go. The shark lizard glanced at Kalalin, and the poor Scholar once again fled uncontrollably.

    Lancelot charged forward proactively. Given the size difference, once the shark lizard started its charge, nothing could stop it aside from the solid rock walls here.

    The Malevolent Spirit Demon-controlled shark lizard looked disdainfully at the human. He had indeed demonstrated great courage and skill in the recent fight, but what could courage and skill amount to in the face of absolute power?

    The shark lizard opened its massive mouth, revealing a full set of neatly arranged sharp teeth.

    Just as it was about to bite down on the human, who clearly overestimated his abilities, the target vanished from its sight.

    Lancelot once more used the Footwork Technique he had learned from the bamboo slips. Seizing the moment the shark lizard’s eyes narrowed as it opened its mouth, he leaped mightily into the air.

    In this jump, he applied the mental method of Gathering Qi Slash, concentrating True Qi into his feet. To the onlookers, Lancelot’s leap was so swift that he looked just like a tree frog.

    Given its body structure, it was difficult for the shark lizard to raise its head and observe above itself, but its upper body was covered with a thick Carapace, typically disregarding any threats from above. The Demon occupying the shark lizard’s body was well aware of this, though it had yet to realize the disappeared Human Knight had now positioned himself on its head.

    In mid-air, Lancelot tapped into the very essence of the power within his Dantian Qi Sea.