Under the vast sky shrouded by black mist, two gray shadows—one large and one small—were chasing each other across an endless plain!

On the plain, countless black long-haired mammoths were also running, but their speed was far inferior to that of the two gray shadows!

The smaller figure darted between the massive mammoths. Sensing someone intruding into their territory, the mammoths became enraged and attempted to chase after the intruder. However, before they could catch up, they suddenly noticed a terrifyingly large gray shadow looming behind them! This larger gray shadow moved even faster than the smaller one. Many mammoths that stood in its path did not have time to escape and were crushed underfoot. Some were merely injured, while others were killed instantly. Still, many were thrown several meters away before meeting their demise!

"This guy is even more ferocious than a super boss!"

Without hesitation, Xiao Hua activated his final skill: "Demonization!"

When Xiao Hua first discovered that he was surrounded by giant long-haired mammoths, he hesitated to use the Demonization skill immediately because he was unsure whether it increased his original attributes by 20% or his current total attributes by 20%. Given the mammoths' massive size and slow speed, Xiao Hua thought he could use them to block the giant turtle and then escape.

Although the mammoths did hinder the giant turtle to some extent, the enraged giant turtle unleashed even more terrifying collisions, throwing truck-sized mammoths aside effortlessly, which was quite frightening to witness! After a brief attempt to evade, Xiao Hua realized that any further tricks would be futile and decided to activate Demonization.

"Please don’t disappoint me."

After using the skill, Xiao Hua hoped that if it only increased his original attributes by 20%, it would be useless in his current situation. If the Demonization state lasted for 10 minutes and then ended, he would die. If it increased his current total attributes by 20%, after 10 minutes, all his attributes would decrease by 50%. Even if he managed to escape from the giant turtle, he would still be overwhelmed and killed by other monsters. Either way, he was doomed, so he decided to fight the giant turtle to the death. If he had to die, he would at least take the boss down with him.

Agility: 1632!

"Ha ha, old turtle! Let’s see who wins!"

Seeing the agility attribute, Xiao Hua was overjoyed. He stopped abruptly, turned around, and charged back towards the giant turtle.

Illusion!

Midway through the run, the figure split into two, both emitting faint black smoke.

After using the Demonization skill, Xiao Hua's body swelled slightly, and the dark patterns on his skin due to the Dark Flower now emitted wisps of black smoke, which dispersed the surrounding black mist.

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The illusion appeared even more agile and intelligent. When the giant turtle attacked Xiao Hua, the illusion automatically moved aside and used the skill "Shadow Strike" on the giant turtle after poisoning the weapon.

Miss!

To Xiao Hua's surprise, despite having over 1600 agility, the skill failed to hit. However, this did not affect Xiao Hua's strategy. Instead of retreating, he planned to engage the giant turtle head-on. The Shadow Strike skill had little effect against the giant turtle's million HP. Instead, he relied on the skills "Poison Infusion" and "Infinite Poison Stack."

—15! —77! … —135! —770!

Within a second, numerous overlapping green poison damage numbers appeared above the giant turtle's head!

With agility reaching over 1600, Xiao Hua could now attack twelve times per second. This was beyond human limits, but he relied on the poison damage numbers floating above the giant turtle's head to gauge his attacks.

After a round of attacks, the giant turtle retaliated. Xiao Hua transformed into a gray shadow and dodged the giant turtle's stomp attack. Then, he struck the giant turtle ten more times.

Meanwhile, the illusion's output was even more impressive. After two seconds of continuous attacks, the poison damage from the Poison Infusion skill reached 255. The Poison Infusion skill had been upgraded to intermediate level, increasing the poison damage to 15 HP per hit and the poisoning success rate to 75%. Out of 24 attacks, 17 successfully poisoned the giant turtle.

Even though the giant turtle was angry at Xiao Hua for stealing its egg, it had to turn and face the illusion due to the high agility. Without interference, the combination of Poison Infusion and Infinite Poison Stack was devastating. Xiao Hua estimated that with their combined efforts, they could defeat the giant turtle within three minutes.

Encouraged by this, Xiao Hua attacked again when the giant turtle turned away.

—150! —77! … —420! —770!

With the giant turtle focused on the illusion, Xiao Hua managed to attack continuously for two seconds. By the fifth second, the poison damage had reached 420, nearly doubling his output.

This was just the intermediate level of Poison Infusion. Xiao Hua imagined the potential if the skill reached the master level, making him tremble with excitement.

The giant turtle, now enraged, could not handle Xiao Hua and the illusion. The illusion continued to dodge the giant turtle's attacks and maintained its high output.

Xiao Hua and the illusion, both in attack mode, dealt about 10,000 HP damage per second to the giant turtle. At this rate, Xiao Hua believed he could kill the giant turtle within two minutes.

The battle progressed smoothly. With enhanced intelligence, the illusion could completely dodge the giant turtle's attacks. Xiao Hua felt exhilarated as he moved swiftly, evading the giant turtle's furious strikes without a single scratch.

With 10 minutes of Demonization, Xiao Hua was confident he could defeat the giant turtle.

On the mist-covered plain, three black shadows collided and moved rapidly. Two of them approached the giant shadow like lightning, causing fiery red flashes, and then retreated swiftly, leaving the giant shadow helpless.

The giant turtle was furious but could not handle the swift movements of Xiao Hua and the illusion. It could only pound the ground in anger, causing tremors like earthquakes.

Under the combined attack, the giant turtle's HP dropped rapidly. Its initial million HP soon fell below half a million, then 400,000, 300,000, 200,000, and finally 100,000.

With victory in sight, Xiao Hua wondered if the giant turtle would unleash any powerful skills. However, since it was outside its natural habitat, it might lack certain abilities.

But as Xiao Hua expected, once its HP dropped below 100,000, the giant turtle stopped moving and retreated into its metallic black shell, entering a defensive state.

Xiao Hua was puzzled and used an appraisal skill to confirm that it was indeed a defensive state with greatly increased physical and magical defense.

He attacked the shell but found no effect. The shell seemed impervious to poison damage. Just as he was pondering what to do, the giant shell began to move.

Xiao Hua realized with shock that this was not a defensive state but something else!