Chapter 1176: Chapter 1176

The two teams dispersed without any contact, and Du You quickly put the earlier encounter with people out of his mind. After all, encountering people was not unusual. In a place like the Giant Beast Wasteland, Professionals were not scarce.

Perhaps this place was very dangerous for most, but there was always a group of people who would form teams and venture here because the materials found here were very special, allowing them to craft some extremely valuable equipment.

But Du You had no plans to form a team with others, so he acted as if he had not seen them.

He flew toward the enormous blue Heavenly Disaster cloud mass. Such a large gathering of Giant Beasts was rarely troubled by anyone—neither the natives nor the Professionals were fond of confronting such a group.

But this group was precisely the target Du You was looking for. "It’s right up ahead, Master. Look, there’s one at the front. Should we experiment on it first?" Lin Yucha said to Du You.

Below, there was already a marshland with a huge blue-gray figure lying on the ground, still unaware of Du You and his group’s arrival. The creature looked like a massive catfish but was more flattened in shape. It had six legs for moving on land and breathing air. It had only two long barbels on its mouth, swinging around as if they were whips.

"Judging by its appearance, the natural Heavenly Disaster that accompanies this strange fish is probably flooding or something similar, which doesn’t directly affect us."

Du You analyzed, saying that if it weren’t this kind of disaster, the surrounding environment could not have been transformed into this situation. However, aside from potentially boosting the six-legged monster fish’s own strength, this environment did not possess any control ability over them.

"Aside from physical combat, this monster fish probably specializes in water-based magic," Lin Yucha also chimed in.

"From what I feel, although most of the Giant Beasts in this group are fourth-tier, there are also quite a few that have reached fifth-tier. There should be hundreds of them. We should experiment first—if we can handle them, we take them on."

They were only level 46, true, but their talent star rating was too high, in addition to high-tier lineage and various powerful abilities. Even if there were hundreds of Giant Beasts that posed great danger to others, they were daring enough to probe a little.

"I’ll go first," Lin Yushi was the first to jump out. She leaped forward, spread her wings, and flew towards the target.

The fish monsters below had yet to detect the enemy’s presence. Lin Yushi did not use her weapons but simply flicked her finger, and a bolt of thunder and lightning flew out. After reaching fifth-tier, the freedom to use various abilities increased.

The thunderbolt was incredibly fast and struck the monster fish below, creating a hole in it. The hole seemed significant, but in terms of the size of the monster fish, it was not too serious. However, the pain enraged the monster fish.

The monster fish looked up at Lin Yushi in the sky and opened its mouth wide, blasting forth a barrage of water with substantial force. Then, the fish leaped up, swimming through the air as if in water. That’s right, it wasn’t flying but swimming as it would in the water.

Its six legs moved like six paddles, elegantly gliding yet very fast and agile.

But such speed was insignificant in front of Lin Yushi. After all, this wasn’t underwater; it was the real sky, where Lin Yushi could fly with ease. Arrow after arrow flew from her hands, and she tirelessly conducted different kinds of experimental attacks.

The abilities of the monster fish were pretty much tested. Besides charging attacks, it extended the two barbels by its mouth to entangle and whip with considerable force, but the moves were too simplistic. This update ıs available on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡~𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢~𝙣𝙚𝙩

Its most powerful attacks turned out to be close combat. As it approached a certain distance, blue water blades appeared on the monster fish’s body, extremely sharp. Previously unnoticed, these blades almost severed Lin Yushi’s wings.

Fortunately, these were just wings formed from magic power, and it took only a bit of magic power to restore them. Conversely, the monster fish got hurt by the spikes on the wings, and the pain nearly made it tumble through the air. Such intense pain was unbearable even for a Giant Beast.

But after knowing this move, attacking Lin Yushi became impossible.

While watching, Du You said, "Although the monster fish’s attacks are sharp, we just have to stay out of its range. Its defenses are balanced, with no major weaknesses or resistances against physical or magic attacks, so we have no choice but to kill it by force."

Lin Yucha nodded and added, "Now we just need to find its vital spots. Look, Yu Shi has started experimenting."

Lin Yushi targeted the entire body of the monster fish with a variety of attacks, all of which were very light. She restricted the Demon-breaking Scattering to its minimum fifth-tier attack power, but it hit all over the monster fish’s body.

Lin Yushi didn’t intend to kill the monster fish, but to find its weak spots. This could actually be discerned from the monster fish’s reaction to getting hit. The reaction to being hit on a fatal spot was completely different from the rest.

"Found them, three unique spots, two on the head and another beneath the neck," Lin Yushi reported through the communicator.

Immediately, Du You instructed, "Pick any spot and attack it, then we’ll study it further."

Lin Yushi nodded, then suddenly released a blood-red thunderbolt arrow at full strength, piercing right through a spot under the monster fish’s neck. When this spot was penetrated, the monster fish halted all its attacks.

It struggled on the spot before finally dying. The blue clouds in the sky also slightly diminished.

Lin Yucha and Du You then landed to examine the corpse of the monster fish.

"This spot on the neck must be the energy connection point for the entire Giant Beast. There are no vital organs here, but breaking through this point disrupts the monster fish’s internal energy, which can lead to self-inflicted death. And those two spots on the head are just physiological weak points; there are gaps in the skull bones that could allow direct damage to the brain," Lin Yucha explained.

Even though the Giant Beast belonged to the fifth-tier, it had not yet reached the point where it could survive with a damaged brain. If other vital organs were destroyed, perhaps the monster fish could live for a long time, but not with brain damage.

It was the same for these Professionals; if their hearts were pierced, they could still live for some time, even potentially healing themselves. But if the brain was shattered, that would be the end.

Experts at their level often only died when an ability’s power catastrophically damaged their entire body. It may seem like there was only one wound, but in reality, each attack was not just targeting a single point.