Chapter 601: Chapter 601: The Three Eagle Brothers

Xisumante!

The corrupted Puppet Beast that Song Jian must kill for his mission!

“Roar!”

Ximan, nay, Xisumante, suddenly became enraged and let out a bellow towards Song Jian: “Don’t utter that name to me!”

With Xisumante’s roar, his body expanded rapidly. He went from an original size of one and a half meters to a towering three meters in height in an instant.

On his body surface, lumps appeared like nodules, clustered together layer after layer, which looked incredibly revolting.

At this moment, his name and attributes appeared above his head. Just as Song Jian guessed, this was the final boss in the floating base, the Corrupted Puppet Beast, Xisumante.

“Thirteen thousand vitality points?” Upon seeing Xisumante’s attributes, Song Jian’s eyes betrayed a look of shock, and he involuntarily took a sharp intake of breath.

Xisumante raised his arm high and fiercely hammered it down onto the ground.

Boom~

An explosion, a wave of strong force, sprang up towards Song Jian. He, like a small stone, was flung far away, hitting the wall at the entrance hard with his back.

In an instant, a severe pain erupted from his back, and a damage of more than five hundred points hovered above his head.

“An enemy with first-order combat power? This can’t be!” A look of disbelief surfaced on Song Jian’s face. This Mysterious Garden instance was only a level-thirty instance, not high enough to contain a monster with first-order combat power.

At this moment, Song Jian’s gaze fell on the iron chains bound around Xisumante’s limbs. As Xisumante’s body rapidly expanded, the black chains binding its limbs did not change, causing the muscles near the iron chains to squeeze together, the chains deeply embedded into its flesh.

Xisumante swung his arm madly, but couldn’t break free from the chains.

Looking at the continuously roaring Xisumante, Song Jian slowly retreated from the room. It was these very chains that deprived Xisumante of his original battle strength despite his first-order combat power.

“Even with the chains restraining it, killing Xisumante wouldn’t be an easy task…” Song Jian glanced at the task bar, shook his head slightly, and thought silently.

Xisumante’s long tongue could reach three to four meters, and the attack that sent Song Jian flying had a range of seven to eight meters. If he were to fight Xisumante in that chamber, it would be impossible to dodge its attacks.

With this in mind, if he wanted to kill Xisumante in the chamber through battle, the impact of the chains wouldn’t be as significant. The best way to kill it would be to stand in a spot Xisumante could not reach and injure it from there. If it were a team of five, there would be long-range professions among them who could easily kill this boss.

“If I truly kill it this way, the quality of the items dropped by the boss will undoubtedly be considerably reduced. However, my main purpose here is to obtain the flower of the life vine for Anna, followed by completing the task of killing Xisumante. Losing the quality of the drops is acceptable.” Song Jian thought privately.

To safely kill Xisumante, Song Jian must attack it from a distance of ten meters. However, there were not many skills Song Jian had that could reach ten meters. Looking at Xisumante’s large physique, one could tell that it was a boss specialized in health, with thirteen thousand vitality points. If the damage did not reach a certain degree, killing this boss would take a long time.

Therefore, Song Jian planned to search other parts of the base first. If he could find the Life Vine, that would be great. If not, finding other powerful weapons to use against Xisumante would also be helpful.

Just as Xisumante mentioned the corrosive solution, if Song Jian could find Laboratory Six and obtain this solution, then he could easily kill this boss by applying the solution to Xisumante.

There were still many Puppet Beasts and plant monsters remaining in the base. These monsters’ levels were mostly between twenty-seven and thirty. Their strength was, of course, insignificant to Song Jian. If not for Anna waiting outside, Song Jian would not want to delay too long here. The efficiency of grinding levels here was at least three to four times faster than outside.

Nevertheless, throughout his search, Song Jian’s combat experience escalated rapidly, almost reaching half of the required points.

He was only two levels away from level thirty. After reaching level thirty, Song Jian could wear the Ant Emperor Ancestor Set. That was an epic-level set. After putting it on, Song Jian’s strength would undergo drastic changes. Then, even soloing Xisumante would be an easy task.

During his exploration, Song Jian had encountered a few base storage rooms. Most of the things inside had corroded beyond use, but even so, Song Jian still found materials worth several thousand Doomsday Coins, so it was not a total loss.

The most important thing was that, in a small lab, Song Jian had found an incomplete diary. This diary surprisingly contained a small section of the base map. Clearly, the owner of the diary had encountered the same problem as Song Jian when they first entered the base.

In this broken map, Song Jian saw the specific locations of Lab Number One, Two, and Three, and most importantly, a strictly guarded major lab in the base was also marked.

“This should be the lab where the life vine is researched.” Song Jian tapped on the central lab on the map and smiled.

As Song Jian made his way towards the large lab in the center of the base, outside the instance, Ye Tong and the three Eagle brothers also arrived at the entrance of the instance.

“This should be the place,” Eagle Yang muttered as he looked at the stone door at the entrance.

Eagle Fei pulled out the Seed of Opening, saying, “Let’s go, elder brother. We don’t have much time. We need to hurry.”

Eagle Yang nodded, glanced at Ye Tong, causing Ye Tong to feel a chill down his spine and stammer, “You… you aren’t planning to eliminate the witness, are you?”

Eagle Ji laughed out loud: “There’s no advantage in killing you. Follow us closely once we’re inside. This is a level-thirty instance. Given your level, things could be quite dangerous.”

Ye Tong released a sigh of relief. The pressure from these three was too much. Surrounding them were five or six Tauren that stood still just like wooden stakes. They were members of the Blackhoof Tribe controlled by the three brothers.

Eagle Fei stepped forward and placed the Seed of Opening into the lower alcove of the stone door. After waiting for a while, the door to the instance showed no sign of opening.

The faces of the Eagle brothers changed dramatically as they shared glances.

“Elder brother, someone started the scenario task first. We have to wait for him to leave before opening the instance!” Eagle Fei said with a worried look.

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