It was a creature that used to be Zhendina. Let's call her Zhendina for the time being. This nameless beast opened her mouth. Her jagged teeth bit and opened again, letting out a roar.
Sound waves shot out from her mouth, attacking the Bugman.
Not only was there a sound wave attack, but there was also a flash of red light. Then, the Bugman was blown away on the spot. The cloak on his body burned with fire.
Zhendina's roar, along with a high-temperature heatwave, blew the Bugman into the air.
The Bugman's body was covered in flames, but it didn't burn completely. Only the cloak was on fire.
It landed in the air. After stabilizing its body, it stuck its long staff into the ground. The mouthparts on its face also let out a sharp cry, and its compound eyes were squirming.
Two completely different beasts were using howls to demonstrate and declare war.
When the sounds gradually disappeared, both sides were ready.
The Bugman pulled out the long staff and pointed the front end of the Rubik's cube at Zhendina.
Zhendina's mouth and throat still had the residual warmth and light of firewood burning. She was like a humanoid dragon, breathing out heatwaves that were now slowly cooling down.
Facing the hostile Bugman, her limbs fell to the ground, and she turned into a crawling state. Compared to the Bugman, who had almost no human characteristics, Zhendina's current appearance was more like a four-legged beast that crawled.
Her claws, which were as sharp as scimitars, grabbed the ground. Her claws were also tightly clasped in the gravel and soil under her feet. She was ready to attack.
She crawled on the ground, raised her head, and looked straight at the Bugman in front of her. Jessica, who had fallen to the side, could no longer be seen. Her fiery red eyes shone brighter and hotter than gems.
Zhendina didn't move immediately, as if she was waiting for something. And the Bugman soon knew.
The swarm of insects he controlled with the long staff gathered again. As if they were endless, they once again surrounded Zhendina in a very large area.
At this time, Zhendina's slender body was trembling.
The blood vessels on her body were pulsing at an exaggerated frequency. Every blood vessel was dancing in a crazy, heart-palpitating dance. No matter what kind of creature it was, it was abnormal for the blood vessels to pulsate at this level — if the real Dina was still considered a normal creature.
There were no normal creatures. In the position of the heart, there was a lifeless sphere that took the place of the heart.
Dina let out a roar, sounding like she was in pain.
Soon, the cause of her pain manifested itself in her body.
On her back, where the muscles bulged, there were two protruding bumps formed by flesh and blood, making her look like a hunchback.
There was a sharp object protruding from the front of the two blood bags. Then, it tore through the flesh and brought the blood-red liquid into the body.
The sound of flesh being torn apart echoed in this space. The sound of liquid and flesh mixed together with Zendina's roar formed a bloody symphony.
In the end, a pair of wings grew out of Zhendina's back … if they could be called wings.
Zhendina's wings were made of twenty curved iron bones. Between the ten wing bones, there was no membrane that a flying creature should have. There were only spike-like bones swinging in the air.
At the intersection of each bone, there was a blood-red mixture sticking them together. There were blood vessels wriggling on them. They didn't look like flesh and blood in Zhendina's body, but more like another creature that attached and parasitized her body. And this creature was controlling the pair of wings on her back. They weren't wings at all, but something made of a mixture of bones and iron.
On Zhendina's back was a pair of open palms rather than wings.
And these hands, like her forelimbs, had curved and sharp edges. The front end was like an iron hook. If it landed on flesh and blood, it would probably easily hook out fireworks made of flesh and blood.
After the things on her back grew out, Zhendina stopped howling and quieted down.
Then, she leaped up, leaving behind a deep pit on the ground, and pounced on the bugman's head.
Her claws still hooked a large piece of gravel, and she landed on the bugman's head.
Compared to flying in the air, the palm-shaped wings on her back looked like a decoration.
The bugman's reaction wasn't slow. He stabbed his long staff diagonally upwards, aiming at Zhendina's head.
Zhendina didn't seem to care about the incoming staff at all. She just let it stab her face.
When the tip of the staff was only a finger away from her eyes, she opened her mouth full of fangs and bit the front end.
This bite caused blue flames to flicker and scatter between her fangs and the tip of the staff.
Zhendina did what the bugman did, biting the weapon with her mouth.
If there was a difference, it would be that Zhendina's fangs were neater. They were tightly clenched on the sharp tip of the staff.
After biting the staff, Zhendina adjusted her posture in the air and pressed down on the tip of the staff.
Her hands and feet grabbed the middle of the staff. Her posture was completely that of a wild beast.
In her current form, Zhendina's wings alone were heavier than a light female knight like Jessica.
She pressed down on the tip of the staff. Before the bugman could react, the wings on her back were already flapping. Then, the ten sharp tail bones of the wings landed on the bugman's body.
While biting the staff with her mouth, she slowly took deep breaths. The energy overflowing from the blue rubik's cube formed a mist-like channel and was sucked into her mouth.
The blood that flowed through her veins was gradually turning blue …
On the other side, Lulunaka, who had been missing for some time, stood in front of a cage with a lantern in her hand.
This was a nauseating place. White bones were chained to torture instruments. Separated bones were scattered everywhere. Not a single one was complete.
On those white bones, one could imagine what kind of cruel and bloody treatment they had suffered.
However, Lulunaka didn't care about anything around her. She had a very excited smile on her face as she looked at the person in the cage who was accompanied by the pile of white bones.
It was a woman wearing a tattered robe. Her eyes had been dug out, leaving only two empty holes.
"Is it a coincidence or fate that we meet in such a place?"
Lulunaka brought the lantern closer and saw that the woman's eyes were still dripping with dried blood. They had become two bloodstains that divided her face into three parts.
"She was treated so violently. She should be dead … I don't think it's that simple, right?" Lulunaka smiled.
The woman without eyes moved slightly.