Our Family Has Fallen

However, this terrifying strike actually failed to harm the Giant Flesh Devourer.

The intense corrosion fell upon it without any reaction, not even as effective as that single bite.

Indeed, Devourers inherently possess resistance to corrosion, even if they have lost the ability to secrete it after evolution, the resistance still remains.

The well-prepared killing blow by the Formless Flesh turned into a joke at this moment, but the battle between the two did not end; on the contrary, it grew more intense.

The Giant Flesh Devourer constantly activated its abilities to weaken the Formless Flesh, and then waved its tentacles to devour.

But the opposite Formless Flesh was also an extraordinary creation. Its twisted, eerie power had a trace of common origin, and the weakness it caused was only momentary.

Yet, those mutated limbs would not stop, continuously attacking amidst their transformations.

Pig-headed biting, spinal crashing, intestinal surprise attack...

Unfortunately, most attacks could barely cause more severe damage, but they had thick blood, and mutated blood vessels to heal.

This trade-off, even if it grinds slowly, the Devourer couldn’t hold up.

Because it lost the ability to self-heal through devouring, its endurance greatly reduced, unable to sustain such consumption.

Soon, the Giant Devourer could hardly hold on, with several eye bulbs on its head smashed, several tentacles bitten off, its body covered with various wounds, and body fluids leaking out.

After its third-stage evolution, its intelligence gained the upper hand; without stubbornly holding on, it turned to wriggle its scarred body and fled.

And surprisingly, the Formless Flesh did not show the restless behavior as before; instead, it had the intention to retreat.

Because it also suffered significant losses just now, none of the flesh from the battle earlier remained intact, with exaggerated wounds all over, and its limited self-healing ability could not restore it quickly.

For the two of them, there was fundamentally no winner in this battle.

The only one who could be considered a winner was Lance. By observing the struggle between the Devourer and Formless Flesh, he gained more in-depth understanding of the Beast Lair’s operation logic.

Because of the Devourer’s appearance here, he slightly modified his previous hypothesis.

Or rather, perfected the concept of Beast Lair’s development.

Initially, the old ancestor must have intended to support the Pigman to combat the Formless Flesh, but the Pigman was outmatched and driven out.

Then the old ancestor found from collected ancient books the lost Sect of the Mother Worm’s creature specializing in devouring flesh, which is now the Devourer, to control the chaotic growth of the Formless Flesh.

That’s why traces were left earlier, but then retracted here.

The parts previously expanded by eating pork were consumed by the Flesh Devourer, just like earlier.

Based on this, it can be deduced that the Flesh Nest Lance discovered in the Wild Tomb was probably the way to cultivate Devourers.

Moreover, this thing should have a passage connecting to the Beast Lair, but due to unforeseen circumstances at the time, Lance did not examine it in detail.

Anyway, those generated Devourers entered the Beast Lair, passing through the first half as if it’s a migration.

Ordinary Flesh Devourers surely couldn’t defeat the Formless Flesh, but what if it was just the normal Pigman?

By devouring the Pigman, they rapidly passed the development stage, using Pigman’s flesh as the foundation.

Lance understood why all the Flesh Devourers he encountered at the time were quickly passing through the Pigman-controlled areas and engaging in battle with the Pigmen.

Then becoming large or even Giant Flesh Devourers would enable them to confront the Formless Flesh.

Just like the previous scene.

No wonder!

Lance just realized, if the Devourer and large Devourer adhere to the Sect of the Mother Worm’s results, then the Giant Devourer was definitely modified by the old ancestor specifically for this situation.

Those bizarre eyeballs and twisted tentacles, all highlighted their essence.

Thus, it restricted the Devourer’s evolutionary ability, and self-healing ability, even the corrosion ability was stripped away.

It possessed eerie extraordinary powers and retained strong corrosion resistance, targeting the Formless Flesh completely.

Just like Lance, after obtaining the [Gangrenous Fungi], marveled at its terrifying power, constantly weakening its power and even halting its rampant spore dispersal ability, finally obtaining the [Corpse Decomposition Spore].

Both were about restricting an uncontrollable existence to obtain a stable, controllable biological weapon.

But the difference lies in that Lance was able to achieve that with the inheritance from the Witch and Grendel’s special ability.

While the old ancestor created the biological weapon himself, even Lance had to admit he was a genius.

The old ancestor, that bastard, actually engaged in biological control, ahead of the era, but damn it, so abstract.

But at this moment, Lance was unwilling to continue watching. His focus shifted to the escaping Giant Devourer.

He only wanted it to clash with the Formless Flesh to see who is stronger, and now the purpose was achieved.

Offending the Lord and still wanting to run?

With a flick, he grasped the heavy spear previously shot by the Misty Cave Hunter, and raised his hand to throw it.

Pinned to the anvil!

His strength, when unreserved, surpassed the Hunters, the air-splitting hum ended even before it sounded.

Replaced by an overwhelming explosive blast and a heavy boom.

"Bang!"

That was the sound of the heavy spear piercing through the Giant Devourer’s body and pinning it in place.

The Giant Devourer that could tussle with the Formless Flesh showed almost no resistance in the face of Lance, like a piece of meat on the butcher’s block.