Chapter 152: Bourne's Weakness

This time, Liu Zong did not perform particularly well. Less than half of the first form of his spearmanship was successfully executed, and the longspear carried only ordinary yellow sand and a whirlwind, lacking the power and momentum of his previous attacks.

However, Byrne's red face turned deep blue, as if he were terrified of something.

Although Liu Zong's strike did not reach its peak power, it successfully blew away the syrup near Byrne's arm. Liu Zong and his companions saw that beneath the syrup lay a layer of purple gummy candy, which was precisely Byrne's true body.

The Tin Man, who had been watching the spectacle from the sidelines, did not miss this opportunity. The chainsaw in his hand slashed directly, cutting right through that layer of purple gummy to sever Byrne's arm.

This was the first time Byrne had ever been injured, and moreover, he had lost a body part. Judging from the syrup surging over from behind, the substance could only patch the wound rather than restore the arm. This delighted the Tin Man immensely, as it was the first time such an event had occurred since he began fighting Byrne.

While continuously slashing away the syrup at the stump of Byrne's severed arm, the Tin Man shouted loudly to Liu Zong, "That's it, little brother! Cut off all the protruding parts on his entire body. Let's see how he can fight when he's reduced to nothing more than a ball."

Liu Zong smiled without speaking and did not launch a direct attack immediately. Instead, he sent the Shepherd Doll forward first while remaining behind to wait for an opportunity.

Having lost one arm, Byrne's fighting style became even feebler. The Shepherd Doll did not even need to dodge deliberately to evade some of the attacks thrown by Byrne.

Soon, Byrne's other arm was frozen as well. Byrne struggled to twist his body, trying to hide the arm behind his back, but it was already too late. Liu Zong, who had been prepared for a long time, thrust forward with another spear strike, exposing the purple gummy beneath the arm's syrup coating.

Not letting such a fine opportunity slip by, the Tin Man directly severed Byrne's other hand.

Having lost both hands, Byrne no longer had any opportunity to attack and could only dodge continuously. However, Liu Zong noticed that Byrne was trying hard to lower his head, apparently intending to use that previous trick to attack the Tin Man.

At the very least, he hoped to escape this place before being defeated.

Noticing this development, Liu Zong loudly ordered the Shepherd Doll to slow Byrne down and freeze the specific areas Byrne was attempting to curl up.

Once frozen, the syrup would become hard as rock, and Byrne, who had originally been able to twist with great ease, found himself unable to curl his body into a ball due to the frozen syrup.

Consequently, Liu Zong had ample time to target the locations of Byrne's previously severed limbs and launch secondary, tertiary, and even quaternary attacks. With each assault, massive amounts of syrup were blasted away, and chunks of gummy candy were severed from Byrne's body.

After launching more than a dozen such attacks, Byrne's body had visibly shrunk by three full sizes, and his four legs had been completely severed, leaving his entire body transformed into something resembling a lumpy red sphere.

Liu Zong and his companions were now nearing Byrne's interior, and patches of purple gummy candy had already appeared on the surface of his body.

Simultaneously, Liu Zong could sense that the purple gummy inside Byrne carried a rather dense aura of the undead. These should be the syrup that had been assimilated by Byrne, and it was precisely these materials that granted Byrne such a formidable physique and the ability to control everything with relative flexibility.

However, none of that mattered anymore. Having found Byrne's weakness, Liu Zong and the others naturally would not let him return alive. When dealing with a meat shield that lacked healing capabilities, the only required strategy was to wear him down over time.

Furthermore, Liu Zong had the disgruntled Tin Man acting as his assistant, and their offensive output was considerable. After Liu Zong launched yet another dozen attacks, his final strike suddenly pierced straight through Byrne's body.

Looking back at the flesh mountain with a massive gaping hole in it, a peculiar expression flashed across Liu Zong's eyes. Recalling the conditions of the attacks just now, he said loudly, "Pay attention! Byrne's core is not large. Unless we find his core, we have no way of killing him."

Seeing his greatest enemy beaten into such a state, the Tin Man almost entirely believed what Liu Zong had said. Upon hearing this, the Tin Man shouted loudly, "No matter, we'll just chop his body into countless fragments, big and small. That way, no matter how small his core is, we'll be able to find it."

Liu Zong fully agreed with the Tin Man's suggestion. Since Byrne could no longer escape nor mount any counterattacks, systematically reducing his flesh into fragments was an excellent course of action.

Thus, Liu Zong moderated his attack intensity, gradually excising the syrup from Byrne's body. Each strike sheared off a pile of flesh from Byrne, which was subsequently sliced into smaller pieces.

After nearly an hour of this, Byrne's body had shrunk to roughly the height of a normal human. The original red syrup had vanished, replaced entirely by purple gummy candy from head to toe.

These gummy candies were translucent, and Liu Zong noticed that right at the location of Byrne's heart was a black arm belonging to a gummy bear, which he presumed must be Byrne's core.

Upon making this discovery, Liu Zong immediately launched an attack on that spot. At that very moment, Byrne—who had lost his hands and limbs—suddenly roared.

His body rapidly soared into the air, and those 'flesh chunks' that had been cast aside unexpectedly took flight as well, continuously piecing themselves back onto his body. Before long, an even more colossal mountain of flesh appeared before Liu Zong and the Tin Man.

At this point, Byrne's body had turned pure purple, and the various large and small lumps on his body had transformed into unceasingly twitching muscles. His gigantic head twisted back and forth, seemingly searching for a target. His gaze appeared intensely malevolent, and Liu Zong suspected that if he were to step out now, he would be instantly vaporized.

Just as Byrne upgraded to Level 3 and prepared to annihilate everyone present, Bai Qi, who had been lurking in the background watching the show, finally made his move.

This time, Bai Qi could not eliminate the enemy with a single thrown halberd. He rushed straight out from the nearby forest, his halberd carving a frantic path of destruction across Byrne's body.

Both Liu Zong and the Tin Man, standing behind, were dumbfounded. They discovered that with every strike of Bai Qi's trident, countless threads of water accompanied the blow. Although Byrne blocked these attacks, the water threads acted like spiderwebs, layering themselves tightly around Byrne's body.

Finally, Bai Qi raised his hand, turned his back to Byrne, and heavily stamped his trident onto the ground. Those water threads rapidly tightened, directly slicing the newly reassembled Byrne back into countless fragments of varying sizes.