Chapter 339: Red Mist Appears

The thin line drilled through its eyes and entered its body, rushing wildly through its insides with almost no resistance.

At the critical moment, the stone marten raised its hand without hesitation and forcibly pulled the thin line out from inside its body. The hardened thread sliced through half of its eye socket bone, leaving flesh hanging from its face. Its originally not particularly fierce appearance became terrifying as a result.

Joo Joowon moved his fingers slightly and regretfully put away the spider silk.

After browsing through the Player Forum for a while, he had seen many players using all kinds of strange tricks when facing monsters, which gave him quite a few ideas.

Elite monsters might not have any fatal weaknesses, and their sense of pain was also dulled. But if he shattered important parts of their bodies, such as their spines, would they not lose their ability to move and be left helplessly at the mercy of players, who could slowly whittle away their HP?

The weapon he used in the first place was not a conventional weapon. It was more suited for assistance. Since that was the case, why should he follow the conventional methods of using a weapon? Of course, he should use it in the most unexpected ways possible, and in whatever way required the least effort.

After all, using spider silk still consumed Mental Power. Unlike those weapons that could be used simply by holding them, it was not particularly durable, powerful, or sharp in itself.

Therefore, the method he had used to strangle the carnivorous flower earlier was fine for dealing with small monsters, but when facing elite monsters and bosses, using it that way would obviously not be enough to reduce their HP by much.

After all, it was a concealed weapon. Its purpose was never particularly open or straightforward, so naturally, its methods of use should be a little more sinister as well.

Unfortunately, his Mental Power had not yet reached the point where he could directly contend with the stone marten’s strength. On top of that, he did not know much about the body structure of animals. As a result, when the spider silk had been pulled out, the piece of bone that had been firmly stuck to it and dragged out had seemingly not affected the stone marten’s movements at all.

Joo Joowon used the spider silk to avoid the stone marten’s violent charge and landed on another large tree.

"Panel, display HP bar."

An extremely red HP bar immediately appeared above the stone marten’s head. This was another ability that came with the panel after Joo Joowon had upgraded the Heavenly Workshop Tree and unlocked the Detection Panel. However, this function had one limitation. The HP bar could only appear after he had injured the opponent.

Moreover, according to what was said on the Lord Forum, this HP bar was actually not that accurate. Just like the information obtained through Detection, it could not pinpoint the target precisely because of missing information. It could only display an approximate value, and everything still had to be based primarily on the system notification sounds.

Only after the panel had collected enough data would it gradually become more and more accurate.

Of course, this problem could also be solved by directly upgrading the panel at the Heavenly Workshop Tree. It was just that the price of upgrading it was very expensive, so most territories would choose to slowly collect data and enrich the panel’s database instead.

Joo Joowon looked at the stone marten’s HP bar. His previous attack had not reduced the opponent’s HP by much, but he was not surprised.

He had only wanted to make the opponent lose its ability to move in the first place, so it was perfectly normal that it had not lost much HP.

Hwi made his move at this moment.

His body grew enormous, and taking advantage of the opportunity while the stone marten was being held back by Joo Joowon, he suddenly leaped up from behind.

The stone marten sensed the strong wind rushing toward it and instinctively tried to dodge. However, it was charging toward Joo Joowon and had no time to turn around and respond. It could only barely shift its body to the side.

Hwi’s enormous body pressed down from above, and he directly opened his mouth and bit down on the stone marten’s neck.

"Roar!"

The stone marten let out a furious roar and began struggling with all four limbs.

However, the strength it erupted with was unable to shake Hwi. His sharp teeth clamped down on its neck without letting go, sinking deeply into its flesh.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Joo Joowon once again extended the spider silk. It drilled into the stone marten’s body, wrapped around its spine, and violently pulled.

Crack!

The stone marten, which had still been desperately resisting just moments ago, suddenly went limp. It collapsed weakly onto the ground, with only the vicious light in its eyes remaining unchanged.

Its HP bar had not decreased by much because of what Joo Joowon had done. However, to Joo Joowon and Hwi, it no longer posed any threat at this point. Before it had even had a chance to use its skills, its body had already lost the ability to resist.

Joo Joowon jumped down from the tree.

So, no matter how much mana a skill consumed, one should never wait until the very last moment to use it. Otherwise, who knew whether the enemy would even give you the chance to use your skill?

With the stone marten unable to struggle anymore, it was even easier for Hwi to finish it off. He poured all of his strength into his biting force.

The sound of bones being crushed by his teeth clearly spread through the surroundings. Bright red blood stained the mud on the ground, while the stone marten’s skull rolled farther and farther away. Only its body remained, not yet completely dead, its four limbs still waving around wildly.