Ultragene Warlord

it head-on again.
Instead, he would focus on slowly whittling the anchor down, just as he did while it still remained in the lake.

He moved rapidly and shot a few attacks at the anchor intermittently, forcing it to stop its plan of consuming the lifeforce of the superior-grade lifeforms around.
Whenever he moved, he would shoot a skein of bloody water into the air, as though he were constructing a gigantic spiderweb.

Although the disaster-grade lifeform was impermeable to these threads because of the genetic energy currently surrounding its body, exuding and materializing genetic energy out of one's body took considerable effort and placed a toll on one's reserves.
The anchor was able to sustain its expenditure by drawing from the lifeforce of those superior-grade lifeforms around, but it wouldn't be able to do so for long.

After all, its injuries were far more severe than they seemed.

Somehow, in its heavily wounded state, it had been able to arrive at the first realm of the dimensional world, which should have been a region of space over which it could wholly dominate.

This was what had happened in Zhang Lie's past life, but this time around, it found itself facing Zhang Lie, a reincarnator who understood its weaknesses shockingly well.
Zhang Lie's spiderweb would definitely outlast its shielding, so unless anything were to change, it would eventually fall prey to him.

The disaster-grade lifeform had also noticed this point, so as it and Zhang Lie exchanged blow after blow, it began to float toward the region of space in which the bloody strands were least dense.

The heavily wounded disaster-grade lifeform might have overwhelming offense and defense, but its attack patterns and battle strategy were surprisingly single-minded.
The ray of annihilation that it could shoot out of its eye was frightening indeed, but because of its injury, and because of the necessary charge-up period before the attack, it hadn't managed to land a direct hit on Zhang Lie even once.

The only other attack accessible to it in its heavily wounded state was its domain, but even that was slow to form after its injury.
Zhang Lie suspected that it was originally a near-instantaneous attack; indeed, Zhang Lie had been caught in its effects, but the anchor was too slow to take advantage of it given its condition.
The domain had briefly injured Zhang Lie, but that was a problem easily fixed with a few health potions.

The anchor shot out three beams of annihilation at the weak spot in the web of bloody skeins that Zhang Lie had intentionally left open.
The next moment, it activated its domain once more and shot toward that opening, understanding that it couldn't afford to fight against this unusually strong and irritating human in its heavily wounded state.

It needed some time to recover and a source of genetic energy to repair its wounds.
At peak condition, it would easily be able to take control of this entire realm, but before then, it would have to avoid any pests.

The moment right before it was about to escape from the web, however, it saw Zhang Lie smile.
It immediately realized that there might have been a trap waiting for it, but it was all too late.

In front of the anchor, a small white wyrm blinked into existence.
Its thoughts seemed to slow, and the wound by its eye seemed to magnify.
Struck by a mental blow, the anchor fell into temporary paralysis, unable to sense its body or its limbs.

A frightening, corrosive energy entered its brain through the wound in its eye, causing it to try to retaliate with the full force of its might.
There was a snake-like creature in its mental space—no, a gigantic, frightening, white-colored wyrmlike creature, with a piercing horn on its forehead and sharp, serrated teeth.
It glowed with white, spiritual flame, then tore the anchor's mental space to shreds.

All faded to black.
The last thing it saw was the human injecting the bloody liquid it had so feared into its body.
It felt its lifeforce gather around its heart, then fade away.
The last moment before its death, it suddenly regretted entering this dimension.

How could there have been such a killer lying in wait for him in this realm?