Chapter 423
Chapter 423 Having Medusa Yield
How terrifying was a Medusa’s Petrifying Gaze?
Most people who had experienced it themselves never had the chance to speak of it.
However, Greem had the luck to witness the petrification of an elite-class magical creature lord personally.
Tula only felt the intensity of the light shining into its eyes when it turned its head. It was blinding! Its vision went black, and then it could no longer see anything.
A quick moment later, Tula started to feel numbness throughout its body. It had lost the senses in its limbs and body. The feeling of numbness even spread toward the inside of its body at a shocking rate!
However, Dana’s Petrification Gaze wasn’t going to go all that well. An earth yellow color flashed around Tula’s body. The old spider’s head was the first to turn into hard stone. The light flickered as it spread through Tula’s body, petrifying the upper half of its body to stone.
If it were any other adept, even those specialists who were well-versed in the arts of dissection and magical creature biology, they would not perform as well as Greem in this situation. With his scanning ability, Greem had the most perfect and unobstructed view of everything happening in Dana’s body.
Now that the Medusa had deactivated her life forcefield, Greem’s elementium sight was as powerful as an x-ray machine. He had managed a detailed scan of her body with a single glimpse. He then successfully found a parasite the size of a palm in her abdomen.
It was a strange creature that resembled both a spider and a scorpion!
Its head was pinned deep below Dana’s ribs, while its four pairs of sharp limbs gripped her spine. Its tail had stabbed into the spine and seemed to be slowly absorbing Dana’s bone marrow.
Dana’s current exhaustion had evidently been caused by this parasite absorbing most of her strength.
Such a complicated scenario and such a strange parasite; any other adept would have been hard-pressed to get rid of this pest without harming the Medusa’s origin powers.
However, this was not a problem for Greem and his powerful eyes. He had Dana lie on the ground as he took out a dozen surgical tools from his pouch. All of them had various purposes and shapes. He then cut open the Medusa’s abdomen.
The surgical scalpel nimbly danced about Greem’s slender fingers. It was almost as if surgery had become an art in and of itself.
Greem opened Dana’s chest and exposed the unique biological composition of a Medusa to his eyes. Thick crimson body tissue existed beneath the tough ribs. A thin but tough membrane covered those muscles. Dana’s three-lobed heart was beating beneath all that, slow yet powerful.
A dark red insect with a hard shell crouched on her spine. Seven or eight tiny vessels extended from its body and connected with the Medusa’s organs.
The strange insect reared its semi-translucent head that had yet to harden and let out a weak but determined screech at Greem. It was almost as if it could sense the outside threat. Its attempts to absorb Dana’s power became even more hurried and rushed!
Greem smiled coldly.
Anyone else might not have known how to deal with a strange creature like this one. They could easily hurt the Medusa as they killed this parasite. However, Greem was different. He had the best surgical guidance right in his brain.
The chip directly scanned all the contact points between the insect and the Medusa. It then projected every single one of them onto Greem’s retina.
Seventeen contact points!
Eight of those were blood vessels, five were conduits of some kind, one was its head capsule, two were its body nodes, and the last one was its stinger.
Greem had to remove all these things from Dana’s body in the shortest amount of time to prevent the insect from dealing more damage to her. And to do all this, Greem only needed a single instant!
Greem tossed the surgical scalpel aside. A strand of fire that resembled a blade burned at the tips of all ten of his slender fingers. He then rapidly sliced across the body of the insect like a delicate and careful pianist. His black eyes also shone as two tiny heat rays shot out from within.
The perfect coordination of his hands and eyes allowed him to sever the seventeen contacts points in a single second. Even the insect’s four pairs of limbs had been cleanly cut off by Greem.
Greem felt the impulse to research a strange creature like this, and therefore spared its life. He carefully extracted it from Dana’s body then threw it into a jar after sealing it with magic. Greem then cautiously took out the severed limbs and stinger and stashed them somewhere safe.
Chapter Notes:
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