Chapter 3: Luring and Killing

  "We can't keep doing this!" Wu Song narrowed his eyes, feeling that his tactical thinking had some problems. He wasn't Wu Song, who could kill a tiger with bare fists, and thieves weren't warriors either. After several attempts, Wu Song clearly realized that even if he hit the magic leopard's vital points without using weapons, it would be difficult to cause fatal damage to the magic leopard. In these few rounds, the magic leopard had only lost dozens of drops of blood, while he himself had lost over 200 drops of blood due to the magic leopard's attacks. The thief's vitality was already low, and according to the auxiliary device's data, Wu Song's current vitality was less than 1,000. With the magic leopard's two claws hitting him, Wu Song had already lost nearly a quarter of his vitality. Even if he wasn't hit in vital areas, with a thief's physique, Wu Song couldn't withstand the magic leopard's attacks for long.

  "This guy's strength is not small, and it's probably very difficult to catch him. Moreover, competing with this guy in speed is also unlikely to work...". After being hit by the magic leopard twice, Wu Song clearly understood how foolish it was to compete with the magic leopard in terms of speed. If it were an ordinary variant beast, he might still have some advantage in speed, but the silver-maned magic leopard in front of him was obviously faster than Wu Song. Moreover, the force of the magic leopard's attacks made Wu Song realize that even if he could catch the magic leopard in his thief state, the magic leopard would probably be able to easily break free from his restraints before he could use his body's amplification ability.

  "If this continues, no matter how much blood medicine I have, it won't be enough to keep up with the damage. I must think of a way to control the demon leopard and prevent it from escaping easily. Only then will I have time to use my physical strength to kill this guy!"

  "Can't bear to part with the child, can't put on a wolf's skin! I'll take a gamble!" Wu Song's brain was racing, and in just an instant, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind. He reached into his storage space and pulled out a small gray bottle!

  This thing is called the Leopardo's Fury Hormone, a medicine extracted from the adrenal gland of the Ghost Mist Ridge Leopard by alchemists.

  For humans and other variant creatures, the hormone of the magical leopard is ineffective even if ingested, but the ghost mist ridge magical leopard will directly enter a state of frenzy upon smelling this scent.

  The Magical Leopard's Fury Hormone is a potion commonly used by hunters who keep the Misty Ridge Magical Leopard as their guardian beast. Its effect is to put the guardian beast into a frenzied state, thereby increasing its attack power. However, for Wu Song, using the Magical Leopard's Fury Hormone was clearly a very dangerous thing. Wu Song was not a hunter, and the magical leopard in front of him was not his captive guardian beast. Once he let the magical leopard enter a frenzied state, Wu Song's situation would become even more perilous. Nevertheless, Wu Song felt that at this moment, if he wanted to survive and complete his mission, he had no choice but to use this hormone!

  For Wu Song, the most fatal thing about the demonic leopard was not its extremely fast speed or sharp claws, but its calm and collected mind. The demonic leopard was a cautious and intelligent mutated creature that knew where its advantages lay, so every time it attacked its target, it would immediately retreat if it didn't land a hit. Although this silver-maned demonic leopard was much stronger than Wu Song in terms of level, it still carefully adhered to its usual attack pattern, using its speed advantage to escape as soon as it couldn't deal a fatal blow to Wu Song. This left Wu Song, who was at a complete disadvantage in terms of speed, feeling frustrated and helpless. He had no choice but to think of a way to use his anger hormone to disrupt the demonic leopard's thinking.

  He had another close call with the demonic leopard, Wu Song didn't hesitate to pull out the wooden stopper and poured an entire tube of demonic leopard rage hormone onto his left arm. The demonic leopard, which was originally calm and facing off against Wu Song, suddenly turned its eyes into a deep crimson color after smelling the hormone.

  The demonic leopard growled, emitting a low hum like something was stuck in its throat. When Wu Song observed the demonic leopard's attributes through his auxiliary device, he found that its attack, defense, and maximum blood volume had all increased significantly. What excited Wu Song even more was that, due to the influence of the rage hormone, the demonic leopard's eyes kept darting back and forth between its own throat and its left arm, which was smeared with the rage hormone.

  Wu Song held his arm in front of his chest and slowly backed away. Although the auxiliary device didn't show any impact on the Magic Leopard's speed after its frenzy, Wu Song figured that its speed must have increased significantly since its attack and defense abilities had improved! Before the frenzy, Wu Song was already having a hard time dodging the Magic Leopard's attacks; after the frenzy, he needed to create some distance in order to dodge the Magic Leopard's fatal blow.

  If it were in a normal state, the demonic leopard would never attack its target outside of its effective attack range. However, stimulated by the rage hormone, the demonic leopard has lost its judgment and now only thinks about how to quickly tear apart the annoying prey in front of it. When the stimulation of the rage hormone exceeds the critical point that the demonic leopard can bear, this big guy with a body length of over three meters, including its tail, suddenly pounced towards Wu Song from seven or eight meters away!

  "Here comes the chance!" Seeing the demonic leopard rushing up crazily, Wu Song's eyes lit up as he used his right arm to protect his throat at the fastest speed. His left arm, covered with the demonic leopard's angry hormone, was fiercely swung towards the rushing demonic leopard.

  This time, the leopard's attack target was still Wu Song's throat. However, due to interference, its offense was not successful. In normal circumstances, if the leopard missed a hit, it would quickly jump away. Nevertheless, the smell of adrenaline on Wu Song's left arm was too enticing for the leopard. As a result, this time after its claws failed to inflict fatal damage on the target, enticed by the adrenaline, the frenzied leopard turned around and bit down on Wu Song's forearm!

  "Good job, little treasure!" Wu Song was bitten hard on the arm by the demonic leopard, but he didn't complain at all. Instead, he let out an excited strange cry. Just as the demonic leopard looked at Wu Song with a weird gaze, trying to determine if this battered prey had been driven mad by its own attack, it suddenly realized that the arm it had bitten into was now more than twice as thick as before. The demonic leopard's mouth was instantly stretched to its limit, and when it tried to close its jaws again, its hook-like teeth were stuck in Wu Song's arm and couldn't be pulled out.

  Physical Duplication!

  The skill that Wu Song used in this instant, which made his body more than twice as sturdy, was called Body Doubling. It was precisely this skill that led Wu Song, a hot-blooded youth who loved violence, to choose the profession of Thief, which only knew how to steal chickens and dogs, and make small moves behind the enemy's back.

  The body is multiplied, and strictly speaking, it does not belong to this world. It was brought by Wu Song together with the auxiliary device when they crossed into this ghostly world. The first-level effect of this skill is to convert all agility bonuses on the user's body into strength and physique bonuses at a ratio of 1:1.5 and 1:1.

  This also means that Wu Song is now at level 10, the 150 points of agility he possesses will be converted into 225 points of strength and 150 points of physique. Adding to his original 30 points of strength and 30 points of physique, his strength will reach an astonishing 255 points, and his physique can also reach 180 points!

  This physique and strength are beyond the reach of even ordinary superhumans!

  Attacking the weak points of the Silver-maned Demon Leopard with such intense power, even if it goes berserk and its physical strength increases somewhat, it will still be impossible to escape death!

  However, after the first-level body amplification is converted, the user's original agility will no longer exist. This also means that once Wu Song uses body amplification, his speed will thoroughly become turtle-like. In the case where he cannot effectively control the magic leopard and loses his speed, it is no different from seeking death for Wu Song. Therefore, he can only use his own body as bait to lure the magic leopard, and then use body amplification after the magic leopard takes the bait.

  The Silvermaned Lynx is not a snake, it can't open its mouth to one hundred and eighty degrees like the Ring-tailed Viper, so when it's suddenly clamped by a giant arm thicker than its thigh, it can't struggle free.

  The silver-maned leopard let out a changed, mournful cry as it swung its front paws to attack Wu Song's face. However, at this time, Wu Song had been affected by the Body Doubling ability and had transformed into a giant with a body length of nearly four meters. His thick arm was almost two meters long, and the silver-maned leopard could only reach his armpit even with all its might. As it pounced on its hind legs to attack Wu Song, Wu Song swung his arm backward, and the silver-maned leopard's head heavily smashed into a pine tree!

  "Crack!" The thick tree trunk was struck by gravity and snapped loudly, and even if the Silver-maned Leopard's head was strong enough not to be smashed directly, this blow still shook the Silver-maned Leopard so much that it spat blood from its mouth and nostrils. Wu Song found an even thicker pine tree, swung his arm and hit the leopard's head against the trunk again with a loud thud, the leopard let out a miserable cry, and its eyes turned black as it was knocked unconscious.

  "Little guy, if there's an afterlife, remember not to grow your teeth into hooks, and don't forget to grow a thicker neck!" Wu Song gave this poor Silver-maned Demon Leopard his final warning, then didn't care whether the other had heard or not, directly using his right hand to twist the Silver-maned Demon Leopard's slender neck into a twisted rope!

  "You killed Ghostfog Ridge's Silvermaned Demon Leopard and obtained 13,500 points of Soul Power!"

  When the mechanical prompt sounded, Wu Song's tense spirit did not relax. This was the deepest part of Ghost Fog Ridge, where crises lurked everywhere, and it was possible to encounter other ferocious mutated creatures at any time. Therefore, Wu Song quickly restored his normal physique, stuffed all the magic leopards hanging on his arm into the storage space, then quickly treated the wounds on his body before disappearing into the icy wind and snow.

  When he went out, the ghostly misty peak was still cold and windy, but Wu Song's mood at this time was bright and sunny. He had dealt with a demonic leopard and couldn't wait to fly back to the city directly.