Quickly finding himself surrounded by these tentacles, Yoze felt his Mindless Legs take complete control of his body. With his body in control of Mindless Legs, his brain went into overdrive as it examined the world in slow motion.
With the countless pieces of information entering his brain, he watched Mindless Legs effortlessly control his body to find the perfect path out of danger. Using everything at its disposal, Mindless Legs shrunk his body back to its seven feet tall form and slithered through the small gaps within the formation of the tentacles.
Still, some of the gaps were so tight that even with his body shrunk and high flexibility, the tentacles grazed some of his blood armor and the hot steam. With each slight graze, his blood armor evaporated, which temporarily exposed his skin, which quickly released more blood to fill in the gap.
Just as the burning red tentacles touched Yoze's blood armor, causing the blood to vaporize in an instant. Mindless Legs forced all of the blood to be reabsorbed into Yoze's body while also crushing his body as much as possible.
Just as he escaped the tentacle formation, the Slug demon swiftly added dozens of more freshly grown tentacles to fill those gaps. Unfortunately, it was too late as it could only watch as Yoze quickly widened the gap between them.
Thinking on its feet, the Slug demon wrapped its tentacles together to form a large wrecking ball with hundreds of large red balls that poured out a thick white fog of steam. With its new weapon created, the Slug demon lifted it before throwing it at Yoze with enough power to send it flying a thousand miles per hour.
Now that it had allowed Yoze to escape from the tentacles, Mindless Legs wasn't going to allow him to be captured. Hence, it controlled Yoze's legs to lightly tap the ground to change directions.
"Boom!"
Just as Yoze's body had narrowly missed the collision with the ball of tentacles, the large ball crashed into the ground, causing a two feet-deep crater to form as large amounts of dirt, rocks, and some remaining snow flew into the sky while turning into lava from the nearby steam.
Before Yoze could breathe a sigh of relief, he felt a cold chill run down his spine as he saw that blocking his path was the reformed vibrating death net. While at the same time, he sensed that the Ghost Net above him was rapidly descending, completely blocking his path from above.
Just as Mindless Legs was about to turn around and escape using its previous path, Yoze sensed immense danger coming from behind him. Without even having to turn his head around, he knew that the Slug demon must have controlled its tentacles to form another death net.
Knowing that Yoze couldn't escape from any direction without facing immense danger and damage, Mindless Legs swiftly changed its plan and stopped moving before plunging Yoze's spiritual claws deep into the ground. Without pause, it rapidly dug a deep and narrow tunnel into the ground while using Yoze's feet to move the dirt it had dug up to the surface to seal the entrance.
Noticing the plan Mindless Legs had cooked up, Yoze was impressed as he could feel that his Mindless Legs movement technique was rapidly advancing again. Even though it couldn't control his spiritual energy claws, it used them efficiently. He could tell that it was using the Swamp Leopard's experience and his experience of traveling through underground tunnels as a foundation for using the underground world to its advantage.
Unfortunately, he had to temporarily deactivate Mindless Legs since its excellent plan was failing to live up to its potential due to one flaw. The single flaw is that Mindless Legs couldn't control the spiritual energy.
Since it could not control it, it had no way of deactivating it either, which allowed the Slug demon to easily track him. Paired with the fact that he could feel the earth above him rapidly rising in temperature, he knew that if he wanted to escape this danger, he had to take control of himself.
If he had gotten rid of Mindless Legs' flaw beforehand, this would have worked easily. Unfortunately, to get rid of this flaw, he needed to continue to break through Mindless Legs' limits which was happening sooner than he expected.
But it wouldn't be happening in this battle, so he could only think about two other options to make up for it.
The first plan he thought of was to turn off his spiritual claws and cut off the possibility of the Slug demon from using his spiritual energy to track him. This plan had a few flaws that made him reject it outright.
For one, if he withdrew his spiritual claws, his digging speed would slow. Even if he switched to using his blood to form claws and shovels to move the dirt, it would be slower than using his spiritual claws. With his Spiritual energy claws, he was cutting and moving the earth so easily, and quickly it was like he was swimming with a jetpack.
Once he switched, the resistance he would face from cutting into the dirt, rocks, and metals would increase so much that he would be slowed down by 30 percent, sufficient for the miles-long spiritual energy net from the Slug demon to catch up with him.
Instead of this flawed solution, he came up with a better idea. He first withdrew all his spiritual energies except for the Leopard demon's brown spiritual energy. As soon as his spiritual energies reentered his body, he felt the hot soil above him pause for a split second before swiftly cooling.
Using this precious time, he focused on digging as deep into the mountain as possible. By then, Yoze sensed that the Slig demon's spiritual energy continued moving; he had already dug two miles underground.
"As expected, the Leopard demon's spiritual energy has a special quality of not being able to be sensed underground. With the sudden disappearance of my other spiritual energies, the Slug Demon has to guess where I had gone, " Yoze thought to himself as he continued to dig by, this time in the opposite direction of the Slug Demon's body.
He knew that in this instance of the battle, he had to out-compete the Slug demon in terms of intelligence and information if he wanted not to get caught by its horrifying net traps.
"The most likely path that the Slug demon would think I would travel toward is around its body. From my constant attempts to get close to the demon, it might be a bias to think that I only have close-range attacks."
"There is also the possibility that I would take this opportunity to sneak behind the Slug demon and launch a devastating attack where its guard is the lowest. I could also take this valuable opportunity to escape and come back more prepared."
"Those are what I would do in this situation, but what would the Slug demon do? If I were in its position, I would guarantee my safety."
"With so little information, the chances that I can guess my enemy's thoughts and movements perfectly is low. So I can't risk blocking an escape path for my enemy while leaving myself open."
"But then again, I don't need to take such a risk since I can rely on my teammate to block the escape route for me." Yoze's eyes flashed with multiple colors as he dug his way out of the mountain, waiting for the lurking witch to take action.
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