Without wasting any time for its body to do anything funny, she shoots with her both guns three times simultaneously. A fire spark can be seen on the barrel, flicking.
Her surroundings are lit up for a brief moment when it happens, printing a shadow of her on the ground.
Six bullets entered the body and green liquid gushed out and its body left these six huge holes and the sound effect of a meat getting destroyed could be heard echoing to the air.
When she pulled the trigger, the gun let out a loud sound like that of a sniper rifle instead of a revolver. The bullets piercing through the air on a straight line, leaving yellow light along the way.
However, it was futile, the wound immediately healed back and she frowned when notice this.
'It looks like ordinary weapons aren't working.' She muttered as she hurriedly reloaded her guns. Inserting the bullets on the cylinder one by one at a quick speed.
In total, it takes three seconds for both guns to be full of bullets.
In the process, the twitching on the creature's body gets even more. Kino at the time was focused on reloading her gun and didn't notice.
She was alarmed by the sight and took a few steps to increase the distance between them.
'Just what the Elder is trying to do?' She asked herself. She had never seen anything like this before.
In her few years of journey, she has met a lot of people with amazing and destructive powers but never seen anything like a centipede's body begin to twitch crazily.
The next thing that comes into the scene is suddenly and unexpectedly at the same time. The body severs itself like a house lizard sever its tail when there's a prey.
Kino's brows are knitted together on her forehead, she has never seen anything like this before. A centipede sever its body to attack? She doesn't know what the answer is so she ready herself and at the same time asks herself.
'Just what is going on?'
Different question with the same meaning, she doesn't know what the Elder is planning and can't help to ask another same question as if hoping someone will answer her but no, she was all alone by herself.
It was that same feeling when you ask yourself but want someone to answer it for you 'cause you didn't know the answer.
Anywho, the body starts wiggling and after a few seconds of dancing on the brown soil under the dim night, it stopped.
The rest of the body after sever itself merge as if nothing happens.
To make things easy to understand, just imagine a rope, a long one. You cut the rope three times and from one long rope to three small ropes.
It was more like that and the centipede's creature, the two remaining bodies are attracted to each other as if strong magnets. Leaving the sever one, its length was five meters long.
No, Kino wasn't sure if it was five kilometres because after the body crawled out, the first thing it does was coiled up before sever itself. It was a strange and weird scene.
Why does a centipede coil up itself after crawling out from the ground? It didn't make sense! Furthermore, its head was about fifty meters away from the body and up above the ground.
Shouldn't it be coiled up when its head was near or something? Like a snake do?
The heck's going on?
Kino's initial thought was like that when that body crawled out and coiled up itself but everything just happened so fast that only a few words can be described.
Anyway, after its body stopped wiggling, it showed a few slight signs of movement from inside, still, with the dim night and black body of the centipede, she isn't sure if that was the case.
However, as seconds went by, she is sure that there is something inside that body, something alive and ready to embrace the world.
The body was bulging for a few times before going back to normal. This reminds Kino of something.
The body is very similar to a hard and elastic egg, hard for the outside and elastic inside and maybe because of the elasticity, the bulging is gone every time something there tries to destroy it from inside.
It seems that something tried its best to get out like a lil chick from its shell.
By that thought alone, she remembered that she had seen this type of egg before but she never saw anything like this, the one that was coming from a body!
Kino didn't do anything about it, she didn't shoot it or destroy it when the bulging from the inside became bigger and bigger as the time passed by.
She is curious as to what would happen next and also, it was intriguing to watch something try its best to get out of it. It was that same feeling when watching a video where a little chick does its best to get out from its shell.
Little did she know the elder activated a skill that makes her mind immersed by the sight. Still, the skill isn't that overpowered, its effect is easily broken if the target has strong will and mind.
Although Kino had the mind of steel and her will is strong, who wouldn't be curious when seeing something new and strange? The Elder's skill uses that curiosity as an advantage because when someone is curious, their will and mind subconsciously lowering their guard.
The skill slips through her will and mind as if liquid coming in from the gaps of a wall crack.
It went smoothly as the time went by but out of the blue, its skill stopped doing its magic. The elder slightly frowned when noticing this, he never experienced something like this before.
The thing is, the girl is still immersed by the sight but at the same didn't realize she was under a skill effect yet something inside from the girl's body stopped it.
In other words, something else stops its skill effect, not the girl.
Surprised by it, the elder can think of a thousand possibilities as to why its effect was stopped, however, among a thousand, only two are possible.
First, her body was actually a place where an ancient and ferocious beast was sealed and when it noticed something different enter her mind, the beast eradicated it with its power.
Second, her body has its own defense mechanism when her consciousness is focused on something else, in other words. Subconscious Defense Mechanism.
With its vast knowledge and had a lot of experiences, something like this is easy as flicking a finger.
The first possibility is impossible, if an ancient beast eradicated the Elder's skill effect status, it will know.
Every ancient beast left a certain trace after casting a skill or attacking, the Elder would notice it but none.
The second one is the most acceptable one but a human with a subconscious defense mechanism on its body, furthermore at this young age is beyond possible, however, this was an only possibility, not the truth nor fact.
The Elder then think of something to make sure that its second possibility is true.
If it is indeed true, then the Elder just met a prodigy, no that sounds wrong, a talented prodigy might be the right word.
Even the most prodigies can only do it when their age is ninety and at the same time, most humans would be dead before reaching that age and adding the steps to learn Subconscious Defense Mechanism is very intense and hard, how can an old man/woman do it? But this girl can do it when she's this young...
Oh, by the way, about ninety, it was only the basic they learned. Like, the very basis of the technique.
This girl is rarer than to meet a goddess!
The Elder is back to its senses when discovered that the girl in front of it is a talented prodigy!
Such a person can become a powerhouse in the continent and with the protection of such a person, its race will be protected when the Elder is gone.
Its life force is decreasing because time consumes everyone and death will always be there.
At the current moment, its descendants were safe and sound thanks to its presence but when the Elder is gone, what would happen next?
Demon Ants live relatively longer than any of their predators and they still have many ancient creatures of their kind, sleeping on the very deep of the underground.
After the Elder wondered up above, it realized something.
'So that's why she was so confident to fight me,' it muttered itself when remembered what Kino said before the fight.
Those who learn the Subconscious Defense Mechanism is cannot be underestimated, even an ancient creature like him only learned the basics despite its long age and intelligence higher than the average human.
It was that hard, furthermore, Subconscious Defense Mechanism needed a lot of resources to use. This technique is well known and powerful.
To learn the whole thing, you need a lot of resources, also, it was crazily expensive! Just by learning it is hard and to do it needs a lot of resources but the fruit will be worth it!
Subconscious Defense Mechanism will control your body when you are unconscious or lose focus.
What's more, when in Subconscious Defense Mechanism state, your body will not use any energy from inside the body, instead, it will absorb energy from surroundings.
So when you lose a battle and your consciousness is gone, Subconscious Defense Mechanism or in short SDM will automatically control your body and run away from the battle while skillfully dodge any attacks.
That's not all, there are actually a lot of benefits but that'll be told in another time.
At any rate, the Elder is thinking a little test if the girl has indeed learned Subconscious Defense Mechanism.