Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?

669  The Mighty Medusa
"Hahahahaha, Die, Human, Die!" 
With a guttural roar, Medusa charged, her massive form barreling forward with terrifying speed. 
She lashed out her hair serpent hair strands like whips, slicing through the air with lethal precision. 
Jung Hou frowned, moving swiftly from hidden to side until his body became a blur. 
The Snakish woman had already injured him quite a bit. It wasn't a drastic injury, but starches and bumps. 
Still, Jung Hou was not pleased. 
With so many equally powerful snake heads coming at him, he knew that if things continued like this, he would be at a disadvantage. 
Tsk. 
'Really strong… the Grandmaster didn't lie.'
As they fought, the eyes of all eyes would focus on him, attempting to turn his body into stone again and again. 
Dammit, he found himself freezing momentarily mid-battle time and time again. 
Only when he tried attacking those snake strands, did they release hold on him. 
But that's not all. 
Medusa's rattling tail had a hypnotizing effect, creating illusions around him that confused his very being. 
If not for the fact that he had to stab himself to remain conscious, he was afraid he would truly fall prey to her overly strong hypnotism. 
Her nails also had the ability to slice through enhanced steel, and spit was also molten, with a single drop burning through not just 1 flooring of a building, but 24 before it came to a halt. 
A single drop was far more deadlier than a single drop of lava. 
This can't continue. Very quickly, Jung Hou threw several pills down his throat. 
Boom! 
He felt his energy return.
So what if it's cheating? 
"Scalpel Spirit Technique: One Thousand Cuts!" 
Jung Hou raised his giant scalpel at a 90 degree angle, his energy now flaring up with more life. 
WHAT? Everything happened so fast!
Where did this reserve energy come from? 
The faces of Medusa and her snake heads all turned pale like paper. 
No! 
She hastily retracted her extended Snakish hair strands after realizing what he was trying to do. 
Too late.
Medusa tried her best to protect. But with calculated precision, Jung Hou moved his scalpel, each blow landing with devastating accuracy
…
"My Hair! My beautiful HAIR!!!!!" 
Medusa howled in anguish, her eyes now crimson red and erratic. 
"You-you-you-You good-for-nothing spawn of a human, do you bloody know how long it took me eons to grow them all to this length!" 
Fury was not enough to describe Medusa's current state. 
Right now, over 80% of her long luxurious snake strands have been cut down by Jung Hou. 
The city off ends that were barely 2 inches away from her scalp, all stood and wiggled as if in a constant state of electrification. 
If eyes could kill, Jung Hou would have long been dead by now. 
What were they saying? 
Medusa's eyes could definitely kill, turning people to stone. 
Sadly, a Gorgon's strength grows in respect to how long they can grow their hair. 
Believe it or not, Medusa's hair could stretch over half the country if she wanted. 
However, Jung Hou recalled the weaknesses of Medusa he once read, and focused on cutting the hair at specific points. 
Each strand of hair had very small nodes in them. 
It was hard to spot at first, as the nodes have the same color and look as her hair. But each node that forms, signifies a distance the hair can stretch to. 
It also signifies her current strength. 
Thus, the more hair you cut off, the less powerful he was. 
It's sad to say that the feature she was most proud of, was also her greatest weakness. 
Still, don't think it's that simple to do what Jung Hou just pulled off. 
Who was she? A top General in the army. 
To put it into respect, she only had 3 more inner ranks to ascend before becoming a Commander, and then becoming someone as powerful as the Princes.
Of course, understand that no one will ever be as strong as the Princes since when they reach the strength the princes are in now, the Princes would in turn break through higher levels, Introducing new Power ranks into the mix. 
So yes… Medusa was someone not everyone can have the opportunity of ever fighting, talk less of cutting off her hair strands.
Right now, Jung Hou, though calm, was breathing slightly heavier than before. 
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"Human, you're going to pay for this!" Medusa spat, anger flaring in her eyes.
"Pay?" Jung Hou's lips curled into a faint smile. "It looks like someone has been basking too long in power, that they've forgotten the consequences of their new look." 
"Bite me, Human!"
Bam! 
The battle intensified as Medusa unleashed a barrage of attacks. 
However, the more she attacked, the more Jung Hou countered. 
His motions were fluid, with his Scalpel slicing through the air in sharp arcs.
No one was a fool. 
Medusa knew she was overpowered. 
"My, my, my…" 
Bam! 
Jung Hou spoke while swinging his Scalpel mercilessly. 
"Who was it who said my arrogance will lead to my death?" 
Bam! 
Medusa felt the pain on her back, as her body broke several layers deep into the soil. 
The bones underneath her rotting flesh protruded out, and she could already taste her blood in her mouth. 
And beneath the river of blood flowing through her chest, there was a thick piercing out. 
At this point, Medusa couldn't horse the grouping frustration in her. 
"I curse you, human! I Curse the very ground you–" 
Bam! 
Jung Hou's scalpel shot into her 2nd her in her tail, causing Medusa to scream mid-sentence. 
When one heart dies, a demon becomes weaker in strength even more. 
"Oh yeah? And I want to learn how to breakdance. So what's your point?"
"You–"
Jung Hou chuckled, his eyes focused on the pinned down Medusa. 
She was twisting her body, smashing left and right, barking angrily like blood and vibrating menacingly when staring at her current fate. 
"I refuse to accept it! I am a powerful Kyogan rank General! I refuse to go down because of the likes of you!" 
"Refuse all you want, but this ends now." 
Bam! 
Medusa's second heart was destroyed. 
Her Second Heart!!!!
Medusa let out a scream that rattled from her hips, feeling her insides grovelling in agony. 
But do you think this is the end? 
Jung Hou let out a sadistic smile.
"As a surgeon, it would be a shame to not find out just how many hearts you're hiding in this body of yours, no?" 
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Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! 
For the first time in her life, Medusa learned to fear a human. 
[Barrage of watchers]: Scary… Scary… 
There was blood on his white lab coat, and his giant Scalpel continued to shine with a horrific light. 
Maybe it was their imagination, but why did Jung Hou now look like a Mad Doctor, rather than a respectable fighter of justice? 
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