The Alchemist (2)

Thinking about it for a moment, Lucius pulled out the knife that was still impaled in the arachnid's eye and began cutting a line from its eye down to its torso. When he reached the part that was covered in rock skin, he took a look at its inner portion.

~Ah, it's as I thought. Its skin seems rocky on the outside, but on the inside, it's as fleshy as the rest of its body,~ he noticed.

The rock skin was merely a layer that covered its real skin, so after taking a careful look, he poked his knife in between the line where the two skin layers met, and began separating them.

His work was shoddy, cutting off chunks of flesh along with the rock layer. Though he had experience skinning animals, this was a completely different rodeo.