Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

Chapter 371: Chapter 197: Genetic Warrior vs. Samurai Hunter Zergs, Countdown_3

Although the Tiger Spine Zergs were powerful and had a size advantage, their agility was clearly far inferior to that of the Genetic Warriors.

Even an ordinary Tier Two Awakener could leverage their smaller, more agile frame to dodge the attacks from the Tiger Spine Zerg Giant Mandibles and then use effective weapons to finish them off.

So, to the Genetic Warriors, these Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs, with their primitive combat methods, were hardly worth a second thought.

The threat they posed was far less than that of the Samurai Hunter Zergs.

And so, forty Genetic Warriors wielding their blades weaved through the swarm of Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs. They reaped the Zergs’ lives and successfully halted their advance on the fleet.

Meanwhile, the two Genetic Battle Group Leaders chose to join the battle’s peak engagement.

This was the battle between Battle Group Leader Shen Jie and several Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs.

As soon as their forces clashed, Shen Jie had already spotted the Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs hiding within the Swarm.

The moment their eyes met, an intense will to fight flared between them, and they immediately launched into a vicious battle.

But the Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs clearly possessed greater combat intelligence and reason. Under the control of the Zerg Race Mother Empress, they did not take the initiative to fight Shen Jie.

Instead, they cautiously sent out the remaining twenty-odd Tier Two Middle-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs to test Shen Jie’s strength.

However, this played right into Shen Jie’s hands. After all, if this powerful group of Samurai Hunter Zergs were allowed to join the battle between the other Tier Two combatants, they would undoubtedly inflict even greater casualties on the Genetic Combat Team.

Even if the Tier Two Gene Combat Team achieved ultimate victory, it would be a pyrrhic one, with over half of them sacrificed!

So, without a hint of hesitation, Shen Jie activated his Winged Tiger Frenzy Form, cut down a charging Tier Two Middle-Stage Samurai Hunter Zerg with a single slash, and then immediately activated his Slaughter Realm.

Empowered by the Slaughter Power, the more he fought, the fiercer he became; the more he killed, the stronger he grew.

He killed over twenty Samurai Hunter Zergs in a row, yet showed no signs of fatigue. The aura radiating from him hadn’t weakened in the slightest. On the contrary, it grew even more intense, taking on an overwhelming momentum.

At this point, the Hai City Mother Empress realized something was wrong.

After encountering resistance from the human Genetic Warriors, it had chosen the safest strategy: focus fire to eliminate the strongest enemy, then leverage the resulting gap in top-tier power to crush the opposition.

Once all the opposing Tier Two Late-stage Awakened were dead, its Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs would have an overwhelming advantage.

Like a domino effect, victory would cascade down through the lower ranks.

However, for all its calculations, the Hai City Mother Empress had never expected this unremarkable-looking young man to be so ferocious.

By the time Shen Jie killed all the Tier Two Middle-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs in just a few short minutes and turned his gaze toward the few remaining Tier Two Late-Stage Hunting Zergs deep within the Swarm...

Seeing Shen Jie’s current state through the eyes of its Samurai Hunter Zergs, the Hai City Mother Empress belatedly realized—the crimson light flashing in his eyes, wasn’t that the Slaughter Realm, which, in its memory, only a King Spine Zerg could master?

Connecting the dots, the Hai City Mother Empress finally understood his scheme: he was using its Samurai Hunter Zergs as practice for his Mental Realm.

The Slaughter Realm was the Spine Zerg Race’s strongest Mental Realm, an ability second only to the Zerg God’s Divine Realm. Against a same-tier opponent, a Zerg Race Mother Empress would have to overdraft its own life force, summon a Divine Domain Descent, and use the endless swarm within the Hive Will just to suppress a Spine Zerg "madman" lost to the Slaughter.

For this very reason, Spine Zergs had earned the nickname "Mad Zergs" throughout the Zerg Race, and their Tier Four Spine Kings were even called "Mad Kings," a title that made them outcasts.

Therefore, unless it was an absolute last resort, a Zerg Race Mother Empress would never undo the genetic locks on its Tiger Spine Zergs to allow a Tier Three King Spine Zerg to compete for the position of Mother Empress.

By the same token, it would never allow its Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs to reach the Tier Two Peak, lest they turn on it.

Yet now, a human had somehow inherited and mastered the Spine Zerg’s Spiritual Realm and was using it to utterly crush the Zerg Race’s own Samurai Hunter Zergs.

Even as the Hai City Mother Empress finally reacted, wanting to command its few remaining Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs to flee the battlefield and escape the rampaging human Genetic Warrior...

...they could not escape the pursuing Life-taking Blade of Shen Jie, who possessed a 200% bonus to his Physique Attribute!

With a Physique three times that of a Tier Two Zerg, a single casual slash from him contained hundreds of tons of Power.

To preserve its only remaining high-end combat power, the Hai City Mother Empress had no choice but to redeploy the Black Spine Zerg Swarm to surround and pin down the human fleet, then focus its Spirit and enter the bodies of its Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs—personally taking the field and seizing control of their bodies.

Thanks to the boost from its own Spiritual Attribute, it was just barely able to match his speed and reflexes, withstanding the relentless attacks of the human who had mastered the Slaughter Realm.

The Mother Empress knew full well that the Slaughter Realm could not be maintained for long within the body of a Tier Two Life Form.

’I just have to drag this out until the moment he deactivates it.’

’There might still be a chance to turn this battle around.’

During a lull in their supersonic clash, where both sides had become blurs of motion, the Mother Empress, controlling the Samurai Hunter Zerg, spoke in human words.

Its words were laced with Spiritual Power, full of seductive allure:

"Powerful Genetic Warrior, there is no need for us to fight to the death."

"You have integrated the genes of the Zerg Race, so you too can become one of us. In the future, you could wield great power and rule over your own territory."

"If you are willing to stop your attack and return to the Zerg Race, I, as a Zerg Race Mother Empress, will make a bloodline promise to grant you the opportunity to become a Tier Three Life Form!"

...

As the decisive battle on the border between Wu City and Hai City reached its white-hot, life-or-death peak...

「One hundred kilometers to the northwest, in the northern suburbs of Xi City.」

Beneath the first subway interchange.

Lin Feng’s eyes snapped open, meeting Ling Yi’s gaze.

Ling Yi gave a slight nod of confirmation.

"It’s one kilometer away. It’ll be here in ten minutes."

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