Chapter 578 - 268: Heavily Damaging the Target, Obstruction, and a Decapitation Kill (Part 2)

Chapter 578: Chapter 268: Heavily Damaging the Target, Obstruction, and a Decapitation Kill (Part 2)

In just three seconds, Lin Feng dashed behind the frantically fleeing Mother Empress. The Ion Laser Cannon on his Reproductive Armor’s left arm had already completed its cooling cycle, and the second shot was fully charged.

Seeing the Mother Empress was about to dive into an opening in the high-speed tunnel’s side wall, Lin Feng didn’t hesitate. From over three hundred meters away, he fired the second Ion Light Cannon shot.

A searing, white-gold laser, like a blazing sun, lit up the dust-filled tunnel. The burning sparks of particulate matter instantly dispelled the darkness.

He could clearly see the Light Cannon strike the nape of the Mother Empress’s neck, just behind its enormous brain. In the two-meter-diameter central blast zone, skin and flesh were instantly torn asunder.

It was instantly heated to over a thousand degrees!

Under the intense heat, the Tier Two orange Inner Armor hidden beneath its epidermis gradually dehydrated and carbonized, becoming incredibly fragile before cracking and flaking away completely.

This exposed the internal fat layer, vital nerve organs, and the spine supporting its head.

A flicker of delight flashed in Lin Feng’s eyes.

In another seven or eight seconds, as the Light Cannon’s power increased, the Damage would skyrocket along with the temperature, reaching as high as four or five thousand.

This would be enough to completely sever the nervous system in the Mother Empress’s neck, thus eliminating any possibility of it attempting a last-ditch Divine Domain Summoning to take him down with it.

A Mother Empress left with only its head and brain posed no threat, aside from some minor Spiritual Attack techniques.

At that point, all Lin Feng would have to do was raise his Ion Laser Cannon to end its life, then use his Hunter Emperor’s Chainsaw Sword to pry out the Golden Plate Bone encasing the Purple Crystal Brain Marrow from within the Mother Empress’s skull.

One Mother Empress, dealt with.

The whole process wouldn’t even take a minute.

And the entire decapitation strike, from start to finish, would take less than two minutes.

Achieving such speed was not only due to Lin Feng’s own formidable strength but also thanks to the support of Shen Jie, the Mother Empress, and the numerous members of the Tier Two Battle Group behind him.

Without them, Lin Feng alone could never have advanced so quickly while also finishing the battle so cleanly.

However, just as the second Ion Light Cannon shot was about to extinguish the target Mother Empress’s ability to launch a dying counterattack, a black figure abruptly appeared before Lin Feng’s eyes...

It blocked the beam, absorbing a portion of its searing Damage.

Lin Feng frowned slightly, slowing his advance to get a better look.

It turned out to be a level twenty-nine Samurai Hunter Zerg at Tier Two Late Stage Perfection!

This Samurai Hunter Zerg was a full ten meters in size, its body far larger than his Reproductive Armor Mecha, but of its three Attributes, aside from Physique, its Life Value and Spirit were both below one thousand.

It looked impressive but was ultimately useless—all show and no substance, lacking any Realm Power. It might be effective against an ordinary Awakener, but it was far from enough to stop Lin Feng.

And it only managed to block the beam for a single second before being knocked back by the Light Cannon. The beam then burned straight through its fragile body.

But that single second was all the struggling, howling Mother Empress needed. It gave the creature a moment’s respite to repair the charred, mangled wound on its neck while twisting its body to evade the Light Cannon’s sustained fire on the same spot.

The six thousand points of Damage from the first phase of the attack were split in two.

The neural connections in the nape of its neck, which should have been completely destroyed, were now half-intact.

However, before Lin Feng could find another opportunity, more flying figures appeared, blocking the path to their target. They intended to form a living Shield with their bodies to cover the Mother Empress’s escape.

More than thirty large Samurai Hunter Zergs—all at Tier Two Late Stage, with some having reached Perfection—formed an impenetrable wall of flesh.

And they were rapidly flying toward Lin Feng’s position to attack.

Simultaneously, a massive Spiritual Power attack descended upon the Reproductive Armor Mecha Lin Feng was piloting. The energy attack, which took the form of a Spine Needle, directly penetrated and destroyed the Mass-Energy Shield attached to the mecha’s surface.

Fortunately, the Mass-Energy Shield had nullified most of the attack’s force. The residual energy had a negligible effect on the Reproductive Armor.

Lin Feng immediately activated a second Shield, swinging his Hunter Emperor’s Chainsaw Sword and firing his Ion Laser Cannon to cut down and repel the attacking Samurai Hunter Zergs.

As he broke through the encirclement to kill the target Mother Empress, he glanced in the direction of the strange Spiritual Attack’s origin.

Two kilometers away, he saw a two-hundred-meter-tall, vaguely familiar giant Mother Empress rapidly approaching his position.

Its face, a mass of eyeballs, radiated a dense and intense wave of Energy. It was clearly mustering all its strength to charge up a second Spiritual Spike attack.

And this giant Mother Empress—which was ignoring the disruption of its own allies to rush in as reinforcements and repeatedly force Spiritual Attacks on Lin Feng—was none other than the Southern Mother Empress, the Mid-stage Mother Empress that had once summoned three Early-stage Mother Empresses to besiege Yunxia Ridge!

Just as Ling Yi had said, after devouring the only surviving Early-stage Mother Empress in its contingent and absorbing three Early-Stage Zerg broods,

it had successfully advanced to Tier Three Mid-Stage Perfection!

It was just one step away from Tier Three Late Stage. All it needed was to sacrifice enough Alien Genes and evolutionary flesh to the Zerg God, and it would complete its promotion to become a candidate for the title of Tier Four Zerg King.

However, this goal, which seemed so distant, was now within its grasp.

It knew very well that the figure before it, piloting a Tier Three Reproductive Armor Mecha, was the true master of Yunxia Ridge. If it could just heavily wound or even kill him...

...the entire human defensive line would crumble and be easily conquered by the Zerg Race.

And the Southern Mother Empress would become the first Tier Three Late-stage Mother Empress on the southern Main Continent!

After successfully advancing, its targets would include not only humans but all the nearby Tier Three Early-stage Mother Empresses. It would devour all the weak,