Chapter 581 - 269: Deterrence, Retreat, Ion Laser Cannon Upgrade

Chapter 581: Chapter 269: Deterrence, Retreat, Ion Laser Cannon Upgrade

He would also occasionally aim for the heads of the High-tier Mother Empresses gathering Spiritual Energy and fire a few rounds.

By this point, the Reproductive Armor Mecha’s main visual organs had mostly recovered through self-repair. Lin Feng deactivated his Mind Sensing Skill and began to take in the entire battlefield.

He fixed his gaze on the five Mother Empresses, watching their every move.

A dozen seconds later, his team members had finished their retreat. Near the exit, only Lin Feng in his Reproductive Armor Mecha, the Mother Empress, and Shen Jie were left...

Lin Feng slowly raised the mecha’s head. He dug out the crystalline compound eyes from its face, which had been shattered by the Spiritual Spike. Then, he looked toward the five Mother Empresses a kilometer away, who were roaring threateningly at the three of them.

Deep, furious roars echoed one after another.

But intimidated by the Ion Laser Cannon in Lin Feng’s hands, they could only summon Samurai Hunter Zergs and other newly arrived Tiger Spine Zergs to form a wall in front of them, not daring to get any closer.

Witnessing the death of their kin firsthand was a powerful deterrent, and the rumors of several other Mother Empresses being defeated and killed here were now confirmed beyond a doubt.

Humans possessed high-tech weaponry, other than nuclear bombs, that was capable of threatening the High-tier Zerg Race.

And besides the Biological Reproductive Armor itself, the most threatening weapon was the Ion Laser Cannon in Lin Feng’s hands!

The thousands of degrees of heat from its muzzle could easily destroy the Defense of a Tier Three Life Form. Besides a Tier Four King Zerg, even a King Spine Zerg would struggle to withstand temperatures approaching ten thousand degrees.

But the Mother Empresses didn’t need to engage in close combat; they had ways to eliminate their enemies from a distance.

And so, at that very moment, one of the two leaders among the five—the Southern Mother Empress—had already finished gathering power for her third all-out Spiritual Attack.

She was preparing to unleash it on the Reproductive Armor Mecha.

However, Lin Feng was already prepared. How could he let the Southern Mother Empress succeed so easily again and again?

He had only tanked her Damage before to kill his target Mother Empress. Now that his objective was complete, he wasn’t about to let her continue harassing him at will.

Lin Feng acted instantly. He raised the Reproductive Armor Mecha’s left arm and fired several shots in rapid succession right at the Southern Mother Empress’s head.

The barrage directly interrupted her charge-up.

At the same time, the other four Mother Empresses also launched Spiritual Attacks. They weren’t fully charged, all-out assaults, but rather standard attacks dealing over a thousand points of spiritual Damage, intended to provide cover for the Southern Mother Empress.

However, guarded by the Mother Empress, these ordinary Spiritual Attacks were all nullified with little effort.

Jiang Yun’er’s skill in wielding Spiritual Power was far superior to Lin Feng’s. The Mother Empress she piloted had been instrumental in the earlier assassination mission, neutralizing the majority of the enemy Mother Empresses’ Spiritual Attacks for the team.

In fact, that had been the key to the mission’s success.

The Southern Mother Empress, struck by the Ion Laser Cannon, felt the immense Spiritual Energy she had gathered around her head surge and then dissipate.

The volatile Spiritual Attack transformed into countless sharp blades that lashed out, carving up the massive Zerg’s head until it was a bloody, unrecognizable mess.

It dealt several hundred points of Damage directly.

The Damage wasn’t high, but the humiliation was immense.

Flying into a rage from the humiliation, the Southern Mother Empress thrashed its head and let out a series of roars at the Reproductive Armor Mecha.

The sound waves rippled outward, carrying with them a surge of Spiritual Power.

A normal Tier One Awakener or a Low-tier Zerg would suffer severe internal injuries from this sonic attack, perhaps even bleeding from every orifice.

But to the three humans present, it was nothing more than a temper tantrum born of the Mother Empress’s impotent rage.

Lin Feng scoffed. He switched the Ion Laser Cannon to Armor-Piercing Cannon mode and fired several shots into the ceiling. After causing a small section of the tunnel to collapse and block the enemy’s pursuit, he finally felt it was safe to lead the other two away.

In truth, after breaking through the Zerg swarm in front of so many Mother Empresses and forcibly killing one of them, he had reached a state of ’no ammo, no food’—he was running on empty.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call his current state ’strong on the outside, weak on the inside’.

Not only was more than half of its Energy depleted, but the Reproductive Armor Mecha’s external Mass-Energy Shield only had enough power for one final use.

If those two Mid-stage Perfection Mother Empresses used the other three for cover and launched a simultaneous Spiritual Attack at his mecha, the Reproductive Armor would be damaged and shut down, and Lin Feng would lose his greatest advantage... and find himself surrounded by multiple Mother Empresses.

The Mass-Energy Shield Attribute was generated by the Reproductive Armor Mecha’s control core, the Mother Empress Brain Marrow.

Generating the Shield three times in such a short period was its current limit.

Recovery would take at least ten hours.

Furthermore, it would need to be supplied with ample nutrients.

Therefore, the Reproductive Armor Mecha, which was cultivated from Lin Feng’s own cells, was only suited for quick, high-burst Damage.

If the battle devolved into a war of attrition, the Reproductive Armor Mecha would be no match for a Zerg of the same tier and its massive body.

Thus, his display of intimidation through this kill had to be performed perfectly, so as not to reveal his own weakness.

During the retreat, Lin Feng called up a notification that had just appeared in his field of view:

[Ion Laser Cannon Lv. 30/39, Golden Quality]

[Upgrade Points: 2/2. Ready to Upgrade.]

[Upgrade Lv. 30 Ion Laser Cannon?]

Lin Feng mentally consented and initiated the Upgrade.

A faint golden light coated the surface of the Ion Laser Cannon on the Reproductive Armor’s left arm as it began the upgrade process.

An Upgrade like this, within the same Quality tier, was estimated to take less than half an hour.

The next time he engaged a High-tier Mother Empress from a distance, he would be able to disrupt her ability to summon a Divine Realm much more quickly and efficiently.

After taking care of that, Lin Feng raised his head to look at the machine next to his Reproductive Armor Mecha: No. 2 Machine, the Mother Empress.