Chapter 454 - 225: Slaying the Lv33 Mother Empress, Forcefully Summoning the Divine Realm (Part 2)

Chapter 454: Chapter 225: Slaying the Lv33 Mother Empress, Forcefully Summoning the Divine Realm (Part 2)

It had the exact same appearance as the lv29 Tiger Spine Zerg guards the group had encountered when they first followed Lin Feng deep into the Underground of the North River to incubate a Nest.

Its entire body was covered in a thirty to forty-centimeter-thick layer of hard Armor, made of the same impenetrable material as its Giant Mandible. Even an lv29 Armor-Piercing Cannon could only leave a shallow mark on it.

Lin Feng frowned slightly upon seeing the Peak Tiger Spine Zerg. It wasn’t because it was too powerful, but because of its enormous size—over thirty meters tall...

It had completely blocked the entire entrance to the Nest!

Even after killing it, they would have to find a way to dismember the carcass within the cave entrance to clear a path.

Just then, Ling Yi, standing behind Lin Feng with a solemn expression, offered a warning:

"The Mother Empress inside the Nest is escaping through an internal tunnel. We only have one minute!"

"I can’t spare the energy to invade this Peak Tiger Spine Zerg’s brain. It’s up to you guys to finish this quickly!"

Just then, the Identification data for the Peak Tiger Spine Zerg blocking the cave entrance appeared before Lin Feng:

「Tiger Spine Zerg lv29/29, State: Impending Evolution」

「Life Value 995, Physique 995, Spirit 99」

「Note: This target is about to evolve and has a chance of transforming into a Tier Three King Spine Zerg. It is currently at the Tier Two Peak and has gained a related Extra Attributes bonus.」

「Extra Attributes: Solid as a Rock (Gains an absolute Armor Value equal to its Physique Attribute Value. When damage taken is less than the Armor Value, Damage is reduced by 90%. When damage taken exceeds the Armor Value, Damage is reduced by 50%. This effect covers the entire body.)」

「Note: This target has received a Spiritual Energy bonus, granting it 50% immunity to Spiritual Attack methods and a certain ability to break through Energy Shields.」

It was similar to the last one they’d encountered. The Solid as a Rock Attribute would render the Armor-Piercing Cannon and Electromagnetic Cannon ineffective. Only the reinforced Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword could deal any significant Damage.

At that moment, Liu Yi and Shen Jie, who were nearby, had already tightened their grips on their Chainsaw Sword and the Big Saber from the Winged Tiger Frenzy Form, ready to charge forward and fight the Peak Tiger Spine Zerg to the death.

In the urgent situation, Lin Feng made a snap decision. He shouted for the two to stop, then raised the Lv30 Ion Laser Cannon in his hands and aimed it at the Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg, which was still snarling and baring its teeth...

And pulled the trigger!

The cannon’s muzzle transformed, and hexagonal focusing plates gathered a searing, high-energy, pale-golden beam that lanced out and struck the target a hundred meters away.

By the sixth second of the continuous bombardment, the beam—inflicting over four thousand points of Damage at a temperature of over four thousand degrees—began to melt the Tiger Spine Zerg’s Giant Mandible.

It then pierced through its cranial plating and the flesh and blood within.

And just like that, the Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg, which had been posturing menacingly just moments ago, was thoroughly dead, its brain and organs cooked through.

But Lin Feng didn’t stop there.

The group’s goal was to rush into the Nest as quickly as possible and perform a Lightning Beheading on the escaping Mother Empress, not just to defeat the Peak Tiger Spine Zerg in front of them.

Therefore, to speed up their advance, Lin Feng chose to use up a precious shot from his Ion Light Cannon. After all, it only stored ten shots in total, and its recharge rate was incredibly slow at one shot per hour...

But if he had chosen to use the reinforced Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword instead, even with the help of Shen Jie, Liu Yi, and the others, clearing a path through the blocked entrance would have taken dozens of seconds at a minimum.

The complications that could arise during that time, and the possibility of the Mother Empress escaping the Nest to flee to another Hive, were consequences Lin Feng could not bear.

That was why he was willing to waste a precious shot from his Ion Light Cannon reserves before the main assault, no matter the cost.

Now, as the Ion Light Cannon shot exhausted its energy after a full ten seconds, it had not only killed the Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg, but also melted a large, five-meter-deep hole in its body.

The smell of burnt flesh emanated from the hole in the carcass and its interior. At a final temperature of over six thousand degrees, the creature’s thick surface Armor and internal organs were instantly carbonized.

All that remained was an empty tunnel, one and a half meters in diameter.

Lin Feng didn’t hesitate; he pulled the trigger again.

The Peak Tiger Spine Zerg was nearly fifty meters long and over thirty meters tall. To tunnel completely through the massive carcass, they had to penetrate at least ten meters.

With the firing of the second Ion Light Cannon shot, ten seconds later a huge, smooth opening, two meters high, appeared before the group.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Lin Feng raised his Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword and led his squad through the corpse. At the same time, he switched the Laser Cannon in his left hand to the Electromagnetic Cannon and began firing frantically into the Nest from within the carcass.

The squad members behind him followed suit.

While the Electromagnetic Cannon couldn’t harm the Zerg Race Mother Empress, it could eliminate large numbers of the Low-tier Zerg Race, including the lv9 Giant Red Beetles specialized in transporting her.

It was these tens of thousands of Red-Armored Beetles that allowed the Mother Empress to move so quickly.

Back then at Hai City University, a Red-Armored Beetle Swarm had gathered in the plaza like a crimson tide, relentlessly digging at the surface.

The very next morning, the Hai City Mother Empress had burst out from the ground beneath University City, coordinating with the Jiangbei Mother Empress to surround the 13th Infantry Division.

Lin Feng and his squad had nearly been annihilated there.

And now, that experience was paying off, allowing Lin Feng to make the most correct decision in the nick of time.

As one Magnetic Storm Bomb after another, carrying furious Electromagnetic Power, detonated and bloomed within the dark, deep Nest...

Countless dazzling blue-white arcs of electricity, like bolts of lightning, illuminated the vast Hive, making it as bright as day.

Innumerable Red-Armored Beetles and Black Spine Zergs were slain, leaving the ground littered with corpses...

And the colossal Zerg, which had already crawled to the Nest’s exit in preparation to escape, also stopped in its tracks after being hit by the magnetic storm’s electric shock.