Chapter 1 The Slaughter

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Clang!

Clang!

The heavy clashing of teeth and claws echoed from all directions. In the ruins of the Beast Tide Armory, grim Beast Kings rushed from every side toward the central battlefield. They passed through the dwindling flames, revealing their savage killing intent to Lu Chi.

One!

Another…

Within the area ringed by fire, a total of eighteen Beast Kings appeared, encircling Lu Chi and the giant python.

The front of Lu Chi’s combat suit was soaked with blood. In the brief, less than thirty-second exchange just now, the Conqueror Python’s mental impact had been unleashed dozens of times, causing him to cough up blood repeatedly, his brain reeling.

The giant python was also covered in wounds. Its thick body bore over seventy crisscrossing cuts, the deepest revealing bone and internal organs. It looked utterly wretched.

Without exaggeration, give Lu Chi one more minute, and he could turn that Conqueror Python into snake sashimi.

In a simple one-on-one, trading wound for wound, few evolutionaries could suppress Lu Chi.

His Berserk Divinity Descent was truly a bug!

At this time, all the Pathfinder warriors had escaped. Relying on their powerful physiques and equipment, they shook off the pursuing mutated beasts and Beast Kings. In this vast island city, finding a hiding place was quite easy. After all, this beast nest was not yet completely covered by surveillance equipment. Once they escaped, their lives were temporarily out of danger.

In this situation, the Beast Kings, enraged by the invasion and the merciless destruction of their city, focused all their anger on Lu Chi.

Nineteen pairs of murderous eyes fell on Lu Chi. Their immense bodies blocked the light of the sky, and a huge shadow enveloped him.

Standing within the encirclement, Lu Chi faced nineteen Beast Kings who far surpassed him in both size and number. There was no fear in his eyes, only unwavering calm.

Divinity Descent. Spirit Heart.

Unaffected by anger, fear, frustration, or any other emotion that could cloud accurate judgment of the situation.

“You actually dared to intrude into our kingdom…” A massive sea lion, its webbed paws now bearing claws like a tiger or leopard, looked down at Lu Chi. It easily shattered a multi-ton chunk of concrete, slowly approaching him. “And destroyed our city…”

“Which human nation do you belong to?”

“You will pay the price for your actions. After you are torn apart, your flesh will become food for the Lesser Beasts (mutated beasts). I will hang your bones on the highest cliff to warn humans like you.”

Lu Chi wiped the blood from under his nose, feeling a constant “squeak, squeak” sound in his ears. Thinking his anti-magnetic helmet was damaged, he reached out and removed the mask, which was shattered beyond recognition, throwing it aside. But the squeaking sound persisted.

Slap! Slap!

Lu Chi slapped his ears hard. He was experiencing tinnitus, indicating that the python’s brainwave attack had caused severe damage to his brain. But under the amplification of the Berserk Divinity Descent, dizziness and pain were minimized, making it imperceptible. However, tinnitus, rapid breathing, and other symptoms inevitably appeared.

He slowly took out two Ancient Medicinal grade fruits and tossed them into his mouth. After chewing, he raised the steel saber in his hand again, looked at the wretched python Beast King and the eighteen newly arrived Beast Kings, and said in perfect, unaccented Yanhuang language with an expressionless face: “Go screw yourself. What kind of bird language is that? Can’t understand a word!”

With the steel saber in hand, Lu Chi suddenly leaped up. The nineteen Beast Kings, including the Conqueror Python, instantly pounced on Lu Chi.

The scene looked terrifying, like a pack of lions hunting a little rabbit.

It seemed that in the next second, Lu Chi would be torn to pieces, his head separated from his body.

Blood splattered, and a flash of bright saber light.

Falling down was a ten-meter-tall Beast King, a three-meter-long, neat wound on its back, revealing the severed cervical vertebrae, nerves, and blood vessels inside.

The vitality of evolutionaries was extremely tenacious. Their vital points were only those few areas: the head, cervical vertebrae, and spine. Only by severely damaging these areas could one temporarily disable them. Otherwise, even piercing the heart would not subdue them.

Crack!

Lu Chi leaped across the ruins. The power jets on his lower back activated, allowing him to hover briefly in the air and perform difficult dodging and counterattack maneuvers.

A Beast King opened its huge mouth and bit down. The ghastly jaws snapped shut less than thirty centimeters from Lu Chi's left arm. Turning his head, Lu Chi could clearly see the bits of flesh remaining between its teeth.

Click!

A crisp mechanical sound rang out. A wristwatch device on Lu Chi’s left wrist automatically detached and was thrown directly into the Beast King’s mouth.

Boom!

A violent explosion erupted instantly, and the Beast King’s head burst open like a rotten watermelon.

This was not a wristwatch. Pathfinder warriors would never be equipped with such leisure items. It was a small bomb, mechanically detonated and immune to electromagnetic interference.

Using the headless corpse of the Beast King as leverage, Lu Chi leaped up again and smashed a punch into the thick shell of another crocodile-turtle Beast King.

With a loud crash, the three-meter-thick bone armor shattered instantly, turning its internal organs into a paste.

Divinity Descent. Steel-Crushing Fangs!

In the blink of an eye, three Beast Kings crashed to the ground without even touching Lu Chi's clothes.

“Aooo! Aooo!”

This scene drove the other Beast Kings into a frenzy. They roared wildly, summoning more Beast Kings and mutated beasts. The flames in the ruins were about to be extinguished, and the previously fearful mutated beast swarm began to gather here again.

Bang!

Lu Chi moved like lightning, instantly leaping onto the head of a Beast King. Just as he raised his saber to stab down, he suddenly heard a dull gunshot.

Without any hesitation, he immediately rolled backward, his steel saber swirling into an impenetrable whirlwind in front of him.

Bang!

Almost simultaneously, Lu Chi felt his steel saber being struck. The enormous impact nearly caused him to drop the weapon.

It was a bullet from an anti-materiel sniper rifle, originally aimed at his head. But the steel saber in his hand deflected it slightly, and it grazed his shoulder.

Lu Chi quickly checked his hand and shoulder. The web between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, which was holding the saber, had split open. His thumb was bent outward at an incredibly exaggerated angle. Clearly, the force of that shot, even with his Divinity Descent enhanced body, was too much, dislocating the bone.

On his shoulder, the alloy combat suit had been directly dented by a fist-sized hole. But under the amplification of the Berserk Divinity Descent, Lu Chi felt no pain and could not determine if the bones in his shoulder were damaged.

This was the horror of anti-materiel weapons. Ding Lu, whose Divinity Descent ability was “Petrified Skin,” still had his calf broken by a sniper rifle. If Lu Chi had been directly hit in the chest or head, he would have likely lost his fighting ability on the spot.

Lu Chi expressionlessly snapped his right thumb back into place. He quickly tied his hand and the saber hilt tightly together with the steel wire that was attached to the saber hilt. The steel wire was pulled extremely tight, cutting deep grooves into the flesh.

He realized that his thumb could no longer exert any force, knowing that the shot had definitely fractured his bones and muscles. In this situation, he would be unable to grip the saber hilt firmly. Only by using this method could he continue to fight.

“Kill!” Lu Chi’s glabella flared, and he raised his saber to kill the Beast Kings surrounding him once more.

As the steel saber was wielded, the force pulled and tore at the steel wire wrapped around his hand, slowly cutting into the flesh and bone. Blood dripped down the hilt, staining the entire blade red.