Chapter 375 - 199: Slaying the Tier Three Mother Empress, War Intensity Upgrades

Chapter 375: Chapter 199: Slaying the Tier Three Mother Empress, War Intensity Upgrades

It was only when Lin Feng saw the Mother Empress’s Identification data that he realized why she was in such a hurry to sneak across Taihu Lake.

He had originally thought the Jiangbei Mother Empress would possess the strength of Tier Three Early-Stage Perfection. To his surprise, more than two months after the apocalypse began, she had only just reached Level 32.

She couldn’t even compare to Ling Yi from Jia City, let alone the powerful Hai City Mother Empress and the other Zerg Race Mother Empresses who occupied the two great lakes further north.

Surrounded by powerful rivals and caught in the middle, the Jiangbei Mother Empress had no choice but to take a risk. She had to try to enter Taihu Lake early, get her piece of the pie, and successfully advance to Tier Three Early-Stage Perfection. Only then could she seek an opportunity to break through to the Tier Three Middle Stage.

The main reason for this situation was the sparse population in Jiangbei’s coastal cities. Compared to the international metropolis of Hai City and the international port to the south where Ling Yi had landed, the Jiangbei region was considered backward.

At the very least, there were no decent urban areas along its coast, only desolate and remote villages.

And by the time she pushed deeper inland, she discovered that the humans in the cities had already joined the streams of refugees, fleeing their settlements and leaving behind nothing but empty husks.

Unable to secure enough Biomass, the Jiangbei Mother Empress’s strength had stagnated.

Therefore, many coastlines scarce in Biomass were inhospitable to the Mother Empresses who landed there. It meant falling behind their own kind right from the start of this global race for supremacy.

But at this moment, the Jiangbei Mother Empress must have been deeply regretting her unilateral decision.

The original plan, made in cooperation with the Hai City Mother Empress, was for her to personally lead her Zerg army to Wu City and join the decisive battle to annihilate the human defenders.

This way, the two Zerg forces—one from the north and one from the east—would form a pincer attack. Even if the Jiangbei Zerg Race was slightly weaker, they could still tie down the human fleet’s firepower. This would allow the Hai City Mother Empress to maximize the effectiveness of her hidden trump cards.

At the same time, even if the Jiangbei Mother Empress were to be attacked, she would be less than twenty to thirty kilometers away from the Hai City Mother Empress. The latter could have easily dispatched elite Tier Two Zerg Race squads to come to her aid.

Yet now, she had chosen to take a shortcut, attempting to reach Taihu Lake as quickly as possible. Not only had Lin Feng seen right through her plan, but she had also moved in the wrong direction, forfeiting any chance to call for help.

However, all of this stemmed from the battle in the Jiangbei Underground Hive, where Ling Yi and the Jiangbei Mother Empress had secretly reached an agreement.

By exploiting her greed, he had lured the snake from its hole and sprung his trap.

Otherwise, Lin Feng wouldn’t have had such a perfect opportunity to kill the heavily injured Mother Empress on the surface.

After activating the Flying Tiger Armor’s Flight Mode, he became a flash of light, speeding toward the bloated, monstrous Zerg.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Lin Feng consumed two charges of Upgrade Energy to activate Genetic Radiation and Bloodthirsty Frenzy.

Both were Replication Skills originating from the Zerg Mental Realm. The first, Genetic Radiation, could affect any Zerg within a five-kilometer radius, causing them to fall into a brief stupor and buying him precious time to attack.

As for the latter, Bloodthirsty Frenzy, it could drastically boost his own Physique Attribute, allowing Lin Feng to temporarily compensate for this shortcoming.

The 50% boost to his Physique Attribute allowed him to break his limit for five minutes, rising from 980 points to 1470 points—firmly in Tier Three. Although there was still a 330-point gap compared to the heavily injured Mother Empress’s 1.8k Physique, it gave Lin Feng enough confidence to take her on.

Aided by his two bound pieces of equipment—the Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon and the Level 29 Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword—Lin Feng had a variety of offensive options as he charged the Mother Empress.

He immediately used the Electromagnetic Cannon to bombard the back of her head, blasting away the protective layers of flesh.

The Mother Empress, who had turned to flee with her back exposed, clearly sensed Lin Feng’s surprise attack.

’This insignificant human ant... in just a few short seconds, he not only broke through my spiritual suppression but even used a similar technique to restrain my movements...’

’And what shocked me even more was the sudden, explosive increase in his Physique Attribute. He now actually had the ability to kill me!’

In other words, aside from his Life Value still being slightly lower than the Mother Empress’s, Lin Feng’s Physique and Spirit had both entered Tier Three, reaching a Tier Three Early-Stage level.

It was enough to threaten the heavily injured Level 32 Zerg Race Mother Empress. With the boost from his two Orange Quality pieces of equipment, his chances of victory were skyrocketing.

At this thought, the Jiangbei Mother Empress let out another piercing shriek. But unlike the pained cry when she first revealed her true form, this screeching roar was laced with a hint of fear.

She was afraid. Amidst the bombardment of the Electromagnetic Cannon... she felt the threat of death!

’But my most important Swarm forces are still on their way! And the thousands of Tier One Black Spine Zergs and hundreds of Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs I summoned with my Mental Realm are being held back by those damned humans, preventing them from reaching me to become the nutrients I need to restore my Life Value.’

A Mother Empress’s wounds could self-repair, but lost Life Value could not be replenished from thin air. She had to absorb Life Energy from her Swarm to compensate for the loss.

This was also why killing a Mother Empress inside an Underground Hive was tens of times harder than killing any other Tier Three Life Form.

The entire Zerg Race was her source of life.

And if her Life Value was too low, she couldn’t use a Zerg Race Mother Empress’s strongest survival Skill: Divine Domain Descent.

Right now, she only needed to devour twenty Tiger Spine Zergs, or a few hundred Tier One Black Spine Zergs, to recover her lost life and meet the minimum requirement to summon her Divine Realm.

But would Lin Feng and the Tier Two Close Combat Team ever give her that chance?