Chapter 376 - 199: Slaying the Tier Three Mother Empress, War Intensity Upgrades

Chapter 376: Chapter 199: Slaying the Tier Three Mother Empress, War Intensity Upgrades

With three hundred Tier One Late Stage Warriors rushing over from a short distance away to join the battle, any Zerg that slipped through the cracks in the Swarm’s rescue formation were swiftly eliminated.

This was a countermeasure Lin Feng had meticulously arranged to prevent himself from getting bogged down in a grueling fight.

His power was only enough to kill a single, isolated Mother Empress; he couldn’t afford a war of attrition with the entire Zerg Race.

Now, faced with this isolated and helpless situation, the Mother Empress was powerless to help, even if it wanted to. Lin Feng had already landed on the nape of its neck, just behind its skull. He used the Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon to blast through the tough, dense muscle beneath its charred hide, revealing an endoskeleton that glowed with a golden light.

This was the cranium protecting the Mother Empress’s brain, its final safeguard.

And the quality of this bone was that of a genuine Tier Three material...

The moment Lin Feng saw it, a piercing pain shot through his brain, as if it were being stabbed by needles. The agony was unbearable.

It turned out that the Mother Empress, sensing the threat of death, was no longer dividing its Spiritual Power by wasting it on summoning its Swarm or influencing other humans...

Instead, for self-preservation, it concentrated its power, forming an invisible Spiritual Spike that it stabbed viciously toward the enemy on its back.

The blow nearly made Lin Feng lose his footing and get thrown off by the wildly struggling Mother Empress as it thrashed its head back and forth.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly. Before his mind went completely blank, he summoned his strength and plunged the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword in his right hand deep into the Mother Empress’s spine.

Using the embedded Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword for leverage, he barely managed to steady himself.

After enduring the full force of the Spiritual Attack, Lin Feng opened his eyes to find blood pouring from his seven orifices. At the same time, his Spiritual Attribute Value had plummeted by more than half.

However, the situation was far too urgent to worry about the pain in his brain or his physical injuries.

Victory or defeat, life or death, would be decided in this very moment!

Ignoring the several warnings that appeared in his vision, Lin Feng forced his attention back to the deep, bloody pit in the Mother Empress’s neck just below his feet.

He used Identification on the glowing golden neck bone, revealing the information he was most interested in:

[Mother Empress’ Neck Guard Lv. 32/39, Golden Quality]

[Durability: 4/10, Defense Power: 4k/10k]

[Evaluation: A Golden material from a Tier Three Mother Empress. Used as a final, life-saving measure, it is extremely hard and can withstand temperatures of nearly ten thousand degrees. It can be used in item or equipment fusion Upgrades to increase their power.]

’Holy cow, this bone’s full Defense Power is over ten thousand. If it weren’t for the Nuclear Bomb strike that slashed its Durability to 40 percent and drastically lowered its Defense Power along with it... Otherwise, with ten thousand points of Defense, even with the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, it would have been incredibly difficult to cut an opening and destroy the brain inside in a short amount of time. After all, the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword’s highest Damage came from its Rapid Cutting attribute, which delivered five cuts per second for a total of four thousand five hundred points of Damage. Compared to the Mother Empress’ Neck Guard’s ten thousand points of Defense, that was clearly not enough. When Defense Power far exceeds Damage, the Damage dealt without breaking through the defense is close to zero. Fortunately, judging by the Mother Empress’s size, this Neck Guard wasn’t nearly as thick as its outer Zerg Armor, which was over a meter deep.’

Lin Feng estimated it was half a meter thick at most; otherwise, the volume available for its brain would be drastically smaller.

’It was like a mangosteen—the thicker the rind, the less fruit inside.’

Once he steadied himself, Lin Feng gave the Mother Empress no chance to launch another attack. He immediately vaulted forward, using the embedded Chainsaw Sword as a pivot point. Executing a forward somersault, he channeled his momentum and the explosive force of his powerful Physique to wrench the Chainsaw Sword from the spine. He then brought it down violently onto the Neck Guard at the back of the Mother Empress’s head.

CLANG!

The instant the rapidly spinning Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword made contact, it carved a shallow gash. However, the subsequent overheating and immense friction caused the sharp teeth at the blade’s edge to shatter and fly apart.

The Durability of the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword was also being consumed at a frantic pace, dropping rapidly at a rate of almost one point per second.

Fortunately, the Neck Guard’s Defense Power had been drastically reduced by the Nuclear Bomb, leaving it at four thousand—just five hundred points lower than the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword’s maximum cutting Damage of forty-five hundred. This was just enough to activate its new Extra Attribute: Undying Skull Shattering.

This halved the rate of Durability consumption.

Otherwise, if it had kept going like that, the sword’s falling Durability would have caused its Basic Damage to plummet as well, leading to progressively lower Damage from Rapid Cutting.

Thanks to Undying Skull Shattering buying him time, after ten seconds, he successfully carved an opening fifty centimeters long and thirty centimeters wide.

By this point, the Level 29 Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword in Lin Feng’s hands was on the verge of being scrapped, completely useless for continued combat.

So he immediately raised the Electromagnetic Cannon slung over his back. With the Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon’s high Damage of nine hundred, he aimed the dark muzzle directly into the opening he had just carved with the Chainsaw Sword.

During this time, the desperately struggling Mother Empress launched several more Spiritual Attacks, but aside from its first success, all subsequent assaults were silently neutralized by Ling Yi from a distance.

Otherwise, Lin Feng never would have been able to hold on for so long.

His Spiritual Attribute could only withstand a single attack from the Mother Empress; one more would have certainly caused his brain to shut down completely.

It was all thanks to Ling Yi, who had reacted in time and focused all of her own Spiritual Power on Lin Feng.

She had enveloped him in layer after layer of Spiritual Shields and had personally intervened to help him neutralize the Spiritual Shocks.

This allowed Lin Feng to still have the strength to draw his Electromagnetic Cannon and deliver the final blow after cutting through the Neck Guard.

At that moment, the Jiangbei Mother Empress, sensing its own demise was imminent, actually turned its head. Its dozens of newly grown compound eyes stared death at the woman standing in the distant ruins!