Chapter 707 - 677: Double Kill (Part 1)

THUD! THUD! THUD!

With every step the Hunter took, it was as if death itself was drawing near.

But Lin Xinghai, as if completely oblivious, continued his assault on the Death Claw.

In the brief pauses between his attacks, he had already pushed the Mecha’s energy unit into overload mode.

When the Hunter closed to within a 10-meter attack range, a blinding electric light suddenly erupted from Lin Xinghai’s long spear.

He activated the Thunder Grid once more, but this time, he didn’t thrust his spear out immediately. Instead, he continuously channeled the Mecha’s energy, rapidly converting it into electrical power and storing it at the tip of his Mjolnir.

In the blink of an eye, the electrical energy stored in the spear had already surpassed its designed maximum and exceeded its safe operating limit. A series of alarms blared inside the Mecha.

But Lin Xinghai paid them no mind. What he needed was the most powerful attack possible.

Soon, the energy concentrated at the spear’s tip exceeded the upper limit by 200%, then 300%, and then 400%.

When the stored energy reached 500% of the maximum limit, Lin Xinghai could feel the energy storage unit at the spear’s tip begin to show signs of melting. Furthermore, the Mjolnir’s internal energy conversion device started to fail under the immense load, its components burning out one by one.

Without a doubt, this was the Mjolnir’s absolute limit. After this one strike, the spear would likely be completely destroyed.

But at a time like this, Lin Xinghai couldn’t have cared less.

All he wanted was to unleash the most powerful strike possible at this very moment.

With its keen Perception Power, how could the Fourth Level Death Claw not sense the danger from a strike that far exceeded normal levels? Although Lin Xinghai had the advantage in Speed, his intricate attacks made it impossible for the creature to dodge this strike.

But the Death Claw was not without its own countermeasures. The Elemental Power in its body surged forth, and the Elemental Barrier in front of it instantly became several times more solid than usual.

While this still couldn’t completely block Lin Xinghai’s thrust, it would weaken it significantly, ensuring it wouldn’t pose much of a threat.

Meanwhile, the Hunter had already leaped up from behind the Giant Arm, its Sharp Claws extended, ready to deliver a fatal blow.

Seemingly ignoring the Giant Arm and the Hunter behind him, his focus was entirely on the Death Claw in front of him.

The Mjolnir thrust out with precision. With this strike, he accurately bypassed the creature’s blocking right arm.

Just as the spear tip was about to hit the Elemental Barrier on the creature’s body, a sudden roar echoed—the sound of an Electromagnetic Railgun firing.

And this shot wasn’t aimed at the Hunter, but at the Death Claw in front of him. To be precise, it was aimed at the exact spot the Mjolnir was about to strike.

The high-speed, rotating Alloy slug, fired later but arriving first, struck the Elemental Barrier with terrifying penetrating power, a split second before the Mjolnir.

With a loud CRACK, the thick Elemental Barrier was instantly shattered.

The Mjolnir passed through smoothly, stabbing directly into the Death Claw’s chest.

This spot wasn’t a fatal weak point for the Death Claw, but Lin Xinghai chose it because there was an unhealed wound there.

The tip of the Mjolnir, containing an immense amount of electrical energy, was showing signs of melting and was no longer as sharp as before. Because of this, the strike might not have been able to pierce the Death Claw’s tough, calloused hide.

But the wound had no such protection. The spear tip plunged smoothly into the creature’s nearly healed flesh.

BZZZT!

A current far more intense than any before erupted. In that instant, even the Death Claw felt its entire body go numb.

Although, with the powerful physique of a Fourth Level Death Claw, this state of paralysis would only last for a moment.

But for Lin Xinghai, that was more than enough. For that single moment, the Death Claw before him was incapable of any further defense.

At almost the same instant, the Mecha’s escape pod was ejected at high speed, and the self-destruct sequence was initiated.

This all happened too suddenly. The Hunter, which had already leaped onto the Mecha’s head and even begun to cleave it open with its Sharp Claws, showed a hint of confusion in its eyes.

But in the very next instant, that confusion turned into absolute terror.

A mortal crisis instantly enveloped the three Mutated Zombies.

The Hunter was arguably the fastest to react, immediately turning to flee.

It wasn’t the only one; the Giant Arm did the same. Even the paralyzed Death Claw, in this life-threatening moment, forcibly suppressed the numbness in its body.

But their reactions were too slow. Or rather, Lin Xinghai hadn’t given them any time to react at all. For anyone else, detonating a Cloud Burst Bomb would require a delay to avoid getting killed in the blast.

But Lin Xinghai didn’t use a delay. The detonation device was directly linked to the Mecha’s energy system. The Mecha’s self-destruct sequence activated the moment the escape pod ejected, taking only 0.1 seconds from initiation to full detonation.

So, in the instant the Mecha erupted in a blinding flash of light, even the Hunter, with its Speed of 80,000, had only managed to flee five meters. The slower Giant Arm had just turned and taken its first step.

As for the Death Claw, its fate was the most tragic. Its body had just shaken off the paralysis, and it hadn’t even had time to mobilize its Elemental Power when the Rare Level Mecha and the Cloud Burst Bomb within it exploded right in front of it.

Even Lin Xinghai, who had escaped a step ahead, was only about 20 meters away in his escape pod. He hadn’t even cleared the core blast radius.

This was because even escape pods have a maximum speed. The escape pod of a Rare Level Mecha only reached a top speed of 50,000 at the moment of ejection, and it would rapidly decelerate from there.

If the escape pod continued at this velocity, it would never escape the core blast radius.

And with the power of the explosion at the heart of the Cloud Burst Bomb, the escape pod would be torn apart effortlessly.

But all of this was within Lin Xinghai’s calculations. After the escape pod launched, he forced the hatch open.

The moment the Cloud Burst Bomb detonated, his figure shot out from the escape pod like a bolt of lightning.

With Lin Xinghai’s current physical condition, enhanced by his Divine Demon Body, Martial Arts, and Superpower, his maximum Speed could reach 56,900 points.

But that wasn’t his limit. At this point, Lin Xinghai’s Thunderbolt Step had already reached the Great Success Realm with 100% proficiency. If he used Thunder Stepping, he could instantly consume 1,000 points of Blood Qi Power to increase his Speed by 10,000 points.

And with the boost from his Time Acceleration Ability, that 10,000-point increase became 100,000 points. Adding that to his original Speed, he reached a total of 156,900 points.

And even that wasn’t Lin Xinghai’s current speed. Because he had launched himself from the escape pod, its inertial momentum had already given him a speed of nearly 50,000 points.

Therefore, the moment he leaped from the escape pod, his maximum speed broke through 200,000 points.