Solo Kill

"Roar—"

While Xia Zhi was wondering why Li Qiang had suddenly appeared alone, he suddenly heard a monster roar from the distance.

A golden beastly silhouette was darting through the small town at nearly 200 meters per second, vaulting over residential buildings and sprinting across rooftops.

Hearing the distant roar and seeing the golden silhouette charging toward him at incredible speed,

Li Qiang's heart trembled. He knew he had to leave immediately.

Monsters did not care who you were. As long as you were human, you were prey.

Seeing that Xia Zhi still had not reacted and was merely standing there looking around, a sinister smile crept onto his lips.

Xia Zhi caught the look of a conspiracy succeeding in his eyes and immediately realized that this was probably the trap Li Wei and the others had arranged.

"Is this what you prepared?" Xia Zhi asked Li Qiang.

Li Qiang did not answer. He merely sneered, then sprang away, fleeing in the direction opposite the approaching monster.

He would never actually admit it. What if he left behind evidence?

Enjoy the last battle of your life, you trash kid. Hahaha.

Xia Zhi ignored Li Qiang, who had already fled far away. He simply stood where he was, staring fervently at the rapidly approaching beastly silhouette.

I was just saying that H-class monsters weren't challenging enough. I'll use you to test the results of my night of training!

Xia Zhi clenched the Blood Shadow Battle Saber in his hand. At the thought of the coming battle, he could already feel his blood beginning to boil.

A few seconds later, the golden silhouette stomped down on the street and leaped onto the rooftop of a nearby fifteen-story residential building.

With another powerful kick, its entire body shot nearly fifty meters above Xia Zhi's head, howling as it pounced down at him.

The moment the beastly silhouette kicked off from the rooftop, Xia Zhi saw clearly that it was a monster nearly twice the size of an ordinary Tiger Mastiff.

"It's an F-class monster, a Tiger Mastiff King." He immediately recognized it.

He raised the Hexagonal Shield in his left hand before his chest, lowered his center of gravity, and fixed his gaze firmly on the charging Tiger Mastiff King.

His brain began calculating at high speed. Vast amounts of data—the Tiger Mastiff King's speed, strength, and more—were rapidly processed, while his body reacted at once.

Just as the Tiger Mastiff King's two sharp claws were about to touch him, Xia Zhi dodged to the right. His entire body's strength burst forth and concentrated in his left arm. Carrying nearly four thousand kilograms of force, the Hexagonal Shield drove his whole body into the Tiger Mastiff King.

Bang—

With a dull crash, Xia Zhi used the immense rebounding force from the collision to spring more than ten meters backward.

The Tiger Mastiff King, meanwhile, was sent crashing sideways onto the floor.

The tremendous impact caused the rooftop of the abandoned residential building to collapse outright, splitting open with a huge hole in the middle.

Chunks of concrete flew everywhere, and dust filled the air.

The Tiger Mastiff King emerged from the dust, shaking its body and flinging away the rubble clinging to it. The collision had clearly done it no harm.

Its bloodthirsty, crazed eyes locked onto Xia Zhi. Its limbs tensed, and it pounced again.

This time, its massive jaws opened wide, revealing two sharp fangs as it lunged straight for Xia Zhi's throat.

Xia Zhi's left arm was faintly numb, and his chest felt tight in waves. He understood that his current body was still far inferior to the Tiger Mastiff King, which was close to Beast General level.

Fortunately, he had already begun to grasp the Bone Refining Chapter. Through training, the bones throughout his body had started to strengthen.

If an ordinary warrior had taken that collision, the entire left arm holding the shield would have been shattered by the tremendous impact.

Watching the Tiger Mastiff King pounce again with its fangs exposed and its bloody maw wide open,

Its nearly two-meter-tall body was like a fully accelerated assault vehicle.

The stench pouring from its open mouth assaulted Xia Zhi's sense of smell without pause.

"Damn, that stinks."

At that moment, Xia Zhi's figure suddenly became as nimble as a monkey, swiftly evading the sharp fangs.

In the instant he dodged, the Blood Shadow Battle Saber in his right hand flashed with cold light and slashed directly at the Tiger Mastiff King's neck.

Having missed its pounce, the Tiger Mastiff King seemed unable to change direction in midair in time.

But just as the Blood Shadow Battle Saber was about to cut across its neck,

Whoosh—

A golden whip-like shadow suddenly appeared, lashing straight at Xia Zhi's head.

"Damn, that fast?!"

Xia Zhi jolted in alarm and barely twisted aside, evading the whip-shadow's strike.

That golden whip-shadow was the Tiger Mastiff King's tail, like an iron whip.

Pah! Pah!

With its tail whipping about, the Tiger Mastiff King became even more agile. Even while airborne, its pouncing body could use the force generated by its tail striking the air to rapidly adjust itself.

Extended beast claws and sharp fangs—the Tiger Mastiff King's killing attacks came one after another.

Using his shield and saber, Xia Zhi moved nimbly as he battled the Tiger Mastiff King, dull impacts ringing out from time to time.

No. Canine monsters are faster than humans. I can't keep up with its attack speed through physical speed alone.

Although his movement technique had reached the Microscopic level, he would still face danger when the speed gap was too great.

Even when his brain could react, his body was not fast enough to execute those movements perfectly in battle.

Rip—

As Xia Zhi dodged repeatedly, the Tiger Mastiff King's sharp claw grazed his back. The lowest-grade combat uniform he wore was easily ripped open with three long tears, and blood began seeping out.

"Beast, you're asking to die!"

The pain of his back being torn open ignited Xia Zhi's anger.

He suddenly kicked a chunk of concrete that had fallen nearby.

The stone, as large as an adult's head, shot toward the Tiger Mastiff King as if launched from a catapult.

The Tiger Mastiff King did not slow down at all. Facing the flying stone, it merely swung a front paw. Its extended claws, like several sharp daggers, sliced the stone cleanly down the middle.

The split stone fell to the ground on either side.

The instant Xia Zhi kicked up the stone, he charged straight at the Tiger Mastiff King.

"Roar—"

After knocking aside the stone, the Tiger Mastiff King raised its sharp claws again and pounced at Xia Zhi.

"Die!"

At that moment, the prepared Xia Zhi borrowed force from the air and turned as nimbly as a butterfly, unexpectedly evading the beast claw's attack with exquisite precision.

At the same time, as his body moved aside, the Blood Shadow Battle Saber in Xia Zhi's hand drew strength from the rotation and struck in an instant!

The saber light followed an arc, making it even faster.

The Tiger Mastiff King's tail whipped through the air rapidly, trying to use that force to change its body's direction at once. It was just about to evade the incoming saber light.

"Accelerate!"

At that moment, Xia Zhi controlled his Mental Power and poured it into the swinging saber. The already swift saber light instantly doubled in speed.

Pfft!

The lightning-fast saber light cleaved straight into the Tiger Mastiff King's neck.

Through the saber in his hand, Xia Zhi could clearly feel the toughness of the Tiger Mastiff King's golden-furred hide as the Blood Shadow Battle Saber cut through its body.

But before the saber empowered by Mental Power, its already vulnerable neck was still sliced through by the Blood Shadow Battle Saber.

The enormous canine head flew nearly three meters away on momentum.

Bright red blood sprayed through the air, forming a curtain of blood.

At that moment, Xia Zhi's figure was shrouded in crimson.

"What?"

"What agile footwork! What a fast blade!"

In the surveillance room, the executives staring at the screen cried out in shock at the sight.

Major General Dong Hao, whose body had been tense the entire time, slowly relaxed as well.

Thank goodness. This kid really has what it takes!

If this assessment had truly resulted in large numbers of Quasi-Warriors being slaughtered because of this F-class Tiger Mastiff King, then as the military officer in charge of the assessment, he would absolutely not be able to escape blame.

"Haha, well killed." Zhuge Tao, who had remained silent since the beginning as he watched the screen, finally laughed aloud.

Beside him, Wang Zhiheng, the director of the Thunderbolt Martial Arts School in Jiangnan City, watched Xia Zhi standing beneath the curtain of blood on the screen. His envy of Zhuge Tao reached its peak.

What damn luck! That kid Xia Zhi is only eighteen.

His physical fitness is so good, and his movement technique is even more astonishing. He's reached the Microscopic level at such a young age, and he has such outstanding combat awareness. How incredible will he become in the future?

No, I have to poach him. Isn't it just money? We have plenty of it! I need to think of a way.

Countless thoughts raced through Wang Zhiheng's mind in an instant.

As the person in charge of the Thunderbolt Martial Arts School in Jiangnan City, which had always competed against the Limitless Martial Arts School,

He absolutely did not want to see a top-tier genius fall into the hands of his old rival just like that!