Beast General Level Monster

Qin Mu toyed with a dagger-like horn in his hand. It was harvested by a worker bug from the head of a high-level Beast Soldier Unicorn Wild Boar.

Indeed, this horn was the essence of the Unicorn Wild Boar. In terms of hardness, it was even superior to Qin Mu's A2-level Po Jun Spear.

He gently tossed the horn in his hand, and it hovered steadily in mid-air.

Three identical horns were lined up in front of Qin Mu. Under his control, they flew up and down, performing various intricate maneuvers.

The spearhead of the Po Jun Spear had been damaged in this battle, making it difficult to adapt to high-intensity combat. Therefore, Qin Mu had set his sights on these horns.

As Qin Mu trained with the horn daggers, the surrounding Zerg, except for the patrol guards, were feasting on the Unicorn Wild Boar corpses, devouring flesh and blood.

The carcasses of over twenty Unicorn Wild Boars were enough for the Swarm to have a hearty meal. Zerg creatures also needed to eat.

In fact, this was also a form of evolution for the Zerg. After countless bloody battles, devouring the flesh and blood of their enemies offered a small chance of breaking through their own limits and evolving.

The Swarm had been traveling for several hours, and they were now eating and resting.

"Once we get back to base, I must buy some suitable psychic weapons. Otherwise, I won't be able to unleash my true combat power."

Qin Mu sighed. Although these horns were quite hard, manipulating them was still inferior to actual weapons. They could only be used as a makeshift solution.

While the Swarm was feeding, the furthest patrol of Tiger Mastiffs encountered a crisis.

In the darkness, the Tiger Mastiffs formed a combat formation, warily scanning the surrounding jungle.

Just moments ago, they had been attacked by some monster. One Tiger Mastiff had a large wound on its body, bleeding profusely.

"Swish—"

A black shadow flashed through the jungle. Even with the Tiger Mastiffs' strength, they couldn't discern the monster's appearance.

"Snap—"

The sound of flesh being torn and bones breaking echoed.

A massive wound was inflicted on the back of a Tiger Mastiff by a monster that suddenly leaped out.

The monster looked similar to a fierce tiger, with spots on its body, but it had two tails.

As the Tiger Mastiffs were attacked, Qin Mu, who had transferred his consciousness, identified it. This was not a fierce tiger at all, but a Two-tailed Tiger Cat from the Tiger Cat tribe!

The Tiger Cat tribe was a very powerful type of feline monster. Their strength was easily identified, mainly by their tails.

One tail indicated a high-level Beast Soldier, two tails indicated a low-level Beast General, and three tails indicated a mid-level Beast General. And so on. The strongest, an eight-tailed one, had surpassed the Lord level and was an undisputed King-level monster.

The Two-tailed Tiger Cat before them was a low-level Beast General monster.

Facing a Beast General-level Two-tailed Tiger Cat, the Tiger Mastiffs were powerless to resist.

As the Two-tailed Tiger Cat attacked, strange roars, like those of tigers and cats, emanated from the jungle. Over a dozen one-tailed Tiger Cats slowly emerged from the jungle, surrounding the Tiger Mastiffs.

These Tiger Cats, led by the Two-tailed Tiger Cat, launched continuous attacks but did not go for the kill. They merely injured the Tiger Mastiffs, making them bleed all over. Instead of killing them immediately, they seemed to be toying with them.

"Two-tailed Tiger Cat? You're asking for death!"

Qin Mu's expression turned grim when he saw this.

Many feline monsters had malicious personalities. When they had a significant advantage in strength, they often enjoyed torturing their opponents to death. It was similar to how, before the Great Calamity, many cats would catch a mouse and not eat it immediately, but rather toy with it until it died.

"I didn't expect the first Beast General-level monster I'd encounter in the wilderness to be a Two-tailed Tiger Cat!"

Qin Mu rapidly recalled the information about the Two-tailed Tiger Cat he had seen on the HR Alliance platform.

The Tiger Cat tribe was a type of monster that did not like to live in groups. Even a Beast General-level Two-tailed Tiger Cat would only have about a dozen Tiger Cats around it.

After all, once monsters reached the Beast General level, their intelligence increased significantly, and they would often gather many of their own kind around them.

It was common for them to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds or even thousands of followers. It was quite rare for a Two-tailed Tiger Cat to have only about a dozen companions.

At this moment, the Swarm had almost finished eating. The more than twenty Unicorn Wild Boars had been reduced to a pile of broken bones and tattered fur.

Qin Mu gave a decisive order.

"Swarm! Abandon your meal and support the scout team!"

The Swarm began to run, charging towards the location of the Two-tailed Tiger Cat.

Concurrently, he ordered two other Tiger Mastiff scout teams to converge quickly on the attack site. They were not to join the fight but to monitor from a distance.

With the strength of this group of Tiger Cats, sacrificing those two scout teams would be futile, but tracking and monitoring them was feasible.

"At this speed, it will take an hour to reach the attack site. I hope it's not too late."

Qin Mu was somewhat displeased, not because of potential casualties among the Zerg units, but because of the manner of their potential deaths.

As Zerg warriors, death was their destiny, but never such a brutal end through torture!

"We're almost there! Three Tiger Mastiffs are still alive!"

Anger flashed across Qin Mu's face. During this time, Qin Mu had watched one Tiger Mastiff after another being toyed with to their deaths, and his heart was filled with rage.

However, the closer he got to the battlefield, the calmer Qin Mu became.

The backpack on his back was opened by an unseen force, and over twenty dagger-like horns flew out, circling and rotating around him.

He connected his consciousness to the Hive Mother and, with its assistance, began calculating the optimal attack angles.

Qin Mu wanted to kill all the tiger cats in a single strike if possible!

Even if he couldn't kill them, he had to severely injure them to create an opportunity for the Swarm!

"Thump, thump, thump."

The imposing presence of hundreds of Tiger Mastiffs and Worker Bugs running was astonishing, causing the ground to tremble.

The tiger cats, still toying with their prey, spotted the Swarm from afar and were about to evade.

But the three heavily injured Tiger Mastiffs suddenly erupted, entangling the Two-tailed Tiger Cat that was trying to escape.

At some unknown time, twenty tracking and scouting Tiger Mastiffs also surrounded them, attacking ferociously.

The Two-tailed Tiger Cat instantly became enraged, unleashing its full power. It easily killed the three severely wounded Tiger Mastiffs and then several more in rapid succession, yet it still couldn't break free from the entanglement.

While they were struggling, the Swarm, hundreds of meters away, finally arrived.

More than twenty dagger-like Unicorn Horns shot out through the air. With the Hive Mother's auxiliary calculations, each one was aimed at a vital point of a tiger cat.

The leading Two-tailed Tiger Cat was specifically targeted by three Unicorn Horns at the advanced Beast Soldier level.

"Slish—"

"Slish—"

The sound of horns piercing flesh echoed. The tiger cats, which had been reveling in their slaughter, were now in a panic, attempting to scatter and flee.

A human-like fear appeared on the brutal face of the Two-tailed Tiger Cat. Its intelligence was no less than that of a human, and it knew what these airborne horns signified.

This was the work of a Mental Master!

Under the terror of death, the Two-tailed Tiger Cat erupted.

Its body dodged rapidly, its massive claws leaving afterimages. It actually managed to hit one of the dagger-like Unicorn Horns.

"Crack—"

The force transmitted from the Unicorn Horn dagger was not as immense as expected; it was easily knocked away.

Hit on the back by a Unicorn Horn dagger, it only managed to painfully break through its fur, lodging itself in the muscle and bone.

It's important to note that tiger cats were not known for their defense, yet this attack only grazed it.

However, before it could feel any relief, the Two-tailed Tiger Cat watched in horror as over a dozen regular tiger cats around it stiffened. They suddenly went limp and collapsed to the ground.

This attack wasn't aimed at it at all; it was targeting those regular tiger cats at the advanced Beast Soldier level!

Although Qin Mu's mental power was strong, when dispersed into over twenty segments, it was naturally insufficient to kill a Two-tailed Tiger Cat at the beginner Beast General level.

Therefore, Qin Mu's initial target was not it.

As long as those dozen or so regular tiger cats were killed, without their cover, it, a single monster at the beginner Beast General level, would be exhausted to death by over a hundred Tiger Mastiffs.

The next moment, hundreds of Tiger Mastiffs swarmed the Two-tailed Tiger Cat.

In the sky, over a dozen Unicorn Horn daggers returned to Qin Mu's backpack like swallows returning to their nests. Only three advanced Beast Soldier level Unicorn Horns remained, circling in the air, searching for attack opportunities.

By controlling only three Unicorn Horn daggers, Qin Mu could make each one unleash an attack at the intermediate General level.

"Whoosh—"

One Unicorn Horn dagger whistled towards the Two-tailed Tiger Cat. The Two-tailed Tiger Cat, already on guard, unleashed its full power and dodged rapidly.

However, just as it dodged one Unicorn Horn dagger, the next one arrived instantly.

The Two-tailed Tiger Cat's eyes bloodshot, it went mad. It avoided its vital heart, but its left leg was still pierced.

The moment its left leg was injured, its speed plummeted. A Tiger Mastiff seized the opportunity and pounced on it.

The Two-tailed Tiger Cat became furious, turned its head, and let out a roar. It bit down on the Tiger Mastiff and flung it more than ten meters away.

But in that brief moment, several more Tiger Mastiffs latched onto its body.

Other Tiger Mastiffs seized the chance, leaping high and pouncing, turning the area where the Two-tailed Tiger Cat was into a mountain of flesh.

Only a few mournful cries were heard, and the voice of the Two-tailed Tiger Cat gradually weakened until it completely disappeared.