Precision Decapitation!

Coordinates: Liver H-124 Perimeter

The battlefield was like a boiling pot of oil.

The First Regiment, the main force of the Dawn Guild, was struggling to advance here. Their opponent was a small gatekeeper boss blocking their path—the Crystallized Centurion.

This was a giant, five-meter-tall stitched monster covered in purple Hardened Bile Crystal armor. Every swing of the greatsword in its hand kicked up waves of toxic air.

"Hold the shield wall! Healers, don't stop the group heals!"

The dozen or so ordinary warrior players in the front row gritted their teeth as they held their shields. Their health bars flickered wildly under the boss's cleave attacks; if not for the dozens of priests in the back row frantically spamming heals, the defensive line would have collapsed long ago.

"This boss's armor is too thick! Physical attacks don't move it, and magic gets refracted!" the leader of the First Regiment roared over the channel. "We need armor penetration!"

At the very moment the battle reached a stalemate, a calm command cut into the raid channel.

"First Regiment, stabilize the aggro and clear the center lane."

It was the guild leader, Feng Xing Tian Xia!

In that instant, the chaotic formation seemed to find its backbone, quickly splitting to both sides. The Core Five-Man Squad of the Dawn Guild, like a sharp scalpel, thrust straight toward the front of the boss.

Level 20 is a threshold of qualitative change! They no longer needed to rely on throwing lives at bosses like before; they were fully capable of handling things on their own!

"Da Qiang, take the aggro."

"You got it!"

Dali Chu Qiji didn't use any flashy moves, simply stepping past the First Regiment's defensive line. Facing the massive, earth-shattering greatsword crashing down from the Centurion, he didn't even raise his shield, choosing instead to tank it head-on with his own body.

Clang!

A teeth-gritting sound of metal striking metal rang out.

There was no scene of gore and flying flesh as expected. Having invested in the Flesh Sequence, Dali Chu Qiji's skin surface shimmered with a matte, grayish-white texture. The greatsword, capable of cutting an ordinary player in half, struck his shoulder as if hitting a solid tire, leaving behind only a white mark.

Keratin Reduction!

Pure stats, pure beauty.

This blow was simply a case of his body's hardness exceeding the limit! It was already harder than an ordinary shield!

"This is too hard..." The priests of the First Regiment in the back row watched, stunned. "At this rate of health loss, I can heal it back with a single continuous recovery spell."

Seeing that its strike had failed, the boss threw its head back and roared, the crystal core in its chest beginning to flicker with blinding light—this was its ultimate move, Crystal Resonance, a full-screen AOE attack.

"Trying to cast?"

Data Maniac pushed up his glasses, countless streams of blue data flashing in his eyes.

As a Mind Hacker, after investing in the purple-tier Cerebral Overclocking, his brain's processing speed could now keep up with the boss's energy flow frequency, allowing him to perform precise mental interference.

"Thought Interruption!"

He fired an invisible mental spike, precisely piercing the boss's core.

Zzz--!

The Centurion's roar came to an abrupt halt, like a duck with its neck pinched. Its massive body stiffened in place, the skill it had been charging was forcibly interrupted, and it entered a state of forced stun.

"Beautiful! It's controlled!"

At the same time, several cunning mobs, the Venomous Hounds, took advantage of the boss's stiffness to try and flank the squishy targets. They locked onto the person who looked the most fragile: Yun Zhong You.

"Protect Sister Youzi!" several guards from the First Regiment tried to rush over.

"No need."

Yun Zhong You did not panic. Facing the incoming stench, the healer merely tilted her body slightly, her heavy bone Staff whistling through the air as she swept it out with an extremely violent posture.

The monstrous strength brought by Muscle Fiber Reconstruction made this strike heavy as a thousand jun.

Bang!

The sneaking hound had its spine shattered by the staff, flying away like a ragdoll.

"Physical debridement is also a part of healing." Yun Zhong You calmly retracted her staff and backhanded a Life Echo onto Dali Chu Qiji. The healing amount, boosted by her own vigorous life force, showed a green number that was terrifyingly large.

"Uh... ah?" A Divine Guard of the First Regiment stood frozen in place.

Good heavens, a melee healer...

"The output environment is excellent," Feng Xing Tian Xia's voice remained steady. "Thunder King, armor break."

At the same time, Feng Xing Tian Xia's figure gradually blurred, moving at high speed to find the best angle of attack and the enemy's weak points.

"Taste this!"

The Thunder Magnetic Floating Cannon on Thunder King's shoulder had already finished charging. Under the passive buff of the Bio-Electromagnetic Field, the violent lightning elements were compressed into a high-penetration particle beam.

Boom!

The lightning struck the crystal armor on the Centurion's chest with precision. The previously indestructible crystal disintegrated instantly under the high heat and penetration of the lightning, revealing the rotting flesh core beneath.

"Weak point exposed."

The moment the armor shattered, Chen Feng moved.

Driven by the dual talents of the Neural Sequence and combined with his class skills, he became little more than a blur!

Under the passive effect of Synaptic Acceleration, the BOSS's slow falling motion appeared to him as if it were playing frame by frame.

Within the perception of Hunting Instinct, the exposed flesh core was radiating a lethal red glow!

He transformed into a black afterimage, stepping off the BOSS's descending knee to vault into the air, the Origin Fang in his hand carving a hauntingly beautiful arc through the sky.

No wasted movements. Crisp, clean, and decisive.

The blade pierced the core with precision, shredded it, and was pulled free.

Every action was completed in under 0.1 seconds.

Squelch—

The Centurion's massive body crashed to the ground, its long health bar instantly dropping to zero.

Critical Hit!

Weak Point Break!

Bleed!

Fatal Blow!

The surrounding players from the First Regiment hadn't even realized what had happened before the battle was already over. This was the dominance of the Core Five-Man Squad after their talent awakenings—tanks with qualitative shifts in durability, controllers with precise interruptions, healers who could tank and deal damage, and DPS with explosive burst.

As the BOSS fell, a fist-sized crystal emitting a faint blue light rolled out.

[High-Purity Bile Crystal (Rare)]

Li Zihan walked forward, picked up the crystal, and immediately opened the system shop interface.

"High-Purity Bile Crystal, market purchase price: 50,000 Bio-Energy."

He clicked [Sell].

The next second, the crystal turned into a stream of light and vanished into the void, while on the server-wide quest panel, that massive progress bar jumped ever so slightly.

[Titan Armory Bio-Energy Progress: +50,000 points]

"Efficiency is good." Chen Feng flicked the blood off his blade. "One elite monster provides 50,000 Bio-Energy. As long as we farm a few more, or the brothers in the First Regiment clear out the mobs on the perimeter, the goal for the first phase will be reached."

He turned around, looking at the high-spirited members of the Dawn Guild behind him.

"Everyone, listen up! Advance the front line!"

"If you encounter something you can't beat, wait for us to arrive!"

High-Dimensional Perspective - Titan Gu Yuan

In space, Gu Yuan's eyes, which resembled nebulae, flickered slightly.

He watched as the High-Purity Bile Crystal that had been sold to the system was instantly broken down through the divine body network, transforming into the purest Bio-Energy and injecting itself into his long-parched body.

Although he was still a long way from the total of one billion, this energy circulation established through "kill monsters - loot - recycle" was already showing initial results.

"Level 20 brings a huge boost. The antivirus efficiency of Elite Cells is dozens of times that of ordinary cells..."

Gu Yuan felt the energy feedback provided by the Core Five-Man Squad.

"However, the numbers are still too small. There are millions of enemies inside H-124."

He glanced at the energy accumulated in the background; it was a drop in the bucket compared to what was needed to repair his body, but it was enough to support a larger-scale consciousness projection summon.

"Since the qualitative change has already begun, let's trigger another quantitative change."

Gu Yuan's grand will issued a new command within the system:

"Prepare to release a server-wide announcement."

"The fifth large-scale closed beta recruitment, initiate."

"This time, I want one hundred thousand troops to become two hundred thousand calamities."