Precision Decapitation!

Coordinates: Liver H-124 Periphery

The battlefield was like a boiling cauldron of oil.

The Dawn Guild's main First Regiment was struggling to push forward here. Their opponent was a gatekeeping mini-boss—the [Crystallized Centurion].

It was a five-meter-tall giant stitched monstrosity, covered from head to toe in purple Hardened Bile Crystal armor. Every swing of its greatsword stirred up poisonous shockwaves.

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

More than a dozen ordinary warrior players at the front gritted their teeth and raised their shields. Their health bars fluctuated wildly beneath the BOSS's cleaving strikes. If not for the dozens of priests in the rear desperately healing them, the line would have collapsed long ago.

"This BOSS's armor is too thick! Physical attacks can't hurt it, and magic gets reflected!" the First Regiment commander roared over the channel. "We need penetration!"

Just as the battle reached a stalemate, a calm command cut into the raid channel.

"First Regiment, hold its aggro steady and clear the middle."

It was the guild leader, Vanguard Across the Realm!

At that moment, the chaotic formation seemed to find its backbone and swiftly parted to both sides. Dawn Guild's core five-man squad stabbed straight toward the BOSS's front like a sharp scalpel.

Level 20 was a transformative threshold! They no longer had to pile up bodies like before when fighting bosses. They could now stand on their own!

"Brute Force, take the monster."

"Got it!"

Brute Force Yields Miracles made no flashy moves. He directly crossed the First Regiment's defensive line. Facing the Centurion's colossal sword crashing down on his head with overwhelming force, he did not even raise his shield. Instead, he took it head-on with his body.

A teeth-grating metallic crash rang out.

There was no expected spray of flesh and blood. After investing in [Flesh Sequence], Brute Force Yields Miracles's skin had taken on a matte grayish-white sheen. The greatsword, which could have cut an ordinary player in half, struck his shoulder as though it had hit a solid tire, leaving only a white mark.

Keratin damage reduction!

Pure stats, pure beauty.

This was simply his body hardness exceeding the limit! He was already tougher than an ordinary shield!

"He's way too hard..." The First Regiment's priests in the rear stared dumbfoundedly. "At that rate of health loss, I can heal him back up with a single regeneration spell."

Seeing its strike fail, the BOSS threw back its head and roared. The crystal core in its chest began flashing with blinding light—its ultimate, [Crystal Resonance], a full-screen AOE attack.

"You think you can cast?"

Data Maniac pushed up his glasses as countless streams of blue data flashed through his eyes.

As a [Mind Hacker], after investing in the purple-tree [Cerebral Overclocking], his brain's processing speed could keep up with the BOSS's energy flow frequency, allowing him to interfere with it precisely.

"Thought Interruption!"

He fired an invisible mental spike straight into the BOSS's core.

Bzzzt—!

The Centurion's roar came to an abrupt halt, like a duck being choked by the neck. Its enormous body froze in place, and its charging skill was forcibly interrupted, throwing it into a forced stun.

"Beautiful! It's controlled!"

At the same time, several cunning [Venomous Hounds] took advantage of the BOSS's stiffness to try circling behind and ambushing the squishier players. They locked onto Cloud Pomelo, who looked the most fragile.

"Protect Sister Pomelo!" Several First Regiment guards tried to rush over.

"No need."

Cloud Pomelo did not panic. Facing the stench-laden wind rushing at her, the healer merely shifted slightly to the side. The heavy bone staff in her hand swept outward with a howling gust in an extremely violent motion.

The monstrous strength brought by [Muscle Fiber Reconstruction] made the blow weigh a thousand pounds.

The ambushing hound had its spine snapped by a single strike and flew away like a rag doll.

"Physical debridement is also part of treatment." Cloud Pomelo calmly withdrew her staff and cast [Life Echo] on Brute Force Yields Miracles with a backhand. Boosted by her own vigorous vitality, the green healing number was terrifyingly huge.

"Uh... huh?" A First Regiment Divine Guard stood there in a daze.

A melee healer, damn...

"The damage window is excellent." Vanguard Across the Realm's voice remained calm. "Dharma King, break its armor."

At the same time, Vanguard Across the Realm's figure gradually blurred as he moved at high speed, searching for the best angle of attack and the enemy's weakness.

"Taste this!"

Thunder King's [Thunder Magnetic Floating Cannon] had long since finished charging on his shoulder. Empowered by the [Bio-Electromagnetic Field] passive, berserk lightning elements were compressed into a highly penetrating particle stream.

The lightning struck the Centurion's crystal armor precisely in the chest. The previously indestructible crystal instantly shattered under the lightning's heat and penetration, exposing the rotten flesh core beneath.

"Weakness exposed."

The moment the armor shattered, Chen Feng moved.

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

Under the [Synaptic Acceleration] passive, the BOSS's slow collapsing motion looked like frame-by-frame playback to him.

Through the senses of [Hunting Instinct], that exposed flesh core was radiating deadly red light!

He transformed into a black afterimage, stepped on the BOSS's falling knee, and sprang into the air. [Origin Fang] in his hand carved a desolate, beautiful arc through the sky.

There were no unnecessary movements. Clean and decisive.

The blade plunged precisely into the core, shredded it, and withdrew.

Every motion was completed within 0.1 seconds.

Squelch—

The Centurion's enormous body crashed to the ground, its long health bar instantly emptied.

Critical Hit!

Weak Point Break!

Bleeding!

Fatal Strike!

The surrounding First Regiment players had not even understood what had happened before the battle was over. This was the dominance of the core five-man squad after their talent awakenings—transformative tank durability, precise control interruptions, a healer who could take hits and fight, and instant explosive damage.

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

[High-Purity Bile Crystal (Rare)]

Li Zihan stepped forward, picked up the crystal, and directly opened the system marketplace interface.

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

He tapped [Sell].

The next second, the crystal transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the Void. On the global mission panel, the massive progress bar gave an almost imperceptible jump.

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

"Not bad efficiency." Chen Feng shook the blood from his blade. "One elite monster can provide fifty thousand Bio-Energy. If we farm a few more, or if the First Regiment brothers clear out the peripheral mobs, we can meet the first-stage target."

He turned around and looked at the Dawn Guild members behind him, their morale greatly boosted.

"All units, advance the battle line!"

"If you run into anything you can't beat, wait for us!"

High-Dimensional Perspective — Titan Gu Yuan

In space, Gu Yuan's nebula-like eyes flickered faintly.

He watched as the High-Purity Bile Crystal sold to the system inside his body was instantly broken down through the divine network, turning into the purest biological energy and flowing into his long-dried body.

Although it was still far from the total of one billion, the Energy Circulation established through "killing monsters—loot drops—recycling" had already begun to show results.

"The improvement at level 20 is immense. Elite Cells eliminate viruses dozens of times more efficiently than ordinary cells..."

Gu Yuan sensed the energy feedback brought by the core five-man squad.

"But the numbers are still too low. There are millions of enemies inside H-124."

He glanced at the energy accumulated in the backend. It was a drop in the ocean compared to what was needed to repair his body, but it was already enough to support an even larger-scale consciousness projection summoning.

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

Gu Yuan's vast will issued a new command through the system:

"Prepare to release a global announcement."

"The fifth large-scale closed beta recruitment is now open."

"This time, I want an army of one hundred thousand to become two hundred thousand calamities."