"Boom—!!!"
This was a head-on collision between steel and a Super Creature!
In Gu Yuan's eyes, that Flame Demon Lord had already reached the second-tier combat standard of the universe. This was a genuine battle across ranks!
The three-hundred-meter-tall [Flame Demon Lord] was covered in blazing magma like a planetary core. Every swing of the Obsidian Whip in its hand blasted a Vacuum Zone through the air.
Beneath its feet, four black Mechas danced like Ghosts on a blade's edge.
"Warning! Left Arm Armor damaged by 15%! Heat-Resistant Coating peeling away!"
Inside the cockpit, Dragon Fighting in the Wild was drenched in sweat, but the frenzy in his eyes burned even hotter than the sea of fire outside.
"Peeling my ass! Hold the line!"
The Heavy Assault Mech under his control suddenly sank, its feet plowing deep into the ground.
Facing the Flame Demon's enormous foot, powerful enough to crush a tank flat, Zhao Kuo did not retreat. Instead, he activated the four reverse-thrust engines on his back.
Using the engines' thrust, Zhao Kuo raised the Twin Tower Shields and actually held back that descending giant foot.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
The Mecha's Hydraulic Rods let out cries of unbearable strain as sparks flew everywhere!
"Damn! Don't tell me! I just got this Mecha!"
"My heart hurts... my heart hurts... Huff, deep breaths... Don't think about it... Killing the boss comes first..."
"I'm holding it! Where's the damage?!"
"Coming!"
Brute Force Yields Miracles had long since circled around to the Flame Demon's heel. There were no fancy moves, only the simplest method—he wildly swung the [Power Heat-Melting Hammer]!
"Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Every hammer blow carried rocket-boosted momentum as it smashed viciously into the Flame Demon's Achilles tendon. Its tough Obsidian Skin shattered apart, exposing the magma-filled Muscle Fibers beneath.
In midair, a black streak of light performed maneuvers that defied gravity.
Vanguard Across the Realm was in an extremely calm state. [Bullet Time] had just come off cooldown, and he was prepared to activate it again despite the strain on his body.
In his eyes, the Flame Demon's swinging arm moved as slowly as if it were practicing tai chi.
"Too slow..."
Under [Micron-level Manipulation], he instantly adjusted to the optimal assault posture!
"There's a weak point beneath its left armpit."
[Hunting Instinct] precisely locked onto the Flame Demon Lord's vulnerable spot.
Vanguard Across the Realm controlled his Mecha into a sharp ascent. Its thrusters spewed Blue Flame, tracing a Z-shaped Trajectory through the air as it evaded the Flame Demon's grasping hand.
The Chain Blade on its right arm emitted a piercing buzz.
One slash cut in, perfectly on target.
A great deal of magma burst forth, splashing onto the Mecha's shell with a loud sizzle.
"Aaargh—!!!"
The Flame Demon roared in pain. Just as it turned to swat this fly to death, an Armor-Piercing Round crackling with lightning slammed into its eyelid.
At the rear of the battlefield, Cloud Pomelo waved her staff, leading a large number of healers in releasing green Healing Waves that enveloped the four Mechas.
"The Mechas' Biological Muscle Bundles are tearing! I'm stimulating their activity! Use them sparingly! Keep moving, keep moving!"
The Flame Demon's health dropped to 70%.
It was thoroughly enraged by these insects.
"Lowly... dust..."
"Feel... my wrath..."
The Flame Demon suddenly drove its long whip into the ground.
Rumble!
The entrance to the Duan Bronchus began to shake violently. The ground split open as countless Fire Pillars shot into the sky.
[System Warning: BOSS has entered Phase Two! Environmental temperature rising!]
[Warning: A large number of "Flame Demon Larvae" are hatching!]
From the cracks in the ground crawled dense swarms of [Lava Elementals (LV.20)], numbering in the thousands. Like a pack of burning mad dogs, they howled as they charged at the player army.
"Don't panic! It's just a giant AOE!"
"Clear the mobs first!"
Great Wall No. 1 stood atop a boulder, calmly directing the battle.
"Great Wall Watch, Bone Shield formation! Keep these little firemen outside! Don't let them interfere with the Mecha team!"
"Dragon War Guild, Berserker Regiment, switch to long weapons! Stab them!"
"Imperial Dynasty Mage Corps, lay down an electric grid!"
The main forces of the three major guilds displayed exceptional discipline.
Facing the tide-like Lava Elementals, they did not take a single step back.
"Charge, charge, charge!"
"Don't steal my monsters! That Fire Core is mine!"
Though they had no Mechas, these elite players, nearly all at LV.20, built a defensive line with their flesh and blood, tightly pinning the mobs summoned by the BOSS at the perimeter.
At the edge of the battlefield, a group of players with a rather unusual style were hard at work.
They were the [Summoner Regiment] led by Love Eating Watermelon.
Love Eating Watermelon had clearly become the head of the summoners.
They carried no weapons. Instead, they held enormous... blue jelly blobs.
"Go! I choose you, Boqi! Eat those sparks!"
Love Eating Watermelon gave the order.
Hundreds of player-tamed [Blue Slimes (Mutated Probiotics)] were thrown into the edge of the battlefield.
When these originally harmless little creatures encountered the magma sparks splashed across the ground, they displayed an astonishing appetite.
"Gloop!"
A Slime pounced forward and wrapped itself around a ball of flame. Its body instantly turned red, then it went "pfft" and spat out a puff of cooled black smoke.
Although they still lacked the combat power to fight monsters, they effectively cleared away the lingering burning zones on the ground.
"Huh? They can actually change the terrain? Reduce environmental debuffs?"
"Holy shit? That works too?"
A Divine Guard on the front line watched several Slimes lick the sea of fire beneath his feet clean, and the pressure on him immediately eased. "Casual players are awesome!"
Just as the battle reached a stalemate and the Flame Demon was about to unleash a full-screen AOE—
More than a dozen silver cross-shaped stars suddenly lit up in the sky.
"Detected risk of irreversible organ damage."
"Requesting intervention... Approved."
"Initiating [Enzymolysis Program]."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A well-trained silver army!
Twelve [Silver Wing Sentinels (LV.20)] used their bodies as spears, like precise scalpels, instantly pinning themselves to different parts of the Flame Demon's enormous body. The one leading them was a full size larger than ordinary Sentinels, with dazzling crimson-gold light wings on its back—it was unmistakably the [Silver Wing Sentinel Squad Leader (LV.30)].
Facing the flames about to erupt, the captain fiercely thrust the light spear in its hand into the BOSS's body.
"Lysozyme Field!"
"Urgh!"
A translucent diamond-shaped shield composed of countless microscopic biological enzymes instantly unfolded, enveloping the Flame Demon that was about to erupt, along with the dozen or so Sentinels clinging to its body.
Boom—!!!
The Flame Demon's ultimate attack exploded within the shield, and the terrifying energy blast made the shield tremble violently.
But a shocking scene followed: the ordinary Sentinels inside the shield, clinging to the Flame Demon's body, were not blown away. The silver fluid armor on their bodies writhed frantically, actually devouring that berserk flame energy!
The right medicine for the right illness!
"Target armor analysis... Obsidian shell... beginning degradation."
At the captain's command, the light spears in the hands of the twelve Sentinels lit up with a ghastly white glow and stabbed viciously into the Flame Demon's joints and chest.
[Potent Enzymolysis]
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!
The Obsidian armor that even Mecha chainsaws had struggled to cut through rapidly softened, corroded, and dissolved into black pus the instant it came into contact with the biological enzymes released by the light spears, like butter meeting a hot knife!
"Defense greatly reduced!" Data Maniac watched as the Flame Demon's data panel flickered wildly before his eyes. "The Flame Demon's armor value has dropped drastically! It's been softened!"
Inside the shield, the energy gradually reached saturation.
"Soldiers, the field can only last thirty seconds."
The Sentinel captain turned its head. Its pure white eyes, devoid of any emotion, swept over the Mechas of Vanguard Across the Realm and the others. One of its arms had undergone a beneficial mutation from absorbing too much energy, becoming even thicker.
"Its breastbone has been enzymatically degraded. Attack the core. The heart. Quickly."
"Thirty seconds! Did you hear that?! The NPC has practically spoon-fed us this!"
Chen Feng's voice was hoarse. His Mecha's energy bar had only 15% left. Without hesitation, he loaded the few remaining Flame Cores.
"All eyes on me—"
"Open fire!"
"Understood!"
At the instant the enzymolysis shield was about to shatter.
Chen Feng controlled his Mecha into a running start, every step crushing the ground beneath it.
"Up!!!"
The Mecha's engines roared to their limit. Its hydraulic arms suddenly launched upward, and the tremendous thrust sent Chen Feng and his Mecha soaring a hundred meters into the air.
"Dharma King! Cover me!"
"This is the last shot... Hit, damn it!"
In the distance, the barrel of Lei Zhen's Mecha had turned red and softened from overheating, but he still fired one final round.
The bullet precisely passed through the hollow in the chest dissolved by the Silver Wing Sentinels and shattered the final thin layer of cartilage.
Crack!
The defense completely collapsed.
Hanging in midair, Chen Feng clearly saw the exposed, beating Magma Heart.
[Mecha Overload Mode: Activated]
[Energy: All remaining High-Energy Fire Cores, injected at once!]
The thrusters on his back spewed ten-meter-long blue trails. The entire Mecha transformed into a black meteor, while the Chainsaw Blade in its hand reached its maximum rotation speed in that instant, becoming a blinding white light.
"Die!"
Splat—!
The black meteor pierced through the Flame Demon's chest without resistance. The chainsaw churned wildly, completely shredding the Magma Heart.
Countless attacks followed, drowning the Flame Demon.
[Armor Break][Stun][Paralysis][Softening][Weakness][Fatigue][Severe Injury][Bleeding][Poisoning][Weak Point Critical Hit][Break]
In an instant, tens of thousands of damage notifications flooded the screen!
The Flame Demon Lord's enormous body stiffened instantly. Its once-flowing magma rapidly dimmed and solidified.
The next second, an earth-shattering explosion resounded through the entire lung.
[Server Announcement: Congratulations to the players for successfully killing "Flame Demon Lord (LV.35)"!]
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