Zombie King!

Boom!!!

The instant their danger senses peaked, a deafening blast erupted, and a shock wave slammed straight into them!!

The office door exploded into thousands of fragments that shot out in every direction at tremendous speed, catching everyone completely off guard!

Before one unlucky medic could react, a razor-sharp piece of the door sliced through his throat. Blood gushed from the wound like a fountain, and he died on the spot!

About two seconds later, the shock wave dissipated. The debris from the sudden explosion had affected everyone to some degree.

However, Xia Leng and the two squad leaders knew perfectly well that the blast hadn't been caused by the bomb stuck to the door. It had come from the immense force unleashed behind it!

The demolitions expert, who hadn't managed to get far, had been standing directly in front of the shock wave. By now, his body lay scattered across the floor, utterly dead.

As for the sticky bomb, it hadn't even detonated. It had flown off somewhere along with the fragments of the office door.

They hadn't even seen the BSS, and two more members had already died...

The remaining eight stared wide-eyed as the smoke and dust from the explosion gradually cleared. A silhouette taller than the doorframe slowly appeared before them!

Thud!!!

Suddenly!

The enormous figure smashed straight through the narrow doorframe and concrete wall, then charged at the remaining eight with the force of a tank!

"Everyone, scatter!!!"

Gilbert roared and simultaneously moved to dodge.

Thud!!

In the blink of an eye, the massive figure plowed into the group, slamming into a Tiger Squad mercenary who couldn't get out of the way because of his badly injured leg.

Everyone heard the crisp crack of breaking bones. The mercenary was sent flying by the creature's tank-like body, then crashed to the ground like a limp kite, unable to move...

The huge monster then raised a weapon resembling a steel claw and swept it toward two nearby mercenaries carrying searchlights!

This time, however, the two mercenaries reacted in time. They dropped the searchlights and dodged, and the creature's enormous body was exposed in their beams.

Now, everyone could see its true appearance!

It stood nearly five meters tall, towering more than half a body above Philip, an Apocalypse Warrior. Its skin was just as rotten as any zombie's, but had scabbed over into what looked like an incredibly tough natural armor. Explosive, steel-like muscles covered its entire body. Its massive head bore a gaping mouth that took up most of its face, and a pair of fist-sized eyes glowed with a sinister purple light!

They were the same purple eyes Xia Leng had seen beneath the Trade Tower!

As for the steel-claw weapons on its arms, they weren't weapons at all. They were four sharp bone claws, nearly a meter long, that had evolved from its hands!!

"So this is the Living Corpse King..."

Everyone seemed to reach the same conclusion: no other living corpse would dare call itself king...

The Living Corpse King faced the searchlights at close range without the slightest discomfort. It was clearly completely immune to ultraviolet damage!

But it obviously didn't like the bright light interfering with its vision. It raised its sharp bone claws and slashed hard!

Crack!

The searchlight, with its two-meter-wide metal housing, was sliced cleanly into several pieces. All the lights went out in an instant, plunging the entire floor into darkness!

Everyone was certain that getting caught by those claws would be no better than being cut like tofu...

Clang~

Xia Leng reacted first. He gripped his steel blade and slipped around behind the Living Corpse King like a ghost, then experimentally slashed hard at its thick waist!

But his blade only left a faint scratch on the creature's hard natural armor, throwing off a spark. It was like striking an incredibly hard piece of steel. The blow did no real damage and only made his webbed palm ache from the impact!

Still, the clash jolted the others out of their stupor after seeing the monster.

"Everyone, spread out and attack this monster with everything you've got!"

Gilbert shouted as soon as he came to his senses!

Before they set out, he'd planned to capture the Zombie King alive and take it back. Now, he wasn't even sure he'd make it back alive...

Now, only Xia Leng, Gilbert, Philip, and four surviving mercenaries remained to fight the seemingly indestructible Living Corpse King...

Bang, bang, bang!!!

The mercenaries raised their guns and fired repeatedly at the enormous monster, relying on the faint visibility provided by their night-vision goggles.

But the bullets ricocheted off the scabbed shell covering its body, leaving only shallow dents. They couldn't hurt it at all.

The Living Corpse King suddenly swung a claw behind itself, striking first at Xia Leng, who had attacked it from behind, intent on tearing the foolhardy human to pieces!

But it struck nothing. The Living Corpse King's strength and defense were terrifying, but its speed was relatively sluggish—in Xia Leng's eyes, at least. Xia Leng noticed the change in its movements and dodged ahead of time, escaping harm.

At the instant the Living Corpse King turned around, Philip, the Apocalypse Warrior captain renowned for his strength, seized his chance to attack!

"Raaah!!!"

He growled, gripping his sharp, heavy Titanium Dual Blades in both hands. He rushed behind the Living Corpse King, leaped, and brought them down hard on its neck, which stood higher than his own, hoping to sever its head!

But Philip had never imagined that the Living Corpse King, despite being much larger than him, would be more agile!

Just as the sharp blades were about to strike its neck, the Living Corpse King twisted sideways and rammed it with its bare shoulder, its massive muscles exposed!

Bang!

A heavy thud rang out as the creature slammed into Philip's chest. His body, weighing well over two hundred pounds, was launched like a cannonball. As he flew, he crashed into a mercenary behind him!

They tumbled to the ground, and the unlucky mercenary's right leg snapped beneath his heavy captain. He let out a cry of pain...

Philip's tough physique, on the verge of becoming a Tier Three Apocalypse Warrior, kept him from being killed so easily, but the impact still broke several of his ribs. His throat went sweet, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood!

But the Living Corpse King had no intention of letting him go. It leaped high enough to reach the ceiling, then came crashing down on them!

Philip was horrified. He hurriedly raised his blades with both hands and braced them crosswise in front of himself. If that even heavier body landed directly on him, he'd either die or be crippled!

Boom!!

With another deafening crash, the Living Corpse King came down like a falling mountain and cracked the floor in a spiderweb pattern. Philip felt as if his arm bones were about to snap!

But the unluckiest of all was the mercenary beneath him. Crushed between his captain and the Living Corpse King, he was flattened into a bloody pulp and died...

The Living Corpse King still wouldn't let up. It opened its gaping maw and bit down at Philip's neck as he stared up at it in horror!

The overconfident Apocalypse Warrior captain was about to die right there!

Suddenly, a swift black shadow darted in from nowhere and leaped onto the Living Corpse King's neck. It raised a Bone Blade made from a human thigh bone and drove it hard into the creature's right purple eye!