Unlike Chen Yu's broad, forceful defense, Zhou Yuxuan's assigned sector relied on a half-collapsed factory building and a maze of rubble, making its terrain far more complicated.
His fighting was almost silent.
The pair of specially made daggers in his hands were like the tongues of venomous snakes.
He didn't stand in the most conspicuous position. Instead, he moved between shadows and broken walls.
Azure Source Energy gathered at his fingertips, forming needles as fine as hair or blades as thin as cicada wings.
A "Burrowing Worm" suddenly burst out of the ground, opening its mouth full of sharp teeth to bite a soldier who was concentrating on firing.
The soldier didn't even have time to react.
"Whoosh!"
A faint blue line, almost impossible to see, flashed past and struck precisely into the depths of the "Burrowing Worm's" gaping maw.
Its jaws froze less than ten centimeters from the soldier's calf, then drooped limply.
Still shaken, the soldier turned around, but all he saw was Zhou Yuxuan's figure disappearing behind a distant broken wall, as though he had never been there.
Zhou Yuxuan's gaze remained calm. As he directed his teammates through the battlefield communicator, he worked like the most efficient of hunters, calculating the cost and payoff of every bit of Source Energy he used.
He rarely went toe-to-toe with Abyss Beasts. Instead, he relied on the terrain and precise attacks to delay, weaken, or quietly eliminate the individuals posing the greatest threat to the defensive line.
At times, he even deliberately let one or two low-ranked Abyss Beasts through, allowing them to charge into the rear fire net. This let him test and draw out his teammates' responses, like someone constantly fine-tuning tactics in a virtual space.
When a "Blade Mantis" with about 3,000 points of Source Energy