Even though his body was already too weak to command his cyborg army, Dr. Stylish still revealed a cunning smile.
"Could it be that..."
"Dr. Stylish, don't activate it here. It won't do anyone any good."
"Say no more. Of course I know..."
With Lin Feng's grip locked tightly around his throat, Dr. Stylish struggled to force a voice out of his windpipe.
Until just moments ago, the Jaegers had thought Lin Feng merely wanted to test himself against Dr. Stylish.
Only when Kurome fell completely under his control, and Dr. Stylish proved no match for him either, did they realize just how strong Lin Feng's killing intent was.
Even so, every member of the Jaegers was a Teigu user suited to large-scale combat. They absolutely could not cause an upheaval inside the palace.
Knowing this full well, Dr. Stylish squeezed one last sound out of his throat.
"Fichet..."
Behind Lin Feng, a metal cyborg suddenly charged forward. Unexpectedly, rather than attacking the black shadow on Dr. Stylish's body, he shoved Dr. Stylish straight out the window.
Despite crashing down from the second floor, Dr. Stylish remained completely unharmed.
The other Jaegers jumped down as well. Only outdoors could they fight at their normal level.
Now barely able to breathe, Dr. Stylish pulled a vial of medicine from his coat pocket and stabbed it hard into his shadow-covered neck.
Lin Feng, who had been constricting Dr. Stylish's throat, had already felt that the doctor's neck muscles were far harder than an ordinary person's. Now he discovered that the neck had swollen within mere seconds.
Muscles sprang up from nowhere, veins bulged, and Dr. Stylish's entire body underwent drastic changes after he injected the medicine.
In roughly ten seconds, Dr. Stylish transformed from a human into a massive humanoid monster with a body like a Danger Beast's.
Knowing he could not strangle this monster to death, Lin Feng returned to his original form and faced the enormous beast in the palace's outer courtyard.
"To think you wouldn't even spare yourself from your modification experiments... What a madman..."
As Lin Feng spoke, he sensed projectiles like throwing knives attacking him from behind.
With a few slight shifts of his body, Lin Feng easily dodged the flying blades. Only upon closer inspection did he discover they were feathers.
Wings had sprouted from the blond man's back, and as he looked down at Lin Feng, he resembled an angel passing judgment on sin.
The muscular man also raised his flamethrower, sending bright flames out of his Teigu. It seemed that once outdoors, the Jaegers no longer held anything back.
Lin Feng had no intention of holding back any longer either.
He drew the black Jackal from his waist, but the humanoid monster beat him to the punch, swinging a fist at him.
Its body was so enormous that even a single punch brought a powerful rush of air.
Lin Feng held Casull in front of his chest to defend himself, marveling at the monster's strength.
Lin Feng had fought Hundred-Handed Giant: Koro before. If a punch from Seryu's Koro was comparable to a truck, then this monster's punch could only be described as a train.
"Why don't I let you have a little fun, you beast?"
[Alucard Template: Skill point used] [Active skill learned: Resurrection] [Skill description: Alucard possesses the ability to seize the lives of others. He can convert the lives of those he has killed into his own lives, allowing him to resurrect.] [Note: Since Level Zero: River of Death releases all undead at once after level three, this skill cannot be activated while Level Zero: River of Death is active.]
Facing the monster, Lin Feng abandoned his defense and took its heavy punch head-on.
Seeing Lin Feng fall to the monster Dr. Stylish had become, the muscular Bols sprayed a large volume of highly concentrated flames toward where Lin Feng had fallen.
"Mostima!"
Not to be outdone, Run rapidly fired endless feathers from his back, denying Lin Feng even a moment to catch his breath.
"Did we do it?"
A huge cloud of smoke and dust erupted from the ground. Bols breathed a sigh of relief. In his view, no matter how powerful someone was, there was no way they could take the combined attack of three powerful Teigu users head-on and survive.
Even if Lin Feng survived, he was surely already helpless and at their mercy.
Yet just then, a gunshot rang out, nearly driving everyone to the breaking point.
Behind the enormous humanoid monster, Lin Feng stood completely unharmed and fired a shot into its chest!
Lin Feng called this gun Jackal. It left enormous bullet holes and possessed tremendous killing power, but its drawback was that it could not fire repeatedly.
Yet what it fired was not merely a bullet, but also a red blast brimming with blood energy!
Infusing the power of [Alucard] into his handgun, Lin Feng fired blood energy that continuously broke down the tissue in the monster's chest.
Seems my aim was still a little off... You beast...
The part of the monster that had been shot through had already begun regenerating, but only in the next moment did Run and Bols realize something was terribly wrong.
Because this boy, Lin Feng, had drawn Casull as well.
"This one can fire repeatedly..."
"One shot, two shots, three shots..."
Venting his fury, Lin Feng fired silver bullets brimming with blood energy, steadily tearing apart the enormous monster's chest until its bloody heart was shattered completely.
If the monster had realized Lin Feng was behind him, he could even have intercepted those silver bullets with his bare hands.
But who could have imagined that someone he had just killed could appear behind him completely unharmed?
Bols looked in horror at the ground he had just sprayed with flames. There was unmistakably a charred corpse there-it could not possibly have been anyone other than Lin Feng.
With his heart blown apart, the monster Dr. Stylish had become was reduced to a patch of scorched earth.
An unspeakable fear settled over everyone's hearts.
"Have you had enough? Huh?"
A little girl's voice came from the second floor. Lin Feng looked up, only to see that Kurome had already broken free of his illusion's control and was staring at him with murderous eyes.
"Heh heh... Heh heh..."
As she responded angrily, Kurome began laughing eerily as well.
Hearing Kurome's laughter, Bols and Run both understood that she was about to activate her Teigu-March of the Dead: Yatsufusa.
But more than her Teigu's terrifying ability, it was Dr. Stylish's death that left Bols and Run speechless.
"No... This little girl looks stronger than that perverted doctor..."
After all, Lin Feng had already killed Dr. Stylish. His best course now was to consider how to get away unscathed.
Kurome raised her right hand high, and streaks of black lightning burst from between her fingers.
Lightning flashed, thunder roared, and purple mist swirled. In an instant, an immensely powerful aura of death enveloped the magnificent imperial palace.
Then eight corpses broke out of the soil, including even a zombie tyrannosaurus.