The blackish-purple smoke even altered the weather, dark flashes surging through it as the sky over nearly half the palace changed.
"Hm? Kurome..."
Esdeath had just left Minister Honest's side when she spotted a streak of purplish-black light through the window and noticed something amiss.
"What forced Kurome to fight inside the palace...?"
When she reached her room and saw that Lin Feng had already taken Ecstasy for All Things: Two Cuts, Esdeath more or less understood.
Esdeath sighed and headed toward the Jaegers Unit's rooms with a rather indifferent air.
"Wall... Doya... Natala... Apeman..."
Covering her eye with her left hand, Kurome laughed almost maniacally as the zombies summoned by her Teigu, March of the Dead: Yatsufusa-that black katana-climbed out of the earth one after another.
A muscular bodyguard, a former captain of the Imperial assassination unit, a brilliant strategist of the Ban Tribe, and a mindless gorilla.
Among them were even a Kaiser Frog, a former Imperial general, and a Super Danger Beast that had once served as material for a Teigu!
An eerie green light shone in the eyes of Destaguru, a skeletal fossil tyrannosaur, before it fired a laser blast from its mouth that could almost destroy a mountain peak.
Even if it's a Danger Beast helping this little girl fight, it's still a beast. Its movements are so predictable...
Lin Feng tumbled about with some effort, dodging the Super Danger Beast's laser blast without much difficulty.
"If you want to play at armies, I'll play along..."
Lin Feng swiftly sank his consciousness into his Template System, and what he saw startled him.
I never thought killing that scumbag doctor would earn so many points...
[Alucard Template System] [Experience: 21.63] [Skill points: 1 → 0] [Skill upgrade: Level Zero: River of Death, current lv: 2, summon limit: 12]
At the sight, Lin Feng merely sneered.
"Level Zero: River of Death!"
A mass of blood-red energy gathered between Lin Feng's arms. He spread them wide, and the energy seemed to envelop his entire body.
The sky had been an apocalyptic blackish-purple, but after Lin Feng activated River of Death, it suddenly turned blood-red.
Then something happened that neither Kurome nor any member of the Jaegers Unit had expected.
"Impossible... Why does he have March of the Dead: Yatsufusa's ability too?"
"No... That isn't Yatsufusa. It's..."
"He can actually summon more than ten undead? Just who is he?"
Apeman, the gorilla Kurome had summoned, pounded his chest wildly, then leaped toward Lin Feng and threw a punch of monstrous strength.
Yet the blow was blocked by Lin Feng's puppet, Zank the Executioner, wielder of Five-Sight Omnipotent: Spectator.
"..."
Whether he had lost the ability to speak or not, Zanku said nothing, but his speed and the precision of his Teigu's predictive ability were exactly as they had been before.
"Go... Kaiser Frog!"
Flicking its long, slender tongue, the giant frog Danger Beast prepared to swallow Lin Feng whole-
Yet four Earth-Splitting Dragons and a Sword-Spined Tiger appeared, firmly blocking the Kaiser Frog's path.
"Destaguru!"
The enormous skeletal zombie tyrannosaur, its entire body cloaked in energy, threw back its head and roared. Dodging its laser blasts was not particularly difficult, but continuously evading the attacks of both it and the other zombies was probably beyond anyone in the Empire except General Esdeath.
A destructive beam overflowing with the aura of death had already gathered inside Destaguru's mouth. Even a little attention made it clear that this beam was wider and stronger than the one that had attacked Lin Feng before.
"Go..."
Kurome gave the order coldly, and almost reflexively, Destaguru spat out the immensely powerful beam.
The beam shot toward Lin Feng, but unexpectedly, an instant before it struck him, billowing smoke erupted-the kind that only appeared when a large structure was hit.
The smoke was far too unnatural, drawing the Jaegers' attention.
"What trick is it this time?"
An enormous dark silhouette emerged from the thick smoke.
Kurome, Run, and Bols all felt an inexplicable familiarity with that silhouette.
"That's..."
"Even Dr. Stylish was...?!"
Dr. Stylish, his flesh still in its monstrous form, had actually been summoned as one of Lin Feng's zombie familiars!
The destructive beam spat out by the zombie tyrannosaur pierced the body of the monster, which stood dozens of meters tall, but that body was the masterpiece of Dr. Stylish's biological research.
Its damaged body was constantly restoring itself.
Even Lin Feng had only defeated this enormous monster by exploiting his Resurrection skill. Faced with their former teammate Dr. Stylish, every member of the Jaegers Unit now felt helpless.
When Kurome used her Teigu, her own strength became incredibly feeble. That was her weakness.
"Purgatory Summoning!"
"Thousand-Mile Flight!"
Highly concentrated flames and blade-like feathers struck toward Lin Feng, but all were blocked by members of the Gathered Heroes Group. Their shattered bodies constantly regenerated-this was the undying constitution of Lin Feng's Level Zero: River of Death zombies.
What had originally been a battle between four people had now become a chaotic melee involving more than twenty.
Lin Feng could still hold the overwhelming advantage under these circumstances, but by now, he had used most of his strength.
"No, something's wrong..."
Although he wanted to teach these Jaegers members another lesson, Lin Feng sensed something unusual.
More precisely, Lin Feng sensed an icy presence rapidly approaching.
This bone-chilling sharpness... Is it Esdeath?
Fighting so many enemies at once had already cost Lin Feng a great deal of energy. Probably the only offensive option he had left was summoning that powerful hellhound.
In this state, Lin Feng could not possibly fight a general known as the "Empire's strongest" as well.
Although Esdeath looked like nothing more than a cold young woman, the aura she had given off during their interactions over the past two days told Lin Feng that she genuinely possessed a general's strength.
Under the circumstances... retreating would be better for now.
Lin Feng closed his eyes and softly recited the command that belonged to him alone.
"Form Transformation."
Seeing Lin Feng's body contract into a streak of shadow, the Jaegers Unit's members tried desperately to rush forward and stop him, only to be blocked by Captain Ogre, whom Lin Feng had summoned.
"Stay out of the way!"
Run condensed his flying feathers into harder swords and fired them at Captain Ogre. Blood instantly drenched Ogre, leaving not a single part of his body or skin intact.
Yet Lin Feng had already vanished from everyone's sight.