Chapter 82 Boundary Breakthrough Projection <TOC> Chapter 84 White Suan Ni, Add Points for Me!
Translator: SumTLMan
Zhou Yi mustered all his forces this time, a total of 46 Black Warriors and 104 Warrior Crabs, all mobilized to face the Boundary Breaker. However, sheer numbers alone wouldn’t suffice.
From his own experience, Zhou Yi knew that synchronizing commands and receiving feedback for multiple units could only be maintained up to 150 entities. Attempting beyond that would blank his mind entirely.
So, he developed a quality-over-quantity strategy, evolving Warrior Crabs into Black Warriors by infusing them with Light Seeds.
Yet, being a startup company, Warrior Crabs were needed everywhere, so their enhancements had been delayed again and again.
Now, faced with the Boundary Breaker, there was no more time to prepare.
While the Boundary Breaker was still in a weakened state, it was the ideal moment to strike.
Suspended at low altitude, the damaged Lin remarked through their shared consciousness: “I still think you’re being overly aggressive.”
Aggressive?
Zhou Yi thought: “If only you knew about Red Falcon’s suggestion.”
“We could use two armed ships to carry the remaining Exploding Mushrooms to lure and damage the enemy at sea, then launch a main attack on the Dark Domain’s rear. This would create a time lag and gain the upper hand.”
But due to a recent harvest, there weren’t enough Exploding Mushrooms left to carry out this plan.
Back in the day, Red Falcon was the captain of the rescue team, while Lin was merely a low-ranking soldier——a difference in opportunity-grabbing abilities that was now glaring.
To Zhou Yi’s surprise, Lin insisted on joining the mission.
“Though I’m not a combat species, my [Reconnaissance] ability provides real-time enemy intel. It’ll surely help you.”
Red Falcon unceremoniously pointed out: “Lin just wants to gather intelligence, so if we’re defeated, they can relay valuable information back to Energy Storage City for future countermeasures.”
“Lin’s pessimistic nature in the rescue team always meant preparing for failure in advance, a tactic for handling low-success-rate missions.”
Lin didn’t argue.
Zhou Yi found it acceptable; at least a pessimist wasn’t a defeatist, and they might even prove somewhat useful.
Moreover, Lin had indeed provided crucial firsthand intel.
Like the Boundary Breaker’s form, attack methods, destructive power, and skills——essential information for combat.
The special forces moved stealthily toward their destination.
Along the way, Zhou Yi noticed something unusual.
The seabed was now littered with deep pits, each uniformly cone-shaped, with scattered bone fragments around the edges.
Red Falcon scanned the area.
Not a single Bone Fish, swift Stinging Bird, evasive Bubble Fish, or even a D-Class Red-Furred Monster or C-Class Long-Necked Crocodile was in sight.
Nearby Light Absorber species were also nowhere to be found.
Only one life-sign remained——a red dot flickering under the high bridge, marking the Boundary Breaker’s location.
Combining Lin’s data, the conclusion was obvious.
The Boundary Breaker could only operate near the Dark Domain, slaughtering Dead Sea creatures en masse, even digging out Bone Fish that had burrowed underground for winter.
Such maddening destruction filled Zhou Yi with fury.
They’re my fish, my own farmed fish!
I’m always reluctant to go all out on them, and here you come, killing indiscriminately. You damn well deserve to die.
“We’re here.”
Red Falcon’s reminder brought Zhou Yi back to reality as he commanded his team to halt.
On the screen, the view was clear——a massive black hand slowly extending from the darkness beneath the bridge, its twelve long, curling fingers swaying in the Dead Sea.
It was like a giant reaching into an invisible box, trying to grasp something within.
According to Lin’s intel, this black hand was the Boundary Breaker’s projected body, with arm-like structures connecting it to the Dark Domain, capable of extending over long distances.
Here, however, some force was jamming their signal, making communication impossible.
Zhou Yi immediately started warming up his arms and legs: “Hunter Sea, attack it once it enters the attack interval. I’ll hold it off.”
The spherical Ridge Spine Hunter replied: “Chairman, I can take it on! I can withstand at least one hit!”
“Follow orders.”
Zhou Yi stretched his neck: “Just hit it as hard as you can.”
If the Ridge Spine Hunter became a tank, then who would deal the damage?
He had brought it along to serve as artillery.
Red Falcon said: “[Bird’s-Eye View] is ineffective against the Boundary Breaker, so I can’t provide further intel. It’s already noticed us.”
“No problem.”
Zhou Yi cracked his knuckles: “Just keep the communication line open with Lin and sync whatever intel they gather with me.”
Fortunately, within this area, their shared consciousness remained unaffected.
The commander finished his warm-up.
Zhou Yi lowered his stance and charged at the Boundary Breaker’s black hand.
The cross-dimensional creature reached out toward him as well.
Zhou Yi had deliberately drawn its aggro, acting as both commander and damage sponge while the Warrior Crabs executed attacks and secured the battlefield.
They had already assessed the Boundary Breaker’s strength.
Its power level was rated at B, with sustained damage potential, augmented by data-locking and mark-explosion for added damage, making it a progressively stronger opponent.
Excluding the non-seafaring Jade Emerald City and Hunter Sea, needed as the primary offensive force, Zhou Yi had the highest body defense.
He had to take the front.
Battle always carried risks.
Zhou Yi closed in on the Boundary Breaker, but before he got too close, white lights flared on its twelve fingers, firing at high speed, with each shot forming a small black sphere.
He raised both fists, shielding his head from the impacts.
With every hit, his body registered feedback.
-5
-7
Though rapid, the attack lacked strength, and with Zhou Yi’s 425-point defense, it felt like nothing more than mosquito bites.
He knew this was the Boundary Breaker’s probing.
Zhou Yi didn’t rush, tanking the damage to observe the opponent.
He soon noticed that the high-frequency attacks could stack. When the black spheres hit a single point consecutively, they produced a combo effect, and damage accumulated.
But a slight movement would break the combo.
Additionally, Zhou Yi observed that the black spheres attacking him would spread and stain upon impact, leaving a patch of black residue on his body.
He didn’t feel any immediate negative effect.
The black spheres had a greasy texture, almost as if they were a part of the Boundary Breaker’s own body.
Could it be——…
Zhou Yi suddenly noticed the Boundary Breaker’s twelve fingers splayed out in all directions.
Its palm opened up to reveal a silver geometric pattern of whirl and radiating lines, instantly unleashing a high-pressure shockwave that radiated through the surrounding space.
Being closest, Zhou Yi felt a sharp, cracking sensation through his body, accompanied by a dull ache blanketing him from head to toe.
-1000
The Boundary Breaker’s attack penetrated his defenses, reducing his health points by nearly 600.
Boom! Boom!
The black stains on Zhou Yi’s body triggered a secondary explosion under the shockwave, producing a high-temperature corrosive effect. Each impacted area on his body now felt like it was burning.
His life took direct damage, bypassing defenses.
Even though it only forced a deduction of 1 point, it ignored defenses, and each black mark inflicted damage equivalent to its count.
This wave of black mark detonations dealt over 500 additional damage, with the shockwave consuming a total of 10% of his health.
Zhou Yi immediately understood.
Whether it was high-frequency attack mode or wide-range heavy bombardment mode, both could mark black spots, which could then be detonated to inflict high damage.
Interesting.
He activated his [Elastic Stretch] ability, weaving toward the Boundary Breaker during a gap in its attacks.
Behind him, the Dead Light gleamed brightly.
The [Light Prism Exoskeleton] of Hunter Sea unleashed a Dead Light that struck the Boundary Breaker, severing two of its fingers, which fell to the ground. Although the Boundary Breaker seemed uncoordinated without the fingers, it showed no signs of pain or anger.
Zhou Yi quickly wrapped the two severed fingers and tossed them behind him to prevent any chance of limb regeneration.
“Target the fingers on its rear!”
As he issued the command, the Boundary Breaker suddenly went on a wild shooting spree, spraying black spheres in all directions in a frenzy.
But in the next instant, it retracted its entire body with lightning speed, vanishing back into the Dark Domain hole beneath the bridge.
A brief silence settled over the area.
Lin’s ship flew in, circling uncertainly: “Did it… did it flee?”
Zhou Yi sighed: “A pity.”
This Boundary Breaker was extremely cautious and cunning, retreating at the first sign of risk.
When faced with an all-out effort, even a powerful Light Absorber species would choose to withdraw temporarily.
Because it wasn’t worth it.
Healing required a vast amount of energy replenishment, and the cost of killing the opponent was simply too high.
In battle, one must be unafraid of death; otherwise, you can’t handle hard fights.
“You’re even stronger than I imagined,” Lin remarked, impressed: “Facing such a formidable enemy and still leading by example——no wonder your company has such incredible cohesion.”
Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the two black fingers at the bottom of the sea.
Were these useful?
He picked up one finger, feeling the dense energy within it.
They couldn’t coalesce into Light Seeds, lacking some critical elements necessary for forming a specific structure. Following the laws of the Dead Sea, this energy would dissipate soon.
Red Falcon’s voice came through the consciousness channel: “The remnants of the Boundary Breaker and the Exploding Mushrooms share a high degree of similarity; both lack independent consciousness and exist as forms of compressed high-density energy.”
Zhou Yi’s eyes lit up.
He had to test this.
He instructed the Ridge Spine Hunter to remotely monitor the Boundary Breaker while he led his team back.
Standing in the elevator of Jade Emerald City, Zhou Yi watched as the black fingers gradually dried up, with Light Seeds dropping continuously from the walls, bringing a smile to his face.
It really worked, Jade Emerald City could extract energy from the Boundary Breaker’s remnants just as it did with Exploding Mushrooms.
The two severed fingers had given Zhou Yi 6,400 Light Seeds, while the completely disintegrated remnants turned into Light Sand scattered on the ground.
Zhou Yi’s enthusiasm surged.
Boundary Breaker, your reign of destruction ends here, time to cash out!
Chapter 82 Boundary Breakthrough Projection <TOC> Chapter 84 White Suan Ni, Add Points for Me!