66: Chapter 66: Killing to Level Up! The Crack Was Blown Out, But a Huge One Was Revealed.
No way to run.
Then... fight!
Lin Feng's eyes turned fierce as he leapt up from the rooftop where he was hiding!
Behind him, Wind Wings instantly unfurled!
The cyan translucent wings shimmered with a faint glow under the moonlight; with a three-meter wingspan, a gentle flap sent his body soaring into the sky!
He did not retreat.
Instead, he charged toward that black cloud mass that blotted out the sky!
“Come on!”
Lin Feng raised both hands, and gold and red light converged frantically in his palms.
“Judgment of Light!”
BOOM!!!
A ten-meter-long golden Greatsword condensed into form above his head!
The blade of the Greatsword burned with blazing holy flames, illuminating the entire night sky!
“Slash!”
Lin Feng swung both hands downward!
The golden Greatsword whistled as it cleaved into the swarm of Hair-Devouring Beasts!
BOOM!!!!!!!!!
Blinding golden light erupted!
-17800! -17500! -18200! -16900! ...
Damage numbers jumped frantically like a screen-clearing spam!
Wherever the Greatsword passed, those fist-sized Hair-Devouring Beasts were torn apart like scraps of paper!
Charred corpses fell from the sky like rain!
With one move, over a hundred were cleared out!
【Killed Void Hair-Devouring Beast, Experience +500 × 87 = 43,500】
The experience bar jumped violently!
But Lin Feng didn't have time to be happy.
Because even more Hair-Devouring Beasts had already pounced in front of him!
“Buzz—!!!”
The sound of countless wings flapping was deafening, like thousands of engines roaring in his ears!
Those Hair-Devouring Beasts opened their slender mouthparts, which were like black steel needles, stabbing from all directions!
“Holy Light Protection!”
Lin Feng activated his shield skill without hesitation!
Buzz—
A layer of golden light erupted from within his body, enveloping him entirely!
Sacred runes flowed across the surface of the light shield, emitting a warm glow!
【Holy Light Protection (Purple)】
【Effect: Generates a shield composed of Holy Light, absorbing Mental Energy × 20 damage, lasting 30 seconds】
【Current Shield Value: 738 × 20 = 14,760】
Puff puff puff puff puff!!!
The mouthparts of the Hair-Devouring Beasts stabbed against the light shield, as dense as raindrops!
The surface of the light shield vibrated violently, and the shield value dropped frantically!
14760... 13200... 11500... 9800...
Losing over two thousand per second!
“Holy shit!”
Lin Feng's expression changed.
The attack power of these Hair-Devouring Beasts was higher than he had anticipated!
In seven seconds, the shield would shatter!
“I can't just take a beating passively!”
Lin Feng grit his teeth and raised both hands again.
Left hand—Firestorm!
Right hand—Absolute Zero!
“Ice and Fire Dual Heavens—Explode for me!”
BOOM!!!
With him as the center, within a fifty-meter radius, crimson flames and ice-blue frost erupted simultaneously!
Flames incinerated, frost froze!
Two extreme powers intertwined, forming a terrifying storm of destruction!
The Hair-Devouring Beasts that had pounced close were either burned to charcoal or frozen into ice sculptures, then collided with each other and shattered into ice shards!
【Firestorm Damage: Mental Energy 738 × 8 × 8 seconds = 47,232 points of Area Damage】
【Absolute Zero Damage: Mental Energy 738 × 10 = 7,380 points of Freeze Damage】
【Killed Void Hair-Devouring Beast × 347, Experience +500 × 347 = 173,500】
The experience bar shot up by a large chunk!
But from the corner of his eye, Lin Feng noticed that the black cloud mass in the distance hadn't decreased; instead, it had grown larger!
The void fissure was still continuously pouring them out!
The newly emerged Hair-Devouring Beasts, seeing a battle here, immediately joined the fray!
“Is this goddamn... never-ending?!”
Lin Feng's mentality was starting to crumble slightly.
But he knew there was no time to break down now.
He had to kill!
Kill until they were afraid!
Kill until the fissure couldn't spit them out anymore!
“Shadow Clone!”
Lin Feng activated his newly learned skill.
Buzz—
In the air beside him, a figure identical to him suddenly condensed!
The same face, the same equipment, the same Wind Wings!
【Shadow Clone (Blue)】
【Effect: Creates a Shadow Clone with 30% of the original's strength, lasting 30 seconds】
【Clone Stats: spirit 221, Magic Attack 1,105, Health 75,000】
“Go!”
With a thought from Lin Feng, the Clone immediately charged in another direction!
Raising its hands, it fired a barrage of Light Bullet Technique!
Puff puff puff puff!
Although its power was only thirty percent of the original, it was more than enough to deal with these Hair-Devouring Beasts!
A single Light Bullet could insta-kill one!
The Clone drew away at least a third of the Hair-Devouring Beasts!
The pressure was instantly reduced!
Lin Feng took this opportunity to start dealing massive damage!
“Judgment of Light!”
“Firestorm!”
“Thors Hammer!”
“Ice Seal Domain!”
Various purple skills were thrown out as if they cost nothing!
He was like a mobile turret, rampaging through the night sky!
Wherever he went, Hair-Devouring Beasts died in swaths!
Corpses fell like a rainstorm, piling up in a thick layer on the ground!
【Experience +500】
【Experience +500】
【Experience +500】
The notification sounds in his mind rang out incessantly like a machine gun!
It simply wouldn't stop!
【Rank Up! Rank 20!】
A flash of golden light!
【All Attributes +3, Free Attribute Points +20】
Lin Feng didn't have time to allocate points; he continued killing!
【Experience +500】
【Experience +500】
【Rank Up! Rank 21!】
Another flash of golden light!
【All Attributes +3, Free Attribute Points +20】
Lin Feng's eyes were bloodshot.
He had only one thought now—
Kill!
Kill all these bugs!
【Rank Up! Rank 22!】
【Rank Up! Rank 23!】
Two more flashes of golden light!
In just five short minutes, he had leveled up four times!
Soaring straight from Rank 19 to Rank 23!
【All Attributes +3 × 4 = 12, Free Attribute Points +20 × 4 = 80】
Lin Feng didn't hesitate, putting all 80 free attribute points into Mental Energy!
【Mental Energy: 830】
【Magic Attack: 4,150】
【mana: 250,000 (The limit remains unchanged; while base Mental Energy increases the actual mana, the tower soul limit is locked at 250,000)】
A sense of power surged through his entire body!
But Lin Feng didn't have time to feel it.
Because—those Hair-Devouring Beasts were still pouring out!
And it seemed like there were more and more?
He looked toward the void fissure in the distance.
That purple vortex was still spinning.
And the speed of rotation was even faster than before!
“This can't go on...”
Lin Feng frowned.
No matter how many he killed, if the fissure didn't close, he'd never finish!
“I have to... plug that fissure!”
A hint of madness flashed in his eyes.
Plug the fissure?
How?
Blast it with magic?
What if blasting it caused an even bigger problem?
But there was no time left to hesitate.
There were more and more Hair-Devouring Beasts; although his mana was sufficient, his Mental Energy was starting to fail him.
Continuous high-intensity spellcasting was making his head throb.
“I'm going for it!”
Lin Feng grit his teeth and made a decision.
He no longer tangled with the surrounding Hair-Devouring Beasts.
Instead, he spread his Wind Wings and sprinted in a straight line toward the void fissure!
“Buzz—!!!”
The Hair-Devouring Beasts noticed his intention and pounced frantically!
They used their bodies to block his path!
Stabbed his shield with their mouthparts!
Flapped their wings to create gales, trying to blow him away!
“Get lost!”
Lin Feng roared, raising both hands simultaneously!
“Judgment of Light + Firestorm + Thors Hammer—Triple Skill Fusion!”
Buzz—
Gold, red, and purple light intertwined frantically in his palms!
This time, he injected fifty thousand mana points!
Three seconds later.
A twenty-meter-long tricolor Greatsword condensed into form before him!
The blade of the Greatsword burned with fire, was wreathed in lightning, and Holy Light flowed from its tip!
“Clear a path for me!”
Lin Feng pushed forward with both hands!
The tricolor Greatsword whistled as it slashed into the swarm of Hair-Devouring Beasts!
Wherever it passed, everything turned to nothingness!
The Hair-Devouring Beasts blocking the way were vaporized before they could even scream!
A straight path was forcibly carved out!
“Charge!”
Lin Feng unfurled his Wind Wings and sprinted frantically along that path!
One hundred meters!
Eighty meters!
Fifty meters!
Thirty meters!
Getting closer and closer!
That purple void fissure was less than thirty meters ahead!
He could clearly see the rotating purple energy within the fissure, which was continuously spitting out new Hair-Devouring Beasts like a vortex!
The newly emerged Hair-Devouring Beasts hadn't even had time to spread their wings before they saw a glowing human charging toward them!
“Screech—!!!”
They let out terrified shrieks!
But it was useless.
Lin Feng had already charged within twenty meters of the fissure!
“Now!”
He stopped his sprint and hovered in mid-air.
He slowly pulled his hands apart in front of his chest.
Between his palms, eight colors of light began to converge!
Light, Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Ice, Dark...
Eight elements emerged simultaneously!
This time, he didn't hold back.
From his 250,000 mana, he injected 100,000 in one go!
One hundred thousand mana!
This was the maximum energy he could currently mobilize!
“All-Element Chaos Destruction Orb—blast your way in!”
Lin Feng used all his strength to hurl that fist-sized Chaos-colored light orb toward the void fissure!
The light orb didn't fly fast.
But wherever it passed, space itself distorted and collapsed!
The Hair-Devouring Beasts in its path were instantly vaporized!
Not even a trace remained!
The light orb flew precisely into that purple vortex!
And then—
It disappeared.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
No movement.
“Did it fail?”
Lin Feng's heart sank.
But the next second—
BOOM!!!
From deep within the fissure, a muffled roar came, like that of an ancient behemoth!
That sound didn't come from the outside.
It came from inside the fissure, from the depths of the Void Realm!
Following that.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
A series of explosions, like firecrackers, came from the fissure!
With every explosion, that purple vortex vibrated violently!
Cracks began to appear on the surface of the vortex!
Those cracks were identical to the spatial cracks Lin Feng had seen before!
“Holy shit!”
Lin Feng's eyes lit up!
Inside the fissure, the explosions continued!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
Becoming denser and more violent!
That purple vortex began to distort, deform, expand, and contract...
Like a heart about to explode!
Finally—
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An earth-shattering explosion!
That void fissure suddenly blew apart!
Blinding purple light illuminated the entire night sky!
The shockwave frantically spread in all directions!
Wherever it passed, those Hair-Devouring Beasts that didn't have time to dodge were instantly torn to pieces!
Lin Feng was also sent flying by the shockwave, flipping a dozen times in the air before he managed to stabilize himself!
He looked up.
That void fissure... was still there!
But it was different from before.
Before, it was a purple vortex three meters in diameter.
Now...
It had become a massive fissure ten meters in diameter!
And the edges of the fissure were no longer purple light.
Instead... they were black.
A deep black that seemed capable of swallowing everything.
The center of the fissure was no longer rotating.
Instead... it was throbbing.
Thump... thump... thump...
Like a giant heart.
“This...”
Lin Feng was dumbfounded.
He had originally wanted to blow up the fissure.
As it turned out... he blew it bigger?
Just then.
From within that massive black fissure, a low growl echoed.
“Roar...”
That sound was unlike the sharp shrieks of the previous Hair-Devouring Beasts.
Instead... it was a low growl full of pressure that made one's Soul tremble.
Like some colossal entity was waking up.
Lin Feng stared intently at that fissure.
Deep within the fissure, two points of red light lit up.
That red light grew larger and brighter.
Like two giant eyes emerging from the darkness.
Finally—
A massive head poked out from the fissure.
That head was as big as a truck!
It was shaped like a mosquito, but its mouthparts weren't needles; they were three massive black bone spikes like spears!
On the head were six pairs of blood-red compound eyes, each the size of a washbasin!
There were also two curved antennae on top of its head, with purple electricity flowing along them!
Next came the body.
That body was three times larger than the head!
Pitch-black carapace, its surface covered in hideous bone spikes!
Six pairs of transparent wings, each with a wingspan exceeding ten meters!
And six thick, long legs, each ending in sharp hooked claws!
When that behemoth fully emerged from the fissure, Lin Feng's pupils suddenly contracted.
That thing hovered in the night sky, blotting out half the heavens!
Its size was tens of thousands of times larger than those previous Hair-Devouring Beasts!
It was like... a living aircraft carrier!
【Void Hair-Devouring Beast Broodmother · Breeding Queen (Lord Level)】
【Rank: 35】
【Health: 5,000,000】
【attack power: 5,800-6,500 (Includes Void Erosion + Poison Pierce)】
【Defense: 5,500】
【Skills: Breeding Swarm, Queen's Pressure, Poison Spike Rain, Void Breath, Rending Charge, ???】
【Description: The breeding broodmother of the Void Hair-Devouring Beasts, possessing terrifying reproductive capabilities. Where it appears means countless Hair-Devouring Beasts will be hatched. Killing it is the only way to completely end this insect plague.】
Five million health!
Rank 35 Lord Level!
attack power of sixty-five hundred!
Defense of fifty-five hundred!
And a skill like Breeding Swarm!
Lin Feng hovered in mid-air, looking at that sky-blotting behemoth, his mouth twitching.
“My god... my mentality is crumbling...”
He only wanted to blow up a fissure, but he ended up blowing out a Queen?
What the hell was this?!
The Void Hair-Devouring Beast Broodmother lowered its head, its six pairs of blood-red compound eyes all looking at Lin Feng in unison.
It opened its mouth, and its three massive bone spike mouthparts vibrated slightly.
“Human...”
A low, raspy, and malicious voice rang out directly in Lin Feng's mind.
“You... killed... so many... of my... children...”
“You... deserve to die...”
As soon as the words fell.
The six pairs of wings on its back flapped violently!
BOOM!!!
The air exploded!
That massive body, like a black meteorite, charged toward Lin Feng!
The speed was ridiculously fast!
More than ten times faster than those small Hair-Devouring Beasts from before!
“Holy shit!”
Lin Feng's scalp tingled, and he immediately unfurled his Wind Wings to dodge to the side!
BOOM!!!
That behemoth brushed past his body and crashed into half of a building behind him!
That dozen-story building collapsed with a roar as if it were made of paper!
Debris flew everywhere!
Dust blotted out the sky!
Lin Feng looked back, and cold sweat broke out.
How the hell was he supposed to fight this?!
Five million health!
Sixty-five hundred attack power!
And it was so fast!
How could he, a Rank 23 Mage, fight this with his bare head?!
But there was no time to think.
Because that broodmother had already turned around and was charging at him again!
Its six pairs of blood-red compound eyes flickered with the light of death in the darkness!