83: Chapter 83 You're a monster, your whole family are monsters!

The moment the mutation finished, the entire Ash Belt seemed to have been pressed with a mute button.

The Iron-Spine Rhinoceros slowly lowered its head, its four legs stepping back onto the ground.

Its body surface was no longer the rough, horny shell from before, but was now covered in a layer of heavy armor flowing with dark red light patterns, each tortoise-shell-like groove exuding a destructive aura.

Heat waves steamed outward from its body, and the gravel within a thirty-meter radius began to glow red.

The phantom of the Tier 6 Source Beast "Iron-Armored Dragon Turtle" completely merged with it.

This was not a simple accumulation of power; it was a forced elevation of its life form level.

Pseudo-Tier 5!

A terrifying pressure exploded from within its body, originating from its bloodline and its life status, crushing the nerves of everyone on the battlefield.

"Thump!" One mercenary was the first to be unable to bear it; his legs went weak, and he knelt directly on the ground, his face pale as paper, his whole body shaking like a sieve.

Immediately after, it was the second, the third...

Station Chief Zhou Ke gritted his teeth, supporting himself with his saber using his one arm, his knees bent to the limit, veins bulging on his forehead.

He had been a soldier for twenty years, lost an arm, and had never knelt to anything.

"What... what the hell is this..." The mercenary captain supported himself with both hands on the ground, his wrists shaking, his voice trembling, even his teeth were chattering.

In mid-air, Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's situation was not much better.

He was hovering more than ten meters high, and the cracks on the surface of his Frost Armor were spreading rapidly under this pressure.

It was not just his physical body; that force was more like an invisible needle, piercing directly into his soul.

Source Energy circulation became sluggish, and his heart was gripped by an invisible hand.

His fists trembled.

A Tier 5 Platinum-level powerhouse, yet at this moment, he could barely even conceive the thought of resisting!

He couldn't win. He really couldn't win.

Just as everyone was pinned down by the pressure, the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's scarlet vertical pupils had somehow turned into a deep purple...

It was a look of indifference, looking down upon all living beings.

Its mouth did not move. But a voice rang out in Su Ming's mind.

Ethereal, cold, and gender-neutral, it sounded as if it came from the deepest depths of the earth, or perhaps fell from the highest sky.

"Human, to think there is such an aberration as you."

Su Ming stood at the very center of the pressure storm. He merely frowned.

Although they were both carbon-based life forms, he followed a purely physical mass path.

The physical laws granted by the system were completely outside the same system as bloodlines or life status.

This kind of flashy, insubstantial mental pressure hitting him was like throwing cotton at a tank.

Su Ming raised his hand and slowly picked his ear.

"You're an aberration, your whole family is an aberration!"

The purple vertical pupils clearly paused for a moment. It seemed it had never expected such a response.

"Interesting, this king will remember you..."

Su Ming retorted unceremoniously: "Interesting my ass. You're acting all mysterious, it's annoying as hell."

The Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's purple pupils flickered. It was as if its time was up.

In the next second, the purple color receded like a tide, and the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's eyes were once again filled with primitive scarlet and rage.

That high and mighty consciousness seemed to have left temporarily, but what it left behind was a fury capable of burning everything!

It felt as if it had been provoked by an ant!

"Roar!!!" Swish! Swish! Swish!

Dozens of half-meter-long Source Energy bone spikes, carrying terrifying energy capable of killing a Tier 3 awakener in an instant, shot out like a rainstorm, completely sealing off all evasion space within a hundred meters of Su Ming.

"It's over!" "He's going to be turned into a sieve!" The mercenaries hiding in the distance let out a wail.

"Su Ming!" Shen Qingci gripped her sword, ready to rush up. Beside her, Da Huang let out a low growl, and flames and golden light simultaneously ignited on its two heads.

"Don't come over!" A roar came from mid-air, as Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng forcibly suppressed the roiling inside his chest.

He hadn't forgotten who the most critical protection target of this mission was!

Shen Qingci had reached the edge of the battlefield at some point. If she rushed over now, let alone saving someone, she would die ten times over!

On the ground, Station Chief Zhou Ke also lunged to block in front of Shen Qingci and Da Huang.

He looked into those cold, clear eyes and said in a deep voice: "Miss Shen, a battle of this level is no longer something we can interfere in!"

Shen Qingci stopped. She did not continue to rush forward. Just as she was thinking, she suddenly felt a bone-chilling coldness all around her.

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng had no time to hesitate; he pressed his hands down sharply, and his entire body's ice-type Source Energy poured out.

"Extreme Cold · Ice Shield!"

A semi-circular transparent ice wall arched up from the ground, covering all the mercenaries, Station Chief Zhou Ke, Miss Shen, and Da Huang inside.

After using this move, Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's already pale face became even uglier. By this point in the battle, he had already consumed more than half of his Source Energy.

He did not have much energy left to worry about Su Ming.

On the battlefield, Su Ming was weaving through the rain of bone spikes. [Inertial Drift] activated, his ten-ton body carving out an incredible Z-shaped trajectory amidst the dense bone spikes, performing extreme evasion.

At that very moment, the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros moved.

Its massive body sank slightly, the muscles in its hind legs bulging, and the ground beneath its feet cracked inch by inch.

The next moment, it turned into a dark red afterimage, charging fiercely toward Su Ming, who had just dodged the last bone spike but had not yet fully steadied his footing!

Even a beast knows how to seize the moment!

The bone spikes blocked the path. Su Ming had just finished dodging the last wave, his movements hadn't fully recovered, and his center of gravity was slightly forward. The Iron-Spine Rhinoceros chose this moment to launch its charge. A direct frontal collision. There was nowhere to hide.

"Beast, stop for me!!!" Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng let out a crazed roar, his hands flying to form seals in front of his chest, his entire body's Source Energy exploding in an unreserved overdraft.

"[Extreme Cold · Myriad-Weight Ice Fortress]!!!"

Rumble—! The earth trembled violently. A massive, deep blue ice wall, ten meters high and over three meters thick, rose from the ground, blocking the path of the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's charge!

Inside the ice wall, high-density Source Energy light bands flowed visibly to the naked eye, and countless sharp ice spikes condensed on the surface in an instant.

This was a military Tier 5 defensive combat skill, sufficient to withstand continuous bombardment from tank main guns. It was Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's trump card.

The moment the ice wall formed, Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's legs went weak, and he knelt in mid-air. He endured the pain and drank a military recovery potion. His Source Energy was about to hit rock bottom.

But he did not regret it. As long as he could block it for one second... even half a second, it could buy that kid time to change direction.

However... Bang!!! There was no stalemate. No process of cracks spreading. No tug-of-war.

In front of the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros, the Myriad-Weight Ice Fortress exploded directly from the center. The three-meter-thick ice wall was smashed into fragments of ice flying all over the sky, ice spikes scattering everywhere, pattering against the ice shield.

The Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's charging speed did not even slow down by a fraction, and not even a white mark was left on its dark red heavy armor.

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng was blown away by the air wave, flipping three times in the air before barely stabilizing his figure, blood hanging from the corner of his mouth.

He stared blankly as that dark red figure burst through the shattered ice. A top-tier Tier 5 defense, and it couldn't even buy one second of time.

In the mist of flying ice fragments, the giant beast was unscathed. The target had been only one from beginning to end. Su Ming.

Nowhere to hide!

Su Ming's pupils contracted to the limit, and the blood throughout his body felt painfully hot at this moment. If he couldn't escape, he had to take it head-on!

His arm muscles knotted, and a layer of deep metallic luster appeared on the surface of his skin. [Mass Heavy Cannon]!

Five times the kinetic energy amplification, poured into his arms without reservation!

"Boom!!!" A loud noise exploded on the wasteland. A tiny body of flesh and blood, clashing head-on with a moving mountain!

The moment Su Ming's arms, crossed in front of his chest, made contact with the rhinoceros horn, a sharp pain of bones shattering came through.

The fifty-ton power of the heavy cannon failed to shake the opponent for the first time. Absolute power suppression!

That single horn, burning with dark red light flames, smashed through his defense like dry wood, piercing fiercely into his left shoulder.

"Puchi!" The skin, harder than steel, was torn, and the muscles, comparable to alloy, were pierced through. The rhinoceros horn actually pierced straight through his left shoulder blade!

Everyone's terrified screams were still echoing in the air. Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng struggled to get up, his eyes filled with despair and unwillingness.

Station Chief Zhou Ke and the mercenaries had long been scared out of their wits by the scene before them.

And Shen Qingci, standing behind the ice shield, did not move. She did not scream, did not cry out, and there was not even much change in the expression on her face.

It was just that the hands holding the "cold edge" hilt were trembling continuously.

In her cold, clear eyes, the scene of Su Ming being knocked flying by that giant beast was reflected, fresh blood drawing a striking arc in the air.

As for what Station Chief Zhou Ke was shouting, what the mercenaries were calling, or the whimpering sounds from Da Huang's two heads, they all became blurred background noise.

She stared at the cloud of dust. One second. Two seconds. Three seconds. Still no movement.