32: Chapter 32 What is a battle formation?! Giving away first blood at the start?
Central Square.
The six scarlet eyes of the Zombie King finally noticed these ten "ants" that dared to provoke it.
Its massive nostrils exhaled two streams of foul-smelling white vapor.
It was clearly enraged by the provocations of these ants.
The giant palm covered in black bone armor was raised high, accompanied by a low sonic boom, and slammed down directly onto the men in black in the front row.
This single strike was enough to flatten a three-story building into ruins!
"It's over!"
Countless viewers subconsciously closed their eyes, unable to bear watching the scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere.
However, the screams and sounds of shattering that they expected did not come.
Just before the giant claw fell, the ten men in black moved.
Their movements were as fast as lightning, yet orderly, as if they had practiced thousands of times.
Two in the front, four in the middle, four in the back.
Long and short weapons combined instantly, and the power of their blood energy exploded without reservation!
Hum—!
The blood energy of the ten people actually connected into a whole in an instant through some mysterious connection!
A visible blood-colored light curtain suddenly spread out above their heads!
Boom!!!
The Zombie King's giant claw slammed solidly onto that blood-colored light curtain!
Violent air waves swept in all directions, scraping away a layer of the square's ground!
Everyone thought the light curtain would shatter like an eggshell upon impact.
But it didn't!
The light curtain shook violently, emitting a series of teeth-aching "creaking" sounds, and its color dimmed slightly, but it ultimately held on!
The ground beneath the ten men in black cracked inch by inch, and the two in the very front even let out a muffled groan, blood spilling from the corners of their mouths,
but their formation did not have the slightest bit of chaos!
"It... it held on?"
Old Zhang's eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.
"How is this possible! Ten Second-Rank Martial Artists, taking a direct hit from a Fourth-Rank Great Martial Master?"
"This isn't martial arts! This is... this is the art of military formation!"
In the front row of the audience, an old, white-haired Old General stood up abruptly, his voice trembling with excitement.
"This is a long-lost ancient military formation! Using blood energy as a guide, merging the power of ten people into one! This... this is a national treasure!"
The entire broadcast hall completely exploded!
If Lu Chen reaching the top earlier was a miracle of individual heroism,
then what these ten people are showing now,
is a terrifying power belonging to collectivism and discipline that completely exceeds the understanding of the modern martial arts system!
"Who exactly... is this team?"
The same question popped into the minds of countless people.
On top of the tower, Lu Chen pursed his lips.
"Not bad, didn't embarrass the ancestors."
This Mandarin Duck Formation was a beginner version he exchanged for from the system store for one million resource points.
If it were the complete version, let alone a Fourth-Rank Zombie King, even if a Fifth-Rank came, it could still hold its own.
"Roar!"
Having failed with one strike, the Zombie King was thoroughly enraged.
Cruel light flickered in its six eyes.
It gave up using its claws to strike, and instead opened its giant mouth, where a black energy ball the size of a human head, compressed from high-concentration energy, began to condense rapidly.
"Oh no! It's a Zombie Core energy cannon!"
Lin Bingbing's voice became urgent.
"This is the killer move of a Lord-level exotic beast! Its power is more than ten times stronger than that claw just now! They can't block it!"
Everyone's heart was in their throat.
That claw just now had already made the Mandarin Duck Formation teeter on the brink of collapse; now, facing this level of energy attack, they were certain to die!
The black energy ball flew out with an aura of destruction, heading straight for the Mandarin Duck Formation!
However, just when everyone thought this ten-man team was about to be instantly vaporized,
the ten men in black did not choose to take it head-on; the formation changed in an instant.
They shifted from a defensive posture into an incredibly sharp cone shape.
The blood energy of the ten people twisted into one strand, all converging on the clone in the very front holding the long blade.
That E-grade alloy battle blade stripped from Zhao Jie's hands was now wrapped in blood-colored aura, the blade humming as if it couldn't withstand this immense power.
"Kill!"
Facing that energy ball capable of destroying everything, they chose... to charge!
Attack against attack!
Breaking the surface with a point!
Under people's incredulous gazes, that blood-colored cone, like a red-hot branding iron, fiercely pierced into the black energy ball!
Sizzle—!
A piercing sound of energy annihilation rang out!
Blood light and black radiance frantically intertwined, collided, and devoured each other!
At this moment, everyone felt that the movements around them had slowed down.
People could clearly see the blood-colored cone advancing irresistibly inside the energy ball!
One meter!
Two meters!
Three meters!
"It... it pierced through!"
The blood-colored cone actually managed to pierce through the Zombie Core energy cannon!
But they also paid a heavy price.
When they rushed out from the other side of the energy ball, the formation was already in tatters.
The clone in the front acting as the "spearhead" had its long blade melted long ago, and half of its body had been burned to charcoal by the energy.
It stumbled a few steps, ultimately unable to stand steady, and transformed into a white light, disappearing on the spot.
[Your clone No. 007 has fallen in battle.]
In Lu Chen's mind, the system's notification sounded.
"One for one, not a loss."
Lu Chen's tone was without ripples.
But to the outside world, this was fatal.
"One died!"
"The formation eye is broken! The Mandarin Duck Formation has been broken!"
Old Zhang shouted in despair.
For a battle formation of ten people as one, the death of any one of them meant the collapse of the entire system.
Sure enough, as that clone fell in battle, the blood energy connection on the remaining nine people instantly severed.
They turned back into nine independent Second-Rank Martial Artists.
And before them was the Fourth-Rank Zombie King that had just been enraged to the extreme!
"It's over!"
These two words popped into everyone's hearts.
Miracles, after all, are just fleeting.
However, Lu Chen on top of the tower had no expression.
Who said that if one dies, it's over?
"Three Talents Formation, rise!"
The order was issued again.
On the battlefield, those nine clones who had just broken away from the battle formation did not have the slightest panic.
They didn't even glance at the roaring Zombie King.
In groups of three, almost within 0.01 seconds, they automatically divided into three groups.
Each group quickly stood into an equilateral triangle.
Hum! Hum! Hum!
Three small blood energy halos, smaller than before but more solid and agile, lit up simultaneously above the heads of the three groups!
Nine people transformed into three inseparable wholes!
This wasn't over yet!
The three "Three Talents Formation" groups did not fight on their own.
They were like three sharp daggers, charging towards the Zombie King simultaneously from three completely different, tricky angles!
One attacked the lower body, one harassed the flank, one feigned an attack on the front!
The tacit understanding of their coordination and the clarity of their tactics made all the military bigwigs watching the live broadcast spring up from their seats!
"This... what is this?"
"Changing formations within a formation! One produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things!"
"My god... this is no longer a simple battle formation; this is, damn it, the art of war!"
The entire province's audience had their perceptions overturned once again.
They thought they had seen the ending, but they didn't expect that it was just another beginning!