Even if the world of akame ga kill favored the non-human side, it did not mean that humans could not become strong. Even without manipulating mysteries and magic, humans could, by relying solely on trained martial arts and physique, produce strong individuals capable of rivaling any Danger Beast, and even those capable of slaying Super Danger Beasts were not unheard of.
After all, if in the First Emperor's era, tens of thousands of soldiers had to be sacrificed to forge each Imperial Arm, then the forty-eight Imperial Arms would not have been instruments for protecting the nation, but rather sources of its downfall.
Lin, leading over thirty officers ranked colonel and above, leaped directly from the city wall towards the outside, launching the first charge against the beast horde. Lin's position was at the very center and front of the team, resolutely charging ahead and drawing the Imperial Arm key from her waist—
Demon God Dragon Armor: Knight of the Lake!
A gigantic black dragon phantom, clad in Demon God Dragon Armor, materialized behind Lin! As Lin charged, its claws clasped together, gripping Lin's figure. Magical light and shadows flashed, and the exquisitely ferocious Dragon Knight armor enveloped Lin's entire body. The break out (bursting) aura and dragon pressure were no less, and perhaps even greater, than that of the Wind God Winged Dragon. The surging beast horde, awestruck by Lin's presence, abruptly slowed its advance. Lin, clad in armor like a black dragon demon god, at that moment, directly crashed into the beast horde!
Boom!!!
Lin, wielding the lake light of no regret, spun rapidly, charging into the beast horde like a meat grinder. The surging beast horde immediately exploded like a boiling pot, blossoming into chaos. Regardless of their level or type, no matter how hard their scales or bones, the Danger Beasts were sliced through by the lake light of no regret's blade, instantly creating the most dazzling fireworks of blood, bone, and shredded flesh scattered across the sky.
"Big sister is mighty!!! Brothers, follow me, let these beasts see the power of our Seventh Legion!"
A tall, burly lieutenant colonel shouted with excited fervor. Because armor was too ineffective against Danger Beasts and would only hinder movement, all the colonel-ranked officers who fought with Lin were in military uniforms, wielding weapons. The excited and wild lieutenant colonel tore off his thin military uniform, revealing granite-like, lean muscles. Countless scars etched onto his bronze-colored muscles easily suggested a history of terrifying training and combat achievements. However, it was also clear that none of those wounds had reached his vital organs.
This lieutenant colonel, who resembled a humanoid Danger Beast, did not come to the Seventh Legion Officer Academy with Lin. Instead, he was one of the few remaining original officers of the Seventh Legion, a person who thought with his biceps. After being defeated by Lin in a head-on confrontation, he was utterly convinced of her prowess and became completely obedient.
He slammed the heavy gauntlets on his two hands together, then collided with a tiger-shaped Danger Beast covered in scales. The tiger's first instinct upon seeing prey was to pounce. Facing the fierce tiger's pouncing claws and fangs, the burly lieutenant colonel did not dodge or evade. He met it head-on, grabbed the scaled tiger's front limbs, and pulled them apart—
"Rip!"
A tiger-shaped Danger Beast was torn in half... "Hah!"
Zhi Feng, personally trained and guided by Lin, and endowed with the Five Weapons of the War God, an armament almost as powerful as an Imperial Arm, was undoubtedly the top person in the Seventh Legion under Lin. Charging into the beast horde like a dragon entering the sea, the heavenly halberd, a true overlord of the battlefield, officially displayed its ferocity. In its reaping mode, low-level Danger Beasts fell like grass being cut.
However, the duty of high-level combatants was to resist and kill the massive Special Grade Danger Beasts, preventing them from breaking through the formation. Just then, a strong wind suddenly blew, and two colossal creatures appeared together. Each was twenty-seven or twenty-eight meters long, with brown fur and a ferocious appearance, and two wings on its ribs. They were terrifying Biao, and two of them came at once!
The so-called Biao are offspring of tigers, shunned by their mother tigers due to their strange appearance and left unfed. It is almost impossible for them to survive after birth; they either starve to death or are hunted and devoured by other Danger Beasts. But if by chance a survivor grows up, it becomes a powerful Danger Beast with a fearsome reputation.
Biao have wings on their ribs, so the two flying Biao, with all four claws off the ground, swooped down towards Zhi Feng, opening their gaping maws to bite.
However, the sudden attack of the fierce beasts did not escape Zhi Feng's notice. With an almost reflexive action, Zhi Feng forcefully pushed the end of the Five Weapons of the War God's shaft against the ground. Zhi Feng's body instantly burst forward at high speed towards the pouncing flying Biao. As Zhi Feng's body slid beneath one of the leaping flying Biao Danger Beasts, Zhi Feng suddenly held her halberd and rotated it vertically, like a spinning blade wheel, cutting through the flying Biao's underside. In an instant, a Special Grade Danger Beast was disemboweled, its internal organs churned to smithereens, barely breathing and on the verge of death.
Even Zhi Feng herself was surprised. If it had been her back in the Imperial Military Academy, the most she could have done in that situation was to detect and block the sudden attack of two Advanced Danger Beasts. After that, she would likely have been caught in a bitter struggle of encirclement. However, it was as if her body had instinctively moved on its own in that instant, making the most decisive and intelligent counter-move by advancing instead of retreating. This fighting style, seeking survival through offense as defense, was clearly not something she had developed during her time at the academy.
This is... Big Sister's fighting style!
At this moment, Zhi Feng's spirit was invigorated. This was progress gained unknowingly by absorbing the characteristics of the person who defeated her, after countless clashes of weapons with Lin and repeated defeats. Zhi Feng finally understood why Lin never taught her any weapon or combat techniques, but instead only engaged in practical sparring with her again and again. What Lin wanted was precisely this kind of progress, directly demonstrated in real combat!
"Awoooh..."
Zhi Feng's surprise move had killed one of the leopards, and the other immediately let out a furious roar. These two leopards were originally brothers born of the same mother. It was precisely their inseparable reliance on each other that allowed them to grow up, mature, and dominate a territory in the dangerous Forest of Dangerous Species without a mother to raise them. Now that one was dead, the other was naturally consumed by uncontrollable rage! It turned and pounced from the other side, its sharp claws flashing with cold light as they clashed with the Five Weapons of the War God in Zhi Feng's hand, producing clanging sounds and sparks.
The Five Weapons of the War God, personally designed and inspected by Lin, were of extremely high quality. The five forms switched smoothly, precisely, and flawlessly, with switching speeds so fast they were almost instantaneous. Zhi Feng, who had trained diligently every day to familiarize herself with them since she acquired them, could already use the five forms with complete ease, fighting as if she were simultaneously using five different weapons.
Aside from lacking the special abilities of Danger Beasts, the performance and utility of the Five Weapons of the War God were definitely above that of ordinary Teigu!
"Hah!"
Zhi Feng seized the opportunity, and the Five Weapons of the War God instantly switched to its cutting state. This was the form that maximized the slashing effect of the halberd. The gleaming crescent blade on its side fell like a cold moon, its cold, radiating edge slashing down towards the tiger-leopard's foreleg.
"Clang!"
The tiger-leopard swung its massive, door-panel-sized paw, its cold, shining claws colliding with the moon-like blade, producing a metallic tremor that caused all creatures within ten meters to feel dizzy and nauseous.
Creatures like the leopard, while lacking strange abilities to control energy and elements, possess extremely powerful physical bodies, sharp fangs and claws, and steel-like bones. Among Advanced Danger Beasts, they are considered fierce and rank among the top. However, at this moment, in front of Zhi Feng, whose strength had advanced by leaps and bounds under Lin's guidance and training, it seemed somewhat inadequate.
"Break!"
"Crack!"
After a brief stalemate, a sudden snapping sound was heard. The tiger-leopard's claw finally gave way to the orichalcum-forged blade and broke. Zhi Feng, with a surge of force, swung her halberd horizontally, directly severing the tiger-leopard's foreleg where its claw armor had broken. Immediately, beast blood gushed out, staining the ground.
With one of its four limbs broken, the tiger-leopard's body suddenly lurched, its massive head dropping. Zhi Feng, seizing the precise moment, leaped up, her halberd in hand, continuously spinning and accelerating as she descended in an arc through the air. She twisted her body, gathering momentum, and slashed down towards the tiger-leopard's room-sized skull! With a wet thud, it struck its head. The tiger-leopard's iron-hard skull was completely split open by a huge crack, and brain matter and beast blood gushed out like a geyser from the horrific wound.
With a heaven-shaking roar, the remaining tiger-leopard's massive body shook violently, the fierce light in its unwilling giant eyes gradually dimming. With a thud, it fell into a pool of blood, unable to rise again.
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