Chương 110: Reaping the Storm

The heavy spear in his hands trembled under the accumulation of Impact energy. Vince smashed downward with both hands, driving this surge of energy through one of the small crossguard wings near the spear tip straight into the ground! BOOM! In an instant, the ground within a radius of several meters violently vibrated. The zombies within this range had their legs completely shattered; their bodies sank as they collapsed to the ground. Vince lifted the heavy spear, frowning slightly.

"It feels like equipping this Crystal onto an item makes it much more intuitive and responsive to use than equipping it directly on myself..." Previously, whether applying the Sharpness Crystal or the Impact Crystal, the process involved accumulating the energy in his palm, then buffing the weapon in his hand before firing it out. But now, he felt this energy could be gathered at any specific location on the heavy spear entirely at will.

For instance, when leaping down from the building earlier, the energy had gathered at the pommel on the tail end; for the strike just now, it had gathered on the wing of the spearhead. Moreover, he had a feeling that as he became more proficient in its application, he should be able to freely control the release method of this energy. Like that strike just now—under Vince's conscious control, it increased the area of effect while reducing the penetrating power.

Otherwise, based on Vince's past experience, that strike should have smashed a fist-sized crater into the ground, with a vibration radius of only about a meter... It seemed that whether it was the Crystals or the energy itself, the secrets within were far from being fully explored. But for the current Vince, as long as it worked, that was enough! It was just a pity that his energy recovery speed wasn't as freakish as Zoe's; it took him a whole minute to recover just one point!

Otherwise, just tilling the ground with the Impact Crystal could break the legs of every single zombie here! Looking at his remaining 140-plus energy points, Vince unequipped the Crystal, turned his head, and ran. Trailing a mob of over thirty zombies, he ran in a wide circle, rotating around Claire and the others' "Castle."

Meanwhile, Claire and the others in the center of the "storm" acted like emotionless killing machines, thrusting the heavy spears in their hands into the skulls of every zombie that entered their attack range!

"Seth! On the right!" Claire yanked her heavy spear out of a zombie's eye socket, then forcefully shoved aside another zombie—whose shoulder had just been pierced by Zoe's short spear—making it stumble backward into Seth's attack range. Amidst the chaotic melee, Zoe also held a heavy spear, using her telekinetic assistance to drive it into the heads of zombie after zombie.

Using that invisible force to control the spear in her hands, she negated the weapon's inertia when necessary, allowing her to execute continuous, uninterrupted, and precise spot-kills at a speed far exceeding an ordinary person's! As for the short spear flying around the "fortress," it didn't bother aiming for vitals; its sole purpose was to repel enemies, shoving away the zombies that the others had missed! This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.

"Cody, how are you holding up!" In the chaos, Claire didn't even have time to look back; she just kept calling out to the team, controlling the flow of the situation.

"I'm... still good..." Cody's speech was noticeably punctuated by heavy panting, and the thrusts of the spear in his hands had grown sluggish. Fortunately, standing behind Zoe meant the number of zombies slipping past to him wasn't too high. Seeing everyone else still fighting desperately to kill enemies, he naturally refused to be outdone. He forced himself to lift the heavy spear and thrust it into a zombie's eye socket, but failed to penetrate the skull, only knocking it to the ground.

"Zoe! Finish it!" The moment Cody spoke, a short spear flew over, piercing through the skull of the fallen zombie. Beside him, Seth remained entirely silent. As his zombie kill count increased, he clearly felt his stamina and strength growing. This obvious positive feedback completely erased any remaining hesitation he had about killing zombies. In silence, he intercepted every single zombie Claire let through to maintain their killing efficiency!... [144/144], [191/191], [79/100], [136/136]...

Vince kite-ran the zombies in a circle around the group from a distance. While casually shattering the legs of any zombie that got too close, he continuously observed their Health Bars. He couldn't quite remember their exact starting HP, but judging roughly, they must have killed around seventy or eighty zombies so far along the way. And about half of those were killed by Zoe alone. Four people, five spears. Zoe alone counted as two spears. For normal zombies, this was an absolute massacre...

And at this distance, Vince could easily pick up all the drops from the zombies dying around the "Castle." It was simply efficient and perfect... Seeing that the zombies following behind him on his "track run" were running low—aside from the few with shattered legs crawling slowly on the ground, there were only about twenty left.

He gradually tightened the diameter of his running circle, pulling these zombies inward toward the "Moving Castle" at the center of the storm, allowing those heavy spears to harvest their "lives"...

"Move forward a bit, there are still a few lying on the ground over there. Someone go finish them off..." After a short while, the standing zombies had been completely wiped out. Vince pointed at the few zombies crawling on the ground and said.

"Vince, Cody probably can't hold on much longer, how about..." Vince had noticed Cody's condition long ago, but it was much more appropriate for Claire, their temporary squad leader, to bring it up rather than him. And Claire indeed demonstrated her tacit understanding with him. Actually, it wasn't just Cody; every single one of those four people was panting in exhaustion.

The sporadic zombie kills since entering the gate were fine, but this recent bout of high-intensity thrusting had left these individuals—who had never received specialized training—virtually unable to lift their arms, even if they were "superhumans" with one or two hundred HP... Except for Zoe... Although this girl's arms were exhausted, she was still full of energy, telekinetically controlling a short spear to poke at the corpses on the ground, just in case any zombies were playing dead...

Following the continuous zombie slaughter just now, her HP had increased to [207] points, and her energy value was exactly twice her HP, reaching a maximum cap of [414] points! It made even Vince feel a trace of envy.

"Uh... do you guys want to head back and rest for a bit? That big lunkhead from earlier pulled away over thirty zombies. I was thinking once you guys finish killing those, we'll head back..." Vince said as he used his heavy spear to flick a crippled zombie from the ground over to Claire.

"Cody, Seth, do you two want to head back first..." Claire turned her head and spoke to the two boys behind her. Although Seth was a quiet guy, he wasn't stupid. Turning his head and seeing Cody panting heavily with a flushed face, even though he himself still had some strength left, he immediately nodded and said:"Claire, I am getting a bit tired... Cody, come back with me. We'll leave the rest to Vince and the other two..."

"Phew... uh... Zoe, are you guys still okay?" Perhaps he was worried, or perhaps he just didn't want to leave, but Cody hesitantly asked his sister in front of him.

"Hurry up and go back. Even if my hands lose their strength, I can still control this short spear. Don't worry!" Zoe also wanted her brother to head back, so she spoke decisively.

"... Mhm, alright." Cody thought for a moment, knowing that staying here would only drag his sister down, so he agreed. After saying that, Zoe activated her ability, lifting the dumpster a meter into the air, and the two boys crawled out from underneath.