Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

Kuro climbed out of the rubble, his dark red eyes fixed on Ling Shuang.

Blood was still seeping from the wound on his nose, but the rage he had just felt was suppressed.

"A first-tier mature being didn't even try to compete for your vice-commander position."

Kuro moved his right shoulder, which had been hit by Ling Shuang, and his joints made a dull cracking sound.

"No wonder he dared to fight me, he's got some skills."

But did you know that there are differences between mature individuals?

He also drew the second bone knife from his waist, holding the two knives crossed in front of him, their blades gleaming with a cold, dark green light.

Ling Shuang did not reply.

However, for Kuro, this was an enormous provocation.

"I'll teach you a lesson on behalf of Ying."

Ling Shuang slightly lowered the center of gravity of her body in her ghoul mimicry form.

His left arm was still tingling. Although the bone wasn't broken, the price he paid for taking that blow from Kuro was considerable.

But he didn't reveal any weakness; his dark red eyes remained fixed on Kuro's shoulder.

Ghouls have different attack habits than humans; when they exert force, their shoulder blades move first. This is a conclusion he reached after observing them at the camp for several days.

Kuro moved.

The two swords, one above and one below, attacked Ling Shuang's throat and the back of her knees respectively.

The blade's attack was deadly; the upper slash blocked her retreat, and the lower slash forced her to move. No matter which direction Ling Shuang dodged, at least one blade would land on her.

But Ling Shuang kept observing his movements as he exerted force.

He lunged forward to meet Kuro's blade, bending his right elbow to protect his throat, and forcefully rammed the bone plate on the outside of his ghoul forearm into Kuro's upper blade.

The bone knife struck the bone plate, sending up a burst of dark green sparks. The blade was stuck half an inch in.

At the same time, Ling Shuang stomped her left foot on the ground, using the force to lift her entire body into the air.

In the instant Kuro couldn't retract his second strike, Ling Shuang's left knee struck Kuro's chest with the force of her leap.

A muffled thud echoed through the mine.

Kuro was knocked back several feet by the knee strike, his toes carving deep furrows in the frozen ground.

He groaned and looked down, the thick bone plates in his chest cracking from the impact.

These creatures, which rely solely on brute force and instinct, are incomparable to human combat skills.

Before they could even create some distance, Ling Shuang's pursuit had already arrived.

With his thick knuckles, Kuro's right fist slammed straight into the joint between his left shoulder and sternum, the sound of bones cracking dull and piercing.

Kuro winced in pain and let out a low growl.

His left arm briefly lost sensation from the impact of the punch, and the fingers gripping the knife loosened uncontrollably, causing the bone knife to fall to the ground.

The surrounding ghouls began to stir.

A young ghoul from the second team instinctively took a step forward, only to be pulled back by the short, fat old ghoul next to him.

The old ghoul shook his head at him.

The rules for ghouls are simple.

A one-on-one fight is a one-on-one fight; whoever wins takes the position.

Kuro's left arm hung at his side, but his eyes became even more dangerous, and his dark red pupils contracted sharply in their sockets.

Ling Shuang sensed an unusual energy fluctuation.

Kuro's body temperature was rising rapidly, and his skin began to turn an abnormal dark red, as if flames were emerging from the gaps in his scales.

The bone knife in his right hand was gripped so tightly that it creaked and cracked, and the bone pieces embedded in the handle could not withstand the force and shattered and fell off one by one.

Herto's expression changed instantly.

He frantically waved at Ling Shuang from the rubble, his voice trembling as he cried out, "Zhang Mu! Bloodlust! He's in a bloodlust rage! Get out of the way!"

The surrounding ghouls retreated.

Ling Shuang didn't know what kind of move this was.

But it's clear that...

Kuro is going all out.

The muscles in his remaining right arm swelled up to a full circle in his blood-boosting state, his grayish-brown skin stretched taut and shiny, and dark green fluid seeped from the gaps in his scales, which evaporated into mist before he even hit the ground due to his body heat.

His right hand, wielding a bone knife, drew a dark green arc in the air as it slashed diagonally down towards Ling Shuang's neck.

The speed is more than twice as fast!

Ling Shuang instinctively dodged to the side.

The blade of the bone knife grazed his chest, the wind from the blade cutting through the surface of the ghoul's leather armor.

Even under these conditions, it can still maintain precise control over the cutting path.

The second strike followed immediately, slashing horizontally across Ling Shuang's waist from the side.

Ling Shuang lowered her right arm, using the bone plate on the outside of her forearm to block again. The instant the blade struck the bone plate, a force far exceeding any previous attack surged through the bone plate into her arm, nearly dislocating her elbow. Ling

Frost was sent flying by the slash, her body flipping in the air to adjust her posture. When her feet landed, her claws dug deep into the frozen ground to barely stabilize her.

His right arm bone plate was shattered.

Herto paused for a moment.

Is Takeki going to face off against Kuro, who has severely injured him in his berserk state?

He hurriedly and anxiously shouted,

"Bro, you're bloodthirsty too!"

Kuro didn't give him time to think; the third strike was already coming.

The bone knife slashed upwards, its tip aimed directly at Ling Shuang's jaw. If this strike landed, her entire head would be split open.

Ling Shuang did not retreat. He took half a step forward to meet the blade, while twisting his body to the right.

While twisting her body to dodge the blade, Ling Shuang had already gathered all her strength. Using her left leg as a pivot, she rotated her entire body 180 degrees, and swung her right leg up, delivering a low, heavy kick characteristic of ghouls to the side of Kuro's supporting leg's knee.

Click.

Kuro's knees bent inward at an abnormal angle, and even in his blood-rage state, his body tilted uncontrollably to the side.

Ling Shuang brought her left hand together, forming a cone shape with her five fingers. The ghoul's thick knuckles became a natural hammer, and she punched into the bone plate in Kuro's chest that had already been cracked by his knee strike.

A precise, devastating blow to the same spot results in a piercing sound of bones cracking!

Fragments of bone plates scattered everywhere as Ling Shuang's left fist pierced through Kuro's chest cavity, her fingertips touching his still-beating heart.

The next second, it pierced right through!

Kuro's dark red eyes widened.

He looked down at Ling Shuang's arm that had pierced through his chest, a grayish-green liquid spilling from the corner of his mouth.

The bloodlust state had not yet ended, but the energy circulation had been severed after the chest cavity was pierced.

The swollen muscles shrank at a visible rate, and the burning dark red color on the skin faded rapidly.

"you……"

Kuro gripped the bone knife, attempting to raise it for a final slash, but it was too late.

puff.

The massive body suddenly stiffened, the right hand holding the knife froze in mid-air for a moment, and then slammed to the ground along with the bone knife.

Ling Shuang withdrew her left claw, letting Kuro's corpse fall backward to the ground.

The mine was deathly silent.

The ghouls didn't even dare to breathe heavily, only the pack animals groaned uneasily in the distance.

Herto slumped in the pile of rubble, his eyes wide open as if they were about to burst.

Ling Shuang stood beside Kuro's corpse, breathing heavily.

The ghoul's body, in its ghoul form, had been almost completely drained of its strength by the battle.

Then, Ling Shuang squatted down and reached into Kuro's shattered skull.

My fingertips touched a warm crystal.

It is pale red with faint shimmering veins on its surface.

It was a first-order mature source crystal. Ling Shuang held the source crystal in her palm.

The ghoul's scales, in its mimicry form, automatically opened a gap and swallowed the crystal bit by bit.

[Current Enhancement Area: Left Hand Tier 2 (1/5): Tier 2 ability not activated.]

Ling Shuang was overjoyed.

Killing a first-tier mature being actually opened up a new path of evolution for him.

At this moment, Herto finally crawled over from the pile of rubble and grabbed Ling Shuang's right arm.

After seeing the dense cracks on Ling Shuang's right arm bone plate, he jerked his fingers back as if he had been burned.

"Brother Takeki, you're amazing! You even managed to kill Kuro in his normal state when he was at his highest health!"

"So that's why you didn't use Bloodrage. You're so strong that you didn't even need to use Bloodrage to kill him."

Then why are you still doing manual labor with me in the transport team?

Ling Shuang sighed deeply.

What bloodlust? Dude, I don't know how to do that!

"I just broke through after eating a few Night Demon cubs, I haven't had a chance to tell you yet," Ling Shuang replied briefly, glancing at the other ghouls.

But the hateful looks or the direct attacks he expected from Kuro's subordinates did not materialize.

The short, stout ghoul, Bato, was the first to react. He knelt on one knee, held the bone knife at his waist above his head with both hands, and uttered a low, respectful groan: "Vice Commander."

Then came the second, the third, and the fourth.

In no time, all the ghouls in the second squad knelt on the gravel ground of the mine, their bone knives and stone axes untied and held in front of them.

Herto, however, thought it was perfectly reasonable. He secretly leaned closer and said,

"The rule of the ghouls is that if a lower-ranking ghoul successfully challenges a higher-ranking ghoul, he will automatically obtain the rank."

"Brother Zhangmu, from now on you're the deputy commander of the second team. I should tell Captain Ying to assign me to your team so I can slack off."

Ling Shuang remained silent for a moment. He looked at the ghouls who were bowing to him.

The first step of the plan has been successfully achieved.