Death Train: SSS-level talent right from the start!

Everyone felt a violent dizziness surge up from the depths of their minds.

It felt as if someone had smashed my skull from the inside with an invisible hammer. My vision became distorted and blurred in that instant, and all I could hear was a sharp ringing in my ears. My senses were taken away from my limbs in a mere second.

The dizziness lasted only about three seconds.

But in those three seconds, Zhongxiu's body froze on the spot.

She had just completed a flanking maneuver, the golden light on her right fist was still gathering, and her body was in the gap between the old and new bursts of power when the Tiger Roar Pulse precisely pierced through her mental defenses.

Within three seconds, the mechanical giant tiger's pair of scarlet electronic eyes precisely locked onto Zhong Xiu's position. Its right forepaw suddenly rose, and the half-meter-long metal claw reflected a dazzling cold light under the cold white light before slamming out.

"Bang--!"

Zhong Xiu's body flew out as if hit by a car, tracing an arc in the air for nearly twenty meters before crashing heavily to the ground and rolling twice before coming to a stop.

The golden wings vanished the instant she hit the ground, turning into countless tiny specks of light.

On her chest, three deep, bone-revealing claw marks stretched diagonally from her left shoulder to her right ribs, the flesh torn open, and blood gushed from the wounds, instantly staining the front of her coat red.

Chen Ye also experienced a brief moment of disorientation during the Tiger Roar Pulse. He felt a moment of darkness before his eyes, as if someone had turned off a light in front of him and then quickly turned it back on. When his consciousness returned, he saw that Zhong Xiu had already fallen to the ground.

Chen Ye's lips curved slightly.

He withdrew his gaze and refocused on the mechanical giant tiger in front of him. The four sides of the Xuanwu Shield, with their azure light shields, were still slowly rotating around him. He hadn't been hit in those three seconds.

"What are you all standing there for? Fight! Or do you think you can withstand a single blow from this boss?"

Chen Ye turned around and shouted at the retreating crowd. His voice drowned out the lingering ringing in their ears and clearly echoed throughout the entire hall.

The group snapped out of their daze. Seeing Zhong Xiu still lying on the ground twenty meters away, they understood what had happened in that instant. If that claw had landed on them, the outcome was obvious.

No one hesitated any longer. Ranged attacks rose simultaneously from all directions: arrows, lightning spears, wind blades, ice spears—dozens of skill beams intertwined to form a dense barrage of fire, pouring towards the mechanical behemoth in the center of the hall.

The melee talent, too, grabbed his weapon and charged forward with gritted teeth.

Chen Ye withdrew his gaze, pushed off the ground with both feet again, and his figure sprang out from the spot. The black energy on the Demon-Slaying Halberd surged suddenly, and the Yellow Springs Transference was activated once more.

His attacks were even more ferocious than before. The spear whirled in his hands, each strike precisely piercing the existing cracks in the mechanical tiger's armor, tearing those wounds open even wider.

When Zhongxiu got up from the ground, the wound on her chest was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A recovery potion had already been administered, and the deep, bone-revealing claw mark healed in just a few seconds, from the flesh peeling back to the scab forming and then closing completely.

Her face was still a little pale, and the lingering pain in her chest was still throbbing slightly in her nerve endings, but her gaze had already been locked onto the mechanical tiger again.

The golden wings unfolded once more.

Without pausing, Zhong Xiu sprang from the ground and re-entered the battlefield.

Her speed was still astonishing, but this time her entry angle was even more tricky.

Each attack was timed to coincide with the gaps in the mechanical tiger's attacks on Chen Ye, with the golden orbs of light precisely striking the cracks in the already torn armor.

The battle in the center of the hall had reached a fever pitch.

The mechanical tiger's silver-white armor shell had transformed from a smooth, mirror-like surface into a wreckage riddled with cracks and dents.

Everyone was attacking the mechanical tiger with all their might. Passengers who couldn't break its defenses before were now using all their skills on the cracks created by Chen Ye and Zhong Xiu.

The mechanical tiger's counterattack was equally fierce.

Every so often, the pair of scarlet electronic eyes would suddenly light up, and a deep resonance would emanate from inside the mechanical tiger's body, followed by a deafening tiger roar pulse that spread outwards.

A wave of dizziness washed over everyone in the hall, and each tiger's roar caused them to momentarily lose their focus.

Chen Ye was the first to be hit, taking two blows in a row, but managed to withstand them thanks to his 240 points of physique.

Zhong Xiu was also hit, and she was briefly distracted when the tiger roared, but her reaction was much faster than the first time.

The golden wings instinctively folded in the instant her consciousness blurred, as if it were some kind of self-protective stress response, protecting her torso.

The mechanical tiger's claws slammed onto the light wings, knocking her back more than ten steps, but without causing a fatal injury.

The others weren't so lucky; a melee-talented passenger standing on the left was swept by the mechanical tiger's tail during the third Tiger Roar.

The metal whip lashed out with a dull whistling sound, sending the passenger flying like a rag doll. He crashed into the side wall of the hall with a thud before sliding to the ground, where he lay motionless.

Each tiger roar was like a call to arms; within ten minutes, four people were struck by the mechanical tiger's claws or steel tail during the roar, falling to the ground and unable to get up again.

Fear spread through the crowd, but no one dared to retreat. They were trapped on this floor, the elevator only went up and never down, and killing the wounded mechanical giant tiger in front of them was the only way out.

The mechanical tiger has also reached its limit.

Zhong Xiu's gaze darkened slightly, and the frequency of the flapping of her golden wings changed from continuous and stable to short and powerful bursts of wingbeats. Her figure drew intermittent zigzag lines on the battlefield.

Black energy surged once more on the Demon-Slaying Halberd in Chen Ye's hand, and the phantom of the evil spirit behind him reappeared, its empty eye sockets staring at the swaying, silvery-white behemoth in front of him.

Both were gathering their strength for the final blow.

Just then, the mechanical tiger's pair of scarlet electronic eyes suddenly lit up.

The brightness suddenly increased from the normal dark red to a dazzling crimson, and a deep hum emanated from inside the body, which traveled from the abdomen to the chest cavity, and from the chest cavity to the throat, before the tiger's roar exploded again.

This time, the intensity was completely different from before. It was as if the dying mechanical beast had squeezed out all its remaining energy at once, turning it into a visible circular shockwave.

The shockwave spread outwards from the head of the mechanical tiger, distorting and deforming the air in front of it. Debris on the metal ground was kicked up and sprayed outwards like bullets in the shockwave.

For a brief moment, the entire hall fell silent.

Chen Ye and Zhong Xiu's attacks were interrupted simultaneously by this Tiger Roar Pulse.

Black energy swirled around the tip of Chen Ye's spear, which was less than half a meter from the mechanical tiger's neck, but the spear did not pierce through.

The golden light on Zhong Xiu's fist was still dazzling, and it was only a few inches away from the head of the mechanical tiger.

After the tiger's roar, the entire hall seemed to be paused.

Just then, a sharp buzzing sound broke the frozen silence.