Pretending To Be A Boss

Gu Luo swung his greatsword amidst a dense horde of beasts that surrounded him.

The degenerate species of the Gem Tiger, the Black Rock Saber-Toothed Tiger, bone hyenas that looked as though they crawled out from the Netherworld, irritable wilderness oxen, spike pigs, White-Eyed Giant Bears—all once formidable creatures that required a squad to hunt even individually—now appeared in herds as if they were cloned.

Li Zheng, Gu Luo, Lin Jue, and others were skilled in close combat, and without a word, they tacitly took on the role of Song Que's personal guards.

Qin Qian's ability was telekinesis, and she was also doing her best to protect Song Que.

Lin Jue's baseball bat had started to bend, and his arms were gradually losing sensation. The rest were not faring much better either.

Facing such a large horde of beasts head-on wasn't their first time in these days, but it was always extremely lethal.

They had to choose a path where there were fewer people but more beasts so they could avoid the deadly beams that crisscrossed the battlefield.

The route toward the fortress's signal was incredibly difficult to navigate.

All along the way were various ferocious beasts. Even though the lightning did not strike here, everyone was on high alert.

Ye Feng had seen it just half a minute ago. Several elite hunters from Sky Guardian Fortress had been sliced to death by Lei Xiao in just one second.

The true strength of those hunters was not inferior to Gu Luo's.

Facing a calamity-level creature, they had no chance to fight back.

It might still be possible to focus fire on the gigantic calamity-level creatures.

But against such sensitive creatures, they were utterly unsolvable!

Fear was like a silent and swift plague, spreading rapidly.

In the face of gigantic calamity-level creatures, the world's finest eyes would gather, able to detect and retreat early.

But in the face of Lei Xiao, these creatures about the size of humans did not draw much attention when they first entered the battlefield.

Only a few strong ones were astonished by the speed of these creatures.

But as more and more people died suddenly, a sense of wrongness gradually took hold.

They were like the most terrifying assassins.

The movements of the ten flashes of lightning were unpredictable, with no way to determine their trajectory.

The gifted fighters struggling with the fierce beasts often found their comrades suddenly falling to the ground without warning.

They had no idea what had happened.

In the previous second, the person full of vigor and fighting spirit would suddenly collapse after a terrible streak of light passed through.

Such events occurred two or three times every second, and these phenomena were happening in ten places at the same time.

The Human Federation's chosen ones, who held the advantage, suddenly fell to the ground.

It was as if a gentle breeze had blown by—comfortable for some, soul-snatching for others.

How terrifying are these calamity-level creatures?

Even though they can only kill one person at a time,

With the fastest speed of all beasts, within just one short minute,

Nearly a thousand gifted individuals had been killed.

In less than five minutes, those flashes of lightning, which had not initially caused much concern, had become the greatest fear in everyone's hearts!

The assassin squad formed by ten Lei Xiaos dismantled the human defenses even faster than those terrifyingly huge calamity-level creatures did before!

No matter the talent, no matter the equipment, where the lightning flashed, death was certain!

This horrendous power caused people to shiver with fear.

Morale dissipated, and in those few minutes, countless gifted ones started to flee.

But to Lei Xiao, their speed meant there was no possibility of escape.

Gifted individuals with speed-based abilities were practically snails in the face of Lei Xiao's terrifying velocity,

Not to mention the others.

There was still a great distance to the teleportation station.

Song Que and others despondently realized that igniting the retreat signal was no longer necessary.

Because no one else had the will to continue fighting.

He could not imagine... almost forty percent of the Human Federation's combat power, arguably the strongest human assembly, had been completely dismantled by just ten Lei Xiaos.

Many gifted ones tried to stop Lei Xiao,

possessing all sorts of strange abilities.

For instance, Zhong Xiuran, the eldest son of the Zhong Family, was a notorious trap aficionado.

It only took him a few seconds to set up a trap. In some ways, he was similar to the witch Qin Qian.

Qin Qian could manipulate tiny objects with telekinesis, while Zhong Xiuran relied on telekinesis to twist the environment around him. Read new chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

But his traps were useless against absolute speed; the traps failed to close before Lei Xiao had already moved on to the next target, or even the one after that.

The commanding officer of the regular army at Lincoln Fortress, with the ability to summon swamps, had set up many of the previous defense lines.

But Lei Xiao was too fast. Marshes were irrelevant, and even stepping over a water surface was instantaneous.

"This exaggerated speed is simply impossible to counter!" Gu Luo watched the distant scene of carnage.

More of their familiar human experts were relentlessly cut down by flashes of lightning.

Faster than sound, despite all other data seeming weak, that singular, heaven-defying speed made them invincible.

Song Que said,

"We've lost. Although Lei Xiao are calamity-level creatures, that is defined by their comprehensive value."

"In the world of beasts... who knows how many such terrifying beings exist. It looks like Saint Dene Highlands might fall this time."

Everyone felt a heaviness in their heart.

Song Que was right; with the current state of humanity, there was no way to fight such creatures.