Chapter 308: Chapter 210: Sea of Blood (Part 2)
At that very moment, Paige Summers suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming from behind.
Her eyes lit up.
’Claire Chapman and the others are here!’
As she expected, it only took a few moments before Claire Chapman arrived with his team members!
The area wasn’t particularly spacious, so the more than one hundred people looked like a dense, dark mass, a rather spectacular sight.
Before they could get too close, Claire Chapman ordered them to halt and find cover.
Ever since he’d spotted the two-on-one fight from a distance, Claire Chapman had felt that something was off.
Given Paige Summers and Ben’s abilities, their inability to secure a quick victory meant their opponent had some special tricks up its sleeve. As he drew closer, the sight of the Zombie Leader’s face and the black vortex before it devouring Crossbow Arrows made him gasp in shock.
Before long, he figured out the key to the situation and immediately started assigning tasks.
They weren’t here just to be spectators!
The battle quickly intensified.
Given how bizarre and ferocious the Zombie Leader’s superpower was, they all resorted to ranged attacks.
The ranged attacks from the Natural Ability Users—fire, water, earth, and wind—were the most straightforward; all they had to do was unleash their superpowers!
The Gold Ability Users, joining forces with the Power Superpower Users, brought out the spears they had prepared, which now came in handy.
The Wood Element Superpower Users, meanwhile, chose spots to sow seeds, all of them vine-type plants, hoping to entangle and restrain their foe.
Rhonda Rhodes and Sean Raines were also discussing how to lay down an Array to cut off the Zombie Leader’s superpower.
In short, everyone put their preparations into action, eager not to be left behind.
This place quickly became a second battlefield.
The various lights and sounds from the unleashed superpowers shook the ground and lit up the sky!
Paige Summers had temporarily stopped moving, but her eyes were fixed on the Zombie Leader. She was looking for an opening amidst the barrage of attacks—a chance to get close and deliver the killing blow!
This was not an easy task.
Because the Zombie Leader was growing increasingly frenzied!
Its black vortex held firm before it, completely devouring every attack thrown at it—whether physical objects like spears, arrows, and Flying Knives, or superpower assaults like Fireballs, Water Arrows, earth spikes, and Wind Blades.
But it wasn’t content to merely defend. It was going to counterattack!
Dark, almost tangible shadows flickered across its ashen face.
’Not good! It’s enraged!’
The moment Paige Summers sensed something was wrong, she charged.
However, the black vortex had already been growing larger and larger in the Zombie Leader’s fury. Suddenly, it disappeared... but in the next instant, it reappeared in front of the people who were attacking it...
The circular black vortex, now nearly two meters wide, was like a hurricane erupting from a clear sky. It swept out in a mad, rapid frenzy, pulling everything in its path—people, trees, dirt, anything and everything—into its seemingly insatiable black hole!
At that very moment, that very second, Paige Summers closed the distance, swinging her long knife with all her might. In one fluid motion, the Zombie Leader’s head was severed, sent flying high into the air!
Was it all over?
No!
The head never hit the ground. While still suspended in the air, it burst apart with a loud BANG!
The skull, the brain matter, and even the Crystal Core within were all blown to smithereens... In an instant, the battlefield became an Asura’s domain as a thick sea of blood gushed out, blanketing the entire area.
It was no ordinary sea of blood.
It was filled with countless fresh corpses, which were even now still gushing blood.
Paige Summers was so close that for a moment, she was completely submerged, the blood covering even her mouth and nose.
But the sea of blood immediately began to surge outward in all directions.
She straightened up, wiping the filth from her face—especially from her eyes—and looked out.
The sea of blood was not calm. Wherever it flowed, it left something behind besides the corpses. These things, seemingly wrapped in a red, slimy membrane, were writhing violently!
Before she could get closer to see if they were living people, the membranes suddenly burst. From within, a blood-red shadow shot toward her like an arrow!
Paige Summers hadn’t lowered her long knife; she remained on high alert.
So instead of dodging, she swung her long knife to meet it.
After a strange wail, the thing fell to the ground.
Only then did she see it clearly. It was a Zombie.
A hunched Zombie, less than a meter tall!
This was a Zombie whose physical characteristics clearly indicated it was still a child!
When Paige Summers realized this, she lowered her gaze, a sharp pain stabbing at her heart.
But the stabbing pain quickly turned to numbness.
In what felt like the span of a single breath, more of these infant Zombies emerged all around.
They weren’t very strong—as fledgling as newly hatched birds—but they possessed the same voracious appetite as any adult Zombie. Perhaps their hunger was even more desperate.
A craving for the very freshest flesh and blood!
And so, as Paige Summers looked on, the dozens of people within the sea of blood who had managed to struggle to their feet were now being attacked, even surrounded, by these small Zombies.
They might be infants, but as Zombies, their lethality could not be underestimated.
Anyone who could still move threw themselves back into the fight, their bodies reacting on instinct before their minds could even catch up.
Paige Summers lost track of time as she fought off the small Zombies trying to leap onto her body, her neck, even her face.
All she could see was red.
The immediate threat dealt with, she held her long knife at the ready and moved forward.
She felt a slickness under her feet. The blood was so thick that after the initial surge, its flow had slowed, but it still submerged her feet.
As she walked, she scanned the corpses at her side, straining to hear the beat of a surviving heart. She couldn’t help but look at their faces, a faint dread coiling in her gut. She was afraid the next face she saw would be one she knew all too well.
The black vortex the Zombie Leader had unleashed at the end had been too fast, too sudden. She feared many of her team members hadn’t been able to escape it...
’Are they... still alive?’
