[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-apocalypse-king-of-zombies":3,"chapter-apocalypse-king-of-zombies-apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-1264":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Apocalypse: King of Zombies",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},697361,930,"Chapter 1262: Shattered Shields and Broken Skulls","apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-1264",1264,"\u003Cp>Capítulo 1262: Shattered Shields and Broken Skulls\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ethan dropped a Tier 17 red-skin in two hits, Chris and the others just about popped their eyes out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hadn’t even really started yet, and the boss was already done?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cross-tier fights could be that vicious?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Captain really was Captain. Insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We need to step it up too,” Chris said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah.” Everyone nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sean, you’re up first!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey—Chris,” Big Mike said, suddenly puzzled. “Why aren’t you going invisible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Invisible my ass,” Chris snapped, rolling his eyes. “The whole place is on fire. You think I can cloak in this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was honestly the first time he’d ever felt countered this hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Big Mike blinked. “Uh… then aren’t you, like, half useless?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even without invis, my damage is still the highest,” Chris said, full confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cut the chatter,” Ethan said. “Sean’s already in. Move.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh—right!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, Sean and Garrick were already charging the two Tier 16 red-skins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sean’s entire body turned metallic. Thornmail spread over him from head to toe, and Henry stacked a Divine Shield on top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked like a walking tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He charged straight through the flames at one of the red-skins and swung his club down at its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin didn’t flinch. It drove a fist forward to meet him head-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the last second, Sean’s club slipped off-line, dodging the fist and angling back toward the monster’s head anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two impacts landed at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin reacted fast—right as the club came down, it jerked its head aside. Sean’s blow ended up smashing into its shoulder instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the monster’s punch still crashed solidly into Sean’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sean got launched more than thirty feet, rolled several times across the ground, then sprang back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No visible injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin, on the other hand, hadn’t moved from its spot—but its arm was trembling, clearly taking Thornmail’s reflect damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sean didn’t hesitate for even a heartbeat. The moment he was up, he charged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garrick was the same—Earthen Armor wrapped his body, Henry’s Divine Shield layered over it. He stepped right up to the other Tier 16 red-skin, activated Suppression Field, and started dropping massive meteors on it one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest of the squad joined in too. Everyone had a Divine Shield up, cutting off most of the ambient fire damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry’s Divine Shield was tied to his mental energy—the more he spent, the stronger it was and the longer it lasted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d shielded everyone, which had nearly drained him dry. He immediately swallowed a crystal core and retreated to a safer distance, clearly not planning to fight directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, he’d positioned himself as pure support: if he didn’t need to swing, he wouldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, he had to keep eyes on the battlefield and refresh shields at the right moments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skins’ flames blanketed the entire area. Without Divine Shield, nobody here would be able to withstand it for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reaching Stage C (Tier 12), everyone had picked up a lot of new skills, and their attacks had gotten way more varied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skinny Pete whipped up a tornado that sucked in the surrounding flames, then latched onto one of the red-skins and started tearing at it like a blender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emily’s Vampiric Vines shot out and tried to wrap the monster up too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the fire on its body was brutal. The moment her vines emerged, they scorched to ash. Emily could only grit her teeth in frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Big Mike had it rough too. These red-skins clearly had high resistance to fire-type abilities—his Rain of Flames was almost useless. It had him hopping mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dude, you’re seriously trash at this,” Chris laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he blurred forward, flicked his arm, and launched a pitch-black spear at the red-skin that Skinny Pete and Emily were holding in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin sensed danger on instinct. It ripped free of the tornado’s pull and tried to dodge—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then a spike of agony stabbed straight through its brain. It nearly blacked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mia’s [Soul Spike] had landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silent. No wind-up. No warning. Basically impossible to defend against.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chris’s Corrupting Spear hit dead-on, punching into its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying corrosive force bloomed on impact. You could see the skin on its skull sloughing off with the naked eye, stripping away in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“RRAAGH—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin howled, eyes bloodshot, locking onto Chris. Flames coated its arm in an instant as it hammered a punch toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garrick moved without thinking, stepping in front of Chris and swinging his staff up to intercept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garrick got blasted backward. His Divine Shield shattered on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chris seized the opening. His spear flared with sharp, cutting force, and he thrust straight at the monster’s already-corroded head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin reacted fast, snapping a hand out to grab the spear shaft—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another flash of brain-splitting pain hit it, freezing its movement for a fraction of a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shk—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chris drove the spear straight into the softened, corroded skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“AAAGH—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin screamed and clamped down hard on the spear, stopping it from going any deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Big Mike came charging in from the side like a linebacker and kicked the butt-end of Chris’s spear as hard as he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shk—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spear punched straight through the red-skin’s head and burst out the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster’s eyes were full of rage and unwillingness—then the light drained out. It toppled slowly onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh.” Big Mike lifted his chin like a champion. “Who’s ‘trash’ now? That one was all me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sure, sure. All you,” Chris said, shaking his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But honestly… Big Mike’s timing had been perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chris’s momentum had already spent, and he really didn’t have the leverage to push the spear deeper himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Move,” Chris snapped. “Go help Sean!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d needed a whole group to take down that one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Sean was still holding the other Tier 16 off by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, they hadn’t wasted much time—less than a minute, tops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the first red-skin dropped, the group sprinted toward Sean’s fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing them come, the remaining red-skin’s heart basically fell out of its chest. It chose the only smart option—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the instant it turned, Sean was already back in its path, blocking it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-skin stared at him with a mix of hate and helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sean was like a damn porcupine—hard to kill, and every time you hit him, you hurt yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if you didn’t hit him, he stuck to you like gum. Annoying as hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time the red-skin didn’t care about the pain anymore. It threw another punch and blasted Sean away, ready to bolt—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dark hand suddenly appeared and grabbed its ankle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a tornado yanked it up and swallowed it whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vines surged right after, climbing and binding wherever they could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three control skills hit at once, snuffing out its escape completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It finally tore free—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And immediately ate another black spear, plus that familiar, mind-splitting pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chris’s spear, wrapped in that razor-edged force, drove straight through and ended it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far away, Ethan watched and nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their combat power really had jumped. Their coordination was sharp, too—fast, clean, no wasted motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was still a clear weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lacked heavy burst damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against opponents stronger than them, only Chris could reliably deliver the killing blow. Everyone else was mostly playing setup—control, disruption, shielding, pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still… considering they were only Tier 14, killing enemies two tiers higher was already insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t choose their skills, either. Not everyone got something as monstrous as [Annihilation Strike].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact they could cross two tiers at all was because they worked together so well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if they were only fighting someone one tier higher?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan was pretty sure more than a few of them could pull off a solo kill.\u003C\u002Fp>",1305,"2026-06-02T09:29:46.901Z",1,"novelbin.me","85506ac9b29986722a3931ebb01405143b24ee4cb6b93a24d453653ac65794a6","apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-1265","apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-1263",1329,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-king-of-zombies-cover.jpg"]