[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-apocalypse-king-of-zombies":3,"chapter-apocalypse-king-of-zombies-apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-616":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},696834,930,"Chapter 616: Yeah… this is gonna be bad","apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-616",616,"\u003Cp>With the arrival of PhD, it was like the final straw that broke the camel’s back—Canada’s Zombie Horde completely collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were already outnumbered, and in terms of strength? Not even worth comparing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Japanese Iron Trio were battle-hardened veterans, having clawed their way to the top through sheer power. They were fearless, relentless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mad Dog led the charge like a blade slicing through flesh, plunging straight into the heart of the Canadian Zombie Horde. His bone-blades swung with brutal precision, cleaving enemies clean in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Samara was like a mini version of Laura—blindingly fast, leaving afterimages in her wake as she darted through the battlefield, decapitating zombies with surgical ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then there was T-Rex, a ten-foot-tall beast of a man, basically a humanoid bulldozer. He plowed through the enemy ranks like they were paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With these three joining the fray, the already surging American Zombie Horde became unstoppable—like a tiger with wings. They tore through the opposition without mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where the hell did these guys come from? They’re pretty damn good,\" Big Ears muttered, eyeing the Japanese Iron Trio from a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No idea,\" Shrimpy shook his head, then sniffed the air. \"But... they smell like the sea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\" Big Ears was speechless. Shrimpy’s obsession with the ocean was borderline pathological—how the hell could he even smell that in the middle of a battlefield?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his attention quickly shifted to T-Rex. The guy looked a lot like his own underling, Gatorax.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Big Ears figured this was a golden opportunity. If he could sweet-talk T-Rex into joining his crew, imagine the street cred—rolling out with both Gatorax and T-Rex? That’d be badass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright boys! Time to make a name for ourselves—charge!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a loud yell, he rushed forward with the main force. The enemy was already falling apart—this was cleanup duty. Low risk, high reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sophia watched the scene unfold, her face twisted in frustration. The American Zombie Horde was on fire—united, ruthless, and charging like a tidal wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the low-tier zombie lieutenants, the ones who usually hung back, were throwing themselves into the thick of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the battle was already lost. The Canadian Zombie Horde had no chance of turning this around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their only hope now... was that fifth-generation Cyborg from Genesis Biotech. If he could take down the strongest Zombie King on the American side, maybe—just maybe—they had a shot at flipping the script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned to look—and there they were. Two titans locked in combat. The sheer force of their clash made her scalp tingle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan stood shirtless, his Domain of the Dead surging around him like a storm. The pressure he gave off was suffocating—like a war god descended to earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vanished in a blur, fist cocked back, and launched a punch straight at LORN.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air around his fist warped and cracked—unstoppable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>LORN’s eyes glowed green, but he didn’t dodge. Instead, a dull yellow energy surged through his arms—earth-element power gathering at his limbs. He raised his arm to meet the blow head-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact thundered like an explosion. The shockwave flattened the ground beneath them, sinking it several feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SCREEEEE—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sickening metallic screech rang out from LORN’s forearm. The metal was visibly warped, and he staggered back, unable to hold his ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s punch hit like a meteor—just as powerful as the stone slab from before, but faster, more precise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This body... still too weak,\" LORN gritted his teeth, muttering to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fifth-gen Cyborg was strong, no doubt. But in terms of raw durability? It couldn’t compare to the body of a Zombie King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only I had my real body...\" LORN felt a pang of regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ethan wasn’t giving him time to think. Another punch came flying in, just as devastating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>LORN crossed his arms in front of his chest, bracing for impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blow sent him flying nearly a thousand feet before he managed to stabilize himself. He looked down—and saw a perfect fist-shaped dent in his metal arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>LORN knew—if this kept up, he was going to lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time was running out...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Canadian Zombie Horde was crumbling fast. Once they were gone, nothing would stop the American zombies from swarming him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with all his power, he couldn’t take on hundreds of thousands of zombies alone. He’d burn through his energy long before he could kill them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Screw it. If he was going down, he was going down swinging. Time for an all-out gamble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>LORN made his decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mechanical body whirred to life, and five distinct colors of light flared across his frame—each one glowing brighter, spinning faster, until they began to merge into a swirling vortex of raw power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm?\" Ethan’s brow twitched. He could feel it—something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy was about to go all in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single thought, LORN ignited into a pillar of flame, his entire body engulfed in fire. He looked like a man-shaped sun, radiating heat and fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, just as suddenly, a wave of freezing cold surged over half his body, locking it in a sheath of ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two opposing forces—fire and ice—clashed and intertwined, sending out violent pulses of energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that wasn’t all. Lightning crackled across his frame, blue arcs dancing wildly like a swarm of silver serpents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you could handle the energy ball from three elements,\" LORN growled, eyes burning with fury, \"let’s see how you deal with all five!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, spatial distortion rippled around him, and the ground beneath his feet began to quake as earth energy surged up to join the storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was it—the final trump card of the fifth-generation Cyborg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy pouring off LORN grew hotter, brighter, more unstable. Half the sky was lit up in a kaleidoscope of color. The ground beneath him cracked and split, and even the clouds above churned like a storm was brewing in reverse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, he wasn’t just a machine—he was the eye of a cataclysm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far off in the distance, Sophia had her eyes locked on him. She’d been watching the whole time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally pulling out the big guns...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, take that damn Zombie King down already!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew—after this move, LORN would be spent. His energy reserves would be toast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power kept building, reaching a fever pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>LORN’s synthetic skin had long since burned away, revealing the full gleam of his alloy body. But even that was starting to fail—his metal glowed red-hot, and the liquid alloy beneath began to bubble and hiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This attack was pushing him past his limits. His body wasn’t built to handle this much power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the absolute edge of what a fifth-gen Cyborg could do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any more, and he’d tear himself apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan stared him down, his bangs fluttering in the wind, the blinding light ahead forcing him to squint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah... this is gonna be bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—LORN moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body coiled like a predator ready to strike, joints creaking and popping under the strain. He was right at the breaking point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thunderous stomp, he launched forward, fist raised, a comet of destruction trailing a blazing tail of five-element energy behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world seemed to dim around him, as if the universe itself was holding its breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was it—LORN’s ultimate strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan felt the crushing pressure slam into him like a tidal wave. The air around him froze, the space locked down. There was no dodging this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he didn’t run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he stood his ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Domain of the Dead around him compressed, tightening into a fifteen-foot radius of pure death energy. The pressure was so intense, the very air trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s tall frame began to blur, his body radiating a thick, blood-red aura that pulsed like fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was his eyes—those sharp, glowing eyes—that burned the brightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled back his arm, muscles coiling, and threw his own punch straight at LORN.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two titanic forces collided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, the world went silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time itself seemed to slow, stretching out the moment like a held breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—after a full second of frozen stillness—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion ripped through the battlefield like a nuclear detonation, and the world shattered into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>",1374,"2026-06-02T09:29:24.861Z",1,"novelbin.me","f6b649a02671a7998eceb1e961d914386445d645fc43b3c4b1477499c1a18389","apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-617","apocalypse-king-of-zombies-chapter-615",1329,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-king-of-zombies-cover.jpg"]