Ultragene Warlord

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“If these people won't listen to reason, then let's beat fear into them.
Break their spines and their pride—let them know who the true overlords of this realm are!”

“Kill them all!” the elder howled, and the sura began to charge forward.

“Loose arrows!” Xiao Zhengyang commanded.

Bright genetic energy suddenly covered the city walls, as though they had been illuminated by a glowing beam of sunlight.
Arrows charged with genetic energy filled the skies like raindrops in a thunderstorm.

The sura yelled; their skin turned red.
They had no understanding of technique or tactics, only seemingly limitless brawn and brute strength.
Indeed, they were challenging foes simply because of their tremendous physical strength and resilience.
They could harden their skin with an explosion of genetic energy, allowing them to block most attacks with ease.

Except for a few unlucky sura who were struck in weak spots by the arrows, most of the sura warriors were able to dash to the city walls, then leap up and over them.
Despite the fact that the walls were hundreds of meters tall, the sura were still able to get over them with boosts from their comrades.

As such, fighting began in the interior of the city as well. 

The human hunters fought without cowardice or desertion, knowing that, if the city were to fall and their teleportation apparatus broken, they wouldn't be able to return to the real world.
Even if they were to return to the real world now, they would lose all their possessions in Qi.
This was a matter of personal interest, so these hunters wouldn't easily back down.

Xiao Zhengyang stood at the highest point in the city, where he oversaw the battle from above.
The human troops were faring so well that he could hardly believe it.
In the past, the sura had always overwhelmed the human hunters, no matter what strategies or tactics they employed.
Against absolute strength, they simply couldn't do anything.

This time, however, the humans were no longer just sitting ducks. 

It was clear that the sura had also realized this— in the past, it had taken three or four second-realm hunters working in tandem to kill a single sura, but now, just one or two hunters could do the same.

The humans were so much stronger than expected that even the sura were taken aback.
Could the hunters of Qi be far stronger than the hunters elsewhere?

In truth, that wasn't the case—the entire human race's strength was increasing as a whole, an improvement that resulted from Zhang Lie's theory of limit fragments.
Almost all new hunters would now take part in the foundational breakthrough, and quite a few of them had even consumed Potion #1, especially those from China.
These hunters would start out with sixty basic limit fragments, and they were far stronger than their original counterparts.

Furthermore, as a result of the bounty placed against the Musi clan, quite a lot more hunters had obtained Potion #1, and there were all sorts of weaker or reduced-efficiency copies and substitutes now floating around the black markets.

These limit fragments were far more impactful than they seemed at first glance.

For instance, a hunter who had capped his mutated gene fragments wouldn't be able to defeat a superior-grade lifeform without making use of some special technique or another, but limit fragments could help breach this gulf.

The boost provided by these limit fragments would continue to propagate, speeding up the acquisition of more and more gene fragments exponentially.
And now, the effects of this growth were making themselves known.