Chapter 332: At the Same Realm, Even Gods Can’t Defeat Me!

At that moment, Luke raised his eyes and looked directly into the Origin Titan’s crimson gaze, where traces of dark miasma continued leaking outward and made it increasingly obvious that the Fragment was no longer completely in its right mind.

"Do you know what I did with the Strength Fragment?"

The Origin Titan’s expression remained calm, although his crimson eyes stayed fixed on Luke as he asked, "What did you do? Didn’t you fail its trial?"

"Nah."

Luke shook his head with a quiet laugh, because although he had always felt weak whenever he compared himself with the existences standing far above him, every increase in realm, every newly unlocked Titan, and every portion of their forbidden power that became available to him had gradually changed that feeling.

He had finally begun to understand exactly what kind of power he possessed.

"I showed him why I am a perfect Titan."

"..."

The Origin Titan clearly didn’t understand what Luke meant, but Luke didn’t care enough to explain immediately and simply continued while looking straight into those crimson eyes.

"He wanted to test whether my strength could overcome his, so I showed him that his strength was never even close to mine."

A fierce light burned within Luke’s eyes as his body began transforming into Vorthar, the fusion between the Void Titan and Atlas Titan, while the confidence in his voice carried none of the uncertainty he once would have felt when standing before an existence like this.

This confidence hadn’t appeared from arrogance alone.

Luke had earned it through every fight that had nearly broken his body and every power he had slowly learned to control.

"At the same realm, even gods can’t defeat me!"

For the first time since their conversation began, the Origin Titan’s expression visibly changed.

Until now, the Fragment had paid far more attention to Luke’s current realm than to the strange composition of his body, which still possessed only portions of Titan-converted bloodlines instead of being completely transformed into that of a Firstborn Pure Titan.

However, the moment it looked deeper, that assumption began falling apart.

Those incomplete Titan bloodlines weren’t ordinary.

Each belonged to a Firstborn Titan, and Luke’s body somehow carried four of them simultaneously without suffering the slightest visible backlash from their coexistence.

’So he possesses the peak bloodlines of their kind...’

As that realization formed, another emotion quietly surfaced within the corrupted Fragment, resembling the same jealousy that the Strength Fragment had once felt toward Luke.

’His body carries bloodlines belonging to those who earned the title of Warden.’

While the Origin Titan was processing that discovery, Luke’s transformation had already finished.

His body now stood seventy feet tall in the form of Vorthar, with the perfectly proportioned physique created from the fusion of Atlas strength and Void nature, while Elythos spread over him in streams of golden-white light until the Armor of the Cosmic Heart covered his entire body from head to toe.

Luke slowly flexed his armored hand before looking back toward the Origin Titan.

"I don’t need three attacks."

His voice remained calm.

"One will be enough."

The Origin Titan’s crimson eyes narrowed slightly as miasma continued drifting from them.

"Don’t become delusional, young Titan. If you intend to destroy this body with a single attack and break the rule established by my Origin Fragment, then unless your attack possesses enough strength to surpass Peak B-Rank by your own standards, you should forget about even leaving a scratch."

Luke didn’t seem bothered by the warning because opportunities where he could genuinely unleash everything were rare, with the Valtharion Tribulation being one of the few times he had pushed his abilities far enough to destroy the Essence Clouds above him.

This time, he didn’t intend to hold anything back either.

"Come."

Luke whispered the word, and twelve different points in the Void behind him immediately rippled.

Dark distortions spread across the air before twelve figures emerged one after another, each carrying Luke’s appearance while already transformed into the Cosmic Heart Titan, their twenty-foot-tall bodies floating silently behind Vorthar.

The sudden appearance of twelve additional Lukes caused the Origin Titan’s attention to shift toward them, while Sevaroth, who was still floating nearby, also narrowed his eyes after realizing what Luke intended to attempt.

Before Luke could continue, the System’s warning appeared.

[Luke, don’t be foolish! After you became a real Titan, those bodies no longer act automatically because you are subconsciously controlling every single one yourself.]

[Your current mental strength isn’t sufficient to properly control this many separate selves at the same time.]

’I know.’

Luke didn’t stop.

’They only need to do one thing.’

He divided his concentration among the twelve bodies, and under his control, every Cosmic Heart Titan raised one hand at almost the same moment.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

Their Cosmic Hearts began pulsing heavily as large amounts of Cosmic Energy surged through their bodies before pouring outward.

Above them, twelve miniature Cosmic Systems gradually manifested across the sky.

Asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns appeared within those systems as their gravitational fields began interacting with the surrounding world, while waves of heat spread through the air and space itself showed faint distortions around several of the larger celestial bodies.

Even without detonating them, the combined gravity and heat were already placing strain upon the surrounding space, which made it obvious that allowing those systems to collapse uncontrollably would produce consequences Luke had no desire to experience.

Still, he wasn’t finished.

Under the increasingly confused gaze of the Origin Titan, Luke began rearranging the celestial bodies.

Asteroids moved first, followed by comets, then moons and planets, while the suns gradually shifted toward the rear of the growing alignment.

’What is he trying to do?’

The Origin Titan observed the formation carefully.

He could clearly sense the energy stored inside those celestial bodies, yet even if Luke detonated everything simultaneously, the resulting destructive power still shouldn’t be enough to cleanly surpass Peak B-Rank.

More importantly, another problem immediately became obvious.

’Can his body even channel that much power?’

It was the same question almost everyone eventually asked whenever they saw Luke attempting to combine Caelith’s cosmic techniques with the body of the Atlas Titan.

This time, however, the Origin Titan’s concern wasn’t entirely wrong.

Even with Vorthar’s fused physique, Luke’s current D-Rank body couldn’t properly control the technique he was preparing.

At Vorthar’s true peak, the fusion body was supposed to possess the capability to carry the weight of the Endless Void itself, but Luke was nowhere near that level yet, and although his numerous stat multipliers had pushed his raw physical strength far beyond what an ordinary D-Rank should possess, there were still limits to how much force his current body could direct.

Vorthar could withstand the burden of the upcoming technique.

Controlling that burden was another matter.

Which was why Luke intended to borrow something else.

Using Myrkhal’s Form Assimilation, he replaced one of the two hearts within Vorthar with the heart of the Cosmic Heart Titan.

Luke had only recently noticed the strange detail that his fusion form still possessed two individual hearts, which shouldn’t have made sense because Vorthar was supposedly a true fusion between two Titans, and logically, those hearts should have fused along with the rest of the body.

Unfortunately, the only beings capable of properly explaining that were the System and Myrkhal.

If Myrkhal had been awake, he would have said.

"Luke, you still don’t understand what a real fusion is."

Then, as usual, he would probably stop there and leave Luke to remain confused.

Since Myrkhal was still asleep, however, Luke had no answer for the strange structure of Vorthar’s body and simply took advantage of it.

The newly assimilated Cosmic Heart immediately began beating within his seventy-foot frame.

THUMP!

Cosmic Energy surged outward.

Luke raised one hand, and another Cosmic System manifested behind the existing twelve before its celestial bodies gradually moved into position with the others.

Thirteen Cosmic Systems now surrounded him.

Luke still didn’t activate Cosmic Lock.

Trying to use that technique while forcing thirteen entire Cosmic Systems into the same straight gravitational alignment would only cause their gravitational fields to clash with one another, and if that happened, every celestial body within the formation could collapse together before Luke ever managed to release the attack.

So Luke chose a different method.

It was something that even Caelith might have been stunned to see if she were currently awake.

Sevaroth, however, understood.

The Crypt Titan’s expression changed sharply as he stared at the growing formation.

"Luke, are you crazy?"

Luke didn’t answer him because almost all of his concentration was already divided between his main body and the twelve Cosmic Heart copies maintaining their respective systems.

Instead, a command passed silently through every body.

’Fix the sizes.’

The celestial bodies immediately began changing.

Asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns adjusted their manifested sizes until the formation gradually took on a completely different shape.

The celestial body at the front became the smallest, while those behind it increased progressively in size until the largest sun occupied the very end of the alignment.

Viewed from the side, the entire arrangement resembled a gigantic cosmic funnel.

"THIS!"