Chapter 65: The Abyssal Fracture (2)

[BATTLEFIELD REALM ENTERED: The Abyssal Fracture]

[Realm Modifiers Initiated:]

>Time Dilation Effect: One (1) Hour spent within this Realm equates to Five (5) Days in the outside world.

>Experience Multiplier: All EXP gained is dynamically multiplied by 5X to 35X based on combat rating and kill streaks.

>Comprehension Acceleration: The time required to comprehend Skill Runes is reduced by 65%.

>Aura Amplification: All active and passive buffs are raised by 200% in magnitude.

>Lethality Spike: Enemy spawn rates are infinite. Safe Zones are disabled.

[Recommended Level: 70 - 85]

Leon stared at the cascading notifications, his breath catching in his throat.

A Battlefield Realm.

In the time he had spent tearing Sector 4 apart, he had never seen anything like this. The starting sector had Instanced Dungeons and Open Dungeons, but nothing that fundamentally altered the fabric of reality and system mechanics on this scale.

"So this is why they don’t exist in the Initiate sectors," Leon murmured, his mind racing as he processed the lore implications. "A realm like this... it’s completely, utterly overpowered. It’s a localized cheat code built into the system."

He looked at the modifiers. The EXP multiplier was staggering—up to 35X. The buff amplification was absurd. With his Aura of the Undying raised by 200%, he was practically immortal.

But it was the first modifier that sent a chill down his spine.

Time Dilation: 1 Hour inside = 5 Days outside.

It was a double-edged sword. In most fantasy settings, time chambers gave you more time to train while the world stood still. But Eternal Heaven was a cruel, twisted system. The Battlefield Realm gave you God-tier experience rates, but it stole your real-world time at a terrifying pace.

"If I stay in here for ten hours," Leon calculated, his eyes widening slightly, "fifty days will pass in Sector 12. I have seventy-six days left on the Elimination Cycle timer. If someone get lost in the grind and stay here for just sixteen hours... the cycle will end, and they will fail if they didn’t reach the threshold level."

It was the ultimate trap for greedy players. It offered limitless power, but demanded the most precious resource they possessed.

"We do this fast, Auris," Leon commanded, drawing the Blade of the Dragon God. The Mythic sword erupted in roaring, ethereal golden flames, illuminating the dark, floating ruins. "Surgical, high-intensity slaughter. We are not staying in here for more than a few hours. Time is quite literally money."

Auris roared in agreement, landing heavily on a massive, floating courtyard of shattered black marble.

The sound of the dragon’s roar acted as a dinner bell.

The Void Mist surrounding the edges of the floating platform began to boil. Massive, horrifying shapes began to pull themselves out of the entropy, materializing onto the marble.

[Monster Detected: Void-Stalker Behemoth (x6)]

[Level: 75]

[Type: Abyssal Brute]

[Monster Detected: Entropy Wisp Swarm]

[Level: 80]

[Type: Amorphous Energy]

[Monster Detected: Abyssal Leviathan]

[Level: 85]

[Type: Void-Lord Elite]

The recommended level was 70 to 85. For a Level 57 player, this should have been a massacre.

But Leon was not a normal Level 57. He had a Mythic Title that gave him +50 to all stats, a Mythic weapon, ten SSS-Rank talents, and the Battlefield Realm’s own 200% buff amplification turbocharging his Aura of the Undying. His effective combat prowess was sitting comfortably in the Level 90 range.

"Let’s show them why there’s only one Vanguard," Leon snarled.

The six Level 75 Void-Stalker Behemoths charged first. They were massive, hulking apes made of compressed void energy and jagged bone plating, moving with terrifying, ground-shattering speed.

Freeze them, Leon commanded through the soul-bond.

Auris inhaled, his chest glowing with blinding cyan light. He opened his jaws and unleashed his S-Rank talent: Absolute Zero Breath.

A torrent of localized, apocalyptic freezing energy erupted from the dragon. The Battlefield Realm’s 200% buff amplification applied to Auris as well, supercharging the breath weapon. The beam of frost struck the charging Behemoths and didn’t just freeze them; it halted their molecular movement entirely.

In a fraction of a second, the six Level 75 monsters were encased in indestructible, absolute-zero glaciers, frozen mid-stride.

Leon didn’t stay on the dragon’s back.

"Storm-Strider!"

Leon leaped off Auris, using the B-Rank wind manipulation to launch himself toward the Level 80 Entropy Wisp swarm that was rapidly descending from the sky. They were a cloud of screaming, incorporeal void-faces meant to drain a player’s mana and soul simultaneously.

"You want to eat?" Leon yelled, his dual-colored eyes flaring. "Eat this! Sovereign’s Eclipse!"

Ding!

[Sovereign’s Eclipse activated.]

[Buff Amplification Applied: Domain radius expanded to 300 feet.]

A shockwave of absolute, pitch-black nothingness erupted from Leon, expanding instantly to swallow the entire swarm of Wisps, the frozen Behemoths, and the massive Level 85 Leviathan slithering across the far end of the platform.

Inside the Eclipse, the ambient void energy the monsters relied on was forcibly severed. The Wisps shrieked as their forms began to destabilize in the absolute darkness.

Leon was a god in the void. His cooldowns for Wraith-Step were entirely nullified.

He didn’t just teleport; he flickered out of existence entirely, moving at speeds the system struggled to render.

Blink. He appeared directly inside the swarm of Wisps.

"Hellfire Howl!"

He unleashed a massive cone of superheated, toxic ash and ethereal fire. The A-Rank talent, boosted by his absurd Intelligence and the realm’s buffs, vaporized the incorporeal Wisps in a single, devastating blast of corrupted fire.

Blink. He materialized above the frozen Void-Stalker Behemoths.

He brought the Blade of the Dragon God down. The ethereal golden flames of the Mythic sword effortlessly melted the absolute-zero ice, while the Severance Effect from his old weapon—now integrated into the Mythic blade—bypassed their bone armor entirely.

Slash! Slash! Slash!

He executed six Level 75 Elites in less than two seconds, their bodies shattering into frozen, burning dust.

Ding!

[Kill Streak Initiated: 8 Kills]

[Experience Multiplier Increased: 15X]

The EXP notifications began to cascade in the periphery of his vision, but Leon ignored them. He triggered Wraith-Step again, chaining the teleports to cross the massive courtyard in an instant, appearing directly above the Level 85 Abyssal Leviathan.

The Leviathan was a serpentine nightmare of shifting void-scales and glowing purple eyes. It sensed him coming and reared its massive head, opening a maw that could swallow Auris whole.

"Sovereign’s Edict!" Leon roared, channeling the A-Rank draconic authority talent.

The vocalization was imbued with pure, tyrannical authority. The psychological suppression slammed into the Level 85 Elite.

"KNEEL!" Leon commanded.