Chapter 77: The Grave-Titan, Ozymandias (4)

"Aegis of the Void!" Leon shouted, violently tearing open the spatial rift in front of him.

The beam slammed into the Diamond-Rank shield. The sheer, concentrated power of the Phase 2 boss caused the Aegis to scream under the pressure. The pitch-black void-shield spider-webbed instantly, glowing with a dangerous, volatile white light as it struggled to redirect the apocalyptic energy into the shadow plane.

Leon felt the immense strain, but more importantly, he felt his newly acquired Soul Anchor talent thrum in his chest. The conceptual network across his organs vibrated, ready to dynamically disperse the lethal blow across his entire cellular structure if the shield shattered.

"I wouldn’t want to have a defensive war of attrition," Leon calculated. "I should blind it, strip its ambient buffs, and shut down that core’s regeneration."

Leon waited for a fractional pause in the beam’s output, a microsecond where the Titan drew breath.

"Sovereign’s Eclipse!"

Leon dropped the failing Aegis and unleashed his newly evolved, Transcendent-Rank domain. The pitch-black sphere exploded outward from his body, expanding rapidly and swallowing the thirty-foot Titan in absolute, suffocating darkness.

"Let’s see how you like the true death," Leon sneered, his voice echoing from every direction within the Eclipse.

Inside the domain, the necrotic suppression field instantly activated. The Titan’s Void-Storm Core, previously burning with bright purple light, violently flickered as its connection to the ambient void regeneration of the Gravesite Plain was forcibly severed. The percentage-based decay damage began eating away at the hyper-dense bone armor, introducing microscopic fractures into the impenetrable defense.

Ozymandias thrashed blindly in the darkness. Stripped of its targeting capabilities, it began firing erratic, unstable void beams that tore harmlessly into the sky, wasting its massive energy reserves on empty air.

"Now, Auris!" Leon commanded, his voice a definitive execution order. "Full output! Break its armor!"

Auris dove from the sky, a sapphire meteor plummeting into the edge of the Eclipse. The dragon unleashed a continuous, sustained torrent of Absolute Zero Breath directly onto the Titan’s exposed back.

The extreme temperature drop, combined with the continuous necrotic decay of the domain, proved too much for the Phase 2 armor. The hyper-dense bone turned incredibly brittle, the molecular structure compromised by the conflicting, apocalyptic forces.

Leon didn’t wait. He activated Abyssal Stride, utilizing the zero-cooldown effect of his domain to materialize directly in front of the blinded, freezing Titan.

"You survived the first execution because you relied on your core to rebuild you," Leon stated coldly, his eyes locking onto the flickering maelstrom within the Titan’s chest. He gripped his flaming greatsword, preparing the final sequence. "You possess incredible adaptability, Titan. But I am going to erase the core."

Leon triggered Grave-Crusher, pushing the A-Rank talent to its absolute physical limit. He dumped massive amounts of mana into the skill, multiplying the kinetic mass of the Mythic sword a hundredfold until the air around the blade began to warp from the artificial gravity. He simultaneously channeled Dimensional Severance, wrapping the heavy blade in a violent spatial rift.

"Verlimon’s Judgment!"

Leon swung the Blade of the Dragon God in a devastating, horizontal arc, aiming directly for the swirling, unstable maelstrom housed within the Titan’s chest cavity.

The strike connected with the force of a falling moon.

The spatial rift sheared flawlessly through the brittle, frozen bone armor. The exponentially multiplied kinetic mass of the Grave-Crusher impact shattered the Titan’s ribs, blowing the protective plating completely away. The ethereal golden flames poured violently into the open cavity, illuminating the dark void of the Titan’s interior.

The blade struck the Void-Storm Core.

The resulting explosion was catastrophic. The core didn’t just break; it violently detonated inward, collapsing upon itself in a brilliant flash of destructive light. The concussive shockwave of the collapsing singularity blew the Sovereign’s Eclipse entirely apart, scattering the absolute darkness and sending Leon skidding backward fifty yards across the gray dirt, his boots carving deep trenches into the earth.

Ozymandias froze. The hyper-dense dreadnought stood perfectly still. The red suns in its eyes flickered, turned a dull, lifeless gray, and shattered like fragile glass.

The thirty-foot dreadnought of bone and void energy collapsed to its knees. A heavy, final silence descended upon the plain, before the entity crumbled entirely into a pile of fine, inert ash.

There was no resurrection this time. The core was completely gone.

Ding!

[You have killed "The Grave-Titan, Ozymandias (Level 95, Final Boss - Phase 2)"]

[Experience Multiplier: 35X Applied. 16,000,000 EXP gained.]

[Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 92!]

[Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 93!]

....

[Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 97!]

[Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 98!]

The golden light of seven consecutive level-ups from the massive EXP pool washed over him, completely restoring his stamina, washing away the profound exhaustion of the boss rush.

Auris landed heavily beside him, letting out a victorious, thunderous roar that scattered the remaining void mist and announced their absolute dominance over the realm.

Leon stood breathing heavily, surrounded by the shattered remains of five ancient sovereigns. He had walked into the Gravesite Plain as a Level 63 Adept. He was walking out at Level 98. The sheer progression speed was entirely unprecedented.

The system interface suddenly filled his entire vision, glowing with a brilliant, blinding platinum light.

Ding!

[Boss Cycle Stage Cleared: The Gravesite Plain]

[Time Elapsed: 47 Minutes.]

[Evaluation: Flawless (No Deaths, No Retreats, Solo Completion)]

[Processing Realm-Tier Reward...]

[Reward 1: Title Acquired — "Conqueror of the Abyss" (Legendary)]

[Reward 2: 5,000,000 Eternal Coins]

[Reward 3: Mythic Artifact Box x1]

Leon stared at the rewards, a slow, predatory smile spreading across his face.

He had intended to make this leveling opportunity count without spending much time in the Abyssal Fracture. He had been inside the realm for less than an hour, meaning only a few days had passed outside in Sector 12.

He was Level 98. He had a Mythic weapon, ten SSS-Rank talents, an Adept-tier High-Dragon, and he had just earned a Mythic Artifact Box.

"System," Leon said quietly, the golden and icy blue light in his eyes burning brighter than the ethereal flames of his sword. "Open the box."