Read Novel Full Chapter 585: Elimination (2/2)
Chapter 585: Elimination (2/2)
The canyon floor cracked beneath Almond’s feet as Dominion Feedback quietly began stacking from the construct kills. The air bent inward around the Exalted blade, swallowing drifting ash before it could touch the edge.
The archer moved first.
Five arrows manifested at once, each one darker than the last, tips humming with compressed spatial implosion. He released them in a fan formation, sealing every obvious dodge vector.
Almond did not dodge.
Voidtrace Element activated.
The world simplified.
Lines appeared.
Weaknesses glowed faintly across the archer’s stance, his bow grip, the muscle tension in his fingers.
Almond stepped forward.
One slash.
Voidfracture Bloom unfolded.
The single arc fractured into recursive lines that multiplied mid-air, ten overlapping crescent distortions slicing outward like splitting mirrors.
All five arrows disintegrated mid-flight.
Two fracture lines continued forward.
The archer’s shoulder split open before he could teleport.
He vanished anyway.
The dagger woman appeared behind Almond instantly, liquid-crystal daggers aimed at the base of his skull.
Silent.
Precise.
Oblivion Tyrant’s Final Testament moved without flourish.
A backhanded sweep.
Voidfracture Bloom again.
She phased, and the fracture lines followed her.
They did not cut her physical body first.
They cut the space she intended to phase into with Almond’s direction.
Her form snapped back into solidity mid-transition.
A second slash followed immediately.
Ten mirrored fracture lines crossed at her torso.
She shattered into respawn light.
Ten seconds.
Almond’s eyes flicked upward.
"Ten."
It was time to kill the archer before his partner respawned.
The archer reappeared on the canyon wall, already retreating deeper into the gravity distortions, trying to stall for his partner’s respawn.
Almond lifted his hand.
Gravemarch Sovereign Cleaver descended, warping gravity downward.
The canyon floor buckled, forcing the archer out of his perch.
Stormdirge Executioner Halo rotated once.
Lightning speared across the sky, forcing him to teleport again.
Voidtrace followed.
Almond’s silhouette flickered.
Mirrorstep Etiquette from Alfred triggered in synchronization, sealing an escape angle.
The archer fired three desperation shots.
One grazed Almond’s side.
Pulse Devour Sigil ignited instantly.
The wound sealed almost as fast as it formed.
Dominion stacked higher.
Almond closed the distance.
The Exalted blade thrust forward.
Voidfracture Bloom multiplied the thrust into a lattice of converging fracture-lines.
The archer raised a hexagonal shield.
It shattered.
Silent Execution triggered.
An invisible cut manifested at the exact point Voidtrace had highlighted beneath his sternum.
He froze.
Split.
Respawn light burst outward.
Both eliminated.
The canyon quieted for a single breath.
Then it roared again.
Tier-10 beasts, drawn by the sustained devastation, began flooding into the canyon from every direction.
A Voltaic Rift Serpent tore through the sky, scales crackling with blue lightning.
Two Molten Crag Titans climbed from magma pools, stone fists dripping liquid fire.
A Shardwing Abyss Drake dove from above, crystalline wings refracting warped sunlight.
Lily’s Dreadlings surged in immediately.
Nyxflare Oblivion Moths blanketed the upper sky in cascading green-black detonations.
Colossus Virethorn Bastion braced against the Crag Titans, absorbing impact after impact as magma splashed outward in violent arcs.
Chronohex Lamentors expanded layered slow-fields, disrupting the Rift Serpent’s lightning tempo.
Sylvia stepped into the center.
Verdant Throne Domain expanded outward like a blooming canopy.
Radiant pollen filled the canyon, restoring allies while weakening hostile regeneration.
Almond moved through the chaos like a quiet executioner.
Oblivion Tyrant’s Final Testament carved across the Rift Serpent’s body.
Voidfracture Bloom multiplied the slash.
Lightning exploded outward in spirals.
Pulse Devour Sigil drank deeply.
Dominion stacked again.
The serpent tried to coil upward.
Silent Execution triggered mid-ascent.
Its core split invisibly.
The massive body collapsed in a cascade of blue sparks.
Almond pivoted instantly.
One Crag Titan raised both fists.
He stepped beneath the descending blow.
A rising diagonal slash.
Ten fracture lines spread across its stone torso in perfect symmetry.
Magma veins erupted outward.
The second Titan lunged from behind.
Alfred intercepted.
Leviathan’s Verdict Blade clashed against stone knuckles, shockwaves tearing through canyon walls.
Almond finished the first Titan with a thrust that fractured its core.
Dominion stacked higher.
The Exalted blade’s aura grew heavier, darker, denser.
Shard fragments rained like glittering meteors.
Logistic Nexus Dreadlings swarmed, harvesting with ruthless efficiency.
Shard count climbed.
9,450.
9,720.
9,890.
The obsidian duo respawned at the canyon’s far edge.
They saw the massacre unfolding.
They hesitated.
Lily noticed.
"Push them."
Skirmisher Fighters burst forward, harassing teleport anchors.
The dagger woman tried to flank again.
Voidtrace highlighted her instantly.
Almond did not chase.
He flicked the blade once.
A distant fracture-line split the air.
She phased—
—but the line had already cut the path she intended to take.
Her body split in mid-step.
Respawn light.
The archer attempted a full retreat toward their Crystal Tower boundary.
Stormdirge flashed once.
Lightning shattered his footing.
Almond appeared before him in a blur.
The Exalted blade descended cleanly.
No excess motion.
No flourish.
Split.
Respawn light again.
Shard count surged from fallen monsters and constructs.
9,980.
9,995.
9,999.
The Shardwing Abyss Drake attempted to flee upward through fractured air currents.
Riftpiercer Monarch Spike flashed once.
A razor-thin distortion pierced its heart.
It fell.
10,000.
The Crystal Tower pulsed.
A shockwave of pale light erupted outward, expanding their territory one final time.
Across the warped horizon, at the heart of the continent where floating landmasses spiraled inward as a broken crown, a radiant pillar of gold light erupted into the sky.
The Victory Cup had manifested.
The canyon trembled one last time.
The obsidian duo did not re-engage.
They retreated fully toward their shrinking window of hope.
Almond lowered the Exalted blade slowly.
Dominion stacks faded one by one, the aura stabilizing.
Lily walked up beside him, whip resting loosely in her hand, seven hundred Dreadlings reorganizing seamlessly behind her like a disciplined legion.
"Core unlocked," she said.
Almond looked toward the distant pillar of light.
"Now it’s just a straight race."
The continent groaned as gravitational anomalies shifted toward the center, pulling debris, beasts, and players alike into converging paths.
Above the horizon, three distant light signatures moved at high speed.
The other pairs.
All heading toward the same point.
Almond lifted Oblivion Tyrant’s Final Testament.
The edge swallowed light again.
"Let’s finish this." Lily appeared next to him.