The Extra Can't be A Hero

Chapter 304: Attack the Titans (5)

Yue's insult was seared in Knodalon's mind. The Beast Titan looked right into the young woman's eyes before growling, "Are you calling me a dog?"

"Aren't you one? A mere pup that doesn't know how to control its emotions. In my view, even a puppy has a better function than you."

"Insolence! I am the origin, the creator of all creatures! You dare compare me to a mere dog?!"

The Beast Titan could not fathom being looked down upon, least of all by a mere inferior creature it could have erased with a single thought. And yet, it sensed that Yue's energy far surpassed that of ordinary beings, brushing against the realm of the divine.

A flicker of apprehension stirred in Knodalon's mind.

That hesitation, however, was obliterated the moment Yue insulted him.

As she had predicted, the Beast Titan could not tolerate the contempt of an inferior. Rage erupted within him, drowning all reason as his fury surged forth.

"Die!!!"

The massive werewolf lashed out, its claws tearing toward Yue with the force of a thousand thunderclaps roaring in their wake. Knodalon believed the insolent inferior would be ended in a single strike.

Instead, Yue's Monarch-tier Spirit answered the blow.

Kaethon, the Stone Sentinel, intercepted the claw head-on. The collision unleashed a shockwave that ripped through space itself as the two titans clashed on equal footing. Forests were torn from the earth, and for a brief moment, the world seemed to black out under the strain.

For an instant, their strength appeared evenly matched.

But Knodalon had no intention of being halted by a mere spirit. Drawing upon its dominion over nature, the Beast Titan drove its claws into the Stone Sentinel's arms, shredding stone and essence alike before tearing them free from its torso.

It followed with a savage lunge, its fangs sinking deep into Kaethon's body.

A Monarch-tier Spirit—one that stood at the pinnacle of creation—was torn apart, reduced to drifting spiritual particles.

Knodalon stood over the fading remnants of light, the last traces of what Kaethon once was.

"Annoying bug."

The Beast Titan spat, then turned its gaze toward the insolent human who had dared challenge its authority. Yue remained unmoving, utterly indifferent to the annihilation of her Monarch-tier Spirit.

No—she had expected it.

The ethereal, white-haired beauty showed no panic, no tension, not even a flicker of emotion. While Knodalon revelled in its dominance, Yue calmly assessed the battlefield, having already measured the Beast Titan's strength. Her mind moved with quiet precision, calculating the path to victory.

"Looks like you can't use divinity, huh?" Yue thought aloud. "Then this should be easier than I'd thought."

"What are you talking about?!"

"Don't worry, you'll learn soon enough."

Yue scoffed and released a surge of mana. Space itself warped as invisible chains coiled around Knodalon's body, binding flesh, bone, and will alike.

The Beast Titan roared and forced its limbs to move, shattering several restraints through sheer power... but many more remained.

Worse still, the sealing force was accelerating, tightening with every passing breath. When the massive werewolf was driven to its knees for the first time in its existence, unease finally took root.

Yue's ruby eyes gleamed with an otherworldly, predatory light as she spread her palms and gazed directly into the Beast Titan's soul. Within the labyrinth of its being, she found it—a simple, condensed core that housed all of Knodalon's remaining divinity.

A victorious smile curved her lips, as she resisted the urge to jump into a celebratory dance.

Since regressing, Yue had contemplated how to overcome every calamity, including the Titans. From the very moment she stepped into the Necropolis of the Gods more than a decade ago, she had been laying the groundwork for this outcome.

By leveraging Yval's authority as the Undertaker of the Titan graveyard, she had forced the slumbering Titans to isolate their divinities into tangible cores—cores that could be torn cleanly from their existences.

In doing so, she had given the Titans a fatal weakness, one that could be exploited the instant they awakened.

And now, within the Beast Titan's body, that core lay exposed.

"I'll be taking this."

Yue twisted her wrist, and a suction force bloomed into existence, behaving like an overwhelming gravitational pull. Deep within the Beast Titan's body, the core began to vibrate violently, as though a raging whirlpool of energy were attempting to siphon Knodalon's essence away in its entirety.

The Beast Titan roared, this time not in rage, but in fear.

For the first time in its existence, terror clawed into its mind. It felt as though its very soul were being torn in half, and there was almost nothing it could do to stop it.

Fortunately for Knodalon, Yue's invisible force had not yet reached the strength required to rip the core cleanly from his soul… not yet at least.

With a feral scream, the Beast Titan tore itself free from the restraints, shredding its own limbs and ligaments in the process. It stumbled backwards, retreating hundreds of meters in a single bound—instinctively fleeing from the being it had deemed inferior, now confronted by a terror far greater than itself.

"Oh? The mighty Beast Titan actually retreated from me? Am I that scary… doggy?"

"Y-you!!!"

In its anger, Knodalon couldn't tell that Yue was taunting it. If the Beast Titan actually used its everything to escape, especially if it ran back to the Necropolis of the Gods, where the Titan King was, it could likely live to enjoy another day. But unfortunately, Knodalon was trapped by Yue's taunt and made the worst possible choice.

The Beast Titan chose… to fight the unwinnable battle.

"Awooooo!!!"

Knodalon unleashed a primordial howl that sent shivers through every being present. Instincts screamed in response… some urging flight, others compelling worship and submission to the massive, alluring creature.

If not for the protection of Amon and Yue, there were those who might have defected on the spot, drawn irresistibly toward the Beast Titan's dominion.

The surrounding beasts, however, were not so fortunate.

Any creature within a thousand kilometres felt the call and answered it.

They came by the millions, arriving in endless waves, drawn by the voice of their progenitor, the origin of their bloodlines.

For their King, they spared nothing, throwing themselves into battle without hesitation. The Beast Titan fixed its glare on Yue, fangs dripping with venomous saliva. It yearned to tear her apart, to end her in the most horrendous way imaginable.

But it was a desire that would never be fulfilled.

Yue merely cast her gaze over the surging tide of beasts and the trembling Titan looming above them, before letting a wry smile curve her lips.

"Trying to overcome me with numbers? Wrong choice, doggy."

Once more, Yue raised a finger toward the heavens.

The mana within her soul surged, and the cloudy firmament tore open as a gaping rift bloomed across the sky. Divine light poured down, as though an Angel of Judgment—or a Goddess herself—were descending upon the world.

A resonant chime echoed. From within the radiance emerged a colossal silver gate, its surface etched with the mysteries of existence and steeped in the authority of spacetime itself. Silver clouds and mist flooded the sky, and for a moment, it felt as though Heaven's Gate had been thrown open.

Another chime rang out. The gate slowly parted. This was not a path to the Divine Realm where the Goddess resided, nor a corridor to Urath, the dominion of the Demon King.

It was the Spirit Realm—the most enigmatic plane in human existence, the cradle where all spirits were born and the grave where they returned.

For the longest time, Yue had hesitated to open this door.

Though she possessed an unparalleled affinity with spirits, even she had lacked the strength to withstand the Spirit Realm's boundless energy, let alone rule it as its sovereign.

But now, with the Beast Titan's divinity within her grasp… that limitation no longer existed. Without the slightest hesitation, Yue committed the unthinkable.

She unlocked the door to the other realm.

Spiritual energy flooded the material realm as Yue descended with her legions of spirits. Alongside the Monarch-tier entities bound to her will, thousands of lesser spirits answered her call.

That alone made her the most dangerous existence on the planet.

With a single command, she could drown entire cities beneath unkillable spirits and dismantle armies on her own. It was precisely why she was the perfect counter to the Beast Titan, a being that had always relied on overwhelming numbers.

The two powerhouses regarded one another like opposing commanders poised for war—but in truth, it was closer to a tyrant facing a revolutionary on the battlefield.

One ruled through bloodline suppression and primal fear; the other commanded an army of eternally loyal soldiers, honed through countless battles since Yue's regression. This was never going to be a fair fight. Yue glanced at the disorganised beast horde gathering in the distance, then let out a triumphant laugh.

"Let's end this quickly."