Titan King: Ascension of the Giant

Chapter 1568: Evander’s End, Abaddon’s Fall

"I welcome Her Great Majesty, the Insect Queen, to descend upon the Divine Kingdom!"

"This mighty human shall be Horath’s offering to You!"

Horath spread his arms, embracing the void and the sky full of writhing insectoid runes. He was channeling the descent of Insect Queen Moriphara’s Divine Kingdom, intending to offer Evander’s powerful Demigod phantom as a living sacrifice.

"Do not push me too far!" Evander roared, his voice laced with desperate fury. "Perhaps we can still negotiate."

Evander was a Demigod powerhouse, and a remarkably pragmatic one at that. He was highly intelligent and cared little for meaningless pride. He saw exactly what Horath was attempting, and it filled him with absolute rage. Yet, even on the precipice of death, he forcibly suppressed his anger, trying to bargain for his survival.

Unfortunately, Horath gave him absolutely no quarter. He was dead set on sacrificing the human.

"Horath! I will remember that name!" Evander bellowed. "As long as my true body does not fall, your race will know no peace!"

It was a vicious threat, fitting for a truly ruthless man.

Realizing that negotiation was a pipe dream, Evander’s Demigod phantom began to rapidly compress. He condensed his entire being to its absolute limit, turning his phantom into what looked like a miniature black hole.

Then came the detonation—an apocalyptic explosion that shattered the void and fractured the entire continent.

The self-destruction of a Demigod phantom instantly annihilated the newborn landmass. Evander’s logic was brutally simple: If I am to lose this land, no one else will have it either.

An indeterminable amount of time passed before the cataclysmic fallout finally settled, leaving the world in absolute, deathly silence. Aside from the insectoid Demigod Horath hovering high in the firmament, not a single living creature remained on the continent—not even the swarm.

Yet, despite suffering such catastrophic casualties, Horath’s face displayed not a shred of grief or regret. Instead, he simply looked down, staring at the shattered continent that had been reduced to a scatter of fragmented islands.

"What a shallow, ignorant fool," Horath sneered. "He clearly didn’t know that in the early stages of realm integration, newborn continents possess self-healing properties. Driven by the world’s cosmic laws, this shattered landmass will autonomously fuse back together before long."

"What a pity. Such a dense Demigod phantom... the sacrifice was so close to succeeding."

The Titan Continent. The Northern Frontier.

BOOM!

Even from within his sealed space, Orion felt the terrifying, world-rending shockwave reverberate through the cosmic laws.

Who was that? Was it the Human, Evander? The Sea Race, Kairon? Or did one of the Dragon Demigods choose to self-destruct? Could it be an insectoid Demigod?

Orion quickly dismissed the last possibility. The swarm had too many Demigod powerhouses; they could easily afford to stall for reinforcements. With their overwhelming numerical and sheer power advantages, there was absolutely no reason for them to resort to self-destruction.

Naturally, it wasn’t Seraphina either. He shared a deep connection with his woman and constantly monitored her status.

"Did you hear that?" Abaddon’s voice echoed from three different directions. Facing an apex predator like Orion, his twelve avatars had been whittled down to a mere three. "What a beautiful symphony of destruction! Care to guess who it was? Could it be that Merfolk Demigod you’re so terribly fond of?"

The deaths of Abaddon’s avatars had significantly thickened the crimson mist saturating the sealed void. Abaddon didn’t care in the slightest; this was all part of the grand design.

The energy, will, and faith released by the death of his avatars only served to further fortify the Second-Stage Demigod, Moniq, who was actively sealing Orion from the outside.

Because Orion had dared to intercept the swarm’s descent entirely alone, his sheer strength had undeniably caught the attention of Insect Queen Moriphara. To ensure the flawless conquest of this newborn world, the swarm had opted to temporarily seal Orion, aiming to sever him from his territorial roots and starve him into weakness. Cut off from his supply of faith energy, Orion would become infinitely easier to handle. When the time came, they could effortlessly execute or sacrifice him.

To spring this trap, Abaddon had been deployed to the Titan Continent as bait—bait that Orion was forced to confront. While Orion was bogged down, Moniq had descended carrying the warding boundary of Moriphara’s Divine Kingdom, sealing both Orion and Abaddon inside a spherical golden cage.

Simply put, the golden ward trapping them was a direct extension of Insect Queen Moriphara’s Divine Kingdom. This entirely explained the suffocating resistance Orion had felt earlier when he tried to summon his own Abyssal domain.

"Do you honestly not realize that by sealing me, they’ve sealed you as well?" Orion asked, standing firmly upon his Abyssal phantom, his eyes locked onto Abaddon’s remaining avatars.

He was in no rush to obliterate the enemy. In scenarios where the enemy believed they held absolute superiority, it was far easier to pry out high-value intelligence.

"Of course I know! I volunteered. I’m ecstatic to be here!" Abaddon replied. He looked slightly disappointed not to see a trace of shock on Orion’s face, but that disappointment was quickly replaced by a bizarre, unhinged grin.

As a Demigod-tier Insect King, Abaddon possessed his own will and consciousness. Naturally, he feared death. Yet, being sealed alongside Orion and eventually devoured by the Insect Queen’s Divine Kingdom didn’t frighten him in the slightest.

Why? Because he could simply be reborn within Insect Queen Moriphara’s womb. He could seamlessly reconstruct his physical form within the swarm’s Divine Kingdom. The faith and cosmic laws Abaddon burned away today would be completely replenished by Moriphara tomorrow. Only a Demigod Insect King like him knew the ultimate truth: Moriphara’s womb was her Divine Kingdom. Furthermore, having fused with the Insectoid Realm, the entire realm itself functioned as her domain.

"It seems your particular strain of the swarm hides some fascinating secrets regarding resurrection," Orion probed, testing the waters.

Abaddon’s only response was an androgynous, chilling sneer.

"Actually... having a multitude of avatars isn’t all that impressive."

Orion’s calm, flat voice cut through Abaddon’s cold laughter so abruptly that it felt like an invisible hand had clamped shut around the insectoid’s throat, choking the sound out of him entirely.

In the very next instant, a colossal, sky-blotting Giant’s hand erupted from the Abyssal depths beneath Orion’s feet. Before Abaddon could even process the horror, the massive hand snatched up all of his remaining avatars, dragging them violently down into the Abyss. It even managed to claw away the vast majority of the suffocating crimson mist filling the sealed space.

The Divine Kingdom. The Asura Realm.

"Welcome to My Divine Kingdom."

Having successfully dragged Abaddon into his domain, the insectoid’s life and death now rested entirely on Orion’s whims. The scales had completely tipped; the hunter had become the prey. Orion’s voice was frigid, radiating an absolute, untouchable supremacy. He rarely referred to himself with such divine majesty, but here, amplified by the full, crushing weight of his Divine Kingdom, his presence was incomprehensibly terrifying.

ROAR... KILL!

ROAR... KILL!

The moment he was dragged into the Divine Kingdom, the endless, blood-curdling roars of Stoneheart Titans began to violently echo in Abaddon’s ears, his heart, and his sea of consciousness. The sheer, concentrated killing intent in those bellows blurred his mind, shaking his psychic landscape so violently that his consciousness began to actively disintegrate.

An indeterminable amount of time passed before Abaddon’s avatars and the last lingering traces of the crimson mist completely collapsed, utterly devoured and erased within the depths of the Divine Kingdom.