Chapter 249
Chapter 249
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 249
Chapter Title: Armageddon (3)
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Transcendent Awakening.
The special skill embedded in the Soul Collector's Authority activated.
The ability that temporarily elevated one's tier by consuming 10,000 equivalent souls was now applied to Rokan.
[Through the effect of Transcendent Awakening, you have temporarily awakened High Master abilities.]
[You can now combine arbitrary Master skills.]
He already knew the effects. Without hesitation, Rokan immediately combined a skill on the spot.
[You have acquired the Master skill 'Omni Assault.']
Omni Assault!
He had considered combining a one-hit kill skill like Gale Slaughter, but Rokan changed his mind. This wasn't an opponent he could finish with a single blow.
Instead, he created a sustained, yet incredibly powerful skill.
In a way, it was a force akin to the King of Genesis's Execution Blade. A sustained skill that massively amplified attack power until all enemies within a certain radius were annihilated.
As that power manifested in Rokan's body, another force awakened.
The Lion King's Armaments!
The moment he gained the set effect, it came with a High Master restriction, so he hadn't been able to use it properly until now. The seal was now released.
[The Lion King's Armaments awaken from their seal.]
[The Lion King's Armaments regain their original power.]
[The set effect 'Lion King's Power' activates.]
Not only the set effect, but the stats of each sealed piece had changed. It granted Rokan a completely different tier of power from before.
"Insolent fool!"
At that moment, the Frost Titan sensed the threat and charged.
Tension and rage crept over its previously relaxed face as it drew forth all its power to crush Rokan.
Whoooom!
Space tore apart. The unprecedented energy concentrated at the tip of the spear-like War Pike halted even the blizzard.
Kagagang!
But Rokan casually swung his Battle Axe.
Instead of clashing head-on, he drove the axe blade deeper, wrapping around the War Pike like a coil as he moved.
Boom!
The ground struck by the War Pike vanished. Not exploded or destroyed, but evaporated.
That alone showed how immense the power in its attack was, yet Rokan's expression remained brimming with leisure.
"Wait up, you bastard!"
Thwack!
He kicked the Titan's chest with his foot, launching himself backward.
"One more left."
He drew forth his final power.
"Martial Soul Awakening."
The High Master-restricted skill he had found in the Imperial Palace Grand Library.
The skill that had turned Gaokan into the Lion King.
It was now reproduced in Rokan.
He drew out the soul power dwelling in the Lion King's Armaments.
"Krraaaaaah!"
The lion's roar threatened the Titan.
It could lose. It might be sealed once more, suffering through eons of torment.
No, it could even die beyond that.
Though it was a being of the strongest race that felt no fear, this moment was an exception.
'Demons, huh? Interesting.'
Unlike the Titan's face twisted in agony, Rokan's bore a spreading smile.
Martial Soul Awakening wasn't a one-time use.
The cooldown was practically nonexistent.
All it required was mana and an item possessing a 'martial soul.'
Thus, Rokan could activate it once more.
"Martial Soul Awakening."
This time, it wasn't the Lion King's Armaments that awakened. As a set item, the entire ensemble was one.
The awakened Lion King's Armaments couldn't be re-awakened individually.
However, Rokan possessed an item no less powerful—perhaps even superior.
The Sealed Gale Chain Battle Axe.
If it was the armament that once slew a Titan in the past, it was highly likely to possess a martial soul.
It was a gamble, but his guess hit the mark.
[The Sealed Gale Chain Battle Axe triggers Martial Soul Awakening.]
[Sealed items cannot awaken.]
[Limited release. Titan presence confirmed nearby. Special condition met—seal on the Sealed Gale Chain Battle Axe is temporarily released.]
"......!"
And the gamble paid off.
It still maintained its 'sealed' state, but because the opponent was a Titan, its power had awakened.
With it came a power of a different tier flowing into Rokan.
A force surpassing High Master level.
Temporarily, Rokan had grasped Grand Master power.
"Heh heh heh, let's go again!"
Clang!
The Battle Axe and War Pike collided. It was still no opponent to take lightly, but this was to confirm the difference in power.
Wobble.
In that instant, the Titan's knee buckled.
Even as it exerted full power, Rokan surpassed it in strength.
"Don't get cocky!"
The enraged Titan exploded with power. Its inherent frost energy eroded the surroundings, freezing everything.
[The Lion King's Power protects you.]
[You receive no effect.]
But Rokan, protected by a special force, was equally unaffected.
The frost energy had no impact before the Lion King's Power, which inherently carried fire attributes.
The Battle Axe cleaved through the spot where it stood.
Infused with the Lion King's aura and the Gale's power, it unleashed a sword wind like a flaming storm.
"Kraaaak!"
It raised its War Pike to block, but it was futile.
Unlike this brute reliant on innate strength, Rokan wielded human technique.
He slammed its weapon into the ground, then launched himself forward.
He entrusted his body to the new skill born from releasing the Lion King's Armaments seal.
"Lion's Pounce!"
At a glance, it was merely a plain shoulder charge.
But the moment its body collided with Rokan's shoulder, a lion form made of flames manifested.
Like a lion tearing into prey, savage fangs left brutal marks on its chest.
"Cough!"
The lion's power, antithetical to frost, penetrated deep into its body.
Regeneration failed to respond, and even the frost power weakened.
"Lion Flame Slash!"
Sword ki rained down relentlessly!
Damage amplified by extreme attributes etched into its body.
"To dare! A mere human!"
Yet it didn't back down.
The pride of the strongest race drove it onward. It stomped like an earthquake, hurtling toward Rokan once more.
"Counter!"
But Rokan didn't lose his cool.
As its strike—too fast to even react to—came crashing down, he used the generated skill for a backstep. Faster than the dodge, he closed in and delivered a devastating blow.
"Grk!"
Boom! Thud! Thud!
Its body, barely blocking the Battle Axe, ricocheted like a skipped stone. This proved it couldn't match his power.
Grooooar.
Then, something astonishing happened. Enormous mana and frost energy gathered around its maw. It was unmistakably a dragon's authority: Breath.
Kwaaaaaaaa!
Ice Breath infused with freezing power erupted. Extreme chill that froze even falling snowflakes!
He even thought he might not survive a direct hit, but Rokan stayed calm.
He trusted himself.
"Gale Slaughter!"
He swung the Battle Axe with full power at the Breath laced with freezing might.
He cleaved it apart.
"Kyaaaaaaaak!"
Though frost coated his body, the Titan went berserk seeing Rokan stand unscathed.
It couldn't accept it.
It was the strongest race.
Naturally, it was the strongest.
No one, no race, could escape that absolute law.
It couldn't kneel to a mere human—again to a mere human.
Fwaaaah.
A green haze rose around its body.
Titan's Fury!
A Grand Master skill it couldn't use at will due to the extreme rage condition required—a skill even it struggled to achieve—activated.
The aura of annihilation dwelling in its body erased all it touched, reducing everything to nothingness.
True destruction and calamity incarnate.
"Die!"
That wasn't all. It began properly wielding its skill.
Annihilation power imbued the War Pike, threatening Rokan.
Fsssh!
A shockwave near vacuum—not from clashing forces—swept the surroundings.
All traces of terrain vanished.
"Urk......"
Rumble rumble.
The unsealed Gale Battle Axe trembled. Even for it, blocking a strike laden with annihilation power wasn't easy.
But it wasn't unbearable.
As the Titan's sole nemesis, it resisted its power. Rokan unleashed a flurry, counterattacking.
Crack crackle.
It whirled its War Pike in defense, but Rokan's power was no joke.
The Lion King's Power and Gale's Power cracked the annihilation armor clinging like skin.
Seizing the gap, it swung the War Pike again.
Overwhelming destructive force from the hammer face smashed down on Rokan.
"Jump!"
In that instant, Rokan leaped back. Out of its attack range, he gripped the Battle Axe in one hand and drew a massive hammer with the other.
"Tch!"
Earth Shatter!
The special effect of Earth Shatter, guaranteed to topple foes, activated.
Boom! Wobble wobble.
Even the Titan couldn't escape that confirmed judgment.
It might have dodged or offset if prepared, but this sudden strike was unavoidable.
Splat!
Rokan soared toward the pathetically fallen brute.
Critical Strike, Sever, Bone Crush......
He stacked all his skills into one blow.
"Eat this!"
Falling from midair, he drove in the final strike.
"Escape!"
Zzzzt!
But it had an escape too.
Its body vanished like a phantom, reappearing behind Rokan.
It aimed to seize his back.
"Idiot!"
Bang! Babang!
But as if anticipating it, Rokan tossed something.
Shock Orbs.
No damage, but like Earth Shatter, they guaranteed knockback—several orbs flew at it simultaneously.
Precisely at its feet.
"Eek!"
Balance lost in the lower body meant physical specs were irrelevant. With legs buckled, the Titan face-planted forward.
Rokan corrected his stance in that gap.
Toward the Titan scrambling up, he delivered the true final blow.
"Ultra Apex."
The ultimate strike acquired when the Gale Battle Axe awakened via Martial Soul Awakening.
The reason Rokan had combined a sustained skill as his second Master skill instead of a finisher.
The skill awakened the moment the Gale Battle Axe stirred via Martial Soul Awakening.
It was now reproduced in Rokan's hands.
"T-That can't......!"
Thwack!
Rokan's Battle Axe pierced the Titan's chest.
The annihilation energy it boasted meant nothing in this moment.
As if fearing Rokan's power—or recoiling—it even seemed to retreat.
The destructive force that shattered limits and impossibility, the power that opened new worlds, spread through its body.
It erased the being that sought to destroy the world.
It proclaimed loudly to the world the birth of a new absolute.