Reincarnated as a Princess's Pet: With Trash Stats, but SSS-Rank Skill Chapter 200: The True Final Boss (5)

Max advanced, step by step.

Dorian’s support magic coursed through his entire body like an endless stream of energy.

The gale generated by the black bird continued slamming into him head-on, but it was no longer enough to stop him.

His boots gripped the ground.

His cape whipped violently in the wind.

And even so, he kept moving forward.

"Max!"

He heard Dorian shout from behind.

"Keep it up!"

Max raised a hand without looking back.

He couldn’t afford to lose focus.

The bird was furious, its massive wings battering the air.

Its dark eyes locked onto him.

And then it attacked.

The creature launched itself forward.

Its gigantic claws ca crashing down directly toward Max’s head.

"Here it cos!"

Max reacted instantly.

He raised his shield.

The claws slamd into the tal.

The impact was so powerful that his legs sank several centiters into the ground.

But he held firm and counterattacked.

"Take this!"

His hamr traced a brutal arc.

The weapon struck one of the bird’s front legs directly.

The sound of bones shattering echoed through the room.

The creature let out a piercing screech.

One of its legs was completely destroyed.

"Yes!"

Max shouted.

The bird staggered backward.

But sothing worse was happening.

Will had reached the end of the seal.

Only one detail remained.

One final sacrifice.

The false Vesper slowly raised his head.

His eyes glead, and he smiled.

"It’s done."

The bird let out a screech, as if it understood perfectly.

Will raised a hand.

"Co."

The injured creature dragged itself toward him.

Max felt a chill run down his spine.

"What is he doing?"

Dorian didn’t seem to understand either.

"No idea."

Then it happened.

Will pulled out a ceremonial knife he had been carrying.

And walked toward the chained caveman.

The giant was still unconscious.

Thara’s eyes widened.

"No..."

Will raised the knife and, without hesitation...

Brought it down.

The caveman’s head fell to the ground.

Blood sprayed everywhere, soaking the final section of the enormous magic circle.

The seal was completed.

And then...

The magic circle began to glow.

A dark energy exploded from its center.

"What the hell?!"

Max shouted.

The darkness began to spin in on itself.

Like a black hole.

Will was caught imdiately.

His body was lifted by the force of the energy.

"Will!"

Thara scread.

Vesper’s body vanished into the vortex.

Then the sa thing happened to the caveman’s corpse.

Then to the black bird.

And finally to all the tallic pieces of the destroyed android.

The energy absorbed them.

Crushed them.

Mixed them together.

Twisted them.

Fused them.

"Will!"

Thara scread again.

But this ti, tears began streaming down her cheeks.

"Will, stop! Please!"

Her legs gave out and she fell to her knees.

Dorian rushed to her side imdiately.

He held her by the shoulders.

"Don’t look."

He said softly.

But she couldn’t tear her eyes away.

Because she knew she was watching the only family she had left disappear forever.

Even if it wasn’t really Vesper anymore.

Even if it wasn’t completely Will anymore.

It was still soone important to her.

And now that person was being consud by sothing monstrous.

Max stared at the vortex, growing more confused and more nervous by the second.

"What the hell is happening?"

He asked.

His voice barely ca out.

"I never saw anything like this in the ga."

Dorian couldn’t look away either.

"I’ve never seen anything like this in my adventures either."

But he shook his head.

The energy continued to grow.

Larger.

More intense.

More unstable.

The walls began to tremble.

The floor vibrated.

Even the air itself seed to be breaking apart.

And then...

Everything exploded.

BOOOOOOM!!

A shockwave tore through the room.

Max raised his shield.

Dorian shielded Thara.

Chunks of stone were sent flying.

Dust swallowed everything.

And for several seconds...

No one could see anything.

Only darkness.

Only smoke.

Only silence.

Then...

Within the cloud of dust, sothing began to move.

A step.

Heavy.

Slow.

Painful.

Max felt a chill crawl down his spine.

"What is that?"

He asked.

No one answered.

Because everyone was staring.

The figure slowly erged from the smoke.

And it was horrifying.

Far worse than anyone could have imagined.

It had the black bird’s enormous wings.

But they were deford.

Twisted.

Poorly attached to its back.

Its arms were the caveman’s.

Gigantic.

Covered in grotesque muscles.

Its legs ended in monstrous claws.

tal parts protruded from all over its body.

Fragnts of the android were embedded in its flesh.

Cables erged from its skin.

Steel plates pierced muscles and bones.

Its skin was gray, like Vesper’s.

And long white hair fell over the abomination.

The sa white hair as the drow.

The creature took a step forward.

And scread.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

A scream of pain.

Of suffering.

Of agony.

Its wings flailed violently.

Its muscles trembled.

The tallic fragnts screeched and grated.

Nothing fit together.

Nothing was where it belonged.

It was a being created by force.

A mistake.

The creature scread again.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!"

Max swallowed hard.

Slowly, he raised his hamr.

And stared at the abomination.

’Now this looks like a final boss.’

He thought.

’A real one.’

At that mont...

A window appeared before his eyes.

The system interface.

The sa one that had accompanied him ever since he arrived in Eldoria.

And this ti it glowed with a strange intensity.

Then a ssage appeared.

[The main quest has been updated.]

Max’s eyes widened.

The text continued writing itself.

[New objective detected.]

And finally, a new line appeared.

One that made even him feel a knot form in his stomach.

[Defeat the Final Boss: Will, the Fusion of Otherworldly Beasts.]

The ssage remained floating before him.

Like a sentence.

Max slowly dismissed the window.

And looked at the monster once more.

Will was still screaming.

Twisting.

Suffering.

As his black wings battered the air.

As chanical parts sparked and crackled.

As the caveman’s muscles contracted unnaturally.

As Vesper’s face slowly disappeared beneath the deformation.

Max tightened his grip on the handle of his hamr.

And took a deep breath.

Because there were no more doubts.

No more mysteries.

No more suspects.

Only one thing remained.

To defeat the monster standing before them.

The true final boss.