Leon didn’t feel as disoriented this ti—not as long and completely as before. That was because he’d activated his life elent healing even before the attack connected, already channeling the restorative energy through his system without waiting to see the result of the clash. He’d learned from the previous brutal outco not to hesitate.
Thump-thump-thump!
His enhanced heart beat strongly, pumping life-infused blood through damaged tissue at accelerated rates, knitting torn muscle fibers, sealing internal bleeding, and reinforcing cracked bones.
A faint burning spread through his core as the healing took hold—like molten threads weaving through torn muscle, forcing tissue back into shape faster than nature ever intended. Sssshhhrrrp... crackle...
Another stomp was coming at him while he was still recovering, trying to crush him into paste against the ground. This ti through the clearing dust, he even noticed the spikes—jagged stone protrusions like inverted mountains on the bottom of the foot, each one massive enough to impale a dragon.
"Fuck!" he spat, blood still on his lips.
He knew with absolute certainty that if this attack landed cleanly, he would be in serious, potentially fatal trouble. Even with his enhanced regeneration, even with his new racial advantages, being crushed by several million tons of magically reinforced earth would be the end.
The monster wasn’t giving him any breathing room whatsoever. As soon as one attack finished, the next was already incoming. Relentless. Overwhelming. A strategy designed to wear him down through sheer, inexhaustible volu of devastating force.
Boom... boom... boom! Each strike shook the ground like thunder rolling through the heavens.
It knows I can hurt it. So it’s not giving ti to attack properly.
Leon had no choice left. No other options presented themselves.
I have to use Black Hole now. My most powerful attack. The one I’ve been holding back.
It was extrely risky—the technique was devastating in its destructive potential but notoriously difficult to control properly, potentially dangerous even to himself if the spatial distortion got out of hand. The technique could theoretically consu anything, including the caster if mishandled.
But he was completely out of safer options.
While he’d made up his mind, already beginning to gather space elents for the reality-warping technique, sothing caught his attention from the peripheral edge of his spatial awareness.
The area he had damaged just monts before—that hard-won damage on the giant’s foot that had given him genuine hope for victory—was being rebuilt before his eyes.
What?! No!
Earth and stone flowed like liquid water into the damaged sections, filling gaps seamlessly. Roots and corrupted wood wove together with impossible speed, reinforcing the entire structure. Ssssslither... creaaaak... thrrumm! The cracks sealed themselves as if they’d never existed, the foot becoming perfectly whole once more within seconds.
You have got to be kidding . It regenerates, too?!
His initial battle strategy—to systematically damage the giant piece by piece until it fell apart—was now completely invalidated. If it could regenerate this quickly, at this scale, simple attrition warfare wouldn’t work at all. He’d need to destroy it faster than it could heal, or sohow target the core directly through two kiloters of animated matter.
Even with the complete absurdity of the situation, facing an enemy that could regenerate from damage that should be crippling, Leon’s mystical eyes remained deadly serious and focused.
The real fight begins now. No more testing. No more holding back. I have to give everything I have.
Mana inside his body surged like a raging river, flooding through every channel and pathway with overwhelming force. Whummm... whummm... His mind focused completely on the impending giant foot covered in deadly spikes, trying to end his existence.
His spatial energy concentrated on a single point in front of him, condensing reality itself into an impossibly small sphere of warped space-ti. The technique required absolute precision—one mistake and the spatial collapse could consu him instead of his target.
His mana reserves burned through like cotton touched by fla, depleting at a terrifying rate as he poured everything into this attack. Fsssssshhh! The foot was just a ter away from crushing him into paste, close enough that he could see individual grains of stone and corrupted root systems woven through the earthen mass.
Now!
He punched forward with full strength, not at the foot itself but at the spatial point he’d been preparing.
CRAAAAACK!
The sound wasn’t an explosion—it was reality itself fracturing, the atmosphere tearing like fabric under impossible strain. Vvvvvvrrrmmm! Space folded inward on itself with a sound that shouldn’t exist, a noise that made his bones vibrate painfully and his teeth ache.
A deep, sucking groan echoed out—the kind of sound that made the back of Leon’s teeth ache, as if the world itself was being chewed apart. Grrrrooooooon... whhhhuuummm!
Leon didn’t wait to see the result. He imdiately teleported himself away, vanishing from his position in a flash of spatial distortion.
Fwoosh! Fwoosh! Fwoosh!
Once. Twice. Three tis in rapid succession, each jump covering roughly one hundred ters. The technique had limitations due to his lack of control—he could only cover that distance with each individual teleport, requiring multiple sequential jumps to create real distance.
Finally, at six hundred ters away and relatively safe from the imdiate danger, he allowed himself to look back at what he’d created.
A small but absolutely terrifying black hole hung in the air where he’d been standing monts before.
Wuuuuuuummmm...
The sphere was maybe a ter in diater—tiny compared to the colossal giant—but its presence warped everything around it. Light bent at impossible angles. Air was compressed and stretched simultaneously. Reality itself seed uncertain about how to behave near the spatial anomaly.
The sky bent inward like rippling fabric around it, while the ground cracked in perfect circles, each tremor reverberating through Leon’s soles like an unnatural heartbeat. Crkkk... thum-thum-thum...
And it was devouring the giant’s foot like the limb was made of smoke rather than solid matter. Shhhhrrrp! Vrrrrrmmm!
The monster’s mass simply disappeared into the void, vanishing without resistance or struggle. Tons of compacted earth and stone flowed into the black hole like water down a drain, the gravitational pull so intense that nothing could resist. The consumption happened faster than regeneration could possibly compensate for.
Got it! This is working! Just like I expected!
Leon had expected the colossal giant to topple over imdiately after losing its balance with one foot gone. The thing was two kiloters tall—basic physics should have sent it crashing down once its foundation was compromised.
But after just a second of watching, he realized the clever monstrosity had a different strategy.
The giant deliberately detached a portion of its own blackened earthen body, severing the connection between its leg and torso. It sacrificed the trapped limb entirely to escape the black hole’s gravitational pull, choosing controlled amputation over total consumption.
And it succeeded.
The entire ankle of the monster was gone, along with a significant portion above it. Nearly a hundred ters of its lower leg had been consud or deliberately severed, leaving a ragged stump where the foot used to be.
Leon didn’t give it a chance to recover or adapt. It’s ti to press the attack.
Despite the monster still standing upright on its remaining foot, he knew its balance was severely compromised right now. The thing was literally standing on one leg with two kiloters of body mass trying to stay upright. If he could make it fall completely and then create a black hole at the center of its massive body, he might actually be able to finish this fight.
That’s the plan. Make it fall, then destroy the core.
With full speed, every enhancent he possessed pushed to its absolute limit, he moved toward the other foot.
WHOOOOSH!
His breath ca in short bursts, lungs burning with overuse, every muscle fiber twitching from overclocked exertion—but he pushed through it all. Haa... haa... haa!
While moving, his spatial awareness detected sothing alarming—the monster was already recreating its lost foot using the land below, pulling earth and stone and twisted wood up through so connection to the ground itself. The regeneration was happening just as fast as when it had first ford its body.
Rrrrrrmmm... shhhrrrk!
I have to make it fall quickly, or all this effort will be worthless.
Lightning crackled around his body in purple arcs, enhancing his nerve signals and muscle contractions. Zzzzzzzap! Wind elent wrapped around his form, reducing air resistance to nearly zero and creating micro-currents that pushed him forward even faster. Whoooosh! Light elent enhanced his perception and boosted his speed, making everything seem to move in slow motion while he remained at full speed.
All three elents worked together through both natural control and learned skills. Mana Body Enhancent pushed beyond safe limits. Raijin’s Descent was activated despite the strain on his system. Every technique he’d mastered was layered on top of each other.
He was moving so fast that he created actual sonic booms, the sound barriers breaking behind him like glass shattering.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
He arrived at the giant’s other foot in milliseconds, covering kiloters in the ti it took a normal person to blink.
His spatial energy concentrated again in a singular point, the sa devastating technique preparing to tear another hole in reality.
Just then, without warning, spikes erupted from the giant’s body at breaking speed—dozens of massive stone protrusions aid directly at him with deadly accuracy.
CRRRAAACK! WHIP! WHOOOSH!
The monster had learned from its previous attack pattern and adapted its defense.
Of course, it wouldn’t let do the sa thing twice!
Leon’s epic-ranked sword flashed in a mix of deadly Aura, each slash calculated with perfect precision. His blade t the incoming spikes one after another, dismantling the attacks with combinations of raw strength and technical skill.
CLANG! CRASH! SHATTER!
The attacks were nonstop, a continuous barrage designed to overwhelm him through sheer volu. But he was dealing with them, his sword moving faster than the eye could follow, each strike breaking stone and deflecting deadly projectiles.
Clang! Clang! Crack!
Finally, with one last full-powered slash combining Skybreaker Draw technique and his King’s Touch level one hundred skill, he unleashed everything he had. The attack carried the weight of his entire enhanced body, all his accumulated montum, and the devastating potential of an epic-ranked weapon pushed to its absolute limits.
His sword strike t the spatial point he’d been targeting with surgical precision.
CRAAAAACK!
Another fracture in the atmosphere, louder this ti, more violent. Reality scread in protest as space collapsed inward once again. Vvvvvvrrrm! Whuuuummm!
And luckily—incredibly luckily—the monster hadn’t had enough ti to pull back or detach this limb. Its other leg wasn’t fully restored yet from the previous attack. Leon had been too quick, his assault too relentless.
He teleported imdiately, just like before, refusing to be caught up in his own devastating technique.
Fwoosh! Fwoosh!
The black hole that ford this ti was slightly bigger than the first—perhaps two ters in diater instead of one. The increased size made it exponentially more powerful, its gravitational pull intensifying dramatically. Whuuuuuuuuum!
It swallowed the giant’s foot in almost no ti at all, treating the monster’s incredibly hard body like it was nothing more substantial than morning mist. Stone, earth, corrupted wood—all of it flowed into the spatial void and ceased to exist. Shhhrrrp! Vrrrrmmm!
Even from a distance, Leon felt the pull on his skin—like invisible fingers trying to drag his atoms forward. Tssssss... hum...
The monster’s humongous body began to tilt as it lost its balance completely, two kiloters of animated earth and corrupted matter trying to remain upright on nothing.
It was falling.
THOOOOOMMMMM!!!
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