章 75: IX

An immediate infusion of light radiated throughout the throne room. Brilliant light that shone magnitudes brighter than the artificial sunlight produced from the lightstone crystals above.

All that light, light that was bespeckled with glittering speckles of gold, centralized like a mandorla around a single, humanoid figure.

The Collector did not even have time to turn to this figure's direction, and when it barely began to perceive the humanoid's form, the specimen was already upon the Collector.

In a blinding flash of gold-infused light, the specimen crossed the one hundred meters from one end of the throne room to where the Collector was in the span of a single instant.

The specimen's long, lanky punched forearm deep into the Collector's back, punching straight through the hyperalloy carapace, longchain chitinous sublayer, and ultrafiber muscle all as if there had been no resistance at all.

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John_Doever

The end of the arc is night! Sorry for the delay on mass releases, suddenly going premium with privilege has set me back a little. You can still expect the 2 bonus chapters by the end of this week, though, and then hopefully 2 more next week!

Thanks so much for supporting me to this point regardless, and I hope you are willing to buy my privilege to support me further, but of course, there's no pressure!

=Story Stuff=

This humanoid is definitely one of the strongest beings on the world and is an extremely "late game" type of enemy, but he unfortunately has shown up very early on in the story.

I didn't want the Collector to only meet enemies that it could beat, even though it picks fights it knows it can win. I wanted to introduce the idea that in this story, there are huge ranges of power, and it's entirely possible for someone very strong to suddenly pop up in a "beginner area" like the darkwoods.