章節 75: The Tyrant 2
The Tyrant, however, did not want to give Liam any more time to think. Dropping down onto all fours, it roared once more. The roar released so much wind pressure that Liam had to steady himself on the ground to avoid being blown away.
After roaring, it charged at Liam, swiping one of its claws toward him. Liam charged at the same time. He jumped up and dodged the claw, spinning around as he changed his spear to Dragon Mode. Pouring in energy, he unleashed a 2000-degree Celsius flame beam at the Tyrant.
The Tyrant's fur burned slightly while its claw tore through the ground as if cutting butter.
'As expected, it isn't the real Tyrant,' Liam thought. 'There's no way Dani had enough energy for that, after all. It isn't nearly as tall, fast, or strong as the one I saw in the dream. Despite that, its claws are still super sharp.' His eyes went to the destroyed earth behind him.
The next moment, his expression soured as he felt and saw the Tyrant absorb energy from the surrounding area. The patches of fur that had been burned stopped taking damage and regenerated completely.
"It replicated its ability to adapt and it can also heal like the other beasts?" Liam doubted it was possible, but somehow, the Tyrant had done it. 'What a monster.'
Another claw came his way. Activating his Eldritch Sights, Liam jumped up and landed on the claw, running up the massive arm while dragging Neontote in its normal form through its skin. The spear left a large cut wherever it sliced.
The Tyrant suddenly changed its stance, putting its hind legs right beneath its body and raising its upper body instantly.
With a violent motion, it threw Liam meters into the air. Spinning uncontrollably, Liam managed to regain some control mid-air. He glanced downward and saw the Tyrant's mouth open wide, energy flowing from the surroundings into a growing fireball.
"Really? Fire again?" Liam muttered, rolling his eyes. Shifting Neontote back to Dragon Mode, he propelled himself downwards. The beast unleashed its fire breath just as Liam flew past its mouth, narrowly avoiding the insanely hot breath.
On his way down, Liam noticed a claw and saw an opportunity. Changing Neontote to its normal form, he held it above him. As he passed by the claw, he sliced downwards with all his momentum. Neontote's sharp blade managed to severed one of the five claws on the Tyrant's hand.
The Tyrant roared in pain and instantly began absorbing more energy from the surroundings, completely healing itself and reattaching the severed claw.
"That's not going to work, huh," Liam thought grimly as he hit the ground, cracking it on impact.
He used Eldritch Sights to observe the energy flow around the creature and discovered something disturbing. "It's disconnected itself from Dani," he realized. "That means even if the caster is killed, it won't disappear until it is somehow killed."
While observing further, he noticed something else. "It's absorbing energy passively, but where is all that energy going?"
The Tyrant began gathering energy on a larger scale. This time, ice shards erupted from the ground around Liam.
Liam tried to escape by running in different directions, but the Tyrant kept blocking his path, eventually trapping him in a cage of ice spikes. 'It definitely didn't have that ability in the dream,' Liam thought as he noticed a spike shooting up from beneath him.
Summoning an eldritch construct shield with his left hand, he blocked the spike's point. Using the momentum, he propelled himself atop the spike, launching himself into the air and out of the icy prison.
Grabbing Neontote by the end of its shaft, as he saw another claw approaching. He wanted to change the spear to Dragon Mode but didn't have time. The claw slashed across his chest, breaking away a section of his armor. Blood spilled as Liam was hurled back.
"Is it getting faster, or is that just an illusion?" Liam wondered, gritting his teeth.
'While its speed wasn't particularly fast because of its size, its claws are still incredibly fucking sharp.' Liam thought, as he used Neontote's Dragon Mode to softly burn the wound on his chest, stopping the bleeding.
"I have no way to counter its healing either," he thought, his mind racing for solutions.
As ice spikes erupted around him again, Liam thought of a far-fetched idea that might just work. He kept running across the battlefield, dodging ice spikes and evading the Tyrant's claw swipes.
Summoning a whip construct, he bound it to the end of Neontote and turned to face the incoming arm. Using the momentum of his sudden turn, he hurled Neontote with all his strength and leapt up himself. The spear pierced deep into the Tyrant's upper arm, straightening the whips line.
Pulling on the whip, Liam swung himself onto the Tyrant's shoulder. He charged forward, but ice spikes started appearing there too. Reaching one of its glowing red eyes, he leapt back as a claw slammed into the shoulder in front of him.
The claw moved sideways to shake him off like an annoying pest. Liam jumped over it, landing on the Tyrant's face. Summoning a needle-like construct, he focused on making it as sharp as possible and drove it into the side of the Tyrant's head.
Using the needle as foothold, Liam leapt up higher. Raising Neontote, he plunged it as deep as possible into the Tyrant's eye.
Clinging to the weapon, he transformed it into Dragon Mode and poured in a massive amount of energy, including a small amount of white energy from his body.
Inside the eye, a flame appeared—starting light blue, shifting to deep purple, then light purple, and finally a pale white. The 4000-degree Celsius flame erupted, melting the entire eye in seconds. The fire spread deeper into the creature's head. But the Tyrant's massive claws were closing in fast from both sides.
Liam had no choice but to let go and fall. The Tyrant's claws collided, the impact accelerating Liam's descent. As he fell, the Tyrant sucked in more energy from the surroundings to heal its eye and simultaneously prepared another flame breath.
Its mouth opened, and another fire blast followed Liam downwards. Just before impact, a blue portal appeared beneath him. The flame struck the ground, but Liam had already vanished, reappearing from another portal some distance away.
As he hit the ground, he noticed someone beside him. "Why are you back?" Liam asked, recognizing Illyana, who stood with her Soulsword in hand and Lockheed flying beside her.
"I can't let you fight this alone; you'll die," she replied. "The others are safe and a few miles away."
The Tyrant roared crazily, realizing its eye wasn't healing. 'It worked,' Liam thought. The white energy from Incursio had disrupted its regeneration. 'That white energy must have adapted the other energy to counter the constant healing.'
But something terrifying was happening. The Tyrant was absorbing energy at an insane rate it hadn't done before, its body growing taller rapidly.
'It's absorbing all the energy from its surroundings to grow stronger. A monster capable of never-ending evolution has been created, if not stopped now, it will be hard to imagine what it could possibly do.' Liam thought, before feeling a sense of danger.
"Move back!" Liam shouted to Illyana as the energy suction reached them. Even Incursio roared in his mind as he felt his own energy being drained.
"What the fuck?" Liam cursed, feeling Incursio's energy being pulled away as if called back by its original owner.
"What's happening, Liam?" Illyana yelled.
章節 76: Evolve
As his energy slowly left his body, Liam felt Incursio's emotions and will growing increasingly unstable within him. It was as if his body was a prison that Incursio was desperately trying to break free from.
Liam's armor slowly began to crumble as he struggled to gain distance from the energy suctioning. The terrain beneath the Tyrant started to change, The green grass and trees withered, replaced by ice that spread out in all directions from the Tyrant's feet.
'I can't do anything! All the energy for spells is being sucked out of the circles before I can finish them,' he panicked. 'I can't even open a portal to go away.'
The ice expanded fast in all directions, consuming everything in its path. It chased Liam as he ran, and at first, he could outrun it. But as his armor disintegrated into dust, his speed began to slow down. Liam looked at Illyana, noticing that even her energy was being drained. As she, too, slowed down.
Liam turned back and saw the Tyrant, now standing at nearly 25 stories tall. His armor gave up entirely, crumbling to dust completely. The surroundings decayed around him, and the ice caught up. He stopped running and turned around, realizing the inevitable was about to happen to him.
A single spike shot out of the ground towards the unmoving Liam. Time seemed to slow as he processed the attack.
'I can't die here,' he thought desperately.
'I haven't lived the life I wanted. I haven't even said goodbye to my grandpa.'
Images of Illyana flashed in his mind. 'If I die, she'll be next. And then billions after her.'
'I don't want to die.' Went through Liam's mind. In that moment, a single primal instinct suppressed all other emotions, even suppressing the loud roaring coming from Incursio in his mind.
The ice spike pierced through his chest, impaling him. As the spike slowly retracted back into the ground, a large hole was left in Liam's chest.
Liam collapsed forwards, his vision blurred as he caught a final sight of Illyana. Her body was turning a dark black, horns grew from the front of her head, and a set of large wings appeared on her back.
His head hit the ground.
Then… silence.
It was as though something had broken inside him. Everything was silent.
'No. I can't die here,' echoed through his mind. He repeated over and over again.
Then something inside his mind snapped. Deep within his mind, a tiny flame reignited, flickering and slowly gaining more intensity.
Liam's entire body began to heat up as he repeated to himself: 'I cannot die. I will not die here.'
The flame grew brighter and hotter, and Liam saw a vision—a continuation of his earlier dream, but this time from an outsider's perspective.
He saw a giant black greatsword pierce through the Tyrant's back. The massive figure from the distance in his previous dream approached. But the Tyrant stood up again. Its entire body lit up in a golden light as it began to transform.
Back in reality, golden light radiated from Liam's body. His temperature skyrocketed as the large wound in his chest closed at an extraordinary speed.
A familiar silhouette appeared around Liam, roaring loud as it wrapped its arms around him.
Inside his body, something changed. His blood began to transform, his cells slowly started changing to a golden-white color, causing the cells to grow larger, stronger, and faster.
His eyes, slowly started changing next. His original brown eyes slowly started to turn into a pure red, followed by black crosses forming in both irises.
Liam slowly stood up. Over his body, a new layer of armor formed, pure white and gold in color. It began at his feet, growing upwards until it covered him entirely. Over his hands and fingers grew sets of razor-sharp claws.
His helmet was no longer the shape of standard armor but the image of a dragon's open mouth. Two horns grew from his head, curving backward as they grew longer.
His spear, Neontote appeared in his hand, evolving alongside him. The spear's blade grew thinner, larger, and a lot sharper. The central oval gem changed into an oval mark, with a cross etched inside it.
Deep inside, Liam felt a strange connection to something larger which he had never felt before. His energy was now a perfect mix: half his own yellow energy, half Incursio's white-gold colored energy.
Looking around, he noticed the ground beneath him was no longer ice—it was solid brown rock. Blue energy flew up from the cracks in the earth, and a nearby purple portal caught his attention.
Despite Incursio continuing to evolve and reshape his armor, Liam instinctively absorbed the strange energy flowing from the portal.
With this new energy, Liam connected to the strange feeling he had felt earlier. Raising his hand, he channeled energy through it, guided by instinct. A familiar white portal materialized before him, leading to a dimension he knew very well.
Closing his eyes, he fully synchronized with the dimension beyond the portal. The terrain around him transformed into a withered forest floor. Ruined buildings began appearing all around him, and the sky darkened with pure black clouds with golden beams of light shining through them.
Massive stone kingdom walls erupted from the ground in a four-mile radius, centering around Liam. The walls grew rapidly, starting at twenty-five stories before rising to sixty. The massive wall fully stopped the Tyrant's ice domain from expanding furthur.
The silhouette surrounding Liam vanished, releasing a final shockwave of energy.
'Without Incursio lending me this massive amount of energy, maintaining these walls would have been impossible,' Liam thought, his gaze snapping back to the Tyrant.
Illyana was still battling the colossal beast which had grown to around 40 stories now. The Tyrant, despite fighting her, kept one of its three remaining eyes on Liam. It roared furiously, remembering the silhouette it had seen earlier.
The loss of energy, coupled with her despair at seeing Liam impaled, had pushed Illyana into her Dark Chylde state earlier. Her horns and wings had grown as her body had transformed into that of a demon's.
In her Dark Chylde state, Illyana's mastery over dark magic increased immensely. She could warp reality itself, changing the terrain around her to mirror her domain in Limbo. Her soul armor, now pure black, covered her completely, and her soul sword had grown a lot larger.
Illyana flew to one of the Tyrant's arms, casting a spell that unleashed a purplish hellfire flame onto its skin. The flames melted parts of the Tyrant's arm, causing it to roar in pain.
As it tried to regenerate, it roared out of anger once more. Realizing it couldn't regenerate from this either, the Tyrant changed its approach and instead began adapting as much as it could to the flame.
The flames gradually lost their effectiveness as Illyana flew around the Tyrant, at first it started with failing to burn through its flesh, and soon it couldn't even burn the tips of its fur anymore.
'I need to get over there,' Liam thought, instantly starting to run towards the Tyrant.
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