Chapter 28: The Primordial Grade Trial (2)

The system prompt flared once more, reading the confirmation from Arthur’s core consciousness.

[Ding! Primordial Grade Trial accepted.]

[Warning: Death inside the Primordial Grade Trial results in permanent character deletion. All trial resurrection allowances are revoked.]

[Spawning targets...]

The void sky shattered into a blinding, fractured white. The obsidian ground beneath Arthur shifted, expanding violently into a colosseum of vast, absolute emptiness that stretched out for tens of kilometers. Space itself groaned under the sudden introduction of tenfold oppressive mass.

Ten massive beams of light tore through the pale ceiling, slamming into the earth at equal distances around Arthur, forming a terrifying circle of absolute destruction.

From the first light emerged the Black-armored Titan, its sword drawn and dark aura blasting outward like a localized hurricane.

From the second, the Sea Serpent coiled its long icy body, freezing the absolute center of the arena instantly with its Ancient Frozen Domain.

From the third, the Gigantic Sandworm burst from the floor, throwing up massive plumes of black dust and releasing a fog of deadly green poison gas.

From the fourth, the Earth Dragon landed, the air instantly warping around it as a domain of extreme heat.

From the fifth, the Luminous Butterfly hovered, its wings flapping to generate mind-bending spatial illusions and razor-sharp wind pressure.

From the sixth, the Crystal Golem roared, its chest glowing with an unbearable red energy beam that tore across the terrain.

From the seventh, the Humongous Crocodile thrashing its tail, expanding a secondary Poison Domain that layered directly over the sandworm’s toxic cloud, dealing a continuous baseline of continuous health damage to the surrounding air.

From the eighth, the Thunder Roc shrieked, descending from the sky as heavenly tribulation lightning coated the entire upper atmospheric layer.

From the ninth, the Twelve-Winged Archangel spread its golden wings, broadsword ignited with divine light, locking its target on Arthur with hyper-kinetic intent.

And from the tenth, the reformed shadow of the Demon Emperor materialized, long black spear pointing directly at Arthur’s throat, dark magic dragon phantoms circling his frame.

Ten bosses. Over one hundred and sixty million combined health points. Zero room for error. A single mistake meant complete annihilation and permanent deletion.

Arthur did not shrink back. The corner of his mouth twitched upward into a savage, unfiltered grin.

"Atomic Body Control," Arthur murmured.

The moment the command left his mind, his body underwent a silent, profound transformation. There was no longer any lag between his brain’s tactical impulses and his physical stat distribution. The internal cell-burning thermal friction that had tormented him during the previous eight-hour fight completely vanished. His body had become a self-optimizing engine of absolute kinetic efficiency.

When he looked forward, his mind did not manually calculate percentages anymore. His subconscious took total charge.

The Twelve-Winged Archangel and the Thunder Roc moved first. As the fastest entities, they shattered the sound barrier simultaneously, closing the distance of several kilometers in a fraction of a second. The Archangel’s flaming broadsword cut horizontally while the Thunder Roc dropped a mountain of tribulation lightning directly onto Arthur’s head.

Arthur took a single step forward.

Without him consciously directing a single point, his body instantly dumped maximum attributes into Agility. He became a blur of absolute displacement, sliding between the divine light of the sword and the lightning bolt by a margin of mere millimeters.

As the Thunder Roc passed over him, Arthur’s intent shifted from survival to damage. Instantly, his subconscious drained Agility and poured everything into raw, concentrated Strength.

Arthur reached out, grabbed the Thunder Roc’s trailing talon, and slammed the entire seventeen-million-HP beast directly into the incoming broadsword thrust of the Twelve-Winged Archangel.

Boom.

The collision tore a massive crater into the ground. The Archangel’s blade pierced deeply into the Roc’s wing, dealing massive friendly-fire damage while interrupting both of their attack sequences.

Arthur did not pause to admire the result.

From the left, the heat domain of the Earth Dragon flared outward. Fifty thousand degrees of heat surged toward Arthur, capable of melting flesh down to the bone in a microsecond. Concurrently, the Luminous Butterfly flapped its wings, casting spatial illusions that made the Earth Dragon appear to be coming from the right instead of the left.

In the past, Arthur would have needed to stop, throw a mystic smoke bomb, and manually reallocate stats to his nervous system to bypass the illusion.

Now, Atomic Body Control handled it instantaneously.

His body recognized the atmospheric shift of the true heat source, automatically dumping eighty percent into Vitality and Defence to completely absorb the residual thermal damage while his sensory system ignored the illusion entirely.

Arthur lunged straight through the fake image, plunging his daggers directly into the true throat of the Earth Dragon.

Slash.

-2,100,000 HP.

The kinetic energy of his strike tore through the dragon’s hyper-dense dragon scales. The dragon roared in agony, whipping its tail to crush him.

Instantly, Arthur’s body shifted ninety-five percent into Agility. He rode the wind pressure of the tail sweep, using the kinetic momentum to launch himself skyward, directly into the path of the Luminous Butterfly.

"One down target at a time," Arthur cold voice echoed.

Mid-air, the Luminous Butterfly attempted to distort the space around Arthur to throw off his attack trajectory. But Atomic Body Control automatically adjusted Arthur’s thrust vector microsecond by microsecond, offsetting the spatial warping with perfect physical compensation.

Arthur reached the butterfly.

Ninety percent Strength. Ten percent Agility.

His daggers transformed into two streaks of hyper-speed steel, executing over forty strikes in less than half a second.

Slash. Slash. Slash. Slash.

-1,500,000 HP.

-1,800,000 HP.

-2,200,000 HP.

-3,000,000 HP.

The fragile wings of the Luminous Butterfly were shred to ribbons. The boss screeched as its giant, glowing body plunged from the sky, slamming into the toxic mud below where the Humongous Crocodile was waiting.

Before the butterfly could recover, Arthur landed directly on its head.

With a final, devastating two-handed downward plunge powered by all available physical attributes, he drove both daggers deep into its compound eyes, piercing all the way to its brain stem.

-7,000,000 HP. Critical Hit.

The Luminous Butterfly burst into a shower of decaying blue light, its health bar instantly emptying to zero.

[First Mythical Boss eliminated.]

Nine left.

The ground violently trembled. The Gigantic Sandworm burst from beneath Arthur’s feet, its massive maw opening wide to swallow both Arthur and the dying remains of the butterfly. Simultaneously, the Black-armored Titan swung its massive dark sword, sending a wave of crushing dark aura that cut off Arthur’s escape routes in mid-air.

From the front, the Sea Serpent fired its absolute freezing energy beam.

From the rear, the Demon Emperor surged forward, dark dragon phantoms roaring from his spear tip.

Arthur was surrounded in three dimensions by four separate fatal strikes.

In a normal situation, even perfect automatic attribute allocation could not block that much simultaneous force. The sheer volume of incoming damage would break through any Defence threshold.

Arthur grinned, his eyes gleaming with absolute madness.

"Limit Overdrive."

Hum.

A deep, reverberating pulse vibrated from the core of Arthur’s soul. His muscle fibers tightened, his blood burned like liquid solar plasma, and every single numeric value of his attributes instantly doubled.

200% capacity.

The world around Arthur slowed down to a absolute crawl. The incoming energy beam of the Sea Serpent seemed to creep forward like dripping syrup. The Demon Emperor’s spear thrust moved with the tedious slowness of a sliding snail. The Titan’s massive dark sword hung suspended in the air.

With doubled attributes and automatic perfect synchronization, Arthur became a god of absolute motion.

He did not dodge the incoming attacks. He mapped their trajectories in a split second and used them against one another.

Arthur stepped lightly onto the flat side of the Titan’s incoming massive dark sword, using the physical force of the Titan’s own swing to propel himself sideways. He altered his trajectory just enough so that the Sea Serpent’s freezing energy beam slammed directly into the chest of the Black-armored Titan.

The Titan’s heavy armor instantly froze solid under the ancient cold energy, creating massive structural cracks across its defensive plating.

Arthur dropped from the sword, accelerating to a unbelievable speed of over ten thousand kilometers per hour.

He appeared instantly before the frozen chest of the Titan.

Arthur delivered a single, straight punch directly into the center of the icy crack on the Titan’s armor.

BOOM.

The kinetic wave did not just hit the armor; it shattered the internal structure of the Titan completely.

-15,000,000 HP(Overkill Critical Strike.)

The massive Black-armored Titan exploded into millions of frozen, dark iron fragments, completely erased in a single strike.

[Second Mythical Boss eliminated.]

The remaining bosses reacted to the impossible speed and destructive output. The Earth Dragon, the Sea Serpent, and the Humongous Crocodile pooled their energy, unleashing their domains simultaneously. Extreme heat, absolute zero cold, and deadly continuous poison collided around Arthur, creating an unstable elemental vortex meant to grind his body into fine dust.

The Archangel descended from above, its golden wings cutting through the elemental storm at maximum speed, while the Thunder Roc summoned a blanket of heavenly lightning that covered every square inch of the ground.

Arthur moved through the elemental chaos like a ghost.

His body automatically allocated just enough Defence to mitigate the environmental tick damage, while pouring every remaining drop into Speed and Agility. He was a silver streak weaving through red flames, white ice, and green mist.

He flashed behind the Twelve-Winged Archangel.

The Archangel attempted an impossible mid-air turn, its wings flapping violently to alter its center of gravity. But Arthur was already there.

He did not hit the Archangel’s body. He grabbed the primary joint of its top right wing, using ninety percent Strength to rip the wing straight out of its socket.

Golden blood sprayed across the sky. The Archangel shrieked in pain, losing its mid-air balance completely.

Arthur drove his dagger into the base of the Archangel’s neck, using the momentum to spin around the target’s body, executing a series of precise, brutal neck cuts in a continuous circle.

Slash. Slash. Slash. Slash.

-3,000,000 HP.

-4,500,000 HP.

-4,500,000 HP.

-3,000,000 HP.

The Archangel’s high speed could not save it from close-quarters absolute strength. Its body dropped to the floor, lifeless, dissolving into golden light before it even hit the ground.

[Third Mythical Boss eliminated.]