NOVGO.NET Chapter 4514: Brutality! I
Chapter 4514: Brutality! I
The battle continued with Noah taking the offensive!
He surged forward with renewed purpose, his wings propelling him at speeds that distorted existence!
His mouth opened to release a beam of blue-gold light composed of septillions of individual fireballs compressed together.
The beam struck Toxoghra’s chest and detonated!
BOOM!
The creature was pushed backward for the first time, its toxic sea disrupted by the explosion.
Noah pressed the attack. His arms transformed into the nine-headed Wyrm configuration, and each head unleashed a different assault. Some bit with crushing jaws, others breathed flames, others released beams of concentrated Primus Mana.
Toxoghra retaliated with its own techniques.
"Virulent Spear Garden!"
Thousands of crystallized poison spears erupted from the toxic waters, each one seeking Noah’s form with homing precision. Several found their mark, puncturing his torso and limbs.
But Noah simply roared and pulled the spears out of his own body, his wounds healing even as he did so. He used the momentum of removing the spears to spin and deliver a devastating kick filled with Seas of His Sovereignty to Toxoghra’s jaw.
CRACK!
The impact shattered several of the creature’s teeth, sending them flying like meteors.
The battle’s brutality intensified further.
Above Noah’s head, a massive blue-gold throne materialized out of compressed Mana and Hunger. The throne was the size of a continent, ornate and majestic, carved with patterns that represented his Way with a glimmer of Tyranny.
Glorious Tyranny burning with a colorless veil of Quintessence!
It descended like the judgment of existence itself!
CRASH!
The throne’s weight crushed down on Toxoghra, driving the creature into the toxic waters with tremendous force. The swamp exploded upward from the impact, poisonous liquid raining down across light-years.
But Toxoghra was far from defeated!
"Sovereignty Evolution: Adaptive Toxin!"
The creature’s body began to shift and mutate, its poison adapting specifically to counter Mana and Hunger. New toxins emerged that were designed to corrupt these specific authorities.
When these adapted poisons made contact with Noah’s protective aura, they actually managed to penetrate deeper than before. Noah felt his Way being challenged at a fundamental level.
His left leg was caught in a splash of this adapted toxin and began to deteriorate more rapidly than his healing could compensate. The limb collapsed into bubbling flesh before his Hunger finally managed to devour the invasive substance.
The leg regrew, but the message was clear: Toxoghra was learning and adapting.
Noah responded by evolving his own approach.
His entire body began to glow brighter as he infused...the glorious allure of infinity of his way. Endless seas of Primus Mana and Hunger erupted!
His body split into nine separate serpentine forms, each one a perfect copy surrounded by blue-gold flames. The nine Wyrms circled Toxoghra from different angles, attacking in coordinated patterns.
Toxoghra tried to track all nine simultaneously but struggled. Bites and burns began accumulating across its massive form as the Nine Noah’s struck from every direction.
The creature’s toxic sea expanded outward violently in a desperate area attack.
"Sovereignty Domain: Ocean of Eternal Dissolution!"
The entire battlefield became saturated with such concentrated toxicity that reality itself began to break down. Space fractured, time stuttered, and causality bent.
Time stopped completely!
Eight of Noah’s nine forms dissolved immediately upon contact with this ultimate technique.
But the ninth form had transformed entirely into pure infinite energy. Noah had converted his body into a spear composed of septillions of blue-gold fireballs, each one containing concentrated Primus Mana and Hunger.
He was purely...Primus Mana and Hunger. Purely his way, carrying a deadly sharpness of infinity!
The spear pierced straight through the Ocean of Eternal Dissolution, the flames burning away toxicity through sheer intensity of opposing authority.
And then the spear passed through Toxoghra’s body!
...!
The creature’s massive form was punctured from chest to back, a tunnel of burning destruction carved through its existence. Organs vaporized, toxic blood boiled away, and the creature’s Way began to unravel.
The Way of Poison began to unravel!
Toxoghra crashed backward into a massive poisonous mountain, its body twitching and convulsing as it tried desperately to heal.
Noah reformed his body and came to float above the fallen creature.
He looked down at Toxoghra with eyes that blazed with Quintessence!
"Your Way of Poison," he said with commanding authority, "is encompassed by my Way of Mana. Mana existed before Poison. Mana will exist after Poison. And my Hunger consumes all things, including the very concept of toxicity you sought to claim Sovereignty over."
His voice grew louder.
"In the end, the hierarchy of Ways is absolute. Mine supersedes yours!"
Noah’s mouth opened unnaturally wide, stretching far beyond what should have been physically possible. The opening became a void of blue-gold light mixed with crimson stellar brilliance.
And he began to devour Toxoghra completely!
He began to devour The Way of Poison as green virulent droplets became blue gold rapidly!
Oh!
The massive creature tried to resist, tried to escape, but Noah’s Hunger was absolute in this moment. Toxoghra’s form began to compress and flow into Noah’s mouth like water down a drain.
The creature’s roars of defiance became weaker and weaker until they faded entirely.
Within moments, all of Toxoghra, along with its barely-formed Sovereignty of Poison, had been completely consumed!
The battlefield fell silent except for the bubbling of toxic waters.
Noah floated in the air, his body covered in healing wounds that closed rapidly. His True Expression of The Sovereignty of Mana and Hunger still blazed around him, though he could feel the duration nearing its end.
Prompts bloomed before his vision.
|GLORIOUS VICTORY ACHIEVED|
|Your Way of Existence has advanced further through triumphant combat.|
|THE Organ of Civilization has advanced further as you devour immense efforts, harvest, and the barely-formed Sovereignty of Poison.|
|Complexity increased by: 1 Nonillion|
|Purity increased by: 1 Nonillion|
|Additional Boon: Understanding of Poison-based Sovereignties has been cataloged for future reference.|
|Additional Boon: Your Way of Mana has been confirmed to supersede all poison-based concepts. This will now and forever remain true|
|Additional Boon: Combat experience against entities of higher Complexity has been successfully integrated.|
|THE Organ of Civilization Progress: 0.15% toward THE Surface Depth of Absolute Sovereignty of Mana and Hunger|
...!
From the distance, the figure of Tor began to clap his hands slowly while looking at Noah’s body that was still healing from deadly injuries all across its surface.
"Good, my junior!" Tor called out with satisfaction. "You have taken down this weak enemy admirably!"
His smile widened with brutal anticipation.
"I already have the next nine opponents picked out for you, though they might be a tiny bit stronger than this one was. Shall we continue your education?"
...!
Noah looked at his own hands, feeling the power flowing through his existence, and smiled despite the exhaustion.
He had just defeated an entity with Decillions of Complexity using only Septillions boosted by the True Expression of his Way.
He was beginning to understand what THE truly meant.
"Let’s continue," Noah said with calm determination.
The crimson-gold flames remained suppressed within him, but his own power was growing rapidly.
This was the path forward.
This was his Way, gloriously and brutaly so.
This was The Way!