NOVGO.NET Chapter 1697: Corrupted Titan
Chapter 1697: Corrupted Titan
Villain Ch 1697. Corrupted Titan
Allen growled, blood dripping from his lip now. The core trembled—its defense clearly powerful but not invincible.
“I’m gonna peel you like an onion,” he hissed, and lunged once more.
Demonic Lances formed around him—sharp black spears of pure infernal magic. He launched fifty in rapid succession. They hit the barrier like meteor strikes.
-CRACK!
[Corrupted Cathedral Core Integrity: 100% -> 74%]
It splintered—just enough.
Allen roared and drove his sword in, riding the shockwave of his own attack.
The barrier screamed.
It shattered—finally.
The core exploded in a flash of light and pain. A system prompt flickered faintly in his mind.
[Corrupted Cathedral Core Integrity: 74% -> 48%]
The scream that came from the room after that wasn’t human.
Not holy. Not demonic.
Just… broken.
And then everything changed.
The cathedral convulsed. Violently.
The air turned to static. Gravity pulled backward for a second. Blood drained from every wall crack.
Then—the core glowed.
It sucked in everything.
Chains, shattered pews, broken chandeliers, stained glass fragments, pillars. It consumed the cathedral.
Allen’s boots dug in. His sword cracked the ground again to anchor him.
“What the hell—?!” Vivian yelled, holding onto a twisted iron beam to avoid being pulled.
“Is it… collapsing?!” Bella screamed.
“No,” Jane whispered. “It’s fusing.”
“What the hell does that even—”
-BOOM!
A blinding shockwave rippled out from the core. The walls exploded outward like a cocoon.
And from the glowing center, a figure began to rise.
No—not a figure.
A titan.
It stood nearly ten meters tall, forged from every piece of the cathedral. The altar fused into a chestplate. Stained glass wings flared open behind it, jagged and glowing. The groom’s helmet split and cracked at its crown like a crown of rusted light. One arm was a massive halberd fused with pew legs and blade runes.
A living cathedral.
A titan of betrayal.
It breathed—barely—but every exhale rattled the room.
[New Threat: Cathedral Titan – Groom’s Wrath]
[HP: 100% – Core Damage Applied]
[Warning: Soul Remnant Reactivated. Dungeon evolving.]
Bella’s jaw dropped. “Oh hell no.”
Alice narrowed her eyes. “Larissa?”
The vampire queen was already squinting, wary. “What?”
Alice nodded toward the thing. “Maybe you should try being his type again. You know. Calm him down.”
Larissa’s nose wrinkled. “Ew. No. Do not put that curse on me.”
Allen didn’t respond.
He was already moving again.
“Backline, spread and keep distance!” he barked. “Frontline with me!”
The titan roared—a sound that felt like an organ made of screams and splinters. Its halberd arm swung down—the force crushed a row of pews like crackers.
Allen met it.
His sword sparked as it clashed with the halberd, both arms straining against the weight.
The impact sent shockwaves across the stone.
-BOOM!
He slid backward, boots grinding into the cathedral floor.
He grinned. “Now we’re talking.”
Dust kicked up around Allen as the shockwave rippled through the cathedral’s bones. The halberd swing had been massive—enough force to split the stone floor where he’d braced. If he’d been just a fraction of a second slower, his ribcage would’ve become a fresco on the wall.
The titan towered above him.
Built from twisted cathedral relics and corrupted light, it looked like a priest’s nightmare stitched together with sanctified rage. Its eyes burned through the cracked helm—white fire bleeding from its core. That thing wasn’t alive. But it remembered how to hate.
Another roar tore through the air.
Allen didn’t flinch.
He dashed forward.
“Let’s rip your spine out through that fake altar chest, shall we?”
His sword shimmered—dark steel whispering infernal tones. The moment he closed distance again, the titan’s halberd came sweeping around like a freight train of blessed ruin.
Allen ducked under it—barely—the heat of the blade searing over his back like a sun flare.
The next second, he was on it.
He leapt—slicing up along the titan’s arm, blade digging through metal and corrupted glass. Sparks erupted like fireworks. The titan screeched, staggering slightly.
He landed mid-spin, boot cracking part of its knee joint.
-Boom!
Another tremor.
Its foot stomped toward him like a collapsing chapel tower. Allen braced his arm.
“Barrier.”
A crimson shield shimmered around him as the foot slammed down—crushing everything but him.
The barrier held—cracked—but held.
Allen snarled through clenched teeth and stabbed upward into the titan’s shin.
Dark energy poured through the blade.
“Soul Siphon.”
A visible chunk of energy burst from the titan and spiraled into Allen’s chest, fueling his demonic form.
[You have recovered 14% HP.]
[Cathedral Titan Core Integrity: 48% -> 41%]
The titan screamed again, jerking backward—but its movement wasn’t graceful. It was like a rage-fueled child throwing a tantrum in slow motion. Allen used the recoil to flip off its leg and back into open ground.
Not that it stayed open for long.
A column of radiant spikes erupted from the floor like a bladefield.
“Trap again,” he muttered, then shouted, “Girls, the traps are still active! It’s calling them!”
“We know!” Vivian yelled across the chamber, dodging flying crucifixes.
Chains slithered from the ceiling—burning with corrupted prayer. Shea sliced them midair with wing-feathers.
Larissa turned the blood on the floor into spears and impaled a batch of crawling sigils.
Bella detonated an Ice Lance near the pews to stop rising spikes. “We got this. You focus on Larissa’s ex-boyfriend!”
“Ew,” Larissa muttered again, stabbing a chain with her claws. “Stop. Saying. That.”
Allen didn’t respond. He couldn’t afford to.
The titan had raised its arm again.
And this time—he didn’t dodge.
He charged.
“Abyss Shatter!” he roared, and slammed his blade into the floor mid-run.
The wave of pure abyssal force cracked the tile and shot forward in a jagged line—like a fault line on steroids.
It struck the titan’s foot mid-step.
The explosion ripped the corrupted plating off its ankle and sent it staggering sideways.
Allen used the momentum.
He blinked behind it with Void Mirage—a decoy splitting off behind while the real him scaled the titan’s back in a blur of shadow.