Chapter 636
Crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!
The extreme cold contained within the Frost Spirit burst forth.
A straight line of frost pierced a single point, freezing even the air.
Crackle crackle crackle!
Everything around them transformed into massive pillars of ice.
It was power ranked among the highest within the Ice element skill lineage.
However—
Crunch… crackle crunch…
Not even a hint of frostbite appeared on Gros’s body.
“Pathetic ice tricks. Surely you didn’t think this was your trump card? If so, that’s truly disappointing.”
“Hm. I used about 79.25% of my full power… Was it that underwhelming?”
“It’s not even enough to wake me from my slumber.”
[Gros activates ‘One Eye Moon’ – Abyssal Flash!]
“Shouldn’t an attack be at least this powerful to be worth calling one?”
Fizzle pop!
A dark crimson flash gathered in the giant, floating single eye.
A mass of Mana easily hundreds of meters wide condensed in an instant.
Enough power to erase this entire floor—several times over.
“T-That’s a bit…”
This is too much.
Even for the notorious 50th floor, spamming skills like this is balance-breaking.
I suddenly felt like praising my past self for somehow fighting and defeating monsters like this.
‘If I get hit, I die.’
One second of invincibility won’t save me now. I already used the Blessing of the Stars. A direct hit means death.
Jinhyuk released his subspace.
Whoooom!
Space split open horizontally, revealing one of the trump cards he had hidden within.
“Grooooaar!”
The strongest undead beast made entirely of bones.
The Bone Dragon.
It couldn’t compare to a living dragon, but repeated reinforcement through Black Magic had pushed its stats close to a respectable ancient dragon’s level.
“Clatter clatter, Master! I’m not too late, am I?”
T-Bone, riding a Specter Warhorse, waved energetically.
“Yeah. Perfect timing.”
It was crafted even better than expected.
The Bone Dragon spread its massive wings.
Behind it, countless Death Knights mounted on Specters lined up in formation.
“We obey…”
“…your command.”
“…great one.”
With reason partly stripped away, the Death Knights were fully ready to charge to certain death alongside T-Bone.
‘Their lack of fear is their greatest advantage.’
They were barely affected by Gros’s mental attacks. With them, guerrilla tactics might actually work.
“Let’s go.”
Jinhyuk climbed onto the Bone Dragon’s back.
[Unique Ability ‘Mantra Taming’ is activated!]
[Unique Ability ‘Red Hare Riding’ is activated!]
The Bone Dragon moved as if weightless, its full potential unleashed.
“Hm. Trying to lure me into the air, are you.”
Gros raised his head, amused.
On the ground, he could reduce everything to ashes with a single swing. In the air, he would at least avoid destroying the floor.
A painfully obvious plan.
But Gros followed anyway—confident that no variable could change the outcome.
“Amusing. I’ll smash your little toys one by one.”
He pointed at the undead army.
[Abyssal Flash erupts!]
A beam of destruction hundreds of meters wide burned through the sky.
Sssssssssssssssssss!
No skill of this scale had appeared since the Trial Tower descended.
A light that made defense meaningless.
“……!”
“…….”
Death Knights and Specters evaporated instantly, unable even to scream.
“Kh!”
Jinhyuk forced the Bone Dragon into a violent zigzag.
He pushed its mobility to the limit, but within such a massive radius, escape was impossible.
All he could do was wait for the output to stop.
The problem was—
Crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!
The Abyssal Flash showed no sign of ending.
‘His Mana pool isn’t infinite…’
Yet the attack continued without pause.
The undead forces dwindled rapidly.
“Master!”
T-Bone shouted desperately.
If they lost any more Death Knights, they would lose even the chance to retaliate.
“I know!”
Jinhyuk’s eyes hardened.
Because Gros believed his eye was invincible, a single chance remained.
The primordial beings’ greatest weakness—arrogance.
Riding the Bone Dragon, Jinhyuk drew a huge circle in the sky. The Specters behind him expanded it even further.
The clouds split.
A massive cumulonimbus cloud swelled upward.
Fizzle crackle… fizzle pop!
“To repeat the same attack over and over… you lack even basic learning ability. Whatever. Let’s end this trivial entertainment. I doubt you have anything else.”
But then, Gros’s expression changed subtly.
This wasn’t the same attack.
Within the sparks flickering through the clouds, he sensed Mana of different properties—purer, stronger.
“Hm. Now this is interesting.”
And the clouds themselves…
They were too natural to be artificial, yet too unnatural to be natural.
The reason appeared a moment later.
[Fried activates ‘Gale Feather’!]
[Malang the Azure Dragon activates ‘Weather Modification’!]
The Ancient Species and Divine Beast unleashed their powers.
Whoosh!
Rumble!
Lightning and fire mixed within the clouds, creating a gigantic storm.
And within that storm—
Grrrrrrrrr!
“Mogiiiiii!”
A small yet mighty shadow appeared.
Along with the roar of an Ancient Dragon, a great red sword materialized.
[Goguma summons the Unique Holy Spear – ‘Sword of Punishment’!]
He wasn’t in his true form, but with the Divine Beasts’ support and Jinhyuk’s steady Mana supply, its density approached the original.
The five elemental spirit beasts—including Undine, who had barely recovered—joined in.
“Let’s go!”
“Primordial or whatever, you messed with our precious spirit beasts, so you’re dead!”
“Yeah, yeah!”
“Let’s show them even small peppers are spicy!”
“Everyone be quiet, you’re giving me a headache.”
Lights of different attributes gathered around the spirit beasts.
[The spirit beasts use the special skill ‘Elemental Square’!]
A full-force, all-out strike.
Their target—Gros’s Moon’s Eye, the core of his power.
“Hahaha! Now this is fun.”
Gros laughed, baring white teeth.
What he expected to be dull prey was finally becoming interesting.
Until now, even a sliver of his strength had crushed enemies like insects.
But now he could finally move his body against an opponent worth swinging at.
“The full power of insects, huh. Let’s see what that amounts to.”
Fizzle crackle!
Abyssal light erupted from the Moon’s Eye.
Crimson flash and black flash collided.
⁕⁕⁕
Crackle crackle crackle crackle BOOM!
The storm exploded into a typhoon.
The ground trembled.
Everything felt on the verge of turning to dust.
“Miyoooo….”
“M-My refined lips are about to break!”
“Mogiiii….”
The three Ancient Species and Divine Beasts screamed.
The moment the powers clashed, the difference was overwhelming.
It was a miracle the Sword of Punishment hadn’t shattered outright.
The balance had collapsed—and that imbalance would only widen.
In that desperate moment, Jinhyuk moved.
“Thank you, everyone.”
If they hadn’t bought even one second, this attack wouldn’t be possible.
[Unique Holy Spear – ‘Downfall’ is activated!]
His body turned into a falling meteor.
Jinhyuk and the Bone Dragon fell straight toward Gros’s head.
Crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!
The Bone Dragon’s massive weight combined with the speed of light produced a terrifying impact.
Focused entirely on the Moon’s Eye, Gros didn’t expect a strike from above.
KABOOOM!
Shockwaves blasted outward, sending earth rising like waves.
“Grooooaar!”
The Bone Dragon shattered into fragments.
A single blow, made by sacrificing the undead he had painstakingly created.
But—
“…….”
Gros blocked it with the primordial shield.
Not a single scratch showed.
However—
Crackle…
A thin crack appeared on the shield.
“……!?”
Gros’s gaze snapped upward.
A momentary opening.
Jinhyuk reversed his sword grip.
One of Gros’s few weaknesses—found long ago through the Necronomicon. Even without the book, some characteristics allowed prediction of his ever-moving heart’s location.
He didn’t have the Necronomicon now…
…but lamenting that would change nothing.
Using Mana flow, instinct, and past experience, Jinhyuk narrowed down the possibilities.
Tap.
Fast and light.
He unleashed his strongest Unique Holy Spear.
‘Demon Soul Flash.’
Krrrrack!
Seven sword trajectories carved across Gros’s entire body.
Perfect timing. Perfect compression. Perfect rhythm.
“Damn, it was shallow…”
It skimmed off a layer of skin—no deeper.
No real damage.
“……This is.”
For the first time, tension flickered across Gros’s face.
Not because the attack was sharp.
But because of the seven strikes—
They traced the exact path his heart had been moving along.
For the first time in his life, he felt something close to ‘threat.’
“You…”
Sparks shot from Gros’s eyes.
He reached out, and a massive purple sword appeared—one capable of tearing apart a deity twice his size.
“That was decent. I’ll admit, I was surprised. But you’ve used up all your tricks. No more variables.”
“No.”
Jinhyuk smiled.
Everything—the Divine Beasts, the spirit beasts, Downfall, close-quarters swordplay—
It was all to achieve one thing.
Time.
Time to prepare the final card he had arranged through Berial.
Whoooom!
Lines connected across the sky.
[The skill of the job ‘Barrier Master’ is activated.]
Until now, barriers targeted a small area around the enemy.
But this—
This was a barrier that encompassed the entire floor.
“……Do you think a mere barrier can affect me?”
“This isn’t just any barrier.”
Facing a primordial being with something ordinary? Impossible.
[The Zodiac Constellations, the 12 constellations, are opened.]
“This is the totality of barriers.”
The pinnacle no other Barrier Master had ever reached.
‘Call of Starlight.’
As all 12 constellations unfolded, they created a 13th constellation.