Chapter 48: Cosmic Eraser
The golden marble corridors of the inner sanctuary groaned as a heavy, suffocating pressure radiated from the pulsing core of the Commander Core Fragment floating above the ash pile. The diamond-like catalyst was vibrating with a dense grid of divine data, casting a blinding silver-blue light that illuminated the massive, hundred-foot golden pillars of the Third Sky King’s palace.
Min-jae stood entirely motionless before the shattered entrance, his hands casually stuffed inside the pocket segments of his True Vajra-Sovereign Sub-Divine God-Armor. His bottomless obsidian eyes focused on Liu Xiao, who was standing beside his left flank, her silver-green hair blowing gently in the high-altitude wind.
"liu Xiao," Min-jae said smoothly, his voice a low, seductive baritone that sent an immediate shiver down her spine. "Take the core. Your master’s lattice is ready for the next tier of synchronization. We don’t march into a king’s throne room with your parameters trailing behind."
"Yes, Min-jae," liu Xiao voiced, her seductive melody carrying a deep, breathless reverence.
She stepped forward with a majestic, heavy grace, her long green and white silk hanfu rustling against the celestial floorboards. Min-jae tapped his hand against the air, utilizing his Cosmic Cheat System to bypass the standard logic rules of the upper realm, forcing the commander core’s raw elemental parameters straight into her chest cavity.
[Citadel Forge Protocol Active! Initiating Targeted Divine Core Synchronization...]
[Target: Liu Xiao (Talent: Sovereign Flora Genesis - Rank SSS)]
[Fusing Commander Core Catalyst... Execution Success!]
[Subordinate Core Recovery Accelerated! Unlocking an additional 10% of the Nature Core’s true parameters! Current Capacity: 20% Total Power Locked.]
Crack -thoom !
A massive, blinding column of emerald-green starlight and liquid silver plasma violently erupted from her chest, shooting straight through the golden roof into the shifting clouds above. The sheer kinetic displacement wave blew the loose golden dust across the entire courtyard, but her porcelain skin didn’t burn; it radiated a pristine, ethereal glow that accentuated her exceptionally voluptuous hourglass curves and full, heavy chest. Her thin waist cinched perfectly against her gold-threaded belt as her exotic emerald-green eyes flared with a brilliant, un-fractured light.
[Subordinate sss-rank Talent Active: ’Sovereign Flora Genesis’ (Upgraded to 20% Capacity)!]
[Active Team Field Buff Augmented: ’The Primordial Mother’s Imperial Lattice’!]
[Effect: Total mana reserves for all team members are now multiplied by 200%. Cooldown velocity increased by 75%. The passive life-drain parameter now converts an un-blockable 15% of all reflected True Damage into absolute healing for the entire party!]
"This feeling..." Liu Xiao whispered, her pouty crimson lips curving into a beautiful, genuine smile as she clenched her delicate fists, feeling the immense, ancient mana lines of the Nature Goddess weaving smoothly through her veins. "The suppression fields are completely gone, Min-jae. My master’s aura is fully anchoring our presence."
"Good," Min-jae murmured, a cold, dark, and highly calculated grin touching his lips. He turned his eyes toward the upper spires of the palace structure, where a faint, high-frequency golden light loop was beginning to spin out from the central peak.
Deep within the innermost sanctuary, an emergency distress array was being deployed. A brilliant, multi-layered golden light matrix—the Heavenly Signal Core—was rapidly ascending into the higher clouds, trying to broadcast the tower’s breach coordinates straight to the Supreme Higher Heavens to call for an ultimate elite reinforcement fleet.
"The Sky King is panicking," Major General Shin Ye-rin reported, her steel-gray eyes fixed onto her tracking terminal screen. "He’s trying to alert the upper sectors. Min-jae, if that signal clears the atmospheric boundary, we will face three divine fleets simultaneously before we clean this floor."
"It won’t clear the deck," Min-jae said smoothly. He turned his deadpan black eyes toward Major Cynthia Vance, who stood tall on his right flank, her silver-white battle-braid trailing over her high-density armor plates. "Cynthia. Intercept the transmission. Erase it from the sky."
"Command received, Monarch," Cynthia replied, her icy-blue eyes flashing with intense focus.
She stood tall on a ruined golden marble pedestal, her exceptionally beautiful features completely calm as she raised her advanced, obsidian-blue anti-material rifle—the Stellar Horizon Eraser. Her long, slender fingers locked tightly around the grip, her optical scope locking straight onto the ascending golden light matrix miles above the atmosphere.
[Subordinate sss-rank Talent Active: ’Goddess of the Planet-Piercing Horizon’!]
[Weapon Trait Active: ’Stellar Horizon Eraser’ — Unlimited Range / Intercontinental Tracking!]
Realese
A silent, blinding beam of silver-blue void plasma tore through the air, traveling straight through the atmospheric density without a single fraction of friction. The supersonic round ignored the planetary curvature, striking the central mass of the ascending Heavenly Signal Core precisely at the apex of its trajectory.
Boom.!
A massive, starlight-silver cosmic implosion rocked the upper clouds, completely vaporizing the golden signal core into microscopic data pixels before the transmission could even clear the third sky boundary line. The emergency array shattered, cutting off the Sky King’s lifeline to the higher heavens within a fraction of a millisecond.
"Signal completely neutralized," Cynthia reported coolly, spinning her massive rifle with effortless grace before snapping it back against her shoulder, kneeling instantly before Min-jae with absolute, fanatical submission. "The upper realms remain entirely blind to our position."
"Ji-a, Chae-yeon. Guard the doors," Min-jae commanded flatly, his hands sliding naturally back into his armor’s pocket segments as he walked smoothly toward the giant mahogany throne room doors. "We’re going in."
Min-jae delivered a casual, front-kick straight into the hundred-foot-tall reinforced gold doors of the throne room. The solid metal plates didn’t just swing open; they were completely, violently pulverized into a million flying shards of scrap metal from the localized kinetic resonance of his sub-divine armor.
Walking into the center of the vast, luxurious throne room, his combat boots stepping over the fractured golden marble, Min-jae looked straight toward the elevated dais.
Sitting atop a massive throne made of pure white jade was The Third Sky King (Level 42 Boss). He was a tall, regal entity draped in flowing golden divine robes, his hollow golden eyes wide with an absolute, unadulterated mixture of aristocratic disgust and primal panic. In his shaking hand, he held a massive golden scepter that crackled with high-tier conceptual judgment lightning.
"Mortal heretic!" the Sky King roared, his voice trembling as he forced his level-based divine aura to expand across the room, trying to project a suffocating field of gravity. "You cross my threshold and murder my vanguard? You carry the dead Flame God’s mantle like a common thief! I will personally execute your entire lineage under the light of the seven heavens!"
The King brought his golden scepter down with a cataclysmic, world-ending force, unleashing a multi-mile storm of high-voltage judgment lightning designed to turn the entire throne room into a molten crater of vaporized stone.
Min-jae didn’t draw the space-cutting claymore from his shoulder. He stood perfectly stationary in the center of the room, his hands remaining casually inside his armor’s pockets, an empty, mocking smile touching his handsome face as the storm of divine lightning hit his bare chest plate.
The moment the cataclysmic elemental blast made contact, his sub-divine god-armor trait, Cosmic Indifference, fired off its 250% True Damage counter-calculations at supersonic velocity.
[Ding! Received 450,000 points of High-Tier Divine Lightning Damage from Level 42 Sky King.b]
[Sub-Divine Trait Active: ’Vajra Ward’ converts 450,000 Magic Damage into Physical Impact... Successful.]
[sss rank Talent Active: ’Eternal Vajra Deity Body’ triggered! Total Damage Negated. Health Pool: 100/100.]
[Sub-Divine Passive Active: ’Vajra Retribution’ triggers 250% True Damage solar amplification!]
[Reflecting 1,125,000 points of True Damage permanently imbued with ’Solar Fracture’!]
A catastrophic, blinding white-hot counter-blast erupted from Min-jae’s skin, completely swallowing the jade throne and the entire elevated dais in a burning, boiling storm of pure primordial fire. The 1,125,000 points of True Damage traveled instantly back along the lightning lines, completely ignoring the King’s golden robes, high divine armor parameters, and level-based damage reduction metrics.
The Third Sky King’s hollow golden eyes instantly snapped wide in unadulterated, primal horror.
Bang!
The massive golden scepter shattered into a thousand jagged fragments, and the King’s entire regal frame didn’t just bend; it completely, violently exploded outward from the inside out in a gruesome spray of dark fluid and fracturing bone fragments under the 1.12 million True Damage backlash of his own power. The Solar Fracture trait instantly ignited his underlying life-force, burning away his divine mana pool by 5% every single millisecond until his life bar hit absolute zero, turning him into a giant pile of premium system gold and legendary world loot chests right at Min-jae’s boots.
[Ding! You have achieved the World-First Solo Execution of a Heavenly Sky King (Level 42)!]
[Gained 150,000 EXP! You have leveled up! You are now Level 18!]
[Global Announcement Triggered: Player ’Min-jae’ has permanently dethroned the Third Sky! Rewarding 30,000 Reputation Points and a Divine Throne Core!]
The entire vast throne room fell into a dead, terrifying silence, the green starlight of Liu Xiao’s buff humming softly as it converted 15% of the reflected damage into absolute healing, fully locking the party’s vitality at maximum capacity.
Min-jae casually kicked a piece of the shattered scepter aside, his bottomless obsidian eyes looking down at the glowing Divine Throne Core floating over the ash pile. A dark, ruthless grin spread across his handsome face as his seven flawless, highly evolved queens lined up perfectly behind his back, their weapons humming with absolute execution parameters.
"The third layer has been officially retired," Min-jae murmured, his voice a low thunderclap that echoed through the empty divine corridors. He picked up the glowing core, his hidden system cheat already flashing with a new hidden evolution path for the team. "Ye-rin, analyze the star-maps. Let’s find the other five remaining gods before the demon vanguard realizes their fleets are missing."
