Chapter 71: medusa and min jae
The sudden, blinding detonation of emerald starlight from Liu Xiao’s unsealed 50% power nature core washed over the ruined cathedral floorboards, but it did not signal the end of the war. Medusa did not break.
Though her Endless Gorgon Abyss domain had been violently shattered into dead pixels, the Level 72 Mythic Class demon princess let out a low, venomous laugh that rattled the remaining crystal pillars. She wiped a thin trail of dark violet blood from her lips, her exotic icy-blue eyes flaring with an unhinged, aristocratic pride that completely overrode her initial terror.
"You think breaking a regional domain field is enough to strip-mine a primordial royal?!" Medusa screamed, her voice sounding like a collection of sharpening glass blades.
She forcefully reached her hands into the bleeding spatial rifts behind her crumbling throne, dragging out her hidden, mythic-tier signature armament—The Abyssal Viper’s Edge. It was a massive, single-edged curved greatsword forged out of pure, condensed obsidian stone-ink, its blade wrapped in thousands of writhing, living green shadow-serpents that hissed with a lethal, armor-melting acid.
At the exact same microsecond, three glowing hidden passives materialized along her status interface.
[Mythic Boss Phase 2 Transition Unlocked!]
[Active Skill Activated: ’The Gorgon’s Venomous Regalia’ (Rank Mythic)!b]
[Effect: Medusa’s physical agility metrics are multiplied by 300%! Every single successful strike with ’The Abyssal Viper’s Edge’ now injects a continuous, stackable ’Corrosive Calcification’ debuff that permanently bypasses physical armor plates, dissolving 5% of the target’s total vitality pool every 2 seconds!]
"Min-jae, she’s forcefully overwriting the system’s standard cooldown gates!" Major General Shin Ye-rin shouted from the command deck, her short black bob damp with sweat as the terminal screens flashed with critical red warnings. "Her movement data has crossed the supersonic barrier! The dread-mechs cannot lock onto her trajectory!"
"Stand back, Liu Xiao!" Min-jae commanded, his voice a low, gravelly roar as he forcefully wrenched his massive sss rank Primordial Genesis Greatsword out of the stone floor.
His armor was still heavily smoking at 40% health, his chest plate cracked down the center, but the raw adrenaline surging through his veteran regressor veins completely numbed the physical pain. He didn’t spend a single second allocating his remaining stat margins. He locked his grip around the heavy wrapped hilt, his Solar Zenith Domain exploding back into existence as his blade ignited into an intense, white-hot mass of primordial fire.
Medusa vanished from her kneeling posture at an un-trackable, conceptual velocity.
Before Yoo Ji-a or Gu Bylai could even raise their divine-tier spears, the demon princess materialized directly inside Min-jae’s personal space, her exceptionally voluptuous hourglass figure twisting with lethal grace as she brought her obsidian greatsword down in a devastating, three-strike horizontal combination.
The heavy blades collided mid-air with a succession of earth-shaking thunderclaps that completely pulverized the surrounding gold marble pillars into fine dust. The fight turned into a brutal, high-speed crucible of twin-blade melee combat. Medusa’s agility was terrifying; she fluidly danced through the boiling elemental steam, her curved obsidian sword tracing thousands of green, snake-like cutting arcs that systematically lashed against Min-jae’s dark armor plates.
Min-jae parried aggressively, using the massive weight of his SSS-rank greatsword to deflect the brunt of her kinetic mass. But the living green shadow-serpents wrapping her blade successfully slid past his sword-guard, their armor-melting acid hissing violently as they sank their fangs directly into his left thigh and forearm.
[Warning! SSS-Rank Negation Talent ’Eternal Vajra Deity Body’ is experiencing continuous chemical corrosion!]
[Received 80,000 points of Absolute Corrosive Calcification Damage!]
[Your Health Pool has dropped: 40/100 → 20/100! You are entering a near-death state!]
A thick, dark violet poison began to spread rapidly through Min-jae’s underlying mana pathways, turning his veins into cold, calcified stone and choking his breathing. His vision flickered ominously as fresh blood dripped continuously from his lips onto his broken chest plate.
"Your body has reached its weight limit, heretic!" Medusa purred venomously, her flawless face completely flushed a deep, sultry crimson as she locked her obsidian blade tightly against his greatsword guard, their faces mere inches apart. Her full chest heaved with heavy, ragged breaths, her life bar also flashing dangerously from the continuous 250% true damage reflection loops. "Your mirror is completely full of cracks! Die!"
"I told you before, princess," Min-jae snarled, a cold, dark, and completely unhinged grin spreading across his blood-stained face as his golden eyes flashed with a commanding, god-like authority. "The ledger only records my impact data. And your sword just hit its maximum transaction capacity."
Min-jae completely let go of his sword hilt with his left hand, entirely ignoring the fact that his forearm was calcifying into stone. He drove his bare, dark-alloy gauntlet straight through the writhing mass of green serpents, forcefully grabbing the razor-sharp edge of Medusa’s obsidian blade with his bare fingers, locking her weapon in a physical stasis grip.
"What?!" Medusa’s exotic icy-blue eyes snapped wide in unadulterated, primal horror as she tried to pull her greatsword back, but his 1,200 Vitality grip held her completely pinned.
"Source Shearing," Min-jae murmured, his low baritone dropping into a seductive, terrifying whisper.
Using his single right hand, he raised the massive World-Splitter greatsword high into the air, channeling the absolute entirety of his remaining Spirit metrics into a final, cataclysmic downward swing that turned the entire cathedral’s atmospheric humidity into a total vacuum.
The SSS-rank blade sliced completely through Medusa’s Abyssal Viper’s Edge, the 500% un-blockable True Damage permanently dismantling her mythic sword’s code parameters into a cloud of dead gray pixels. The world-splitting strike didn’t stop there —it traveled smoothly down her right shoulder line, fracturing her white obsidian plates and throwing her voluptuous frame violently backward across the stone blocks.
Medusa let out a fractured, deafening shriek of pure panic as her mythic greatsword exploded into thousands of harmless shards of scrap metal. Her life bar flatlined down to a critical 1% margin, leaving her completely weaponless, her royal armor ruined, and her proud, cold attitude completely shattered as she slid across the fractured floorboards.
Min-jae dropped heavily to both knees onto the marble, his massive greatsword embedding deep into the stone to keep his collapsing body upright. His frame was completely covered in dark violet poison lines, his armor completely broken at 20% health, his breathing shallow and ragged as he faced his nine queens.
From the edge of the pavilion, Liu Xiao’s emerald eyes flared with a beautiful, fanatical protective fury that completely shattered her noble detachment as an ancient deity. She raised her jade-carved staff, her long green and white silk train billowing wildly as she prepared to unleash her god-tier renewal code to stitch his soul back together.
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