Chapter 132: Chapter 133
The giant, sixty-foot-tall primitive beast let out another earth-shattering roar that shook the very foundation of the black volcanic valley. The sound waves were so physically dense that they caused the nearby pools of glowing purple lava to burst upward in violent, jagged sprays. Its red eyes burned with an ancient, territorial rage as it stared down at the tiny ball of translucent blue liquid floating on the petrified rock below. To this massive prehistoric predator, Ayla looked like nothing more than a microscopic droplet of water that had accidentally fallen into its burning domain.
It didn’t waste a single second. The colossal beast slammed its massive, bone-plated front leg down toward Ayla’s coordinates. The sheer weight of the strike compressed the thick sulfurous air, creating a pressurized wind that threatened to crush the stone floorboards into fine dust before the actual physical impact even landed.
Ayla didn’t blink her golden eyes, and she didn’t use her Abyssal Shadow Blink to slide away from the danger zone. Instead, a sharp wave of pure, unadulterated excitement bubbled up from her Apocalypse Gold Metal Core. Her fluid mass expanded slightly, absorbing the intense wind pressure like a flexible rubber cushion.
The moment the beast’s massive volcanic claw was just inches away from her face, Ayla triggered her newly mutated law attribute trait.
"Rend of the World-Order," she commanded flatly inside her mind.
Clang.
A loud, terrifyingly crisp metallic sound echoed across the dark wasteland. Five majestic, pitch-black claws instantly extended from the front of her blue mass, their surfaces shimmering with intricate golden runes that greedily drank the ambient, wild mana of the primitive world.
The beast’s thick, jagged plates of black volcanic bone were supposed to be completely immune to standard Gold-ranked physical attacks and high-tier elemental magic. They had been refined by the dense purple lava for hundreds of years. Yet, the moment Ayla’s black claws made contact with the bone armor, her trait completely ignored eighty percent of its physical defense parameters.
The pitch-black claws sliced through the volcanic bone like a hot iron blade cutting through soft grease. They ripped deep into the creature’s thick muscle tissues, cleanly severing the heavy tendons in its front leg.
A massive shower of thick, glowing purple blood erupted into the air, sizzling loudly as it splashed against the hot petrified rocks. The colossal beast let out a high-pitched, agonizing shriek that sounded like a dying bird, its massive sixty-foot body losing its balance completely as its severed leg buckled. It crashed heavily sideways into the mountain wall, causing a massive avalanche of black boulders to rain down into the trench.
"Oh, look at that damage calculation!" Nexus’s voice cheered hysterically inside her mind link, a huge block of bright purple data charts flashing across Ayla’s right holographic lens. "The permanent bleeding effect has already locked onto its soul container! Its internal primitive regeneration parameters are completely failing to close the lacerations! This is a perfect hit, little monster!"
Ayla did not feel a single drop of pride or relief. To her, this was just the beginning of a highly satisfying harvest. Her fluid body rolled forward across the bloody rocks, her golden-ringed pupils fixed intently on the massive, exposed energy core that was glowing violently inside the beast’s chest cavity.
The creature was weeping from pure pain and sudden, overwhelming survival fear, its red pupils contracting as it frantically tried to push its massive weight backward away from the tiny slime. It tried to open its massive jaws to vomit a river of boiling acid toward her, but Ayla was far too fast.
She activated her Gale Acceleration trait, her Gold-ranked body becoming an invisible blue projectile that sliced through the thick sulfur smoke with extreme velocity. She lunged straight toward the beast’s open chest wound, extending her five black claws to their maximum length.
With a single, fluid sweeping motion, she drove her hand deep into the creature’s chest, her claws completely bypassing the remaining rib structures. Her grip locked tightly around the massive, pulsating purple energy core.
"Removal," Ayla commanded smoothly, her multi-layered mental voice booming directly inside the beast’s primitive brain pathways.
She didn’t just delete its physical anger or its territorial dominance this time. She chose to completely erase the creature’s core concept of pain and life retention.
Instantly, the giant beast’s violent thrashing stopped completely. Its remaining three legs locked up in the muddy volcanic ash, and its wide, acid-dripping jaws froze open in a silent, expressionless gasp. The agonizing fear in its red eyes completely faded away, turning into a dull, blank gray color. Because its entire instinct to retain its own life force had been wiped away by her technique, the primitive monster simply surrendered its physical parameters to her control. It lay against the shattered mountain wall like a massive, lifeless piece of dark wood, its heavy tail drifting limply in a slow stream of purple lava.
Ayla did not waste a single microsecond. She twisted her fluid tendrils and forcefully ripped the massive purple core straight out of the beast’s chest, pulling the glowing entity directly into her own center.
The moment her fluids wrapped around the authentic, unmanaged cosmic core, an explosive wave of pure, raw primitive mana detonated inside her biological framework. The difference between this real cosmic essence and the fake simulation cores of the academy grid was like night and day. The thick, untamed purple mana smoothly flooded into her Apocalypse Gold Metal Core, saturating her golden foundation with a heavy, satisfying layer of real-world authority that made her blue jelly surface glow with an intense, majestic brightness.
"System notice: Real-world cosmic target eliminated," Nexus’s automated tone chimed in right on time, carrying a genuine tone of praise as it updated her internal logs. "One primitive volcanic beast core successfully digested. Your internal mana pool capacity has increased by three percent. The golden foundation has been successfully enriched by the world code of the Desolate Abyss."
Ayla bobbled her round blue body in absolute, profound satisfaction. The bloating pressure she usually felt when eating fake simulation cores was completely absent. Her gold core swallowed the primitive energy smoothly, absorbing every single scrap of the wild mana like a dry sponge soaking up fresh water.
"This is amazing, Nexus," Ayla whispered, her mental voice carrying a deeper, more resonant vibration than ever before. "The energy here is so thick and heavy. Eating just one of these real monsters is better than wiping out an entire freshman alliance in the simulation maps."
"I told you so!" Nexus chuckled softly, her voice dropping into a proud, conspiratorial whisper. "The academy professors think they are geniuses for building advanced virtual training grids, but they are just playing with toys. Real power can only be harvested from real, unmanaged primitive sectors. But do not drop your guard just yet, little monster. The heavy blood scent from that kill is already spreading across the local coordination grid."
Ayla tilted her mass, her golden-ringed pupils scanning the dark, rugged horizon of the volcanic valley.
The heavy sulfur air began to vibrate with a series of deep, low thumping sounds that rolled across the cracked stone floorboards from miles away. From the shadows of the massive, jagged black peaks, dozens of glowing red eyes began to manifest one after another in the dark.
The smell of the purple blood and the sudden death of the regional predator had successfully awakened the rest of the valley’s inhabitants. Pack after pack of giant volcanic beasts—some looking like massive bony panthers, others looking like multi-legged reptilian giants—began to slowly crawl out from the hidden lava trenches, their heavy claws clicking against the rocks as they locked their hungry gazes onto Ayla’s small coordinates.
There were at least fifty true, unmanaged cosmic entities gathering in the sector, their collective primitive auras combining to create a suffocating, terrifying pressure that caused the blood-red sky above to flash with angry purple lightning.
To a normal graduation senior from the Ascendant Academy, stumbling into a situation like this without a fifty-man vanguard alliance and a Crown-ranked protection shield would mean immediate, permanent death. The wild, anti-magic traits of these primitive beasts would easily rip through standard elemental barriers in seconds.
But to Ayla, looking out at the massive sea of fifty giant prehistoric monsters rushing toward her coordinates, this scene did not look like a dangerous trap at all. It looked like a grand, multi-course breakfast buffet that had been beautifully laid out just for her.
A wild, uncontrollable bloodlust instantly erupted from her golden core, causing her translucent blue surface to ripple with a manic, terrifying velocity. She didn’t try to hide, and she didn’t try to use her camouflage traits to escape the incoming horde. She rolled forward onto a high, flat volcanic rock, completely exposing her small body to the entire gathering.
"They are all coming to me," Ayla whispered, her golden pupils expanding to their absolute maximum width as her five pitch-black claws extended back out with a sharp, synchronized click. "This is the best playground."
"Then let’s clear the entire table!" Nexus laughed hysterically, her digital parameters flaring with a brilliant purple light inside Ayla’s mind to lock down the live tracking nodes of all fifty approaching targets. "Deploying maximum law attribute synchronization now! Have fun, little monster!"
The giant volcanic beasts let out a collective, deafening roar that literally tore the sulfur clouds apart, their massive bodies running forward through the purple lava streams as they charged straight toward the small blue slime, completely unaware that they had just transitioned from the ultimate predators of the valley into helpless, delicious prey.
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