Chapter 134: 134
The three-hundred-foot Ancient Abyss Wyrm lowered its colossal serpentine body from the smoky peak of the volcano. The flowing purple magma that ran through the deep cracks of its rocky skin dripped onto the stone floorboards, melting the black stone instantly into fresh pools of boiling liquid.
Its six burning red eyes focused entirely on the tiny blue slime floating near the pile of dead beasts. The air parameters across the entire valley became so hot and heavy that the surviving metallic tree roots at the edge of the sector instantly turned into black charcoal.
In its throat, the condensed sphere of purple lava grew brighter and brighter, radiating a blinding light that painted the blood-red sky in a dangerous shade of neon purple. The Wyrm did not wait for Ayla to move. It snapped its massive arrowhead jaw forward, unleashing a colossal torrent of pressurized magma directly toward her coordinates.
The torrent was over fifty feet wide, rushing across the battlefield like a roaring river of pure fire. It vaporized the rocky ground in its path, creating a massive trench of molten glass.
"Get out of the way, little monster!" Nexus warned sharply inside her mind link, a bright red flashing arrow appearing over Ayla’s right holographic lens. "That magma torrent contains the raw thermal pressure of the planet’s core! Even with your stable Gold Crusader framework, your fluid mass will dry up in less than three seconds if you take a direct hit!"
Ayla did not try to block the fire river with her physical body. She dropped her round form flat and activated her Gale Acceleration trait to its absolute maximum limit.
Her translucent blue mass became a hyper-speed blur, sliding sideways across the cracked stone floorboards just a fraction of a millisecond before the massive magma wave slammed into her original position. The extreme heat of the passing torrent singed the very outer layer of her blue jelly, turning it into thick white steam, but her internal Apocalypse Gold Metal Core spun rapidly, instantly pumping fresh golden mana to repair her fluid surface.
Ayla didn’t stop moving. She used the momentum of her high-speed slide to change direction, heading straight toward the flank of the colossal serpentine monster. She did not want to play a defensive game against an apex predator. She wanted to eat its core as quickly as possible.
"Nexus, give me the structural mapping of its rock armor!" Ayla commanded mentally, her voice perfectly deadpan despite the explosive sounds detonating all around her.
"Scanning the target now!" Nexus responded instantly. A highly complex, three-dimensional digital wireframe of the three-hundred-foot Wyrm flashed across Ayla’s vision, highlighting several critical node points along its massive spine. "The rock plates near its lower stomach are the thinnest! The magma pressure is keeping that specific zone soft so it can bend its body! Target that spot!"
Ayla leaped into the air, using a jagged boulder as a launch pad. She flew through the thick sulfur smoke like a blue cannonball, aiming directly for the highlighted soft zone beneath the beast’s rocky torso.
The Ancient Abyss Wyrm noticed the tiny projectile flying toward its body. It let out a deep, booming hiss that sent a powerful shockwave through the air, and it violently whipped its massive, heavy tail around. The three-hundred-foot tail sliced through the air like a colossal iron whip, aiming to swat Ayla directly out of the sky.
The tail moved with a terrifying velocity, leaving a vacuum pocket in its wake.
Ayla did not panic. Mid-air, she focused her golden-ringed pupils onto the incoming tail mass and activated her Removalfunction. She didn’t target the whole beast, because its pseudo-Crown weight was too heavy for a total mind control override from her current rank. Instead, she targeted only the motor-neuron parameters inside the muscles of the tail itself.
"Removal," she ordered silently.
She forcefully erased the concept of muscular contraction from that specific fifty-foot section of the tail.
Instantly, the terrifying velocity of the swinging tail vanished. The massive rock plates at the end of the Wyrm’s body suddenly went completely limp, dropping downward and scraping uselessly against the stone floorboards with a loud, grinding crunch. The unexpected loss of muscle control caused the giant serpentine monster to tilt sideways, its six red eyes flashing with a wave of sudden confusion and primitive irritation.
Ayla used that exact window of vulnerability to land directly on the soft magma plates of its lower stomach.
The heat of the glowing purple lava beneath her face was incredibly intense, causing her blue fluid mass to bubble violently. But Ayla ignored the pain entirely. She opened her front mass wide and extended her five pitch-black claws to their absolute maximum length.
The intricate golden runes on her claws flared with a blinding light as she unleashed her ultimate physical trait.
"Rend of the World-Order," Ayla commanded flatly.
She drove her pitch-black claws deep into the soft magma plates. The trait completely ignored eighty percent of the Wyrm’s planetary core defense parameters. The sharp black claws sliced through the molten rock, through the thick, rubbery inner hide, and deep into the main mana pathways of the giant beast.
A massive explosion of glowing purple blood and hot lava erupted from the wound, splashing all over Ayla’s blue form. The permanent bleeding effect instantly latched onto the Wyrm’s soul container, disrupting its connection to the planet’s core.
The Ancient Abyss Wyrm let out a deafening, agonizing shriek that echoed across the entire continent of the primitive world. Its colossal three-hundred-foot body began to thrash violently, slamming against the mountains and causing massive stone walls to collapse into the valley. The pain from the soul-bleeding effect was entirely foreign to an apex predator that had never been injured before.
It frantically rolled its massive body over, trying to crush the tiny blue slime against the hard volcanic ground.
Ayla didn’t let herself get flattened. She pulled her claws out of the wound, carrying a massive chunk of the beast’s inner hide with her, and dropped back down to the stone floorboards. She rolled away smoothly as the Wyrm’s massive weight smashed into the rock where she had just been standing, creating a crater that was thirty feet deep.
The giant monster rose back up from the dust, its six red eyes burning with a manic, suicidal bloodlust. The black light of the permanent bleeding effect was expanding rapidly across its rocky chest, draining its vitality by the second. Realizing that it was losing its life force, the Ancient Abyss Wyrm decided to sacrifice its entire internal mana pool to destroy the invader.
The massive energy core inside its chest began to spin at a suicidal velocity. The purple lava inside its skin turned white-hot, and a terrifying, destructive aura gathered around its arrowhead jaw. It was preparing to detonate its own core parameters to incinerate the entire valley.
"Ayla! It is triggering a regional self-destruction sequence!" Nexus yelled loudly through the mind link, her digital interface flashing a massive red warning sign. "The explosion will wipe out every single coordinate within a ten-kilometer radius! You need to kill it right now before the core stability hits zero percent!"
Ayla looked up at the giant, white-hot monster that was preparing to blow itself up. A wild, predatory grin formed inside her primitive mind. She didn’t feel any desire to run away from the explosion. The sight of that volatile, hyper-condensed energy core only made her mouth water with an extreme level of hunger.
She focused her Twin Lens of the Weaver directly onto the white-hot energy center inside the Wyrm’s chest cavity. She deployed her ultimate mental function across the single target with everything she had.
"Combination," Ayla commanded, her multi-layered voice booming like a divine decree inside the beast’s fading soul container.
She forcefully took the lingering agony of its bleeding soul and jammed it together with a massive, artificial surge of absolute, paralyzing peace.
The extreme conceptual collision hit the Wyrm’s primitive nervous system like an absolute hammer. The combination of intense physical torture and absolute mental tranquility completely short-circuited its cognitive brain pathways within a single millisecond.
The white-hot light running through its rocky skin instantly flickered and died out. The self-destruction sequence collapsed entirely as the beast’s internal mana control vanished. The giant Ancient Abyss Wyrm didn’t even have time to let out a final cry of confusion. Its six burning red eyes rolled backward into its skull, turning into dull, lifeless pieces of gray stone.
The colossal three-hundred-foot serpentine body collapsed forward, hitting the stone floorboards with a massive, earth-shattering thud that kicked up a giant cloud of black volcanic ash.
The valley fell into a complete, dead silence once more. The apex predator of the Desolate Abyss was officially dead.
Ayla did not waste a single moment to appreciate her victory. She rolled across the dusty ground like a blue wave, scaling the side of the dead monster’s head until she reached its chest cavity. She used her pitch-black claws to rip open the remaining rock plates, exposing the massive, football-stadium-sized purple energy core that was vibrating weakly inside the corpse.
She opened her fluid blue mass to its absolute maximum limit, creating a giant, swirling vortex that slowly drew the entire colossal Wyrm core straight into her center.
The moment her fluids wrapped around the pseudo-Crown apex core, a blinding, multi-colored pillar of light shot out from Ayla’s body, piercing straight through the red sky and blowing the thick sulfur clouds away for hundreds of miles.
The raw volume of the unmanaged primitive energy was so immense that Ayla’s translucent blue body completely transformed, turning into a solid, flawless sphere of dense, polished gold that radiated a terrifying cosmic pressure. Her Apocalypse Gold Metal Core swallowed the apex energy smoothly, absorbing the ancient planetary code to cement her position at the absolute pinnacle of her current rank tier.
[ System Notice: Ancient Abyss Wyrm Core successfully digested. ]
[ Your internal mana pool capacity has increased by a massive one hundred percent. ]
[ Your golden foundation has achieved the status of: Peak Gold Crusader (Maximized). ]
[ The world parameters of the Desolate Abyss Sector have been completely conquered. ]
Ayla floated quietly above the massive corpse of the Wyrm, letting out a deep, satisfied ripple as the golden light around her body slowly settled down. She felt heavier, denser, and infinitely more stable than she ever had before.
"That was a very good lunch, Nexus," Ayla muttered flatly, her golden-ringed pupils glowing brightly in the dark valley. "My core is completely full now."
"You did it, little monster!" Nexus cheered happily, popping a massive block of completed achievement logs across her vision. "You successfully solo-killed a pseudo-Crown apex predator on a real primitive world within your first day! Your power scaling is completely ready to face the senior students at the academy tomorrow!"
Ayla bobbled her golden-tinted body in complete satisfaction, her eyes looking toward the dark horizon as she prepared to activate her token to return to her residential suite, ready to unleash her maximized peak Gold power across the entire main academy sector.
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