Dungeon Corpse Stacker: I Absorb Everything to Become Ominous Monarch
Chapter 72: THE MONSTER IN THE CROWNThe subterranean air within the Apex Chamber exploded in a violent storm of molten marble and pressurized kinetic shockwaves.
Moving at speeds that shattered the sound barrier six times over, the twelve-foot tall monstrous form of President James—now fully fused with the Ancient World Core as a Pseudo-Monarch—closed the fifty-pace distance in less than a fraction of a millisecond. His massive, seven-foot bone scythes crackled with unstable crimson spatial lightning, bringing both blades down in a devastating X-shaped cleave aimed straight at Renan’s neck!
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The floor beneath Renan detonated into a twenty-foot deep crater.
However, the bone scythes did not touch human flesh. Renan had raised his dark Monarch blade horizontally with a single hand, parrying the combined kinetic mass of the twelve-foot beast with absolute, effortless stability. The golden Monarch runes etched along the shadow steel blade flared like brilliant miniature stars, completely neutralizing the spatial lightning on contact.
President James’s erratic crimson eyes widened in psychotic disbelief as his full-strength strike came to a dead halt against Renan’s single-handed guard.
"Is this the power of your stolen divinity, James?" Renan whispered, his double-toned voice echoing directly inside James’s corrupted mind. "Slow. Heavy. Unrefined."
Before James could pull back his bone scythes, Renan shifted his center of gravity and delivered a brutal, straight front-kick directly into the Pseudo-Monarch’s thorax.
[Skill Activated: ’Sovereign’s Impact - Kinetic Vector Release’]
Target: Pseudo-Monarch James (Thorax Core)
Applied Physical Force: 50,000 Points Direct Vector Shift
BANG-CRACK!
The impact sounded like a heavy artillery shell striking a concrete bunker. The thick chitinous armor covering James’s chest exploded into flying black splinters and black blood. The twelve-foot monstrosity was sent flying backward like a cannonball, crashing straight through four massive marble pillars before slamming heavily into the far reinforced wall of the dome, causing tons of ceiling bedrock to cave in over him.
"GAAAAAH!" James roared, his voice screeching with unnatural frequency as he dragged his massive frame out from the rubble. The black, swollen veins across his chest pulsed violently, forcing raw crimson mana into the shattered armor plating to regenerate the broken bone tissue in seconds.
"I cannot be destroyed!" James shrieked, his four chitinous wings spreading wide as pools of dark green corrosive acid erupted from his spine, melting the surrounding stone into glowing slag. "The Ancient World Core connects my body directly to the planetary mana ley-lines! As long as this core pumps, my flesh is immortal!"
High above the battlefield, standing on the high balconies surrounding the dome, Shadow Commander Vane and Shadow Commander Drake stood ready to intervene, but Renan held up a single gloved hand, signaling them to stay back.
"Immortal?" Renan said smoothly, walking calmly through the white-hot molten glass floor as black miasma wrapped around his leather boots, completely protecting him from the ambient five-hundred-degree heat. "You are merely a parasite leeching off an ancient engine you don’t understand."
Renan lowered his body slightly, his golden eyes narrowing as dark violet Monarch aura erupted around his physical frame, forming the ethereal silhouette of a massive winged Monarch behind his back.
[Skill Activated: ’Sovereign’s Apex Step’]
Movement Speed Amplification: +300%
Active Stat Output: 50,000 Physical Stat Points
SWOOSH!
Renan vanished from sight entirely.
President James blinked his multi-faceted crimson eyes, but before his corrupted sensory organs could register the spatial shift, Renan materialized directly in the air above his head!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Renan’s dark Monarch blade transformed into a blinding wheel of golden-black light. In less than a single second, Renan executed forty-eight precise, high-density cuts across the Pseudo-Monarch’s body!
"ARRGGHH!" James screamed as all four of his massive chitinous wings were severed from his spine in a shower of black blood! His left arm scythe was sliced into three metallic chunks, and his heavy chest plating was completely flayed open, exposing the pulsating, violet-glowing crystal needles of the Ancient World Core embedded deep within his sternum!
The twelve-foot beast collapsed onto its knees on the molten floor, black blood pouring from dozens of deep wounds that regenerated far too slowly to match the sheer speed of Renan’s execution.
Renan landed lightly on the stone behind James, flicking his dark blade to clear the black blood from its tip.
"Your body is regenerating," Renan noted coldly, turning around to face the kneeling monster. "But the core in your chest is cracking under the strain of holding my Monarch mana."
President James turned his head, his pale face covered in black gore, his eyes filled with a mixture of psychotic rage and overwhelming, suffocating terror. He could feel it—every time Renan’s blade cut his flesh, a trace of Monarch miasma entered his circulatory system, eating away at the Ancient World Core from the inside.
"You... you monster..." James choked out, his raspy voice trembling. "If I die... the Association’s secret global archives will be locked forever! The World Federation will declare this entire country an illegal Sovereign Territory and launch a full-scale orbital strike!"
Renan walked up to the kneeling President, stopping right in front of the exposed, pulsating crystal heart in his chest.
"Let them declare what they wish," Renan said softly, raising his sword tip until it rested directly against the center of the Ancient World Core. "The era of your Association is over."
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