SS Awakening: My Monster Merging System!

This monster had clearly been hiding along the only route leading toward the fourth core all along. Any challenger who focused entirely on the distant crimson pillar of light would fall straight into its mouth.

It was very clever. Unfortunately for it, it had encountered Zich, who had more than one quick escape skill in his possession.

Before the enormous mouth could fully emerge, Zich, who had sensed it early, quickly changed direction. At the same time, a black shadow flashed.

[Shadow Blink!]

He appeared in midair more than ten meters away.

Slimy simultaneously jumped from his shoulder, firing large amounts of white silk toward the half collapsed stone pillars that remained after years of erosion by wind and sand.

Yes, thanks to Silk Barrier, the skill fundamentally allowed Slimy to produce and manipulate silk from its body in any form or shape.

The silk threads suddenly tightened.

Zich’s falling body was forcibly pulled sideways, swinging him directly over the Sandsea Devourer’s enormous mouth.

The monster released a deep roar as its massive body emerged from beneath the sand and attempted to continue pursuing him.

Zich did not even look back.

"Hold it back."

Two skeleton soldiers that had already been waiting nearby simultaneously charged out from behind the dunes.

With their strength, they naturally could not truly stop a Level 27 monster.

But as long as they could attract the Sandsea Devourer’s attention for a moment, Zich would have enough time to reach the Storm Core.

Sure enough, the Sandsea Devourer sensed the death aura behind it.

Its enormous tail swept outward. Both skeleton soldiers were sent flying on the spot.

But by the time it turned around again, Zich had already appeared in front of the fourth core.

There was no second guardian here because the Sandsea Devourer itself was the guardian of the fourth core.

Zich raised his right hand. Blood colored energy rapidly gathered along his arm before eventually condensing into a thin crimson edge along his palm.

Blood Arc!

The crimson edge slashed against the first ring surrounding the Storm Core, causing blood red and crimson light to erupt simultaneously.

The first ring shattered. Cracks immediately appeared across the second.

Zich did not rush to continue attacking.

Instead, he submerged most of his consciousness into his other three contracts.

In the north, the winged sand scorpion had already collapsed inside the depression. The skeleton soldier Tiamant had carried stood beside the Storm Core, its bone blade hovering less than half a meter away from the final defensive ring.

In the east, both arms of the Sandstone Giant had been torn off by the Silverback Ape Grunt, while only the final one of the twelve defensive rings remained around the core.

The western Storm Core was likewise on the verge of going dark. The Blood Leech only needed to destroy the final energy conduit before the entire core would completely collapse.

After confirming that all three locations were ready, Zich began destroying the fourth core before him, condensing and releasing one Blood Arc after another.

As the outer rings of wind and sand continued shattering, the energy released from within the fourth core grew increasingly powerful.

After breaking free from the two skeleton soldiers, the Sandsea Devourer was already charging toward him again. Its enormous body created a rapidly approaching wave of sand as it traveled beneath the surface.

Zich still did not look back.

The fifth ring shattered.

The eighth ring shattered.

By the time only two rings remained, the Sandsea Devourer was less than thirty meters away.

Slimy quickly activated a skill. A translucent silk barrier unfolded between Zich and the monster.

Boom!

The Sandsea Devourer slammed into the barrier, its circular rows of teeth violently tearing through the silk.

After only a single collision, countless cracks appeared across the barrier.

Slimy’s body trembled violently, but it refused to retreat, a determined expression on its face.

Zich condensed another Blood Arc and shattered the eleventh ring.

Now only one remained.

But before attacking, he confirmed the condition of the other three cores through his contracts.

All of them had reached their critical points.

If the power at even one location slipped out of control, that Storm Core would shatter prematurely, and the remaining three cores would immediately receive their enhancements.

The Sandsea Devourer slammed into the silk barrier again.

BANG!

Large amounts of white silk snapped apart on the spot.

Bo!!

Slimy was sent flying backward by the impact and landed once again on Zich’s shoulder, its translucent body visibly dimmer than before.

The monster had already charged directly behind Zich. But at that exact moment, he closed his eyes.

In the north, the skeleton soldier’s bone blade hovered beside the Storm Core.

In the east, the Silverback Ape Grunt had already raised its fist.

In the west, the Blood Leech’s claws rested against the final energy conduit.

In the south, the crimson Blood Arc in Zich’s hand was less than ten centimeters away from the final ring.

The images of all four battlefields unfolded simultaneously within his consciousness.

At that moment, it was as though he had once again returned to the silver ring at the center of the Winter Realm, with four skeleton soldiers advancing along four completely different ice paths.

Except this time, he did not need them to avoid attacks.

He only needed four attacks to land at the exact same instant.

A single command traveled through all the contracts simultaneously.

The northern skeleton soldier brought down its bone blade.

The Silverback Ape Grunt brought down its fist.

The Blood Leech tore through the final energy conduit beneath the Storm Core.

And the Blood Arc in Zich’s hand slashed toward the final defensive ring.

BOOM! BOOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Four explosions erupted almost simultaneously, as though everything had been calculated with absolute precision beforehand.

The northern Storm Core was shattered in a single strike by the skeleton soldier’s bone blade, the eastern Storm Core exploded beneath the Silverback Ape Grunt’s devastating fist, while the western Storm Core began collapsing directly from within before it completely shattered.

With virtually no difference in timing, all four Storm Cores disappeared simultaneously!

The power within them that should have transferred into the surviving cores had only just begun surging outward when, with no remaining cores to receive it, the energy completely dissipated into the air.

The Sandsea Devourer that had already reached Zich’s back suddenly froze.

The next second, both it and the endless yellow sand surrounding them transformed into countless points of light alongside the violent howl of the wind.

[All Four Storm Cores Have Been Destroyed.]

[Second Floor Trial Completed.]

[Clear Time: 00:04:11.]

[Detected: Interval Between Destruction of All Four Cores Was Less Than 0.1 Seconds.]

[Hidden Condition "Four Cores, One Destruction" Completed.]

[Trial Evaluation: SSS.]

[You Have Broken the Historical Record for the Fastest Second Floor Clear.]

Seeing the final time, Zich slowly exhaled.

If he had personally traveled to all four locations and destroyed the cores one by one, four minutes would not even have been enough for him to cover the entire distance.

But for a summoner, anywhere his summons could reach should naturally count as somewhere he could reach.

Outside the Heaven Reaching Trial Tower.

The first place entry on the black stone monument changed once again.

[First Place: Zich Grave.]

[Current Progress: Third Floor.]

[First Floor Evaluation: SSS.]

[Second Floor Evaluation: SSS.]

[Second Floor Clear Time: 00:04:11.]

[Historical Record Broken.]

Many people were still discussing Zich’s perfect evaluation on the first floor when a second historical record appeared beside his name.

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