442: End of Craig 442: End of Craig âNo matter how potent the venom,â Klaus had said, âno matter how deadly the toxin, the Black Dragon Chaotic Bloodline will not die from it.
And in most cases⊠it wonât even feel it.
That was why we use all kinds of poisons to assassinate our targets.
Itâs the best weapon for us.â That revelation had stunned Max back then.
But now, as he stood in the arena of the Tower of Truth, the words echoed like prophecy.
Unlike the others, Max didnât just carry the Black Dragon Chaotic Bloodlineâhis was far beyond, purer, denser, something even the Guild had no record of.
His bloodline wasnât just a Source Bloodlineâit was something that transcended it.
And with that, Max believedâno, he knewâthat there wasnât a poison in this world or the next that could ever bring him down.
Not venom from beasts, not ancient soul toxins, not even the so-called untouchable Voidshade Venom Craig had so proudly unleashed.
Max believed he was immune to all of themânot by chance, not by arroganceâbut because he himself had tested some of the potent poisons of Black Lotus guild back in their headquarters.
And like he had expected, they didnât work on him.
âHeh,â Max chuckled lightly, his voice calm and laced with something far more dangerous than rageâcertainty.
Slowly, he straightened his posture, rising tall and composed, as though the needle that had just pierced his chest was a mere inconvenience, not a death sentence.
His pink eyes, calm and almost amused, locked onto Craig, who had instinctively taken a step back the moment Max moved.
That single step was involuntary, driven by something primalâfear.
Max tilted his head slightly and asked with a faint smirk, âWere you saying something?â Craigâs face contorted, his lips parting in disbelief.
âY-You⊠how is this possible?â he stammered, his voice cracking under the weight of sheer confusion.
âHow are you alive?â It didnât make sense.
Not to him.
Not to any demon who had ever heard the legends of the Voidshade Venom.
The poison wasnât just rareâit was final.
A cursed toxin refined over thousands of years by forbidden demonic rituals, designed to kill without a trace, to erase not just the body but the will of anyone it infected.
Craig had seen it used before.
He had seen monsters, geniuses, even high-ranking warlords reduced to twitching corpses within seconds of exposure.
And yet here Max stoodâalive, breathing, his aura even more composed than before.
But Craigâs pride refused to accept what he was witnessing.
He clenched his teeth and forced a mocking sneer back onto his face.
âNo,â he growled, shaking his head.
âYouâre faking it.
Youâre still poisoned.
I can tell.
You must be in a weakened state, just trying to act toughâpretending youâre fine while the venom eats you alive from the inside.â He gestured wildly, his eyes slightly manic.
âYes, thatâs it.
Youâre just enduring it, buying time, hiding the pain while waiting to collapse.
Thatâs the only explanationâbecause no one survives Voidshade Venom.
No one.â But even as he spoke, Craigâs words began to sound hollow.
The longer he looked at Maxâwho stood perfectly still, whose breathing remained steady, whose skin hadnât paled or blistered, whose eyes held no trace of struggleâthe more his conviction began to tremble.
Because what he couldnât understand⊠Was that Max wasnât enduring the poison.
He had devoured it.
âAny last words?â Max asked softly, his tone devoid of arrogance or crueltyâjust calm finality.
His pink eyes stared at Craig like one might regard a crumbling statueâsomething already gone, already broken, simply waiting to fall apart.
In Maxâs eyes, Craig was already dead.
It was only a matter of seconds now.
But Craig wasnât ready to die.
Not like this.
Not without understanding how it had all gone so wrong.
âI donât believe it!â he shouted, his voice laced with desperation and denial.
âI donât believe the poison doesnât affect you!â The weight of his fury boiled over.
His body erupted with demonic energy, darkness swirling like a maelstrom around him, his aura surging to its absolute peakâthe pinnacle of the Seeker Rank.
The very floor of the arena cracked beneath his feet as he drew his massive black sword once more.
âIâll kill you with my own hands!â But Max didnât even flinch.
âI wonât give you a second chance,â he said coldly, his voice like a blade drawn in silence.
And thenâhe moved.
In that instant, he activated one of his most devastating skills, his voice barely above a whisper: âMagic Swords Excalibur.â Whoosh!
From above, the sky split.
A golden sword descended from the heavensâtowering, radiant, and impossibly detailed.
Every inch of it shimmered with divine brilliance, its edge sharp enough to slice through fate itself.
The blade was thrice the size of the demon charging below it, and its presence alone silenced the entire tenth floor.
It was not just a weaponâit was judgment made manifest.
Craigâs eyes widened in terror as he looked upâhis rage collapsing into pure dread.
BOOM!
The Excalibur struck the arena like the wrath of a god.
The moment it landed, an explosion of golden light erupted, engulfing Craig completely.
In a flash of light and force, Craig was gone.
No scream.
No remains.
Not a scrap of armor, not even dust.
He was obliterated, his entire being erased from existence in a single, divine stroke.
The shockwave shattered the ground, sent tremors racing through the Tower of Truth, and silenced even the whispers of the crowd.
A moment later, the golden sword faded into motes of light, leaving behind a massive crater in the arenaâs centerâstill glowing, still trembling from the power it had unleashed.
And at the edge of it stood Max.
Unmoving.
Unbothered.
Unmatched.
Everyone stood frozenâstunned, astonished, shocked beyond words.
Not a single whisper echoed across the vast tenth floor of the Tower of Truth.
It was as if the very air had turned to stone.
What they had just witnessed wasnât simply a battleâit was an execution, swift and absolute.
The number one seat of the Demon Race, Craig, the monstrous figure feared by even the most elite geniuses, the one who carried the Authority of the tower and stood atop all other Seeker Rank demons, had been obliterated in a matter of seconds.
Not worn down in a drawn-out, desperate clash.
Not wounded after a brutal exchange.
Noâhe was simply erased.
There was no struggle, no resistance.
Just a golden swordâradiant, divine, devastatingâdescending from the sky and wiping him from existence.
People couldnât wrap their minds around it.
Even those who hated Craig, who whispered curses about him in the shadows, couldnât help but shiver at what they had seen.
If Craig could fall like that⊠who among them stood a chance?
Some elves looked at each other with disbelief.
The humans, especially those from the Moon Faction, were too stunned to even celebrate.
Even the demons, once seething with hatred and pride, now wore expressions of disbelief and fear.
Max hadnât just killed Craigâhe had shattered the balance of the tower with a single blow.
He had proven, without a doubt, that he wasnât just strongâhe was a force of nature, a presence so overwhelming that the old rules, the old hierarchies, the old titlesâŠ
meant nothing before him.
And in that heavy, suffocating silence that followed Craigâs erasure, only one truth remained in everyoneâs hearts: Max Voidwalker was untouchable.
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