Chapter 1126: The Awakening (30)

Thin lines of blood traced down his cheek where the attack had grazed him.

His lips curved into a grin. “Impressive. I guess you have some strength in you.”

Danny planted his axe into the ground, golden light still crackling across its edge. “Can’t say the same thing for you. Though I have to say, this armor of yours is impressive.”

“I formed it from the Lightning Law… You can try it with your Light Law,” Ulric smirked. “Sorry, I forgot you are from a wash-up world where the notion of laws doesn’t even ring a bell.”

Danny smirked. “Oh, you mean this?” Danny’s armor was immediately covered in a thick layer of solid Light.

Ulric’s eyes narrowed as his lightning began to concentrate, the air around him distorting with static energy. “Then let’s see how much further you can go, Titan.”

He vanished.

Danny’s instincts screamed, and he swung his axe backward just in time to block Ulric’s sword. Sparks exploded as lightning and light collided again.

‘He has become faster and stronger,’ Danny felt the change.

Ulric appeared behind him, his sword spinning in a crazy arc. Danny pushed him off, the force of the blow sending a wave of pressure that cracked the ground beneath their feet.

Ulric didn’t let up.

He dashed forward again, his speed nearly invisible to the naked eye.

Each strike came faster than the last — lightning arcs slashing through the air, cutting deep grooves into the earth.

Danny parried every blow, his speed slowly adapting to Ulric’s.

But Ulric’s strikes grew sharper, faster — never letting Danny have a moment of rest. Danny’s arms trembled from the impact as each clash grew heavier.

Ten minutes passed, and Danny was being pushed. He started sustaining wounds, and worse, he never seemed to match Ulric’s speed.

It was like whenever he caught up to his speed, Ulric increased it again, causing Danny to always end up at square one.

Even worse, with every attack that injured him, Danny seemed to lose a large chunk of his Spiritual Energy reserve.

Ulric’s lightning was causing that.

However, Danny wasn’t backing down at all. If anything, his determination to kill this bastard kept growing with every spiritual qi he lost.

“You are not my opponent, Titan,” Ulric said, unleashing a lightning arc at Danny. “I train with Nirvana warriors and hunt Monarchs… not bugs like you.”

“Yet here we are, still alive, and you don’t seem to come any closer to killing me,” Danny smirked, cleaving through a lightning arc.

“Your death will come sooner than you think.” Ulric vanished and appeared overhead. He struck down hard, aiming to split Danny’s skull.

However, Danny saw through that attack. He merely moved to the side and struck with his axe, meeting the sharp end of Ulric’s sword.

Ulric’s arm vibrated, causing a frown to appear on his face. However, before he could move further away, Danny’s leg moved and landed a powerful kick on his stomach.

The force sent him flying back. But the next second, Ulric was on Danny again, now more fierce than before…

Suddenly, Ulric ducked low, his sword glowing blinding white. “Heavenly Flash,” he roared.

A beam of lightning shot forth, slicing through the air with so much speed that Danny never saw it coming.

It engulfed Danny, swallowing him whole.

The explosion tore a hole in the battlefield, sending molten rocks and plasma flying.

Smoke covered the area, showing the attack wasn’t simple at all.

Ulric straightened, panting slightly. “That should do it,” he muttered, waiting for the system to announce his kill.

However, even after a few seconds, no message came.

He frowned.

Then came a low rumble.

Golden light burst from within the smoke, parting it like a divine wind. Danny’s silhouette emerged, unharmed — though his skin shimmered faintly with golden cracks where the lightning had struck.

“Not bad,” he said, his voice deep and steady. “For a moment there, I thought I was in a sauna, not knowing it was your weak lightning. However, now it’s my turn.”

Danny raised his axe high, and golden runes began appearing all over his body. The moment Ulric saw this, a bad feeling crept into his heart.

The earth shook violently as pillars of light erupted around him.

“Titan Art — Celestial Descent”

The ground beneath Ulric glowed before erupting upward with massive golden pillars, each one carrying enough force to turn mountains to rubble.

Ulric dodged one, then another, but more kept coming, and slowly, he started to feel the pressure.

Danny stepped forward, aiming to add more pressure to Ulric’s load.

Wherever he moved, light pillars followed his movements like divine extensions of his will.

Ulric tried to retaliate with lightning spears, but each one dissolved the moment it touched the light barrier surrounding Danny…

Finally, Danny leaped into the air, axe raised high, golden energy swirling around it like a vortex. “Let’s end this.”

Ulric’s sword blazed with blue-white lightning, and he roared, meeting Danny head-on.

“Thunder God’s Wrath”

“Titan’s Judgment”

Their weapons collided in midair, and for a brief moment, the world went silent. Then —

BOOOOOOOM

A cataclysmic explosion erupted, shaking the entire planet. All battles came to a halt, turning in the direction Danny and Ulric were fighting.

The clouds above were torn apart, and a blinding dome of golden and blue energy spread outward, consuming everything in its path.

When the light faded, the once vibrant battlefield had become a wasteland — scorched earth, smoking craters, and silence.

At the center stood two figures — both still standing, bloodied, battered, and grinning.

All around them, over 40,000 Neburian warriors were reduced to ash.

Before the clash, Danny told Jane to be ready to move their warriors away. So when the attack came, all Earth warriors vanished and appeared on a different battlefield.

The ones left were the Neburians. A few Life Stage warriors survived. However, before they could jubilate, white beams came from the cloud and erased their bodies.

Far in the distance, Klaus’s mom smiled.

Inside the dome, Klaus smiled when he saw what Danny was doing.

Danny knew he couldn’t easily kill Ulric, so he planned to use their powerful attacks to kill the enemy. It was a dangerous plan, one that could cost him his life; however, with his superior healing abilities, he took the bet.

“This…” Danny muttered, wiping the blood from his mouth. “This is much more to get things started.”

Ulric raised his sword again, lightning flickering in his eyes. “Don’t die too soon, Titan.”

Danny tightened his grip on his axe, golden light flaring once more. “You first.”

And once again, they charged…

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⟪Master, something is changing⟫

Inside the dome, Klaus pushed a Life Stage warrior back and drove a dagger through another’s heart. However, the message he saw caused him to distance himself to have a more focused conversation.

‘What is happening?’

⟪I can sense some powerful things waking up on the other side of the Crack. I can’t tell what, but I know they are much stronger than even Death Stage warriors.

In fact, I think they are much stronger than even you⟫

‘This means we have to implement Plan F.’

⟪Unfortunately, we have to go with Plan F⟫

‘Do it.’

Just when Klaus gave the order, a Death Stage warrior appeared in front of him, his sword stabbing toward Klaus.

However, before the sword could reach him, Klaus’s eyes, hair, and aura turned red. A red light flashed, and the Death Stage warrior lost his head.

A red scythe appeared in Klaus’s grip as his aura grew several times stronger.

⟪Necrotic Vampire Monarch Class Activated⟫

“Everyone, we are in the Endgame now.”

All over the battlefield, every last warrior activated their trump cards…

What Klaus feared had come true…