Ashley

  My eyes narrow at the words.

  Objective 2 complete! You have participated in the conquering of all twenty-four fortresses! Now bask in your rewards!

  Objective 4 complete! You have participated in the slaying of the five Grand Lords of Destruction! Now bask in your rewards!

  ?– The King is Dead, Long Live the King! –?

  You have conquered all twenty-four fortresses and slain the five Grand Lords of Destruction!

  Complete Objective 1 to conquer the Unique Domain.

  Objective 1: Kill the King of Destruction

  Objective 2: Conquer all twenty-four fortresses

  Objective 3: Survive

  Objective 4: Slay the five Grand Lords of Destruction

  Before I can even finish reading everything, only managing to skim over a lot of it in the process, I am interrupted by the King of Destruction’s gaze finally landing on me. But I manage to finish the chant for Frigid Tempest Call moments later as well, making the frigid tempest appear right on top of me, with me inside of the tempest’s calm region. Blocking out the king’s gaze in the process.

  Except that I can see some of the outer regions of the tempest beginning to fall apart and turn to crimson ash, only to vanish entirely. Proving that the king can even erase things like a tempest just with his gaze.

  I grit my teeth before reaching out and grabbing the items that appear in an orb in front of me.

  The rewards for the two objectives Blake and I completed.

  Then I go ahead and store the Ring of Destruction Resistance in my storage ring before putting the Amulet of Destruction and Ring of the Fallen Drachne Queen on. Only to quickly follow it up by quickly putting on the Gauntlets of the Fallen Destruction Elemental and frowning at the Sword of Hell in my hand as I analyze it, still taking advantage of the tempest that’s slowing the king down to do so.

  Because any little advantage is necessary in a fight like this. And if I’m being given these items, I will use them.

  Sword of Hell

  Description: A blade granted to those deemed worthy by the First Hell itself that grants the user 40 PHY. All users of the blade may coat the blade in the destructive energies of hell and the unpredictable energies of chaos. They may also alter the form of the blade as they please.

  Affects: +40 PHY, Chaos Energy Affinity, Destruction Energy Affinity

  It gives more physical strength than the blades Chaos gave me, but…

  I try to infuse my Chaos Energy into the blade only to find it far less efficient than Chaos’s blades. So I dump it into my storage ring as well. Finding Chaos’s blades to be superior.

  Which makes sense. Those blades were made from Chaos’s feathers after all.

  I turn my focus back to the king right when he’s about to finally break through my tempest. Then I go ahead and let myself fall straight towards the ground the moment the king pierces through my tempest. Bringing both of my gauntlets together and slamming them into the ground the instant I arrive.

  And with that, a powerful wave of destruction mana slams outwards from the source of impact and manages to actually push the King of Destruction back a little bit.

  Although that’s all it really manages to do. It doesn’t even pierce the cracked scales on his body, nor does it crack them any further.

  It just pushes the king back.

  But even that I’m fine with. Because all I need to do is distract it and keep its attention locked onto me.

  And distract it is exactly what I did as another message comes in from Blake, making me prepare one last measure against the king.

  I raise my hands in front of me and activate another new skill I just got from those items. One that charges up a powerful orb of destruction mana in front of my hands before sending a powerful beam straight at the king.

  So even when the ground around the King of Destruction begins to crumble and my twin flies straight out, the king doesn’t pay him any mind. Instead focusing on charging up its own breath attack and sending it back at mine in return.

  Unfortunately, the king’s attack easily pushes back against my own. Which was to be expected.

  But that doesn’t matter.

  Not when the ground all around the King of Destruction begins to explode as gunpowder no doubt sets alight beneath him.

  A smile stretches across my face before I activate my new skill, Terran Wings of Destruction, and coat my wings in pure destruction mana. Enough that I easily manage to send myself flying into the sky to avoid the king’s attack.

  Right as the king is enveloped in the exploding gunpowder, roaring its own anger out at the Unique Domain and everyone watching this livestream.

  I pant in exhaustion as the ash, dust, and smoke filling the air after the explosions slowly begins to clear up. And I sense Blake flying up next to me as well, with the man looking far less exhausted than I am but still exhausted.

  We just wait, the both of us unsure of what the king’s current status is.

  Until the ash and dust finally clear, revealing the king staring directly at us with pure hatred in its gaze. Hatred that grows even deeper when its gaze’s damage is reflected back at it from looking at me.

  I both feel relieved and a little disappointed at the king’s current status though.

  Its scales still aren’t shattered all across its body after all. Only some locations have shattered scales.

  And those locations aren’t ones covering important areas.

  I share a glance with Blake before we both nod our heads and turn back to the king as we chug our own potions.

  One last shot.

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