Chapter 288: The Fourth Titan Is Finally Here!

Inside the thick sphere made from Cosmic materials, complete silence filled the space.

Luke’s body, which had been resting against the smooth surface, suddenly began to rise.

His body slowly floated upward until his back was several feet away from the ground.

Only the System continued its work.

A faint vibration passed through Luke’s body.

Then another.

His muscles suddenly tightened as an unfamiliar force began flowing through every part of his body.

The change started from his chest.

A small point of green light appeared beneath his skin.

It slowly expanded.

Luke’s breathing stopped for a moment.

Then—

*Thump.*

A deep pulse echoed through the sphere.

The green light spread farther, crawling through his chest before flowing into his limbs.

[40%...]

[Body reconstruction in progress.]

[Foreign Origin characteristics detected.]

[Beginning physical adaptation.]

Luke’s skin began to change.

The normal color of his body gradually faded, replaced by a deep, dark-grey tone.

His muscles became denser, while his shoulders broadened and his arms thickened.

Even while unconscious, his body was being reshaped into something that no longer belonged entirely to his previous form.

Yet the transformation did not stop there.

*Thump.*

Another pulse came from his chest.

The green light suddenly intensified.

A spherical core began taking shape within him, glowing with a strange necrotic-green flame.

[50%...]

[Titan physical structure established.]

[Sevaroth’s sealed characteristics integrating.]

[Compatibility: Increasing.]

Luke’s body continued to rise.

His height slowly increased.

Ten feet.

Twelve.

Fifteen.

Then—

Twenty feet.

His body finally stopped growing.

He now floated in the center of the cosmic sphere, while his 20 feet tall muscular frame suspended motionlessly in the air.

But the transformation was still incomplete.

A strange sensation suddenly spread behind his head.

Then the space rippled, from which a large circular structure began forming behind him.

A halo.

A gigantic metallic ring slowly took shape behind his head, divided into four distinct sections.

Dark blue.

White-gold.

Gold.

Dark crimson.

Each section carried a different presence.

The four colors represented the Seals Sevaroth had mastered, and now Luke would use them with his current realm.

[60%...]

[Four Sealing Paths detected.]

[Manifesting Sealing Relics.]

The halo slowly rotated.

Then—

Four points along its circumference opened.

Then chains emerged from each one.

Unlike ordinary chains, these were huge physical restraints, each carrying the distinct color of one of Sevaroth’s four Seals.

They emerged from the back of the rainbow halo and slowly descended behind Luke.

The four chains traveled downward along his back before finally piercing through his flesh.

And simply passed through his body as though his flesh offered no resistance.

The chains continued deeper until they reached the green sphere forming within his chest.

Then—

The chains emerged from the front of Luke’s chest.

Only a few segments of each chain could be seen, with their links protruding from four different points around the green sphere before disappearing directly into its surface.

[70%...]

[Sealing configuration established.]

[Four Seals successfully integrated.]

[Physical vessel adapting to Sevaroth’s sealed state.]

The green sphere pulsed once.

The four visible chain segments responded simultaneously, their metal links tightening slightly around the core.

Luke’s face remained completely unchanged.

There was no helmet, as the original Sevaroth had.

However, his current Crypt Titan form didn’t have any of those mysterious symbols, as other pure titans had.

[80%...]

[Titan Form stabilization in progress.]

[Sevaroth’s Origin synchronization: 81%...]

[82%...]

[83%...]

....

[98%...]

[99%...]

[100%.]

[MERGE COMPLETE.]

[Congratulations, Luke.]

[You have successfully merged with Sevaroth, the Crypt Titan.]

[New Titan Form acquired.]

[Fourth Titan has officially become part of your’s.]

Inside the sphere, the twenty-foot-tall Luke remained suspended in complete silence.

His eyes were still closed.

The rainbow halo behind his head slowly rotated.

The four chains remained hidden behind his body, with only a few links emerging from four directions around the green sphere in his chest.

For the first time...

Sevaroth had found a new vessel.

And Luke had gained his fourth Titan.

"HAAAH—!"

Luke suddenly opened his eyes and sucked in a deep breath, inhaling as much air as he could as though he had just surfaced from the deepest part of the ocean. His chest rose and fell rapidly while he tried to calm himself, but the feeling from that dream still lingered vividly in his mind.

It had felt as though he had been trapped inside something that was never meant for a living being. There was no air to breathe, no sensation from his body, nothing to eat, and not even the ability to see. There was only his consciousness, left alone in that suffocating darkness for what felt like an eternity, with a single point of green light as the only thing he could see.

He had stared at that tiny light for who knew how long, clinging to it as his only hope that perhaps, one day, he would finally escape.

"I will be free." Then, the words slipped from his lips without him even realizing it.

Only after saying them did Luke finally understand that the transformation was complete.

He was now in his Crypt Titan form.

"Huff." Taking another deep breath, Luke slowly brought his breathing under control and looked around the dark surroundings.

"I am back." A wave of relief passed through him.

With a thought, the cosmic sphere surrounding his body dispersed, revealing him completely within the ancient maze. Yet instead of immediately examining his surroundings, Luke’s attention was drawn toward his own transformed body, especially the strange chains wrapped around it and the green sphere embedded within his chest.

"What is this?" He muttered curiously, waiting for an explanation.

But the System remained silent.

After waiting for a moment and receiving no response, Luke gave up and shifted his attention toward the chains instead. His gaze followed them across his body before eventually moving upward, finally settling on the strange rainbow-colored halo.

At present, the halo was glowing with four distinct colors, each one representing one of his four unlocked seals.

"Interesting."

Luke reached out and touched the halo, only to discover that the chains surrounding it were completely beyond his ability to break. Nothing he possessed could damage them. The only existence capable of breaking those chains was the Cosmos itself.

"Well, the Cosmos of this world wouldn’t do that."

His Forbidden Titans had originally come from another universe—a fact Luke already knew, since their entire universe had been destroyed.

Even so, he had never expected the Cosmos of this world to lend him a hand, let alone help his Titans.

Valtharion itself had shown no intention of doing so either.