Chapter 92: CLASH OF THE RELIC WEAPON

The subterranean air on Level 40 of the Hunter Association Headquarters reached a violent, suffocating, and terrifying fever pitch. The heavy, nauseating scent of ozone, burnt copper, and toxic acid filled every corner of the shattered subterranean command chamber as emergency red warning lights flickered weakly against the cracked, blood stained concrete walls.

The towering, twenty foot monstrosity that had once been President James stood atop the central dais like a nightmare born from an ancient, forgotten abyss. Its eight jointed, obsidian like bone legs dug deep into the fractured marble floorboards, cracking the reinforced stone beneath like dry, brittle glass. Corrosive, dark crimson acid dripped continuously from its split, multi layered jaw, sizzling loudly as it ate through multi ton steel support beams and heavy concrete pillars, melting them into smoking pools of sludge. The four compound eyes burning on its mutated head locked onto Renan with ancient, ravenous malice, pulsating with the chaotic, highly unstable weight of 38,000 physical stat points.

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!

With an earth shattering sonic roar that shook the entire seventy story monolith above, causing heavy concrete dust, broken pipes, and ceiling fragments to rain down, the Relic Abomination lunged forward! Its massive, razor sharp bone scythe limbs carved through the air with supersonic speed, leaving behind wide, jagged streaks of unstable, corrosive crimson mana that split the surrounding spatial fabric of the bunker.

[Enemy Skill Activated: ’Crimson Abyssal Rend’ (Class EX)]

Effect: Ignores Heavy Armor & Inflicts Corrosive Blood Decay Across Target Vector

The supersonic strike was fast and lethal enough to bisect an entire phalanx of high ranking S Rank hunters before they could even perceive the physical movement, let alone raise a heavy kinetic defense barrier.

However, Renan did not even alter his calm, cold stance. His long black Monarch coat fluttered gently in the high pressure thermal wind as the golden Monarch runes etched deep across his forearms, neck, and chest flared with blinding, godlike intensity. With effortless, computer calculated precision, Renan casually brought his dark Monarch blade up to intercept the multi ton bone blade in mid air!

CLANG BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The explosive kinetic collision generated a violent shockwave of pure physical force that blew away the surrounding concrete rubble in every direction, completely flattening the heavy steel surveillance consoles along the walls! Sparks showered across the floor as secondary power conduits exploded from the sheer acoustic frequency of the strike.

Despite the monster’s colossal size, terrifying downward momentum, and thirty eight thousand points of ancient mana, Renan’s leather boots remained firmly anchored to the marble floor without yielding a single millimeter. The raw, unyielding physical density of his 42,500 physical stat points completely absorbed and neutralized the spatial impact as if it were nothing more than a gentle gust of autumn wind!

"Your borrowed strength is sluggish, unrefined, and incredibly predictable, James," Renan whispered, his layered, double toned voice echoing right through the monster’s mutated eardrums like cold, unforgiving steel.

Renan tightened his dark gloved grip on the obsidian hilt, channeling super compressed Monarch mana directly through the edge of his blade. The dark metal burned with a golden black aura that heated the air inside the chamber to a scorching temperature, turning the dripping acid pools on the floor into instantly vaporized steam.

CRACK BANG!

With a sudden, violent flick of his right wrist, Renan deflected the massive bone scythe upward, forcibly breaking the abomination’s posture and balance! Before the monster could recover its physical footing or retract its primary scythe, Renan blurred out of sight using high speed spatial stepping!

SWOOSH!

In a fraction of a microsecond, Renan reappeared directly above the monster’s chitin armored back in mid air. His glowing golden eyes locked onto the pulsating crimson core beneath the overlapping plates of obsidian armor the precise, vulnerable location where the Ancient Relic dagger had been driven into James’s chest.

[Skill Activated: ’Sovereign’s Impact Point Strike’]

Applied Force: 42,500 Physical Stat Points

Renan brought his left dark gloved fist down with supersonic downward momentum!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The fist connected directly with the monster’s mutated spine! The resulting kinetic shockwave tore through the heavy chitin armor like thin glass, snapping three of the entity’s jointed bone limbs with loud, sickening cracks and smashing its colossal twenty foot body hard into the concrete floor! The sheer, unyielding force of the impact created a twenty foot crater in the absolute center of the command chamber, shattering the subterranean floor plates down to the solid bedrock and causing the entire building foundation to shudder!

"GRAAAAGH!" the abomination shrieked in sheer agony, black, foul smelling corrosive blood spurting violently from its cracked back armor and splashing onto the stone walls like a ruptured sewer line.

"General Ignis. General Alexander," Renan commanded calmly, hovering effortlessly in mid air above the dust filled crater, his dark coat settling smoothly around his boots. "Pin it down permanently."

"BY YOUR ABSOLUTE WILL, MY SOVEREIGN!"

Shadow General Ignis transformed into a roaring comet of midnight black dragon fire, swooping down and slamming its twenty foot broadsword onto the monster’s left shoulder joint, pinning its primary scythe deep into the bedrock! Simultaneously, Shadow General Alexander dropped from the ceiling like a falling obsidian meteor, driving his colossal phantom warhammer directly onto the entity’s right shoulder joint!

CRUNCH BOOM!

The monster thrashed frantically in the dust, its remaining limbs clawing wildly at the stone floor and leaving deep grooves in the bedrock, but the combined, absolute suppression of the two Shadow Generals held it completely immobile and helpless against the ruined crater floor!

"CURSED... INSECT...!" the abomination gurgled through its split, dripping jaw, its four compound eyes glowing with desperate, hysterical frenzy and unadulterated hatred as black fluid bubbled from its gullet. "I AM... THE PRESIDENT... OF THIS NATION! I AM THE HUNTER ASSOCIATION! YOU CANNOT... ERASE ME FROM HISTORY!"

Renan descended slowly from the air, his leather boots landing softly on the edge of the crater right in front of the monster’s dripping, helpless face. He slowly raised his dark Monarch blade, pointing its obsidian tip directly between the entity’s four glowing crimson eyes.

"The nation survived your greed, lies, and corruption, James," Renan said softly, his double toned voice chilling the air inside the crater to absolute zero, completely silencing the crackling fires around them. "It will not miss your existence."

Renan drew back his dark blade, the golden black Monarch runes along its razor sharp edge glowing with absolute, final destruction.