Chapter 141: Titan-Horn Siege Rhino (2)

Snow didn’t waste a second thanking him. The absolute, unspoken trust between them allowed her to maintain her lethal focus. She nodded sharply, immediately dashing around the shattered earth to continue her flanking maneuver.

The Rhino, enraged that its magical assault had been casually brushed aside, let out another deafening bellow.

It managed to stabilize its buckling right leg, attempting to spin its massive bulk around to face Leon once again.

But Leon was done playing defense. The beast had proven it was durable, but its attacks were sluggish, telegraphed by the massive shifts in its ambient mana.

Leon stepped forward, his dual-colored eyes locking onto the pulsing, earth-mana core visible beneath the thick granite plating on the beast’s broad chest.

He raised his left hand, aiming directly at the monster’s center of mass.

Without speaking the name of the terrifying technique, Leon engaged his newly synthesized Event Horizon talent.

A hyper-dense, localized gravitational well instantaneously manifested directly inside the beast’s ribcage.

The Rhino froze in absolute terror. The external granite armor held firm, but the internal organs of the beast were suddenly subjected to a catastrophic, inverted pressure that sought to crush its heart into a singularity.

The monster’s physical movement speed was instantly reduced by a staggering ninety percent. It moved as if it were submerged in a lake of drying cement, its massive legs straining uselessly against the localized black hole tearing at its insides.

Leon didn’t detonate the well. He simply used it as a flawless, inescapable tether.

He stepped calmly toward the paralyzed titan, raising Epitaph in his right hand.

He silently layered the blade of the Legendary axe with the absolute, profound nothingness of his Sovereign’s Eclipse domain. The dark silver weapon was instantly wreathed in a sphere of pitch-black, space-erasing energy.

Leon swung the axe in a devastating, rising diagonal arc.

The blade effortlessly sheared through the thickest, most heavily reinforced slabs of granite plating on the beast’s chest. The Absolute Edge property, combined with the primordial void, didn’t just cut the armor; it completely erased the physical matter from existence.

A massive, gaping canyon was carved into the front of the Level 70 Elite Sovereign, entirely exposing its violently beating, brown-mana infused heart.

The beast let out a pathetic, high-pitched wheeze, its crimson eyes rolling back in its skull as the sheer, catastrophic trauma began to shut down its nervous system.

It was a fatal, irreversible wound. The beast was effectively dead, merely waiting for its massive health pool to completely drain.

But Leon did not deliver the final, execution strike.

He smoothly disengaged, pulling Epitaph back and taking three deliberate steps backward, lowering his weapon entirely.

He looked toward the rear flank, his icy blue eye catching the flash of white hair and silver cross-chains.

"It’s yours, Snow," Leon stated quietly, yielding the kill.

Snow was already in the air.

She had utilized the beast’s temporary paralysis to scale the jagged granite plating on its hind legs, using the massive rocky protrusions as stepping stones. She vaulted off the monster’s broad lower back, launching herself high into the air above its exposed, ruined chest.

She looked down at the dying titan, her crystalline blue eyes burning with the absolute, unyielding focus of an apex predator.

Snow raised her heavy, Level 75-scaled buster sword high above her head. She didn’t use a specialized system skill. She simply poured every single ounce of her Level 50 Strength, every shred of kinetic momentum she had gathered from the jump, directly into the blade.

She descended like a falling star.

The massive silver buster sword plunged perfectly into the gaping wound Leon had created, driving straight down into the beast’s pulsing, brown-mana heart.

The impact was devastating. The heavy blade buried itself to the hilt, violently rupturing the Elite Sovereign’s core.

The Titan-Horn Siege Rhino let out one final, echoing shudder. Its massive, glowing crimson eyes instantly dimmed, completely stripped of their ferocious light.

The towering, thirty-foot monstrosity finally collapsed. It crashed heavily into the ruined stone of the basin, sending a massive cloud of dust and debris washing over the clearing.

Snow rode the falling beast down, expertly ripping her buster sword free from the chest cavity just before the monster hit the ground. She landed in a low, flawless crouch on the shattered stone, panting heavily, her chest rising and falling with pure, exhilarating adrenaline.

The silence that followed was thick and absolute, broken only by the sound of the collapsing granite plates.

Then, the system responded.

The massive, Level 70 Elite Sovereign began to rapidly disintegrate, its colossal physical form breaking down into an absolute torrent of brilliant, blindingly bright golden experience data.

Because Leon had completely yielded the final, fatal strike, the system instantly funneled the entirety of the catastrophic experience yield directly toward the only eligible participant.

The golden light violently rushed into Snow’s chest.

Ding!

[Experience threshold shattered.]

[Massive Elite Sovereign Yield Processed.]

[Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 51!]

A radiant, pulsing pillar of golden energy erupted around Snow, completely illuminating the darkened, overgrown basin. The sheer volume of the experience gain physically expanded her mana pathways, washing away her fatigue and infusing her muscles with a fresh, terrifying surge of Mid-Adept strength.

She stood up slowly, the golden light fading back into her skin. She looked at her hands, flexing her black-gloved fingers, completely mesmerized by the sudden, intoxicating rush of raw power.

She had just claimed the life of a Level 70 Elite Sovereign. With Leon’s flawless setup, she was bridging the gap between mere survival and absolute dominance.

Snow turned her head, looking across the ruined clearing at her husband.

Leon stood quietly near the massive, dissipating corpse, a faint, deeply affectionate smile touching his lips. He was entirely unbothered by the fact that he had gained absolutely zero experience from the brutal encounter. Watching his wife thrive and grow stronger was a reward that completely transcended simple system metrics.

However, the Steadfast Vanguard was not entirely ignored by the system.

As the massive, granite-plated body of the Siege Rhino continued to break down into digital ash, Leon’s chest began to pulse with a familiar, hungry heat.

His SSS-Rank Talent Devourer automatically engaged, reacting to the incredibly dense, high-tier conceptual laws bleeding from the fallen monster.

Thick, heavy motes of glowing amber and shimmering diamond-white system data began to rise from the beast’s evaporating snout and armored chest. The data did not drift aimlessly; it was violently pulled toward Leon, swirling aggressively around his tall, imposing figure.

Leon’s smile faded into an expression of cold, calculating satisfaction.

The system interface flashed brightly in his vision, breaking the silence with a series of highly anticipated notifications.

Ding!

[Talent Devourer: Residual Talent Energy Detected: "Diamond Gravitation" (Fragments Available: 45)]

[Talent Devourer: Residual Talent Energy Detected: "Unstoppable Momentum" (Fragments Available: 50)]