Chapter 331: Seizing Proof Successful! Bronze Dragon! Death

Chapter 331: Chapter 331: Seizing Proof Successful! Bronze Dragon! Death

Reflected in Galeos’s widening pupils,

Lance clenched his right fist, gathering all his Power.

[Fallen Dragon Shards]!

The Fire Element in the surrounding air was violently torn apart by the terrifying suction of his punch.

The temperature in the great hall shot up, and even the air began to distort.

This punch!

It blasted straight through the throat of Galeos, who had lost the protection of his Armor!

"SQUELCH!"

Bones shattered and flesh flew.

Galeos’s towering body stiffened, then collapsed heavily to the ground.

However,

a mere half-second later,

Galeos’s unfocused pupils instantly sharpened as Hydra Abyssal Blood coursed through him.

The fatal wound on his throat healed in an instant.

Hydra Legend.

Second resurrection!

Lance gave him no chance to get up and counterattack.

His figure flashed, and he appeared right beside Galeos.

He shaped his right hand into a blade.

[Dragon-Slaying Spear]!

With a sharp whistle of displaced air,

it thrust upward, piercing straight through the newly resurrected Galeos’s chin and through his entire skull.

But after landing the blow, Lance clearly felt it.

Under the strain of continuous, high-impact collisions, the bones in his right hand could no longer withstand the terrifying recoil. Severe fractures had formed, leaving his hand limp and powerless.

Third resurrection!

Galeos was again restored to full health.

In the final half-second before Lance’s Suffocation Mode ended and the flames of the Melting Furnace died out,

he gritted his teeth and swung his right leg out like a steel whip.

[Dragon Tail Cannon]!

The kick landed solidly on Galeos’s waist.

With a crisp crack of bone,

Galeos’s spine snapped. His body twisted into a grotesque shape as he was sent flying once more.

Three consecutive kills!

Lance had finally completed three instant kills in an extremely short amount of time.

But now, his opponent... still had a full five resurrections left!

As for Lance,

the two resurrections he had accumulated over the past two days had both been used up in the process.

This time,

Lance chose not to wait and struggle to recover in his Heartless Melting Furnace state.

He opted to skip Combat Continuation and trigger his final resurrection.

After all, his current Heartless Melting Furnace state was still incomplete. It was no match for Galeos.

With a billow of rising steam,

Lance’s injuries healed instantly, and his body was restored to its original state.

But as he stood up,

he could clearly feel his heart pounding at an unprecedented, frantic pace.

It felt as if it could leap out of his chest at any moment.

This was the first time he had used the Resurrection Talent of the [Ouroboros Ring] so frequently and under such extreme conditions.

Although his injuries were healed,

this forcible reversal of life and death seemed to have placed a strange burden on his body and Spirit.

"Your body has reached its limit, hasn’t it?"

Galeos, having just resurrected, slowly rose from the ground.

He looked at Lance’s face, his tone filled with conviction.

This was the Intuition of a king.

If his opponent’s bizarre recovery ability could be used without limit or cost,

then

after killing him three times in a row just now,

he would have pressed his advantage and taken all five of his remaining lives.

Lance remained silent in the face of Galeos’s taunt.

"You’re out of chances, Balthazar."

Galeos straightened up, posturing like a victor.

"I still have five full lives."

"And with your body in its current state, even if I were to just stand here and not fight back..."

"...could you even throw enough punches to kill me five more times?"

Galeos was speaking the truth.

In this war of attrition,

he, the one with the Hydra Legend, had ultimately gained the upper hand.

Lance let out a soft sigh.

He didn’t argue.

"It’s true..."

He muttered to himself.

Killing an Upper Heroic Spirit five more times in his current, overdrawn state...

It certainly sounded like an impossible task.

However.

Though it was difficult,

it wasn’t entirely without a chance.

Lance slowly turned his head, his gaze shifting to the area outside the battlefield.

Through the translucent golden Energy Wall,

he saw Nieve pressed tightly against it.

The Snow Lady who usually showed no expression.

Now,

her icy Blue eyes were filled with deep worry and... heartache.

’What a special and precious emotion that is.’

Lance looked at her.

He could feel that Nieve’s emotions had truly grown richer during their time together.

’This is nice,’ Lance thought to himself.

In truth, he still had one more chance.

He turned his head back to face Galeos.

It could be said that the decision he was about to make

was the closest he had ever come to true death since his transmigration.

The slightest misstep,

and he would be utterly doomed.

But

he did not back down.

"You just asked me if I could throw enough punches to kill you five times?"

Lance spoke as he slowly began to walk forward.

"CLACK."

His heel struck the hard bronze floor, producing a crisp, steady sound.

It was exceptionally clear in the silent hall.

"I just gave it some thought."

"Actually..."

Lance looked at Galeos, his expression even more arrogant than the king’s.

"Without your equipment,"

"you’re nothing more than a slightly more durable punching bag in my eyes."

"CLACK."

Lance took another step forward.

With that step,

he forcibly reactivated Desperate Breathless Death Struggle!

"BOOM!"

A pillar of silver-red fire erupted from him, shooting toward the dome.

But at this moment,

perhaps due to the continuous extreme outbursts and the two forced resurrections from his Talent,

a shocking stream of golden-red blood began to trickle from the corner of his eye.

"You have five lives left."

Lance’s voice, ringing out from within the raging flames, was utterly resolute.

"And I have exactly ten seconds left."

"Two seconds to kill you once."

"The time..."

"...is just enough."

The moment his voice fell,

Lance’s figure vanished from the spot.

A brutally one-sided slaughter had officially begun.

[Fallen Dragon Shards]!

Second 1: Lance’s heavy punch shattered Galeos’s chest.

Fifth kill!

[Unloading the Keel]!

Second 3: The instant Galeos resurrected, Lance’s hands became like pincers, and he snapped his neck.

Sixth kill!

[Flaming Claw]!

Second 5: Lance’s hands became sharp blades, and he tore open Galeos’s ribs with his bare hands, crushing his heart.

Seventh kill!

[Top Dragon Horn]!

Second 7: Like an enraged bull, Lance slammed his knee into Galeos’s chin, blasting his head apart once more.

Eighth kill!

And in the final second of these ten seconds,

trapped in a cycle of being instantly killed and resurrecting,

Galeos finally realized that his descent into the Material Realm was an absolute disaster.

’This is outrageous!’

’Being pinned to the ground and utterly dominated by a Level 4 Professional is just too outrageous!’

He even

had an absurd premonition at this moment.

He suspected that his opponent might even be able to forge his own Legend in the Star Realm based on this battle record!

And he,

the former Bronze Dragon Galeos,

would be forever nailed to the pillar of shame in the Heroic Spirit Hall, never to recover!

To be killed nine times to his face, completely powerless to fight back.

For a Heroic Spirit bearing the title of a king, this humiliation was no less than being stripped naked by the enemy and paraded through the streets of the Royal Capital after one’s kingdom had fallen!

Galeos’s lower jaw trembled violently.

His enormous eyes were filled to the brim with fury.

And in this final moment,

he finally completed his last resurrection.

And Lance was already before him.

[Angry Dragon Hammer]!

Lance clasped his hands together, raising them high with the force of a thunderbolt.

He prepared to use this heavy hammer blow to send the Tyrant back to the Heroic Spirit Hall for good.

Faced with this fatal blow,

Galeos made his final, desperate struggle as a king.

In the instant Lance swung his fists, he used the last of his Power.

Several meters behind Lance,

he forcibly materialized a sharp Bronze Long Spear.

"BANG!"

As Lance’s fists, crashing down like Mount Tai, smashed into Galeos’s skull and drove it straight into the bronze floor,

the ninth kill.

The absolute end!

The Bronze Dragon had fallen.

And the Bronze Long Spear that had materialized behind Lance,

at that same moment,

shot forward like an arrow released from its bow, whistling through the air,

and stabbed straight toward Lance’s back.

"SQUELCH!"

Suffocation Mode ended at that exact second, and Lance’s defense dropped to its lowest point.

The spear pierced his back without resistance, emerging from his chest and running straight through his beating heart.

[Seizing Proof! Success!]

Galeos’s body

began to dissolve into brilliant points of starlight, dissipating into the air.

And within that scattering starlight,

strange items seemed to be slowly taking shape.

Lance felt his panel vibrating wildly.

Countless important messages seemed to be popping up like a waterfall.

But right now,

he had no time to pay attention to any of it.

All his resurrections were gone.

He fell to one knee.

He reached out with his right hand, gripping the shaft of the Bronze Spear that had pierced his heart.

He gritted his teeth and, inch by inch, slowly pulled the spear out of his chest.

Blood gushed out with his every movement.

"CLANG!"

The blood-drenched Bronze Spear was finally pulled free, falling heavily onto the bronze floor.

It landed with a crisp sound.

And at that very moment,

a figure rushed to his side, heedless of everything else.

Slender arms wrapped tightly around his broken body,

catching him securely in an embrace.