The miniature sun descended like divine judgnt. Winter's corrupted form pulsed with darkness as he raised his arms, channeling the full might of the void.
"I am a GOD!" he roared, void energy erupting from his body in waves of pure negation. "Your petty light cannot—"
The sun detonated.
Reality itself scread as solar fury t abyssal darkness. Winter's void shield held for a fraction of a second before beginning to crack. Impossible, he thought as heat beyond comprehension leaked through. This vessel... it's not enough!
His corrupted flesh began to bubble and lt. The void responded to his panic, layers of darkness attempting to regenerate faster than the solar flas could destroy them. For a mont, it seed to work.
Then he felt it—a presence behind him.
[System Alert] Skill Activated: [Wolf's Grace] Twin Daggers Summoned: Frost Fang Status: Lethal Strike Trajectory
Winter tried to turn, but ti itself seed to hold him in place. A whisper reached his ears, carrying the weight of inevitability: "Even gods can die."
David's dagger plunged through Winter's back, erging through his chest wreathed in temporal energy. The blade had sohow bypassed every defense, every layer of void armor, finding his core with surgical precision.
"Impossible," Winter choked, dark ichor spilling from his lips. "A re human..."
"[Eternal Gluttony]," David commanded, darkness spreading from his hands to envelope Winter's form.
The soul extraction began, but sothing was wrong. Instead of pulling at a complete soul, his power found only echoes—a hollow vessel where a true being should be.
[System Alert]
Warning: Soul Extraction Failed
Error: Target is vessel only
Note: Original entity not present
Status: Extraction impossible
David clicked his tongue as his power slipped through the empty vessel. There was nothing to bind—the Night King had never truly been here, only using this form as a puppet from afar. The body before him was just a shell, infused with a fraction of sovereign power.
Winter fell to his knees, his vessel's form beginning to crumble. Cracks of void energy spread across his childlike body as the sovereign power that sustained it began to withdraw.
"You..." the Night King's voice echoed through the failing vessel, carrying both rage and grudging acknowledgnt. "I will rember this, challenger."
David's blade whispered through the air. "I'll be waiting."
The vessel's head toppled from its shoulders, dissolving into streams of darkness before it hit the ground. The body followed, breaking apart into void essence that fled through dinsional tears.
Above them, Kaelith suddenly gasped. The battle's divine energies had destabilized his essence, causing fractures in his physical form.
His staff began to glow with internal light as his soul sought refuge within it.
"What's happening to ?" the demigod demanded, but his voice was already fading.
The staff shattered into microscopic fragnts that swirled through the air before coalescing around David's wrist, forming an intricate golden bracelet.
[System Notification]
Ego Link Established
Status: Divine Spirit Contained
Form: Auxiliary Equipnt
Note: Soul stabilization in progress
David lifted his wrist, examining the golden bracelet with an appreciative eye. "Neat." The casual word seed almost out of place after such an apocalyptic battle.
The tower trembled, ancient power stirring as it recognized David's victory. Light erupted around him as rewards materialized:
[Victory Acknowledged]
Rewards Processing:
Skill Acquired: [COUNTER]
Currency Added: 100,000,000 DC
Title Granted: "Night's Greatest Enemy"
Item Obtained: Void Fragnt
Key Received: Tower Master's Key
The items materialized in David's hands: a fragnt of pure void, so dark it seed to devour light itself, and a key that glead with ancient golden power.
He turned them over in his palms, studying their impossible geotries.
"Now how exactly do I—"
Before he could finish the thought, Nightveil Embrace stirred. The living armor slithered down his arm like liquid shadow, tendrils of darkness extending toward the void fragnt. The armor seed almost eager, resonating with the fragnt's essence.
[Additional Notification]
Nightveil Embrace absorbing Void Fragnt Enhancent in progress...
"Well, that works too," David said with a shrug, watching as his living armor consud the fragnt of absolute darkness.
****
David felt the changes settling into his being. The new skill [COUNTER] integrated with his consciousness while Nightveil Embrace grew stronger, drinking in the void fragnt's power.
The weight of his new title pressed against his soul, marking him permanently as an enemy of darkness.
[System Warning]
Skill [Bookmark] Status:
Ti Remaining: 3 minutes
Caution: Temporal stress critical
Blood trickled from his nose as temporal backlash began building in his system. Every second holding [Bookmark] felt like needles in his brain, but he forced himself to focus. A familiar sensation struck him—Luna's life force, flickering dangerously low sowhere.
The tower shuddered violently. Cracks appeared in space itself as the chamber began to collapse, its purpose fulfilled. Winter's vacant vessel dissolved into streams of darkness that fled through dinsional tears, returning to its true master.
David glanced at his new bracelet, tapping it with his finger like soone checking if a fish tank was working. "Hey, 'most powerful demigod,' you alive in there?"
The bracelet pulsed with angry golden light.
"I'll take that as a yes." David smirked, admiring how the accessory caught the light. "Look on the bright side—you're probably the most fashionable piece of jewellery in the tower right now."
The bracelet's glow intensified furiously, and David could have sworn he heard a muffled divine scream of frustration from within.
"What's that? Sorry, can't hear you over how shiny you are." He held up his wrist. "Ready to get out of here? Blink once for yes, twice for—oh wait, you can't blink anymore."
The bracelet's response was a pulse of light so bright it nearly blinded him, clearly communicating Kaelith's divine indignation at his situation.
[System Update]
Monarch-rank advancent confird
Status: Processing
Note: Physical form will reflect changes upon return
Power beyond anything he'd imagined coursed through him. Three minutes of [Bookmark] remained—ti enough to reach Luna and end whatever threatened her.
Reality cracked around him as he prepared to tear through space itself, the silver threads in his eyes blazing with temporal energy.
His Aetenus needed him, and he had power to spare.
The chamber collapsed behind him as he stepped through the dinsional tear, leaving only scattered void energy and the echoes of his victory in his wake.
Sowhere in the cosmos, a Sovereign stirred, noting the loss of their vessel and the birth of a new power.
The real war was just beginning as it smirked.
****
Charred stone and unconscious bodies littered the chamber floor. Yue, Litty, Salomonis, Aria, and Kairos lay scattered like broken dolls, felled by the demon's corrupted mana.
Luna stood alone, blood trickling from her mouth as she faced the towering monstrosity. Her body trembled with exhaustion, but her stance remained defiant, almost feral. A growl rumbled from her throat—not the sound of a human, but of sothing ancient and terrible.
The demon's massive form tensed, its arms drawing back as fire gathered in its maw. The orb of flas grew larger, condensing into a sphere of pure destruction that cast malevolent light across the futuristic chamber.
But Luna didn't retreat. Her lips pulled back in a savage grin, revealing teeth that seed sharper than before.
"[PARADE OF A THOUSAND WOLVES]!"
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