Chapter 201: His Second Move Shocked Even the Origin Titan
"Do you think he can do it?" Nyx asked quietly, his eyes fixed on Luke.
Caelith observed the Origin Titan for a few moments before shifting her gaze to Luke, who was silently gathering power.
After a brief pause, she slowly shook her head.
"Unless he uses his strongest attack."
"The most he’ll achieve is leaving a few cracks on the Origin Titan’s body."
"Shattering it is impossible."
Nyx’s eyebrows shot upward.
He hadn’t expected such an evaluation.
At Luke’s absolute limit, his attacks already possessed the might of an early Golden Knight. Yet even that, in Caelith’s opinion, wasn’t enough to destroy a body made from ordinary stone refined to the limit of a Peak Bronze Titan.
Meanwhile, Myrkhal remained as indifferent as ever.
He simply watched the scene unfold in silence, making it impossible to tell whether he cared about the outcome at all... or understood something the others didn’t.
Luke ignored their conversation entirely.
His full attention rested on the colossal figure before him.
He carefully studied every part of the Origin Titan’s body while, deep within him, the Cosmic System began rotating at an increasing speed.
The gathered cosmic power flowed through his body before converging into his right hand.
Luke took one final breath.
Then he looked up at the thousand-foot giant.
"This..." A confident smile appeared on his face.
"Is my first move."
BOOM!!
With a powerful push, Luke launched himself into the air like a meteor, heading straight toward the Origin Titan’s crossed arms.
The explosion beneath his feet echoed throughout the temple.
Yet...
Not a single crack appeared on the ancient stone floor.
"Hmm?" The Origin Titan’s curiosity grew as Luke rapidly approached.
From what he could sense, Luke’s overall strength hadn’t changed.
Even after transforming and equipping his armor, the aura surrounding him was only comparable to an Early Golden Knight by human standards.
However, one thing stood out.
Luke’s right hand.
The power condensed within it was vastly different from the rest of his body.
Its strength had risen dramatically, reaching the very peak of the Early Golden Knight realm.
’An interesting technique.’ The Origin Titan thought to himself.
Before he could analyze it any further, Luke had already crossed the remaining distance.
The next instant—
BOOOOOOM!!
A deafening explosion erupted throughout the temple.
The collision sounded as though two colossal mountains had slammed into each other.
An overwhelming shockwave burst outward from the point of impact, sweeping across the enormous chamber with unstoppable force.
It surged through the temple before crashing directly into the colossal gate that had sealed itself after their arrival.
BAAAM!!
Yet the ancient gate didn’t move.
Hell, Its didn’t tremble or even bend.
The tremendous shockwave that could have flattened mountains was treated as nothing more than a passing breeze.
"First attempt..." The Origin Titan inspected the point where Luke’s fist had landed before calmly announcing the result.
"Failed."
His heavy voice echoed throughout the temple.
Nyx immediately looked toward the giant’s crossed arms.
"Only? a small crack?" His expression was filled with surprise.
Caelith, however, wasn’t shocked.
She simply shook her head.
"His attack was powerful enough. But his body wasn’t."
"Luke still lacks the physical strength to withstand the force he can unleash."
And she was right.
"Tch!" Luke clicked his tongue in annoyance.
The Origin Titan’s arm had suffered nothing more than a thin crack.
In contrast...
Luke’s own right arm had been completely destroyed.
The terrifying rebound from striking the unimaginably hard stone had pulverized it from his fist all the way to his shoulder.
Blood scattered across the ancient floor as fragments of shattered bone fell beside him.
The Origin Titan silently looked down at Luke. ’Now, What will you do?’
He waited patiently. Surprisingly, despite losing an entire arm, Luke showed neither panic nor despair.
Instead. A smile slowly appeared on his face.
The next moment, his Cosmic Heart pulsed.
Vast streams of cosmic energy surged through his body and gathered at his severed shoulder.
Before everyone’s eyes...
A new arm began to form.
First came the skeleton.
Then muscles and tendons rapidly wrapped around the bone.
Finally, fresh skin covered everything until a completely restored right arm appeared, as though it had never been destroyed.
Luke flexed his newly regenerated fingers.
His restored arm looked no different from before, without even the slightest trace of the previous injury.
"Much better." He muttered with a satisfied smile before lightly jumping back to the ground.
The Origin Titan remained motionless.
"You have two attempts remaining." His voice was as calm as ever.
Luke nodded, slowly exhaling as he steadied his breathing.
This time he wasn’t going to hold back.
"Cosmos Manifestation."
The instant those words left his mouth, his body rippled with cosmic energy.
Then, something incredible emerged.
A miniature cosmic system slowly separated from his body.
At first, it was only a few meters across.
But as it ascended into the air, it expanded at an astonishing rate.
Within moments, a magnificent cosmic system revolved above Luke’s head.
At its center floated a 200-meter barren planet, acting as the heart of the entire formation.
Orbiting around it on the second ring were ten moons, each nearly 50 meters in diameter. Every moon embodied a different fundamental element—fire, ice, water, metal, earth, wind, lightning, wood, light, and darkness.
Beyond them, on the outermost orbit, one hundred asteroids and comets, each roughly 10 meters across, revolved in perfect harmony. Some blazed with crimson flames, others were frozen in ice, while a few shimmered with flowing water or metallic brilliance.
The entire cosmic system rotated with flawless precision, resembling a living galaxy condensed into a circular celestial formation.
As it completed its first rotation. An immense gravitational force descended upon the surroundings.
The pressure was so overwhelming that an ordinary Early Golden Knight would have been pinned to the ground without resistance.
Yet inside the ancient temple...
Nothing changed.
The floor remained perfectly intact. The walls didn’t tremble.
Even the thousands of lamps continued burning steadily.
Only one thing reacted.
The Origin Titan’s stone body became slightly heavier.
That was all.
"Interesting." The Origin Titan looked up at the cosmic system with genuine curiosity.
"Your methods are no less fascinating than those of certain beings I encountered long ago."
There was even a trace of praise in his ancient voice.
During his countless years of existence, he had witnessed many extraordinary techniques. Some beings fought by controlling mountains, others wielded stars, while a few even manipulated celestial bodies as weapons.
Yet...
Luke’s technique was different.
Despite the cosmic system’s relatively small size, it generated an astonishing amount of gravity.
By all logic. It shouldn’t have been possible.
Luke remained silent. There was no need for words.
Behind him, Nyx and Caelith watched intently, hoping this attack would accomplish what the first one could not.
Then...
The cosmic system moved.
The rotating celestial bodies rose higher into the air until they hovered more than a kilometer above Luke.
One after another, they aligned into a perfect formation.
The outermost asteroids and comets formed the front.
Behind them came the ten elemental moons.
And at the very end...
The barren planet silently took its place.