Chapter 85: HE LOST THE BATTLE, BUT HIS FINAL TRAP COULD KILL LUKE
"ORIGIN ULTIMATE ABILITY: EARTH GIANT!" Rowan shouted as he barely avoided Luke’s attack with a desperate roll across the ground.
But the next instant, "RUMBLE... RUMBLE..." The earth starts rising around his body and begins to move. " CRACK... CRACK..." Earth below his foot cracked as it’s attached to his body, and layers of stone and earth wrap around his arms, legs, and chest. But it’s not stopped after wrapping instead. The shell continues forming, becoming thicker and heavier.
As the transformation completed, a 10-foot-tall earth giant appeared at the place of Rowan, as its body is now fully covered, and Rowan can feel that his strength is increased by a large margin.
"NOW DIE!" He shouted while punching toward Luke face with huge force and already expecting that Luke’s giant form’s physical strength would definitely be lower than his Earth giant body.
Luke felt the change in Rowan’s confidence. But even then... He still didn’t take him seriously.
A faint smile appeared on his face. "Nullex." He whispered And The next instant—
The armor covering Luke’s right arm began changing. "KRRRRR..." The black storm cloud started moving, twisting, and reshaping itself. As the dark metallic fragments flowed across his arm like living armor.
"CLANK... CLANK..." The armor extended outward. And the metal gathered at its edge and then compressed. And finally formed into a massive warhammer.
"BOOOOOOM!!!" A heavy black hammer appeared in Luke’s hand. In which lightning-like patterns crawled across its surface. "CRACKLE... CRACKLE..." Dark thunder energy leaked from the weapon, making the surrounding air tremble.
He lifted the storm metal hammer onto his shoulder with a smile. "Nice," and those words escaped his mouth, and then he tightened his grip on the war hammer.
Black-blue aether surged through his arms. While the muscles in his body tensed as he gathered his full strength.
Then—he swung. The war hammer tore through the air and rushed toward Rowan’s Earth Giant form with overwhelming force. "BOOOOOOM!!!" The hammer and the massive stone fist collided.
For a moment, everything went silent. Then— "KRAAAAAAASH!!!" A violent shockwave exploded from the impact point. As the surrounding dirt erupted into the air.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" The ground cracked beneath their feet as the force of the collision spread outward. While the nearby trees shook violently from the shockwave. Even the air itself seemed to distort for a moment.
Cedric, who had already moved a safe distance away, was still caught by the shockwave. "—! And before he can even shout out in alarm. " FWOOOOOSH!!!" His body got blasted backward. Then he flew through the air before crashing heavily into a tree. "THUUUUD!!!" And the tree shook slightly from the impact.
Meanwhile...
The Earth Giant’s massive arm began cracking. "CRACK... CRACK..." Small pieces of stone started breaking apart. Then—"KRRRRRAAAACK!!!" The entire earth shell around Rowan’s fist shattered. ’What!’ Rowan’s eyes widened seeing this scene.
But The war hammer didn’t paused at Rowan reaction and continued forward; because the force was too overwhelming, it destroyed the Rowan Earth Giant’s hand... completely and also the real arm beneath it. "Ughh..." Rowan cried out in pain when he felt his entire hand was gone.
But before he could further react—"BOOOOOOM!" The remaining force blasted through his body. Then his giant earth armor also broke apart as he was sent flying backward.
Rowan’s body crashed heavily into the ground. "KRAAAASH!!!" As the earth exploded beneath him, forming a large crater where he landed. Dust covered the battlefield, and for a moment... only the sound of falling rocks remained.
Rowan’s vision is also filled with blood, as his earth giant body is now half-destroyed. And Only his chest part and left hand have some earthly armor left.
After taking a rough breath. He tried to get up because he heard the footstep of Luke coming. STEP! STEP! STEP!
Luke made a holding gesture as Aether flowed toward his hand, and soon a lightning bolt formed at his hand.
"CRACKLE!" A crackling sound can be heard, and Rowan got terrified as he finally felt the threat of death so close.
"NO!" He cried out, but Luke threw the lightning bolt straight toward his heart. STAB! The lightning bolt pierced his earthly armor, then his heart.
"Ughh..." A last pained grunt escaped Rowan’s mouth as his raised hand got slumped to the ground.
Luke slowly come close to Rowan body and looked down at his eyes, which were staring back at him with both regret and hatred.
"Don’t...think...you...have...won!" Rowan’s low voice comes along with pauses while blood keeps coming out of his mouth.
"Yeah! Yeah..." Luke muttered, then bent down to take Rowan spatial ring, which definitely contains many good things, but then his pupils dilated as his titan instinct screamed at him. Because down there Rowan one hand was holding a magic scroll with its symbol already glowing.
A satisfied smile appeared at Rowan’s lips. then those memory, where Oryn give him this.
"Rowan here this for you." Rowan look at his hand with narrowed eyes, which is now holding a magic scroll and then he asked Oryn. "Why? I don’t need this." Rowan said while trying to return back, but Oryn shook his head and said "maybe you will need this." With that Oryn left.
’So he knows, we are going to teleport to this secret realm.... or maybe he is the mastermind behind all of this.’ This thought comes into Rowan mind, as he watched Luke panic face.
’Whatever, atleast Luke is going to die here for sure.’
while Rowan was thinking those. the system panic voice reached Luke. [Luke, run! That’s an explosion magic scroll containing a golden knight-level attack! Your titan body even with Nullex armor will not be able to survive that!]
Luke’s eyes widened to the extreme after hearing that. and everything slowed down for a moment for him. he instantly shouted in his mind while turning backward. "NULLEX!" Nullex also understood the urgency and instantly transformed itself to provide Luke extreme speed.
The spine armor got reduced, while his whole armor extended and changed into something like cutting armor, which will reduce air resistance. His foot downside also changed to a more grip-holding-like structure, while six small nozzle-like structures formed at his back, which will release lightning to move forward.
ZRRRZT... ZRRRZT... Blue sparks danced across black-blue armor, and its speed increased as he ran away from the glowing time bomb. While the six small nozzles keep releasing lightning, which also further increased his speed to extreme levels.
[Chapter End]