NOVEL WEB Chapter 219: Destroy The Cursed (36)
Quint sneered, his lips curling with disdain as his voice thundered across the battlefield.
"You might have gotten bigger, but you will still fall. That is a fate you cannot escape!"
At the very center of the towering Vine Warrior's forehead, Aiden stood with his arms folded, his lips twisting into a crooked smile. His voice echoed from the giant avatar, calm yet defiant.
"Why don't you find out for yourself… whether I'm stronger or weaker in this form?"
The Vine King loomed nearly six meters tall, its entire body woven from living vines, shaped into the form of a battle-hardened warrior king. A crown of thorns rested proudly upon its head, and a massive greatblade pulsed with emerald energy in its hands. Yet, to Clara watching from below, it almost looked too showy—a flashy manifestation more like a declaration of pride than a weapon of war.
Quint wasted no time. Raising a single hand, he commanded with a sharp voice:
"Freeze, Electrocite!"
The scorpion beast's twin tails—one shimmering silver, the other glowing with icy blue light—snapped away from Clara and turned toward Aiden. In an instant, elemental energy began to condense at their tips.
The air grew heavy, vibrating with both freezing cold and crackling lightning. Even through the thick walls of his avatar, Aiden felt a chill run down his spine.
The elemental power the beast wielded was terrifying—close to unfathomable. But Aiden wasn't about to stand idle and let it charge freely.
He surged forward, each step shaking the gorge beneath his feet. Despite their towering size, both giants could close the distance in mere moments, and Aiden's greatblade came crashing down toward the scorpion's head with unstoppable momentum.
It would have been a clean strike—if only battles were that simple.
The ground erupted. A massive wall of earth shot upward, solid and thick enough to dwarf houses. Though it looked small compared to the giants, to a normal human it would have been like a mountain rising from the ground.
Aiden's greatblade smashed into it with crushing force, splitting the wall in half. But that one second of delay was all the beast needed.
The scorpion lunged.
Its monstrous pincers shot forward like steel traps. One clamped down hard on the vine greatblade, halting its swing, while the other drove straight for Aiden's chest.
"Damnation!"
At the last instant, Aiden willed his avatar to raise its colossal vine shield. The impact was deafening.
The pincer slammed against it, tearing away chunks of living vines as if ripping flesh. The Vine King staggered back five steps, the earth trembling with every movement.
But there was no time to breathe.
The beast's tails had finished charging.
Twin streaks of destruction tore through the air—one a spear of icy death, the other a bolt of pure lightning.
They shot forward with blinding speed, cutting through the battlefield like divine judgment.
Aiden braced himself. The first impact came as the icy blast slammed into his shield.
A surge of unbearable cold washed over him. The vines froze almost instantly, the chill burrowing into every fiber, slowing their movements.
No matter how much Aiden resisted, the freezing force was overwhelming. Within seconds, his entire shield was encased in a shell of solid ice.
And then—
CRACK!
The lightning bolt struck.
It ripped through the air with a thunderous roar, slamming into both shield and blade at once. The frozen shield shattered into countless shards, exploding outward like deadly glass.
The sword quivered violently in his avatar's hands as lightning surged across it, sparks exploding in all directions.
The force sent shockwaves rippling through the gorge, the Vine King staggering backward under the combined might of ice and thunder.
For a moment, the battlefield went still—the giant warrior wreathed in smoke and sparks, its defenses in ruins.
And yet, through the chaos, Aiden's twisted smile only widened.
The great blade wasn't spared—instead, the weapon shattered completely under the force of the lightning strike. Splinters of vine scattered across the battlefield, but Aiden didn't flinch.
The devastating energy that should have crippled him was dispersed across the vast body of his vine avatar. The impact hurt, yes, but it wasn't lethal. Exactly as he expected.
A twisted grin tugged at Aiden's lips from within the colossal warrior's forehead. Of course the Dark Emissary would anticipate this.
They'd never waste such a move unless they believed it could bring me down. Shame for them, I don't break that easily.
Without hesitation, he slammed his massive vine-hand into the ground. The earth cracked and rumbled as thick tendrils shot downward, then reemerged in his grasp—not as a blade this time, but as two gigantic war hammers.
Their rounded heads gleamed with jagged vine-spikes, wicked and brutal, designed to smash rather than cut.
Inside the avatar, Aiden's grin widened. "Let's see how you handle this…"
He swung.
The colossal hammers descended with meteoric force, shaking the gorge as if the heavens themselves had collapsed.
Quingt's eyes widened. His expression darkened as he barked out a frantic command:
"Wall! Wall! WALL!"
The scorpion beast's yellow tail slammed against the ground, and three enormous earthen walls rose up in layered defense.
The ground quaked, dust billowed, and for a moment it seemed the beast might have bought itself time.
But the hammers didn't stop.
They tore through the barriers like paper. Each impact thundered, pulverizing stone and soil, ripping the defenses apart with terrifying ease.
The beast screeched, its yellow tail still anchored in the earth, trying desperately to sustain the walls—but the moment its defenses faltered, Aiden's weapon shifted.
The twin hammers unraveled in midair, vines twisting and reforming. In their place a massive odachi materialized, its curved blade glistening with a cruel sheen of green.
Aiden raised it high above his head, and with brutal precision, brought it crashing down.
The great odachi cleaved through the scorpion's yellow tail in one devastating stroke.
SHRRAAEEEHHH!
The beast screamed, its voice like grinding stone and metal tearing apart. Its severed tail writhed on the ground, twitching violently before shriveling away.
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