Chapter 469: Floor Boss Clearing (2/2)
The impact was not just heard—it was felt by this dimension itself.
The moment Almond's cross-slash collided with the towering spiral maw of the Grand Sovereign Thanacrypt, the entire battlefield convulsed as if the space forcefully bent. A concussive ripple of anti-light pulsed through the crater, forming a shockwave that peeled away gravity, and flung stones and debris skyward before they disintegrated completely from the spatial pressure.
The debuff he had applied on the boss using his Geneline ability — Dreadspire Animus Grimveil, was the one Lily had suggested for maximum damage output since she had experimented and knew that absurd debuffs wouldn't apply on the boss, like Damage Amplification x 100, or Armor Ignored, as Grimworld prevented such debuffs from non-will beings for the boss.
People with the will had a chance to lower the potency of those debuffs, but the floor bosses here didn't, so the system prevented such broken powers of powerhouses from getting applied.
However, Almond could still apply something like Defense Decrease per hit by 1%, Resistance to Pierce decreased per hit by 1%, and such debuffs, and these would stack until Grimworld deemed it was enough.
So, the cross-slash Almond released was unique because it vibrated at the maximum frequency he could set, and the entire cross-slash was comprised of 100,000 small blades that vibrated intensely while creating their spatial echo from the chaotic space field that formed upon impact.
The entire dimension from all around was consulting towards the point of impact.
00:06
The 100,000 blades as well extra 100,000 blades from spatial echo that formed struck the boss in exactly 1.5 seconds, the head of the floor boss gone.
Almond blinked as he observed the end of the impact.
He had given all of his in this attack. Both of his intents — Spiral Edge & Nullbreak Entropy — were utilized to their full potential alongside a perfect blade design created from Astral Auralith, his exotic element that comprised of specific attributes from Golden Haze Lightning, Space of Oscillation Echo, Sand of Vibrant Wave to make the blades as destructive as possible and make them utilize his arsenal of powers.
All of that was tied by his power of Riftveil Grimblade and his sword technique execution that finally even used the full potential of his current physical capability.
This entire attack struck the debuffed and severed floor boss.
The result?
[You have killed the boss. Prepare for the death rush and survive for five seconds while killing as many as you can.]
00:07
The giant body of the floor boss glowed before it suddenly dispersed into countless bugs that rushed at Almond.
Almond knew this called for an AOE attack.
And since his Spirit Lords were all ready by now with their breakthroughs done, he summoned them and also launched his AOE attacks as he targeted all monsters in his radar before directly conjuring exploding blades into their bodies forcefully.
Even if he could create 100,000 blades, the maximum target limit to forcefully transport the blades inside the bugs was much smaller—3000.
Still, he killed 3000 at once, consuming 70,000 God Energy.
00:08
Meanwhile, his Spirit Lords vanished just as they emerged.
[ Your summons is considered proper powerhouses due to their structures, hence they will be removed as they didn't enter the portal in the starting, making this a solo floor boss challenge as only you entered. ]
Almond charged again as he regained lost God Energy swiftly thanks to the large number of Regalons in the familia as well his fast recovery buffs.
00:09
He targeted all bugs coming his way after he killed 3000 and annihilated them again while moving into the fray with a teleport and started swinging his sword at his fastest, releasing AOE sword waves to kill the bugs in large numbers.
00:10
Without wasting time, Almond made the same move again, killing 3000 at once while swinging his swords after teleporting into another thick fray of bugs.
There were hundreds of thousands of them.
He also had to make sure he wasn't hit, which was pretty easy considering the strongest Divine Blessing from the bunch of seven he created.
Insperedox Regalon Barrier (L).
This barrier prevented all kinds of attacks from hitting the target, using spatial echo waves to displace their position from one place to another.
The only way to get through this barrier was to release 100,000 attacks at once to break the space replacing the speed and energy consumption it took, as this many attacks would make the Divine Blessing consume a lot of the user's God Energy.
But Almond didn't plan to get any attack near in the first place.
00:11
The last second of the five-second Ultimate Death Rush.
Almond annihilated and streaked like a light while releasing sword waves and activated the last mass-target kills as 3000 bugs died right as the timer hit 00:12.
[Congratulations. You have successfully cleared the 100th-floor boss challenge and broken all existing records, as well as created the first new record of killing the boss in a single attack.]
[ Records Broken ]
1. Fastest Clearing Record: Almond, the Cataclysmic Throne of Sword — 00:12 seconds.
2. Highest Single Instance Damage Output: Almond, the Cataclysmic Throne of Sword. — 2,000,000 Damage.
3. One-Shot Boss Kill: Almond, the Cataclysmic Throne of Sword.
4. No-Damage Taken Record: Almond, the Cataclysmic Throne of Sword
5. [ Boss ] Kill count in the five-second Ultimate Death Rush after the boss's death: 14,553 kills.
'Close…' Almond looked at the last record and wryly smiled.
He knew Lily's summons must have worked since they weren't true living powerhouses, and she could summon a lot of them.
While she didn't have direct targeting like Almond, she could annihilate a large number of them with her spreading-type attack and debuff-triggers of her second ability tree's powers.
[ As you have made the one-shot-kill record of the 100th-floor boss, you will be granted an Abyssal Grim Spin as a reward. ]
[The other rewards are as follows]:
1. Floor Clearing Reward: 100 Trinity Force to all members of Regalon familia.
2. Fastest Floor Clearing record break reward: 1,000 God Essence for each individual of the familia and 100,000 God Essence for the Familia Vault.
3. New record of One-Shot Boss Kill: 50 to 100 Trinity Force at random for each individual of the Regalon familia.
4. No-Damage Taken record replace: 1000 to 10,000 God Essence at random for each individual of the Regalon familia.
5. Ultimate Death Rush record break: 50 to 100 Trinity Force to each individual of the Regalon familia.