[WARNING! Dragonia contestants Adrian Vale and Raven Shaw are about to encounter an SS-rank Divine Domain creature… scanning… scan complete!]
[Name: Mountainrock Titan]
[Rank: SS]
[Traits: SS-rank Divine Domain creature! One of the rarest existences in the entire Divine Domain! Possesses skin as thick as bedrock and power capable of shattering mountains and rivers! A true disaster-class Divine Domain creature!]
The moment the Will of Blue Star finished—
the livestream sucked in a collective breath.
"My god… SS-rank?! So this is what an SS looks like?!"
"Bro… it's HUGE!"
"Why does it feel even scarier than that Destruction Tyrant earlier?!"
"Of course it is! That was S-rank—this is SS! One whole tier higher!"
"Can Adrian even deal with something like this?!"
"If that thing breaches the gate… holy— I don't even want to imagine it!"
The Mountainrock Titan was still far away—
but even from this distance, its outline was impossible to ignore.
From Adrian's position, it looked at least twice the size of the Destruction Tyrant.
If the Destruction Tyrant ran into this…
it would get turned into paste with one casual slap.
The Titan exhaled once—
and the air itself swirled into a visible vortex.
That gust grabbed the forest fire's glow and dragged it outward, smearing the world in blazing orange.
And then—
it moved.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
It wasn't fast.
It didn't need to be.
Every step fractured the land.
Even the ground near Adrian shook in sympathy—like the whole Divine Domain was forced to breathe with it.
Adrian narrowed his eyes.
He didn't speak.
He didn't rush.
But the red flash that slipped through his gaze made one thing clear—
he was excited.
The Ridgeback Rockbeasts had been nothing.
Not even a warm-up.
He'd used Holy Sword Form only to test it.
But those C-ranks couldn't force the form to show its true edge.
Now?
Now the real target had arrived.
"This one's mine," Adrian said flatly.
Raven didn't respond.
But she understood.
Against something like that, even she would struggle to contribute meaningfully.
The Titan charges
"ROOOAR—!!"
Without warning, the Mountainrock Titan exploded into motion.
Its massive frame surged forward in brutal acceleration—
and the impact was immediate.
Anything in its path—
trees, boulders, burning brush—
was pulverized into dust.
Even the flames were torn apart by the shockwave, whipped into a storm of fire and wind that slammed straight toward Adrian.
In the I Watch the Divine Domain studio, everyone shot up.
Sienna Blake's mouth fell open. She forgot to hide it.
"My—what is that?!"
Captain Ryan Cole stood so fast his chair screeched.
"SS-rank… that's SS-rank?! This is insane!"
Dr. Elias Hart's voice shook.
"This is disaster-level… and that's just a charge. If it actually fights head-on—does Adrian Vale even have a chance?!"
Sienna forced herself to breathe.
"Believe in him. He's brought us too many miracles already. This time… he won't fail either!"
The room fell quiet.
Because wanting to believe—and believing—were two different things.
Holy swords set their angle
Back in the Divine Domain—
the Titan's heat, pressure, and momentum reached Adrian before its body did.
Adrian stopped eating.
Swallowed.
Wiped his mouth.
And for the first time, the world saw the holy swords align.
The cross-blades behind him rotated and tightened their formation.
Their tips locked onto the Titan's face—
a clean, terrifying execution posture.
HUM. HUM. HUM.
The blades sang.
And the Ridgeback Rockbeasts?
The moment they sensed their king charging in—
they broke.
They scattered.
They fled.
They wanted nothing to do with what was about to happen.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Faster.
Closer.
Now the camera finally caught the Titan's full body.
It wore armor like the Rockbeasts—only this was a fortress.
At every joint and seam, molten-red lines glowed like living magma.
Its eyes burned a murderous crimson.
It looked less like a beast—
and more like a volcano that learned how to walk.
Then Adrian jumped.
WHOOSH—!
He rose to meet it in the air, until their eyelines were nearly level.
On screen, Adrian—barely two meters tall—was a speck.
A gnat.
A nothing.
And yet he was Dragonia's hope.
The chat turned into prayers.
First contact: bedrock skin fails
The Titan slammed in—
and Adrian didn't block.
He attacked.
SHK! SHK! SHK!
Holy swords fired straight for its face.
The Titan didn't flinch.
It kept charging like it didn't care.
The viewers thought they already knew the ending:
blades shatter. human dies.
But then—
the swords met its armor.
And the bedrock skin…
split.
Not resisted.
Not slowed.
Split.
Shallow cut—deep cut—shallow again.
Wounds bloomed across the Titan's face in a blink.
The Titan's eyes widened for the first time.
It hadn't felt pain in ages.
Its "invincible" plating had made it lazy.
Now it paid for that arrogance.
Adrian smiled.
"Interesting."
Blink behind… and carve a grid
In the instant before impact—
Adrian's body flickered.
He vanished.
Reappeared behind the Titan.
No one could track it.
No replay could capture it cleanly.
Only the result mattered.
SHK! SHK! SHK!
Holy swords carved again and again into the Titan's back—same lines, repeated cuts, surgical cruelty.
Blood bloomed.
Armor peeled.
Flesh began to show.
Within seconds, the Titan's back looked shredded—raw, ruined, mangled.
The swords moved so fast they formed a net of red-white afterimages around Adrian.
The Titan roared—furious, humiliated.
Then it did something that shouldn't be possible.
While still charging—
it twisted its entire body backward at a grotesque angle…
and punched behind itself.
A punch using the charge's momentum as fuel.
A punch meant to crush mountains.
BOOM—!!
The air exploded in shockwaves.
Even through the screen, people felt their chests tighten.
The chat screamed.
"HE CAN DODGE THAT! ADRIAN—DODGE!!"
"Don't be stupid—don't take it head-on!!"
"I can't watch—"
Adrian didn't dodge.
He grinned.
He went into it.
Adrian pierces the Titan's fist
The holy swords snapped inward, clustering around Adrian like a rotating drill.
He shot forward as a red-white comet—
and slammed into the Titan's incoming fist.
SHK—!!
Blood detonated.
But not Adrian's.
The holy swords had pierced straight through the Titan's forearm armor—
through flesh—
through bone—
like wet paper.
A crimson line sprayed across the sky, turning the air into rain.
The Titan's voice cracked with disbelief.
"How…?!"
Adrian didn't stop.
He kept driving forward, ripping a clean gash along the arm as he surged past.
The visual was absurd—
like an ant cutting open an elephant's leg without slowing down.
The chat broke.
"What is this?! WHAT IS THIS?!"
"That fist is bigger than my house—this is nonsense!!"
"He's a monster—he's actually a monster!"
The Titan's rage snapped into panic.
It swung again—left fist this time—harder, hotter, more violent.
Its magma lines flared.
Its eyes turned molten.
It wasn't powering up normally.
It was going to burn itself out.
Magma wraps the Titan
The Titan's glowing seams hit a critical point.
Then—
magma sprayed out.
Not outward.
Not downward.
It wrapped around its body like living liquid armor.
In seconds, its entire form became orange-red molten rock.
A walking furnace.
The chat lost it.
"LAVA?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"That's not Mountainrock Titan—that's a Lava Titan!!"
"Adrian—don't touch that!!"
"Too late—he's already in—"
Because Adrian had already slammed into the magma-coated arm.
He didn't hesitate.
He didn't flinch.
He spread his holy swords outward—
and began to spin.
Fast.
Faster.
Until the blades became a whirring saw.
SHRRRK—SHRRRK—SHRRRK!
The magma churned violently.
As if something inside it was shredding everything.
The Titan laughed—at first.
"Idiot—!"
And then its laugh died.
Because Adrian wasn't melting.
He was cutting from within.
He was boring through the Titan's arm toward its core, ripping flesh while the magma flash-evaporated its own blood before it could even spray.
The Titan tried to shake him off.
Swung its arm.
Smashed downward—
even sacrificing its own Rockbeast pack beneath its falling bulk.
The ground exploded.
Cracks spiderwebbed across the battlefield.
But Adrian still burst out behind the Titan—
and the Titan's chest now had a massive hole.
Right where the heart should be.
The Titan didn't die instantly.
SS-rank vitality kept it alive for a few more seconds.
Long enough to understand the truth:
It was going to die.
And it refused to die alone.
Death eruption: even an SS goes boom
The Titan's molten glow flared into blinding gold-red.
It was burning its remaining life to force an eruption—
not a neat "skill," but a violent death-burst.
A volcanic discharge fueled by its last breath.
The chat screamed:
"RUN!!"
"ADRIAN RUN!!"
"RAVEN—MOVE!!"
Because if something that big erupted like that—
it wasn't just an explosion.
It was a flood of hell.
Adrian's eyes narrowed.
He launched straight at its head.
A clean kill.
One final thrust.
SHK.
Holy swords pierced the Titan's brain.
Its last shred of consciousness spat hatred:
"Human… die—"
Then the magma hit critical.
BOOOOOOM—!!
A pillar of molten fire erupted into the sky.
Heat warped the air.
Trees ignited instantly.
Rocks glowed red.
Even distant slopes looked like they were being roasted alive.
The lava didn't ooze like normal magma.
It crashed outward like waves—
flooding everything.
And it was coming for Raven.
Too fast.
Too close.
Raven's body froze for half a beat.
And that half beat was nearly death.
Adrian's voice tore through the chaos:
"Old woman!!"
A black blur streaked across the ground—
a meteor of shadow.
Adrian shot toward Raven at a speed the eye couldn't register.
The lava wave was already at her feet.
Raven shut her eyes.
Accepted it—
—
And then a dark figure slammed into place in front of her.
Blocking the inferno.
Like a wall.
Like a god.
And the lava hit.
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