SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God-Chapter 100: Let me show you the meaning of rebirth

After the magam hounds came the last mini-boss, the Flame Lord, Cael’Zaroth.

The chamber he guarded was a vast, circular furnace buried in the heart of the dungeon. Walls pulsed with heat so intense that the very air shimmered, and veins of pure lava coursed like rivers across the ceiling, dripping molten droplets into a pit below.

At the center stood Cael’Zaroth, no hulking brute like Vak’Rath, and no seductive caster like the fire witch. He was lithe and tall, draped in robes forged from flowing fire, and his limbs flickered like coiled serpents of living flame.

[Ding! Mini-Boss Encounter: Cael’Zaroth, Flame Lord of Rebirth – Lv. 38]

"Be careful," Damon said, eyes narrowing. "This one comes back stronger after dying. Don’t blow everything in phase one."

Kate tilted her head. "So... we kill him twice?"

"Exactly," Damon muttered, already stepping forward.

The Flame Lord raised a hand, and the ground responded violently. Fire geysers erupted, carving trenches into the battlefield and dividing it into isolated floating platforms of obsidian. Then, he spoke, his voice layered with a dozen echoes.

"Only flame endures. Let me show you the meaning of rebirth."

Damon smiled wryly at the irony. The Flame Lord vanished into smoke, reappearing midair to hurl a barrage of flame spears down on them. Mark intercepted with a punch that shattered two into sparks, while Kate’s orbs flared to life, catching the rest midair with precise counterbursts of blood magic.

Damon waited until Cael’Zaroth landed and then struck. He burst forward the moment Cael’Zaroth’s feet touched the obsidian platform. His axe ignited mid-swing, flames trailing behind as [Ashen Cleave] erupted in a wide arc.

The impact sent a shockwave through the stone, causing the platform to tremble. Cael’Zaroth deflected the strike with a motion so fluid it looked like dancing, his robe rippling as though it were flame itself.

"Your fire is borrowed," Cael’Zaroth hissed, and with a twist of his hand, he unleashed a focused beam of pure flame.

Damon dove through it with [Shadowstep], appearing above the flame lord’s head and bringing the axe down in a spiraling strike. A direct hit. Cael’Zaroth flared in pain as a chunk of his shoulder exploded into embers.

Below, Mark launched himself across a floating platform with a thundering leap, landing beside Damon just in time to punch Cael’Zaroth square in the gut, sending the flame lord skidding backward into a lava trench.

At the same time, Kate raised both hands as her blood orbs converged. She sent all six of them at the Lord, aiming for this weakest moment.

The boss’s health plummeted below 10%, and the lava veins flared bright red.

"It’s coming!" Damon shouted.

Cael’Zaroth laughed, a hollow, echoing sound. "Let the ashes remember my name."

Then, his body burst into flame, disintegrating into cinders.

A molten phoenix-shaped flame erupted from the ashes, wings outstretched, and descended back into Cael’Zaroth’s scorched outline. His body reformed, larger, brighter, hotter.

[Ding! Cael’Zaroth – Reborn: Lv. 42]

[Flame Aura upgraded: All fire damage increased by 50%. Heat zones expanded.]

The reborn Cael’Zaroth emerged like a god forged from fury. His robes were gone, replaced by swirling fire that clung to him like living armor.

Where his eyes once flickered, now twin vortexes of white-hot flame burned without mercy. Every breath he exhaled sent tongues of fire rippling across the platforms, and the entire chamber began to tremble with unstable energy.

Kate wiped sweat from her brow, her blood shields visibly wilting under the rising heat. "This is insane. The floor’s going to melt."

"Just bear with it for a couple of seconds." Damon charged forward without hesitation. This time, he activated [Innate Enhancement].

Cael’Zaroth was not the only one who had become stronger. Farming all the mobs until now, he had amassed a total of 15 stat points, which boosted his strength and intelligence quite a bit.

His body pulsed with raw strength, and a swing of the axe sent a wave of blast outward, rippling through Cael’Zaroth’s flame shell.

The Flame Lord stumbled slightly.

Damon then activated [ShadowStep] to appear right behind the Flame Lord. He swung the axe for a second time, aiming straight for a critical point. An insane damage number popped out.

-50,000

Both Kate and Mark gasped in shock. Just a few minutes back, when they had started this dungeon, Damon was only dealing damage in four digits. Sure, during the course of the dungeon, he had probably leveled up once or twice. But what was this insane damage number?

It just did not make sense!

Their plus 50 stat point buff was nothing when compared to this monstrous growth!

Damon did not let up. After that brutal attack, he followed up with two more similar attacks. Kate and Mark realized that if they did not contribute, the boss’s health with reach zero in a couple of seconds, and the fight would actually end.

They did not want to leech off Damon. So Kate took the cue, channeling all six of her orbs into a condensed crimson comet.

-5000

Mark followed through with a brutal uppercut that sent the Flame Lord airborne.

-6400

Damon Shadowstepped into the sky, appearing above him with the Axe blazing brighter than ever before. He brought it down in a flaming execution arc.

The blow landed.

-43000

Following it up, Damon sent a few more swings before the flame lord could no longer hold out.

Cael’Zaroth screamed. Damon dragged the Flame Lord to one of the remaining platforms and struck his claw into the man’s open wound.

This was the boss he was most excited about in this entire dungeon. If he could just somehow extract his rebirth ability...

[Ding! Cael’Zaroth Defeated – Rebirth Cycle Interrupted]

[Ding! Bloodline Extraction successful.]

[Ding! Skill Acquired: Flame Cloak (C-Rank, Passive)]

Engulf your body in a thin veil of heat that slightly increases defense, passively damages melee attackers, and provides minor immunity to burn debuffs.

[Ding! Fire Affinity +2]

[Ding! You have gained experience points.]

[Ding! You have leveled up!]

[Dungeon Progress: 100% – Final Gate Opening]

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