SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God-Chapter 188: I win

La Rocha became crazed. Things had escalated far beyond his control. He had made the terrible mistake of underestimating his opponent.

In a last desperate move, he started taking all sorts of items out. Explosives, volatile potions, poison, everything he had gathered so far in his lifetime. He started throwing these things in bulk at the chaotic anomaly growing exponentially.

However, to his dismay, every single thing was literally absorbed, and not even a scrap was returned. Soon, his own avatar started leaking.

La Rocha froze as he looked down.

Cracks had appeared on his arms, thin, glowing lines where mana was bleeding out of his avatar’s form. The edges of his robes fluttered unnaturally, the color draining as if the very concept of his presence was being unmade.

"No... not me... not me!" he howled, voice cracking with panic. He slapped a talisman onto his chest, trying to stabilize the leak. It fizzled. Dissolved. Useless.

He turned again, eyes frantic. "This is not possible! I have lived for centuries! How could this mere insect destroy me?" He couldn’t believe what was happening.

How did things come to this? He was the one toying around with these insects, and now the tables had completely turned!

He stared at the abomination in front of him in sheer horror. The vortex of blood and mana pulsed with primal hunger, each beat of its shifting heart dragging the last remnants of the fortress toward oblivion.

Pipes snapped and vanished. Entire platforms crumbled to dust. Even the mana-reactive stone lining the inner chamber flaked away, pulled into the scarlet tide.

La Rocha fell to one knee, his body trembling violently. His legs were already gone below the knee, fading into smoky fragments. He looked up, mouth twitching.

"Noooooo!!!!" La Rocha screamed. If things continued this way, then even he might be completely absorbed! He needed to put an end to this at all costs. He did not understand how things escalated so much, but he no longer held back.

Without any hesitation, he triggered his own core reserves.

BOOOOOM!

A second explosion, far more violent than the first, erupted from deep within the fortress. A wave of white-hot mana burst outward, obliterating everything it touched. Stone turned to vapor. Steel melted like wax. The metallic fortress that once stood indestructible was now disappearing chunk by chunk.

La Rocha stood at the eye of it all, his arms spread wide, face twisted with fury and desperation. His body blazed with raw energy, overclocked beyond safety, beyond sanity. The air around him screamed as it collapsed inward. He had turned himself into a living bomb.

"If I die," he spat through clenched teeth, "then so do you."

Unbridled power covered every inch of the fortress as the entire thing was blasted apart. In the end, even La Rocha’s face disintegrated completely. "I win, insect." He smiled as everything disappeared.

The explosion swallowed him whole and kept going.

It surged through the crater, consuming the last of the metallic fortress in one devastating wave. Mountains trembled in the distance. Trees disintegrated like ash. A blast so massive, so absolute, that it silenced everything for miles.

And then... Nothing. Just the howling, raging blizzard and the vast, endless land covered by snow.

The place where the fortress had stood was now nothing but a deep scar in the land. The ground was scorched black, but it was quickly covered by snow, and soon even that scar disappeared.

There was no sign of La Rocha. No sign of Damon. No sign of anything.

But then something pulsed. A faint thump and then another.

From the very heart of the crater, a single drop of blood floated upward. Then another. Then hundreds more. They joined together in mid-air, forming a golden sphere of blood that pulsed with an ancient aura.

The golden sphere of blood hovered silently above the ground, glowing faintly against the icy wind. It spun slowly, ripples moving across its surface like a heartbeat, steady and strong. Each pulse echoed with quiet, terrifying power.

From the surrounding snow, mana was drawn in once more, tiny threads of energy slipping through the air like veins seeking a heart. And the blood responded. It trembled, grew, shimmered brighter.

Time slowly ticked by as the blood sphere continued to slowly accumulate more and more mana. For miles and miles, the mana in the air and the land was stripped dry. The blizzard itself began to falter.

The storm winds that had raged for centuries across the frozen plains were now absent around the sphere for almost a mile. Snowflakes hovered midair, then vaporized, converted into raw elemental force. Even the cold began to retreat, unable to hold its form in the presence of what was gathering.

Finally, after several hours, the blood sphere sputtered. Then it unexpectedly coughed up six other spheres. The six spheres scattered around the golden blood sphere and settled on the ground silently. None of them moved, but the golden sphere alone continued to silently absorb more and more mana.

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Meanwhile...

Nevin finally arrived back in the black pool, battered and ragged. "Robert! I need to talk to Robert right now!"

His system interface was still not working for some reason, and he figured it would probably be like that until reset. There were still 5 hours until reset. He couldn’t simply sit and wait until then. What if something unspeakable happens?

He dragged himself back along the horrendous terrain all on his own and finally arrived at the frozen caverns where almost the whole guild was gathered and were together trying to obtain the buried legacy.

"Mathew! Can you please go and get Robert? We need to gather everyone. Something big has happened. Guild leader Sylvara-"

"Heh. What did that bitch do now?" Mendoza laughed as he walked over, pulling himself out of the black pool. His entire physique had now changed, and he had become even slightly taller and more muscular. Nevin gritted his teeth as he obviously knew what this meant. "Don’t call her that." He growled. "Of all the people, you should not call her that! You fucking sell out!"

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