Chapter 11: Suffering Ends
With his eyes turning sharp as he locks gaze towards the shining azure blue core crowing where the golem's head is supposed to be, Azrael lets out his breath as his muscle stretched, his arm swinging fast enough that it appears like a whip to his opponent, and from the end of this whip, a silver, metallic object was launched piercing through the air, going at speed difficult to follow by the naked eyes, heading straight towards the core of the golem.
As it whistles past the air and tears apart the dust along its way, this object doesn't even take a single second to reach the golem, especially since the golem is approaching its direction as well, the impact between these two moving bodies making the hit all the more devastating on both sides.
As sound of metal piercing through earth resounds across the entire area, not only the golem, but also Azrael froze in place as he watches the proceedings of the events, his body shaking as he never expected that he will ever witness something like this in his entire life, the maniacal, battle hungry smile on his face changing to one filled with relief, as well as some sort of hope for a better future.
This smile further improves as he saw the sword buried deep within the golem's core, its tip passing through the back and completely piercing the object, which is already starting have more and more cracks as its pierced middle starts falling apart.
With the cracking sound becoming more and more apparent, the young man couldn't wait anymore and rushes towards the stationary giant once again, urging his already weak body to move at the best that it can in order to end this decade long suffering once and for all, the adrenaline numbing his pain now gone, but the prospect of finally ascending takes its place in suppressing all the pain he should've been feeling right now.
Leaping up with his previously injured leg now recovered enough to support him, Azrael nimbly moves towards the top of the frozen golem, balling his hand into a fist one last time as he jumps right on top of it, smashing his fist right in the middle of the core and finally shattering it.
"Tsk... you just refuse to die without making me suffer huh..." hearing the sound of glass shattering as he destroys the entirety of the golem's core, he couldn't help but remark as he grits his teeth in pain once again, feeling shards of the golem's core burying itself deep within his hand, leaving painful wounds that will inconvenience him for some moment but not long.
Not letting this small matter concern him too much though, the young man gleams as he saw the azure blue screen popping up right in front of him, the messages carried by the tower's guide something that he had been waiting for a long time, and finally, he saw it with his own two eyes.
'Makes me want to tear up and cry...' he jokingly mocked himself as he fails to hide the excited smile on his face reading the words, his fist clenched as he starts looking forward to what kind of rewards he will get aside from the treasure that his [True Treasure Hunting] skill point him too.