Chapter 115: The Fall of the King, Server First
His health bar instantly shot from 8,900 straight back up to his absolute maximum of 26,180. He was quite literally immortal. The 50% health cost of activating the ultimate was erased in less than a second.
Levi turned into an absolute meat grinder of black fire and silver metal.
He didn’t look at his stamina. He didn’t look at the boss’s attack patterns. He just stared at the red health bar floating over Kaelen’s head.
1.2 million. 1 million. 800,000.
The sixty-second execution timer was ticking down. Levi swung the scythe faster, his real-world arms screaming in agony, but he refused to slow down. He was going to empty that health bar if it physically broke his own bones.
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Moving at 3,472 Speed didn’t feel like running. It felt like the server was breaking.
The game engine literally could not render Levi’s character model properly. He wasn’t a person anymore; he was a glitching, black-and-silver smear on the polished ice. He didn’t cross the thirty yards to Kaelen. He just existed there.
Kaelen brought his massive dark magic greatsword down in a horizontal sweep that was supposed to cut Levi in half. The blade ripped through empty air. Levi was already standing directly behind the boss’s right knee.
Levi gripped the Platinum Scythe of the Eclipse. He didn’t just swing it. He utilized frame-linking, a mechanical exploit from his past life. The moment the scythe’s hitbox registered damage on the Night King’s armor, Levi inputted a micro-movement command. The system jerked his character model an inch to the side, completely canceling the weapon’s heavy recoil animation.
Because the recoil was canceled, he could instantly trigger the next attack.
With his absurd 3,472 Speed buff from Abyssal Overdrive, his attack speed broke the visual physics of the game.
He swung the scythe five times in a single second.
[-22,342] [-22,342] [-22,342] [-22,342] [-22,342]
The massive red numbers exploded out of Kaelen’s back like a fountain of blood.
He was dealing exactly 111,710 damage per second.
The Night King roared, trying to spin around. A thick green aura flared over the boss’s ice-covered armor.
[+100,000 HP]
Kaelen’s final phase passive was trying to heal him for a hundred thousand health every single second. But it didn’t matter. Levi was out-damaging the regeneration purely with basic physical attacks. The health bar wasn’t going up. It was aggressively getting pushed backward.
"Hollow’s Guillotine!" Levi shouted.
He didn’t stop his basic attack chain. He wove the skill directly into the middle of the frame-link.
The Platinum scythe erupted with a mixture of pitch-black fire and blinding gold light. Because Abyssal Overdrive ignored Level Suppression and applied a 150% multiplier to his final output, the skill damage was completely apocalyptic.
[-49,035]
The ten-meter cone of dark energy smashed into Kaelen’s side. The Night King’s heavy armored boots actually lifted off the ice. The boss was physically shoved backward by the sheer force of the damage calculation. The broken shield debuff popped up again, keeping Kaelen’s defense shredded.
Levi didn’t let him land. He blurred right back into the boss’s hitbox and started the blender again.
[-22,342] [-22,342] [-22,342]
Kaelen swung wildly. A massive backhand from the greatsword clipped Levi in the shoulder.
The system ran the math. 9,600 Attack from the enraged boss minus Levi’s 1,354 Defense. The Diamond necklace slashed the remaining damage in half.
[-4,123]
Levi’s health bar dropped from 26,180 to 22,057.
He didn’t even blink. He landed a basic strike a millisecond later. The 25% Lifesteal from the Platinum scythe took a quarter of his 22,342 damage and shoved it straight back into his health pool.
[+5,585 HP]
His health bar instantly slammed back to 26,180. He was taking massive damage and entirely erasing it before the pain engine even had time to fully register the hit. He was functionally immortal as long as he kept attacking.
Levi kept his eyes locked on the boss’s health bar and the tiny buff timer ticking down in the corner of his UI.
Abyssal Overdrive only lasted for sixty seconds.
He watched Kaelen’s 15,000,000 HP pool melt.
1.2 million. 1 million. 800,000.
The Night King was desperately trying to cast ice spells, slamming his free hand against the ground to summon spikes of frost, but Levi was moving too fast. The spikes shot up out of the floor a full half-second after Levi had already moved.
500,000. 400,000.
Levi checked the Overdrive timer.
Ten seconds left.
Kaelen’s health hit exactly 300,000.
Normally, this was the execution threshold. If the Night King were a standard Elite, Levi could just tap Soul Harvest and end the fight right here. But Soul Harvest explicitly stated it only worked on non-boss enemies. He couldn’t cheat his way out of the final chunk. He had to manually empty the health bar to zero before the buff expired.
Eight seconds left.
Kaelen stopped trying to cast ice magic. The boss gripped the dark magic greatsword with both hands, raised it high over his head, and stepped forward for a massive, heavily telegraphed downward cleave.
Levi saw it coming a mile away. His 3,472 Speed meant he could easily sidestep the blade, walk behind the boss, and keep swinging.
But dodging took time. If he moved out of the hitbox, he would lose at least half a second of DPS.
"I’m not moving," Levi snarled.
He planted his boots directly on the black ice. He didn’t dodge. He intentionally let the boss hit him.
The massive greatsword crashed directly into Levi’s left shoulder.
[-4,123]
The VR pain engine flared violently, sending a horrible crunching sensation through his collarbone. But Levi used the impact. In Starfall, taking a heavy hit triggered a microscopic window of hit-lag—a few frames where the character models were locked together during the collision.
Levi used that hit-lag to anchor his target.
While the greatsword was still pressed against his shoulder, Levi jammed the tip of the Platinum scythe directly upward. He didn’t just hit the armor. He aimed perfectly for the glowing blue slit in Kaelen’s featureless helmet.
The system registered the precision hit.
[Weak Point Strike!]
The basic attack damage of 22,342 was automatically multiplied by two.
[-44,684 CRIT!]
Levi didn’t pull the blade out. He wrenched it sideways, triggering his frame-linking mechanic while completely inside the boss’s guard. He swung six times in a single second, ripping the scythe back and forth across the boss’s helmet.
[-44,684 CRIT!]
[-44,684 CRIT!]
[-44,684 CRIT!]
[-44,684 CRIT!]
[-44,684 CRIT!]
The massive critical numbers cascaded down his UI, stacking on top of each other.
Over 268,000 damage processed in less than a second.
The red health bar above Kaelen’s head violently drained.
100,000. 50,000. Zero.
The exact millisecond the health bar hit 0, the black flames of Abyssal Overdrive vanished from Levi’s armor. The 60-second timer hit zero at the exact same time as the boss.
Kaelen froze. The Night King’s dark magic greatsword dissolved into black mist right on Levi’s shoulder.
The towering boss let out a booming, metallic groan that shook the entire platform. The blue frost covering his armor violently cracked.
Then, Kaelen exploded.
The boss didn’t just shatter into polygons. A colossal shockwave of midnight blue light erupted across the arena, blowing the swirling black clouds in the sky completely away. The dark storm above the Midnight Continent parted, revealing the dead, starry void of space.
Levi lowered his scythe, letting out a massive, ragged breath.
The system interface completely lost its mind. Blinding golden text flooded his vision, accompanied by the blaring sound of server-wide trumpets.
[Server Announcement: Player ’Levi’ has successfully slain Kaelen, The Night King!]
[Server First: Midnight Spire Cleared!]
[Massive Rewards Dispatched.]
Levi swiped the server announcement away. He didn’t care about the fame.
A dense, aggressively thick crimson aura ripped out of the empty air where Kaelen had just been standing. It shot across the ice and violently slammed into Levi’s chest. The impact actually made him take a half-step backward.
[Supreme Harvester triggered.]
[Kaelen, The Night King’s primary stat is STR (5,000).]
[You have plundered 5% of its core stat.]
[Gained +250 STR permanently!]
Levi laughed. A full two hundred and fifty Strength from a single kill. It was more raw stats than a player would get from leveling up fifty times.
A split second later, the experience points processed.
[System Notification: Slain Level 60 Boss Kaelen. Gained 100,000,000 XP.]
[Server First Modifier Applied.]
[Level Suppression Modifier Applied.]
[Total XP Gained: 360,000,000.]
The golden pillar of progression light didn’t just hit him once. It crashed down from the sky three times in rapid succession, a strobe light of absolute power.
[System Notification: Level Up! You are now Level 58.]
[System Notification: Level Up! You are now Level 59.]
[System Notification: Level Up! You are now Level 60.]