Chapter 76: No More
Only one hour remained on the clock, and Asher was fully aware, he had asked the system to notify him with each passing hour.
A wide grin stretched across his blood-smeared face as he stood, knees slightly bent, body coiled with tension like a predator ready to pounce.
He hadn’t spoken a single word since the beginning of this True Awakening, yet he relished every moment of it. Virelass reveled in it. The Absolute Physique thrived on it.
With that, Astra coiled beneath his feet like a living serpent, then surged across Virelass in a gleaming arc. Smiling, Asher launched himself forward like a cannonball, his body ripping through the air with a sharp, whistling shriek.
The assassins did not flinch. They were dancers on the edge of death, professionals who had long accepted that one day it would claim them.
But not today.
Not by the hand of a seventeen year old boy. With cold resolve, they channeled their Astra, which roared to life across their bodies as they hurtled forward to meet him.
The forest erupted into a storm of motion, blades flashing, shadows twisting, and Astra manipulation so dense it blurred the very air.
With a heavy clang, weapons collided in a burst of sparks, then again, and again, and again. The relentless thunder of steel echoed through the forest as countless blurs converged upon a single figure. Yet Asher faced them all with the grin of a madman carved into his bloodstained face.
His hand never faltered. Not once.
A streak of silver cut through the darkness like moonlight on water, and in its wake, a head soared silently into the air.