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The golden invulnerability frames from [Undying Spirit] flickered around his dark purple armor.

He had less than four seconds before the absolute protection expired.

He didn’t run. He didn’t try to heal. He didn’t order Lila or Mei to attack.

He gripped the dark bone hilt of [Voidsever] with both hands.

The primordial greatsword was violently vibrating.

The pitch-black storm swirling inside the crossguard socket reacted aggressively to the massive and overwhelming cosmic weight of the Celestial Beast standing across the cavern.

Lord Malaphar turned around, and his pale face twisted in absolute unfiltered shock.

He stared at the golden-armored Outworlder who had just effortlessly tanked a fatal beam of void magic.

"You survived that?" Malaphar whispered. His aristocratic composure was entirely shattered. "Impossible. You do not possess the cosmic density to withstand a Celestial strike."

"I have a good insurance policy," Dante said.

He didn’t look at the Demon Noble. His eyes were locked entirely on the Abyssal Void-Drake.

The Level 50 Celestial Beast was massive. Its crystalline scales pulsed with galaxies of trapped light.

It possessed two and a half million health points. It was an endgame god.

Dante was Level 62.

The math was entirely on his side.

Dante triggered the active skill embedded within the cursed sword.

[Skill Executed: Calamity - Gluttony]

The system interface didn’t flash blue or gold.

The entire visual spectrum of the game engine inverted.

The bright and pulsing violet fissures in the cavern floor turned completely pitch black. The glowing white chains hanging from the walls inverted into shadows.

The Zenith Protocol recognized the activation of a forbidden and primordial mechanic.

[System Warning: Absolute Execution Protocol Initiated.]

[Validating Level Disparity...]

[Target: Level 50. User: Level 62.]

[Level Validation Successful.]

Dante didn’t swing the sword. He didn’t leap into the air or teleport into the personal space of the dragon.

He simply pointed the jagged black tip of Voidsever directly at the massive crystalline chest of the Void-Drake.

A single and perfectly silent beam of absolute darkness shot from the tip of the blade.

It wasn’t a projectile. It didn’t travel through the air. It instantly manifested inside the physical code of the Celestial Beast.

The Void-Drake didn’t dodge. It couldn’t dodge.

The beam of darkness hit the core of the dragon.

The combat engine of the Zenith Protocol didn’t even attempt to calculate defense mitigation, magical resistance, or invulnerability frames.

The skill completely bypassed the combat engine entirely.

Above the massive starry head of the Void-Drake, the damage numbers didn’t pop up in a frantic string of digits.

A single, clean, perfectly formatted line of bright red text appeared.

[-2,500,000! TRUE DEATH!]

The Void-Drake froze. The swirling galaxies trapped within its crystalline scales instantly stopped moving.

The massive Level 50 Celestial Beast didn’t roar in pain. It didn’t shatter into a spectacular shower of golden polygons.

It simply unraveled.

The entire physical model of the dragon turned gray and crumbled into incredibly fine digitized dust that drifted silently to the floor of the cavern.

Dante had just executed a god-tier entity with a single button press.

The cavern was completely and terrifyingly silent.

The golden invulnerability frames surrounding Dante flickered and died. He was sitting at 1 HP. A stiff breeze would kill him.

Aura hovered desperately near his shoulder and instantly pulsed.

[Skill Activated: Resurgence Wave]

The massive burst of silver starlight washed over him. It instantly restored 50% of his maximum health pool. He was safely out of the execution threshold.

Dante lowered Voidsever.

The black blade stopped vibrating, and the pitch-black storm in the socket calmed to a slow satisfied swirl. The weapon had fed.

"Well," Dante exhaled a long shaky breath. "That was satisfying."

[Target Eliminated: Abyssal Void-Drake (Level 50 Celestial)]

[Massive Experience Gained. Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

Dante watched his level rocket from 62 to 67.

The sheer volume of raw unadulterated experience required to level up in the sixties was astronomical. But completely absorbing the total value of a Celestial Beast pushed him past the curve.

Lord Malaphar stared at the pile of gray dust that used to be his ultimate unstoppable pet.

The aristocratic face of the Demon Noble twisted into a mask of pure unfiltered hatred.

The sophisticated cultured persona completely vanished and was replaced by the raw aggressive malice of a Dark Demon.

"You killed it," Malaphar hissed. His voice vibrated with dark magic. "You used a forbidden artifact to delete my familiar."

"I used the tools available to me," Dante said and brought Voidsever up into a defensive guard. "You are welcome to try your luck next."

Malaphar didn’t hesitate.

He didn’t bother trying to summon another beast or cast a slow telegraphed spell.

He raised his sleek black staff and slammed the butt against the stone floor.

[Boss Mechanic Triggered: Spatial Lockdown]

The system interface flashed a hard unforgiving red.

Dante instantly felt the atmospheric pressure in the room multiply.

It wasn’t gravity magic. It was a complete structural lockdown of the localized server coordinates.

[Debuff Applied: Dimensional Anchor.]

[All teleportation, spatial shifting, and emergency extraction mechanics are completely disabled. Evasion algorithms suppressed.]

Dante tried to trigger [Blink Step]. The skill icon remained entirely grayed out.

"You are not teleporting away this time, anomaly," Malaphar snarled and raised his staff.

The tip glowed with a blinding and highly concentrated sphere of volatile dark matter. It was exactly the same type of magic that had just instantly zeroed the health bar of Dante.

And [Undying Spirit] was currently on a thirty-day cooldown. If Dante took another fatal hit, he was permanently dead.

Dante didn’t panic. He prepared to trigger [Aegis Deflection].

He fully intended to attempt a frame-perfect parry on a spell cast by a primordial NPC. It was a massive gamble, but it was his only option.

"Dante!" Lila screamed from the back of the cavern and raised her staff. She desperately tried to cast [Gravity Well] to disrupt the casting animation of the Demon Noble.

The spell failed. The cosmic weight of Malaphar completely ignored her chantless magic.

Malaphar brought the staff forward and unleashed the concentrated sphere of dark matter directly at Dante.

Before Dante could raise his sword to parry, the temperature in the cavern violently plummeted.

The air didn’t just get cold. It completely flash-froze.

A massive towering wall of pure absolute-zero glacier ice erupted from the floor directly in front of Dante. It formed an impenetrable physical barrier between him and the Demon Noble.

The sphere of dark matter hit the ice wall.

The resulting explosion shattered the glacier and sent massive chunks of ice flying across the room.

But the attack was completely neutralized. Dante didn’t take a single point of damage.

Malaphar stumbled backward and shielded his face from the shattering ice.

"Who dares?!" Malaphar roared and glared through the freezing mist.

The mist parted.

A figure stepped through the shattered ice wall and stood perfectly between Dante and the Demon Noble.

It was a woman clad entirely in gleaming flawless white armor that looked like it was carved directly from a frozen waterfall.

She wore an elegant silver crown, and her eyes were a piercing luminescent icy blue.

She held a massive double-edged greatsword forged from pure frost.

[Entity Identified: Alysia]

[Faction: Frost Sovereign (Celestial Guardian)]

[Level: ???]

"You are trespassing in my city, Demon," Alysia spoke. Her voice was cold and echoed with the absolute uncompromising authority of a blizzard.

Malaphar stared at the Frost Sovereign.

The aggressive murderous fury completely drained from his face and was instantly replaced by sheer undeniable panic.

He was a powerful Demon Noble, but he wasn’t a primordial god. He couldn’t fight a designated Celestial Guardian in her own territory.

"Alysia," Malaphar stammered and took a slow step backward. "This is a misunderstanding. I was merely disciplining an arrogant Outworlder."

"You breached the wards of the Capital," Alysia stated flatly and did not lower her frost greatsword.

"You attempted to execute a registered Champion within the boundaries of the inner sanctum. You are an active threat to the stability of the server."

Malaphar didn’t try to argue. He didn’t try to negotiate.

He spun around and fully intended to trigger a massive desperate teleportation spell to flee back to his own domain.

He raised his black staff and channeled his remaining mana.

Alysia didn’t move. She didn’t chase him.

She simply looked at him.

[Skill Executed: Absolute Zero]

The air around Lord Malaphar didn’t freeze. The very code compiling his digital avatar froze.

The Demon Noble was instantly perfectly encased in a massive solid block of translucent blue ice.

He was completely paralyzed mid-stride with his staff raised and his face twisted in a permanent mask of terror. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Alysia slowly lowered her frost greatsword.

She turned her icy blue eyes toward Dante.

Dante stood his ground and gripped [Voidsever].

He didn’t know if the Celestial Guardian was an ally or an enemy. He had just watched her casually neutralize a boss that had nearly killed him twice.

Alysia looked at his gold armor, then looked at the jagged black sword in his hand. She didn’t look angry. She looked deeply analytical.

"You are the anomaly," Alysia said. Her voice was softer than it had been when she addressed the Demon. "The one who carries the shattered blade. The one who brought Carmilla into my city."

"I did not invite her," Dante clarified immediately. "She showed up in my hotel room. It was uninvited."

The gaze of Alysia drifted past Dante and landed on Erebus. She was still safely tucked behind the massive frying pan of Mei.

The expression of the Frost Sovereign softened marginally.

"The Half-Soul," Alysia murmured.

"I see you have successfully bound her. That is... unexpected. The system protocols should have rejected the contract."

"I am very persuasive," Dante said.

Alysia turned her attention back to Dante.

She pointed her frost greatsword toward the massive pile of gray dust that used to be the Celestial Void-Drake.

"You executed a Celestial Beast," Alysia noted. "You possess a weapon capable of ignoring fundamental cosmic laws. You are incredibly dangerous, Outworlder."

"I only kill things that try to kill me first," Dante said.

Alysia stared at him for a long silent moment. The silence in the freezing cavern was absolute.

"Good," Alysia finally said and rested her greatsword on her shoulder. "Because I have a target that needs to be killed. And I require a weapon that ignores the rules."

Alysia turned away and walked gracefully toward the massive block of ice containing the frozen Demon Noble.

"Gather your spoils, Champion," Alysia commanded without looking back. "And follow me. We have an execution to attend."