Chapter 1101 Jake Versus A Titan (part 1)

Chapter 1101 Jake Versus A Titan (part 1)

[If I were you, I wouldn't prolong this out too long.] Xi reminded him tactfully, his unfocused eyes and absent demeanor a clear sign he was spacing out.

Of course, he wasn't. Jake was just pondering how to extract the two clowns from the belly of the Titan. If possible, he'd prefer the cephalopod to just regurgitate them, and everyone could go their separate ways without hard feelings. nOve)lB(1n

If that option failed, then he'd have to force it, and if even that proved impossible, slicing open its belly would be the next step. No doubt this marine behemoth wouldn't take kindly to that.

Still, he owed it to at least give it a fair shot. Undeterred, Jake closed the several-hundred-meter gap between the giant monster and the river behind it with a rapid stride and, slowly looking up, he confronted it with steadfast composure,

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

The enormous cephalopod, whose skin and sucker colors constantly changed, blending with the trees it was uprooting and the almost translucent rock of the bank, momentarily ceased its attempt to crawl back to the water. Then, with an unbearable slow heaviness, it turned its focus onto the tiny insect addressing it.

To the gigantic sea monster, known as the River's Bane Titan by the natives of the Lustra Plains, that's indeed what Jake and all other humans were in its eyes: microbes. And if they were a bit bigger and plumper, food.

Unlike other Titanic Beasts and Abyssal Revenants Jake had heard of or encountered up to now, this Titan obeyed nothing and no one, posing a threat even to other Titans. This was, in fact, the norm, with Titans and Revenants collaborating with humans being the minority.

This was all the more true as without these human-allied Titans and Revenants, their societies would have long since collapsed. This was less true for the Radiant Conclave, which had the powerful Celestial at the helm and four other Saints to stand up to these monsters, but an undeniable truth regarding the Duskwight Lands.

Before the rise of the Soulmancer King, they were indeed just a myriad of tribes constantly warring among themselves over meager resources. As soon as a tribe grew enough to establish a nation or kingdom prosperous and stable enough to federate its neighbors, it would then become ripe food for all the wandering souls and sentient beasts tyrannically dominating their territory.

'This monster can't be talked with...' Jake sighed wearily. 'Then a fight it is.'

Either way, a glance into the creature's acid-filled stomach reminded him mercilessly that he didn't have much time left. Crunch and Lord Phoenix had finally begun to dissolve, their muscles and skeletons fizzing like an effervescent tablet in the hostile liquid. Seeing them grit their teeth, curled up against each other to better endure their pain, even Jake found himself feeling a twinge of sympathy for the two troublemakers.

"These two idiots..." Jake muttered, shaking his head in exasperation. But then, in an instant, his demeanor shifted dramatically.

The fight wasn't supposed to happen so soon... In a blink, Jake's previously subdued but untamed spiritual pressure exploded around him, now fierce and lethal, marking a drastic change from the calm before the storm. It was combined with his overwhelming and unified Lumyst Aura, now very near to completion.

The release of his aura detonated with the obliterating majesty of a nuclear bomb of at least a megaton, affecting everything within a three-kilometer radius. The enormous kraken was hit full force by the psychic blast, stunned silly, but that was just the beginning.

Understanding that the Titans of the Lustra Plains had insane physiques and lifeforces, but comparatively weak minds, Jake had to take advantage of that to end the fight quickly.

It wasn't just an isolated omnidirectional blast but an uncontrolled release of spiritual energy. Unaccustomed to controlling such a wild quantity of Spirit Power at the same time, it took Jake a short millisecond to channel such a release, but when he did, the radiant spiritual pressure disappeared completely, descending like a celestial vise on the kraken.

"Sorry, but I don't have time for a equitable fight." Jake spat, his two palms raised in front of him aiming at the shrieking cephalopod. "SOUL CRUSH"

His right fist clenched and under the command of his True Will, a significant chunk of his Soul Power was drained from his body, merging with the dense spiritual energy with multiple attributes crushing the enemy Titan's spirit.

The kraken let out a harrowing howl in response, and immediately after, its huge malicious and hateful eyes became glassy, the aquatic monster clearly losing consciousness. Jake knew, however, that as weak-minded as the monster was compared to the quality of its body, its Spirit Body was no less titanic. It would take a lot more than that to wipe its soul, although it would undoubtedly take months or years to recover.

Despite this, less than a second later, dark circles filled the bags under Jake's eyes, and he soon turned pale. His Lumyst Aura began to flicker like a candle about to be blown out by the wind, and he knew he couldn't maintain his Soul Crush indefinitely. His mind recovered quickly, which was his major asset, but not to the point of maintaining a True Will-based Spell of this magnitude.

Focused on his task, Jake ignored the stream of sapphire blood reminiscent of liquid lightning flowing from his nose and finally clenched his left fist.