Chapter 1103 Jake Versus A Titan (part 3)

Chapter 1103 Jake Versus A Titan (part 3)

Regret washed over the cephalopod, but it was too late to turn back now. Once his transformation was complete, Jake wasted no time launching his attack.

Physically.

Standing a towering 25 meters tall and weighing thousands of tons, his muscle fibers denser than lead, Jake contracted and with an explosive push off the ground, he lunged forward, closing the gap between him and the kraken in a flash.

Caught off guard, River's Bane reacted with remarkable speed, three of its enormous tentacles whipping through the air, swooping down on the now much larger human to hinder his movement. Yet, compared to the massive volume of the invertebrate creature, it remained but a slightly larger nuisance, akin to a cockroach or beetle against a former ant or gnat.

Expressionless, Jake merely tilted his torso slightly, letting one of the tentacles aiming to pierce him slide past his shoulders, while his two wings acted as separate limbs to repel the other two. When the wings and tentacles clashed, sparks flew, and a terrifying metallic grinding noise echoed for miles around, generating a destructive shockwave.

Taking upper hand of Jake's slight slowdown from the initial interference, the Titan viciously slammed its other tentacles down on its audacious prey, their considerable become the epicenter of a catastrophic earthquake for the surrounding flora and fauna.

BANG!

Jake's knees buckled slightly under the weight of the impact from dozens of tentacles, each weighing hundreds, thousands of tons, but that was the extent of it. Sure, the ground beneath him collapsed, large fissures forming and then a deep crater temporarily engulfing him, but soon he broke free from the tentacles' grasp and leapt onto the back of one. n((o/.V.-e)/l)/b()I))n

Before the cephalopod had time to marvel at how this 'gnat' had survived, Jake stomped down on the tentacle with all his force, nailing it savagely into the ground with a mighty kick. The struck tentacle crashed like a meteor into the crater Jake had just vacated, significantly widening it while raising a cloud of rock and dust.

The giant monster, not expecting its insignificant adversary to be so heavy, was deeply destabilized, its brain not even registering the agonizing pain from its battered limb. The Titan only avoided sprawling face-first into the dirt thanks to its many tentacles reflexively rooting into the ground around it for support.

After crushing the tentacle with all his mass and power, Jake didn't immediately press his advantage, a deep frown marring his handsome face. The sensation from the impact felt a bit light. It was as if all the force of his kick dispersed into water, unable to reach its target.

However, one shouldn't be mistaken. It was only because it was him. 1% of his true power was more than what even a Fifth-Ordeal Player in the top 5% could ever produce. If it were any of those Players in his place, they would have regained their full powers long ago.

That was all the more true because the more Jake tried to use powerful magic by trying to access his own energy by delving his consciousness into the Aetherdream, the more violent the backlash was, like a slingshot being pulled back further and further before snapping back in his face. Since the start of his duel against River's Bane, Jake had already injured himself multiple times just trying to breach the barrier of Water Lumyst covering the monster, but all for naught.

BOOM!

After thousands of dodges, acrobatics, and hellish ripostes that reshaped the region's topography between the two stubborn adversaries refusing to yield an inch of ground, Jake was finally buried leagues underground after being blasted by an unexpected water laser – there was no other word for it.

Without warning, the nerve-frayed Titan suddenly went berserk after Jake had barely managed to scratch it, at the cost of yet another backlash that literally caused his organs to implode and pulverized his skeleton. Apparently, enough Strength and Sharpening Aether, combined with enough Soul Power and Cosmic Fairy Force could do the trick if he put his self-preservation instinct aside.

Ah, not to forget the True Will of Destruction...

The invisible halo enveloping the cephalopod that Jake could only sense through his mental sense had suddenly become visible, radiating a bright, translucent blue radiance resembling clear water. He could almost imagine waves stirring its surface.

Before he could marvel at this entrancing spectacle, all the Water Lumyst coating the monster had instantly converged at the tip of a tentacle aimed at his head, like morning dew accumulating in droplets at the tips of leaves. The next thing Jake knew, he was buried kilometers underground, feeling like he'd been hit by a train, or rather struck by some kind of battleship jumping into hyperdrive.

Plunged into darkness and covered with kilometers of rock, Jake reinhabited his body, staring in astonishment at the massive gaping hole that had atomized his skull. The upper half of his body had been atomized by this out-of-nowhere water cannon. The only reason he was still alive was that he had dodged at the last second with his Spirit Body, cowardly abandoning his flesh just before it gave way.

That's right. This Water Lumyst beam, he felt it in his guts, represented a mortal danger to his spirit as well.

He tended to forget, given his overconfidence, but as powerful as his Spirit Body was compared to other natives and Players, it remained fragile compared to his physique. His soul even more so.

The only reason it wasn't usually a concern was that very few physical attacks could directly damage these, except for certain elemental attacks and spells specifically designed for that purpose. It was one of the reasons why Players like Jake were so hard to kill, their bodies able to recover almost instantly even from near obliteration, making them practically indestructible.

All of this obviously became moot if it was the spirit that was targeted.