Chapter 78: Domain: Phantom Leviathan Dominion

"ROAR!"

"GRRRR!"

Thick black smoke filled the dim Domain.

One Cursed Spirit after another formed from the smoke, endlessly crawling into existence as they surrounded Caelum from every direction.

Domain: Phantom Leviathan Dominion.

The black smoke inside the Domain could continuously create Cursed Spirits.

The strongest among them even possessed combat power comparable to peak Grade One Sorcerers.

Looking around, the entire space was packed with a dark sea of Cursed Spirits.

The pressure was suffocating.

Uliya.

Knox.

Mordren.

And an army of Cursed Spirits.

Most importantly, Caelum was now inside Graveflame’s Domain.

By all appearances, the situation looked dangerous.

Mordren had already offered him a second chance.

He had no intention of wasting more words.

"Kill him."

In an instant, the mass of Cursed Spirits surged forward like a black tide.

The scene was overwhelming.

Numbers were still only numbers.

All of them knew perfectly well that Caelum, with his dual Heavenly Restrictions, was terrifyingly strong.

These Cursed Spirits would not be able to injure him quickly.

Knox had never expected the spirits inside the Domain to finish Caelum off.

Their role was simple.

Hold him down.

Absolutely prevent him from freeing his hands to attack them.

Uliya finally let out a breath.

"Haa..."

Her tightly wound nerves loosened slightly.

Nobody knew better than her how dangerous that close range exchange with Caelum had been.

She had already been badly injured, and forcing herself to keep fighting until now had pushed her near the limit.

Taking advantage of the opening, Knox rapidly gathered Cursed Energy in his hands.

A terrifying concentration of power began forming.

Even with the Domain’s guaranteed hit effect, it still wasn’t enough.

The attack had to be lethal.

Knox decided to use the same move that had flattened the academy’s barrier core.

He would end Caelum in one strike.

The endless Cursed Spirits crashed forward like a raging ocean in the night.

A towering black wave rose and slammed down.

Caelum stood beneath it like a lone raft on the sea, seemingly ready to be swallowed at any moment.

He calmly adjusted his glasses.

That composure made Mordren feel uneasy.

Then, suddenly, Mordren realized something he had been overlooking this entire time.

This kid had Cursed Energy.

Which meant he could use techniques.

Until now, every time Caelum had fought them, he relied purely on physical ability and close combat to crush everything in his path.

Because of that, Mordren had subconsciously assumed Caelum might not be good at using cursed techniques.

But was that really true?

Or was that simply the illusion Caelum had deliberately created for everyone?

The thought made Mordren’s blood run cold.

He immediately shouted at Knox.

"Now! Don’t give him any chance to act!"

But it was too late.

The tide of Cursed Spirits swallowed Caelum completely.

Then—

Boom!

A terrifying wave of Cursed Energy exploded outward from within.

Every Cursed Spirit rushing at him was crushed instantly into mangled flesh and shattered remains. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Caelum’s gaze turned razor sharp.

An overwhelming surge of Cursed Energy erupted from him.

The amount of energy he released was five times his maximum output.

The violent pressure made him look less like a Sorcerer and more like an unstoppable apex beast.

Tenfold Limit Art.

Even with the Binding Art cutting his power in half, he could still unleash five times his maximum output.

All of that Cursed Energy was poured directly into reinforcing his body.

His already monstrous Heavenly Restriction physique became utterly unstoppable.

Uliya’s eyes widened as her scalp went numb.

"Attack now!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Caelum moved.

Like a blade splitting through flesh, he carved a bloody path through the surrounding Cursed Spirits.

Every spirit in his way exploded on contact.

Even Cursed Spirits with peak Grade One combat power could not withstand a single strike from him.

Unstoppable.

Brutal.

Savage beyond reason.

In the span of a single breath, the sea of Cursed Spirits was split clean in two by Caelum’s charging figure.

Carrying vicious killing intent, he closed in on them like he fully intended to smash them all into paste.

Anyone watching would have felt their soul leave their body.

Uliya and Mordren had no choice but to go in together and buy enough time for Knox’s finishing move.

With the Cursed Spirits acting as interference, Mordren finally managed to activate a technique.

"Flames of Eternal Dusk!"

Immediately, pitch black flames surged outward.

Unfortunately, they did nothing.

Caelum plunged straight through them without slowing down, completely unaffected.

As he closed in—

A flash of steel cut through the air.

Uliya swung Soulcleaver purely on instinct.

Even before Caelum activated Tenfold Limit Art, she had never managed to land a single clean strike on him.

Crack!

The sound of bone breaking rang out.

Caelum easily avoided the slash and, in the same instant, snapped Uliya’s arm backward.

Then he punched down.

Her body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

This time, she was dead beyond dead.

Not even Reverse Technique could save her from that.

At that exact moment, Knox’s killing move was finally ready.

He roared,

"Move!"

Mordren instantly disengaged.

A tightly compressed mass of Cursed Energy floated in front of Knox.

The terrifying power distorted the surrounding air itself.

Locking firmly onto Caelum’s position, Knox released every bit of compressed Cursed Energy in one go.

"Cataclysm of a Hundred Wraiths!"

Bzzzt!

The instant the energy mass erupted, violent ripples spread through the air.

Then a dazzling beam of Cursed Energy blasted forward like a gigantic spear of light.

Every Cursed Spirit in its path was obliterated.

The beam struck Caelum directly.

Boom!

A terrifying shockwave spread outward, shaking even the Domain itself.

Knox and Mordren both thought the fight was over.

What happened next made their blood turn cold.

Caelum did not stop.

He forced his way directly through the Cursed Energy beam, moving against the attack like a fish swimming up a waterfall.

In an instant, he appeared before Knox.

Under Knox’s horrified gaze, Caelum punched him apart.

Graveflame tried to retaliate from the side.

Caelum swept out with a kick.

The Special Grade Cursed Spirit was folded in half and split into two pieces at the waist.

A supposedly Special Grade existence had been completely helpless.

This was the power of Tenfold Limit Art.

In an instant—

Knox was dead.

Graveflame was critically damaged.

Naturally, the Domain could no longer be maintained.

It collapsed and vanished.

The tide of Cursed Spirits disappeared with it.

Mordren had not expected the battle to end this way.

It was simply unbelievable.

He knew trying to run from Caelum in his current state was pure fantasy.

So instead, he stayed completely still, turned his head, and pulled the heavily injured Graveflame toward himself.

Then he opened his mouth, seemingly intending to swallow it.

Caelum did not know what Mordren was planning.

But whatever it was, stopping it was the obvious choice.

Before Mordren could swallow Graveflame, Caelum struck first and blasted him apart into scattered mechanical pieces.

"Figures. Another cursed corpse."

Caelum had expected as much.

Then he stepped down and crushed Graveflame’s head beneath his foot.

He glanced around, picked up the exorcism blade from the ground along with Soulcleaver, and calmly left the scene.

Behind him, only corpses and wreckage remained.

White fragments flew out from the ruined bodies and remains, gathering in front of Caelum into a glowing sphere.

The giant red button appeared again.

The crit gauge followed.

[Crazy Crit Fusion Triggered]

[Please Begin Crit]