The conceptual pressure within the Third Floor was reaching its absolute breaking point, the remaining twelve minutes flickering like a dying star above the fragmented obsidian stage.
[The Limit of Pre-Cognition]
The multi-layered iris of Lapis's unique, honored eyes spun at a velocity that threatened to rupture his optical nerves. His vision transcended the present, piercing through the immediate space-time fabric to look directly into the future movements of the Void Drachoon
"Everyone, move!" Lapis roared, his voice cracking under the sheer panic of what he was seeing.
But it was already too late. Even though his honored eyes could accurately perceive the future coordinates of the trajectory, the Void Drachoon's speed wasn't bound by linear physical velocity—it was an irregular, reality-defying quantum displacement. Knowing the future meant nothing if their bodies physically lacked the reaction time to escape the zone.
The cosmic leviathan appeared instantly above them, its massive dark-matter wings blotting out the light of the bleeding nebula as its dual blades hummed with execution-level power.
"Get back!" Cynthia bellowed, her solar crown erupting into a blinding, magnificent flare as she thrust her burning spear upward. "[SUPERNOVA BLAST]!"
A colossal vortex of hyper-dense, golden-orange starfire erupted from her weapon, racing toward the sky to incinerate the cosmic dragon. Yet, with a localized stutter in reality, the Void Drachoon glitched right through the center of the raging blast, entirely unaffected by the heat. Diving through the smoke, the entity unleashed a swift, brutal counter-attack, swinging the dreaded Sword of Supernova down toward Cynthia's head.
[Burning the Invisible Line]
Seeing his leader in fatal danger, Lapis slammed both palms together, his purple aura expanding into a massive geometric barrier.
"[SPACE WARPING: INFINITY DISTANCE]!" Lapis screamed.
The physical space between the descending orange starlight blade and Cynthia's physical body instantly shattered into a repeating, paradoxical loop of infinite geometric folds. Mathematically, the sword should have traveled across that spatial line forever, never capable of bridging the gap to touch her.
But the High Commander carried a weapon that laughed at the laws of mathematics.
The glowing orange edge of the Sword of Supernova flashed. It didn't fight the space; instead, it literally burned the very concept of distance itself. The infinite geometric folds turned into smoldering, pixelated code and dissolved into nothingness. The conceptual boundary separating the blade from the target was erased from the dungeon's framework.
"Sister, dodge!" Techyon threw himself forward, his white-blue lightning pushing his physical limits as he forcefully pulled Cynthia backward.
Because of that split-second distraction, Cynthia managed to barely dodge the descending slash. The edge of the starlight blade missed her by a mere millimeter, but the sheer ambient pressure of the concept-burning heat left a scorching, black scar across the silver platform that began to siphoning the surrounding air.
[The Futile Artillery]
Refusing to let the leviathan dictate the pace, Saina stepped into the vanguard line, her star-glasses locking onto the entity's massive serpentine coordinates as her back chassis slid open.
"[MILLION LASER]!" Saina commanded.
A literal swarm of a million miniature tactical drones erupted from her mechanical back housing like a cloud of metallic locusts. The sky above the broken stairs was completely filled with her artillery network. On her synchronized signal, all one million drones fired their hyper-pressurized, piercing energy lasers simultaneously, creating a solid, blinding cage of concentrated light that converged directly on the Void Drachoon's armored hide.
The collective impact lit up the entire Third Floor, generating a concussive roar that echoed across the dimension.
But as the blinding light subsided, the collective hope of the vanguard shattered. The Void Drachoon floated effortlessly amidst the intersecting beams, its dark cosmic metal armor and neon turquoise runes glowing flawlessly without a single scratch, dent, or system disruption. The million lasers hadn't even managed to alter its trajectory by a single inch.
The sheer disparity in power was suffocating, but the Galactic vanguard was not a squad that succumbed to despair. With the countdown clock unyielding, the line between survival and total eradication blurred into a single, desperate moment of absolute synchronization.
[The Desperate Blitz]
"I am not letting you go, you overgrown lizard!" Nefa roared, her emerald eyes flaring with absolute ferocity.
Her daggers flashed as she unlocked the absolute constraints of her system, accelerating her body into a state of inaccessible speed. To the standard observer, she simply ceased to exist in linear time, leaving no trail or afterimage as she closed the distance to the Void Drachoon.
Yet, the High Commander's sensory array operated beyond the physical plane. Without even turning its armored head, the cosmic dragon leviathan fluidly whipped its massive, rune-carved metallic tail through the spatial fabric. The impact was catastrophic. Nefa was brutally intercepted mid-dash and thrown away across the platform like a broken doll.
"Ahg—!" Nefa coughed up a vivid spray of dark blood as the sheer kinetic weight of the blow completely shattered her internal bone structure.
Blurring through the air, Yoru intercepted and caught Nefa's falling frame in mid-air. Utilizing her instant teleportation, she materialized directly in front of the support line. "Heal her! Quickly!" she ordered, placing the broken assassin down.
Fraxy didn't utter a word. Her face pale with urgency, her hands instantly glowed with a soft, restorative emerald mana as she initiated her highest-tier healing protocol to knit Nefa's shattered bones back together.
[The Ultimate Vanguard Array]
"Get away from her!" Captain Carod bellowed, his core vents forcefully re-routing his elemental circuits. "[TYPE SWITCH: LIGHTNING LEVEL 2 — INFERNO VOLT]!"
Transforming his heavy chassis into a roaring, hyper-accelerated entity of black-and-red plasma lightning, Carod struck the Void Drachoon at his absolute maximum speed. Sparks flew across the cosmic metal hide in a frantic sequence of micro-explosions, but the kinetic barrage didn't affect the leviathan at all; it didn't even shift its floating axis.
"Then take the weight of a world!" Gaia screamed, slamming her palms into the silver stone. From the broken dimensional fabric below, she summoned the gargantuan, rocky silhouette of the Geo Dragon. "[METEOR BEAM]!"
"[HYDRO CANNON]!" Neweland synchronized, thrusting his fluid trident forward to unleash a hyper-pressurized torrent of oceanic force that coiled around the beam.
Ruta roared alongside them, his magma lines burning white-hot. "[MAXIMUM OUTPUT: MAXIMUM METEOR]!"
The battlefield completely fractured as the remaining Elites unleashed the absolute peaks of their respective classes simultaneously:
"[CONCENTRATED LIGHT BEAM]!" Techyon cried, his dual blades condensing the white-blue starlight of the Northern Galaxy into a single, piercing laser of pure administrative energy.
"[ANNIHILATION TECHNIQUE: UNIVERSAL VERMILION]!" Lapis commanded, his honored eyes bleeding as he warped a localized collapse of reality around the boss.
"[VIRTUAL ENERGY MAXIMUM OUTPUT: VIRTUAL BLAST]!" Saina synchronized, her entire drone network firing a digitized beam of pure destabilizing data.
Carod added his secondary overdrive, "[ELECTROSPHERE]!" generating a crushing cage of plasma, while Yoru channeled her remaining reserves into an "[ANNIHILATION VOLT]!"
From the rear, Fraxy raised her glowing staff toward the heavens, her voice echoing with divine authority. "[BLESSING OF HEAVEN]!" A cascading wave of golden light washed over the vanguard, forcefully boosting everyone's attack output by triple their limits.
At the center of the storm, Cynthia leapt high above the combined barrage, her solar crown exploding into a brilliant star. "[FUSION FLARE]!"
Every single cataclysmic attack converged perfectly, landing directly and flawlessly on the massive body of the Void Drachoon.
[The Spaceship Commentary]
Up on the command deck of the orbital mothership, the broadcasting terminal was sparking wildly as the sheer volume of energy data threatened to detonate the screen. SK was gripping his hair, his voice hitting a pitch that was completely unhinged.
"THE ENTIRE SQUAD IS GOING ALL IN!" SK screamed frantically into his microphone, tears of pure adrenaline streaming down his faceplate. "Viewers! Look at this cosmic alignment! Every single Z-Elite has unleashed their absolute maximum output simultaneously! From the Geo Dragon's Meteor Beam to Techyon's Concentrated Light and Cynthia's Fusion Flare—all multiplied by Fraxy's Blessing of Heaven! The Third Floor is literally turning into a white void of pure destruction! Can even the High Commander of the Void survive the combined weight of the entire Northern Galaxy Vanguard?!"
The live chat was scrolling at an unreadable, chaotic velocity:
User_SolarFlare99: "MY SCREEN IS COMPLETELY WHITE! The visual effects are literally melting my phone! If this doesn't do damage, we are actually cooked!"
ManhwaFan_01: "Fraxy is the absolute MVP for that Blessing of Heaven clutch! Look at the power scaling multipliers go up! "
Galaxy_Brain_99: "They hit him with Earth, Water, Fire, Lightning, Virtual Data, and Space Warping at the exact same time! This has to break his armor! Come on, Techyon!"
Z_Rank_Watcher: "Nefa's bone breaking was terrifying... please let this strike land. 12 minutes left, this is their final hand!"