Even the air itself could not handle what was happening.
The giant monster, despite the tears and holes all over its body, tried to stand up.
Its flesh thickened, its blood boiled, its veins swelled like snakes under the skin, and the blood manifestation trembled but did not disappear.
As for Ashen…
He was standing at the edge of the pit, his shoulders dripping blood, the runes around his body glowing like living embers.
His eyes were burning.
His chest rose and fell, but his strength only increased.
He raised his right hand.
That signal alone made the monster lift all its bloody arms around itself instinctively, as if it sensed that something catastrophic was coming.
Ashen gathered his energy in his palm.
His blood roared inside him like a boiling lake.
Then—
A glowing sphere of blood energy formed above his palm.
The first shock.
The air shrank around it.
The wind tore.
Even the light itself seemed to bend.
Suddenly—
BOOM.
The sphere launched forward like a cannonball from hell.
The monster couldn't even dodge it.
It hit its chest directly—
And pierced it.
It pierced through layers of skin, flesh, muscle, and exited through its back like a spear of bloody light.
It left a gaping hole big enough for a grown man to step through.
The monster staggered…
But Ashen didn't give it a single second.
He raised his hand again—
A second… a third… a fourth… a fifth… a tenth…
Dozens of first shocks launched from his hands faster than sight.
They were not energy spheres.
They were real war ammunition.
The monster stepped back again and again…
Its body tearing apart, every shot carving a new hole, a new wound, a new fracture.
Dozens of holes now covered its body like a demonic sieve.
But this was only the beginning.
Ashen bent his back slightly…
As if his body was preparing for another explosion.
He poured everything he had into the air.
Then—
The Great Shock.
Light mixed with blood.
The ground itself screamed.
A huge circular wave of blood rose under his feet, swollen, bright—
Then exploded forward like a falling meteor born from disaster.
When it hit the monster…
Its body was no longer a single form.
It turned into a massive mass of flying flesh.
The wave threw it backward with inhuman force.
The giant monster was lifted into the air like a boulder launched by an angry god.
It crashed into a stone pillar over fifty meters tall—
The pillar shattered completely under its body
and the monster was thrown above it, rolling in the sky like a celestial object losing its orbit.
It didn't stop.
It rose…
Higher…
And then fell.
But Ashen was there before it hit the ground.
He used the Sky Leopard Rune…
Disappeared in a flash, then appeared above the monster—
Both fists glowing with power…
And struck it from above with both hands.
The impact…
Was not a sound.
It was an earthquake.
Every stone pillar within three hundred meters dissolved into dust.
The ground cracked as if something from hell struck it.
The entire stone forest shook like a nuclear bomb had exploded at its heart.
The monster fell like a broken mountain.
A massive crater, fifty meters wide, formed on impact.
Smoke. Dust. Blood. Shards.
And a smell like burning iron.
Ashen stood at the edge of the crater.
His blood dripped like a waterfall,
but the aura around him did not weaken.
The runes glowed fiercely.
The blood frenzy grew even more savage.
As for the monster…
Its body was no longer a body.
Its chest was open. Its ribs were broken. Countless holes were bleeding. One of its side faces had melted completely. The human left arm was detached from the shoulder. The second gorilla arm could barely move.
But…
Its vertical eye was still open.
And burning.