Chapter 160: Into The Monster Land 1
The Nova Sanctum drifted like a storm that never ended. Its shadow crawled across mountains, plains, deserts, and seas, and everywhere it passed, silence followed.
The Boar Nation was gone, its tusked king broken in the dirt. Before the smoke had even faded, Lucian set the ship forward. The crew did not question him. Karl sharpened his claws in restless anticipation, Lucy sat polishing her blade in silence, and Kaelis, curled on Lucian’s shoulder, grinned as though he already knew how this path would end.
The first to fall were the Vultures. Their cliffs had risen proud, jagged towers piercing the clouds, nests stretching as far as sight could reach. They thought the sky belonged to them.
Lucian proved otherwise.
The Sanctum rained fire into their cliffs, stone crumbling, nests burning. Vulture chiefs screamed as they dove in swarms, their wings blotting the sky. Lucian stepped into the air itself, folding space, cutting lines of reality across their wings. One by one, they fell, feathers burning, blood scattering across the clouds like red rain. Their cliffs collapsed into the sea below, and with them, their kingdom.
The Minotaurs followed. Their labyrinths were dug deep into the mountains, carved halls of iron and stone meant to trap invaders forever. Lucian walked inside alone.
They thought him prey wandering blind into their maze. But space folded at his whim. Every wall bent, every corridor twisted. What had once been a prison turned into his Dominion. The Minotaurs charged in droves, axes crashing like thunder, but each swing missed, every strike cutting only warped air. Lucian’s fists bent reality into spears, crushing them where they stood. By dawn, the labyrinths were rubble, their horns scattered across broken stone.
The Serpent Marshes burned next.
Boiling swamps stretched endless, serpents as long as rivers coiled through them, their scales gleaming with poison light. Kaelis stretched into his vast form, swooping low over the waters, his fire so hot it turned swamps into glass. The serpents writhed, hissing, their coils rising to strangle him, but Lucian bent their bodies in space, twisting their strikes back into themselves. Lucy’s blade cut black arcs that burned even the poison fog, while Karl ripped through coils with claws dripping fire.
When the flames cleared, the swamps were nothing but charred wasteland, their rivers choked with ash.
The Foxkin tried to trick them.
Illusions spread across the forest, endless mirages of armies, cities, even skies that bent themselves. Karl laughed through it, tearing through phantoms with claws until blood finally sprayed real. Lucy cut with calm precision, her fire burning through illusions like smoke.
Lucian closed his eyes, feeling the folds of space itself. With one gesture, the illusions shattered. The forest split in half, trees bent into spirals, revealing the Foxkin leaders cowering behind their tricks. One step, one strike, and their kingdom was gone.
The Scorpion Dunes fell in fire.
Endless sand rolled under a black sky, scorpions with claws like fortresses rising from the dunes. Their poison storms lashed across the Sanctum, black clouds boiling with death. Kaelis’s roar split the desert, his flames scattering the storm, his body blotting out the stars. Lucian folded the sands themselves, collapsing scorpion hordes into pits of nothing. Karl tore through armored shells, laughing as his claws ripped into their flesh, while Lucy cut through commanders with fire silent as night.
The dunes turned into a glass plain, nothing left to crawl beneath them.
The Bears fell screaming from their frozen peaks.
The Shark Tribes drowned in boiling seas.
The Tigers roared until their jungles collapsed into ash.
Every nation rose, every king fought with claw, fang, and aura that bent mountains—but none survived.
Lucian did not pause. His Dominion spread wider with each kill, space and time warping to his command. Karl’s laughter grew darker, his body drenched in fire and blood. Lucy’s blade grew sharper, her face calm but her strikes merciless. Kaelis reveled in his old strength, his wings casting fire over every horizon.
One by one, twelve nations vanished.
Where mountains had stood, there were craters. Where forests had thrived, there was only ash. Where rivers had flowed, molten stone now boiled.
The Monster Kingdom was broken.
At last, the Sanctum stopped above the capital.
The mountain-city loomed vast, its walls etched with wards that still burned bright, its towers reaching into the clouds.
Karl leaned against the viewport, the glow of the monster capital flickering across his grin.
"Just as majestic as I remembered," he said, voice dripping with amusement. "Shame it’s about to come crumbling down."
Lucy’s eyes didn’t leave the city below. Her tone was steady, but sharp.
"You talk like it’s already won. Have you forgotten? Your father is an Omega. You called him a god yourself. We’ve fought things stronger than us, sure—but that? That’s not just out of our league. That’s another world entirely."
Karl’s smirk only widened. He glanced at Lucian’s shoulder, where Kaelis lay curled.
The little dragon cracked an eye. "What are you staring at, brat?"
Karl chuckled. "You’re the god here, aren’t you? Stronger than anything we’ve seen. If we’re safe, it’s because you’ll make sure of it. And if not..." He shifted his gaze toward Lucian, sly grin sharp. "...then it’s because Lucian already has a plan. He wouldn’t drag us into this without one. So either way, the city I grew up in is dust before dawn."
Kaelis snorted, smoke curling from his nostrils. "Don’t count on me. I’m done helping." He shut his eyes, tail flicking once in irritation.
Lucian finally spoke, voice flat, gaze locked on the burning wards below.
"There are still wolves that escaped. Some may be hiding in the capital."
Kaelis’s eyes snapped open. His head lifted slow, molten light burning behind his stare.
"Wolves?" His lips curled into a cruel grin. "Fine. Tell me what to do."
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