Early the next morning, the lead-gray Black Pool lay deathly still.
BOOM!!
A blinding white Thunderstorm erupted without warning at the edge of the western shore's mist! Rampaging plasma swept across the White Bone Platform like a plow, hurling several Tier-Two Mutant Hatchlings into the freezing shallows before they could even find their footing after tearing through their membranes!
ROOOAR!!
Space shook with the blast, and the pool boiled!
The entire Heavy Sacrificial Altar, piled with thousands of ancient skulls, sank with a crash. A savage behemoth dozens of meters long, clad from head to tail in obsidian-like heavy armor, burst through the muddy waves! Six barbed, bio-organic legs shattered the bone slabs beneath them. Its massive, tumor-studded tail swept out with a piercing shriek, sending shattered stones flying like a storm of hail!
[Calamity Kin · Pool Guardian Beast (LV.68, Tier Three)]!
"Brother Feng! Thunder King! It's that giant bastard on the western shore!!"
[Tom Pie]'s shrill, hoarse warning exploded through the Vanguard Team channel.
Before his words had faded, a dark figure wrapped in a deep, deathly glow leaped through the air from the cliffside slope, diving like a hawk!
CLANG!
The [Origin Fang] carved an icy, dazzling black scar through the sky. Pitch-black annihilating light surged along its edge as it struck head-on at the armored right front knee of the beast's advancing leg!
CLAAANG!!
The shrill metallic explosion nearly tore everyone's eardrums apart!
A vicious gash half a meter long split the supposedly indestructible exoskeleton, and black blood gushed out! Enraged by the pain, the beast folded its pillar-thick foreleg inward, trying to crush both the long blade and its human wielder between the closing armor plates!
[Vanguard Across the Realm] remained expressionless. As his chest rose and fell, Rift-Breaking Breathing instantly surged to