After the Despair Witch died, the Doom Brood Hive finally descended into utter madness.
The vast hive that had once crushed the Northern Frontier beneath its might, as unshakable as a god's body, let out a piercing wail after its core was severed. Dying, it still refused to fall.
It began its final struggle.
Flesh churned like a tidal wave, and corrupted walls of meat snapped shut, trying to swallow every surviving intruder.
Countless remaining stitched corpses convulsed wildly, rampaging and striking back like puppets whose nerves had been severed.
Even with torn body cavities and rotting brain stems, they lunged at the nearest humans, biting, clawing, and howling with their ruined bodies!
Spore storms surged from every direction, swirling in currents of scorching, poisonous, corrosive air.
Knights rolled and convulsed on the ground, vomiting violently. Some raised their shields to block the storm, but even their Battle Aura began to corrode away!
The ground heaved, the cavity walls burst, and the entire Brood Hive battered its inner tissues like a crazed beast.
Its final madness followed no logic. It sought only to drag its enemies into the abyss with it!
Egg chambers tore open, and Spore Slurry flooded backward, erupting in blood columns dozens of meters high like volcanic geysers;
Walls of flesh shattered and collapsed like skin sloughing off a giant beast, and torrents of blood mixed with broken bones surged through the cavities.
At the end of that collapsing passage, one figure remained upright on his knees, solemn and towering as a statue. His crimson armor burned silently amid fractured light and dust.
Gaius Calvin.
To protect Arthur's Trajectory of light, he had forcibly activated "Bloodline Talent: Undying Charge" four times in succession!
Every charge had been a blaze of self-destruction.
His bloodline boiled, his nerves tore,