NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 52: Blade born
Location: Outskirts of the Safe Zone
Time: July 17th, 4:45 PM
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The battle had raged for what felt like hours. Fire, blood, and shattered bones littered the battlefield. The ground trembled—not just from the monsters, but from the desperation of humanity clawing back survival inch by inch.
Kael stood with his main team—Elle, Armin, and Dain—at the forefront. They were bruised, bloodied, exhausted. But they were alive. For now.
Ahead of them stood the behemoth.
It towered over everything—fifty times the height of a normal man. Covered in jagged scale-plates thicker than steel and with tusks like fractured mountains, the behemoth had stomped, devoured, and crushed everything in its path. Its roar cracked buildings and sent debris flying. One swing of its limb flattened five mutated sabertooths.
Even the strongest monsters scattered in its wake.
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4:50 PM – Casualties Mount
Behind Kael's team, those who had stayed to hold the line against the stampede were losing ground.
A group of armored guards had tried to block one flanking path. Two were ripped apart by a mutated raptor; another was trampled by the stampede. A priest who stayed to hold a crumbling wall in place with his body was swallowed by flames as a molten hound lunged through.
The defense was holding—but at great cost.
Every loss was another dent in the soul of the safe zone.
And every scream made Kael's resolve harder.
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4:55 PM – The Fight Begins
Kael's team began their assault.
Dain launched kinetic blasts to distract the beast's lower limbs, while Armin and Elle split to both sides, drawing its attention and attacking pressure points. The behemoth turned slowly, but not mindlessly. It swatted Armin into a stone wall and nearly caught Elle with its tail.
Kael dashed under its lumbering legs, aiming for the joints. His daggers sliced, sparked, and deflected off thick hide. His mimic mirrored his movements—dodging, slashing, harassing.
But it wasn't enough.
> "It's too big!" Elle shouted, dodging another slam that cracked the earth beneath her.
> "Aim for the eyes!" Kael called out. "We blind it!"
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5:00 PM – Climbing the Titan
They focused their attacks upward. Kael leapt from a ledge and embedded one dagger into the behemoth's side. Using it as leverage, he began climbing—slowly but surely.
Dain boosted him with a kinetic pulse.
Armin threw explosives aiming to distract the beast.
Elle shouted, keeping its gaze locked.
The behemoth roared, swiping at Kael, but missed as he climbed higher, dodging debris and tail swipes.
Then—
> The Eye.
Kael's blade found it.
A roar so powerful it shook the forest exploded from the beast. It writhed. Thrashed. But Kael held on. He stabbed again—this time with his soulbound mimic mirroring his strike from the opposite eye.
Blood, black and boiling, poured out.
> "NOW!" Kael yelled.
The eye ruptured. And Kael dove inside.
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5:08 PM – From Within
The interior was dark. Flesh walls. Shifting organs. Heat and stench and blood.
Kael moved like a phantom. He triggered Routine Surge, allowing him to dodge the erratic pulses of muscle tissue. He pressed forward until he reached something vital.
> The brain.
He stabbed deep.
Once.
Twice.
A third time—his blades glowing, echoing with power.He kept striking like a mad man who's been possessed.
The behemoth shrieked. Its legs faltered. Its arms buckled.
Then—
Collapse.
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5:10 PM – Silence
The monster fell.
And Kael emerged, soaked in gore, victorious.
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5:15 PM – Awakening and Reward
A sudden pulse surged through him. Not pain. Power.
> [New Ability Unlocked: Bladeborn Fusion – Merge your dual soulbound daggers into a single short sword at will. Ideal for fighting larger enemies. Duration: Unlimited.]
> [New Passive: Critical Pressure – When facing foes significantly stronger than you, your attack power increases significantly but only when using blades or sharp objects .]
His mimic shimmered, absorbing residual energy from the fallen behemoth.
Kael knelt.
Breathing.
Alive.
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5:20 PM – Aftermath
The stampede had scattered, halted by the sacrifice of those who stayed behind. Bodies were being carried to makeshift tents. Survivors huddled. Healers scrambled.
But the fighting had stopped.
No new threat loomed.
Just... silence.
A moment to breathe.
For now.
> TO BE CONTINUED....