The Annihilator: Killer Of Gods

Karsha expected to descend into a room full of all the nine treasures. but to his surprise, when he descended into the second room, there was only one translucent glass-like box. It is 3 meters wide and 5 meters high. Even from 6 meters away, Karsha could feel an arrogant, suppressive, and ancient aura exuding from it.

Once again, he felt somehow familiar with the aura but since he didn't have any memory of it he just pushed the feeling to the back of his mind. He knew dwelling on what has been will affect what is to come. It's better to live in the moment and let the past catch up to us.

The feeling of nostalgia is what brought about the doom of many great people. Karsha has many dangerous secrets around him, snooping his nose into those secrets now seems like a bad idea. The only way forward is to live like there is no tomorrow and when tomorrow does come, you will live it like there is no next day.

Karsha understood that despite the familiar feeling, he willed himself forward. Getting things done and going back to being the strongest in his generation seems like a good idea.

"I wonder what's hidden in there" Karsha stood up and started moving toward the glass case. He took three steps but just when he could take the next step, the suppressive aura increased pressing down on Karsha. His movement was instantly frozen.

Karsha sneered and then let loose a sliver of his arrogant, chilling, electrifying, and fiery aura. The suppression lessens immediately but Karsha doesn't smile. He still has about 12 steps to take and if the thirteenth step is this suppression is this powerful, then how is he going face the rest?

Karsha calmed himself and then took the twelfth step. He felt some resistance but there wasn't much to suppress him. He took the eleventh and the them tenth with ease. However, when he took the ninth step, he felt like a huge lion was about to devour him. His aura exploded pushing away the suppressive feeling.

The ninth, eighth, and seventh steps were relatively easy, but the sixth came along with a powerful suppressive force that threatened to tear Karsha in half. Karsha's aura kept rising but so did the suppressive aura.

After increasing aura, he managed to take the sixth, fifth, and fourth steps relatively easily. But Karsha could finally feel his aura reaching the max and the suppressive aura didn't seem to be reducing, on the contrary, with each step, it rose to the next level.

"Is this some kind of thirst or what" Karsha cursed his luck. Karsha is the kind that doesn't believe in free things. He knew there was always a catch to anything that came for free, however, he never anticipated there was something like this waiting for him.

< You should be proud of yourself host, you are under the suppression of a very powerful item, and the mere fact that you didn't explode means you are stronger than you think >

"What the fuck!" Karsha cursed out loud, his shocked voice filled the entire room. "Why didn't you say anything system? I could have died you know"

< Telling you will make you hesitate before taking the step. Facing dangers like this is the only way for you to become the strongest >

The system is now version 3 meaning it has evolved for the second time. The first weaker and less functional system has now been replaced by a more powerful one. Although it's still far from what a system should be like, it's now playing the role of a God Killer System.

For such a system, putting the host in risky situations so they grow stronger is their primary job. Karsha would have given up on this item if he knew there was such a terrifying suppressive energy around it. But now that he had taken the steps, it's only natural to continue.

"I will forgive you this time around the system." Karsha gnash his teeth as he pushes forward. He pushed his aura to the max and slowly with his body dripping with sweat, Karsha managed to take the third step. However, immediately after he took the step, he felt like a mountain was crashing down on him.

He immediately activates his Golden Aura and Berserker Rage. His strength skyrockets and manages to withstand that pressure. "The more my body adapts, the higher the pressure" Karsha quickly noticed something. The pressure he was feeling is also a treasure for someone like him who is practicing Body cultivation.

The greater the pressure, the more the benefit. For every step taken, his body will adapt to the pressure making him withstand the pressure with ease. However, that isn't all, from the start, he could feel his strength and aura soaring but after reaching the third step, the more his body adapt the more powerful the pressure/aura.

And the most painful thing, he couldn't stop his body from adapting. It is like he was sucking the energy. The only way out is to step within the markings around the glass case. When he got within five steps of the case, he saw the markings.

However, even at the third step, the pressure he is enduring is beyond his strength. Karsha, gritting his teeth decided to take the second step.

BOOM

Karsha exploded his entire cultivation base filling his body with unimaginable strength. He quickly took the second step, but before he could take the second, a powerful force descended on him pressing him like a grinder. Karsha felt his entire body shaking, his bones breaking. He coughs out a mouthful of blood and even has blood coming from his eyes.

Thanks to his symbiotic skin and iron body, he managed to endure the pressure, but his inner organs weren't that lucky. Karsha seeing he wouldn't be able to hold on for long channeled his ice element coating his vital organs and then with a boom, a golden ring with one red core appeared behind him.

the red core immediately started spinning and the energy around Karsha started entering the core. Karsha wanted to immediately take the last step but before he could, the system chimed in.

< A unique energy has been detected, the host should absorb it and use it to further saturate the Lesser Core >

"Oh common" Karsha gnash his teeth, blood coming from the corner of his mouth. He summoned the Soul ring so he could borrow the energy within the core to take the final step, but before he could, the system chimed in.

He already knew the soul ring could absorb any form of energy that could be used to further build the Core. However, he wasn't really in the right situation to absorb this energy, yet even though he was dying under the pressure coming from the glass case, the greed to borrow that energy to further saturate his core made him hesitate.

'My hunger for power will be my doom one day' Karsha cursed himself but refused to take the step giving the Soul Ring enough time to absorb the energy.

'Ha, the pressure is reducing' Five minutes into it, Karsha started to feel the pressure reducing. Small reductions but being under its overbearing pressure for a long made him sensitive to even the minute reductions.

Ten minutes in, he felt the aura reduce drastically. He started feeling more alive. The soul ring is also absorbing the energy into the core since the red core seems to be spinning faster than ever. Although still far from total saturation, it's getting there. Once it is saturated, he can form a new one finally allowing him to become a Great Alpha.

"That's enough" Karsha could now move his body like before. The pressure is almost gone. After another 1 minute, he stepped into the markings and deactivated the soul ring. Karsha dropped on his butt out of exhaustion. After a few minutes of calming himself down, he stood up and approached the glass case.

Standing in front of Hit, Karsha placed his hand on the case, and like smoke, the blocking properties of the case dissipated leaving a transparent glass with what appears to be the most beautiful egg in existence.

< Ding! You have discovered a ???????? Grade egg. Name: ???????????? >

Karsha ignores the message completely, his focus is on the magnificent-looking Egg. Sitting inside the grass case is an egg that exudes an otherworldly aura, its surface an intricate dance of swirling, organic patterns that seem to flow and intertwine like delicate tendrils of frost.

The main body of the egg is a deep, mesmerizing emerald green, with swirling patterns crafted from a luminous, silvery-white material that gleams softly in the ambient light. This delicate, almost ethereal design gives the egg a sense of both fragility and immense ancient power as if it holds within it the secrets of a very powerful Beast.

"System, do you know what's inside the egg" After admiring it for a while, Karsha turned to the system seeing the question marks in the name and grade section.

< I can't identify the origin or grade of the egg however, what I can't say is, that this is a very powerful egg. From the energy it emits, its grade will be higher than a World Boss, possibly even higher than Primordial, >

"Damn, that's powerful. Do you have a way to hatch it" His wings are from a Primordial beast and even though he hasn't mastered the basics of the flying technique yet, he can move several kilometers within a second showing just how powerful a Primordial beast is.

So if he manages to hatch an egg that is probably stronger than even a Primordial Beast, wouldn't he be getting himself a powerful pet or a beast?

< The origin of the egg is beyond my current comprehension but from what I know, powerful eggs like this require special environments and Treasure to hatch. >

"So in other words, unless I find a special environment suitable to hatch it, it will always be just an egg"

< Yes. >

Karsha sighed. He knew it wouldn't be easy but seeing the requirement before him just proved how special the egg is.
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< The host is advised to form a soul bond with the egg. >