Max Level is 100? I Can Upgrade All skill s to Lv99999!-Chapter 69 --The Titan Race’s Desperate Last Stand, Chosen One?

Chapter 69: Chapter69-The Titan Race’s Desperate Last Stand, Chosen One?

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

Not far from the secret lake, a dazzling burst of light erupted without warning.

A tiny sun rose slowly into the sky—so bright that even the trees and boulders nearby were vaporized into gas!

In the blink of an eye, the titan awakeners who had fled earlier were incinerated so completely that not even ash remained.

The ordinary adventurers in the area saw the scene and instantly went numb with terror, their scalps tingling.

"Are you kidding me? Who the hell is using an Awakening Skill out in the wild?!"

"Shh—keep your voice down! You want some big shot to notice you?!"

"Why does this skill feel... familiar? Don’t you guys remember what happened outside the city earlier..."

...

Caelan didn’t spare them a glance.

Across from him, Ruben’s expression darkened by the second. Caelan merely snapped his fingers lightly and said, almost casually:

"Seems my summon is a bit stronger than your underlings. Don’t you agree?"

Ruben hadn’t dreamed Caelan would act with such ruthless, unflinching brutality.

And that skill just now—was it really something a mere three-star awakener could release?

Even the most monstrous geniuses shouldn’t be capable of that!

With that thought, Ruben’s gaze shifted as he reassessed the young man before him.

"Kid," Ruben asked, "do you know what a Chosen One is?"

Caelan froze for a beat.

Chosen One? Never heard of it.

Ruben, however, didn’t seem eager to kill him right away. Instead, with a playful, almost amused expression, he began to explain.

"You probably don’t know this, but once you’re a Chosen One, you’re destined to be watched by everyone. Even if I don’t kill you, countless others will try."

"Whether it’s us—the other races—or your own human kind... there will be eyes on you everywhere."

"From this day onward, you’ll have no choice but to live in endless pursuit and fear!"

Caelan narrowed his eyes, showing no reaction to Ruben’s threat.

In his mind, if you were strong enough, none of that mattered.

Compared to that, he was far more curious about what a Chosen One actually was.

From Ruben’s words, it was obvious: the so-called Chosen One drew tremendous attention.

So Caelan asked lightly, "So after all that... what exactly is a Chosen One?"

Ruben stared at him for a long moment. Then the corner of his mouth lifted into a mocking smile.

"So you really know nothing. What a pity."

"If you’re willing to stop resisting and die by my hand, perhaps I’ll let you die with at least some understanding."

"For example... the fragmented history, the calamity that destroys worlds, and the legendary Destroyer."

"You’ve heard of it, haven’t you? The gods—tired of the greed and selfishness of living beings... of all their sins—every ten thousand years, they decide to wipe out all life."

"People like you are written in the Apocalypse—the Chosen One who brings the end of the world."

A sharp glint flashed through Caelan’s eyes.

Apocalypse!

He’d heard that name before.

More precisely, the skill tree he had just unlocked—wasn’t it called Apocalypse?

So did the Apocalypse Ruben spoke of have any connection to his own?

And the "Destroyer" Ruben mentioned... why did it sound so much like the Dark Titan Caelan had encountered before?

But the Dark Titan had clearly protected the living beings of the present and helped them continue on!

Caelan narrowed his eyes and forcibly suppressed the chaos of thoughts.

Something about Ruben’s story didn’t match what Caelan knew.

If the Dark Titan was the Chosen One, then it should have been a guardian—not a harbinger of destruction.

But Caelan didn’t say that out loud.

He still lacked too much information. It was too early to draw conclusions.

"Since you were kind enough to share that intelligence," Caelan said evenly, "I’ll allow you to leave your last words."

Ruben blinked, then let out a disdainful scoff.

"Kid, even if you are a Chosen One, you’re still only three-star. You know nothing about the power of an eight-star awakener!"

As his words fell, a dark crimson greataxe appeared in his hand.

Its surface was carved with countless grooves, and a blood-red glow pulsed faintly within them.

"Blood Tide!"

In the next instant, thick, surging blood energy flooded the area around Caelan.

It wasn’t like the blood mist he’d seen before—this felt like real flowing blood.

And then Caelan felt it: an intense sense of danger.

He didn’t hesitate for even a fraction of a second. He activated [Flashstep] and vanished from where he stood.

But even after using [Flashstep], Caelan discovered—shocked—that he was still within the range of [Blood Tide].

Everything around him was drenched in crimson, mixed with a stinging metallic stench.

Not far away, the ground was piled with corpses—countless bodies—but they didn’t look like the adventurers from earlier.

"You managed to dodge my strike," Ruben’s voice echoed with lofty arrogance. "Now I’m even more certain—you’re the Chosen One."

He raised the greataxe again.

"But this time... can you still avoid it?"

As he spoke, the axe—wrapped in blood-red power—carved downward, unleashing a heaven-shaking arc of blade light!

Within the entire [Blood Tide] domain, it was as if the world was swallowed whole by that single axe-slash.

This time, Caelan didn’t choose to flee.

He gripped his sword with both hands. For once, a rare seriousness appeared in his eyes.

"My skill," he said quietly, "can you dodge it?"

"Thousandblade Rend!"

In an instant, the entire secret lake region was seized by two terrifying forces!

Ruben’s full-power strike—backed by [Blood Tide]—represented the pinnacle of an eight-star awakener, the perfect embodiment of an Awakening Skill!

Meanwhile, Caelan’s [Thousandblade Rend] came a moment later—

The countless sword-lights weren’t as massive as the axe arc, but they were far more nimble, and their numbers blotted out the sky.

"BOOOOM—!"

A heavy collision detonated in the air with a violent explosion.

The sky was lit up like day.

The clash between axe-light and sword-light tore the [Blood Tide] domain apart in an instant!

A flicker of surprise flashed through Ruben’s eyes.

He hadn’t imagined that even after opening with an Awakening Skill, he still couldn’t instantly kill this Chosen One!

At this point, the other party’s identity was practically confirmed.

Ruben had once been among the most top-tier geniuses, so he understood better than anyone—

Caelan had already surpassed the boundaries of "genius" entirely.

Chosen One.

He truly was the Chosen One!

Ruben lifted his greataxe high again. No matter what, he had to kill him!

But in the next moment, he saw it—

In the sky, a blazing little sun had appeared, hurtling straight toward him!