Overpowered Awakening: I Became Invincible With A Broken Talent-Chapter 190: The end?

Both the bone dragon and the black dragon halted their attacks simultaneously and twisted their massive bodies to look at the figure of Marlon floating high above the battlefield, silently observing them as though they were nothing more than insects beneath his gaze.

They could feel the strong energy of death radiating from him. It was blazing hot like the sun, yet freezing cold like extreme snowfall, a paradoxical force that suffocated and burned at the same time.

The energy projection behind Marlon appeared differently to the two beings.

For the bone dragon, it saw another dragon with a twisted shape, jagged thorns protruding from its frame, a skull-like head, and a grotesque fleshy body that seemed both alive and decayed. Whatever it was, it represented the very end the bone dragon instinctively feared.

As for the Aurax who had transformed into the black dragon, he saw the depiction of a death reaper. This one did not hold a scythe. Its hands were empty, yet its hollow eyes, once stared into, seemed endless and bottomless, as though they led directly into oblivion.

The two beings were shivering at that moment.

But the shivering grew worse for the black dragon when he noticed the lifeless bodies of his colleagues being dragged across the ruined battlefield by Marlon’s clones.

At that instant, he realized that the suffocating feeling in his chest was not imagination. His death was now closer than any possibility of survival.

Without a single thought behind his actions, driven purely by instinct and desperation, he ordered the bone dragon to challenge Marlon.

The bone dragon was a tamed beast after all, and with the binding soul contract between them, it had no right to refuse an order, especially when it concerned the survival of its master.

The bone dragon charged toward Marlon, its enormous wings slicing through the air and creating a violent gust of wind that swept across the ground and disrupted the clouds above, producing a long, mournful sound that echoed like a cry.

Marlon did not seem fazed by the massive dragon descending upon him. He remained floating calmly in the air, his expression unreadable.

The Vereenas all focused on him. Liora and Solan caught their breath as they gazed at his nonchalant figure. Nox remained seated, though a faint look of interest flickered across his face. Within the clouds, Orion watched in silence.

They all wanted to witness the power of the prince of death with their own eyes.

ROARRRR!

The bone dragon released a thunderous cry as it closed the distance, its skeletal tail whipping forward with enough force to tear through mountains and send the human flying.

But the instant it struck, ten death clones appeared and immediately caught the attack, stopping the massive tail as though it weighed nothing.

Before the dragon could even process what had happened, Marlon moved.

He approached and delivered an Absolute Death Strike.

Since the bone dragon was insignificant to him, he did not activate the Death Timer to delay its demise.

The enormous creature began corroding midair. Its sturdy, fear-inducing frame rapidly decayed, turning brittle and rotten before collapsing into dust that was carried away by the restless winds.

[ You’ve slain x1 Bone Dragon King.

EXP +38,500,000 ]

[ Level up ]

[ Level 249-----> Level 250 ]

[ Death Reaper active. You’ve obtained 5,000,000 Aether Points and 20,000,000 Health Points ]

[ Aether Points: 1,000,000 / 1,000,000 ]

[ Aether Points capacity has risen to maximum. Enter A-rank to upgrade further. ]

[ Health Points: 100,000 / 100,000 ]

[ Health Points capacity has risen to maximum. Enter A-rank to upgrade further. ]

"Wow.."

Solan’s mouth opened into an O shape as he stared at the spot where the bone dragon had once been. The very creature that had required all of their strength just to distract had been erased in a single exchange. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

The veterans were clearly shaken by the feat, but for the black dragon, it was something far more terrifying.

It realized that no matter what it did, taking down someone who was the embodiment of death itself was impossible.

The massive black dragon quickly reverted back to its Aurax form under everyone’s gaze and, without hesitation, turned its back and blasted away at full speed, abandoning all pride.

The Vereenas reacted immediately when they saw it attempt to flee.

Liora took her shooting pose and aimed at its back. She fired a beam of energy that streaked through the air and struck the fleeing Aurax squarely, causing it to crash violently into the ground and tumble uncontrollably across the ruined earth.

’Damn it!’ it cursed inwardly.

It forced itself back onto its feet, drawing on every last reserve of power as its body regenerated at a rapid rate, and resumed fleeing without looking back.

Solan transformed into a wisp of inferno and surged forward, catching up quickly.

However, just as he reverted to his original form to intercept it, a sudden surge of energy erupted from the Aurax, blasting him backward and sending him flying through the air.

While the Vereenas rushed to catch him and stabilize his fall, Marlon remained floating in the sky, unmoving.

His eyes tilted toward Nox, who was still seated and unbothered.

The black-haired Vereena heaved a quiet sigh and lazily stretched his hand in the direction of the fleeing foe. A shadow pit formed directly beneath the Aurax, swallowing him with irresistible force before vanishing as though it had never existed.

Moments later, the shadow pit reopened beneath the very spot where Marlon was floating, and the Aurax was spat out onto the battlefield.

A look of pure fear spread across its face as it saw Marlon and the looming projection of death behind him.

The Aurax, once fierce and composed, who had tormented Marlon in silence and wreaked havoc across several cities, the being who had commanded an army of feared dragons, was now reduced to a trembling weakling in Marlon’s presence.

Marlon gazed down at him with cold contempt, and that gaze alone intensified the trembling.

The instinct to escape rose once more in the Aurax’s heart, and it tried to move.

But the moment it shifted one foot forward, Orion cast another mental freeze upon it, locking it in place. Its eyes wandered frantically, its face tensed, its soul screamed in panic, yet its body refused to obey.

Marlon descended slowly until he stood directly before it.

With a telepathic command, he instructed the clone holding the dead feral Aurax to toss it forward. The corpse landed heavily beside the frozen one, and the two collapsed together on the broken ground.

"How do you feel being the one on the ground?" Marlon asked coldly.

"How do you feel being the weakling, being the one who has to fight or flee for survival?"

"How do you feel being submissive to the race you so despise?"

Marlon asked question after question, yet the two Aurax could not respond.

The feral Aurax was technically dead, only its soul lingering to witness the helpless end of its colleague. While its body rotted and deteriorated, its eyes remained open, reddened with tears filled with sorrow, pain, damnation, and helplessness.

Marlon observed their expressions without a flicker of emotion. His own face remained stoic, displaying nothing but cold detachment.

He stood above them, feeling that overwhelming sense of dominance over one’s enemies.

Yet nothing felt complete.

He had lost all his friends.

Countless hunters and millions of humans had died because of the Aurax and their monstrous companions.

Entire cities had fallen.

At least a quarter of Arden was now a shadow of its former self, reduced to rubble and grief.

Everything that had happened had left the world, and his own heart, in ruins.

Wounds like these would take years to heal, if there was even enough time before the Planet Eater arrived to devour what remained.

Marlon lifted his head toward the darkening sky. Evening was approaching, and the sun’s radiance had dimmed, casting long shadows across the devastated land.

He exhaled slowly and clenched his fist.

Then, with a casual vertical punch, he unleashed an Absolute Death Strike, killing the last Aurax.

This time he did not seek satisfaction in delaying their end. He allowed both of them to corrode and disappear from the surface of the shattered world.

A series of notifications appeared, including the one he had long wished for.

[ You’ve slain x1 Aurax, EXP +51,000,000 ]

[ Level up ]

[ Level 250 -----> Level 251 ]

[ You’ve broken through ]

[ You’ve entered A-rank and become a Guardian ]

[ Your system will now undergo a small change. You will be informed once the change is completed ]

[ Death Reaper active. You’ve obtained 9,500,000 Aether Points and 12,000,000 Health Points ]

[ Aether Points: 5,000,000 / 5,000,000 ]

[ Aether Points capacity has risen to maximum. Enter S-rank to upgrade further. ]

[ Health Points: 1,000,000 / 1,000,000 ]

[ Health Points capacity has risen to maximum. Enter S-rank to upgrade further. ]

[ You’ve slain x1 Aurax, EXP +53,000,000 ]

.... ... ..

Marlon felt the transformation within his body, sensing the surge of power settling into his veins, yet his emotions had grown too dull to feel the excitement he normally would have.

He simply stood there in silence, watching the drifting clouds with the same cold expression on his face.

Was this the end?

He wondered.