The Orc King’s roar rolled across the forest like thunder breaking the sky.

  More than sixty orcs surged forward behind him, weapons raised, eyes burning with bloodlust. The ground trembled beneath their charge.

  For a split second, tension froze the battlefield.

  Then Kaito stepped forward.

  His voice was calm.

  Clear.

  Absolute.

  “Crimson Blade will handle the Orc King.”

  Silver Dawn’s leader looked at him sharply. “Are you certain?”

  Kaito didn’t take his eyes off the towering monster ahead. “Keep the army off us. Leave the King to us.”

  Renna’s lips curved into a confident grin, flames already beginning to coil faintly around her sword.

  Serena lifted her staff, wind gathering at its tip.

  The Orc King stomped once, splitting the earth, and let out another roar—this one commanding his army forward.

  Kaito didn’t move.

  “Now.”

  Serena thrust her staff forward.

  “Storm Tyrant Cannon!”

  A compressed spiral of wind burst from the tip of her staff, the air twisting violently as it surged across the battlefield. The blast struck the Orc King square in the chest with explosive force.

  For a creature of such size, he moved far faster than expected—but not fast enough.

  The blast hurled him backward, uprooting trees as his massive body crashed through trunks and rock before skidding to a halt on the far side of the clearing.

  “Go!” Kaito shouted.

  Crimson Blade charged.

  Behind them, Silver Dawn formed a defensive wall against the orc horde, Shadow Fang disappeared into the trees, and Storm Breaker clashed head-on with roaring brutes.

  But in the center—

  The Orc King.

  Unharmed.

  Furious.

  Kaito’s boots dug into the soil as he accelerated, blade gleaming.

  “Mountain Titan Spike!”

  He drove his sword downward.

  The earth answered.

  A massive stone spike erupted from beneath the Orc King’s left leg, impaling upward with crushing force. Rock exploded outward as the jagged pillar pierced through armor and into flesh.

  The Orc King staggered.

  A deep bellow escaped him as his balance faltered.

  “Serena!”

  “Ice Chain!”

  Dozens of glowing blue sigils flared across the ground around the King. From each sigil burst thick chains of enchanted ice, snapping forward like serpents. They wrapped around his torso, arms, and wounded leg in rapid succession, frost spreading across black armor.

  For a moment—

  He was bound.

  Frozen.

  Immobile.

  Renna’s eyes gleamed.

  But then—

  The Orc King’s muscles tensed and it eyes turn red.

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  A violent crimson aura erupted from his body.

  The air itself seemed to distort.

  With one brutal swing of his axe......

  CRACK.

  The Mountain Titan Spike shattered into fragments.

  The ice chains exploded into glittering shards.

  The shockwave alone forced Crimson Blade to slide backward several meters.

  The Orc King roared.

  Not in pain.

  In rage.

  He charged.

  Renna stepped forward, flames erupting from her blade.

  “Dragon Execution!”

  A colossal crimson dragon manifested behind her, its scales formed of pure flame. Renna’s short blonde hair whipped upward, her bright green eyes igniting with blazing light.

  The dragon coiled around her as she raised her sword and pointed it at the Orc King.

  “Destroy.”

  The dragon launched forward in a streak of crimson lightning, jaws wide, heat scorching the battlefield.

  The Orc King did not retreat.

  He planted his foot.

  Aura erupted from him like a storm.

  He swung his axe.

  The axe cut through the dragon’s flaming body.

  For a heartbeat, the dragon froze mid-air then it split in two.

  The halves detonated in a fiery explosion.

  The shockwave hurled Renna backward.

  Kaito caught her before she crashed into a tree.

  Serena stared in disbelief.

  “This… is impossible.”

  The Orc King stood amidst smoke and flame.

  Barely injured.

  Kaito’s voice snapped like a blade.

  “Don’t space out!”

  The Orc King charged again.

  This time, Kaito stepped forward alone.

  He raised his right hand.

  Closed his eyes.

  The battlefield noise faded.

  The clash of steel.

  The screams.

  The crackling flames.

  Silence.

  Then—

  A violent crimson aura erupted from his body.

  The ground fractured beneath his feet, cracks spreading outward like lightning veins.

  Behind him, a colossal Flame Dragon manifested—larger than Renna’s—its body made of dense, concentrated inferno. It roared silently, shaking the air itself.

  A two-meter fire lance condensed into Kaito’s hand, flames compressed so tightly they burned white at the core.

  He opened his eyes.

  They glowed.

  “Crimson Lance Judgment.”

  He took three slow steps forward.

  Then he threw the lance.

  The weapon transformed into a blazing comet, tearing through the air with a sonic boom. The Flame Dragon roared and surged behind it, spiraling forward as if guiding its trajectory.

  The Orc King swung his axe with terrifying precision.

  The axe met the lance midair.

  For an instant—

  Everything froze.

  Then the world exploded.

  A shockwave ripped across the forest, trees snapping like twigs. A pillar of fire shot skyward.

  Renna braced herself against the blast.

  Serena raised a barrier of compressed wind.

  Smoke cleared.

  The Orc King stood—

  Burned.

  Armor cracked.

  Breathing heavier.

  But alive.

  Renna rose slowly, eyes blazing.

  “Then let’s cut you down.”

  She lifted her sword high into the sky close her eyes then her hair glow and her body release an killing intent aura for a few second renna open her eyes then

  “Crimson Sword Judgment!”

  Above the Orc King, a five-meter crimson blade formed in the heavens, forged of pure destructive flame. It radiated unbearable heat, its presence warping the air.

  The Orc King looked up.

  His instincts screamed.

  He tried to dodge—

  But the blade was too vast.

  Renna slammed her sword downward.

  The colossal crimson blade descended like divine punishment.

  It struck.

  The explosion flattened the surrounding area.

  When the fire cleared—

  The Orc King’s left arm and left leg were gone.

  Severed cleanly.

  Black blood poured onto the earth.

  He fell to one knee.

  For the first time—

  He roared in agony.

  But before Crimson Blade could finish him—

  A new voice echoed across the battlefield.

  Deep.

  Resonant.

  Ancient.

  “Hellstar… Annihilation.”

  The sky darkened.

  Everyone froze.

  High above the battlefield—

  A dark red meteor formed.

  It burned like a miniature sun, swirling with violent flame, radiating destructive energy far beyond anything the Orc King had displayed.

  Kaito’s eyes widened.

  “That’s not him…”

  The meteor grew larger.

  Hotter.

  If it landed directly—

  It would erase everything.

  “Retreat!” Kaito shouted. “All units retreat!”

  Crimson Blade retreated to the edge of the clearing.

  The meteor descended.

  Faster.

  Faster.

  Then—

  Impact.

  The explosion swallowed the Orc King whole.

  A 200-meter inferno blossomed outward like a second sun being born on earth.

  Trees vaporized.

  The ground liquefied.

  Kaito Stand in front of Renna and Serena then

  “Titan Mountain Wall!”

  A massive stone barrier erupted upward in front of the retreating adventurers but the titan earth wall is melting then kaito

  “Serena do something”

  Then Serena raised her staff.

  “Wind Storm!”

  A violent cyclone formed, redirecting waves of flame upward into the sky, lessening the impact on the fleeing parties.

  Even so, the heat was unbearable.

  For several minutes—

  The world was fire.

  Then—

  Silence.

  The explosion faded.

  The forest was gone.

  Reduced to burning ruin.

  Charred earth stretched in every direction.

  The Orc King’s body lay at the center of the crater.

  Completely obliterated.

  Renna exhaled shakily. “What… was that spell?”

  Serena’s voice trembled. “That wasn’t the Orc King.”

  The ground trembled again.

  Not from an explosion.

  From footsteps.

  Heavy.

  Measured.

  Deliberate.

  Heat intensified.

  A low growl vibrated through the air.

  From within the smoke—

  Three shapes emerged.

  One leonine.

  One draconic.

  One serpentine.

  Lava veins glowed beneath darkened scales.

  The Inferno Chimera stepped forward, towering over the battlefield.

  Its eyes locked onto Crimson Blade.

  Recognition flickered within them.

  The dragon head exhaled a plume of flame.

  The serpent hissed.

  The lion growled deeply.

  It had come down from the mountain.

  Drawn by the meteor.

  Or perhaps—

  It had cast it.

  Renna swallowed.

  “You’ve got to be kidding me…”

  Serena’s grip tightened around her staff.

  Kaito stepped forward.

  Despite exhaustion.

  He did not step back.

  The Chimera’s three heads roared in unison.

  The ground cracked beneath its weight.

  The air burned.

  And in the distance, the remaining adventurers stared in horror.

  One of three Strongest S-rank calamity now stood before them.

  And Crimson Blade was closest.

  Kaito raised his sword once more.

  “Get ready.”

  The true storm had arrived.

  To be continued… ??