All Chapters of Solo Ascension: Chapter 21
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Trial of Demigod
Day 58 in the Aokigahara Rift.The silence of the ancient dungeon was a product of extinction. Damon Silverstar walked through the grey fog. His boots made no sound against the rotting leaves. He didn't need to suppress his mana anymore, Jubei’s Flow had become as natural to him as breathing. He was a ghost walking through a graveyard of his own making.[System Notice: You have entered the deepest sector of the Rift.][Miasma toxicity is at maximum. S-Rank Vitality required for survival.]Damon casually wiped a streak of black monster blood from his cheek. Over the last month, he had turned the unregulated S-Rank zone into a slaughterhouse. He had hunted Wendigos, Shadow Panthers, and Abyssal Treants until the system stopped generating them.He was Level 74, and his Agility had breached 300. His Strength was high enough to crush diamond into powder barehanded. But more importantly, his mind was razor sharp.[The Goddess of Fate is resting her head on her hand, gazing at you.][Goddess
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The crimson light shattered like stained glass. Gravity hit Damon Silverstar with the force of a falling mountain. He was no longer standing in the courtyard of the ruined shrine. He was thirty thousand feet above in the air, plummeting at velocity toward a sprawling, prehistoric continent.The wind roared in his ears, tearing at his clothes. He looked around. The sky was a burning gold. Falling alongside him, scattered across miles of airspace, were ten thousand streaks of blue, silver, and green light. The Avatars of the Sovereign Gods were dropping into the warzone.Beneath them lay the Savage Lands. It was an untamed island continent. Damon saw tall, active volcanoes bleeding rivers of magma, jungles with trees the size of 10 floor buildings, and jagged obsidian canyons.[System Notice: You have entered the Savage Lands Domain.][Participant Count: 10,000.][Global Broadcast is now live to the Sovereign Pantheon.]Most of the Avatars falling from the sky were frantically casting l
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High above, in the starry halls of the Sovereign Pantheon, the Gods of War, Magic, and Death were undoubtedly watching the broadcast in stunned silence. They had sent their Avatars to hunt a boy. They didn't realize the Goddess of Fate had slipped a fully ascended monster into their mortal arena.The crimson screen flashed, filling his vision with bright red text.[The Goddess of Fate is laughing psychotically!][Goddess of Fate]: YES! TEAR THEM APART! SHOW THEM YOUR HANDS COVERED IN BLOOD![Goddess of Fate]: They look like insects next to you! You are perfect! Perfect! Perfect![The Goddess of Fate has donated 50,000,000 Karma Points!]Damon closed his eyes, waiting for her text to fade so he could see the jungle again. "Calm down," he muttered. "They were just lizards."[Goddess of Fate]: I do not care. I love watching you move. I love watching you breathe.[Goddess of Fate]: But Damon... wipe your hands. You are getting dirty, and... someone is watching you.Damon’s eyes snapped op
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The jungle was terrifyingly silent. The ambient sounds of the Savage Lands, the screeching of prehistoric birds, the rustling of massive insects had vanished, suffocated by the sheer killing intent pouring from the heavens.Elara, the S-Rank Mage of the Silver Coalition, was on her knees. Her beautiful face was pale and contorted in agony as she clawed at her own throat. The two A-Rank Tanks beside her were already unconscious, their bodies shutting down under the divine pressure.Damon Silverstar stood over her, the massive Severance of Destiny humming in his right hand. The crimson blade cast a bloody, shifting light across the dark foliage."W-Why...?" Elara choked out, blood dripping from her nose. She looked up at him, her piercing blue eyes filled with incomprehensible despair. "We just... asked for help..."Damon looked down at her. He felt a distant pang of pity. She was just a hunter trying to survive a rigged game. She didn't know that the cosmic board they were playing on w
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BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!A cloud of fire and smoke engulfed the canyon entrance. The ground shook from the bombardment. The Avatars inside the camp cheered, lowering their weapons. Nothing could survive a volley from fifty S-Rank mages.The crimson screen hovered patiently in the smoke.[The Goddess of Fate is resting her chin on her hand, looking bored.][Goddess of Fate]: They threw firecrackers at a dragon. How embarrassing.As the smoke slowly cleared, the cheering abruptly stopped. Damon Silverstar was still standing there. His hand was still resting against the barrier. The Embrace of the Goddess of Fate hadn't even sung. The Mythic threads pulsed softly, having absorbed and neutralized the magical impact of the barrage.Damon looked up at the terrified commander through the transparent blue shield."My turn," Damon whispered.He simply pushed his Divine Strength into his left palm.CRACK!!The impenetrable S-Rank Aegis Barrier, designed to withstand the siege of a small army, shattere
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The hunt lasted for forty-two minutes. The jungle of the Savage Lands, usually echoing with the roars of apex predators and the frantic scurrying of prey, had fallen into an unnatural silence. Even the native SS-Rank beasts had fled the sector, their primal instincts screaming at them to evacuate the domain of the walking disaster.Damon Silverstar stood in the center of a muddy clearing, his chest rising and falling in measured breaths. At his feet lay the final survivor of the Silver Coalition. It was one of the A-Rank Tanks who had stood beside Elara at the canyon. The man’s silver armor was shattered, crushed inward by a devastating kick. He was crawling through the mud, dragging his paralyzed lower body, leaving a trail of dark blood behind him."Wait..." the Tank gurgled, blood bubbling past his lips. He reached a trembling, mud caked hand forward, clutching at the damp roots of a fern. "I... I yield. The system rules say... you can accept a surrender. I'll give you all my Karma
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Damon paused, looking up at the golden letters burning in the sky. A Catastrophe-Class Threat. It was a designation usually reserved for SSS-Rank boss monsters that required thousands of hunters to subjugate. The Gods were officially putting a target on his back, trying to use the greed of the remaining avatars to do what the Silver Coalition could not."Blood-Soaked Tyrant," Damon muttered, a cold smirk touching his lips. "Catchy."[Goddess of Fate]: Let them put bounties on you. Let them send their armies. It will only make the pile of corpses higher.[Goddess of Fate]: But do not let your guard down, Damon. The dogs of War and Death are still on this island. They are watching your broadcast. They are analyzing your Domain.Damon nodded slowly. He knew Silas and Gideon were out there. They wouldn't charge him like the Coalition did. They would wait. They would hunt.****Ten minutes later, Damon broke through the jungle canopy and stepped onto the rocky shore of a massive, flowing r
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The rocky shore of the prehistoric river ceased to exist in the realm. As Silas, the Avatar of Death, raised his jagged daggers, the light of the Savage Lands was devoured. The rushing water of the river turned pitch black, and the roaring sound of the rapids was muted, replaced by a suffocating silence.[System Warning: Hostile Domain 'The Silent Grave' has fully manifested!][Conceptual Law Enforced: Absolute Endings.][Warning: Host's Vitality is being passively drained by 1% per second.]Damon Silverstar stood in the center of the encroaching void. The Embrace of the Goddess of Fate thumped defensively, its crimson threads shimmering like hot iron, but the coat was designed to block magical and physical impacts. It could not block a conceptual law. The air Damon breathed was rotting his cells.Silas hovered an inch above the blackened stones, his bandaged form drifting like smoke.‘You are a Demigod of raw power, Damon Silverstar,’ Silas’s dry, rotting whisper echoed inside Damon’
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The sky above the Paradox Zone began to crack with crimson lightning."I SAID NO!" Damon roared, pouring his mana into the connection to block her. "I have it! I see the thread!"Damon forced himself to stand upright, dragging his rotting left leg. Jubei's lessons echoed in his mind. ‘Power without control is just a loud noise. Do not strike the weapon. Strike the concept.’Silas was hiding within the shadows, using them to destroy Damon's physical defenses. If the shadow was the medium for the attack, then the shadow was the weakness. Damon raised the Severance of Destiny. He didn't look for Silas in the darkness. He looked down at his own feet. He concentrated his Divine Mana into the crystallized blood blade, activating its terrifying property."Third Form," Damon whispered, his crimson eyes locking onto the dark silhouette attached to his boots. "The Sovereign's Guillotine."Damon swung the scythe downward, slicing precisely across the ground at his own heels. The razor thin cresc
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Fifty miles from the pulverized riverbank, at the jagged, smoking base of the Savage Lands' volcano, the Avatar of War was sweating. Gideon stood at the edge of a bubbling magma trench, staring up at the golden system sky. His blood red platinum armor, forged in the divine fires of his Sovereign, felt suffocatingly tight. He had just watched the broadcast. Every surviving Avatar on the continent had watched it.Silas was dead, and his domain, the Silent Grave, had been ripped apart from the inside. The anomaly had severed his own shadow to break the transfer, and then executed a Legendary Avatar with a single throw of a scythe."He absorbed the concept of necrosis," Gideon muttered, his voice trembling slightly. "The System gave him Silas' law."Behind Gideon, an encampment of over two thousand top tier Avatars stood in terrified silence. These were the elites. The Guild Masters, the S-Rank veterans, the Chosen of the minor Gods of Iron, Thunder, and Beasts. They had aligned with the