Chapter: After 3.7 seconds, Azathoth was covered in wounds from Su Xiao's slashes, but it did not die.
Su Xiao was about to unleash "Blade Path: Azure Demon" but immediately stopped, because Azathoth made a very familiar motion, raising its palm upward as black energy gathered in its hand. Azathoth was manifesting the Dark Eye again.
Without consciousness, relying solely on instinct—this was Azathoth's greatest weakness.
Su Xiao naturally wouldn't stop the enemy's behavior. The Dark Eye was easy to destroy; as long as it was broken, Azathoth would be weakened for 3.7 seconds.
The battle became somewhat peculiar. Azathoth expressionlessly gathered the Dark Eye while Su Xiao waited not far away.
In less than two seconds, Azathoth reconjured the Dark Eye, and its health began to recover at an extremely abnormal rate.
Su Xiao pierced through space, appearing in front of the Dark Eye, and slashed out with his blade.
Crack~
The Dark Eye shattered. Azathoth, which had just been about to pounce on Su Xiao, directly sat down on the ground.
The blood on Su Xiao's body turned into a blood mist. The Blood Beast, formed by consuming his blood, lunged forward, clean and decisive.
The blood energy exploded. Su Xiao stepped forward quickly and delivered an upward slash. Just then, an unexpected change occurred. This time, Azathoth wasn't completely immobilized during its weakness.
Boom!
Azathoth's entire left arm exploded. Su Xiao's body leaned forward as he vanished from the spot. Blood-red "feathers" drifted down in midair as flesh fragments flew past. Su Xiao had used Blade Path: Blood Blade to evade this attack.
Pfft.
The long blade slashed across Azathoth's neck. As soon as the strike landed, Su Xiao stood on Azathoth's shoulder, driving the long blade into its head.
Pale blue electric arcs surged at the wound, plunging into Azathoth's skull. The high true damage demonstrated its lethality at this moment.
"Roar!"
Azathoth roared skyward. Su Xiao gripped his blade with both hands as dark blue smoke surged along the blade of Dragon-Slaying Flash. This was the execution effect of Demon Blade.
Azathoth's body suddenly stiffened, and finally crashed to the ground with a thunderous thud.
Su Xiao stepped on Azathoth's massive head with one foot, slowly pulling the long blade from the enemy's skull. The last ancient god in the Wizard World had been slain by him.
Blood dripped from the blade tip. The weather grew even clearer. Fluorescent green light spots appeared, floating around Su Xiao before settling on his body surface.
Su Xiao's remaining 19% health gradually recovered. Indeed, if he had been injured by Azathoth again just now, he would have died. That was how battle worked—sometimes, the more afraid you were of death, the faster you died. In that situation, rashly using a recovery potion would only have allowed Azathoth to seize the opportunity and crush Su Xiao in an extremely short time.
When Su Xiao's health recovered past half, he received a notification from Reincarnation Paradise.
[The Hunter has received the blessing of this world. While the Hunter is within this world, they will be recognized as a 'World Guardian.']
[Within this world, the 'World Guardian' possesses absolute 'World Element Affinity.']
[Your Health Points have been permanently increased by 1000 points.]
[Your Luck Attribute has been permanently increased by 2 points.]
[The Hunter's World Affinity has greatly increased. Charm Attribute has been permanently increased by 20 points.]
[Warning: Due to the Hunter's aura, Charm Attribute is about to decline!]
[Warning: Charm Attribute has declined to 20 points!]
[Warning: Charm Attribute has declined to 19 points...]
[Warning: Charm Attribute has declined to 1 point!]
[Judging... Charm Attribute has stopped declining.]
...
Seeing the notification from Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao's cheek twitched slightly. He checked his own Charm Attribute—it was still 1 point, but it had changed from black-red to blood-red. This was a significant improvement.
Clearly, a mere permanent 20-point Charm Attribute bonus couldn't save Su Xiao's Charm Attribute. This also made him realize just how tenacious that last 1 point of Charm was. Or perhaps, when Charm reached negative values, there was some kind of benefit?
Otherwise, that last bit of Charm was far too stubborn. After adding 20 points of Charm, that final 1 point only recovered from black-red to blood-red.
[The Hunter has slain Dark Source: Azathoth.]
[Recovered 778 ounces of Space-Time Power.]
[The Hunter has recovered all Space-Time Power!]
[You have obtained 19.7% of the World Source.]
[You have obtained 307 Soul Coins. You may exchange them for any desired rewards from the following list. If the Hunter does not make a selection within five minutes, the Soul Coins will be materialized.]
[Current number of Soul Coins: 429]