Sam started to teleport, knowing full well that this could be his end. He flickered across the sky, leaving a trail of Dao energy in his wake. As he moved, he pumped his power into his hammer, causing it to glow with a blinding light. As Sky Splitting Vengeance came into play, he quickly found his weapon begin to vibrate dangerously in his hand.
A few teleports later, he had reached the Titan’s head. With a roar of rage, he brought the weapon down onto the golden surface of the monster, letting its charge loose. Teleporting away, he watched as a nova of light blasted through the Titan’s head, causing it to stumble. It looked up at him, two glowing eyes seeming to judge his soul as they stared. A massive hand came flying towards him, and he teleported out of the way. As long as his Dao reserves were there, he was able to fly, in a twisted sort of way.
Gathering up energy for another strike, he came flashing in, loosing another detonation of pure energy onto his enemy. He was deliberately limiting the power of the skill, so as to save energy. Still, he only had another two strikes before he was out.
Sam teleported in and out, narrowly avoiding the powerful blows from the Titan. Despite its massive size, it was easily as fast as he was, and only the length that its limbs had to travel made it possible for him to dodge. As his strikes landed, he could feel the monster starting to flag. After taking the entire payload of a city’s worth of artillery, the creature was beginning to lose its energy. Sam’s attacks were only the cherry on the top.
Eventually, he ran out of power, and started to fall. He angled himself away from the Titan, but it was too little, too late. The hand came crashing down, and Sam hurriedly triggered all of his enhancements as he fell. As his body swelled with power, the hand flattened him into the ground. A wave of heat roasted his flesh as the hand struck, and he screamed in agony. However, he was not dead yet.
As he struck the ground, he began to channel his healing skill, every second that it took feeling like an eternity. Luckily, the Titan seemed to think that he had died, as it kept on tramping forwards. Sam drew from his elemental energy reserves, repairing his body with the power of Earth. As his wounds started to knit back together, he got to his feet, waiting for his energy reserves to recharge. In the area around the Titan, it felt like a sauna, even to him.
A heat haze lay across the land, and the charred footsteps of the monster were sunk dozens of feet into the ground. If not for its incorporeal nature, those footsteps would have been far deeper. The Corpse Titan had left ones hundreds of feet deep.
Sam charged towards the feet of the Titan, eking out every last bit of power that he could find. He had a significant amount of free stat points, and he would potentially be able to cross some of his thresholds with them. Both Resilience and Dexterity were close enough to be pushed through to the next threshold. The only thing stopping him from doing it was the fact that he would be out of the fight for a bit. However, as the Titan’s form grew ever distant, he realized that he did not have a choice.
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With a roar, fueled by the pain he knew was to come, he slotted in the requisite points. As his body began to twist and change, Sam fought through the pain, and kept running. For a period of time, he knew nothing beyond the agony in his body and the tumbling stride that he was taking, working around the lack of muscle control that his thresholds caused.
After some time, when his ruined body knitted itself back together, he came to. He felt powerful, far more than before. He flashed across the ground, his new speed propelling him at incredible velocity towards his target. He refrained from allocating any more of his stat points, and pushed the notifications from the System to the side. Those could wait. He needed to get used to his power first. He had a Titan to kill.
Sam flew across the ground like a wraith, his feet barely touching it. With the combination of his strength and his speed, he broke the sound barrier multiple times over. His hammer felt like an actual bolt of lightning as it screeched through the air next to him, and the head actually started to glow as the air around it heated up. The wind rushed by his ears in a constant torrent, sounding like a hurricane was bearing down on him. The world seemed to tunnel in front of him, and his viewpoint was skewed. However, he ignored all of this, focusing on the monster in front of him.
The Solar Titan was in the process of raising one mighty fist, preparing to bring it down on the wall. The plasma moat did nothing to it, as would be expected, and it simply strode across it. As its foot touched the wall, the metal started to heat up, but it remained solid for now. When the fist came down, that would all change. Sam started to teleport rapidly, ascending towards the monster in a matter of milliseconds. He could teleport as fast as he could think, and with his new speed, he could think very rapidly indeed.
Reaching the monster’s head, he summoned all of his newfound might and brought his hammer crashing down dozens of times in the span of a second, imbuing each strike with Dao energy. To the titan, it felt like hundreds of fists were crashing down on its head. The monster tilted its head towards Sam, and roared, the noise propelling him backwards on the bow wave of heat that it produced. He simply teleported through it, and raised his hammer high. As his roiling power began to course into the weapon, he let his speed dictate his movements. The Titan started to wind up a punch, but Sam now saw it moving in slow motion. With all the time in the world, he dove down, and into the Titan’s mouth.
His Resilience was the only thing keeping him alive, and even then, it felt like he had walked into an oven. It was painful, but not the end of the world. His body was quickly covered in burns, but he had felt worse. To his surprise, the flesh of the Titan was solid in nature, just incredibly light. He walked along the golden tongue, and continued to gather up power within his hammer. The Titan seemed perplexed, not sure where he had gone. Likely, it assumed that he was already dead. He could feel the monster turning back towards the city walls. He only had one shot at this.