He had 115 stat points available, enough to get a sizeable boost in any stat, especially if he used the multiplier to his advantage. Grinning through bloodstained teeth, he slammed the points home, splitting them between Strength and Resilience. Strength to empower his strikes, and Resilience to allow him to survive the devastating hits of the Titan. 95 stat points went into both stats, filling his body with power and durability.
Roaring in rage, he teleported, whipping his hammer around as he did so. Expanding to its full size, the weapon blazed with concentrated Dao Energy and purified mana. Both energies condensed into a nexus of power, before detonating dramatically. Sam was blasted backwards, but most of the energy was channeled into the Titan, who had foolishly chosen to block with an upraised arm.
Sky Splitting Vengeance was a skill that took a toll on Sam as well as his enemy, especially with the upgrade to his Dao. However, he was just barely able to stay in fighting condition with his boost to Resilience. His body was flayed apart as searing heat bypassed his armor, heating his skin to a cherry red. However, he pushed past the pain, channeling his Dao to get him through.
The Titan skipped along the ground like a stone, its body battered and broken. However, it regenerated at a visible rate, as its chaotic form moved ever closer to stability. Sam tried to chase the monster down, but trying to teleport in his current state would overtax his energy reserves.
Instead, he watched as his allies engaged the monster for the first time, taking advantage of its weakened state. Waves of lightning mingled with spears of light as Talnor and Eduardo took point, battering the monster into the ground. The others stayed back, barraging it with their ranged attacks. Unfortunately, they were far too weak to do much to the Chaotic Titan, save for tie it down for a few moments.
That time allowed Sam and the Overlord to recover, and they chased after the reeling Titan, their bodies glowing with the light of their Daos. The creature roared in rage, expelling a blastwave of chaotic light that lifted Sam’s weaker allies off their feet and high into the air. With rage blazing within its crimson eyes, the Titan surged off the ground, turning the sand to glass in its wake.
Footsteps formed faster than Sam could track, and before he could even teleport, a massive fist clotheslined him at many times the speed of sound. A thunderous shockwave ran through his body, causing his muscles to ripple and tear. Luckily, the attack was a lot more distributed than a straight on punch, and he only broke a few bones. However there was a far worse consequence.
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Stunned, he hurtled backwards at thousands of miles per hour, rapidly leaving his allies behind. He was too dazed to think, and by the time he had the wherewithal to teleport out of his predicament, he was already a dozen miles away. Because his teleportation relied on him seeing the Dao particles in the atmosphere to teleport, it was strictly line of sight, and a dune blocked his way.
The few seconds that he spent bypassing the obstacle only allowed him to get into position to watch the Titan utterly devastating the defenses of his allies. Eduardo lay out flat upon the sand, his left arm missing. Talnor desperately parried blows with his katana, only surviving because the Titan was playing with him. The only one still able to fight was the Overlord, whose entire form was limned in reddish light as he ducked and weaved around half speed punches from the Titan. So far, only Sam had tanked a full power attack. Lao and Jeffrey were still attacking from range, but their strikes were barely doing anything.
Sam desperately closed the distance, screaming in rage as he went. The Titan looked up with a smug smile on its ever shifting face.
“Now that you bask in the weakness of your allies and yourself, do you finally wish to bow to my power before I grant you a merciful death?”
“I do not,” Sam replied, before he seized control over his Dao heritage and mastery, channeling the raw might of Existence into himself.
Shafts of blindingly bright light transfixed his body, and his power shot to immense levels. The sand beneath his feet turned to glass as he erupted forwards, before bringing his hammer down with full force. His body burned with agonizing pain as Dao Juggernaut filled him with godlike power, but he had no other option. The humanoid form of the Titan was just too powerful for anything else.
A shockwave like a nuclear blast went off as Sam’s effective strength in the thousands blasted the air and sand away for fifty feet in every direction. Power played across his body as he battered the Titan into submission, sending it rocketing into the stratosphere with an uppercut from his hammer. To his horror, the monster grinned as it shot upwards, still aware.
As he teleported upwards, it punched down, sending a lance of light to meet his incoming strike. Despite his massive power boost, the Titan was still an E Ranker. To his surprise, a shield of red light blocked the attack, deflecting it away. The Overlord stood beside him, on a platform of red light, his body exuding a bloody red mist. His eyes shone like pits of primal fury and arrogance, and horns graced his head, ephemeral and imposing.
“Sam Atlas will fall to my hand, and mine alone,” he intoned, his voice filled with rage. “Until then, he shall remain alive.”
It looked like the Overlord was pulling out all the stops as well. Both men struck in unison, their attacks more like concepts than physical motions, so richly imbued with the light of their Daos. The Titan roared, expelling a vast emanation of pure chaos. However, it slid off of Sam’s Dao mastery, too weak to gain a foothold. A moment later, the Titan exploded in a pillar of light, sending shockwaves across the sky.