Ghorrath shifted.
Twenty feet of fused corpses and necrotic muscle moved as one, producing a deep, guttural groan that was difficult to describe. The sound seemed to come from hundreds of throats at once, each corpse contributing a different note to the unnatural noise.
Then one of the corpses embedded in Ghorrath’s shoulder stirred.
Its head lifted slowly, and its jaws creaked open.
A stream of incomprehensible words spilled from its lips as it whispered an incantation, while another corpse fused into Ghorrath’s abdomen began casting an ability of its own, sending blue energy spreading throughout its giant body... probably some kind of protection.
The fight was about to begin.
Kael didn’t give Ghorrath the opportunity to finish preparing.
His boots exploded against the ground.
Bones shattered beneath his feet as he launched forward with tremendous momentum, his body rapidly becoming nothing more than a blur of motion. A streak of darkness tore across the barren battlefield, cutting through the sea of bones beneath the blood-red horizon.
Ghorrath’s chest suddenly split open.
A thick layer of fused corpses separated, revealing a glowing cavity buried deep within its torso.
Then it fired.
A wall of flame erupted from the cavity, expanding outward with enough heat to distort the air itself.
Kael saw it coming but he didn’t slow down.
Instead he shifted his posture, drawing upon the earth energy within his body as it surged toward his forearm. His arm hardened beneath the concentrated force, becoming as sturdy as a mountain.
At the same time, Kael activated Aura of Destruction.
Dark energy flickered around his body.
The moment he punched through the wall of flame, the two forces collided.
The Aura of Destruction tore into the fire’s very structure.
The flames began breaking apart as their composition rapidly decayed. Their heat vanished before they could even touch his armor, the once-raging inferno turning into cold, drifting soot that scattered behind him.
Kael didn’t even slow down.
He kept charging forward until he stood before the towering corpse golem.
His momentum hadn’t faded yet.
Kael planted one foot against Ghorrath’s massive knee.
Then he pushed.
The force launched him upward.
His body shot twenty feet into the air, carrying him toward the level of Ghorrath’s bloated face. Countless eyes were embedded within the mass of rotten flesh, some belonging to creatures that Kael couldn’t even identify.
He didn’t care.
His fist tightened.
The next instant, Kael brought it down like a hardened lance.
BOOM!
His fist smashed directly into one of Ghorrath’s primary eye sockets.
The surrounding bone shattered.
Several corpses were violently knocked loose from the impact, tumbling away from the creature’s face as fragments of bone and rotten flesh exploded outward.
At the same time, Aura of Destruction penetrated the wound.
It immediately began eating away at the structure holding the creature together.
The effect was particularly potent against Ghorrath.
The creature was already an unstable fusion of countless different existences. Their bodies had been stitched together through necromancy and Existence Cramming, forcing incompatible structures to coexist within a single body.
That instability worked perfectly in Kael’s favor.
Once the Aura of Destruction began attacking the structure, the damage spread through the already-compromised connections.
Ghorrath’s face buckled.
Dark ichor sprayed outward in a thick mist.
Yet the giant corpse golem didn’t let out any sound of pain. Instead, it simply retaliated.
Its enormous arm swung sideways.
The elongated limb tore through the air like a massive battering ram.
Kael was still suspended in mid-air.
He couldn’t dodge normally.
And he couldn’t afford to tank that attack either.
"Shadow Between Steps."
His body vanished.
The air behind him cracked from the sudden displacement as Kael bypassed the trajectory of the massive arm.
He reappeared beside Ghorrath’s temple.
He didn’t hesitate.
His elbow descended.
The strike was as sharp as a blade.
CRACK!
His elbow tore across Ghorrath’s jaw, smashing through layers of bone and rotten flesh.
The impact finally forced the massive corpse golem to stagger.
Its enormous body shifted backward.

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