Chapter 75: The Vessel Awakens – The Fall of the Black Gull’s Leader


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    The void shattered around me.


    One moment, I stood before the eldritch throne.


    The next, I was back in the Black Spire.


    Back in the battle.


    My team was struggling.


    Darius was locked in a brutal melee, his shield cracked, his breath ragged.


    Iris fought like a storm of blades, but even she was slowing, exhaustion creeping in.


    Zephyr and Raika had pushed to the ritual site, but the enemy forces were too many.


    And the Black Gull’s leader still stood—untouched, unbothered.


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    "You cannot stop the inevitable."


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    His abyssal energy swelled, forming a spear of pure oblivion.


    He raised it, preparing to end everything.


    Then—


    I appeared behind him.


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    The Unstoppable Strike


    He barely had time to react before I drove my fist through his chest.


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    Not with abyssal power.


    Not with Rift energy.


    But with something purer.


    Something older.


    Golden light erupted from my hands, burning through his form like a collapsing star.


    His mask cracked.


    His voice, once so certain, now shook with fear.


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    "W-What… have you… become?!"


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    I leaned in, my voice calm, absolute.


    "Something you should’ve never challenged."


    Then, I ripped my arm free—


    And his body disintegrated.


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    The Ritual Ends – The Vessel Awakens


    The moment the Black Gull’s leader fell, the entire Spire shook.


    The cultists screamed, their connection to the abyss severed.


    The Rift energy that had threatened to rewrite me collapsed in on itself.


    But the power?


    It didn’t vanish.


    It flowed into me.


    The System flared, not in warning—


    But in acceptance.


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    [NEW CLASS ACQUIRED: VESSEL OF THE OLD ONES.]


    [You are no longer just a Summoner. You are a conduit. A being through which the Primordial Forces now speak.]


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    A wave of knowledge flooded my mind.


    The whispers of things beyond mortal comprehension.


    Not to control me.


    Not to consume me.


    But to serve me.


    I was no longer a pawn in the abyss.


    I was its master.


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    The Aftermath


    The battlefield fell silent.


    The cultists who hadn’t fled were crushed beneath my gaze.


    My team stood, staring at me—some in awe, some in horror.


    Iris swallowed. "Tatsuya… what are you now?"


    Lilith purred, stepping beside me. "Oh, my darling~ You are magnificent."


    I exhaled, feeling the raw power coursing through me.


    The Black Gull had tried to reshape me.


    Instead, I had transcended them.


    And now?


    I was going to rewrite the world in my own way.