> [Boss: Crownless King – Health Pools Remaining: 4/6]
[Clone Echoes: All Destroyed]
[New Phase: No-Name God – System Devourer Form Active]
[Final Perk: "World Rewrite" Unlocked – May activate on 0/1 HP]
[Damnation Clock: 6 Turns Remaining]
[Battlefield: Core Collapse Zone – Gravity: x3 – Logic: Distorted – Respawn: Disabled]
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The sky had shattered. Stars bled.
They were no longer standing on earth, stone, or metal.
They stood on forgotten code—broken system commands looping endlessly beneath their feet like a cursed scripture.
The Crownless King hovered above, its form no longer bound to humanoid shape. Its arms had stretched into jagged timelines. Its eyes had become black holes.
> "I WAS NEVER GIVEN A NAME… SO I TOOK ALL OF YOURS."
Every time it moved, something disappeared—letters from names, stats from windows, memories from minds.
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Phase I – The First Fall
Jayce charged in first, golden wheels blazing across the shattered sky. The Golden Ice Cream Truck had fused once more—now plated in obsidian and leaving trails of cosmic frost.
> [Vehicle Fusion: "Comedic Cataclysm – Rolling Fate Engine"]
[Effect: Every attack forces a system roll with unpredictable outcomes.]
[Critical Effect Triggered: 00 – Double Effect Multiplier – "Joke so good it bends fate."]
He hit the King dead on.
For one second, the boss laughed. The entire world stuttered—code split. And Jayce leapt inside the broken laugh, driving his fist into the King's cracked jaw.
But then it retaliated—with silence.
Jayce's voice was taken. His luck stat was halved permanently.
> [Jayce's Fate Buff reduced from Mythic to Legendary.]
[Injury: System Burn – Can no longer reroll critical failures.]
He dropped to one knee, giving the others a trembling thumbs up.
"Still funny," he mouthed.
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Phase II – The Second Fall
Kuro unleashed his last hidden blade art:
> [Skill: "Moonlight Guillotine – Shadow Exile"]
[Effect: Sacrifice all known memories to empower the next ten strikes. Each hit reduces enemy divine resistance.]
[Cost: Kuro forgets every loved one for the next 24 hours.]
He moved like death incarnate.
Slash. Slash. Slash.
Each cut tore open a wound in reality. Blood didn't spill—data did. System particles burst from the Crownless King as Kuro went faster than time.
But when the tenth strike landed…
The King stabbed back.
Not with a weapon.
With history.
> [Kuro's system history overwritten: All past battles forgotten. Skill progression wiped.]
His screen blinked:
Level 3. Name: ???. Memory: None.
He collapsed, smiling through blood.
"…worth it."
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Phase III – The Third Fall
Ria soared.
She unleashed her last angelic system override:
> [Talent Evolution: "Ashlight Sovereign"]
[Effect: Sacrifice half your remaining lifespan to burn away divine immunity.]
[Bonus: One sentence spoken will be made absolute truth.]
She screamed into the void.
"You will feel regret!"
For the first time—the King flinched.
It felt something. A fragment of pain slipped into its heartless void.
But it reacted with an ability none of them had seen before.
> [Crownless King's Final Defense: "Emotion Devourer"]
[Effect: Consume strongest emotion felt in last 10 seconds.]
[Effect Consumed: Ria's Hope.]
Her light dimmed. Her feathers turned grey. She crashed beside Kuro.
And she cried.
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Phase IV – The Fourth Fall
Lian stood alone.
He activated his Fate Glitcher fusion talent, using its one charge:
> [Ability: Rewrite One Fate – Cost: One core identity must be permanently sacrificed.]
He rewrote the King's next attack—to miss.
It worked.
But the cost…
His panel flickered:
> [Name: Unknown. Personality Anchor: Erased. Identity Memory: Dissolving…]
He fell to his knees, whispering words that no longer had emotion behind them.
"Please… someone remember me when it's over."
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Phase V – Final Core Emergence
The Crownless King pulsed, its body broken, leaking corrupted power.
> [Health Pools: 1/6]
[Core Exposed – Final Weakness: Unstable Memory Construct]
[Trigger Event: "All Sacrifices Accepted – Endgame Begins"]
A massive core emerged, glowing with system tears. Every time it pulsed, more of reality blinked out—buildings vanished, trees became numbers, even the sun was now a system placeholder: [LIGHT01].
Jayce dragged himself forward.
Ria, still crying, stood again.
Kuro—blank-eyed—followed.
Lian… stumbled, nameless, but still upright.
They all reached the center together.
> [Combined Attack Ready: "No Crown, No God – Team Finish"]
[Cost: ???]
The screen went white.
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To Be Continued in Chapter 91: