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My Charity System made me too OP-Chapter 274: Typhoon Sea Rift IV
The air around the reef disc thickened as the temperature surged unnaturally, steam hissing from cracks that hadn't been there moments ago. The sea itself turned from deep blue to a reddish glow, like blood diluted in boiling water.
From the east, the Infernal Maw emerged in full.
Its body was an armor-plated leviathan, serpentine and brutal. Magma bled from its segmented scales like sweat, and four molten heads twisted in different directions—each screaming with jet bursts of volcanic flame. As it swam, coral instantly turned to ash. Stone hissed, bubbled, and melted. The sheer heat from its presence distorted the very shape of the water.
[BOSS APPROACHING: INFERNAL MAW OF THE DEEP VOLCANO]
Attributes: Massive HP Pool | Magma Surge Attacks | Volcanic Pressure Field | Head Regeneration (Limited)
Battle Terrain: Molten Reef – Heat Level Increasing Per Turn
"Positions!" Leon snapped. "No hesitation—hit it hard, hit it fast. Break those heads!"
Millim and her Blood Knights surged forward without waiting. Red energy flared from her gauntlets as she launched across a coral path and slammed into one of the Infernal Maw's heads, cracking its obsidian plating with a thunderous impact.
Naval stood at the center, halberd extended, charging up an electrical field. "Channeling storm layer! Roselia—up!"
Roselia leapt off a floating shard of coral and spun, flames exploding outward from her boots as she flew into the sky. A second later, she hurled down a compressed sphere of solar fire, detonating against the Maw's midsection.
BOOM!
Magma burst out, steam clouds shielding the monster for a brief moment—but then the Maw retaliated.
[Magma Pulse: Sector Sweep]
All four heads roared simultaneously, belching molten jets in sweeping arcs. The reef platforms were instantly annihilated—melted into glowing slag. The team scattered.
"Too close—too much heat!" Roman shouted, barely dodging a blast. One of the Blood Knights was caught midair—his armor instantly melting, screams cut short.
Liliana clenched her jaw. "Environmental hazard too high! We need a stable footing!"
Leon's eyes flared with golden light. He stabbed his sword into the disc's surface. "Anchor Zone—Stabilize Terrain!"
The floating platform shifted as golden circuits spread outward like veins, reconstructing a section of the battlefield with reinforced mana-coral. Temporary relief—but it would only hold for three minutes.
"Focus fire!" he yelled.
Aqua suddenly stepped forward, her aura rippling in unstable pulses.
"No holding back," she whispered, eyes glowing with ocean-blue intensity.
She raised both hands. Dozens of glyphs spun to life around her, forming an underwater sigil array. Then—
[Deep Current Bind – Leviathan's Grasp]
Water around one of the Maw's heads condensed into sharp, ice-thread tendrils. They snapped forward, impaling the joint between plates and locking it in place. The head jerked back, its flames cut off.
"Now!" she screamed.
Naval launched his halberd like a bolt, charged with pure voltage. It speared into the bound head—and exploded.
[One Head Destroyed – Regeneration Timer: 30 seconds]
Black magma gushed from the wound, and the creature roared in fury. Its remaining three heads shifted tactics.
[Lava Vortex – Targeted Burn]
The Infernal Maw coiled around itself, spinning into a cyclone of burning water and molten jets. Everything within range was pulled toward it like a whirlpool of fire.
Liliana summoned a barrier, but it cracked immediately.
Roman, gritting his teeth, ran into the vortex. "Cover me!"
His blades shimmered silver-blue as he danced through the chaos, slicing vents in the current. With every slash, pressure broke just enough to let his allies reposition.
Leon joined him, his sword now covered in a thin sheet of water magic that refused to evaporate. He sliced low, opening the underbelly plating of the second head.
"Millim—bring it down!"
With a scream, Millim hurled her axe into the open wound, jumped after it, and drove it in deeper, using her entire body weight.
[Second Head Destroyed – Regeneration Timer: 45 seconds]
But the beast wasn't done.
From its open wound, a core shard pulsed—overloading with volcanic energy.
"Back! It's going critical!" Leon shouted.
The shard detonated, sending a shockwave through the water that knocked them back. Coral shattered. The reinforced terrain flickered under the strain.
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Millim crashed next to Roselia, coughing blood but still grinning. "Fun one."
Roselia rolled her eyes. "This is why I hate fire-types."
Aqua stepped up again, her expression blank. "Third bind. This one's stronger."
She triggered her final reserve spell—[Current Break: Deep Pressure Cage]—and the sea around the Maw froze for half a second. A crushing sphere of high-density water wrapped around its third head, compressing it from all sides.
Leon and Roman didn't wait.
They dove, swords flashing in mirrored arcs, slicing down through the heated armor.
[Third Head Destroyed – Regeneration Timer: 60 seconds]
The Maw screeched—a terrible, multi-tonal roar that sent ripples through the ocean layers. Its remaining head pulled back, and its magma surged inward.
Liliana's eyes widened. "It's channeling a core burst—it's going to self-detonate!"
"Let it," Leon said, eyes glowing again. "I'll redirect it."
The others pulled back. Leon stood alone.
The moment the Maw's core exploded outward in an apocalyptic wave of lava—
[Miracle Sage Eyes – Event Horizon Shift]
He sliced the surge mid-air, bending the explosion's trajectory around him in a golden spiral.
The molten energy folded back on the Maw's own body—
—and it incinerated itself from the inside out.
[Infernal Maw Defeated.]
Core Stabilized.
Second Abyssal Pillar Broken.
The battlefield dimmed, and the molten reef cooled. The team stood, breathing hard.
Only two Blood Knights remained. Millim didn't even look at the casualties—just wiped blood from her lips.
"That's two."
Roselia groaned. "And we're down half the team. This is going to be a nightmare."
Leon sheathed his blade slowly. "Then we rest. Fortify. We pick our next fight on our terms."
Liliana stepped toward the next glowing direction—icy light, flickering far to the north.
"The Chrono-Drift Queen is already moving."
After the molten battlefield cooled into glassy obsidian beneath their feet, the team took no more than five minutes to recover. Aqua tended to Roman's cracked ribs with cold-pressed water magic. Millim sat in a crouch, sharpening her blood-crusted gauntlets with a jagged coral knife. Roselia conjured a flickering heat orb for the team to counteract the chill that had already started drifting in from the north.
Liliana stared ahead. The currents had stopped moving.
"Something's wrong," she murmured.