Absolute Cheater - Chapter 505
Chapter 505: Bionics VIII
The chimera’s head slammed into the wall and stayed there for a second, dazed and shaking. Asher didn’t give it any chance to recover. He grabbed the creature by its throat, lifted it up, and smashed it down again. The floor cracked under the impact.
It tried to blink away, but its void core was flickering and unstable now. The teleport stuttered—half formed—then failed completely.
“Not this time,” Asher said and drove another punch straight into its chest.
The core pulsed violently inside the cracked metal.
Across the hall, the Abyss Dragon Knight held the second chimera down with its boot, pushing hard enough to bend the creature’s spine. The pinned chimera spat blue fire upward, trying to melt through the knight’s armor, but the dragon scales didn’t budge. The knight raised its sword and stabbed downward again.
The blade pinned the chimera’s arm to the floor this time.
The chimera screamed and tried to blink out, but the knight grabbed its head and slammed it back into the ground. The entire floor shook from the force.
Asher twisted his fist inside the first chimera’s chest, grabbed the void core directly, and tore it out. The chimera convulsed violently, claws scratching the air.
Its remaining arm lashed out blindly. Asher caught it and ripped it off with a single pull. He then crushed the chimera’s skull with a downward stomp. The metal folded under his heel.
The void core in his hand trembled like a living heart trying to escape.
He squeezed.
It shattered into blue dust and vanished.
The chimera’s body immediately went limp and melted into a pool of dead metal.
Asher turned.
The Abyss Dragon Knight was still holding the second chimera down, but the monster was thrashing wildly. Its void core spun so fast it sounded like a drill, glowing brighter and brighter. Its flames turned hot white.
It was about to explode.
Asher moved fast.
He flashed to the knight’s side, grabbed the chimera’s skull with both hands, and twisted hard. The neck snapped. The chimera’s body stopped thrashing, just for a second—that was enough.
The knight yanked its sword free and plunged it deep into the chimera’s chest.
Asher shoved both hands into the opening and pulled the core out.
It pulsed once.
Twice.
Asher threw it into the air.
The knight swung its greatsword in a full vertical arc.
The blade cleaved the core clean in half.
A silent shockwave burst out, followed by a rain of harmless blue sparks.
The second chimera melted just like the first, collapsing into a steaming puddle that spread slowly across the floor.
The hall finally went quiet.
Asher stood there, chest rising and falling, skin burned, arms bleeding, shirt torn in three places. The Abyss Dragon Knight straightened beside him, sword resting on its shoulder, blue flame glowing calmly again.
Asher wiped the sweat from his forehead.
“…Good work,” he muttered.
The knight nodded once.
Asher turned and faced the final door at the end of the hall.
A heavy rumble echoed behind it—deep, slow, too powerful to be anything like the chimeras.
He exhaled.
“Alright,” he said. “Let’s go meet the final guardian.”
And he walked forward, with the Abyss Dragon Knight following right behind him.
Asher pushed the door open.
The moment the stone slab slid aside, a wave of pressure crashed into him—heavy, crushing, like a mountain of raw void energy pressing down on his shoulders.
The Abyss Dragon Knight lifted its shield instinctively.
Asher narrowed his eyes.
“…That’s not a chimera.”
The chamber beyond was enormous—wide enough to fit an entire fortress hall. The air shimmered with distortion waves. Blue fire drifted like embers. The floor was covered in long claw marks.
Then a deep growl rolled through the room.
Slow. Heavy. Ancient.
A shape moved in the darkness, large enough to make the chimeras look like insects.
Two eyes ignited—blue void flames swirling inside them.
The creature stepped forward, and its full body came into view.
A dragon.
Not molten metal.
Not demon flesh.
Not a mixed beast.
A pure void dragon—its scales made of shifting liquid black metal, its bones shining through like glowing demonic lines, its wings warped like they were half-phased into another dimension. Its tail dragged sparks across the floor. Its claws scraped deep grooves into the stone with every step.
And worst of all—
Its void core wasn’t inside its chest.
It floated above its head like a second, burning sun.
Asher stared at it.
“…Fucking hell,” he muttered under his breath. “A dragon evolved into a voider. That’s new.”
The void dragon lowered its head, void-fire dripping from its teeth. The pressure in the room doubled, then tripled. Stone cracked around its feet.
Asher’s skin prickled. Even the Abyss Dragon Knight shifted its stance, bracing for impact.
Asher clicked his tongue.
“Fifth Stage Higher Being… great. Because nothing is ever easy down here.”
The dragon’s wings snapped open with a thunderous crack. Space around them bent like soft cloth. A vortex formed under its paws.
Asher raised his fists.
“Alright, then,” he said, exhaling once. “Let’s see if you hit harder than the last three.”
The void dragon let out a roar that blew half the torches off the walls.
Asher slid one foot back, muscles tightening.
“Knight,” he said.
The Abyss Dragon Knight lifted its greatsword.
“…We go in together.”
The void dragon’s core flared like a star.
The instant the void core flared, the dragon moved.
It didn’t lunge—it blinked.
One moment it was thirty meters away.
The next, its entire body was already in front of Asher.
The air detonated.
Asher snapped his arms up and crossed them just as a claw the size of a boulder smashed into him. The impact threw him back like a ragdoll. He slid across the floor, boots carving deep lines into the stone until he forced himself to stop.
“Fast,” he muttered. “Too fast for something that big.”
The Abyss Dragon Knight intercepted the follow-up attack. The dragon swung its tail sideways, the air bending around it like it was cutting through reality. The Knight braced its shield and took the hit head-on.