The corpse of the Pisces Knight lay on the jagged stone, its blue starlight flickering out into cold ash. A heavy, suffocating silence fell over the mountain pass, broken only by the whistling wind cutting through the sharp rocks.
"You... you filthy monster!" roared the Capricorn Knight, stepping forward. His heavy black plate armor began to glow with an intense white light, and the ground beneath his boots cracked, transforming into sharp, jagged stone spikes. "You dare to defile the blood of the stars!"
On the other side, the Libra Knight floated coldly, gripping a golden set of scales that began to spin with a frantic, metallic hum. "Capricorn, cease your rage. This is no mere 'Null.' He is a glitch in the cosmic order. He must be erased by absolute gravity."
[WARNING: COORDINATED ATTACK DETECTED (GRAVITY MANIPULATION + EARTH HARDENING)] [SURVIVAL RATE: 45% WITHOUT FULL POWER RELEASE]
"Mina! Stay behind the fortified ridge!" Solan shouted, plunging the Fang of Ophiuchus into the ground to anchor himself.
Suddenly, Solan felt his body weight increase a hundredfold. The stone beneath his boots shattered, and he began to sink into the solid earth. Simultaneously, hundreds of stone spikes erupted from below, guided by the Capricorn Knight to impale his pinned body.
"I won't fail here!" Solan roared.
"Phantom Step: High Frequency!"
This time, Solan didn't just vanish; he made his body "vibrate" with the frequency of the Void. The stone spikes that lunged to pierce him passed right through his torso as if he were an intangible ghost. The shock on the Capricorn Knight's face was fatal; no one had ever manipulated physics in such a way.
Solan exploited this split second of hesitation. Ignoring the crushing gravity, he leaped toward the floating Libra Knight.
"Your scales cannot measure the weight of my sins!"
"Astral Void Style, Fourth Form: Black Hole Blade!"
The crimson plasma around the black glass blade intensified until it turned pitch black, sucking in all surrounding light and gravity. When the blade collided with the golden scales, there was no explosion—there was Absorption.
The holy weapon of the Libra was dragged into Solan's blade, piece by piece. The knight screamed as the mana of the Libra Constellation was ripped from his veins with savage force.
[LIBRA MANA ABSORBED: "MASS MANIPULATION" SKILL PROCESSING...]
The Libra Knight fell like a broken doll, his star-power extinguished forever. Solan turned toward the leader, the Capricorn Knight, who was trembling behind his heavy shield.
Solan no longer looked human. His left arm pulsed with the blackness of the Void, and his orange eye glowed with a predatory, hungry light. He took one step forward, and the ground cracked beneath him—not from magic, but from the sheer pressure of his terrifying presence.
"One left," Solan whispered, his voice echoing like a sound from the bottom of an abyss.