Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Yet no lives were lost. Kaelen and Liora had already evacuated every soul from the surrounding lands, and because Aether had warned them not to engage.

And just as it came, the towering monstrosity vanished—without a trace, as though it had never existed.

”Interesting...” Dora muttered, her tone carrying both intrigue and unease. Her eyes narrowed before she turned to Delphine. ”Tell him... the mountains store energy inside and... they actually have the ability to cut through space.”

Delphine raised her eyebrows sharply. ”A mountain?”

Dora nodded, her frown deepening as if pulling memories from the depths of her past. ”Yeah... I wonder... where have I seen it before... hmm...” Her voice trailed off.

Without hesitation, Delphine immediately delivered the message. Even though they hadn’t spoken much in recent times,... held apart by unspoken reasons and personal rifts, but this was not the moment for grudges or hesitation.

Aether just hummed with a thoughtful expression as he hovered before the Ebon Stone, his body wreathed in faint violet flames. Within the next few seconds, the colossal skeleton appeared before the Ebon Stone.

Aether stared at the thing. He didn’t move, just blankly stared at it. And the monster, in turn, stared back at him with its hollow sockets.

”Aether?” Helena’s voice rang from below, sharp and worried.

”I told you to get ready for Project ’X,’ right? Go on... I’ll handle this.”

Helena bit her lip, her brows pinching together. She gave the faintest pout, her shoulders tightening before she finally turned, walking away with a grumpy but undeniably concerned expression.

The colossal skeleton raised its mountainous weapon high, its hand gripping the jagged mass as though it were nothing more than a pebble. It loomed, ready to strike down, its hollow sockets flickering toward Aether—waiting, measuring, as though curious if he would move.

But Aether didn’t.

The colossal skeleton almost seemed to shrug its bony shoulders before swinging down.

BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!

The mountain landed upon the Ebon Stone. The sky cracked with sound, and shockwaves rippled outward.

Still... Aether hadn’t moved. He just blankly stared at the thing, his gaze never faltering.

The skeleton lifted its hand back again, raising the massive mountain for a second strike. But the instant it raised the weapon and looked, its sockets widened.

The Ebon Stone hadn’t even moved down at all!

What?

Aether’s lips curved into a grin. ”Guess you can’t teleport what’s beneath it... it seems,” he said with an amused tone, eyes gleaming with quiet triumph.

The monster’s empty sockets turned sharply downward.

And there, beneath the Ebon Stone—

”Hello~,” came Sera’s lilting voice.

She was crouched low, arms braced against the great stone, holding it steady as though the blow had been nothing.

The monster’s jaw quivered, bones trembling as if in outrage... a lowly creature had stopped its strike.

”Can you hold it, baby?” Aether asked.

Sera tilted her head, smiling faintly, her hands tightening against the stone. ”Of course. I think I can hold it”

Aether gave a short nod. Then his eyes flared with fire, his hand rising. Purple flames spiralled upward, forming a burning sphere above him before he hurled it toward the giant, the inferno tearing through the air like a comet.

It reached the skeleton—then blinked out of existence.

Gone!

Aether frowned, muttering under his breath. ”I see... so you’ve connected the mountains to your body. Hah... clever. This is going to be a little tricky if everything we throw at you is just teleported away.”

Without hesitation, Aether flew straight toward the giant, his figure darting like a furious insect before a god of bones.

The colossal skeleton ignored him at first, raising its arm again, intent on hammering down the Ebon Stone.

But as it swung down, Sera clenched her fists tighter, her whole body straining as she held the Ebon Stone as though she were holding up the heavens themselves. The skeletal hammer descended in a devastating arc.

BOOOOM!!

Her legs trembled as the Ebon Stone was slightly hammered down, and Aether, during this time, studied the creature with a sharp gaze, tracing every detail of its massive body structure. He noted each motion carefully... the way it moved was eerily precise.

It moved exactly like a human would.

Every joint, every bone...

He unleashed a flurry of attacks against the thing, testing for weaknesses, while it kept hammering.