Titan King: Ascension of the Giant Chapter 1308 Ruler's Wrath

"So, how does this end?"

The Deputy Commander’s voice sliced through the tension, sounding cold and detached, like a coroner requesting a time of death. "Do you want them to live, or do you want them dead?"

The mocking laughter of Pyre Julius died instantly in his throat.

Orion felt the heavy weight of his four brothers' gazes—Edward, Leonidas, Arthas, and Alexander. They were watching him closely, waiting for his move.

This was Orion's war, and he was the one who had set the stage. While the brothers provided the muscle and support, the moral burden of the execution rested solely on Orion’s shoulders.

"Dead."

Orion’s expression was as unyielding as granite. He didn't need to shout, and he didn't hesitate. After a few heavy heartbeats, he simply exhaled the single word that sealed the fate of five Demigods.

"Hah! Now that is what I wanted to hear!" Leonidas roared, his laughter booming with savage delight. He deeply respected a man who didn't flinch.

"Good," Alexander rumbled, channeling more Divine Power into the grid. In the crucible of war, decisiveness was the only currency that mattered.

"I knew I picked the right ally." The skeletal Phantom of Arthas flickered, becoming slightly transparent as he committed his energy. He required partners who weren't afraid to watch the world burn to ensure survival.

The Deputy Commander remained silent. He simply closed his eyes.

Using the Divine Fire at the center of his forehead as a catalyst, he fully deactivated the safety on the Divine Fire Extinction Formation.

In an instant, the pocket dimension transformed into a kiln. The void itself appeared to ignite. Inside the barrier, it looked as if stars were detonating, their brilliance morphing into a consuming heat that devoured all light.

The "cave" of Eternal Flame conjured by Pyre Julius—the symbol of his house’s endurance—stood no chance. Under the tsunami of true Divine Fire, it melted like wax in a furnace before evaporating into nothingness.

The fire was scrubbing the world clean.

"The Eternal Flame... it's gone!"

"Damn you! How dare you... how dare you?!"

"It's over."

"These maniacs actually did it!"

Pyre Julius, Cima Julius, and the two opportunistic neighbors of Orion were the first to perish. Since they had descended as Demigod Phantoms, they possessed no physical anchor. The Divine Fire consumed their projections instantly, incinerating their consciousnesses into silence.

A terrifying sensation filled the sealed space—the distinct, heavy scent of dying gods.

Within moments, the void grew dark and empty, choked by thick, swirling currents of Divine Fire.

The only one remaining was Hino Julius.

Because he had been arrogant enough to descend in his True Form, his physical body granted him a few precious seconds of agony. But even he was failing. Under the ravaging fire, his aura plummeted. The laws of Divine Power protecting his skin were being peeled away layer by layer.

"This... this is Lord Julius's domain..." Hino gasped, his voice a mixture of horror and disbelief. "You... you people... how could you..."

He sounded like a man waking from a dream only to find himself trapped in a nightmare. He had never imagined, not even once, that he could actually perish here in the Sixth Layer.

"This is my Territory," Orion said. His voice pierced through the roar of the flames, cold and absolute. "And invaders die."

It wasn't a threat; it was a statement of fact. It struck Hino like a physical blow, severing his final thread of hope.

"Invaders die... invaders die..." Hino muttered, his mind beginning to fracture. Then, a twisted realization washed over him. "Good. Very good. You talk like a real Abyss Lord."

"But if I'm going, Orion... we're going together!"

"Heh... hehehe..."

Hino let out a strangled, broken laugh. He stopped fighting the flames that were eating his flesh, as resistance was now just a waste of energy.

"Orion! Even if I die, you can't run! You can't run from this!"

Inside the burning seal, Hino began to chant like a madman.

He knew who Orion was. He had read the intelligence reports—a low-born upstart fighting his way up from the lower dimensions. A bug.

But the reports were wrong. The bug had teeth.

In his final moment, Hino Julius ignited his own core. Like a collapsing star, his Divine Power flared with a blinding, white-hot intensity.

But the light lasted only a second.

BOOM!

The sealed space shattered. The explosion tore outward, a shockwave roaring across the Sixth Layer like a tsunami.

In truth, Hino's self-destruction wasn't tactically effective; the Deputy Commander's barrier absorbed the brunt of the kinetic force. But the explosion wasn't meant to kill Orion.

It was a scream.

A piercing, chaotic wail of a dying Chaos Demon's will, amplified by sacrifice, shot straight into the deep earth, aiming for the slumbering consciousness of the Abyssal Ruler.

"AVENGE ME!"

Hino's final psychic scream thundered through the mental plane, echoing relentlessly in Julius's ears.

Deep within the world's core, a pair of colossal eyes snapped open.

They were the scarlet eyes of a Demon, vast as lakes. At first, there was confusion, then the pupils narrowed. Julius listened.

A moment later, clarity returned. He opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing the fragment of will Hino had transmitted via the House Julius secret technique.

"In my world... those who kill my kin... are unforgivable."

The voice was low, but it vibrated through the bedrock of the entire layer. By the time the last syllable faded, Julius's massive form had vanished from his resting place.

Back on the surface, the complete annihilation of Hino Julius left a vacuum of silence.

Orion, Edward, Arthas, Leonidas, and Alexander instinctively clustered together, back-to-back.

They knew what was coming. Hino had made too much noise. There was no way the Abyssal Ruler, Julius, had slept through that.

Solidarity was their only shield now.

"Outsiders. You slaughter my people. You will pay."

It was a scene Orion would never forget.

The sky above them didn't just darken; it twisted. A massive vortex, spanning the entire horizon, churned into existence. From the center of the swirling clouds, a gigantic, demonic face pushed through, looking down at them like a man looking at ants.

The voice boomed from that face.

It wasn't just sound; it was authority. It carried the weight of the world itself. Julius didn't just speak; he commanded the environment. The atmosphere grew heavy, pressing down on Orion and rejecting his existence.

Edward and the brothers felt it too—the crushing pressure of a hostile reality.

And then the sky opened up.

Wind, rain, and lightning coalesced into a focused beam of destruction, hammering down on their position.

"Shields up!"

The Deputy Commander reacted instantly, throwing up a protective barrier that shimmered with complex geometric light. The strikes hammered against it, sending shockwaves through the ground, but it held.

The brothers didn't idle. They poured their own Divine Power into the Deputy Commander's construct, reinforcing the dome.

"Holy shit," Leonidas grunted, straining against the pressure. "So this is an Abyssal Ruler boosted by the World Force? That is... terrifying."

Leonidas's complaint was actually a compliment. He recognized true power when he felt it.

But Julius wasn't finished.

The territory belonging to the Foundry Citadel suddenly faced an apocalypse.

It was a meteor shower, but of unnatural origin. Countless massive fireballs, seemingly summoned from the void, began to rain down on Orion's lands.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

In the blink of an eye, the earth fractured. Forests were incinerated.

The wilderness was razed, and the bombardment began to creep toward the city itself. The Foundry Citadel was bathed in the hellish glow of falling stars, plunging its inhabitants into chaos and despair.

"Incoming!"

At the critical moment, Vex, the Standard-bearer, slammed his staff into the ground.

The Foundry Citadel's guardian ward flared to life, a translucent dome expanding just in time to catch the first wave of the orbital bombardment.