I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills - Chapter 122

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122. Starry Generation

The moment the Black Flame storm swept through the Plaza, the entire space shuddered as though seized by an earthquake.

The members of the Ssang-Ah Clan who witnessed that tremendous destructive force dropped their jaws in shock.

Though they knew Krash’s abilities, his opponent was an Invasive Species on the verge of 7-Star Rank.

Everyone was uncertain whether he could truly strike it down in a single blow.

But seeing that output firsthand, they understood.

Just how absurdly powerful Krash truly was.

He possessed the strength to kill Decarabia in one strike.

Everyone felt anew the force of the second generation’s first-ranked martial artist.

“You’ve become a monster,” Anyx murmured.

As Anyx let out a hollow laugh, Krash and Haring plummeted simultaneously through the Black Flame.

Toward them, Elfin leaped.

With a frame as tall as Krash’s own, she caught both Haring and Krash at once, landing as lightly as a feather.

In doing so, she flinched.

Simply brushing against Krash’s body for an instant, she felt the heat radiating from him.

He had launched his attack while enduring such a state?

It was inconceivable willpower.

And Haring was no different.

Her skin was covered in burns from sustained exposure to Krash’s heat.

It revealed just how much these two had struggled—as much as anyone could see.

“Put… me down.”

Krash spoke with difficulty, his breathing ragged, and Elfin set him and Haring on the ground.

Supported by Haring, Krash managed to remain standing, barely avoiding collapse.

The heat in his body was scorching.

The price of the Red Tiger Technique was beginning to take its toll.

Krash lifted his head, his mind barely holding together.

Then he saw Anyx.

Anyx was in terrible shape—not quite as bad as Krash, but devastated nonetheless.

And the expression Anyx wore was one Krash had never seen before.

Of course. That much was obvious.

Anyx had never fought at full strength, not once.

Watching him now, Krash felt oddly relieved.

The bitter seeds of old emotion seemed to have washed away on some distant tide, vanishing beyond the horizon of his heart.

This world was not the one he had known.

It was a world that changed without pause—and could be changed.

If that was true, then his path forward was simple.

He would not let all that had changed go to waste.

It was the moment Krash barely managed to hold onto his fading consciousness.

—Stay with me. It’s not over yet.

Crimson Garden’s warning rang out across the space.

Krash’s head snapped upward the moment he steadied himself.

There stood Decarabia, charred black from the Annihilation Lightning.

Its body remained motionless, struck head-on by the Annihilation Lightning.

The destructive force of the Annihilation Lightning, compressed to its absolute limit, was beyond anything even Decarabia could withstand.

Then, with a sharp crack, fissures began spreading across Decarabia’s face.

Charred fragments of the split face fell away.

Crack!

Something pushed through the broken shards.

It was Decarabia—shrunken, condensed.

Its face, with a snout protruding grotesquely, was far more hideous than its original simian form, and viscous fluid dripped steadily from the tentacles that sprouted across its body.

In that instant, Krash felt a chill run through him.

This was what remained after Decarabia, trapped within the Black Flame, had made one final desperate gamble—condensing its World Erosion.

And the realm it had reached was unmistakable.

7-Star Rank.

A new threshold that Decarabia had crossed.

“————–!”

Its roar erupted across the plaza.

A sound no human ear could perceive—a violent noise so overwhelming that ringing filled their hearing—flooded the entire space.

The others, delayed in their realization, now finally sensed Decarabia’s transformation.

The moment all eyes fixed on that spot, their faces went rigid.

An overwhelming aura poured from Decarabia, constricting their throats in an instant.

It was the kind of display that could shatter the resolve of those who had fought so admirably against Decarabia just moments before.

Thump.

“……This is too much.”

Someone from the Ssang-Ah Clan sank to their knees.

Despair filled every inch of their face.

“W-we’re all going to die.”

When someone muttered those words in a daze, no one stepped forward to contradict them.

Only one.

Krash, who had once more grasped the Thunderous Star, stood apart.

“Anyx.”

Krash called to Anyx.

Anyx, having witnessed Decarabia’s awakening, turned to face Krash with a face drained of all color.

And at once, Anyx’s eyes widened.

Black Flame was gathering once more around Krash’s blade.

Anyx understood what it meant.

He had not given up.

“Send me in front of that thing.”

Smoke drifted from Krash’s lips.

His body was so battered that movement itself was no longer possible.

Yet one more swing of his blade—that much he could still manage.

“……I’m sending you at full force.”

Anyx asked nothing more, placing his hand against the ground.

He too had reached his limit, but there was an unmistakable resolve—he would get Krash to that position no matter what.

Krash had not given up.

Then neither would he.

That was Anyx.

“Krash, I’m going with you.”
“I’ll help you get there too.”

Haring and Elfin immediately moved to his side.

Seeing that Anyx and Krash refused to yield, the two women steeled themselves as well.

Gradually, imperceptibly.

Krash’s resolve was spreading to all of them, seeping into their bones.

And that resolve was threading them together along a single path.

The members of the Ssang-Ah Clan watched the four with vacant eyes.

With them watching, Krash swallowed hard and gripped the Thunderous Star tightly.

“Now.”

The moment that word left his mouth, a tremor rippled beneath the three of them.

Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!

And then a tree erupted violently upward from beneath their feet.

The ferocity with which it grew revealed just how hard Anyx had driven Recovery into the ground.

In that instant, Decarabia turned its awareness toward them.

The creature tore the two arms that had been embedded in its original head free.

Krash saw it immediately and understood.

Decarabia had reached 7-Star Rank.

But the creature’s condition was far from normal.

Because the awakening had been forced and rushed, Decarabia had driven World Erosion into itself recklessly.

As a result, its original body had not yet fully absorbed all the World Erosion.

Therefore, it could not separate from its original body right now.

Moreover, the effects of Annihilation Lightning could not be avoided by its new core either.

As evidence, the creature’s new body was visibly in an abnormal state.

A clear opening.

Recognizing this, smoke curled from Krash’s lips.

His body had already reached its limit from the start.

He had deployed Annihilation Asura fighting the god of the night.

Then, landing a blow on Decarabia, he had even burned through the Red Tiger Technique, wringing every last reserve from his frame.

Warning signals were flaring up everywhere in his body.

And because of those signals, Krash was in a state where he could barely move another step.

Yet he still could not rest.

Because there was an enemy right in front of him.

Krash’s mind raced.

His body, pushed to its limit, could not muster another output of Annihilation Erosion.

The opponent was a 7-Star Rank Invasive Species, albeit an incomplete one.

This wouldn’t be enough to sever its lifeline.

‘Then.’

Krash realized he had to use a new skill.

If he pushed harder from here, it might become uncontrollable—but there was no other way.

On the soaring tree.

Krash’s eyes closed, just for a moment.

And within those closed eyes.

The night that dwelt within Krash’s body.

The instant Nox descended into his form.

Click.

A sound like something snapping echoed quietly through the air.

It was a star—one that Krash had been suppressing all this time with his Eye Puppet.

Rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble-BOOM!

Inaudible to the outside world, but Krash felt a tremendous vibration surging up from deep within his body.

And that presence, as if to devour everything of him, began to rush toward the crown of his head in an instant.

The Heaven Killing Star.

The moment the Eye Puppet snapped, an uncontrolled murderous intent surged up.

For a moment, Krash nearly lost consciousness.

The Heaven Killing Star’s murderous intent was beyond imagination.

Indeed, there was a reason that even the old monster Blavi had eventually gone mad.

The impulsive murderous intent burst outward, and the Black Flame was dragged out wildly.

Though his body had reached its limit, the Heaven Killing Star sought to forcibly drag it upward and pour out its murderous intent toward the world.

‘Hey.’

And within that murderous intent.

Krash’s eyes blazed red.

‘It’s not me you’ll swallow.’

Before the Heaven Pivot Star that sought to devour Krash in a single gulp, Night’s Veil began to descend.

The descending night began to cradle the thrashing Heaven Pivot Star within itself.

To embrace the stars—that was night’s true purpose.

One by one, the seven stars of the raging Heaven Pivot Star began to embed themselves within the night.

And the moment all seven stars came to rest within the darkness.

All seven blazed forth with light at once.

Originally, Krash could command only three stars: the Heaven Selection Star, the Heaven Power Star, and the Demon Light Star.

Yet in this singular moment, through Nox, he drew forth the Heaven Pivot Star’s true power.

The first star: Heaven Pivot Star.

The second star: Heaven Selection Star.

The third star: Heaven Opportunity Star.

The fourth star: Heaven Power Star.

The fifth star: Jade Shape Star.

The sixth star: Open Yang Star.

The seventh star: Demon Light Star.

All seven stars seeped into Krash’s body.

That fleeting span of time which Nox held back.

Whoosh!

Krash’s Black Flame met the Heaven Pivot Star’s true power and ignited far more fiercely than before.

A dull thud.

In that instant, Decarabia’s arm thrust forward.

The bundle of tentacles extending from that limb swelled and poured forth.

Krash was in no state to evade.

The moment Krash, still needing more time, clenched his teeth, Elfin leaped before him.

Her blade, wreathed in violet Aura, extended toward the bundle of tentacles.

Her sword was the Quick Sword.

A rain of blade strikes, so rapid the eye could barely follow, tore through the tentacle bundle.

Yet Elfin too had fought without rest until now, in constant battle.

Because of this, some of the tentacles raked across her body, opening wounds as they went.

“Go, hurry ahead!”

But Elfin paid no heed, biting her lip hard as she cried out.

Beneath Krash’s feet, the wood continued its relentless advance.

Decarabia, now within reach, opened its maw as if consumed by fury.

In that instant, light began gathering in its mouth once more.

The same blinding flash as before.

But this time, it was faster than before.

Then Haring burst forward, ahead of Krash.

She drew two daggers from her waist and crossed them simultaneously.

A crunch echoed from her lips as she bit down on something.

She had swallowed a single vial from her poison pouch.

In that moment, Haring launched forward with such speed that even Krash barely registered her movement.

The two daggers, wreathed in venom, were unleashed in perfect synchrony.

Crunch!

Both daggers buried themselves in Decarabia’s jaw, forcing its head violently upward.

The light pooled in its closed mouth shattered outward.

Boom!

The beast’s flash, robbed of an outlet, exploded within.

“Raaaaaaagh!”

Consumed by agony, Decarabia lashed out with its other limb, striking Haring with brutal force.

Unable to dodge while the daggers were still lodged in its jaw, Haring was sent flying through the air.

In a single instant, she was out of the fight.

Yet the opening she had created—

That gap led precisely to Krash.

Only when Haring vanished did Decarabia’s eyes finally register Krash’s presence.

He had already closed to arm’s length.

His body could not move a single step, yet Anyx’s wood carried Krash all the way to Decarabia’s threshold.

The Black Flame woven through his blade did not rage as it usually did.

Instead, it gathered in careful layers, staining the edge of the Thunderous Star a pitch black.

Like the stillness of the Heaven Pivot Star draped across the night.

Krash’s blade had settled into a stillness it had never known before.

Yet the heat radiating from that edge of steel was of an entirely different magnitude than it had been.

Annihilation Erosion.

Fourth form.

Annihilation Night Slash.

Shriiiing!

The moment the creature’s neck flew skyward in its spin.

Black Flame erupted from where its head met its severed neck and consumed it entirely.

Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!

The instant Krash saw it, he squeezed out the last of his strength and launched himself upward.

Haring, knocked senseless by Decarabia’s blow, was plummeting from the sky.

The moment Krash caught her, Anyx immediately drew upon the last reserves of his power.

To break Krash’s fall.

As Anyx’s wooden tendrils stretched out toward Krash.

Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!

The disintegrating body of Decarabia crashed down, obliterating the already-shattered wooden tendrils Anyx had summoned.

Because of that, the tendrils Anyx had extended never reached Krash.

“Krash!”

Hearing Anyx’s cry, Krash plummeted downward together with Decarabia.

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