My Bugged System Made Me Too OP!

Chapter 157: Overhelmed

The three-horned supervisor gnashed his teeth, a harsh, grating sound like grinding granite echoing clearly through the frozen, crystalline cavern that his slaughterhouse had become.

The intense pressure radiating from Noah’s domain spell pressed down on his chest like a physical weight, forcing his breath out in shallow, desperate plumes of white vapor.

He stared at Noah with a deep frown, his features contorted into a mask of pure, unadulterated venom.

His dull white, pupilless eyes flamed with a cornered, defensive fury as he looked across the field of crackling blue blossoms at the motionless, masked silhouette of the young arch magus who still hadn’t taken his hands out of his cloak.

The realization that he was entirely trapped within a, field of ice and lightning pushed the supervisor past the threshold of caution.

He couldn’t afford to stand frozen against the wall like an execution victim waiting for the final stroke.

Reddish-yellow lightning sparked around his body, the volatile, corrupted currents of his own power crackling erratically along his scales and the edges of his three jagged horns.

’It doesn’t matter... I need to close the distance and attack! No matter how absolute his domain is, his physical shell is still that of a human! If I can just breach his perimeter, my claws will shred his throat!’ he thought.

He acted with the explosive, desperate velocity of a creature fighting for its very survival in the jaw of a trap.

Thick shadow formed around his arms and legs, the oily, pitch-black fog bubbling out from his pores to create a hyper-dense, heavy set of gauntlets and greaves that insulated his limbs from the ambient frost.

The living darkness writhed and hissed, hardening into an armor of pure corruption that matched the dull black scales covering his long fingers.

With a sharp, concussive roar that shattered several crystalline structures behind his heels, he charged at Noah at rapid speed, his seven-foot frame transforming into a pale, blood-stained blur that shot across the frozen floor tiles like a fired bolt.

He didn’t get very far though, before hitting one of the flowers on the ground.

In his blind, frantic rush to bridge the ten-meter gap separating their coordinates, his bare, shadow-wrapped left foot clipped the outer perimeter of a single, innocent-looking blue blossom sprouting from the glacial ice.

The mechanical sensitivity of the field was absolute; the moment his leg touched the crystalline petals, the flower immediately exploded with lightning, consuming the demon whole.

The detonation was a highly condensed, catastrophic eruption of pure, deep blue electricity that expanded in a perfect, geometric sphere of destruction.

The sheer density of the arch magus’s output completely swallowed the supervisor’s seven-foot silhouette within less than a microsecond, the violent currents vaporizing the thick shadow armor around his legs and tearing through his defensive barriers like wet parchment.

The brilliance of the flash was so absolute that it cast a stark, white glare across the entire length of the subterranean facility, completely illuminating the fractured brickwork of the vaults above.

He shrieked, a high, panicked scream of unmitigated agony tearing from his throat, his deep baritone breaking into a ragged, guttural rasp as his body got flung back by the lightning explosion.

The sheer kinetic force of the blast lifted his massive frame entirely off the stone pavement, launching him through the freezing air like a broken doll, his porcelain-white skin already cracking and blackening under the immense, localized heat of the blue current.

But Noah’s spell wasn’t designed to allow a clean, straightforward ejection from the kill zone; it was a self-correcting matrix of absolute, automated termination.

Before he got to the ground, trailing thick plumes of gray smoke and bloodless tissue through the air, more flowers opened up, their petals crackling violently with lightning.

The movement across the field was fluid and synchronized, thousands of crystalline blossoms tilting their stamen upward in unison as their translucent structures hummed with a terrifying, rhythmic resonance.

The entire floor of the repository seemed to come alive, the deep, glacial blue sheet of ice vibrating as the dual-affinity spell tracked the supervisor’s airborne trajectory with a flawless, mathematical accuracy.

Lightning shot out of them in a coordinated, multi-directional volley, a dozen jagged pillars of blinding blue electricity lashing upward from the ice sheet like divine spears, stabbing through different parts of his body in mid-air.

Two bolts punched cleanly through his broad shoulders, shattering the dull black scales and pinning his upper torso against the invisible lines of the matrix.

Three more streaks tore through his long, slender legs, fracturing his knees and vaporizing his muscle tissue, while a central, massive column of current slammed directly into his chest, melting the fabric of his shadow cloak and threatening to scramble the configuration of his core layout entirely.

He was held suspended in the center of the vault, a pale silhouette trapped at the intersection of a cage of raw, crackling power.

The demon shouted in agony, his jaw stretching downward with that sickening, elastic flexibility as his body spasmed uncontrollably as the lightning roasted his flesh in and out.

The violent voltage didn’t just sizzle on the surface of his skin; it surged inward through his ears, his throat, and his nervous system, systematically frying his internal mana channels and cooking his organs from the inside out.

The blackish-red blood inside his veins began to boil and dry out, the immense heat generated by the arch magus’s purple affinity turning his internal fluids into a choking, putrid vapor that leaked from his lips.

Driven by a final, desperate instinct to preserve his fracturing consciousness before his three horns could be permanently charred into ash, he tried to use the shadow to cover his body one last time.

He willed the remaining reserves of his lineage—the ancient, corrupted data fields anchored to his soul—to manifest as a thick, defensive cocoon of living ink that would swallow the blue currents and buy him a single second of isolation.

But not even that could protect him inside the sanctuary of an arch magus’s domain.

The shadow was easily overwhelmed by the lightning.

The moment the pitch-black fog attempted to bubble outward from his skin to form the protective shield, the jagged blue arcs of the lightning simply tore through it with a fluid, unstoppable velocity.