Fifty-two seconds remained on the neural overdrive clock when Titus made contact with the titan’s lower chassis.
The sixty-five-ton Earth-Core Xuanwu charged across the black iron-hard metal ice like a runaway mountain. Across the smooth, low-friction surface, Titus’s four massive column-like legs drove forward with high-pressure rhythm, his star-iron claws throwing showers of blue sparks into the air. The speed of the giant tortoise was deceptively swift. Channeled through the five-pillar bond, Arthur’s neural reflexes directed Titus’s mass along the precise fault lines of the volcano bowl floor.
He closed the final thirty yards. Then, Titus lowered his massive front belly shell and activated [Tectonic Vice: Abyssal Clamping].
The four six-sided dark rock pillars on his shell flared with blinding golden-azure light, channeling the huge mass of the land-wide craton into a heavy local gravity anchor. The air around the tortoise grew thick with stone-hard mana. It warped the surrounding light into shimmering gravity ripples.
CRUUUUUUUUSH.
Titus slammed his massive stone shell directly into Ymir’s grounded left hip and shattered knee assembly.
The moving crash registered with the bone-shaking force of eighty-four thousand metric tons. The ice beneath Ymir’s pelvis crumbled into powdered white slush, fracturing in streaming fissures fifty yards wide. Titus drove his high-pressure front spurs straight through the titan’s lower pelvic heavy beams, pinning the huge beast’s lower torso to the bedrock like an insect pinned to a cutting-open board.
