Regeneration was the Kraken Matriarch's core defense. Hunters relied on focused, high-damage strikes to overload the healing capacity. My strategy was simpler: negate regeneration through sustained kinetic overload.
I channeled the full, continuous power of my Epic Gauntlet into a single tentacle I had seized during the initial strike. I didn't use the Lich Soulfire yet; I used only the Storm Titan/Gorgon fusion.
I focused the electrical energy of the Storm Titan Core into a high-frequency, kinetic pulse that I broadcast directly through the tentacle. The energy wasn't meant to kill the tentacle, but to vibrate the Matriarch's regenerative cells at a frequency too high to allow synthesis.
The tentacle immediately went rigid. The Matriarch shrieked—a high-pitched, subsonic sound that shook the water—realizing its limb was paralyzed, unable to retract, and critically, unable to regenerate.
I had successfully demonstrated the power of Continuous Pressure. I was maintaining a localized, internal vibrational assault that actively denied the creature's core ability to heal.
The Matriarch panicked and launched the rest of its tentacles.
I laughed, the sound muffled by the water and the sheer rush of Adrenaline from the impossible feat. This was the moment of complete dominance.
I activated Chain Lightning Evasion, dissolving my form into pure electricity and surging through the water. I materialized at the base of the Matriarch's main body, near its soft, vulnerable mantle.
I began channeling a continuous stream of pure Lich Soulfire onto the Matriarch's flesh. This was not a fire blast; it was a focused, relentless burning drill, powered by my continuous mana synthesis.
The Soulfire bored into the Matriarch's hide, the flesh sizzling and vaporizing instantly. Normally, the Kraken's body would shunt resources to the area, regenerating the damage faster than the burn could be inflicted. But my continuous, perpetual burn was too much. The Matriarch was forced to dedicate all its regenerative resources to a single, rapidly deepening wound.
It was a race: my continuous burn rate versus the Matriarch's regeneration threshold.
The creature thrashed violently, tearing through the cavern walls, desperate to shake me off. But my Density Manipulation and Hyper-Focus kept me locked in place, my limbs moving with the precision of a clockwork machine despite the chaos.
The Rank A observers, peering through the small air pocket they had maintained near the surface, watched in stunned silence. They saw the impossible: a single, black-clad hunter moving with inhuman speed, maintaining a stream of devastating, concentrated power that should have depleted his reserves in seconds. They saw the Kraken Matriarch, the scourge of their existence, being steadily, systematically overpowered.
The pressure mounted. The Matriarch's regenerative system finally failed. The spot where I was drilling turned black, then collapsed entirely.
I pulled back, and the Kraken Matriarch shuddered violently. Its tentacles, paralyzed and unregenerated, went limp. Its massive body floated upward, lifeless.
Total clear time: 41 minutes. The previous record, set by a highly specialized Rank S team, was 3 hours and 17 minutes.