Rengar committed toward the exposed mini-core within the damaged bow arm even as the titan's remaining weapons closed around the opening, because the gap created by the frost arrow's premature detonation would not remain long enough for hesitation. The shattered bow limb still carried unstable construct energy through its broken armor, and the mini-core inside it flickered within the collapsing layers like a concentrated pulse of blue light trying to rebuild the weapon system before the damage became permanent. The spear arm was already rotating inward from above, the club arm was rising from beneath the line of escape, and the remaining arrow arm continued gathering freezing energy despite the loss of the bow's stabilizing frame, yet Rengar pushed deeper through the chaos with crimson lightning driving through his legs and blood aura compressed tightly around both daggers.
The Twin Wolf Fang Slash formed at nearly point-blank range, not as a wide projectile meant to travel across the chamber, but as a dense crossing release shaped for penetration inside the broken armor. The twin crescents left the daggers and crossed through the exposed mini-core before the regenerating frost shell could close around it. The sphere split beneath the intersecting blood energy, and the instability that followed tore through the entire bow limb, causing the frost bow, forearm, elbow, and shoulder structure to lose cohesion at once. Fragments of compressed ice and construct stone broke away from the titan's middle side while the remaining frost energy stored in the unfinished arrow burst outward across the titan's upper body and the surrounding air.
The detonation engulfed Rengar before he could fully withdraw. Freezing pressure struck across his armor and slowed the circulation of lightning through one side of his body while the spear's sweeping shaft caught the edge of his retreat path and slammed into him with the force of a moving pillar. He crossed both daggers to redirect as much of the impact as he could, but the timing favored the titan, and the collision hurled him through a storm of frost shards and broken construct fragments. The club's upward shockwave arrived beneath the blast zone a breath later and added another layer of force, driving him farther from the exposed torso before the weakening window could fully open. Rengar twisted in the air, dug one dagger into a fractured section of floor as he landed, and used the drag to stop his momentum before the freezing buildup could lock his legs in place.
The destroyed bow arm did not regenerate. The broken weapon system remained scattered across the battlefield, and the titan staggered under the sudden imbalance created by losing another limb from the same middle layer. Its armor density dropped for the familiar short interval as energy across the construct redistributed to compensate for the missing subsystem, but because Rengar had been thrown away by the counterstrike, the opening was no longer clean. He forced himself forward anyway, using crimson lightning to cut through the remaining frost clinging to his armor, and although his acceleration was rougher than before, he reached the titan's lower torso before the weakening fully faded. His daggers carved along the already damaged chest channel, red streaks cutting through the weakened outer layer and widening fractures that had been made during the previous exchanges, yet the window closed before he could deepen the path enough to threaten the inner core.
The titan's remaining arrow arm changed behavior immediately after the loss of the bow. Without the bow to provide alignment, draw tension, and launch speed, the limb no longer produced the same terrifying straight-line shots that had nearly taken Rengar before Noctis intervened. Instead, the hand formed a giant frost arrow directly within its grip, condensed freezing power around the shaft, and drove it downward like a spear into the floor near Rengar's path. The arrow did not carry the speed of a bow-fired projectile, but when it struck, it buried itself into the battlefield and released a dense freezing eruption that spread outward in thick layers. The frost did not merely explode and vanish. It remained, coating broken terrain, sealing cracks, and creating slick ridges that tried to trap his footing.
Rengar adjusted while moving. He could avoid the hand-thrown arrows more consistently because their speed had dropped, but their aftermath created heavier environmental pressure than the bow shots. Each embedded arrow became a freezing anchor that corrupted the terrain around it, and as the titan began throwing and stabbing with them in sequence, the chamber floor transformed into a field of frozen hazards. The spear continued pressuring direct lines, the club threatened wide destruction, and the arrow arm turned sections of the battlefield into traps that limited acceleration routes. The titan had lost refinement, but it had not lost danger. Its combat style shifted from precise layered control into brutal area denial and close-range crushing pressure.
Rengar moved through that change with difficulty rather than clean confidence. The spear impact from the bow-core commitment had left a heavy ache along his side, and the frost residue from the detonation still tried to slow the response of his left leg whenever he drove lightning through it. He compensated by leaning more on foot placement and frost traction instead of raw speed alone. When the arrow arm stabbed another giant frost projectile into the floor, he did not simply leap away from the expanding ice. He shaped the upper layer beneath his foot into a narrow strip and slid along it, allowing the freezing spread to carry him sideways for a short distance before pushing out of the slip with lightning. The movement preserved speed but cost more attention than his earlier clean bursts.
The titan advanced. Its enormous frame shifted forward with less symmetry than before, and that lack of symmetry mattered. The destruction of the sword arm, staff arm, and bow arm had removed major stabilizing points from its body. When the spear thrust now, the upper frame pulled harder toward that side. When the club swung, the missing lower sword arm no longer counterbalanced the force. When the remaining arrow arm drew back to throw, the torso had to compensate with a heavier rotation through the legs. The titan was still overwhelmingly massive, but every major attack now disturbed its posture more than before.
Rengar noticed the imbalance first in the timing of recovery. A spear thrust landed near him and forced a crater through the floor, but the titan required slightly longer to pull the weapon back into guard because its torso leaned forward during the strike. The club swept after him and shattered a broken ice pillar, yet the return motion dragged the titan's weight across the opposite leg. The arrow arm formed another projectile and threw it like a javelin, and the recoil rotated the construct's upper body enough that one leg had to grind deeper into the fractured floor to keep balance. The legs did not glow. They did not reveal mini-cores. They did not regenerate after stress fractures appeared along the armor. They were not weapon subsystems; they were support structures, and damage there would accumulate.
The realization did not make the fight easier immediately, because the titan's remaining attacks still filled the battlefield with lethal force. Rengar attempted to reach the nearest leg after a spear overextension, but the arrow arm stabbed downward and flooded the ground around the support with freezing energy before he could enter. He tried using Twin Wolf Fang Slash at range against the knee armor, but the strike carved only moderate damage before dispersing against the dense support plating. He rushed the damaged side after the club missed, only for the spear to sweep low and force him to retreat across broken terrain. Each attempt told him more about how the titan protected its foundation. It did not defend the legs with the same precision it used for mini-cores, but the attack pressure around them remained heavy because the legs sat beneath every weapon's reach.
He began forcing instability instead of trying to reach the legs directly. When the spear thrust toward him, he moved close enough to make the titan commit to the full extension, then shifted around the shaft at the last moment and cut the floor beneath the opposite foot with a blood-charged slash, weakening the support surface rather than the leg itself. When the club swung, he drew it toward terrain already frozen by the embedded arrows, letting the impact break the slick surface under the titan's own stance. When the arrow arm threw a slower projectile, he guided his movement so the projectile struck near the titan's supporting side rather than far across the field, making the freezing eruption harden unevenly around the construct's footing. None of these actions produced immediate collapse, but each one added small instability to a frame already losing balance.
The titan responded by shortening its motions. The spear no longer extended as far. The club swings became more downward and less sweeping. The arrow arm began stabbing more often than throwing, using frost zones to protect the legs instead of attacking distant paths. That adaptation reduced self-risk but also reduced battlefield reach, and Rengar used the narrower range to reenter the damaged torso area repeatedly. His blood aura remained contained along the daggers even as fatigue and freezing pressure tried to interfere with energy flow, and each time he reached the chest he cut the same channel deeper. He no longer expected a single weakening window to expose the main core. The titan was too dense for that. Instead, he layered damage across the same structural line, carving through plates, widening cracks, and forcing the construct to spend more energy reinforcing its center.
Noctis remained outside the ruined formation, silent and still, watching as the fight turned from weapon destruction into frame collapse. He did not warn Rengar about the legs. He did not explain the imbalance. He allowed the understanding to form naturally because Rengar's instincts were already building the answer through survival. The more the titan attacked, the more its missing limbs changed its own motion, and the more Rengar punished those changes. The lesson from the golems had evolved. Knowing the core mattered, but against a titan, knowing the systems surrounding the core mattered just as much.
A heavy exchange forced the battle into the far side of the chamber where several pillars had cracked from previous impacts. The titan drove the spear forward to pin Rengar against the broken terrain while the arrow arm hurled a frost projectile toward the likely escape route. Rengar moved toward the spear instead, ran up the side of the shaft for several steps, and launched himself toward the titan's shoulder before the arrow exploded behind him. The club rose to intercept him in the air, and instead of evading completely, he released Twin Wolf Fang Slash downward across the club wrist. The crossed crescents carved into the joint and altered the timing of the swing just enough that the club struck one of the already cracked pillars instead of Rengar. The pillar broke apart and collapsed across the titan's own lower body, forcing its stance to shift under the falling mass.
Rengar entered that chaos immediately. He landed near the titan's support leg and slashed across the outer knee plate with both daggers. The blood aura cut deeper than his earlier ranged attempt, and although the leg did not fail, cracks spread through the armor and did not close. The titan reacted violently, dragging the club free from the broken pillar and smashing downward toward him. Rengar escaped along a frost strip formed from the arrow's lingering ice, but the shockwave caught part of his movement and threw him off balance. He rolled across the floor, pushed one dagger into the ground to redirect, and recovered before the spear could pin him.
The arrow arm stabbed another frost projectile into the floor near the damaged leg, freezing the area solid and making direct approach more dangerous. That defensive use confirmed the leg damage mattered. Rengar changed target briefly, attacking the torso again while the titan protected the leg. The construct pulled the spear inward to guard the chest, and the club shifted to cover the lower route. The moment both weapons committed toward the torso defense, Rengar vanished sideways with lightning and struck the frozen ground around the damaged leg instead, breaking the protective ice layer with two blood-charged slashes. The floor beneath the titan's foot fractured unevenly, and when the titan shifted weight to compensate, the cracked knee armor took more stress.
The frame faltered again, only slightly, but enough for Rengar to understand that support damage and terrain damage could compound. He did not need to cut the leg apart in one exchange. He needed to make the titan stand on failing ground with a failing limb while forcing heavy attacks that worsened both. The battle became a struggle over posture. The titan tried to keep its remaining weapons between Rengar and the support leg. Rengar repeatedly forced the titan to choose between protecting the chest channel, protecting the leg, or maintaining attack pressure. Each choice opened something else.
The surviving arrow arm grew more aggressive as the construct lost control of the spacing. It formed arrows faster, not as clean weapons but as dense chunks of sharpened frost energy, and stabbed them into the floor in clusters to create freezing zones around the damaged side. Several of those embedded arrows remained standing like giant icy stakes, distorting the battlefield and narrowing the approach paths. Rengar used them as obstacles as much as hazards. He kicked off one shaft to avoid a spear sweep, cut through another to make it explode near the titan's ankle, and guided the club into smashing a cluster of embedded arrows so the resulting freezing eruption spread across the titan's own footing.
The titan's balance degraded further. Its steps became heavier and less precise. The club still carried devastating force, but every swing required more recovery. The spear remained fast enough to threaten him, but its return path dragged the upper body sideways. The arrow arm still created dangerous terrain, but every throw or stab shifted the torso in a way the missing arms could no longer fully counterbalance. Rengar's movement also became rougher under the accumulating pressure. His side still hurt from the spear impact, frost repeatedly clung to his armor, and the broken ground no longer offered clean acceleration lines. Yet the fight was no longer about clean movement. It was about forcing the titan into worse movement than his own.
He found another opening when the club struck the ground after missing him and sank partially into a cracked section of floor. The titan pulled upward to free the weapon, shifting weight onto the damaged support leg. Rengar moved before the club came loose, crossing the floor in a low lightning burst and releasing a compact Twin Wolf Fang Slash directly into the knee armor. The crossed crescents cut into the cracks he had created earlier, and as the aura bit deeper, he followed with both daggers, carving through the same line in close range. The armor finally split across part of the knee support. The leg did not collapse, but the joint alignment changed.
The titan's next step landed wrong.
The entire construct leaned.
The spear stabbed into the ground to stabilize the upper body, and the arrow arm drove a frost projectile into the floor to reinforce the failing side with ice. Rengar recognized the emergency correction and attacked the stabilizers instead of the leg. He cut the frost anchor at the base of the arrow before it fully spread, causing the freezing energy to burst unevenly beneath the titan's foot. The ice hardened in a twisted shape rather than a supportive layer, and when the titan pressed weight onto it, the already damaged knee twisted further.
A deep crack ran through the leg armor.
This time the damage changed the titan's posture visibly. The construct lowered slightly on the damaged side, and the remaining weapons adjusted around that tilt. The spear gained a stronger downward angle but lost some lateral reach. The club became more dangerous on one side but slower to recover. The arrow arm had to compensate for the tilt before throwing, making the already slower projectiles easier to read. Rengar had not destroyed another mini-core yet, but he had altered the battlefield as much as if he had removed a weapon.
The titan answered with force. It drove the spear into the floor and used it like a support pole, swinging the club in a heavy arc that shattered a line of pillars and sent massive frozen stone fragments tumbling across the chamber. At the same time, the arrow arm hurled a giant frost projectile into the collapsing debris field, causing the fragments to freeze together mid-fall and crash down as a single jagged mass. Rengar raced beneath the falling structure, lightning surging unevenly through his legs as the ground broke around him. He used a piece of falling stone as a stepping surface, vaulted sideways, and cut a narrow opening through a frozen slab with both daggers before it could crush his path completely.
The environmental collapse no longer existed as background damage. It had become part of the fight. Broken pillars blocked sight lines. Frozen debris formed temporary walls. Embedded arrows created frost zones that either trapped movement or offered surfaces for sudden direction changes. The floor had split into uneven plates, some slick with fresh ice, others fractured into sharp ridges. Rengar moved through all of it while the titan's damaged balance forced the giant construct to fight the chamber as much as it fought him.
The spear arm became the next clear target because the titan used it both as a weapon and as a brace. Destroying its mini-core would remove the most precise remaining attack and take away a stabilizing tool that compensated for the damaged leg. Rengar began testing the spear arm's protection. He feinted toward the chest channel, forcing the spear to guard inward. He struck the damaged leg, forcing the spear to stab down and stabilize. He ran along the club shaft during one sweep, forcing the spear to intercept from above. Each time, he watched the armor around the spear shoulder and elbow, looking for the internal glow revealed during stress.
The titan protected that arm more carefully than the earlier ones. The mini-core did not expose easily. Whenever armor cracked, the arm rotated behind the torso or the club moved to cover the line. The arrow arm began stabbing frost projectiles near the spear-side footing, creating defensive ice fields that made entry difficult. Rengar could not simply rush it. He had to make the titan choose between stabilizing its body and protecting the spear core.
He created that choice by attacking the damaged leg again.
The titan reacted immediately, driving the spear downward as a brace while the club lifted to punish him. Rengar did not complete the leg attack. He crossed both daggers and released Twin Wolf Fang Slash not at the leg, but at the spear arm while it was planted as support. Because the arm carried weight through the weapon into the floor, it could not withdraw as quickly. The crossed crescents struck the elbow region and carved through a deep layer of armor. Rengar followed along the spear shaft, running upward with crimson lightning and striking the damaged elbow in close range before the titan could pull the arm back.
The glow appeared beneath the cracked armor for an instant.
The club descended toward him.
The arrow arm hurled a frost projectile into the same area.
Rengar committed just as he had committed against the bow arm, but this time he understood the cost before entering. He drove both daggers toward the mini-core, blood aura compressed tightly around the edges, while the club's pressure closed from above and the frost arrow's detonation began forming beneath the arm. The blades reached the glow and pierced through the outer shell around it, but the core did not shatter immediately. Its defense was denser than the bow mini-core, likely because the spear served both attack and support functions.
He pushed more blood energy into the daggers and twisted.
The core cracked.
The club impact arrived at the same time the frost arrow exploded nearby, and the combined force tore Rengar away from the arm before he could fully control the aftermath. He spun through frost and stone debris, struck the ground shoulder-first, and slid across a broken plate of ice before catching himself with one dagger. The spear arm convulsed, its mini-core fractured but not fully destroyed, and the titan tried to pull the weapon back to protect it.
Rengar rose into motion despite the impact, because a cracked mini-core was a temporary opening. If he allowed the titan to reinforce it, the work would be lost. He pushed through the stiffness in his side, used lightning to force his legs forward, and crossed the distance under the club's recovery arc. The arrow arm stabbed downward to block him with a frost projectile, but he cut through the shaft before it fully embedded, letting the freezing burst expand behind him instead of under him. The spear arm lifted, damaged and unstable, and Rengar released a smaller, denser Twin Wolf Fang Slash at the cracked elbow from below.
The crossed crescents struck the already fractured mini-core housing.
The glow broke apart within the arm.
The spear lost cohesion and collapsed, the weapon falling with it and smashing into the chamber floor as dead construct material. The titan lurched violently because the limb it had been using as a brace disappeared while the support leg remained damaged. For several seconds, the entire body sagged toward one side, and the defensive aura across the torso weakened more deeply than before.
Rengar used that window immediately, though his movements were no longer as clean as at the beginning of the fight. He reached the chest channel with a jagged acceleration path, his left leg dragging slightly through the first step before lightning corrected the motion. Both daggers struck the damaged torso, and the blood aura cut into the deeper layer now exposed by repeated weakening. He released Twin Wolf Fang Slash at point-blank range, then followed the crossing crescents with physical thrusts, using the projectile cuts to split the layer before the daggers entered. The inner glow beneath the chest became clearer, though still shielded by one more dense structure.
The titan recovered with only two functional arms remaining: the club and the arrow arm. Its body was tilted, one leg damaged, three weapon systems gone, one lower sword arm destroyed, and the battlefield around it broken into unstable terrain. Yet the remaining force was still enormous. The club could crush wide areas. The arrow arm could freeze routes and create explosive traps. The titan's defensive aura restored enough to prevent immediate core access, and the construct pulled its upper body backward to protect the chest.
Rengar withdrew before the club could smash him into the torso. He landed among broken ice ridges, breathing heavier now, blood aura still contained but dimmer from repeated high-density releases. The titan dragged its weight into a new stance, using the club as the main offensive limb and the arrow arm as both shield and terrain weapon. The damaged leg continued cracking under its own mass, but the construct refused collapse by shifting weight and lowering its center.
The next objective became clear without words. The spear was gone. The bow was gone. The staff was gone. The sword was gone. The titan's ranged precision had degraded, its terrain control had become crude, and its balance had been compromised. Only the club arm and arrow arm remained, and destroying both in close succession would create the largest destabilization window yet. The problem was that both remaining arms now stayed close to the torso, protecting each other and the main core. Reaching either mini-core would require entering the most dangerous space beneath the titan's remaining weapons, where one mistake would allow the club to crush him or the arrow to freeze his escape.
The titan formed another giant frost arrow in its remaining hand while the club dragged across the floor, carving a trench through broken stone as it prepared to swing.
Rengar lowered his stance, blood aura tightening across both daggers while crimson lightning gathered through his legs, and his gaze moved between the remaining arm joints, the damaged support leg, and the deeper glow hidden beneath the titan's chest armor.
The route existed, but it led through the most dangerous part of the battlefield.