Chapter 82 - Activate

"So what happened to him? Is he dead or alive?" Julius asked.

"He's still alive and chooses to stay on the island in wait for someone to come to challenge him and somehow be a difficult opponent for him. That opponent will probably be you. The only problem being that if you're worthy but not strong enough to defeat him, he'll kill you so he could honour you," Jun explained the monster which lingered in the island called hell.

"So what are the 9 rulers going to do about him?" Julius asked.

"There's said to be another battle which will take place in a couple years. Right now all the 9 rulers are training for that day to come so that they wouldn't have to face such a humiliating defeat once again," Jun replied as the two finally arrived at the small kingdom where they would buy their robbing attire.

"Wait here, I'll go in there myself and get us the clothing. It'll be suspicious if both of us go in and buy the attire before shortly going to rob the great kingdom," said Jun said he got off the ruby dragon from a distance and told Julius to wait for him in the air so that he wouldn't get recognized.

After the short while, Jun came out of the kingdom and as Julius commanded her dragon to go down to pick his master up, Jun jumped from the ground and somehow managed to to land of the ruby dragon.

"Secret art?" Julius asked with an annoyed face.

"Yup, but you can do it too without having to rely on a secret art. It's pretty easy especially with the status points you have," said Jun.

"Ok ok, I'll believe you for now but I'll have to test it later," said Julius as his master handed him the attire which they were going to use to rob Sandra's kingdom with.

Julius quickly put on his fill black attire which was a black turtle neck with black trousers and a black mask. While it looked and felt weird, Julius endured it for the sake of the mission.

After finally arriving at Sandra's kingdom, it was night time which was perfect for Julius and Jun. Without wasting a moment, Jun leaped off the dragon so he could go inside the prisoner chamber. As for Julius, he crashed into the castle just as Jun had done in Steward's kingdom. Hearing the noise, the guards at the front of the castle quickly went inside to check what happened, leaving the front doors of the castle open.

As for Julius, once he has entered the castle, he told his ruby dragon to go wait outside for Jun which his pet listened to. However as the dragon was leaving, one of the guards quickly leaped towards it and tries to stop the dragon from leaving. Seeing this, Julius grabbed the guard with on hand and slammed him down on the ground.

A few moments later, a woman in almost no armour came to the scene with nothing but a long yet skinny sword much like a katana.

"Who are you and why are you attacking this place?" the woman asked Julius.

However, Julius chose to stay quiet as if he were to speak, he could easily get caught.

"Then so be it, you shall die without saying your last words," the woman said as he began to sprint towards Julius with her blade pointed towards Julius' chest. While in the past Julius knew her to be Sandra, Julius knew that the real queen of the katana kingdom was elsewhere.

As the fake Sandra began to charge towards Julius, the prince himself took a step forward which to her looked like a coupe steps as he closed the distance between them and managed to reach her side as he grabbed her katana with his blade hands and snapped it in half like a stick.

"But how? No one should be able to defeat me! Who exactly are you?" the fake Sandra asked which Julius assumed her to be the previous captain of the royal guards.

"My queen!" the current captain of the royal guards came spinning in as she tried to slice the head of the attacker which they didn't know to be Julius. However the current captain wouldn't have even the slightest chance at defeating Julius as Julius quickly looked up at her before pulling out the dagger with Zo had given him.

"Activate!"

Julius turned his small dagger into a long blade of fire as he used it like a whip to deflect the attack of the current captain of the royal guards while also burning her a bit.

"A monster core infused weapon?! Not just anyone could attain those, we're dealing with the real deal, someone call the true queen of the kingdom," the fake Sandra said.

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"Who dares to enter my kingdom without my permission and starts all his mess. You shall pay for this this your life," said a figure as it began to walk through the crowd of guards with its armour clicking against itself.

The figure which was appeared was a somewhat younger woman than the fake Sandra. She wore her full golden armour with its engravings which gleamed the colour pink like flowers. Her skinny ginger hair barely showed as her armour covered most of her features. However, one thing was clear. That woman was the real queen of the katana kingdom, Sandra.

"Answer me at once, who are you?!" Sandra commanded but was ignored by Julius.

"You can choose to stay quiet but you shall die here all the same," said Sandra as she swung her blade in the air which was a metaphor for declaring battle however as she did that, Sandra's blade became the focus of Julius' attention as he saw her golden blade continue to glow while it began to get surrounded with pink petals all around until Julius was completely frozen in place while he was mesmerized by the beauty which was in front of him. Julius even forgot where he was for a moment.

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