Chapter 143 - The Warrior Of Light

"Leave my king alone!" Roger yelled out at Julius who was kicked by several metres back by Roger.

"What the hell was that?" Julius asked himself as he got up from the ground.

"I won't forgive you for hurting my king! I don't care if you were my acting child for 14 years, my loyalty belongs to king Henry and I shall prove that by presenting him with your head you traitor!" Roger yelled out as he began to glow once again before disappearing into light. Just a second later, Roger reappeared in front of Julius and kicked him once again in the face. This time however, Julius stood his ground as he didn't move even half an inch.

"Huh?" Roger replied as he tried to put more force into his kick while in midair but still failed as Julius stared at him with his dark eyes before grabbing Roger by the leg and slamming him on the ground.

"What the hell is happing?! I kicked you at the speed of light and you're still alive let alone blocking my attacks like they are nothing to you," Roger said in a frustrated voice.

"Wrong. If you were really kicked him at the speed of light, I would've been dead jus like you said. However, as you can see, I am not dead. The reason for this being that you're not actually kicking me at the speed of light. All you're doing is turning into light so I can't see you then kicking me once you return to your human form. The only problem I see with this is that you blade isn't the only one who's turning into light but you're also turning into light itself. Why is that?" Julius asked with a curious tone.

"That's because of quick equipping," Roger replied as he got up from the ground shaking as Julius had most likely broken some parts of Roger when he slammed him on to the ground.

"Quick equipping?" Julius asked as he just continued to grow with curiously.

"Yes, quick equipping. It's the act of quickly forcing a monster core to activate by making an object touch the inner part of it. Of course there is a draw back to this. That being that it has a time limit and while the seconds you have decrease, the monster core begins to melt until it turns into nothingness when the timer is over," said Roger as he showed Julius the gooey bright yellow substance on his arm.

"Since I have the monster core parts touching my body as well, I'm able to use its powers. That of course until the liquid evaporates at which I will no longer be able to use the monster core," Roger explained.

"So why are you explaining this to me instead of taking advantage of the little time you have to attack me?" Julius asked with a face that indicated that he thought that Roger was an idiot.

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"You're right!" Roger yelled out as he began to swing his blade in all directions. However when he bad began to swing the blade, all of it expect the hilt disappeared as the invisible blade began to attack Julius relentlessly. It even managed to make a few cuts on Julius.

"Wow, that's very odd, I would have never expected to actually get cut by a blade. Specially one which is wielded by someone as weak as Roger. I mean compared to regular people, Roger is pretty strong but when he is compared to the likes of Henry, Mary, Steward, Sandra or Wilson, he pales in comparison. There is only once explanation for this," said Julius as he leaped off the ground towards the side as he tried to dodge the relentless attacks but he was caught by the blade as it slashed his left cheek, leaving a small cut in him.

"I thought so! There's only one was a blade like that could get so much stronger from a monster core. At first I thought that the monster core only allowed the user to turn themselves into light but when they wanted to attack, their power would be the same as usual but there are a few things in play here," said Julius as he stopped trying to dodge the blade and began to walk forward towards Roger who was now scared as he was doing his best to keep a distance by attacking his enemy but Julius just kept moving forward.

"The most likely thing that's happening right now is that every second that passes, the blade grows with speed and power as it is fighting for the last time. This is clear by the sudden ability of the blade being to catch up to me even while it's trying to attack. However, there is something else as well," Julius continued to speak to himself while now standing right in front of Roger who thought that it was over for him.

"Hey Roger, can you punch me?" Julius asked which caused Roger to question of Julius had lost too much blood from being cut so many times.

"Huh? I guess it works out in my favour so sure," said Roger as he put everything into a single punch and made direct contact with Julius' right cheek. Even so, Julius just stood there as if he didn't feel anything and closed his eyes before continuing to think to himself.

"It's just like I thought. His physical strength has increased as well. That said, that's not because of the running out effect of the monster core. Instead it's most likely the base effect of the monster core. I noticed it with his first kick since it was much stronger than what he was supposed to be. Now I'm starting to regret not taking that monster core. I could've made better use of it since monster cores can become more powerful as the user grows in strength," Julius said to himself before opening his eyes once again to look down at Roger who looked terrified.

"You knew that you couldn't win this from that start," Julius said with a disappointed sigh as he placed his hand on top of the monster core which was still on Roger's blade before crushing it along with the blade itself.