Chapter 167 - Duke-Drake

"Welcome back Julius," the glowing white figure's voice greeted Julius back inside the empty void as Julius passed out while standing on his own two feet.

"What do you want," said Julius in a defeated tone as he just wanted to shit himself away from all creation for a while.

"Why do you look so defeated? You still have so much to look forward to," said the glowing white figure in a sarcastic tone.

"Can you toying with me for just a second? This isn't the ideal time to cracking jokes. I don't even feel like talking right now," Julius replied in an irritated tone which just made the glowing white figure begin to laugh out loud at how ridiculous Julius sounded.

"You're acting like that woman was your entire world," the glowing white figure mocked Julius.

"That's because she was! Now I don't have anything. She toyed with me until I finally broke and killed her. I literally killed a whole human being. I should just be killed already!" Julius yelled out as tears began to come out of Julius' eyes even in the empty void.

Seeing Julius cry as he felt sorry for himself, the glowing white figure got angry for once and slapped Julius as hard as he could with this giant hand.

"Ow! What the hell was that for? Are you trying to start a fight with me or something?" Julius said as he wiped away his tears and clenched his fists as he prepared to battle the glowing white figure to the death.

"That's what I thought. He does have some pent up anger. I should help him out," said the glowing white figure as he decreased his body's size into that of a regular human and quickly punched Julius on the face. In doing this, the glowing white figure had managed to anger Julius to a point where he was ready to go all out in battle even in his base form where he didn't have his white cloths and white hair.

"Hey! What's your name?! I'll make a grave for you in the outside world!" Julius announced as he allows his bloodlust to roam loose.

"Drake, call me Duke-Drake!" The glowing white figure yelled back as he went in for a punch at Julius only to be blocked by the prince who simply punched Duke-Drake on the face and managed to make contact. However that wouldn't be the end of their battle as they continued to go blow for blow.

Not a single one of them even hesitated to punch the other with everything they had. Punch after punch. Block after block. Neither of them seemed to have any plans of giving up.

Even though their punches had drastically slowed down and weakened, they continued to beat each other to a bloody pulp.

"Rot in hell!" Julius said as he jumped as high as he could even his weak state before hitting his head on Duke-Drake's head.

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The final attack.

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With Julius managing to land that attack, both of them fell on the ground from having exhausting themselves to the point where the couldn't move their bodies anymore.

"Why can't I punch you?! I still have to deliver hundreds of more punches to your stupid face!" Julius complained as he tried to move his fists to no avail.

At that moment, Duke-Drake brought a stop to his serious attitude as he once more laughed at Julius.

"What are you laughing for? I see that my devastating punches have brought you to insanity," Julius said with a confidant smirk as they both laid down on the empty void which simply looked like they were floating in empty space.

"No I'm not laughing because of that. I'm laughing because you're back to your usual self. You see, all it took to change you back was a little sparring session to get rid of all that sadness. In the end you never lost anything special. You always had everything you wanted and will ever need," Duke-Drake told Julius.

"B-But-" Julius tried to speak before Duke-Drake cut him off once again as he needed to tell the person who's body he was embodying something important.

"Plus, you better not have forgotten why you've been waiting for this day for so long," Duke-Drake warned Julius.

"Huh? Why would I forget? Today was the day that I would receive my answer from Liz about my confession. But seeing as she's dead now, I guess I'll never get that answer," Julius said in a joking tone while being slightly serious.

"You moron! So you really did forget all about your real goal. Liz was never your real objective from the start! How did you let a single woman distract you from your mission which you've been working so hard to accomplish?!" Duke-Drake yelled at Julius.

"What do you mean? I haven't forgotten anything. I've managed to complete all my goals. I've managed to reach level 100 after my 3 years in the endless dungeon. I've also finally reached cultivation rank 20 due to me having been in sleep while cultivating after my battle in death island. I've also managed to absorb many powerful monster cores. I've consumed an uncountable amount of secret art scrolls. There's not much that I have to do," Julius said in a nonchalant voice.

"Are you really sure that you don't have to do anything else? Think back to when you first started training with Jun. What do you remember your goal being?" the glowing white figure asked as he tried to help Julius remember on his own.

"Are you talking about the trip of the other civilization where I spent a couple months learning all the martial arts techniques I could find along with many other fighting styles? Or what about my battles with Wilson, Sandra, Steward or even Mary?" Julius asked as he paused after saying the last name.

"Why do I remember something important happening while I was at Mary's kingdom? I just can't put my finger on it," Julius said as he tried to think.

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"How could I forget! That was literally the most important think I could ever forget. I still have to go back to…" Julius began to speak.

"The 10th continent!"