Chapter 183 - Dark Truth

"Special trait: Water Works"

After Astaroth had made his outrageous claim that Ian would not be able to defeat him, Astaroth activated his own special trait which was directly connected to his own weapon. Using his special trait, not only was Astaroth able to turn his trident into water itself but also managed to turn his own body into water before sliding down on the ground so he could move away from the area which the chains that Ian had cast so keep Astaroth in place.

"You see, there was never a chance of you actually defeating me. Just you alone turning around after you managed to put me inside silly trap shows how inexperienced you truly are in the art of combat," Astaroth explained to Ian.

"Oh really? So what do you plan to do with me now? You must want to have a battle where you show off some of your moves before killing me, after all I'm your enemy so it would only make sense, right?" Ian asked while keeping a sarcastic tone.

"Why do you still sound like you think you won? Perhaps I didn't make things clear enough. You are not going to leave this place with your life," Astaroth explained to Ian.

"No you're mistaken. I must apologize first though, it was my fault for truly not making it clear how much of a difference in power and knowledge there is between us. I hope you do not blame yourself too much as you are but a mere monkey in front of me," Ian told Astaroth.

"What are you talking about? Can't you see that I broke out of stupid trap? Now you're completely open to any attacks which I wish to throw at you," Astaroth explained to Ian as he was fully convinced that Ian had to be hallucinating or something as Astaroth as clearly winning the battle he was in currently.

"Are you really sure about the fact that you escaped?" Ian asked Astaroth and his enemy finally finished turning back into a human from being nothing but a puddle of water.

Just as that happened, Astaroth froze in place as he couldn't even budge a single centimetre. No matter how hard he tried, taking even a single step was impossible as his feet refused to move from the ground.

"Oh, what's that? You can't move? How confusing right?" Ian asked as he mocked Astaroth who was bragging about how he had basically defeated Ian as he had managed to escape the trap that Ian had set for merely a moment. As such, Astaroth assumed that Ian would be rendered hopeless for the rest of the battle, only to find out that he couldn't even move anymore.

To make things worse for Astaroth, the chains which Ian had cast right after the immobilization secret art began to once again wrap around Astaroth's body, however this time, the temperature of the chains seemed to be much hotter, as if they were starting to burn and engrave themselves in Astaroth's skin which they were indeed doing.

"I won't give up! All I have to do is just escape from this once again and then I'll be able to maintain my liquid state then I'll just manipulate my special trait to kill you! You still haven't won-," Astaroth began to speak only to be cut off by the sound of something falling before shortly the sound of glass shattering and things breaking which took place all in a matter of moments.

"Goodbye whoever you are," said Ian before turning around, just as his back faced Astaroth, the divine blade which was cast long ago slammed into Astaroth's body and finally brought their battle to a close.

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Ian Vs. Astaroth.

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Ian wins.

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The final member of the original 5 subjects which still needed to his his battle was Steph which seemed awfully calmer about the situation than everyone else.

"I wonder who my opponent will be? Maybe a pretty woman that has a hero complex? I hope that's my opponent, it would be more fun to toy with someone like that, plus I would get to stare at her as well which is a perk. Although with my luck, anything should be possible because the universe loves me," said Steph as he crashed into the castle like building in the kingdom which he was sent in to eliminate the king or queen of.

After getting inside the building, Steph stayed quiet as he looked around for anyone which seemed to stand out in the crowd to be the leader of the kingdom. Since Steph wanted to do his job properly, it was essential for him to find and eliminate the king or queen of the kingdom. Although for him, he didn't agree with quick elimination, just the finding part would have been enough for Steph as he wanted to enjoy his time on his first journey.

"Who's that pretty girl? I know she just basically committed a huge crime but I feel like forgiving her," said one of the guards which was on duty which Steph seemed to overhear.

"I guess overtime I forgot that I still looked more like a girl due to the rest of the people in the 10th continent already knowing that I'm a boy. This should be a little fun," said Steph to himself as he began to walk in an elegant manner so that all of the other guards would be distracted by his beauty.

"I'm tired of just standing here! I'll make my move!" one brave guard said as he stepped up to make a move on Steph.

"Excuse me fine lady, how may I help you today?" the brave guard said to Steph as he wanted to seem like a kind person to him so that he could impress the one he liked. If only he knew the dark truth about Steph.

"Get away from that creature at once! That's clearly the enemy which I must take down!" an old man came out from the shadows as he carried a golden staff while wearing a full golden armour set which had engravings that gleamed the colour brown.