Chapter 189 - Steven Vs. Emily

"Tell me Christopher, do you know what secret arts are?" Dae asked which seemed to shock Christopher right as he heard those words.

"Your face tells me that you do intact know what they are. Of course I knew what you were planning. I mean you made it so obvious. Only a moron would fall for something as stupid as that. Which was exactly why pretended like I didn't know what you were planning. In the end, you were the moron. It's truly amazing to see the tables turn after you spent all that time bragging about your intelligence. Although you wouldn't feel too bad, I mean who would expect an animal such as yourself to know that you were just getting toyed with," said Dae with a grin as he used the very same insults that Christopher had used to mock Dae when he believed that he was winning the battle by a great extent.

Seeing this, Christopher grit his teeth in frustration as he pulled 3 different golden arrows and fired them all at the same time. After doing this, he caused all of them to duplicate multiple times while being in midair.

"Oh no you don't," said Dae as he knew exactly how to counter the arrows that were coming straight for him.

<<Secret Art: Thousand Blades>>

Using his secret art, Dae summoned a seemingly uncountable amount of arrows which surrounded Christopher along with the arrows that were midair. Without wasting anymore time that he already had, Dae forced a couple of his blades out of the thousand he had summoned to fly towards Christopher's arrows and collide with them so that they could be rendered useless.

"Dammit, if that didn't work, nothing else that I have is going to work on him. Maybe for once I'll swallow my pride and run away. I mean after all if I get away from him, I can help King Henry fight his opponent instead. So technically I'm not even running away, I'm just swallowing my dignity out of the kindness of my heart to help someone else in need," Christopher told himself as he tried to justify the fact that he was going to run away from his enemy because he was simply too weak. Of course there was no way that Christopher was going to admit that, instead he tried to make up some excuse as to why his coward attitude could be justified.

Even so, he couldn't truly be blamed for it since he always lived a life where he was better than almost everyone else that existed in the entire world. The only ones who ever came to his level of power were the other rulers of the great kingdoms. Other than them, Christopher treated everyone else like trash since he whole heartedly believed that he was better than them which in most cases was the truth since he had been trained by Jun himself. Although it was morally incorrect, he was the one in power so he could speak down to everyone else and not a single person would be able to stand up to him.

Just as Christopher began to run for his life as he wasn't ready to die, Dae let out one last sigh of disappointment.

"The moment you run away is when you have truly lost the battle," said Dae before directing all of his remaining blades at Christopher which was running away before impaling him with as many blades as possible. As for the renaming blades, he allowed them to fall on the ground before turning away so that he could head towards Julius and assist him in his battle which would be much more difficult than the battles the rest of them would have to face.

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Dae Vs. Christopher.

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Dae Wins.

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After Dae's battle was over, there was only one final battle other than Julius' battle which needed to take place. That being Steven's battle which Steven himself eagerly awaited as he wanted to let off some steam which he had been holding on to for several years since he wasn't in any real battles.

"I can't wait! I bet my opponent is going to be a large 20 foot giant with unparalleled strength which is a living threat to this world! Man I can't wait! It's going to be so fun, the exchanges of attacks we're going to have will be immeasurable. Our battle shall last for servers days with no one even resting for so much as a second. Truly the ultimate test of strength," Steven told himself as he couldn't wait much longer since he had wanted to get started with the battle as quickly as possible.

Due to this, just when Steven could see the kingdom where his dragon was heading to, he couldn't wait anyone. As such, he literally leaped of the dragon as he believed that it was going far too slow. Hence, he picked the choice of flying down to the ground before sprinting so fast that he made the dragon look like a turtle.

Within just a couple minutes, Steven had gotten close enough which was when he chose to leap in the air and crash inside the top floor of the castle which was most likely where the ruler on the kingdom resided in.

Steven assumed this because the castle was most likely set up so that the challenger would clear the early floors which had weaker opponents and face stronger ones as he headed upwards. Due to this, not only would it allow the ruler of the kingdom to face an exhausted version of the challenger but also give the ruler of the kingdom to plan the perfect way to counter their opponent and defeat them with ease.

However Steven wasn't stupid even with his brute like nature. As such, he knew exactly where the strongest person inside the kingdom would be inside which was where he headed right away.

With the brightest smile on his face, Steven crashed into the castle with his arms wide open as if he was going to hug his opponent just front the pure joy of his upcoming battle.. Unfortunately for Steven, his opponent would be much different that he had initially imagined.