Chapter 191 - Steven’s Recognition

Without wasting even a single breath, Steven launched his entire body at Emily while carried a large grin on his face which was terrifying for Emily since Steven was a giant compared to her. Well even though he was basically a giant to her, she thought of him more to be a gorilla than anything else as he was too dumb to be considered a person in her opinion.

"Close combat huh? You probably think that my axe is only capable of preforming attacks which only counter long ranged attacks but you're mistaken. My axe is capable of much more than that and you're going to learn that the hard way," Emily said as she kept those thoughts to herself.

"Here he comes. All I need is just a single slash and I'll be able to end this match faster than he can blink his eye," Emily said to her self as he awaited for the perfect second so that she could cut Steven up into little pieces. However, Steven wasn't an idiot when it came to battle. After all, he had been in battle after battle for 10 straight years without any breaks. Due to that, he gained the experience to break apart any and all of his opponents moves unless they were massively stronger than him like Julius who was not only blessed with talent but also had the best teacher the world could offer. Just to add on to his many blessings, Julius was able to visit the other civilization of the world to learn all sorts of fighting techniques which the part of the world he was in never thought of as the heavily relied of strength instead of technique. Due to all of these factors working together to help Julius, he was able to defeat Steven even though he had been training for 10 long years. Even so, just because Julius was able to defeat him, that didn't mean some regular ruler of a great kingdom could do the same.

Steven had actually been expecting Emily to pull a last minute trump card to defeat him in the only millisecond which Steven would be open for any attacks. So instead of mindlessly rushing into a charge, Steven waited for the moment the smallest movement was made by Emily's body. In this case, it was her arm as she brought it towards to slice Steven right when her got close enough.

Seeing as she was timing her attack and most likely calculated the amount she should move her hand, he knew that if he boosted the speed at which he was moving midair, he would be able to land his attack without suffering any consequences which was exactly what he did.

Using his special trait, Steven caused his speed to increase drastically within that single moment so he could be accelerated so much at he would make contact before Emily's axe could even scratch his legs.

Due to being sent flying at such high speeds, Steven couldn't turn his body midair and kick Emily and instead had to opt to slamming his head right into her chest. Fortunately for Steven, that strategy worked, maybe even a little too well as he herd her ribs crack as his head made contact with her golden armour. Even though Steven had literally slammed his head into solid hard gold, he wasn't the one that suffered the damage but was instead the one who was wearing the armour.

After slamming into Emily, Steven got up from the ground so that Emily could admit her loss and finally show him towards where her husband was. After all, that was the only reason Steven agreed to fight her. However one unfortunate thing did in fact happen to Steven. That being Emily wouldn't be able to admit her defeat due to her dying after Steven had delivered that devastating blow to her.

"Ah what a shame," said Steven as he began to walk away after seeing Emily's lifeless body on the ground.

However as Steven continued to watch away from the scene, he heard some laughing coming from a couple of guards which were laughing at the dead body of Emily. Even though he didn't care about Emily, Steven was particularly angry in that moment so he turned her head towards the guards that were laughing and looked them dead in the eyes which seemed to make them quiet down as a cold chill was sent up their spine.

"Why are you laughing?" Steven asked one of the guards which brought fear not only to the guard that was asked but also all the other guards in that room.

"Sorry sir. I didn't mean to laugh. To make up for my mistake, please allow me to show you to our queen's husband so that you may battle him since you seemed quite interested in him," the guard replied as he believed that if he offered Steven something which he wanted, he would be able to be forgiven for his sins. However the exact opposite of what he had hoped happened as Steven looked even angrier than before.

"Don't make me repeat myself! Tell me, why did you laugh?" Steven asked which brought worry into every guard as they believed that even the slightest wrong word could get them all killed. However someone instead of the guard that was asked replied in quite a drunk and cocky tone.

"Why shouldn't we laugh? She pretended that she was some strong person that could take down everyone and even thought that she would humiliate you since you humiliated her first. In the end, that pathetic woman humiliated herself not once but twice! It's quite pathetic when you think about it. Although maybe I should take over this kingdom. I mean I'm not quite as foolish as that ignorant woman," the drunk man said to Steven which had crossed the line.

Having heard enough, Steven basically teleported in front of the drunk man and slapped him across the face so hard that his head twisted before eventually breaking off and falling to the ground.

"Now tell me, who's the weak one?" Steven asked while looking down as the drunk man with disgust.