Chapter 208 - Why

"Why you?!" Vivian began to yell as she began to charge towards Julius in an angry manner so that she could use everything in her arsenal to defeat Julius right then any there. Due to her having the feather of eternity at her disposal, she was already dangerous and now that she had just witnessed the death of her sister which for some reason she randomly started caring about, Julius was left with no option but to eliminate her as well.

"Please do not hold any grudges against Julius. I don't know why you decided to switch sides to help the opponent but you can only blame yourself for your fate. Try not to die to easily Vivian," said Duke-Drake as he spoke out of Julius body while warning the current grandmaster that he wouldn't be holding back against her.

"I doubt I'll have to rely on actually using any secret arts. I think that my hands alone should be enough to get the job done," Julius said to himself before clenching his fists and preparing to literally punch a hole right though Vivian's chest.

"Not so fast," said Julius as he whispered into Julius' ear was startled Duke-Drake quite a bit as that was the last thing he would have expected.

"Dang, this is going to be more troublesome than I thought. Having to deal with both of them and having to account for any and all events which might take place is nearly impossible. All I have to do is finish this quickly Zo the faster I kill them, the better-" Julius began to say to himself before a suddenly interruption caused him to stop his thought process.

<<Secret Art: Seed Overgrow>>

Using this secret art, Jun was able to summon countless amounts of trees and bushes. However they were not merely some ordinary bushes that simply stood in their place. These plants were special in the way the grew to wrap themselves around Julius and extend their branches and leaves to suffocate their enemy.

No matter how hard Julius tried to fight them off and remove the off his body, it was all pointless as they kept growing back and torturing him. As such, Julius decided to take the battle just a little more seriously.

"Special Trait: Forest Fire"

When Julius activated this special trait which he received after consuming one of the many monster cores which he ate non stop inside the dungeon he was in for 3 years, his entire body began to glow red as that was where the monster core's activation taking place. That being inside Julius himself.

After activating his special trait, Julius was able to burn away all of the greenery that was summoned by Jun to hold off Julius for just a bit.

That plan of Jun did in fact work as right after Julius escaped from the greenery, he was hit by another devastating attack but this time it was created by Vivian.

<<Secret Art: Metallic Mold>>

Using this secret art, Vivian turned some of the ground around her into liquid metal before throwing it at Julius and allowing it to quickly harden so that it would get the shape of Julius and incase him in it like a trapped sculpture. The liquid metal was already hot so that it would cause very painful burns to anyone who even touched it in the least. Anyone expect Julius.

Due to the large power different between the two opponents, it wouldn't have mattered if Vivian had repeated the same secret art to an unconscious Julius over and over again until she eventually passed out from exhaustion. Julius would still be able to break out of the metallic encasement she had make for him. As for the temperature of the liquid metal, to Julius, it only felt like lukewarm water on his body. No matter how hard she tried, Vivian would not be able to cause any severe damage to Julius.

After waiting for some time to see if anything special would happen, Julius broke out of the metallic encasement that was made for him as he had wanted a bit more action but was disappointed to find out that the real attack fo Vivian was just a plain encasement as if Julius was just some random toy that needed to be stored in a mold.

With quite the disappointed look on his face, Julius simply walked up to Vivian and slapped her so hard that she instantly fell to the ground not because she lost control over her feet but because the force of the slap was so hard that it basically commanded her to go on the ground at once.

"Be careful not to lick the ground," said Julius as he mocked Vivian.

"Back off," said Jun as he leaped into the air before kicked Julius in the cheek only for Julius to stand still and not even move a single inch.

"Huh? You're still here old man? I thought you learned your lesson by now but I guess I better show you that no matter what you do, you'll never be on the same level as me," said Julius as he grabbed Vivian by the neck and lifted her in the air while squeezing down on her throat. No matter how hard she tried, Vivian couldn't breathe. As much as he struggled for a single breathe of air, Vivian could not do it as Julius was squeezing her neck so hard that her airways where completely blocked.

"Please let go of her! She's all I have! You've already taken Mary from me. I never even got the chance to build a proper relationship with one of my daughters. Please don't take her away from me before I can atone for the things I've done. I just want her to forgive me," said Jun as he began to cry so that Julius could spare Vivian who was the only family that Jun had left.. Due to his history with his daughters, Jun wanted to make it up to them after the conclusion of the war but by the way things were going, Jun would never get that opportunity as proven by Mary.