Chapter 215 - King’s Slumber

<<Secret Art: Henry's Judgment>>

<<Good Old Days>>

After activating yet another secret art, Julius was forced to watch as life itself began to pour into all the people who he had killed which included all the people who he placed inside a snow globe before crushing so that he could prove his strength to Mary.

"What's happening? This shouldn't even be possible. I killed all of them so why are they all alive again?" Julius asked in a panicked tone as he didn't want to repeat what he just did all over again just to end back where he started.

"That's a very good question Julius. You see, I'm quite glad that Vivian had taught me how to create secret arts. If not for that, I would have been finished right now. I mean you killed all of my strongest allies and were too close to killing me. However due to Vivian actually teaching me a life saver of a technique, I was able to bring them all back from the dead. Yes, you heard that right, I brought them all back from the dead meaning that you were successful in killing them all. However due to my new secret art, I was able to restart this entire battle, the only different being that you're now much weaker than when we started. As such, it'll be a lot easier to take you down," Henry explained to Julius.

"Oh is that so? I would love to see you try-" Julius began to speak only to be completely stopped before he could finish his sentence. Right before Julius could have finished speaking, Steven quickly got up from the ground and rushed towards Julius before grabbing him by the neck as he used his forearm to push Julius towards the ground and sit on top of his chest as he continued to bombard him with a fury of punches. The odd part about this being that Steven's attacks actually hurt Julius and were doing an exceptional amount of damage.

"Get off me!" Julius yelled out before activating a special trait of fire to blow Steven off of his body so he could actually fight properly. However right as Julius did this, Mary came from behind him and stabbed him in the back of the chest with her bident which was now as good as new. After realizing that he had been stabbed in the back, Julius tried to turn around only for Mary to spin her bident and cause a large whole to form in Julius' chest as blood poured out of his body like a fountain.

"What the hell is happening to me?" Julius asked himself as he quickly used the special trait that was already activated to quickly seal his body shut by burning the whole in his chest so that the bleeding would stop and the feeling of passing out would go away. Since Julius had multiple special traits as well as secret arts for healing, he knew that he would be able to use the them later on to return his body back to the state it was at before Henry had caused all of his allies to be revived since Julius needed to focus on his offence instead of his healing capabilities.

"Okay, I should start going all out," said Julius even though there was a literal whole in his chest. However before he could actually fulfill the promise he made to himself, Vivian appeared out of no where and shoved her blade inside Julius' mouth before backflipping midair and kicking Julius in the chin so that the blade would go thought his nose and even make contact with his brain. 

Seeing as he was on the brink of death, Julius or more specifically, Duke-Drake began to panic as he never planned for the battle to go this way. He planned on defeating everyone there and killing them so that Julius could be satisfied with the outcome and would not be in a mentally unstable state. However seeing the way things were going for Duke-Drake, Julius wouldn't be able to see the reality which Duke-Drake wanted to create for him. In fact, Julius wouldn't be able to see anything in general as he was going to die soon.

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"I'm sorry Julius. I let you down. In the end, I wasn't able to do anything for you, I just ended up making things worse than they already were. Please forgive me for causing things to end like this. It was never my intention to lose this easily," said Duke-Drake with clear regret in his voice as he didn't want to die yet. If he allows Julius' body to be killed, he would be the reason 200 years of planning would go to waste and that was the last thing he wanted.

Although he had said this to Julius, Julius himself stayed quiet as he didn't bother to respond to what Duke-Drake had said.

"I see, so you must be that disappointed in me that you're not even willing to talk to me. I understand, it's my fault it ended this way after all," said Duke-Drake as he tried to stop himself from feeling an unimaginable amount of guilt.

However as all this was going on In Julius' head, Roger as well as Jun finally stepped up to get their revenge as they broke every single bone in Julius' body which included his arms, legs, feet, hands, fingers, toes. They didn't discriminate in which bone they wanted to break. As long as they found one, they broke it instantly.

Nevertheless, Julius didn't yell out even once even though he was experiencing true hell as they slowly and painfully broke each and every bone in his body. Next, Henry finally stepped up.

Henry had about 9 different weapons in his hand, each from every great kingdom which he allied himself with. After that, Henry stabbed Julius with each of those weapons. Even the war hammer was pushed into Julius' body so hard that it breached his skin and went inside his body.

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"It's fine Drake, just let the real king take over now," said Julius as he opened his eyes wide as if he awoke from a long slumber.