Chapter 216 - No Return

Although Julius' body was already past the point of no return due to him being on the brink of death after he had all his bones broken and his skin pierced by several weapons, he still opened his eyes as if he was most alive in the moment. Without wasting so much as another precious second of his time, Julius activated a secret art so that he would be able to return his body to its state before it had been broken so badly.

<<Secret Art: Gentle Healing>>

Using this secret art, Julius was able to recover nearly instantly from all of his his previous injuries and could move as if he was as good as new. 

Just as everyone began to turn around as they had believed that they had killed Julius for good, they could hear the sounds of weapons dropping on the ground as Julius removed them from his body and continued to heal his body.

"Huh? It can't be," said Henry as he was baffled to learn that Julius was still ready to head into battle once again.

"Haven't you learned your lesson already? You shouldn't even be alive right now however since you seem to like getting killed, I'll allow you the pleasure of being killed once again. You should really be thanking me for giving you this pleasurable experience," said Henry as he believed that he would now be able to completely and utterly kill Julius once again and that there would not be a difference of outcome as compared to what had happened just a moment ago.

However just a moment later, a large stampede could be heard outside the castle as an army which was of unimaginable size had just arrived to the kingdom. That could only mean one thing, it was Julius' army which was being led by Knight which was one of the elite members of Julius' army.

"Oh looks like we have company. It seems like they're looking for a battle. If a battle is what they want, a battle is what they'll get," said Henry as he gave Vivian a nod to which she simply nodded back before activating a secret art.

<<Secret Art: Announcement>>

"Listen everyone from the meditation as well as the battling army! Our common enemy has arrived! You've been training hard for this battle, don't let all of your efforts go to waste! Don't hold anything back! Give it everything you've got!" Vivian announcement loudly as if she was using a microphone to inform everyone to go up against Julius' army and defeat them. Due to her activating her secret art, it allowed her to speak normally but instead of it just being at normal volume, it would convey it to everyone in a certain area as if she was using a microphone to make an important announcement. After Vivian had made her announcement, a large roar could be heard in the crowd of people who were ready for war before going into a clash with Julius' army. 

"Good luck Knight, prove that you are worthy of being a part of my elite force," said Julius before turning his attention away from his army as he was confident that they would be enough to take down all of the guild-masters from all the guilds in the world. Even though the guild-masters as well as the members of the battling army were much more likely to win, Julius thought to put some faith in his own army as he focused his attention on only the more important group that was present, that being Henry and all the others.

Seeing as Julius had let his guard down for a little over a second, Spike rushed towards Julius at top speeds, before Julius could even turn his head around to get even the slightest hope of blocking the attack, Spike moved in close to Julius and prepares to throw a devastating punch right to the face.

However, the moment before SpikeMs punch could land, Julius moved without even looking as he wrapped both his arms around Spike's fist as he disassembled the punch and flattened Spike's hand to be a regular palm instead of a fist. Without even bothering to worry about Spike or anyone else with that matter, Julius continued to move around like a snake without giving anyone a chance to grab on to him before placing Spike in a headlock. The scariest part was that Spike would have dealt with the situation almost immediately if anyone else had been using the technique from the point where it was displayed for the naked eye. The reason why this technique was so special wasn't how badly it hurt the opponent, it was more about how it was done. 

The actual reasoning for this complex move for working in spike was that he was expecting an actual attack which allowed Julius to go in and press several pressure points on Spike which weakened the stableness of his body. It was so seamless that even though multiple people have seen the technique right in front of their eyes, none bothered to question it as they have believed that it had more to do with the movement of the technique instead of what was going on in the background.

"Now, Spike, I'll give you one more chance to back away or I'll be forced to use another technique of mine to destroy you to the point where all your bones will be broken in less than 20 seconds," said Julius as he threatened Spike.

Although this was quite terrifying threat to receive, most of the people who were in that room of the castle were more worried about where Julius had learned to preform moves like that. The answer being quite simple in that Julius had spent quite the long time in the other human civilization's domain. That was where Julius had went from place to place as he went searching for new teachers constantly to help him improve his fighting techniques. It wasn't until after a few months of doing this constantly that Julius had stopped.. Julius had nearly thousands of fighting techniques which were drilled into him and he still remembers.