Chapter 282 - Self Centred

After being shown by King just how much of a power gap there was between the two of them, Seven fired the area in fear that he might accidentally make King more mad than he already was and as such decided the best course of action was to leave before he got even more hurt than he already was.

"So that's what it was," said Julius, which made him realise why he was losing, to which Ling seemed to agree; however , it had also caused Julius to question something. That being how he failed to block the attacks of Seven but King could do it without seemingly to have any trouble with the task which caused Julius to question King as he wanted to know how hard it was and even if it was possible to attain the same level of strength so that if he had to actually battle someone with the same aspects as Seven in the future, he would be fully prepared for it and ready to absolutely wipe the flow with his opponents. 

"Hey King, how were you able to see his atta kms even though he's using such powerful gadgets?" Julius asked which caused King to giggle quite a bit as he didn't know how to answer Julius as the question he had asked had a pretty simple response which was the one that king gave as it was quite literally the only answer he had for such a question.

"Well I mean there's not much complexity to it. If you want to attain my level of battle capabilities, you just have to train the basics. Truly there's no reason to over complicate things. Maybe when it comes to magical spells you'll have to go into more complex questions and obtain the answers for them; however , for matters as simple as this, there's not much to it. You just have to repeat the same exercises over and over again. If you can't get a handle on that, there's no point in your training. I mean seriously, just think about it for a second. Battle experiences allow you to train your eyes to perceive things that are moving at a faster speed. Training your body allows you to match the object that is moving at the speed which your eyes can perceive. That's about all I needed to use to defeat Seven. I mean you could add bravely into that equation since he had a gadget for exploiting people who aren't brave and confident in themselves but that's really not that important. Like I said previously, all you need are the basics and a good work ethic and you'll be able to defeat people on the same level as Seven of even stronger people," said King which seemed to have managed to connect with Julius as he had grown to hate Seven and anyone that reminded of him which was the reason he had deceived to push himself even further than he was going now all for the go of reaching Seven's level and utterly humiliating him one day," said Julius to himself before continuing to train with an imagery figure which he treated was Seven. 

As such, Julius began to take part in a training style known as shadow boxing in which he would pretend to visualise a figure standing before him that was attacking as well as blocking nearly all of the attacks that the figure was directing at him. Although it looked quite odd to anyone who would watch from a distance, to all those who understood what was going on, they realised that it was rather a close match and it would prove who was truly strongest.

"Why am I training him? What reason do I have to help some random kid out? Am I bored or something? I mean I know I still can grow stronger so why am I helping him instead of helping myself? Seriously, I should be prioritising myself over him. Moreover, why him? I've barely known him and I had only talked to him a couple of times. So why? Why am I acting so close to him?" King asked himself while wondering what had driven him to help Julius.

"What was it that caused me to have an interest in him? Now that I think about it, there's nothing too special about him. But even so, I know I'm not a moron so why is it that I specifically picked him to come along with me instead of anyone else? I mean if I simply wanted someone who was strong to tag along with me, I would have brought Seven along even though he replied of gadgets, he's still pretty strong and useful to have around. Even if it's not him, I could have picked from plenty of people yet I picked this beat that has literally nothing special about him," said King to himself while trying to figure out how the events that led up to this point transpired.

"Well if I have to be honest and try not to hide anything, I would say that I picked him because of his potential. Even so, why do I care? It's not like I'm supposed to be some kind of coach to let someone reach the top of their industry. I'm only here for me and my enjoyment alone. When did I start caring for the happiness of others," said King to himself as he finally let out a gasp in realisation as he had realised what it was that had initially drawn him into Julius. That being he did have the potential as well as the time and the work ethic to complete the task. However it wasn't for the purpose of some great or good. All the King wanted to do was to raise someone who was shush as strong as him if not stronger. This was because for so many years, the King didn't have a worthy opornenh and nearly everyone who had dared to challenge him in the name of fame and glory would retire from their passion for battle as they were too humiliated by the King. However Julius was a different case as even right from the start, King could tell that there was something off about Julius which was why he had challenged him I to battle to which Julius didn't disappoint as he managed to get a hold of new things quite easily and managed to learn faster than quite a number of people.

As such, King couldn't wait for Julius to grow up faster and learn a whole bunch so that when it came for their actual battle, Julius would be walking away with a win where his opponent was planning ahead so much.

"I think I finally understand why I went this far. This is the reason why I've taken him under my wing. It's all so that I can finally have a worthy opponent. I'll finally be able to face someone who can put up a fight against me. Oh how I yearn for the sweet feeling of defeat. I want to have something to work towards once again. I hate being invincible. Such a limiting concept. It locks you in so that you can never escape. No matter how hard you try, it'll not affect you so that you get stronger and get further and further away from your overall goal of finding someone that can challenge you. I've finally managed to find someone who can grow into that position and I'll be damned if I let someone like Seven take that away from me," said King with a rather sinister look on his face which caused Julius to get incurred as he thoroughly that King had begun to lose his mind and was training insane.

"Hey are you alright?" Julius asked while giving a light shake to King which caused his to awaken from his state of daydreaming where he was having so much fun in his imagination where Julius had grown to just magnificent opponent and king would one day be able to face off against the very man he had trained all so that they could battle to their heart's content or at least that applied to King as he had finally found someone to raise and neauture into the perfect opponent for himself.

Of course at first he had thought that what he was doing was wrong and how it is never right to use another creature for the gains of one self however he later justified his actions to himself by claiming that by training Julius, he would train him to be stronger than all his other opponents would be helpless against him. Of course this was just a lie that King had made up so that he would feel less guilt about his actions but even so, it didn't make his actions any better than if he had committed them without noting that detail.. It was as if someone had committed a crime and just because they had written about it inside some book detailing how they felt guilty, it didn't mean that they are still or more in the wrong due to how self centred they are to try to justify such wrong actions.