Chapter 76: Lightbringer!

Chapter 76: Lightbringer!

King Ramses and Queen Zara sat in luxurious chairs within a Sage Family Palace in the Sage Empire. Zara sipped her wine as she watched the battle begin in earnest. The battle that would determine the fate of not only the war but also the future of the world.

She swirled her wine after taking a sip and said, “It really is a shame that Xenia fell from the tree as a rotten apple. Just look at her. Fast as ever, strong as a Master at her age, and sharp as a tack.”

Ramses grunted and said, “I wouldn’t say she’s as strong as a Master. Gregory is but warming up at this point. I think Xenia is actually giving some effort to dodge and resist his powerful sword swings. Why is she even using a sword? She is a grandmaster in the martial arts. She hardly needs a sword.”

Just as he said that, Xenia put her sword away, and he said, “That’s more like it. Now we shall see how she fairs while she uses her true martial arts skills.”

They both looked on and watched Xenia send her sword, BloodBane, flying through the air while she protected herself with her energy barrier underneath Gregory’s attacks.

Zara smiled, “Quite crafty of her to bloodbend her sword to his rear while distracting him. I don’t think it will work though.”

Ramses gave a big laugh as her sword was blocked with Gregory’s wall of defensive energy. Then Gregory followed up by knocking Xenia back with a massive hilt strike to her chin.

Ramses clapped his hands and shouted, “Wow! What a hit!”

Zara leaned forward in her seat as well beaming with excitement, “Finally! A true blow landed on her! Gregory has the upper hand as we so thought!”

However, both of their faces were sapped of excitement as they witnessed Xenia stand, fully healed. Zara bit her lip and frowned, “So talented, the heir of the BloodStar Empire.”Ñøv€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

Ramses pursed his lips, “Talented indeed. Although I don’t think her talent will win this battle yet.”

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She screamed in pain, true pain, as her face and body were pinned to the ground from the force of the light column as her body began to shred underneath her armor.

Gregory began to slowly walk towards her with a menacing face full of focus, “You foolish girl. Did you not learn your lesson the first time in Houston? I certainly have learned my lesson! And now I will finish you for good this time!”

Gregory raised his sword high above him and yelled again, “Lightbringer! 100%!!!”

Xenia squirmed from the pain. She would have reveled in it had she not felt genuine fear from the call of a second Lightbringer attack at 100%. She hurriedly thought, “How?! But how?! 200%?”

This time Gregory’s sword became emblazoned with silver fire and flew high up into the clouds. It then entered the golden column of light and swiftly rode the attack downwards from within the column. The sword was imbued with massive amounts of energy as it flew downwards aiming at Xenia’s head.

She mustered enough strength to turn her body over under the weight of the full Lightbringer attack and shot a beam of pure energy from her mouth as she fired it up against the downpour of golden ki.

Her dragon breath attack of sorts was just enough to deflect the sword’s path away from her head; however, the sword landed squarely in the center of her chest shattering the center area of her armor and stabbing clean through her entire body skewering her to the ground as the sword firmly planted itself into the ground beneath her. The sword then began to dissipate the remainder of its energy into Xenia’s body frying her from the inside.

She grit her teeth and nearly passed out; however, she maintained her composure through both components of the Lightbringer attack.

Gregory stood no more than 10 yards away from Xenia with his hands on his knees breathing heavily. Although the attacks rained from the sky, they were fueled by his own ki, and at the moment he was feeling extremely fatigued.

He assessed his opponent as the Lightbringer column of light faded. His God Sword had her firmly impaled into the ground. Her front-center armor was shattered, and she lay lifeless. He rested only for a moment before taking further action as he knew he would still need to finish her off given that her head was still intact. His ultimate goal was to annihilate her entire body.

Then, he heard a blood-curdling noise. “Ahhhhh! Gregory! I am going to kill you!” Xenia grabbed the sword’s blade with both of her hands and tried to move it upwards; however, she couldn’t find a strong enough grip to pull the sword from both the ground and her body without slicing her own hands off.

Gregory smiled and said, “Oh no you don’t! On behalf of the Holy Light Empire and indeed the world, I hereby sentence you to death for the crimes known to all, too many to count.”

He stepped forward once again and yelled, “Lightbringer! 100%!!”