THE ART OF WAR

[Life and Death Arena] [VIP Section]

"That arrogant kid, haa," Leader Valliant sighed in disappointment, "Seeing him fight, I wanted to fight him at least once but, such a pathetic end."

Lady Alice didn't respond to Leader Valliant and kept her eyes on the fighting platform.

Seeing Lady Alice's attention still on the platform, Leader Valliant grumbled, "Come on now, you have won, time to catch the traitor."

"Shut up and look," Lady Alice pointed her finger towards Lucas's bloody body, "So, see any difference, look carefully."

"Humm," Leader Valliant looked towards Lucas's fallen body carefully and noticed that the blood on his fallen body began to freeze and turned white.

"Hahaha," Leader Valliant bust out in laughter, "Damn boy, you got me there for a second, end this battle fast and face me, let me see how far you have evolved."

"No, you don't want him as your enemy," Lady Alice spoke with fear in her voice, "The art of war says that during a duel, when your opponent is at their peak form, there is a moment where he or she will unconsciously show a hint of weakness, hit that weakness and the battle is yours."

"Let me guess," Leader Valliant spoke with a grin, "Do whatever it takes and force your opponent to show that weakness because that one strike will decide the winner."

Lady Alice nodded after hearing Leader Valliant's words.

"Art of war, interesting," Leader Valliant smiled.

[Fighting Arena]

Lucas's fallen body turned into a block of ice. Everyone was confused to see the situation. The cheering for the Scarlet Maiden and Lucas stopped.

The one who was surprised most was the Scarlet Maiden herself, "What the hell is going on?"

"Tell me, are you sure that I killed your brother," Lucas's voice came from the pool of void fire where Scarlet Maiden tried to defeat him with his own skill.

Lucas emerged from the crater where the explosion occurred before the awakening of Origin power.

After seeing the situation on the fighting platform, questions began to rise in the mind of the spectators and other Heroes but, no one spoke a single word and kept watching the battle between two expert Heroes.

"Wasn't it you who kept watching while your brother provoked me without any reason?" Lucas spoke as he stretched his legs.

"You, no, I killed you, how?" Scarlet Maiden's power began to flicker, "That explosion, you hid and left a clone."

"You could have stopped him but, you didn't," Lucas began to walk towards the Scarlet Maiden.

"You wanted him to die," Lucas took another step.

"You are fighting for what?" Lucas began to gather essences in his legs.

"No," Scarlet Maiden screamed and launched a barrage of attacks toward Lucas but, it was pointless. Lucas dodged all the splash of red essences with ease.

"Your mother left you alone and never met you," Lucas kept on dodging the barrage of attack, "Do you even know who your real mother is?"

[BLOOD EDGE] The Scarlet Maiden used her skill and, countless swords made from red essence began to attack Lucas, "Just Die, I don't want to hear any more of your lies."

"Let me tell you who killed your brother," Lucas threw a punch in front of him.

In an instant, the countless red swords vanished in the thin air without making any sound, "It was Duran Scarlet, the one who killed your brother and poisoned the mythical blood and, he is the reason why my father got outcasted."

"Lies, why would he do that?" Scarlet Maiden screamed, "And, I saw your void flames killed my brother."

"I just wanted to scare him," Lucas spoke in a calm voice, "But someone took control of my flames and, I nearly died that day if my father didn't appear when he did."

Lucas ripped his shirt open, "See these scars, that bastard Duran overloaded my essences and, I nearly escaped death."

Lucas was in his Full Potential form. The scars of busted veins and skin from essence overload covered his whole body was more vivid.

"This, this," Scarlet Maiden's Origin form disappeared. She screamed and looked towards the VIP Section, "Bastard, I will rip your body into pieces."

"Showing your back in front of your opponent," Lucas hit lightly on Scarlet Maiden's neck, "I won't kill you, for it will be a waste to kill a strong opponent."

"Arrg," Scarlet Maiden fell unconscious on the fighting platform.

The announcer screamed, "Winner Lucas Rosewarth."

The crowd burst out with loud noise, cheering both Lucas and Scarlet Maiden for the wonderful battle.

[VIP Section]

Lady Alice burned Duran's body into ashes after hearing Lucas's words.

[SOUL FRAGMENT] Leader Valliant used his skill. This skill shows the memories of a recently deceased person.

"Show us what you were hiding, bastard," Leader Valliant clenched his fist covered with essence.

To their surprise, other than killing the heir of the Scarlet Family and trying to poison the Scarlet Maiden, there was nothing important inside Duran's Soul Fragment.

[Fighting Platform]

Lucas emitted a wave of bloodlust and silenced the crowds.

"Are you wondering why the snipers didn't attack," Lucas looked towards the VIP Section, "Oh, I nearly forgot those suicide assassins hiding in the crowds but, why didn't they attack?"

[VIP Section]

"My guess is this traitor is among my family's Elders," Leader Valliant looked towards the Elders standing in the back, "Come out clean before Lucas says your name and, I will give you a merciful death."

No one came forward. The Elders looked at each other and cowered in fear.

[Fighting Platform]

"Don't worry, I won't kill you now," Lucas began to walk towards the exit, "See you on the day of the throne battle and, until then, try your best to stop me."

[Far away on top of a large building]

"Eight Sniper," Lord Rosewarth wiped the stains of blood from his face while smiling at his son's victory.

[Inside the Arena's cell]

"Twenty suicide assassins, all captured alive," Lady Evylin stretched her fingers.

[ETERNAL PUPPET] a skill used by the high-class Heroes in Eternal Elegant Nation.

Eternal Puppet allows the caster to capture and calm the mind of brainwashed people who are ready to die at any moment.