The Fight Begins (III)

"I never said the Head Royal Guard was not allowed to use a Conqueror Magic Enhancement weapon, so how is this breaking the rules?" The King spoke back to the Duke which had the whole room silent, even if there were contradicting points, no one dared to make a sound in the face of the King.

"Now that I have had my hands on the legendary longsword, Durandal, you can start to breathe your last few breaths!" The Head Royal Guard raised the longsword as she dashed forward preparing to swing her legendary longsword down towards the old and experienced creature, Kwok Ryong, that immediately recognised the Conqueror Magic Enhancement weapon.

"Now that you've realised you're incapable, you're breaking the rules, then?" Kwok Ryong said while preparing to swing his sword to counter the Head Royal Guard's threatening attack, but deep down, his beating heart palpitated quicker than ever before, not in excitement, but in fear.

"I absolutely do not have the need to convince you that my current actions do not break the rules. I will allow you this short period of time to speak before I personally-" The Head Royal Guard was brutally cut off by Kwok Ryong as a huge horizontal sword arc of energy flew towards her, but she quickly held her longsword up and sliced the sword energy into clean halves as they brushed past the Head Royal Guard's reinforced armour harmlessly.

"Have you ever heard anyone tell you that you speak a little too much for your own good?" Kwok Ryong raised both his arms upwards and held the raised crimson black blade in front of his face firmly, watching the Head Royal Guard fume silently as she was about to retaliate before the old creature continued to speak things out of his age, "Hey now, maybe you don't understand. How about I tell you with the way you speak: You're simply as noisy as an incompetent guard dog barking at people to show its nonexistent might. Is this clearer?"

The Head Royal Guard was completely maddened, while Kwok Ryong started to mildly regret making his life withstanding the third attack harder. However Seunghyuk merely held back his laughter as he motioned for the bursting Jisung to stay silent. Seunghyuk understood the simile and comparison fully, a guard dog to describe the Head Royal Guard's position and nonexistent might to mock her skills. Turning his head back inconspicuously, Seunghyuk watched as the King silently burned with flames of anger while almost a good half of the royal members were hiding their smiles and laughters with various methods.

"Good job, you old creature. A worthwhile exchange for a more difficult attack to withstand, how smart," Seunghyuk mocked softly before realisation smacked him hard in the head, "Oh, that's bad for me too. Damn it, why did he even irritate the opponent. Does he not want his Demon Seal broken?"

Jisung just stood beside Seunghyuk watching Seunghyuk's spontaneous face of expressions switch and change like a remote-controlled machine with silent judgement.

"You dare mock me and my might! For an insignificant speck of dust, you will be given an extravagant burial!" The Head Royal Guard, obviously angered, tossed her Conqueror Magic Enhancement longsword, Durandal, up into the air lightly, manipulating it with her hands as the longsword stayed floating above her head, "You are only but a bigger-sized ant. Like every other, you would never be able to escape your painful fate!"

"Locked on! Triple swords! Showering Meteors of Durandal!" The Head Royal Guard chanted loudly while her longsword started to glow and spin with rapidly increasing speeds, splitting itself into three as the three swords glowed dangerously brighter and brighter by the second.

"This skill isn't in her profile..." Seunghyuk muttered inaudibly as he used Eye of Detection once again to investigate the strange problem and gave himself a minor shock which brought about an unbreakable of irritation.

"Conqueror's Name: Chae Myeongeun (Female) (Head Royal Guard for the King of Arkawarenia)

Conqueror's Level: 5

Strength: 33

Agility: 32

Defense: 28

MP: 29

Skills: Ember Pillar (2 stars)

Locked On (1 stars)

Triple Swords (2 stars)

Concussion Wipeout (4 stars)

Showering Meteors Of Durandal (Temporary skill given by Conqueror Magic Enhancement Longsword)"

"Damn it. You old creature...please don't fail on me. I need you to complete my Conqueror System Mission after all," Seunghyuk pleaded softly and recalled the bountiful rewards for completing the Conqueror System Mission.

"Misssion IV: The Real King

Objective: Defeat Kim Yangwon and take the King's seat

Destination: Nighthowler's Kingdom— Arkawarenia

Rewards: Rare Statpack x1

Skill Star Mastery Upgrade x1

Scroll of Secret Arts from Nighthowlers (S-GRADE)"

"I mean I still need you for future events other than that, so please don't just fail the task for me and lose your life," Seunghyuk continued pleading while watching the intense match unfold like layers and layers of onion.

"Now we shall together witness your painful death!" The Head Royal Guard yelled and the three glowing swords shone blindingly, only to shoot out uncountably large amounts of sword energies that surged towards Kwok Ryong like meteorites breaking through the stratosphere and into Earth.

Not just tens or hundreds, but literal thousands of those meteor-like sword energies shot out from the three swords and like the attacks have their own brains, they converge automatically to the centre and cut through the air at full tilt towards the worried looking Kwok Ryong who just prepared to counter the attacks with his blade.

The overwhelming pure white sword energies knocked into Kwok Ryong's blade with exaggerating force every single time that it was evident that one sword energy unblocked would leave a huge injury. It was a dangerous last attack that seemed almost like it was cheating, using a passive skill like Locked On and Triple Swords was counted as support for the main skill of Showering Meteors of Durandal. To make things worse, the Mana Power from a higher level Conqueror like the Head Royal Guard would mean that the skill would not cancel itself until the Mana Power reaches zero. In order to deplete all of the Head Royal Guard's Mana Power, Kwok Ryong has to endure a hellish long period of gruelling attacks.

"Damn it! How is this only one attack!" Kwok Ryong was obviously struggling, tens of hundreds of brutal sword energies was charging towards him every second, leaving him only to be able to play defensively.

"Slash Of The Stars!" Kwok Ryong yelled out and swiped his crimson black blade horizontally forward, sending a huge sword energy arc that deflected and pushed the volley of attacks from the Head Royal Guard.

"Futile!" The Head Royal Guard shouted out and the horizontal sword energy arc from Kwok Ryong was practically bombarded by the hundreds of "meteors" and broke past Kwok Ryong's attack to continue raining attacks onto Kwok Ryong.

"I'm not done yet! Let's see how you'll react to your own attacks! Space Warper!" Kwok Ryong threw out his comment and immediately opened up that same mysterious space in the middle of nowhere, seeing the arrows continue to pour towards Kwok Ryong's direction but the Head Royal Guard showed absolutely no sign of fear or apprehension as she stated mockingly, "You foolishly think the same tricks will work twice?"

The sword energies swirling in the hole started to accumulate and it was only a matter of seconds before the sword energies were too much for the hole to accommodate and store, breaking the whole hole through like a swarm of angry hornets then heading continuously towards the flabbergasted Kwok Ryong.

"No! He-" Jisung shouted out loud, turning heads to look at his direction and Seunghyuk immediately frowned at him to make Jisung zip his mouth, but Seunghyuk was definitely feeling the same feeling of slight grief fueled by intense anger boiling him up until his Aura of Terror skill was about to be activated automatically.

"You have lived long enough. Now, please rest in pieces," The Head Royal Guard stated calmly while watching the billowing smoke build up and thicken as her attacks came to quick stop, allowing Durandal to drop back into her hands.

The Head Royal Guard had stopped, not because her Mana Power had completely depleted, but because she had jumped to the conclusion that Kwok Ryong has been defeated. Only then, the foolishness of her actions hit her hard on the head when Kwok Ryong's voice sounded through the slowly dissipating smoke, "Three attacks. You're finished and this task is completed."

"What?" Seunghyuk exclaimed wide-eyed as he watched Kwok Ryong walk out of the smoke with ripped clothing and his power waning blade as a walking support, but other than that, the old creature was completely alive and completely conscious.

"There is absolutely no way! You were down! How could you possibly sustain the legendary attacks from my-" The Head Royal Guard's words were yet again brutally cut short by Kwok Ryong's age-incorrect words but this time with a weaker voice than before, "Hey, shut up already would you. You wouldn't be able to get me down when gravity is acting against you. Also, you should stop pinning yourself to the wall...oh wait, I should be the one to cancel the skill..."

Seunghyuk heard "gravity" and immediately understood how Kwok Ryong was able to come out of the smoke heavily injured but overall alive and breathing. Kwok Ryong used Backward Gravity the very instance his Space Warper hole was broken as he must have expected his weakened skill sealed down by the Demon Seal would not be that of a reliable one. The Backward Gravity skill was used multiple times already, slipped in between move exchanges. Since the sword energies were shot out all around the battle space to be directed towards Kwok Ryong, from the Head Royal Guard's perspective, it would not seem like the gravity planes have been shifted at all. When the last Backward Gravity skill was used, the room has been "turned" like from the fight between Kwok Ryong and Seunghyuk, allowing him to make use of the new gravitational directions to confuse the Head Royal Guard, hence only a few sword energies have landed their hits on Kwok Ryong.

"Well, should've expected it from an old Legendary Conqueror of a creature," Seunghyuk smiled as he watched Duke Travessle stand up smilingly from his seat to grab onto the speaker microphone before the King blatantly snatched it away with a furious expression crossing his face as he shouted through the speaker with no attempt remaining to conceal his hate for Seunghyuk, "Use your remaining Mana Power and kill that man!"

"My King! What are you doing! This will not be-" The Duke was immediately cut off when the Head Royal Guard's Durandal started to glow above her head once again.

"Choi Seunghyuk, you're not going to win this!" The King blankly stated right in front of the eyes of everyone and Seunghyuk did not bother to turn behind to engage with the angered King, but instead, Seunghyuk watched the fight that has went completely haywire with silent trepidation and worry.