Chapter 88_ Undefeated King (4)

The name 'Madra' clearly appeared in gold above the head of the death knight in majestic armor. He held an ordinary looking long sword around one meter in length and looked at Lexus up and down with a purple light.

"It has been 100 years since a human guest appeared. One day, Pagma died, my strength weakened and the invasion of the great demons was over."

Undefeated King Madra. The hero who defended Lubana from the empire during its heyday and boasted overwhelming defense. He had never been defeated and was called the Undefeated King.

"Did you beat the halflings guarding the previous islands?"

Lexus nodded. At the moment, Madra's ego in the sheath remains his silence. He felt unexplainable emotions deep within seeing that he really became a death knight.

"I see..."

Indeed, the halflings that Madra spoke of were the death knights of past legends. He called the legends halflings! How strong was Madra? Madra, who was still looking him up and down, nodded like he understood.

"Well, it's Pagma's fault. Their names are legends, but they fell after becoming death knights. Once Pagma died and the supply of power was cut off, they couldn't exert their strength properly. But you're still pretty good. For a human to hurt those halflings... You're also a present legend... Hrmm?"

Madra cocked his head. It was because he found it hard to determine Lexus's identity in just a single glance.

"Despite being armed with a sword, I can sense that you are a peak swordsman and you have this overwhelming magic power? But you have the dignity of a king...?"

A human who reached the 66th island. Madra called Lexus a present legend. But he wasn't a simple swordsman nor a normal magician in his eyes. It was difficult to gauge his true identity because only his high dignity could be seen. In the end, Madra couldn't resolve the question and asked openly.

"What do you call yourself?"

"Well...Just like you, I'm a King..."

"Hoh, a king!"

Madra showed great interest in his answer. Since he was also a legend and a king, he felt a strong sense of kinship with Lexus.

"Your purpose is to purify the now useless Behen Archipelago. If you want to cleanse it, then you have to beat me. As a death knight, my existence is to repel all intruders. A fight is inevitable. In addition."

Supaak!

"Whether alive or dead, I have never experienced defeat. Not even once."

"...!"

The voice of Madra, who was in front of him just a moment ago, was suddenly heard right beside him. Madra in front of him had suddenly disappeared.

He had never been defeated, became the Undefeated King and maintained this position in the Behen Archipelago. He had become weaker after becoming a death knight and weaker again after Pagma's death.

However, he was still strong.

"100,000 Army Massacre Sword."

Then the world message emerged.

[An unknown person is writing the second epic.]

[The beginning of the narrative starts with the encounter between the successor and the predecessor.]

Thousands of energy blades filled the vast plains from the 100,000 Army Massacre Sword unleashed by Madra as it cut at his body 40 times per second.

[You have suffered 5,900 damage.]

[You have suffered 6,310 damage.]

[You have suffered 5,870 damage.]

[...]

Despite being slashed by 40 times, Lexus didn't show any nervousness at all. He immediately recovered all the health he lost and was completely fine. It was like he was never attacked at all.

'Just like in the novel, Madra is using the degraded version.'

A single crushing blow is the essence of Madra's swordsmanship. Those who have not trained above a certain level cannot afford the backlash. Even the bones of death knight Madra aren't sturdy enough to endure the shock of the full swordsmanship, the original. That is why he could only implement an altered deteriorated swordsmanship, which minimizes the burden by intentionally dispersing the power.

'All fine with me.'

Mortality Sword!

There was a loud sound every time Lexus hit Madra. Every attack summoned black flames, causing intense sound effects. It wasn't possible to compare it to the sound of a general weapon. Needless to say, it was intense power!

A huge fire of darkness devoured everything at once. Everything burned. The heat filled the island with lava. It was the aftermath of the Wave of Fire being summoned as the fifth strike landed after Madra was affected by the blockade effect.

[The creator of the ultimate swordsmanship meets the saint of the sword.]

'What is…this?' With the sudden development of events, Madra could not make a clear judgment about what was going on. Although he could only implement an altered deteriorated version of his swordsmanship, it still not an easy thing to suppress it with another swordsmanship.

"You're better than me in pure swordsmanship. You are a legend so are you perhaps, a Sword Saint?"

A long sword swirling with red-black flames, exuding a scorching heat—the combination of the legendary red sword showed a power that exceeded Madra's expectations.

His own swordsmanship was one of the reason why Lexus's attack and sword skills was so powerful. The function of the passive effect was the best such as increase in damage, critical hit provability and critical hit damage. It was superior to other weapon mastery skills.

[He vowed with determination to grow stronger and surpass the genius in front of him.]

"Something's off."

To his surprise, Madra realized something as he saw the change in Lexus. The aura around him that radiates the dignity of a king has changed. The dignified aura transformed into the aura that overwhelmed him with pressure of an apex predator. However, what he clearly noticed was the change in the eyes.

As Lexus activates the eyes of the dragon, his irises turn into a vertical slit. The moment the skill was used, the threatening red thickened and gave off a subtle but domineering glow.

If other people saw him with this eyes, both men and women would admire him as the eyes gave perfect but mysterious harmony with his overflowing charm. It's just unfortunate that, not many people have the chance to even catch the glimpse of him.

Although he was a king, he was like a shut in that didn't meet other people since his clones mostly did all the management work of the kingdom. Except for adventuring, he didn't get his way out of the palace or the smithy.

Returning back to the duel, Lexus confirmed the information of the equipment that Death Knight Madra was wearing with Dragon's Eye.

[Undefeated King's Battle Gear]

Rating: Legendary

[A battle gear created by Pagma....]

[Undefeated King's Sword]

Rating: Legendary

[....]

After confirming the description of the items of Death Knight Madra, Lexus's red eyes shone. He then manifested the third style of his swordsmanship and the afterglow of Virulent shone on it.

Blazing Butterfly.

It doesn't require any movement. Instead, magic power was given to the sword and spread a brilliant splendor of blazing wings of a butterfly. In practical terms, it increased the power of the sword.

It was a buff skill.

[Third Form: Blazing Butterfly]

[A swordsmanship that transcends imagination.

The sword's attack power will increase by three times and your basic attacks will turn into ranged attacks. Within the duration of 30 seconds, the power of the first sword technique is increased by 800%, the power of the second technique is increased by 1,200%, the power of the third sword technique is increased by 2,000%, and the power of the fourth sword technique is increased by 3,500%.

Skill Resource Consumption: 50,000 mana, 80 sword energy.

Skill Cooldown Time: 30 minutes.]

Then, his white hair slightly rose as he started the first splended sword dance. Lexus manifested his sword energy mixed with extreme heat and immediately used Massacre's Dance, the second form of his own swordsmanship.

His sword energy exceeded the level of merely strengthening the swords or amplifying the power and performance of a skill. Thanks to the successful use of Plunderer to Biban, he can freely convert sword energy to anything he like.

[Undefeated King Madra, an unseen talent in a thousand years, was surprised at the king in front of him which surpasses his expectations.]

Death Knight Madra was very impressed about Lexus's ability to delicately control sword energy as unlike his, the sword energy from Lexus emitted tremendous heat that melts the ground when it slightly touches the earth.

Yes, the sword energy of the Sword Saint has no limit. As his sword dropped from above, the sky began to fall.

[You have dealt 20,000,000 damage to the target.]

Death Knight Madra felt an infinite pressure as if the sky fell down right in front of him. He suddenly felt unable to control his skeletal body as his body of bones stiffens and is hard to control properly. He also visions the sky was falling while Lexus's sword dance destroyed the ground.

Then with the next dance, Lexus rotated to the left and the very hot trajectories of sword energy shot in every direction.

[You have dealt 25,000,000 to the target.]

The next step, he moved forward and stabbed. The red sword that just spread the sword energy in all directions, is now radiating tremendous killing intent. Massacre's Dance could be used in all types of forms, like a basic hit. It could be used when cutting down, cutting up, or cutting diagonally so the utility was endless.

[You have dealt 27,500,000 to the target.]

With the overwhelming pressure of the sword dance, the sword in his hand whirled like a vortex and created countless sword lights. It was the Sword Saint's unique sword energy that reminiscent of a flame.

Lexus exerted the ultimate attack power that was superior than the weakened Death Knight Madra. It was the sword dance's effect for each additional steps, the damage of the sword dance will increase by 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%, and 400% respectively. Not to mention that it fully received the buff effect of Blazing Butterfly.

[The sixth step shall commence!]

Boom! A new sense of pressure amplified several times more than in the previous steps, weighed down on the entire island. Death Knight Madra felt as if his body was about to crumble under immense pressure. He could not help but wonder if the floor, let alone the entire Behen Archipelago, would soon collapse.

[Critical!]

[The title effect of 'One Who Met the Martial God' has increased the critical hit damage...]

Sparks of black flashed.

[The Ultimate Martial Art is suppressing the target.]

One Who Met the Martial God—the favor given by Martial God Chiyou occurred as if he was praising Lexus. It cast a stun that couldn't be resisted or recovered from, ignoring the species, status, and ranking of the target. The greatest of all powers that existed in the world caused Madra to stiffen.

The attacker and the one who was attacked were surprised at the same time. Experiencing damage in the millions was unfamiliar to both Lexus, the attacker, and Madra, the one who was attacked.

[He have renewed the highest damage record in one shot!]

[In the future, he will see a world different from others.]

This was surprising for Madra. The good thing was that he activated his Undefeated King's Rage which reduces all damage received by 90% and made him invulnerable for 20 seconds but it caused a chill to go down his spinal bone when he had rarely experienced damage in the ten thousands.

'What is…this?' With the sudden development of events, Madra could not make a clear judgment about what was going on. When the second and third steps ensued, everything was burned to a crisp.

One sword strike, a second sword strike...

The Sword Saint of this time used a greater variety of swordsmanship than Muller in the legends. It was a very neat and perfect swordsmanship without flaws. Yes, Madra finally knew why the Sword Saint is the strongest human being since old times.

"You're strong but I've adapted."

Death Knight Madra himself also became stronger. No, it was correct to say that he had adapted rather than becoming stronger. He had just adapted to his weakened physical ability.

Madra no longer struggled with the gap between perception and reality. He clearly realized that his body was moving slower than his will. He grasped that the flow of sword energy being delivered to his body was slightly off. He correctly adjusted it.

In front of Lexus's eyes, Madra' weaknesses disappeared in an instant. His super sensitivity started to ring an alarm.

"500,000 Army…"

It was 500,000 army swordsmanship and Lexus judged that it was very dangerous. Madra's true value is revealed from at least 500,000 Army Massacre Sword.