“Dark Dagger Strike!” Brianna threw a dagger first to get Ulmer’s attention, and she secretly released the second dagger in a curving manner, controlling its trajectory with the help of a string.The dagger flew like a lightning bolt and nearly struck Ulmer’s temple.Ulmer managed to catch the dagger at the last second. His hand started bleeding. “That was close. How did you control the dagger midway?”Brianna flicked the string, which sent a pulse of energy along the string.Ulmer still didn’t notice the string, but he felt the noise of the vibration passing through the string. He instinctively tossed the dagger away, and it immediately exploded.“Damn,” Ulmer frowned as he deflected the pieces of the dagger that came flying at him. “The dagger blasted into pieces? What sort of magic is this?”Brianna formed two new daggers and threw them at him. “Infinite Parallel Claw!”The daggers suddenly multiplied in number and became hundreds as they all zoomed in on him.Ulmer immediately pun
Brianna summoned a dagger and threw it into the audience. Alveron caught it and observed the words that briefly appeared on the knife.Alveron then stood and walked away.“Where’s he going?”“Did the princess send him a message or something?”As the crowd wondered, Brianna stepped toward Ulmer. “They call you Knight Beater, but what is your name?”“What makes you think you’re qualified to know my name?” Ulmer asked her back.Brianna angrily smiled. “You know who I am.”“Just because you’re the princess, you think you can do whatever you want and get away with it?” Ulmer blurted. “What a joke. Don’t you know of the saying that the greatest among you needs to be the best servant? You do not seem to have any humble qualities in you, seeing how you didn’t even introduce yourself and were yet asking for my name. Is this how your parents raised you? Or is this how all royals are groomed? To be so full of themselves all the time?”Many people in the audience stands gasped at Ulmer’s words. T
The yellowish orange light coming from Brianna’s daggers was giving off a strange frequency that affected Ulmer even though he was standing at a distance from her.“It really feels like I’m standing under the sun in late summer,” Ulmer uttered. “My skin feels like it’s burning. That’s a lot of concentrated energy she’s releasing.” He released golden spiritual energy through his fists as well. “I wasn’t expecting her to be this strong, but this is good, too. I will feel satisfied after I beat her.”[Just be careful so you won’t lose.] Dove warned.“I don’t plan on losing to anybody, especially her,” Ulmer replied and rushed toward her.“Meteor Strike!” Brianna waved her dagger and sent an arc-like slash toward Ulmer. It reached him in the tenth of a second, He jumped and dodged it while keeping his body parallel to the ground just for that brief moment. The arc-shaped slash went onto strike the colosseum wall and cut its way through the barrier put up by the royal knights and then then
“Brother, I’m telling you the truth, so listen to me,” Kristy said, yelling and pleading simultaneously. “Look at that woman’s hand carefully. She has all her nails looking sharp fine, except the middle fingernail. Do you know why? That’s because she definitely masturbates. That’s what women do. One of my friends does the same! So, your girlfriend isn’t as pure and holy as you think!”“You’re lying!” Ulmer refused to believe his younger sister’s words. “Brianna would never do such a thing! You’re just trying to separate us because you’re jealous!”“Huh? Why would I be jealous?”“Because she’s beautiful!”A few months after the siblings had that conversation.On a dark cold night, at around two o’clock, the 23-year-old Ulmer was standing on the bridge, crying and feeling more pain than a man with many bullets in his chest.“You were right, Kristy,” Ulmer’s eyes were clouded with tears. “You always mocked me, so I thought you were trying to break my bond with Brianna, but what you said
Inside a prison cell.The officers had tortured Ulmer a lot to get answers out of him, but to their shock, they couldn’t make Ulmer utter a single word.After beating him 258 times with a stick, they took a break.Ulmer was now tied up to the ceiling with a rope. His hands and feet were tied above him, and his face was downward, with his body parallel to the ground and hanging in midair.He was bleeding from his bottom as they had shoved a metal rod through his anus multiple times.The pain he felt all over his body was indescribable, but it still was nothing compared to the loneliness and hurt he felt inside.As much as his parents and siblings scolded him, they were still his family. With all of them gone from this world, he now felt truly alone.At this point, Ulmer didn’t care about his life or anything anymore. Like a caged animal awaiting its death, he shut off his heart and even began to breathe very sparingly.At the same time, the head officer of the police station was checki
Ulmer was not new to fighting. He used to fight his classmates a lot back in school and college days.In fact, Ulmer and Kale also fought each other multiple times in the past, and Ulmer had the edge against Kale most of the time, but right now, Kale caught both of Ulmer’s fists effortlessly.“You just came out of the station,” Kale snorted, “but you are so eager to go back into custody again.”“Shut up!” Ulmer tried to pull his hands out, but to his shock, he couldn’t do that. Kale’s strength was much higher than expected. Kale was still sitting,but he was able to bend Ulmer’s arms against his will. “Ugh…”“You shouldn’t have come home, Ulmer. Now you’re forcing me to kill not just your family but also you,” Kale uttered.Ulmer’s heart ached after hearing Kale’s words. His blood rushed with extreme anger that peaked all of a sudden. “K~A~L~E!”The bird locket on Ulmer’s heart shone and resonated with his feelings.“Hahaha!” Kale wickedly laughed. “All you can do is shout. You can’t k
Ulmer’s grandmother, Mollie, was the mother of Ulmer’s dad. She was the one who raised Ulmer when he was young.Ulmer had diarrhea issues until he was four years old, so his mother never really took him close and put him in her lap. And it was Ulmer’s grandmother who tend to him and showered love on him unconditionally.From her perspective, Ulmer was her first grandson, so she adored him a lot.But because Mollie told her son about the affairs his wife was having with other men, Ulmer’s mom never liked Mollie and always made her like difficult. Over the years, she manipulated her husband to send Mollie out of the house.Mollie was now living with her second son who was a decent man, but his wife was much worse than Ulmer’s mom. She always verbally tortured Mollie, but because Mollie had nowhere else to go, she could only swallow the shame and stay at this house.It had been three months since Ulmer last saw Mollie.After burying his parents and siblings, Ulmer set out to meet Mollie
Forty three days later.In the middle of an ocean beyond the pacific region, outside the scope of the current map of the modern world, in a parallel dimension, a giant python was fighting something in the sea.It was rolling and spinning hastily, trying to kill its opponent, but in the end, a bright line shone under the waters, and its head exploded into bits.Pretty soon, the rest of the python’s body floated on the surface of the waters.Moments later, Ulmer swam to the surface and climbed up the python’s body, sat down on it and sucked in deep breaths. He then pulled a blue crystal from the python’s forehead.“You did well, Master Ulmer,” Dove sounded pleased. “You are at level 81 now. Your progress is much better than I expected.”“Are we at least ready to go to this place you’re talking about?” Ulmer asked without any expectation because Dove always kept telling him he’s not strong enough. “Please don’t give me the same answer because I just defeated a serpent that’s bigger than