“Why aren’t you attacking me?” Brianna asked. “You were rushing toward me just now, but after tasting my attack, you stopped in your tracks. Why is that? Are you afraid to come closer now?”“Yeah,” Ulmer nodded twice, “I think I’m afraid that I might see your ugly face if I get any closer.”Ulmer’s words shocked everyone in the crowd, though Mirianne was secretly giggling.“How dare he speak like that to the princess!”“He should be beheaded right now!”Some young men from noble families voiced their opinions pretty loudly. They wanted to back the princess in whatever way possible as they hoped that she’d take notice of their efforts. If they got lucky, they might even become a friend of hers, and who knows, they might even end up marrying her.“You want to behead me for saying something that came to my mind?” Ulmer raised his middle finger and showed it to the nobles.“What’s he doing?”“Why’s he raising his finger like that?”“Maybe, he’s got some sickness or something?”“What a foo
Many years earlier.During sunrise, Dylan was sitting on a cliff on one of the biggest mountains in Syslon, with Brianna sitting on the back of his neck when she was only four years old.She was counting his white hairs.“There’s a magnificent view on offer, Minerva,” Dylan said. “Instead of absorbing this view, why are you counting my hairs?”“I’m not counting all your hair, Grandpa. I’m only counting white hairs,” she innocently said. “Why do you have so many white hairs?”“I’m growing old, so it’s only natural that I have many white hairs,” he said. “It’s something that happens to everyone.”“So, I will get white hair, too?” she asked in shock.“Yeah, you will, but there’s still many decades left before you start getting gray hairs,” Dylan said.Dylan’s words didn’t really satisfy her. “I don’t want white hair.”“Haha,” Dylan laughed a little because she looked cute when she was pouting. He then raised his finger, and bolts of lightning streaked the clear blue sky in the distance.
Brianna teleported over to him in a flash and thrust both the daggers this time. “Double Heavenly Bolt!”Ulmer used both of his palms to block the dagger. He was pushed back by the powerful energy, and there was the emperor’s barrier behind him. He was sandwiched between two opposing forces.The audience could feel vibrations filling their bodies and making their hearts shake. This gave the feeling of a dozen thunders striking at the same time somewhere close to you. The feeling of shock was indescribable for most of the onlookers. Many of them had never experienced such an oppressive feeling before that made them feel helpless. It was like they were up against a natural disaster, and what scared them even more was the fact that they were only experiencing the little bit of shockwaves that were passing through the barrier.It wasn't that the emperor couldn’t have stopped those vibrations from passing through his barrier, but he chose not to do that as he wanted to let the weakened sou
Everyone in the audience stands eagerly awaited the emperor’s response.Mirianne and her family members looked a little anxious because the emperor’s word was final. If the emperor were to say that Ulmer needs to be punished, then nobody would be able to save him.At the same time, Ayana and her family members looked very worried. Ayana, in particular, had a frown on her face as she remembered Ulmer telling her that he entered the city on his own. And nobody questioned him because there was no disturbance in the barrier that surrounded Syslon.As many in the audience murmured to one another, the emperor, Dylan, took his time before saying, “He does have the permission to step foot in our empire.”Everyone went silent after that statement.Brianna frowned. (I wasn’t expecting him to say that. Does he know this guy in some fashion? Wait, the fact that Oscar supported him also makes things questionable. Just who the hell is he for SAC to be supporting him when it doesn’t look like it’s b
Seeing the mask cracking, Brianna snorted. “You did well moving out of the attack’s path. I was trying to pierce your heart, but I only managed to pierce your shoulder. Nevertheless, in a few more hits, you’ll be finished. But before that, let me first see your damn face.”Brianna leaped forth and summoned another dagger instantly. “Emperor’s Dance!” She spun through the air, creating a dozen whirling figures, all of which seemed very real. And daggers were shot out through those whirling figures.Dozens of daggers came flying at Ulmer, forcing him to keep dodging. Some managed to graze past him, but some pierced his flesh. “Dammit. Their speeds are all different, and they are changing directions in midair. How the hell is she doing it? What sort of a crazy martial art is this?”Ulmer focused his spiritual energy into his fists and put all his focus into deflecting the daggers. But then the daggers flew back toward him with increased speed.Ulmer was forced to use all of his extreme a
This wasn’t the first time Ulmer was rude toward the princess. And it astonished everyone again, even more so this time because mocking a royal was something that nobody with a working brain would do.Many people tried to look at the emperor and the other royals to see how they were reacting. As usual, Dylan didn’t show any emotion on his face.However, Regina was gnashing her teeth, thinking to herself. (She’s someone who’s going to become my daughter-in-law and will become the empress. How can this bastard badmouth her like this? He surely doesn’t deserve to live. Why does my father not punish that fool? Why is he just letting him talk like that to his own granddaughter right before his eyes? Just what are you thinking right now, Dad?)Ulmer, on the other hand, looked rather amused. He could tell that the audience were pretty upset by his words. “It’s so funny that you people are so sensitive toward useless things, but you still do not care about a poor man’s needs. A common man’s hu
“I will assure you…” Brianna summoned a sword this time. “Your death will not be pleasant.”Ulmer raised his hand and gestured to her to come at him.However, Brianna leaped high into the sky.Ulmer looked up. Brianna suddenly began to appear everywhere in the sky, and she was everywhere.“What the…” Ulmer was startled. “Is she slipping through space? She looks like she’s present at hundreds of different places at the same time. And they’re not after images, but she’s present at all those places. That’s one crazy technique.”“That’s one of the emperor’s signature moves!” Many royal knights had their eyes light up in awe. “The ninth form of Emperor Arts… Space Glide!”“Mm…” the emperor Dylan didn’t look that surprised. “It’s a skill that can be learned from repeatedly teleporting in a complex pattern. I didn’t teach her that skill, though. She learned it herself. Commendable. Now, how are you going to react to that, Knight Beater? Mm?” Dylan squinted his eyes as Brianna charged her swo
“Mm?” Just then, Zebron’s ear flickered. His gaze locked toward the hole in the colosseum battleground. “Something’s coming.”“I don’t feel anything,” Rever said. “What is coming?”Zebron dashed forth and snuck through the emperor’s barrier just as a massive creature burst out of the hole and went straight after the princess who was floating above that giant hole.It was a colossal worm with thick, hard shells on its body.“I-Is that a dragonworm?!” The royal knights and the nobles were shocked because it was an extremely nasty creature that was known to eat almost anything from animals and humans to even metal and dirt.The dragonworm was very fast. Though Brianna was surprised, she was about to react to defend herself. However, someone else intervened.“Dragon Thrust!” Zebron thrust his sword and also swirled it through the air, which released a powerfully sharp shockwave that burst a hole through the midsection of the dragonworm, making it scream and writhe in pain.Its scream was