Spiritual energy was inside every living being, and it was so profound that no man was able to fully understand it.Spiritual energy could affect living beings as well as non-living objects. Spiritual energy carried the very will of the user, so it was possible to create a variety of attacks using it.However, using spiritual energy was still no easy feat. Even among the top knights, not everybody could use it, for it required a certain character for one to attain it. There were many theories around it, but most people believed that self-control was one of the main ingredients that would help bloom the spiritual energy.As long as one had control over their soul, their spiritual energy would be stable, and they would be able to use it to its full extent.Being calm also mattered as the quality of spiritual energy would be affected. With all these kinds of restrictions and hurdles, mastery of spiritual energy was a rarely achieved feat.Even among the ten lions of Syslon, only three pe
“Frying Needle!” Nirvan attacked a dragonworm right where its scales were removed. His sword thrust sent out a heat wave in the form of red gas and caused that part of the dragonworm’s body to shrivel up and thicken like rubber.The dragonworm still tried to recklessly move, and it suffered a belly cramp as a result.Mobel and others mercilessly attacked it now with everything they’ve got.“Primal Wild Slash!”“Flawless Falcon Drive!”“Prism Stab!”“Shining Strike!”Nirvan also joined them and used another technique. “Autumn Blade Cracking the Clouds!” His technique twisted the worm's body into a spiral near its mid section, causing it groan in pain. Even its giant body was lifted into the air, astonishing the onlookers.“As expected of Sir Nirvan!” Many praised him. “That beast must have surely felt it.”“My attack destroyed its internal structure,” Nirvan said. “It won’t be able to fight back anytime soon. This is the time to utterly destroy it. Blow it into pieces!”“Yes, sir!” Mob
There were still two dragonworms left. Brianna was focused on escorting the nobles and some of her relatives. She wanted to get them to owe her, as she believed that it was necessary to be able to sit on the throne of the emperor in the future.But, at the same time, Brianna saw Ulmer destroying a dragonworm, and she felt like she needed to do something to match him.So she purposely went after the one that Neodus had been fighting since the beginning. “Sorry, dad, but I want to get this win under my belt.” She suddenly swooped in and punched the dragonworm in the direction where there were some people escaping. She then flew there and helped them and fought the dragonworm, making them feel grateful as they thought that she was saving their lives.Neodus wasn’t surprised by that. In fact, he was proud of his daughter’s intelligence. “I wasn’t able to become the emperor, but you will definitely become the first empress of Syslon.” He actually wanted Vincent to become the emperor, but w
Ulmer’s cracked mask melted away, and the dragonworm’s acid also completely covered him.Regina quickly retracted her aura strings away, so that nobody would ever doubt her. “Hehe, no matter how strong you are, it will only need a moment of carelessness to suffer a defeat. Now, your body is melting away because of that acid. Even if you can heal yourself, the dragonworm will swallow you before you can do anything.”As Regina predicted, the dragonworm started sucking the air, and it pulled Ulmer toward its mouth.A ball of earth formed around Ulmer just as the dragonworm swallowed him, but then the ball of earth grew spikes all around it and pierced through the dragonworm’s body from inside out.The dragonworm twitched and rolled in pain before coughing out the spiked ball of earth.“Huh?” Regina was not expecting that. “Ah, I almost forgot. This bastard has the ability to manipulate earth. How could I overlook that?”The ball of earth soon melted away, and Ulmer was standing with a pl
All the dragonworms were taken care of. And the one who dealt with the last dragonworm turned out to be none other than Knight Beater.Though there were still many eyewitnesses, they didn’t praise Knight Beater. Instead, they were praising the royals, the lions, the nobles, the knights, and also the emperor, even though the emperor didn’t even leave from his seat.Regina and Neodus liked being praised by them.Brianna was only slightly smiling. She never fought the dragonworms before, so overcoming this hurdle was also satisfying to her.Ulmer, on the other hand, was opening and closing his fist. “I think I can do better.”[Of course.] Dove’s voice rang in his mind. [You’ve only just started to rely on your spiritual energy properly. Once you learn to use it more naturally, you will be able to even grab spirits or slap them in the face!]“Oh, so I will be able to deal with things from the spiritual realm, huh,” Ulmer felt a little excited but also nervous because it meant that there r
Zebron, Oscar, Alveron, Nirvan, and many others looked up at the skies before anything even came into their view.“Is it really that monster?” Mirianne asked Rever as she was running away.“My father said so, so there’s no doubt,” Rever told her, a hint of tension in his voice.Mirianne had never seen Rever run away from anything before. He was willing to fight even against the dragonworms, but now, against this mighty monster that even the emperor couldn’t kill, he had to run away. After all, being present at this scene would also cause the top knights to have disadvantage. “They won’t lose, right?”“I don’t know,” Rever had a frown on his face. “Even the Lions did not fight that monster till now. Only the emperor has fought it and withstood it, as far as my knowledge goes. But that’s also many decades. Now, the emperor is old. But that monster… they live thousands of years, so it’s still probably in its prime.”“But the emperor doesn’t have to fight it alone this time,” Mirianne sai
“Show us what’s happening at the colosseum, Brother,” Suki was pulling the shirt of Ulmer’s clone. “Please!”“No, a dangerous monster has arrived there,” Ulmer’s clone replied. “It’s going to cause a lot of destruction. Probably. It’s not something a child like you should watch.”“I’m not a child!” Suki blurted innocently. “I’m ten years old!”“You’re only eight, Suki,” Kale said.“E-Eight is old enough,” Suki opined.“No, it’s not,” Kale added. “You still suck your thumb in your sleep, don’t you?”“T-That’s got nothing to do with this!” Suki yelled. “Please, Brother. I want to see that monster. I want to see you fight that dragon!”Ayana pulled Suki’s ear and took her to their mother. Robin grabbed Suki by the shoulders and took her to their room.Ayana then looked a bit nervously at Ulmer’s clone. “Are you sure you want to stay there when most of the people are running away? You don’t have to fight that thing and risk your life. These people will not even praise you for your efforts
“Why isn’t it coming down?” Brianna asked.“Maybe, it didn’t expect the location to be here, where there are so many of us,” Alveron said. “That thing’s priority is probably to devour the dragonworms as they’re full of rich nutrients. But now that the dragonworms are dead, and their bodies have been shattered to bits and pieces and were scattered everywhere like dust, that dragon might be wondering what it should do right now.”“Mm…” Brianna paused for a moment. (I’ve heard from Dad that the Dragon of Doom caused lots of damage in the past, when he was just a kid, and that Grandpa was the one who stopped it by injuring it. It was already at level 98 back then. It’s probably at level 99 now, just like Grandpa. If that thing had eaten the dragonworms now, it would have likely leveled up and reached level 100. That’s something that was unheard of. Only the first emperor who established Syslon has reached that level. No one else in history was able to achieve that feat.) She then began to