The knight of noble Branwen was the first one that stepped onto the stage.“Hahaha,” Branwen was laughing outside, but on the inside, he was crying. (Dammit. What cursed luck I have. My noble is at level 63. He’s probably going to lose against that young man they call the Knight Beater.) Though he couldn’t see Ulmer’s face, he still recognized him from how the people were referring to him.Branwen was the second noble that had come to Ulmer’s home and met him. He was at level 69 but had high aspirations of becoming a top noble.Nobody from the royal family came to watch as this was just the third round.“I’m Denge,” the blue-haired knight introduced himself. “I pledge my loyalty for Lord Branwen. He still wishes that you work for him.”“I don’t work for anyone,” Ulmer replied. “Tell that to your lord.”“You leave me no choice,” Denge unsheathed his sword and swung it in a circular manner, creating water out of thin air. “Diligent Waterfall Jolt!”Like a growing arm, the water burst fo
“So you have seen through my level, huh…” Alveron smiled. “You are indeed interested. No wonder ‘she’ told me to deal with you now itself.”“She? Who is she?” Ulmer asked out of intrigue.“You don’t need to know because you’re going to lose,” Alveron said.“Everyone who showed such confidence before me left crying,” Ulmer replied. “You are going to be no exception.”“You’ve got a big mouth, young man, but can you really give me a proper fight which I haven't had in a long time?” Alveron said.“That depends on you.”“We’ll see about that,” Alveron unsheathed his sword, and straight away, Ulmer felt a tremendous invisible pressure pushing him down even though his opponent didn’t make any move.“What is this?” Ulmer frowned. “Gravity?”“Correct,” Alveron slashed sword diagonally. “Gravity Eruption!”Ulmer was forcibly pulled toward the sword.BANG~~!!The sword struck Ulmer’s cross-arm block, and a strong pulling force spread out in every direction.It was so powerful that the audience f
“You haven’t seen anything yet,” Alveron pierced the sword into the stage and uttered, “Gravity Cage.”A black bird-cage like object completely filled the state both of them were on, and only Ulmer felt pressure from every direction, not just pulling from below, but from above and from left and right and diagonally as well. This was the 3D pressure put on every inch of his body, trying to rip him apart into pieces.Killing was allowed in Noble Games as long as it wasn’t a noble, so knights and others were allowed to kill themselves.So, Alveron did not go easy. He put all his strength and did not hold back.To others who had never experienced Gravity Cage, it looked like a normal attack, but only those who had experienced it before knew how devastating it would be.Zebron and some others who knew its power had a serious expression on their faces. “Is he trying to kill that young man?”Rever frowned. “That looks very dangerous. Alveron the Animal… why is he going that far? Couldn’t he
Alveron held the sword in reverse grip and lunged forth and stabbed it down as one would stab with a knife. “Gravity Fang!”Ulmer blocked the sword with his bare hand.The sword dug through his hand and then the shoulder.A strong black lightning burst forth and utterly destroyed the stage beneath them. A strong earthquake spread in multiple directions and destroyed not just the other stages but also the audience stands, causing people to freak out.Ulmer grabbed Alveron’s sword with his bare hand so that he wouldn’t be able to push it down further. Ulmer then swiftly swiped his other hand. “Heavenly Claw!”Alveron moved his head back, but Ulmer’s claws still cut up his skin very badly, making him bleed from his face very much. “Urgh…” Alveron used his ability to seal up the wounds, but to his surprise, the wounds opened up again. “What the…”On the contrary, Ulmer’s injuries closed up. “This is goodbye,” he leaped forth, spun through the air and kicked at Alveron.Alveron thrust his
The fourth round was a one on one match between the participants.To Ulmer’s luck, his opponent was Mobel, the knight he first met after coming to this city.“Aren’t I lucky?” Ulmer said.Mobel did not look that confident, but he said, “For Lord Dracarius, I will defeat you.”“Because of Dracarius, I will also beat the shit out of you,” Ulmer told him. “I’ve heard a lot of bad things that he does, you see. I have no respect for such a crooked man. Since you work for him, I am not going to go easy on you.”“Don’t get cocky just because you won against Alveron by fluke!” Mobel charged him and swung his sword, creating a whirlwind.Ulmer waved his hand and not only dispelled the whirlwind but also caught Mobel’s blade at the tip. With a twist of his wrist, he broke the sword and then grabbed Mobel by the face and crushed him to the ground.Mobel’s eyes whitened immediately as he coughed blood.With a kick, he sent Mobel flying off the big stage.Ulmer then glanced toward a few people in
The fifth round was a tag-team fight.Ulmer was paired up with a weaker teammate to balance things out between different teams. His teammate was Nelson, a knight leveled 49.Nelson was very friendly, humble, and said, “I will do my best to not come in your way.”“I will also do my best to get us both into the next round,” Ulmer told him.Their opponents turned out to be two nobles.One was Jessica, a level 53 woman in her late thirties, whereas the other one was a Matthew Belford who was at level 71. Both of them were husband and wife.“I will manage myself against that woman,” Nelson told Ulmer. “You deal with that man, Brother.”“Your wish,” Umer was quick to rush toward Matthew the moment the game started.“Don’t get cocky, brat,” Matthew immediately used his tech gloves to send a burst of lightning at Ulmer.Ulmer didn’t even dodge it and went right through it. “That tickles…” he tried to grab Matthew, but Matthew jumped and surfed through the sky with his skysurfers.Matthew came
Attacking an opponent from behind was a disgrace for a knight. But attacking a teammate from behind? This was utterly blemishing.The crowd was utterly stunned by what they saw. Mirianne’s expression froze.Even Ayana and others who were watching from their house through Ulmer’s eyes felt horrified by watching a sword come out through his chest.Brianna, however, was smiling. After all, she was the one who secretly arranged it so that Nelson would be Ulmer’s partner. “No one can survive a deep wound to the heart. This is your end, Knight Beater. Your story will be told as such… that you were pathetically beaten by a knight named Nelson in the fifth round of the Noble Games. Yes, that will be the truth because I will make it so. You will soon be forgotten.”Just then, Ulmer’s body melted into mud.Nelson was utterly confused. “W-What’s this? He turned into a pile of mud?““I-It’s a clone!” a random knight in the crowd said.“He has a cloning system?” Nelson and everyone who heard that
As Ulmer was leaving with the Foster family to have a nice refreshing drink during the short time before the final round would start, Dracarius came to meet Ulmer.“It’s so nice to see again, Knight Beater,” Dracarius said. “Would you like to come to my tent for a minute? Because I have something very important to discuss with you.”“So you’re Dracarius. I will come to you after the tournament finishes,” Ulmer said. “And don’t let me see your knight. Whatever his name was. Because if I see him, I will definitely beat him to a pulp.”Dracarius forced out a smile even though those words were humiliating. “What has my knight Nirvan done wrong?”“He would have ruined me and my family if I wasn’t strong when he first met me,” Ulmer said. “So, isn’t it fair to warn you to keep him away from my sight? No matter who it is, if someone threatens me and my family, I will not let that slide. Since he bared his fangs at me, I assume you’re behind that, too?”“O-Of course, not. I would never have s