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
Emperor Dylan, Oscar Willson, and many other important personnel of the country personally visited the grand colosseum where the final round was held.A total of 38 people reached the final round. Out of them, 13 people were nobles, 14 people were knights, 8 people were from SAC, two from royals, and the other person was the Knight Beater who was still wearing his cracked dove mask that completely covered his face.“As expected of SAC, eight of them reached the final round,” Neodus said.“Haha, they just got a little lucky, that’s all,” Oscar said while stroking his beard.With Emperor Dylan sitting at the top row in the back, the other important personnel were sitting in the second top row, and it included the likes of Nedous, Oscar and a dozen others.The Final Round was a Battle Royale. There were no rules, and people were allowed to fight each other to their heart’s content and even kill each other. However, the unwritten rule was that the nobles shouldn’t be killed.Anybody could
All the fourteen knights surrounded Ulmer in every direction and stopped him from going toward Brianna. Their average level was exactly seventy two.None of them appeared to be an easy meal because Ulmer could feel some uniqueness in their strengths.“Fourteen on one… and you call yourselves knights?” Ulmer uttered. “Why don’t you call yourselves wolves instead?”His words were very insulting because he compared the honorable knights with cunning, ravenous wolves which would cause destruction wherever they would go.“What? Did my words touch a chord of your ego?” Ulmer added. “You do work for the nobles who don’t mind shitting on common people for no reason. So why do you expect me to respect you when I don’t have any respect for most of the nobles in this country?”What Ulmer was saying right now was outrageous, but at the same time, Ulmer was also very careful with his words. He didn’t say all nobles were bad.“I wish more nobles were like Edward Foster or Branwen Something,” Ulmer
Vincent stepped forward. He still remembered Neodus’ words: Win the games, and then claim the prize as well as the princessVincent took these words to heart.Of course, becoming the crown prince was something he had always wanted ever since he knew the value of being the emperor. However, there was something else that he wanted more than anything else. It was to make Minerva his own.Minerva Brianna Craig was in his heart since they had flown on top of a kite together. He would never forget that journey through heaven, filled with her laughter which was the most pleasant thing he had ever heard. She wasn’t just his first love but his only love.He had expressed his feelings to her one way or another, but she didn’t give him a clear reply yet. He didn’t get to meet her directly in many years, but he always made sure to send her messages either through written form or verbal form so that she wouldn’t forget him.Brianna sent him replies every now and then, so Vincent believed that she