By the time I realized what happened, I was already floating mid air. I looked below me and saw the castle I was in a couple of seconds ago, one the ceiling was a hole in the shape of a human body.

My body was hurting a little, however thanks to the skill ‘Pain Resistance’ it was nullified up to some extent.

‘What happened? I’m pretty sure I was about to fight against the ki—‘, it took a couple of seconds to figure out what happened, but before I could react a shadow appeared out of nowhere and hit me with a huge golden blade.

I instinctively took out my two swords and tried parrying his attack, unfortunately instead of parrying his attack I was thrown down by the pressure of his Great Sword.

My body was sent flying down limply like a corpse, I hit the ceiling again and hit down the ground as well “GAH!”, I gasped as I hit the hard and rough floor.

‘This guy is a monster ‘, just like Alice had said, her father was a SSS classed adventurer which could be described as a heroes or even people close to becoming gods themselves.

I looked up where I came from, there were three holes made in the castle passing through two layers and the first hole was the one where I was thrown up from.

‘This bastard! How is he so strong?!  I’m not going down until you die first!’, I used ‘Flight’ to fly back up into the sky where he had hit me. I didn’t see him anywhere he wasn’t in the spot where he had thrown me.

Suddenly, I felt a chill down my spine, like death had just embraced my heart for a second. I looked behind me and a shadow flashed before my eyes and then I noticed that I was no longer on the sky, but instead on one of the watch towers on the castle walls.

‘What happened I couldn’t see him.’, I only saw a shadow for a split second and the next moment I was over here. I looked at the debris that was caused by the impact.

My body was not hurting as much as I thought it would, thank god I had the ‘Pain Resistance’ Skill, however that doesn’t mean I’m unwounded.

I don’t have a physical body, however magic can affect me. My back had a huge cut on it and was bleeding fountains of blood, it was because of the Kings Great Sword that was probably made out of magic.

I could barely feel the pain of it, it was a strange feeling it was like it wasn’t even there, yet it is.

I could not care about my wounds right now, I am in a fight right now, so I have to stay focused. I stood up from the pile of debris and looked back to where I was.

“!!!”, I only saw it for a second. It was as if a golden light flashed before my eyes for an instant, I noticed it was an attack and tried to dodge it. “Ouch!”, I said feeling a slight pain on my left arm.

As I thought I was save or a moment, more of the golden flashes came raining down on me, I started running leaving the tower. The golden flashes destroyed the tower in an instant, it was like god had shown up for a second. I ran across the castle walls, while the golden flashes destroyed everything in its way.

I heard a trumpet in the distance, and suddenly arrows came flying down on me. I grabbed my sword from its scabbard and cut down the arrows that were about to hit me.

‘Thank god I played that VR game!’, I thought. Thanks to the hell I had spent on a certain game where projectiles would be shot against you and you had to cut them down. I was also able to do that thanks to the ‘Swordsmanship’ skill that also increases my skill with the sword.

‘He stationed the knights on the walls so that they could target me!’, I thought astonished by how far the king had predicted what would happen.

The knights were located on top of the watchtowers holding bows on their hands and reloading arrow after arrow. There were in total four watchtowers one of them was destroyed by the king and the rest was located on the opposite side, that meant they could hit me from behind front and left and right.

I was slowly approaching one of the towers, the knights readied their bows in the order of a knight commander and shot them in sync.

I deactivated ‘Materialization’ and let the arrows go through me, the knights became confused since they could no longer see me.

I activated ‘Materialization’ and entered the tower and came out on the other side, of my predictions were true that meant…

The king didn’t stop his attacks and destroyed the tower together with the knights. ‘He doesn’t care about his knights?!’, the king might have thought of them as nothing but pawns, I could not care less since this would help me instead.

‘I can’t just run forever! I need to use all of my battle related skills to defeat him!’, I stopped running and shielded myself with black flames, the light flashes were absorbed into the flames.

‘I have to use my old instincts as well!’, as I was losing focus on keeping my flaming shield, the light flashes had stopped.

The black flames dispersed without leaving a trace of ash behind, I didn’t see the king and the knights had stopped shooting arrows.

Where is he? Where could he be? If I don’t protect myself against his next attack, I probably won’t be able to defend!

As I looked around me, I felt something. This feeling was like a different type of shiver, this time I recognized it. Every time I played games, they always came from one direction!

‘Behind me!’, I turned around and used my two swords with all my strength to hold back the golden great sword that was about to blow me away.

“You were able to predict my attack. I am surprised, surprised indeed.”, the king said looking at me in the eye just like I wanted him to!

I used ‘Brainwahs’ to enter his mind, the king held his head with his left hand while his right one held his great sword. “Hmm. Are you trying to use some sort of brainwashing skill or rather a spell? Too bad, I have level ten ‘Mental Resistance’!”, the king held his great sword with both of his hands and easily slashed it up and broke my defense.

The king saw an opening and slashed me with his sword diagonally, I filled the space that he was about to cut with black flames and braced for impact.

My body got blown away once again by the pressure of the great sword and got thrown back into the castle, however instead of hitting the hard ground two hands had caught me.

“Master! Are you alright!?”, Athena touched my wounds. “I’m fine…. I would like you to do something for me. Go and distract the knights while I’m fighting please.”, I asked of her and she nodded.

I looked at my hands, my vision was getting blurrier by the second and I felt like my consciousness could slip away at any time now, however I could not give up yet.

‘Now I have two beautiful cuts, one on my back and one on my front, just perfect!’, I made a small sarcastic joke.

Alice who was present here started chanting a spell, and suddenly my wounds started healing bit by bit.

“Shiro, is there anything else I can do to help?!”, Alice asked with great concern after healing me. “Would you defy your father for me?”, I asked another question in return.

“What my father did was wrong, unless he tells me the true reason, then I will have to believe in you…… for now.”, Alice said.

I got a little embarrassed for a second, but I got my mind out of the gutter and said. “Alright, is there any weakness to your father, or a special skill I have to be wary of?”, I asked as my wounds slowly started to heal.

“I don’t know much about my father’s skills myself, however I do know one of his skills, ‘Pride’.”, Alice revealed one of his skills.

‘Pride’ it was probably related to my ‘Wrath’ Skill. “Do you know what it does?”, I asked Alice quickly since I didn’t have much time. “I’m not sure, but one time my father was challenged to a duel by an old friend of his. However, the fight was over in an instant, my father’s friend was suddenly knocked out without even moving.”, Alice tried to explain how his skill could possibly be.

‘Either he’s unbelievably fast or he can stop time.’, I deducted out of Alice’s short explanation.

“Alice could you please assist Athena?”, I asked. “Yes.”, she answered immediately and went together with Athena.

I stretched my body, even though I don’t have any bones except for spiritual ones. And stepped outside the castle and looked to where the king was.

He was standing there ominously, his kingly aura was pouring out of him. Maybe it was a title that is doing that effect?

“You want to finish this?”, the king asked meaning to end this fight. “Yeah, shure why not?”, I answered. “You think you can beat me with those wounds? You’re injured and you haven’t even landed a single hit in me!”, he said charging at me with the speed of light.

I only saw him for a second, but the next moment he appeared before me with his great sword in position. “I got you—, what’s happening?”, he said trying to move his arm any further, but couldn’t because of the steel threads I placed.

“You think this will stop me?”, he said cunningly. “No, but it will buy me time.”, I said using ‘Flight’ to fly away into the sky.

‘Huh? Running instead of fighting, this fight will end quickly!’, The king thought. “‘Holy Radiance’”, he said activating a great sword skill, his body glowed with a light that shone like the sun.

The king jumped in the air towards me and I dodged him by flying away in a different direction. “Instead of fighting you’re running away. You’re a coward.”, the king tried annoying me. “Look at whose speaking, you decided not to dirty your hands and instead sent your pawns to do the job!”, I answered back.

I flew towards the castle walls and did that over and over while dodging his relentless attacks. ‘Does this guy have a limit?’, I asked myself, but I shurely already knew the answer.

“Would you stop dodging for a second?!”, the king complained while sweating. He had been following me the whole time while shooting out spell after spell and sword skills as well. His body was no longer as shiny as it was before.

“Oh, don’t worry I’ll stop.”, I said standing still. “What are you planning?”, the king said suspicious of why I suddenly stopped.

“That’s because the fight is already over!”, I declared while pulling a thread and capturing the king in a ball of threads! “The same trick as before, this won’t sto—, what I can’t move!!!”, he said realizing that the strings wouldn’t cut despite him using magic and sword skills.

“I wasn’t flying away for nothing. Every time I touched the walls I placed a thread and connected it all together, so that it would in the end capture you!”, I revealed my plan.

“‘Holy Radiance’!”, the king tried using the same sword skill, however it was useless as the threads did not snap. “I placed many threads overlapping each other, ending up multiple layered.”, I told him.

“So, what’s your plan? Bore me to death?”, the king asked. “No… I plan on burning you to death!”, I activated ‘Flame Manipulation’ and created black flames that spread within the threads.

“The threads that I made were thickened so that it wouldn’t snap.”, the black fire spread towards the king’s body and engulfed him.

The king started squirming as the fire spread across his whole body, the threads didn’t snap, thankfully and I was over exhausted. My body was hurting only a little bit though, and my mana was at zero.

I turned around for a second and my intuition was alarming me not to, I looked behind me and noticed that he was no longer within the threads.

The next moment, I suddenly was on the floor of the throne room looking into the night sky, asking myself what happened?

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I'm not really good at making fight scenes, but I hope this shall suffice.