Chapter 154: Karltonheim
Count Karim had been tasting the power of the Duke these days.
He was afraid of nothing even when his father was only a Marquis. No one raised any problems on what he had been doing. Unless the opponent was a Marquis, he had no one to fear. But a Duke! Karim was the one who was the happiest when he heard the news.
That was when he heard the interesting news from the twins at a Viscount’s estate near him.
Karim ran out of his land at once and headed toward Locke Estate after hearing the news. It was quite a distance, but it wasn’t too far for a Count to go.
‘Stay there until I get to you, my toy.’
There were so nobles without estates. Teasing and harassing them was the most enjoyable hobby Karim had. It was fun to harass the weak, but harassing the strong was even more enjoyable.
He never touched a Count as Counts weren’t good opponents to fight against when he fought by his estate. This new Count seed to have no estate, and so this was his chance.
After he got there, there were no mutant monsters, but that didn’t matter to him.
“Where are they? The new nobles.”
“We are not sure. We just know that they are here sowhere.”
“Really? It’s a bit a wide to search... will they co out if I break down this tree?” Karim mumbled threateningly. He couldn’t do it as it was a direct order, but this man in front of him didn’t know that.
“I really don’t know!”
“Aren’t you the lord of this estate? How can you not know... wait. I heard their Akra was weak.”
Karim rembered and nodded. This man really didn’t know if that was the case.
“You should go now. Go hunt those monsters down.”
“...Understood.”
Karim then searched every part of the tree. He had heard about the appearance but it was too large. Then after a while, he did find her. She looked just like a standard female noble as he was heard. Nobles ca in a variety of sizes and genders. There were small ones, tall ones, cute-looking ones, vicious ones and more. Yet that woman really looked like a standard noble. She had a tall figure with an insolent look on her eyes, and a gait that showed how arrogant and proud she was.
Karim then walked up to her and checked the prowess. And he reached a conclusion: ‘I will win.’
He couldn’t check the Akra Resonance, but the opponent seed to be a little bit stronger than himself. So if he fought with Akra, he would win. It made him relax as he was sure that he will win. He then quickly walked up to her.
“Good day.”
“Who’re you?”
“...”
Karim thought he was the rudest of the bunch, but she wasn’t any better.
“Hmph. I’m Count Karim. I ca here to see you.”
“Ugh... why are there so many...”
“Huh?”
“Nah, it’s nothing. What do you want?”
Karim frowned at such rude words but he decided to let it pass. It was the best feeling to ta a ferocious beast.
“Haha, I just thought it would be good to have so good tis.”
At once, a violent wind blew out from Karim. He spoke as he let out his full energy, expecting one of two answers. One was that she would give up in fear of power and literally enjoy the good tis or two, that she would feel humiliated and charge at him. Both options were good for him.
Stiel reacted very differently.
“Hmm? Good tis, eh? Yeah, sure. I was bored too.”
Then she walked up to him. Karim grinned.
‘She’s the sa type.’
It wasn’t expected, but this was also good.
“Hahaha, good. Where should we go then?”
“? Here’s fine.”
“Oh, good, good. I like your style. We’ll do it here.”
Karim beca excited as he talked and thought it was a good choice to co.
‘I should take her back to my estate.’
But before Karim could do anything, he saw sothing coming at him and tried to dodge.
‘Dammit! It’s too late!’
Karim raised up a guard to block the attack and he was thrown off into tree trunk hard. The tree had no damage even after being struck so hard. Its durability was also why nobles loved this tree. It withstood all sorts of things that the nobles did.
Karim could barely stand up before he felt another incoming attack and dodged it. As he made a counter-attack, he blurted angrily.
“You crazy b*tch! What are you doing!”
“What? You wanted a good ti and you’re okay here, right? You said everything was okay! Haha, I don’t have much ti so let’s do it quick. Sian’s going to co back soon.”
“You...!”
Then Karim noticed Stiel jumping at him with black tal gauntlets on her hands and he took out his sword and fought back.
“Huh? What’s going on?”
Sian, who closed all the entrance of Apental and returned to the tree, found so clashing sounds and light coming from the tree. As he focused his eyes, he saw Stiel and a man fighting there. They were using their full power but the Ciculus Tree did not even budge. It was amazing when compared to the Lagran Region.
‘Stiel’s going to lose.’
Sian then sped up and approached them. He didn’t know what was going on, so he decided to separate them to ask and thus pushed them away from each other.
“Ugh!”
“ARGH!”
Karim and Stiel felt powerful energy pressuring them and jumped back. Karim was confused but Stiel knew what had happened.
“Ugh, Sian. You’re back early.”
“Yeah. Are you okay?”
“It’s nothing.”
Stiel spoke casually but she had accumulated many wounds, aning the fight had been intense.
“What’s going on?”
“It’s nothing. He just ca to and wanted to have a good ti.”
“...and?”
“So, we were having a good ti.”
Stiel spat blood from her mouth but she really did seem to enjoy the fight. It was good to fight soone as an equal after a long ti. However, Sian didn’t feel the sa.
“Stiel, give that glove.”
“Huh? But it won’t fit your hand,” Stiel said. Her hands were bigger than other won’s, but it was still much smaller than Sian’s hand.
“It doesn’t matter. I’m not putting it on.”
“Huh? Then why...”
Stiel couldn’t understand but Sian took the glove from her anyway.
“How am I going to fight without it?”
Stiel was confused but Karim was even more confused.
“Who are you-”
Karim couldn’t act up as he knew this man was the one who pushed him out with his energy and beca tense as the man approached him with a gauntlet. His sight was then filled with a black gauntlet that the man was holding and tried to block, but it was too late.
“ARGH!”
Karim scread as he was struck in the face with the gauntlet. But he couldn’t think as he was then beaten down by the tal gauntlet until he fainted.
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