A loud explosion occurred from the clashing of their weapons.
The impact sent both Kristian and Joseph flying backwards as they hurriedly stabilized themselves in mid-air.
"Good weapon! After this battle, can you let borrow that weapon of yours?"
"Not a chance! As if you can even use it in the first place!"
"Ah, that's right! Dang, how could I forgot that players with classes whose tiers are Legendary and above have their own class-specific weapons."
"Oh, really? Does that an that the weapon you're holding right now is your class-specific weapon? To be honest, it doesn't look different from ordinary swords."
"But of course! How can this look out of the ordinary when the weapon you're holding right there is a class higher than mine!" Kristian lightly chuckled.
"Thanks for the praise." Joseph wasn't humble at all and took his praise to heart.
"Do you still rember the question that I asked you earlier?" Kristian suddenly said.
"Oh? Is it about what elent is the sharpest?"
"Yeah, that question."
"Co to think of it, you still haven't given the answer to that question." Joseph's eyes narrowed. He could feel sothing surging within Kristian's body.
"The sharpest elent in the universe is Space. There is nothing sharper than the primordial currents of space that could cut through everything in this world." Kristian had a look of excitent on his face.
"Is that so? How co I haven't seen you utilize that sharpness at all?" Joseph almost imdiately replied. As far as he could rember, he saw Kristian using his Space manipulation abilities on restricting his movents.
He may have used an attack back then, but Joseph didn't think that the attack was quite sharp.
"No worries. You'll soon see what I'm talking about." Kristian's eyes narrowed.
He flicked his sleeves towards Joseph's direction and sent a blade made out of distorted Space.
Space itself was invisible, but since manipulating space required a lot of energy. Its movent would inevitably leave traces that others could see so that they could track the movents of space.
As soon as Kristian flicked his sleeves and sent his attack.
Joseph vaguely saw the air in front of him twisting as he hurriedly leaped backward and...
Boom!
A loud explosion occurred on the previous location where his feet stood.
Joseph's pupils constricted when he saw the damage caused by Kristian's attack.
His attack actually managed to put a dent on the floors of the Palace Halls?!
It has to be known that everything within the Palace Halls was incredibly sturdy. Of course, that included the floors of the Palace Halls. Despite fighting against twenty-plus players at once, those players and Joseph never managed to leave even a scratch on the floors of the Palace Halls.
Yet, Kristian actually managed to do sothing like that?
Joseph sucked a mouthful of cold air. It seed like this enemy of his, the Absolute Monarch, despite having only a Legendary Class was far formidable that he previously thought.
This discovery made Joseph rethink most of his plans.
If Kristian's attack could leave a dent on the floors of the Palace Halls. Kristian's offensive power was sothing that shouldn't even be ntioned.
Although Joseph could feel that there was sothing strange going on here.
If Kristian was this strong, then why didn't he fought him earlier?
Why did he wait until most of his comrades were annihilated before fighting him?
That didn't make sense.
Joseph's mind madly spun.
But before he could even think any further.
Kristian himself gave the answer to his question.
"Is it that strange? Having the ability to manipulate space; the sharpest elent in the world. Being able to leave a simple dent on the floors of this Palace Halls is not sothing hard..."
"But think about it. If I can leave a dent on the floors here, what would happen if I sent that attack to you instead?" Kristian had a mocking look on his face.
But Joseph frowned.
Didn't this guy wanted to fight so much that he even employed the Protect the President strategy earlier so he can take the advantage? Why is he trying to intimidate now? This is really strange.
Joseph inwardly thought.
But on the outside, he maintained a calm and composed expression as he replied: "Well, what you expect may indeed happen. After all, I don't have any high-tiered equipnt and armors like you..."
"Look at , I'm only wearing a simple washed-out tunic. In other words, I can consider myself as garbage."
Joseph's words were self-deprecating, but his eyes radiated intense mocking.
Kristian fell into deep contemplation and he suddenly realized what Joseph ant by his words.
If Joseph considered himself as garbage due to his bad items. What would beco of those elite players that he defeated? Wouldn't they be lower than garbage since Joseph defeated them despite having high-tiered items and equipnt?
"Bastard!" Kristian growled.
Joseph rely shook his head and chuckled. If Kristian still couldn't understand what he ant even though he already laid out everything in front of him. Joseph could only say that Kristian really lacked so brain cells.
Kristian suddenly rushed at Joseph at this mont.
His sword radiated the distorting light of space and looking at it made Joseph feel as he was staring at the abyss itself.
In an instant, Kristian arrived in front of Joseph and swung his sword downwards.
Joseph raised his Rapier and t Kristian's sword mid-way.
Peng!
The sound of tal clashing against tal fiercely rang out.
Both sides were forced backwards from the impact, but none of them capitalized on that opportunity and retreated.
Instead, they rushed at each other once again.
Peng!
In a blink of an eye, Kristian appeared before Joseph and sent a thrust towards his chest.
Joseph's pupils constricted, "How fast is this bastard?"
He leaned sidewards and evaded the attack that flew to his heart.
His Rapier shone in a dazzling light and lunged like a snake towards Kristian's chest, but...
Bang!
Kristian's knees struck Joseph's stomach, sending him flying into the air as Kristian followed after him.
[You suffered 5,502 damage!]
Joseph hurriedly stabilized himself in the air, but Kristian was already above him.
"Bite of Justice!"
Nevertheless, he sent an attack towards Kristian's direction but Kristian blocked it with a simple [Guard].
Having taken the higher ground in the air, Kristian had the advantage in this battle.
But that advantage was swiftly taken away when Joseph activated Aerial Evasion and sent a Point at Kristian.
"Point!"
The blinding light of the Rapier forced Kristian's eyes to squint, yet the sly smile on his face never disappeared.
Instead of dodging Joseph's devastating attack with Point. Kristian pounced forward, this was a suicidal act, yet his sword was also descending towards Joseph's neck.
"This bastard... He's trying to trade blows!"
Joseph hurriedly retreated.
Since he was in the middle of sending an attack. It was impossible for him to cancel Point, so in order to retreat. He had no other choice but to let go of his Rapier and let himself fall on his back first onto the ground.
Upon landing, Joseph imdiately rolled backwards and commanded his Rapier to fly back to him.
Swoosh!
Air itself was torn as the Naless Rapier returned to Joseph's hands in neck-breaking speeds.
Just as Joseph's Rapier landed onto his hands, Kristian appeared in front of him once again.
Joseph was shocked.
He instantly glanced at the Gunners at the distance, but Kristian realized what he was planning on doing as he whispered.
"Spatial Lock!"
[The surrounding space has been sealed and distorted. Instantaneous movents are now impossible.]
"Bastard!" Joseph angrily shouted. He flicked his Rapier like a whip and deflected Kristian's attack.
Afterwards, he leaped backward and whispered.
"The Grand Duelist's Graceful Swordsmanship, Third Form..."
The divine light of the Grand Duelist enveloped Joseph's body at this mont as his Rapier moved.
Kristian rely lifted a smile. He rushed forwards and t Joseph's Rapier and at that mont, a magnificent rapier dance was unleashed.
"Grace!"
Joseph's movents hastened and he reappeared behind Kristian.
His Rapier slashed at Kristian's neck, yet Kristian managed to block it with his sword. But at the mont when Kristian blocked Joseph's attack. The latter abruptly disappeared before reappearing behind Kristian once again, carrying, yet another attack.
Peng!
The sound of tal clashing against tal rang out and Joseph disappeared once again.
"Above!"
Kristian looked upwards and the gleam of Joseph's Rapier t his eyes.
Slash!
Kristian leaped backward to avoid the attack but it was too late. The Rapier carved a bloody line on his chest, dealing devastating amounts of damage but Joseph's dance still wasn't over. The curtain call hadn't arrived, yet.
There was still the final thrust of Grace that Joseph promptly sent directly into Kristian's chest.
Guah!
Kristian coughed a mouthful of blood.
He raised his knee and sent a Knee Strike onto Joseph's stomach, but Joseph had already retreated.
"That... You're really strong... A single skill is enough to take away thirty-percent of my Health..." Kristian wiped the blood on his lips and laughed.
"If you focused and killed earlier in the fight then you could've won, but right now? It's already too late. You may have taken thirty-percent of my hp, but I still have about seventy-percent of my Health Points remaining. Do you really think that you can still win?" Kristian calmly said.
Joseph lifted a smile, "Winning or losing is my business. Are you just going to stand there and talk to ? Hurry up and co to already, I'm getting quite tired so I want to end this battle as fast as possible."
Joseph's words and tone of voice made it obvious that he didn't care that much about his Health Points.
Kristian's eyes narrowed.
He could feel that there was sothing strange going on, but he couldn't see anything strange.
This nagging feeling disturbed Kristian so he took a good look at Joseph, but there was nothing wrong with him.
One of Kristian's unique passives as the Absolute Monarch enabled him to see through the vital stats of his enemies such as their Mana Bars and Health Bars. From what he could see, Joseph only had about ten percent of his Health Bar remaining.
Ten percent was basically nothing in a battle between experts, yet why was he so arrogant?
Kristian's eyes dangerously narrowed.
He decided that he would use all of his strength to land that single and final decisive blow of this battle!
Even a tiger uses its full strength against a rabbit!
Kristian's experience against fighting Joseph made him conclude that underestimating him was a suicidal act!
"Fine... Let's end it."
"Let's end this all in a single strike."
Kristian took a deep breath and his eyes flashed with killing intent.
"Monarch Manifestation."
Following Kristian's internal chant, his figure beca enveloped with a dark light that seed to be even blacker than darkness itself. The void trembled, space screeched, and the air itself was torn as a power of unimaginable scale burst forth from Kristian's body.
The whites in both of Kristian's eyes disappeared, replaced by two pupils that turned completely blood-red. Contrasting the darkness that covered his body and the undeniable might and dignity that radiated from his being.
A wicked and malicious aura that demanded respect and obedience from all existence emanated from his body, causing everyone who was looking at him at this mont to gasp.
"The Absolute Monarch's Divine Art's Ultimate Style: The Sword Explodes like a Supernova!"
In contrast to the lengthy na of the skill that Kristian uttered.
The single move that he unleashed was incomparably simple.
It was just a downwards slash, but when it descended towards Joseph.
Ti itself seed to have co to a halt.
Joseph's pupils constricted.
While he was staring at the sword. He was shocked to find that there were no weaknesses or so sort that he could capitalize on to deflect the incoming attack.
Joseph quickly adapted, he took a stance and was about to activate Parry but he was astonished once again when he discovered that...
The sword was blurry!
The sword descending towards moved incredibly slow, so it should be easy for Joseph to ti his Parry when it arrived, yet he found out that he couldn't estimate when the sword would arrive at him!
Deflecting required precise timing.
Parry was the sa.
Joseph sucked a mouthful of cold air.
The sword was now about a ter before him.
He chose to leap backward in order to dodge the attack but his movents were slow.
He was moving at a snail's pace.
Joseph's gaze wandered and he then discovered that everything within the Palace Halls had slowed down.
He could even see a speck of dust slowly floating back towards the ground.
He then turned his gaze to Kristian.
Determination flashed across his face, and it was at this mont that Kristian's attack finally descended.
BOOM!!!
An explosive rumble rang out and it made one feel as if the sky and earth had collapsed.
The entire Palace Halls trembled with incomparable intensity, and even the pillars that served as the foundation of the Palace Halls had started to sway. It was as if a terrifying natural disaster had suddenly descended.
Within the explosive sound, MartyrNoble and Look At who observed the battle from afar with bated breaths imdiately lost their ability to hear.
Shattered rocks along with so sand flew haphazardly into the air and for a mont, it blotted out everything within the epicenter of the explosion.
Kristian and Joseph's figure were nowhere to be seen.
But a single system notification inford both MartyrNoble and Look At of the aftermath of the explosion.
[Your Party mber, Kristian, has died!]
The eyes of both Gunners almost popped out of their sockets when they saw the system notification floating in front of them. Kristian, the Absolute Monarch, who was on the offensive and attacked using such a powerful skill, was the one who died in the end...
"What the fuck just happened?"
The minds of the two Gunners blanked out, they didn't even know what to think anymore.
The tremoring of the Palace Halls soon stopped and the dust settled down. Both Gunners stared wide-eyed at the epicenter of the explosion and the two collectively gasped when they saw the aftermath.
What appeared before their eyes, was a huge crater of at least a hundred ters in diater!
In the center of the crater, was the lone and bloodied figure of Joseph.
A relieved and satisfied smile could be seen on his face as he whispered.
"Finally... It's over..."
He slowly raised his trembling hand and used his Rapier to pierce through the skies.
Afterwards, a roar filled with deep joyousness ca out of his mouth.
"AAAHHH!!!"
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