Chapter 205: The King Of America Versus Claudius
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Claudius and Caesar clashed, their powerful blades overflowing with their Auras. The Golden Aura of Claudius was almost overwhelming his brother Caesar almost immediately. Caesar’s Black Aura couldn’t compare to the powerful magical density within his brother’s Aura, to the point it felt like the Golden Aura could swallow his own entirely.
“Hahah, brother, oh dear brother!” Claudius laughed. “You’re still as weak as before, are you not?”
“Claudius!” Caesar roared. “Wasn’t this visit a bit too abrupt?! I knew you would eventually come, but I thought you were biding your time, managing the world you had already conquered.”
“Oh brother, in the great climb to power that is our family, a moment of rest is also a terrifying weakness; to show that to you would be unforgivable based on the doctrine I’ve grown up with!” Claudius said. “I’m surprised, however…!”
CRAAASH!
Claudius’ golden sword swung down, hitting Caesar’s blade with tremendous power, generating an explosion of golden light.
As the Kings battled, their armies clashed amidst the skies, explosions and screams reverberating everywhere.
“You were able to somehow know that I was coming for you,” Claudius said. “I’m fairly sure we didn’t give you enough time to prepare once we got here; it was barely a minute ago. What’s more, the traitor that became my new dog swore he never shared any information either.”
“Traitor?” The King didn’t know about that. “Who are you talking about?”
“So it seems you didn’t even know that Atticus betrayed you, giving me precious information about you, your territory, and your forces?” Claudius laughed, swinging his blade forward, unleashing a barrage of slashing attacks that resembled a storm of golden light.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“Unnggh…!”
Caesar held on barely, using his much larger and robust blade to intercept and defend from these blows, while relying on his heavy, tough armor to tank some of the blows.
“Atticus…! He betrayed me?! But he…! He had been with me since I was a child! How could he…?!” Caesar was truly impacted by the unexpected news.
“Hahahaha! Now that’s the face I wanted to see, my dear brother!” Claudius laughed, his golden aura dancing around him, exuding vibrant divinity. “But I still wonder, how? How were you able to tell?! How were you able to prepare?! This doesn’t make any sense! Do you happen to have the power to see into the future?”
“No,” said Caesar, his black and red aura growing stronger as third silver-colored energy began to merge with it, making his Aura grow larger over time, resembling a ferocious black, red, and silver dragon looking into the skies. “I just happen to be very fortunate.”
“What do you mean with that?!” Claudius grew a bit frustrated. “Fortunate? Don’t tell me you just predicted this? That makes no sense! You have used some power to see into my actions! What is this trump card you’re hiding?!”
“Why should I tell you anything else, brother?” Caesar said. “Aren’t we fighting to the death?!”
FLASH!
Caesar rushed towards his brother, swinging his blade against him once more. Claudius, however, remained calm and composed, smiling and swinging his sword down.
“Hah, you truly believe you’ve got a chance?”
Claudius Aura gathered into his golden sword, overflowing with pure Magic and Divinity.
The Divinity of Gods he had slain and stolen their power from.
“I have slain Gods on my descent here; what have you done yourself other than sitting idly?!”
SLAAASH!
A gigantic slashing wave of golden light and sparkling stars materialized, descending towards Caesar at lightning speed.
The King steeled his resolve, his Internal Energies rushing out, converging with his Mana and enhancing his power.
“Let’s see if all this training paid off…”
He swung his sword upwards, gathering Focus and Strength and pointing it all into a single point.
Caesar remembered Bing Xue’s words as he did.
“Your power is not bad, and with your Cultivation, it should increase even more. The issue with your fighting style is that it’s all over the place. You tend to release all your power and charge like a beast at your enemy. You must focus on a certain point where you’ll attack, not go and attack everywhere you see.”
“Focus… Focus!”
His eyes glowed bright red, resembling those of dragons.
Black scales grew over his neck and a bit of his face as draconic horns manifested behind his back.
“Focus!”
His sword reached Claudius’ attack as darkness and light impacted one another.
TRUUUM!
The skies suddenly seemed to warp and distort, and while carrying the powerful attack’s weight into his blade, Caesar kept pushing up.
Until eventually…
“What?!”
Claudius saw his own attack coming back to him, accompanied by his brother’s technique.
“{Abyssal Dark Dragon Fang}!”
It resembled a massive dragon’s head, opening its jaws to reveal its fangs and biting through his brother’s golden aura, breaking it and making their internal magical energies dissipate.
“Impossible…! What in the world is this power?! ARGH!”
Claudius was unable to keep up his calm demeanor and his pleased smile as he screamed in surprise while being pushed back, a huge explosion engulfing him.
BOOOMM!!
Caesar glanced into the distance; the smoke dissipated to reveal a furious Claudius, his body encompassed by a bright golden armor made out of his own Aura…
And Domain?!
“{Divine Golden Domain}: {Theseus’ Holy Armor}”
The reason why Claudius didn’t wear any Armor at all was because he felt it wasn’t needed. His Aura and his Domain were already at a level beyond most of his siblings anyway.
With the power of his ever-growing Divinity, he had become something beyond Gods themselves and was aiming for the highest position.
An Emperor of Worlds, to surpass even his own father too!
“That surprised me…” Claudius said. “I can tell you’ve been growing stronger in your own ways, brother. You’ve already reached Max Level, right? Yet without a Divinity you can never surpass that wall you’ve been trapped… This power you unleashed was… interesting, to say the least. But not enough.”
“I’ve just begun, brother.”
Caesar reached Claudius in a second, his aura transforming into draconic wings that propelled him towards his brother.
The golden-haired king’s face distorted in disbelief as he quickly waved his golden aura down, expanding his Divine Domain as pure light engulfed his brother.
“Fool! If you get any closer, you’ll simply make things easier for me!”
As he laughed, he swung his golden sword down and then horizontally in a single second, generating a giant cross made out of the holy light of his Divine Domain.
“{Divine Golden Domain}: {Cross Of Holy Judgement}”
FLAAASH!
The cross instantly reached Caesar, impacting him with tremendous force, releasing sparks of lightning and accompanied by burning light that charred the skin of his hands.
Black scales quickly covered his hands as he resisted the cross-shaped attack and its burning light and electricity, his blade beginning to grow longer, harboring his own Aura as well.
“Uuuggh…!” Caesar grit his teeth. “I won’t lose, Claudius! I have too much to lose!”
His Black, Red, and Silver Aura changed, becoming larger, resembling a three-headed dragon, their jaws blazing with dark flames.
“{Three-Headed Dragon of Calamity}!”
“ROOAAAARRR!”
He unleashed his technique, something new he had created thanks to Bing Xue’s teachings, focusing his attack into three points at the same time.
TRUUUM! TRUUUM! TRUUUM!
And then, with a single swing of his blade, three massive blazing breaths emerged from his aura, the manifestation of his swordsmanship reaching a completely insane level.
“{Divine Golden Domain}: {Holy Aegis Shield}!”
Claudius panicked; within the second the attack from his brother was about to hit him, he manifested a giant golden shield!
CRAAASH!
The three beams impacted it as the shield held on.
“Hahah!” The golden-haired King laughed. “It’s not enough, Caesar! It will never be enough! The gap between the two of us is simply too big! You can’t possibly—”
Crack, crack…!
“Huh?!”
CRAAASH!
Before he could speak any more words, Claudius’ shield was shattered into pieces, exploding into countless fragments as two of the three attacks Caesar released hit him directly.
“Uggh…! AARGH!”
BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!!
Two consecutive explosions engulfed his entire body; his armor protected him from the damage, but his Aura began growing smaller as the more damage he took, the more he consumed it.
“Haaah…! Bastard!”
Claudius grew furious; he quickly manifested several copies of his own golden sword, which was actually also a manifestation of his own Divine Aura.
“{Divine Golden Domain}: {Holy Durandal Rain}!”
He pointed his sword towards Caesar as hundreds of Holy Swords made out of his own Divine Aura, Divine Relics of their own, rained upon his brother.
“I’ll show you my true strength, Caesar! Learn your place in the family, you unruly bastard!”
“Looks like I made you mad.”
Caesar remained calm, and as he saw the sword rain coming towards him, he focused once more. He let go of his anger and other frustrations, recalling more of Bing Xue’s teachings.
“Your anger might be what makes you so strong now, but it’s also the weakness that is not letting you surpass your limits. It is your greatest obstacle to climbing the wall you’re currently on. Caesar, you must let go of your fury, of your frustrations… Of your past.”
The anger he felt against his father. The frustration he felt for being so powerless he couldn’t help those he wanted to save.
The fury he always felt when he glanced at his wife and his dear daughter, knowing full well their home world had now been enslaved by his tyrannical father.
All of these emotions were getting in the way, despite being his greatest motivation to become stronger…
It was rather contradictory to even ask him to forget about them...
But right now, anger wouldn’t let him win.
To win, he had to let go of it.
To calm down.
To meditate.
“To become one with my sword.”
His Soul emerged from his body, combining with his Sword and his Aura.
Suddenly, his Sword changed form, gaining draconic scales, wings, and even a dragonhead through its long, gigantic blade.
“I will defeat my father… And I will help my wife reclaim the world he stole from her and her family.”
His eyes blazed with fiery flames.
“And I shall protect this world, which welcomed me and has become my home until now!”
FLUOOOSH!
His Soul converged with his Blade, as he followed Bing Xue’s teachings.
Her words flashed through his mind as he opened his eyes.
“You’re perhaps the only one that has learned this technique so quickly; no other disciple, not even my family members, have reached such a quick level of mastery. Caesar, you’re strong. Defend this world for me.”
“{Abyssal Dragon Soul Blade}: {Heaven-Splitting Dark Claws}”
RUMBLE!
A massive pair of draconic claws manifested before his sword as he swung it upwards, an ascending attack that aimed to split the heavens themselves.
TRUUUM!
The skies warped as two massive black claws slashed and destroyed the raining golden blades and reached Claudius, crushing his body with tremendous strength.
CRAAASH!
“Uaagh?! W-What the…?!”
He couldn’t believe it—an attack that reached him from so far away; it simply wasn’t possible!
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
His armor shattered into pieces as his eyes widened; the slashing attack sliced right through his left shoulder, all the way to his chest!
“UUUAAAGGGH!”
Claudius screamed in utter agony; his entire army gasped in disbelief, unable to comprehend what was happening.
“Lord Claudius?!”
“No!”
“Your majesty!”
As they panicked, Cecil, her father’s army, took the opportunity to kill as many as possible.
“Kill them now! They’re affected by their king’s agony somehow!” The half-elf girl said, using her black and golden sword to slice through her foes.
“You’re just a damn child!”
“A little girl won’t get past us!”
“Damn you! How dare you ambush us in such a nasty way! Does your family have any honor?!”
Three soldiers clashed against her the moment they saw her killing those that entered on a brief state of panic, clashing against her and killing the soldiers protecting her with their swords, spears, and polearms.
“A mere child? Me?” Cecil smiled, her eyes glowing bright red and emerald, each one of a different color. “I am more than that, you know? Much more!”
Above her head, a star-shaped mass of darkness manifested, constantly glowing with an aura of the pure abyss, expanding into several pointy halos.
And as it manifested, her powers grew stronger; shadows, darkness, and the abyss itself moved across her entire body.
FLASH!
And then she disappeared, evading their combined attacks, teleporting across the abyss and then appearing above them.
“S-She teleported?!”
“So she’s a magician- ACK!”
SLAAASH!
Before they could react, Cecil furiously swung her blade down, cutting through the arms of all three soldiers, their weapons instantly falling to the ground beneath.
“T-This is impossible! She’s not even Level 1000! How is she this strong?!”
“It doesn’t make any sense! Her stats shouldn’t even be close to what we have!”
“J-Just who are you, Princess Cecil?!”
Cecil glared at them, suddenly smiling viciously, licking the blood off her sword.
“Me? I’m the Protagonist. And you’re just some Extras.”
She charged forward, her sword mercilessly cutting them all into pieces as she cancelled the buff Claudius was giving to them.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Their Souls flew towards the Black Star above her head as her Abyssal Powers grew even further, her monochromatic eyes glancing at the castle where her mother was.
It was rapidly being overwhelmed by hundreds of magicians firing magic at her; several parts of the castle were collapsing already.
“Mom! Wait for me!”
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