Emperor's Reckoning

The moment Bairong died, the intents on both sabers immediately stopped. The resistance that Lyon felt was no more before he let go Rue and Lue on top of the beach sand.

"Your rampage ends now."

An old hoarse voice was picked out from Lyon's ear before he furrowed his eyebrows. Glancing in the direction where Tuey was, his eyes turned sharp as an old man was pulling Tuey's hair with his wrinkled fingers beside her neck.

Lyon suddenly sensed a fist coming from his right before his pupils looked at the incoming fist and slightly looked up at Mara in the eyes in the latter disbelief. In that short moment, in that short window of a time, Mara realized how terrifying the enemy was.

The punch landed cleanly but Lyon was only getting dragged by the force. His figure was still standing as he dragged the sand with him. No bruise was visible on his right cheek but Mara's anger filled the void of silence on the beach.

"WHO ARE YOU?!" shouted Mara.

(Such insult! This is the first time someone ever saw where my strike was coming. Not only that, he dared to look down on me whilst taking it to head on!) thought Mara.

Lyon only smirked at the immature shouts before he looked at Tuey, "Tuey, you are in a pinch, what are you going to do?"

"GOODAMNIT!"

Mara rushed in before he launched a barrage of assaults whilst insulting Lyon.

*bang

"YOU STUPID SHIT!"

*bang

"DON'T YOU REALIZED THE SITUATION YOU ARE IN?!"

*bang

"YOU ARE JUST A SANDBAG!"

*bang

"?!"

The last strike was an uppercut to Lyon's chin, however, unlike his expectation, Lyon's figure didn't even budge the slightest.

"Is that all you got?" smirked Lyon.

Veins immediately popped up on Mara's forehead as he gritted his teeth. His breath turned rapid before it slowly stabilized. He looked down as he chuckled before walking away from Lyon.

"Hehe, hahaha! Do you think you can agitate me forever? Hahaha! The stupid doesn't realize how he had fallen into my trap so easily?"

"Hoo? What kind of trap?" asked Lyon with a condescending tone.

Mara turned around, "Do you think that my specialty is brawling? Hahaha!"

Tuey who noticed what's going on said, "Oh no, older brother! Your skin turned purple!"

"Be careful now missy, you don't want me to accidentally wringed your neck, do you?" said Grandmaster Poh before Tuey returned to her rigid position.

"Poison," said Lyon as he furrowed his eyebrows.

Mara grinned from ear to ear as he faced the sky, "It's no ordinary poison, the thing that I brew is always special, I never made the antidote."

"He is lying older brother!" shouted Tuey.

"Tch!" Mara spat his saliva to the ground before he approached Tuey who was more than half his height.

"Move, and she is dead," said Grandmaster Poh as he noticed Lyon's eyes wandered for a solution.

Mara held Tuey's chin up as he stared down at her. Her figure was trembling with fear, yet the demi-girl was gazing him back in the eyes. Her bright teary eyes irritated him as he said, "What did you say? You who killed her own teammate?!"

Tuey gulped. The aura that was descending on her figure was massive. She felt her weakness growing at this very moment. There was nothing that she could physically do about it. However, the memories of her killing her fellow teammates were as clear as day. Each minute she would be reminded of the scene, playing over and over again.

"Tuey... why??"

"Tuey...!!"

"Tuey...no..please!"

The pleading voice of her dead teammates echoed in her mind like a bell.

Lyon furrowed his eyebrows as he watched Tuey turned silent before a shout made him smile.

"Lies!"

Mara opened his eyes wide in disbelief of the word coming out from her little mouth. He immediately gritted his teeth before he raised his arm. She could see the toxic fluid on his fingers as she trembled in fear, just one hit from that, she knew she would go to the afterlife.

(No, I will not close my eyes!) thought Tuey as she watched the arm slowly swung down. (At the very least, the last moment of my life, I must show how courageous I am! I owe it to them!).

"I did not kill my friends! It was you people!!!"

Mara and Grandmaster Poh were startled before the former said, "You can say that to them personally!"

*grab

Tuey's pupils were shrunken as he saw a hand was stopping the poisonous fingers by the forearm from behind her.

"Well said!"

Grandmaster Poh didn't manage to push his hands to wring her neck before his face ate a heavy fist in an opened eyes. At that moment time seemed to slow down as he realized that a space crack was formed right behind Tuey's figure. (Impossible! A space-attribute cultivator?!) thought the kingdom assassin before he was plunged into buildings after buildings before eventually making a huge crater on the hill. He vomited blood before he fell to the ground.

Mara couldn't even look at the old man's condition as he was in greater danger than him. He gulped his saliva before he asked in disbelief, "H-how, how can you still move? Where did my poison go?!"

Lyon blinked once before he revealed the jade iris and vertical pupils of his eyes right in front of him.

"Oh, your poison? I'm tired of waiting for that thing to even enter my meridians, so I just brush it off."

"W-what?!"

The image of a True Dragon appeared behind his back. Bringing down fear to Mara's very soul. (D-d-die... I'm going to die!) thought Mara before he screamed, "YOUR MAJESTY!"

King Loewe raised his hand, "Do it, Daraoh!"

The handsome genius turned a wicked smile before he answered, "Gladly!"

"Divine Spell: Thunder Retribution!"

A rainbow magic brand immediately formed under Lyon's feet before it rapidly grew and covered the three of them.

"Heh! Hhahahaha!" Mara couldn't believe that he was to be sacrificed along with the enemies.

Lyon furrowed his eyebrows before he kicked Tuey away who rolled against the sand before the latter quickly get up and reached out her hand, "Older brother! No!"

"You're not going anywhere! We will die together!" shouted Mara as he bounded Lyon before a giant lightning spark came down from the very heaven.

The deafening boom almost shocked time itself as Tuey went agape and the light shimmered King Loewe and the rest's face. Seconds continued as Tuey's knees turned weak. The crater that was made was immediately filled as the wave came.

King Loewe made a breath of relief, "That is some crazy turns of event, but at least we managed to kill him. Sadly, we lost Bairong, Gutee, and Mara. Supreme Mage Daraoh, thank you for your service."

"Ah, so his name is Daraoh."

King Loewe's pupils immediately shrunken as he felt a cold chill crawling up his spine. (I-impossible) thought the king as he slowly turned around. This was the first time he lost composure over an opponent he had yet to fight. Daraoh's body was already lifeless on the ground and someone was sitting on his throne. Someone that was supposed to die in the blast.

With his legs crossed and one of his elbows stood on the throne's armrest, his face was being supported by his knuckle as a smirk appeared on his face, "You ready?"