Nameless King

The massive jaw rushed toward the lightning as the phantom creature prepared to devour it with tremendous speed.

"Virion knew that this attack wouldn't kill me, but despite that, he used quite a bit of force. Maybe he thought it would hurt me in some way? Well, he made a serious mistake." Wain muttered with a slight smile on his face before slowly getting to his feet.

At the same time, the jaw reached the lightning as it closed. The brutal lightning was squeezed between the creepy jaws, trying to advance further. However, the jaws did not let the lightning advance an inch as they gradually ground the lightning to pieces.

Normally no physical object could stop the lightning, but the jaws just destroyed the energy, slowly absorbing it.

"Fuck... Looks like I wasted so much energy, didn't I?" Virion muttered with eyes wide open while in disbelief. His lips trembled as he clenched his palm into a fist.

Gradually his jaw completely shattered as the phantom creature disappeared.

"Damn... His Beyond is so powerful... I've never seen anyone with the power of devouring..." Krakos muttered in a daze as his gaze went to Wain. He noticed it but did not react, however, the eye on Wain's crown directed its gaze directly at Krakos, making him shudder in fear.

Krakos took a few steps back, then another, and it seemed it could go on indefinitely until Alucard left him with a hand on his shoulder.

"Hahaha, it looks like after this fight he'll be completely different and maybe he'll even be stronger than you." Alucard said with a devious smirk on his face.

Krakos shook his head, "My Lord... This kid's aura is actually frightening as well as his Beyond, but I think you underestimate me too much. Even if he reaches the Fifth Chronicle, being on the Absolute Stage he can't do anything to me."

"Well, self-confidence is good, but you just don't see the obvious. I'm rightly assessing your strength as well as his. This Beyond, in fact, is unique as only the Nameless King possessed something like this." Alucard uttered with a deadly serious look.

"He is his heir after all, is he not?" Gael asked with a raised eyebrow as he shook his hand.

"Yeah... You're right." Alucard nodded slightly.

Step. Step. Step.

Wain walked slowly toward Virion while the thick darkness healed his wounds. These were the effects of using Beyond, so Wain no longer had any way to rid himself of future damage.

"In spite of what you've seen, you remain calm, so you actually have some more trump card, don't you?" Wain asked in a calm voice while looking into Virion's eyes.

Virion only smirked as his ring shone brightly. A number of different objects appeared next to him that exuded unique auras. They slowly floated around Virion as though they were guards ready to do anything to protect him.

"Hmm? Is that your last trump card?" Wain muttered in confusion as he tilted his head, "If so, it looks pretty damn pathetic."

"Hahaha, of course not. However, unlike me, you've already used the last trump card, so I'll just try to exhaust you as much as possible!" Virion exclaimed with an excited look, "I'll be honest with you, except for these artifacts I have nothing left! To defeat you, I am willing to give up everything I have!"

Perhaps no battle was worth the effort, time, and artifacts that Virion expended, however, to him, it was nothing but dust compared to the power of the Nameless King. To possess the abilities of such a unique creature was his ultimate goal.

'Hey... You probably know more about this world than I do... Which of these artifacts could give me trouble?' Wain asked turning to the forms.

'Well, I wish I could tell you there's nothing to worry about, but in that case, I'd seriously lie to you. He's done some serious work, so each of these artifacts is dangerous enough.' Blind Sorcerer said in a serious manner.

'What about you? What do you think?' Wain said inwardly.

'Agh... The Third is right... You should be more careful, but none of this is as serious as his last trump card, I can feel it.' The Abyss Artist muttered with a slight sigh, 'You shouldn't use my power yet, because no one knows of my existence. It will come as a surprise to him.'

Virion had been preparing for this fight for a long time, so he gathered as much information about Wain as he could. He knew almost everything as Virion even knew that Wain wanted to get the last shard to restore the sword. However, Chaos and Ether were a surprise to him and Wain had the seventh form only recently.

Whoooooooooosh.

Virion waved his hand as one of the twelve artifacts flew forward. It was a stone cube with ancient runes on each side. At Virion's will, the runes shone brightly as six streams of sunlight-like yellow energy burst from the cube.

The light quickly transformed into six knights with shining armor. Each of them possessed an aura comparable to the limit of the Fourth Chronicle as their white eyes were like stars. In their hands were golden spears and on their backs were cloaks of fire burning with white flames.

"Scared?" Virion said with a sly smile on his face, "Of course not, I'm sure you think these knights can't even scratch you, but how about this?"

The stone cube lost all its energy as it disintegrated into small particles and was carried away by the wind like a cloud of dust. The cube was replaced by the massive claw of some monster. Lightning flickered from it from time to time, making ripples all around it.

Virion channeled energy into the claw as it glowed brightly and split in two. The massive streams of blue lightning began to morph into two huge creatures that were as big as the monster behind the barrier.