Nameless King

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

The ground around the shining tree trembled while powerful lightning bolts with eerie jaws shattered everything around them, following the energy of the explosion.

The jaws in a heartbeat tore the huge monster apart, scattering blood and massive bits of flesh around. The jaws didn't stop there, they continued searching for new victims, while lightning strikes ravaged the area.

Each lightning bolt provoked a massive explosion, scattering rock fragments aside and blowing trees out of their way. However, it was nothing compared to the effects of the main explosion.

"Fuck... I should have used that attack against Virion... He definitely couldn't have survived that..." Wain whispered in a daze with his eyes wide open.

In place of the thunderbolt's impact, there was now a massive crater with high edges instead of a forest, as if a huge meteorite had just fallen there. Nothing remained of the three huge monsters as well as their followers. Electric shocks wiped them out and those lucky enough to survive were devoured by the creepy jaws.

Whooooooooooosh.

Hundreds of small souls, along with three massive ones, streamed toward Wain. The small souls just entered his Soul Temple as the souls of three huge monsters hovered in the air in front of him.

"Souls... right? Last time I used more than a billion, so I have no shortage of them anymore, at least not while I'm in the Fourth Chronicle..." Wain muttered in a calm voice before touching the souls with his fingertip, "However, it would be a great way to restore some energy."

Tremble.

The souls shuddered, turning into three red streams and penetrating Wain's chest. At the same moment, he felt a rush of energy. Energy flowed through his body, boosting his reserves slightly.

"Well, well, you decided to use such a dirty trick right during the fight, didn't you? That's no good, I thought you were an honest fighter." Virion uttered while shaking his head with a mocking smile on his face, "Agh... Looks like I have to do the same or I'll lose."

"Hah, you're the last one who should say that, you know?" Wain grinned as his aura intensified. Streams of darkness slowly spread around while the eye on the crown stared intently at Virion.

"Why?" Virion asked in confusion with a raised eyebrow as though he didn't really understand what Wain was talking about, "Just let me do the same. After all, we can't go on while there are those here who want to stop us."

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

Virion waved his hand as the space above the two remaining monsters trembled. Several flames appeared here that rapidly increased in size, becoming huge flaming spheres.

Their weight distorted the space as the treetops began to catch fire. The monsters instantly reacted to it by attacking the fire spheres, but neither the massive stones nor the strong wind could do anything to the spheres. They just floated in the air like stars in space, waiting for their moment to explode.

Virion snapped his finger as the spheres exploded. White flames engulfed everything around them and like a tsunami swept away everything in their path. The huge monsters tried to defend themselves while the smaller ones tried to run away, but they were all consumed by the fire.

Whooooooooosh.

After a while, a mighty wind blew in, finally extinguishing the flames. Only a few handfuls of ashes remained of the monsters as well as a wide wasteland in the middle of the dense forest.

"Fine, they weren't as strong as I thought. Why did they come here...? Weaklings like them were doomed to die in the first place." Virion uttered with an indifferent look while shaking his head before waving his hand.

The souls headed for Virion and he immediately absorbed them. Though it wasn't enough to restore even 1/10th of what he'd spent, it was the best he could hope for in such a sudden break in their fight.

"Looks like even this time I ended up winning. You sure spent more energy on those monsters than I did, so that's another failure on your part." Virion said with a sly smile on his face while kicking the dust off his hands as suddenly a shiver ran through his body and his eyes went wide.

Tremble.

Virion felt as if someone was watching him as he looked up. Above him was a massive eye with an eerie aura covered in thunderclouds. Virion's eyes went wide as a moment later a dark lightning bolt struck him, as powerful as Wain's attack had gone.

"Fail? How about feeling for yourself what my lightning can do." Wain said in an ice-cold voice as the thunderbolt almost reached Virion.

"FUCK!" Virion shouted with a startled expression as he swung his arm.

One of the ten artifacts headed toward him while the lightning beasts moved as far away from him as possible.

'What...? They're not trying to protect him?' Wain inwardly muttered while in confusion as he found this behavior of the summoned creatures strange.

Whoooooosh.

At the very last moment, a dark mirror with a perfectly smooth surface hovered over Virion. It exuded purple energy with a mysterious aura.

Thunderbolt collided with the mirror as a massive wide magical circle appeared between them. The lightning energy with its jaws should have created a massive explosion and seriously wounded Virion at the very least, but, for some reason, the lightning didn't do any damage.

'What's going on...? Is the mirror weakening the power of the lightning...?" Wain wondered as his eyes went wide, "No way!"

Whooooooooooosh.

Purple runes flashed on the edges of the mirror as the thunderbolt trembled. The mirror absorbed the full force of the attack into itself like a vortex and the mirror began to shake violently.

"Damn... This artifact was designed to sharpen a powerful evil spirit for a long time or absorb dozens of attacks but look at that... It's shaking so hard and it looks like I don't have more than a minute to use my artifact." Virion said with a devious smirk on his face.

"What are you talking about...?" Wain muttered as a shiver ran through his body as Virion pointed the mirror at him.