Entering the portal, everyone simply arrived several kilometers above the palace.
But then Garoyan, the judge who came to preside over this, waved his hand as the beads worn around his wrist glowed, creating a large golden domain that covered 50 kilometers in radius.
“This is the battlefield,” Garoyan said, smiling as he caressed his black beard. “And since the Darton clan decided on this way of settling the issue, they will send their combatant first each round.”
Augaran had already created another portal from which more Immortal Emperors arrived.
“Mronek, you will go first,” Augaran said.
A man with a thick, muscled figure and short hair with a mix of black and red nodded as he flew inside the battlefield domain.
He was an early-stage Immortal Emperor, his stats between 6k-7k.
“What does this domain do?” Almond asked as he turned to Garoyan.
“Well, it is primarily to prevent your fight from affecting this planet. But additionally, you can go all out because death can be reserved while an individual is inside. In short, I can turn back time for that individual.”
“I see,” Almond nodded and turned to his Spirit Lords. “Sylvia, you go.”
‘Go all out and finish it fast.’
“Yes, Master,” Sylvia smiled and entered the barrier.
Meanwhile, Augaran relayed to Mronek. ‘Try to buy as much time as you can.’
‘Understood.’
The battle began, and Sylvia directly used her Warden Grove before using another ability to turn it into a fortress with giant flowers growing out and a hundred Floralings stationed above, surging with power.
Mronek frowned and immediately went all out, creating his most powerful skin-tight barrier while also enchanting himself, making sure he could also dodge to the best of his abilities.
But in the next moment, terrifying laser beams shot from the giant flowers at Hyper Speed 2.
Mronek reacted swiftly to dodge, but the laser beams bent as the Floralings buffed and controlled them while also partitioning them into a hundred smaller beams.
‘What the fuck?’
Mronek suddenly found himself trapped as beams came from all directions, surpassing his speed.
He quickly focused on defense only.
BOOOM!
Alas, he was utterly annihilated.
‘Damn it, he lost just like that?! How come that summon’s stats increased drastically, not to mention those things…?
‘Holy shit. I thought she was only defense and support from the video, but this power…and those little strange minions were also doing something.’
The other Immortal Emperors who had arrived just now were shocked.
‘I told you…her ability tree is quite powerful.’
“The first round’s win goes to House of Regalon,” Garoyan said with a smile as he waved his hand. From the location of the blast. Mysterious golden-silver streams whirled as all the flesh and blood conjoined as time reversed for Mronek, reviving him from death.
His expression was shocked and then hollow. ‘I apologize, your highness.’
‘No worries. Get out and go back.’
“Next,” Garoyan said as he turned to Augaran.
Augaran turned to a woman with a blue dress and blond hair and nodded at her, “You go, Silona.”
Her crystal horn was also a bit different than the rest of the Darton Balze clan members.
On the other hand, Almond looked at Benedict.
“Ben, you’re up.”
“My turn, eh? Thanks, boss.” Benedict grinned and stepped into the battlefield domain.
Benedict had a custom black suit and a pair of large, devilish black wings. He held a strange, thick book with dark gold patterns in his hand, which was his primary Regalon Spirit Weapon.
[Underworld Apostle Benedict]
Lifeform Rank: Immortal Emperor
Bloodline: Regalon Spirit Lord
Ability Power: [Epsilon 7829]
Prana Sea: 8749
Soul Sea: 8894
Stats:
— Body Constitution: 8799
— Mental Constitution: 8819
— Soul Constitution: 8894
— Arcane Constitution: 7874
Innate Talents:
—> Veil of Tenebris.
—> Devourer of Devotion.
—> Sin of the Faithful.
Elements:
—> Darkness (Ascent-rank)
—> Blood (Transcendent-rank)
—> Light (Transcendent-rank)
[Ability Trees]:
<Litany of the Underworld Creed>
—> Darkfall: Psalter of Blood and Bones.
—> Cathedral of Silent Wails.
—> Crucible of Apostasy.
—> Saintbreaker’s Will.
As the battle between the two began, Silona did the opposite of Mronek.
Conjuring a spear, she shot like a light, entering Hyper Speed 2 by going all out and launching a full-on assault.
Benedict blinked, his expression almost carefree as he simply used Cathedral of Silent Wails while using his innate talent, Veil of Tenebris.
A black domain covered a kilometer of area around him while a giant cathedral, hazy and ethereal, manifested.
The moment Silona entered within this domain, her mind was overwhelmed with wails, causing her perception to waver.
‘W-what is this?!’
“Aye, sorry about this, lady, but you’re going to have to die.”
Benedict was already going all out, so she didn’t have a chance to break free from his illusion and mental prison once she entered within his domain.
Silona gritted her teeth and instantly let herself fall into a berserk state, launching attacks chaotically.
“Woah,” Benedict blinked as he used Crucible of Apostasy, conjuring an exotic pot around him with fallen angels carved on it, singing.
“Sorry, but I have to finish this fast. Orders from the boss.”
Benedict stabbed himself in his chest with a black dagger he conjured as the blood fell into the book.
In the next second, thousands of powerful dark gold crosses manifested in his domain, skewering Silona to death as she had no chance of escaping.
“The second round’s win goes to House of Regalon,” Garoyan spoke, his eyes on Benedict. ‘What powerful summons… moreover, they have a similar power source as Bloodlines.’
Meanwhile, the Supreme Emperors of the Darton clan had slightly ugly faces like the other Immortal Emperors.
Silona was quite powerful as a mid-stage Immortal Emperor, but the opponent sent out an even more powerful card.
“Next,” Garoyan said as he turned to Augaran.
“I’ll go next.”
The female Supreme Emperor spoke and was already inside the battlefield domain.
‘Almond, you continue with your search. ‘I am going to fight her,’ Lily said as she looked at him and nodded.
‘Alright. Kill that bitch in five seconds. They are messing with us, so we will mess them up.’
Almond’s eyes coldly flickered as he spoke while he continued to focus on tracing his Regalons by exerting his will to create an ability to trace his bloodline.
Lily entered the battlefield domain, her eyes icy and filled with murder as she looked at the Supreme Emperor.
“Quite an intense look you are giving there, lass.” Feliona narrowed her eyes, her Supreme Emperor’s prowess surging. ‘Such arrogance. It seems I’ll have to thoroughly torture you.’
“Start,” Garoyan spoke, initiating the battle.
Lily and Feliona both entered Hyper Speed 3 in an instant.
Feliona was faster and attacked first, piercing Lily with multiple glowing crystal shards as holes appeared in her.
However, everything suddenly turned black for Feliona, and her senses dulled and vanished, shocking her.
Achromatic Domain!
‘How could she do that?! I am a goddamn Supreme Emperor!’ Feliona’s will surged, but she felt a strong resistance.
And in the next moment, a terrible surge of weakness dropped into her as she felt a stab into her heart.
Absolute Dreadspire Devour!
A single stab of her dagger, and Lily drained Feliona’s power instantly while boosting herself. In the clash of wills, she also won. She was pissed already, and she wanted to absolutely annihilate these assholes who were messing with them!
‘Fucking bitch, I know you are scheming something, and you will regret it!’ Lily’s wrathful voice entered her ears like a declaration of death.
Axiom of Weakness!
Feliona went all out as her will roared, and she released herself from Achromatic Domain’s debuff, but more debuffs were affecting her.
Lily launched her assault of weapon art, like a stream of shadow and whisper of death, with relentless strikes and projectiles shot at Feliona, who desperately tried to defend herself in a weakened state.
‘Damn it! Damn it! How is this possible?!’
Feliona felt fear. An Immortal was this powerful?!
Meanwhile, those watching were even more shocked.
“T-This…how is this possible?! Tarondal, the the other Supreme Emperor, stammered with visible shock in his eyes. “It’s one thing to weaken and gain power from Griminions as they have no will, but against a Supreme Emperor?”
‘As expected…these two Immortals are utterly peak in terms of Willpower, Ability Tree and the way they bend Arcane to their advantage, not to mention those intents they used in their combat, which are also Ascent-rank. Once they improve their elemental masteries to Ascent-rank and acquire one more Intent at Ascent-rank, they’ll be on par with the Supreme Emperors of Big Ten.’
Meanwhile, the battle had taken a completely ugly turn for the Darton clan as their Supreme Emperor was literally getting beaten to death. Despite trying to heal injuries and defend to survive and fight back, she couldn’t attack Lily much. The debuffs restricted her, and Lily’s attack continuously weakened her!
In the 5th second, Lily annihilated her with her ultimate move by boosting it with all Blood Reckoning stacks she had gathered.
“The third round’s win goes to House of Regalon.”
A dreadful silence descended.
Lily exited with a flat expression, while Feliona had an ashen expression. She glanced at Almond and others and simply vanished from everyone’s sight.
However, Augaran’s eyes suddenly lit up as he just got a message from his people.
‘Bryan woke up?! Great. Quickly tell him to complete the deed!’
Augaran’s eyes coldly flickered. He wasn’t expecting even Supreme Emperors to lose. This was a big blow to their reputation already, and this was all being recorded by Garoyan, which means the videos of the battles would soon spread like wildfire.
“Next,” Garoyan said as he turned to Augaran.
However, before Augaran could say anything, a terrible and suffocating pressure enveloped everyone in the area; even Garoyan produced a couple beads of sweat on his forehead, and his head turned towards Almond.
“No more rounds,” Almond spoke, already in his full Regalon Spirit Armament form with his Golden Void Blade—Lonveril—in his hand.
Admiral Rudra and other Spirit Lords were also in combat stances as they summoned their Regalon Spirit Weapons.
Almond had just finished creating his ability, which, on top of tracing, could also tell him the status of Regalons, and the feedback he got didn’t indicate that they were healthy or fine, as these people said.
‘I knew it! These pieces of trash!’ Lily cursed as she heard from Almond about it.
“What do you mean, Almond?” Garoyan asked with a frown. “Disrupting this is not helping you here.”
“Shut the fuck up. You are not related to this. If you speak one more word, I am going to kill you, and you won’t be able to revive yourself.” Almond spoke; his voice had never been this cold. “If you don’t believe me, speak one word.”
A deafening silence descended following his speech.
“Now,” Almond turned to Augaran, his voice like depths from hell. “Get my people to me right now, or I am going to fucking erase every single one of you.”
