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"Alright, show me what you've got. Your achievements."
Davian turned his head and whispered.
"Stay back. He looks dangerous."
Latia shook her head.
"The more dangerous it is, the more we need to combine our strength. That means you could be in danger too, Davian."
Davian shook his head.
Something felt really dangerous this time.
He didn't have time to argue with his friends for long.
"I might just get in the way trying to protect you. Stay back."
"Ah..."
Latia was speechless.
Liber and Latia were mages.
Their physical abilities and defense were no different from ordinary people.
If there were more swordsmanship students here, things might be different, but in this situation, they couldn't argue with Davian's words.
If they fought together, Davian would have to take care of both of them.
Liber grabbed Latia's arm and pulled her away.
"Let's fall back for now, Latia. We can help if it looks really dangerous."
Emperor Kaiser Rapax spread his large fingers and pointed at the two of them.
"You can join in too. If you're prepared to die for your friend, that is."
Latia glared at the Emperor.
Liber dragged Latia's arm and began to retreat.
"I know you're worried, but Davian's right. We might just get in the way."
"...I know."
After Latia and Liber had retreated far enough.
Whoosh.
Davian conjured fire elemental magic.
He had considered using the skill Wave of Fire from the start, but since he didn't know the opponent's skills or fighting style yet, he decided to save it for later.
Whoosh.
While rapidly injecting mana into the flames.
Emperor Kaiser Rapax simply smiled brightly and looked at Davian.
It was a unique smile that seemed both childlike and sent shivers down one's spine.
Thanks to Kaiser Rapax calmly waiting, he completed a fireball with all of his mana.
Whoosh.
Davian flicked his wrist, and the fireball flew towards Kaiser Rapax at high speed.
It was a fireball containing the full power of a 9-star intermediate mage.
BOOM!
An enormous explosion swept through the area, engulfing everything in flames.
Everything was burned to a crisp, and black smoke covered the sky.
It was the most powerful fireball that a mage of the Alcancia Kingdom could create.
The shock and heat were felt even by Latia and Liber, who were far away.
Thud, thud.
Kaiser Rapax walked out of the still-burning flames.
His clothes had been completely burned away.
The naked Kaiser Rapax laughed loudly.
"As expected, you're quite something. Davian Naone. Yes. You have to be this good."
Despite saying "quite something."
Not a single strand of hair or eyebrow had been burned.
Only the clothes he was wearing had disappeared without a trace.
Of course, it would have been hard to stay intact if he had stayed in the flames, but it was stranger to endure it in there.
Thump, thump.
The naked Emperor suddenly started running.
The ground trembled with the feeling of his large body.
But.
'Fast!'
At first, it was a normal run.
But soon he gained momentum and arrived right in front of Davian in an instant.
Whoosh.
The Emperor's fist came in heavily.
Davian hurriedly threw himself aside to avoid the fist.
Whoosh.
The next fist swung in right away.
Rather than the movements of a martial artist who had properly learned martial arts, it was an attack pattern like a beast's instinct.
But.
It wasn't easy to avoid.
Long reach and fast speed.
A sense of tension that just brushing against him would smash something.
Above all.
The energy and momentum emanating from him were indescribably intense.
Swish!
Davian created an ice sword and swung it.
The Emperor, after briefly looking at the ice sword, retracted his arm and kicked Davian in the abdomen.
Davian also rolled sideways to avoid the Emperor's attack.
'He dodges the ice sword again?'
Whether he sensed danger instinctively.
He stood still and took the 9-star intermediate fireball with his bare body, but he dodged the ice sword without blocking it.
"That's the sharpest sword I've seen so far."
Just by glancing at it once.
Did he have the eye to know how sharp the sword was?
'Emperor Kaiser Rapax. Just what are his senses...?'
Only after Davian drew the ice sword did the two begin to exchange attacks.
Bang!
He sent fireballs from time to time.
But since the 9-star intermediate fireball that had been charged with mana for a long time hadn't done any damage, there was no way that a hastily created fireball could wound him.
Zap! Bang!
The lightning magic he learned from Professor Camilla Lucia was the same.
It was an applied magic that could make even the opponent with the strongest defense flinch for a moment.
But it had no effect on the Emperor.
Swish!
The moment the sharp wind elemental magic touched the Emperor's body, it fell apart powerlessly.
The only thing the Emperor was wary of was the ice sword Davian was holding.
Bang!
Eventually.
The Emperor's kick struck Davian's body.
He hurriedly crossed his arms to absorb the impact.
But with the impact of all his internal organs being shattered, Davian was sent flying far back.
"This isn't it. The skill I heard about you wasn't this. This is too boring."
Davian twitched his eyebrows.
Boring?
Repeating his 4th life, collecting mana points.
Being able to freely control magic and swordsmanship through double majoring.
Obtaining skills to level up.
Obtaining an ice sword that became sharper and stronger as he grew stronger.
Absorbing the heart of the Archmage and becoming the strongest mage on the Pax Continent.
But.
Boring.
'Is he even human?'
Not an incarnation of the Demon King or a polymorphed dragon.
Just a human, but could he be this strong?
They hadn't fought for long, but Davian knew for sure.
He couldn't face the Emperor in his current state.
No, he might not even be able to hurt a hair on his head.
Perhaps.
This might be the end of his 4th life.
'It can't be.'
Having used up all of his ★★★★★ rarity item 'Reincarnation'.
If he died here, he couldn't even predict what would happen next.
Whether he would lose all his strength and return to the starting point.
Or just die for real as is.
He didn't know anything.
Maybe he would return to the reality of working at a company with no future.
But because his life here for over 10 years was so vivid, he had a feeling that wouldn't happen.
For Davian, this place was already no different from reality itself.
...He couldn't end it here.
'Shadow Assimilation.'
'Wave of Fire.'
He activated two skills at the same time that he usually saved for desperate moments.
"Hmm?"
The Emperor made an unreadable expression, as if he had sensed something.
Soon he grinned again.
"Are you finally getting serious?"
"Yeah. Let's have a proper fight, you monster."
"Monster. Not a bad thing to hear."
"Are you a pervert?"
"It's much better to become a monster than to live and die as an ordinary, incompetent human, isn't it?"
Tap.
Davian, shaking his head briefly, kicked off the ground and began to move.
'I'll give you everything I've got.'
At the same time that the living flame covered the Emperor.
Davian's ice sword pierced in with a speed that couldn't be compared to before.
It was a concise and smooth swordsmanship.
"Huff, huff."
Davian breathed roughly.
When was the last time he had breathed so heavily?
Slurp, slurp.
The exploded flesh and muscle tissues were pulling each other together and regenerating.
Crack, crack.
The crushed arm bones and ribs were also reattaching.
He had only been hit once by the Emperor's fist, which had been swung towards his side.
He had hurriedly lowered his elbow to defend, but the Emperor's fist had crushed Davian's arm and ribs.
The broken ribs pierced his lungs, and the nearby flesh and muscles were all torn apart.
It wasn't just Davian who was injured.
"Keuh, kehaha!"
Emperor Kaiser Rapax looked down at his left arm and laughed loudly.
"Red blood flows through me too. Indeed, I was also human."
There was a deep, sharp wound on the Emperor's arm, made by the ice sword.
From the wound, blood with a particularly red color gushed out.
"As expected. As expected, you're as good as I expected, Davian Naone. You're the first to let me know that my blood is red."
It wasn't just his left arm that was injured.
There were deep burn marks all over his body.
Blisters formed, burst, and yellow pus flowed out.
"Of course, you're also the first to burn my body with flames. But."
The Emperor stared intently at Davian's side.
"The most surprising thing is your regeneration ability. Your regeneration ability surpasses my body."
Slurp, slurp.
The wounds where all the muscles and bones had been torn apart were almost healed.
"Amazing body..."
Already an hour had passed since they had exchanged attacks, giving flesh and taking bones.
Davian took his stance again.
Whoosh.
He created flames in his left hand and raised the ice sword in his right hand.
But the sensation he felt in his left hand was different from before.
'Wave of Fire is over.'
All 60 minutes of the skill Wave of Fire had passed.
There were still 20 minutes left of Shadow Assimilation, but one means of landing a significant hit on the Emperor had been reduced.
'I have to decide the outcome before it's too late.'
He was a monster, but not a complete monster.
If he was exposed to the flames for a long time, his flesh would burn away, and if he was cut by the ice sword, bright red blood would burst out.
'I have to inflict a fatal wound, even if I have to give up something bigger.'
After finishing his thoughts, Davian rushed towards the Emperor.
The Emperor, who was still smiling for some reason, also took his stance.
A very sloppy stance.
There were so many openings that it was ambiguous which one to attack.
But.
When you actually collided, there were no openings.
All he had was ridiculous strength, speed, defense, and animalistic senses, but the level was too high.
If it were a normal sword instead of an ice sword, it would have been impossible to even wound him.
Swish!
He succinctly swung the ice sword.
The Emperor instinctively distanced himself to avoid the ice sword.
Boom!
A mana sword shot out from the end of the swung sword.
The only way to parry the mana sword was to cut it sharply perpendicular to the direction of travel.
No, that's all that's known.
But the Emperor.
Bang!
He punched and destroyed the mana sword.
Taking advantage of the disrupted balance, he launched a fireball towards his lower body.
The skill Wave of Fire was over, but the Emperor, who had experienced Wave of Fire for an hour, would definitely try to avoid the fireball.
Davian was quickly calculating the next attack, looking ahead several moves like playing chess.
At that time.
'He's not dodging?'
Far from dodging.
He gave up his thigh to the fireball and reached out his fist towards Davian.
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