Chapter 313: The Sword Monarch II

[Island]

As flames engulfed the whole land, pitch black energy suddenly rose up like a tower, the boss forcefully broke through the attack by using his own energy against it. In just one move coupled by his own pitch black mana, he then easily protected himself from the flames, as it entered into a stance and used a skill against them.

"Fifth Sword Crescent Sw-"

However before he could fully use his skill, Lorius suddenly teleported right in front of him, as he smacked its hand away to forcefully cancel its attack, before he used a martial skill to blow away the boss itself.

"(Martial Skill) Swirling Counter!!!"

With a counter double strike towards its guts, the boss was then blown off its feet, as it struck its guts causing it to gasp for air.

But as if his attack wasn't enough, Lorius then quickly followed up its attack, as it ran up towards it and knocked it up into the air in a single punch. Following that he then immediately used 'Accel' about four times to quickly arrive at the space above the boss, before he used another martial skill to quickly ground the boss itself.

"(Martial Skill) Heavens Drop!!!"

In one drop kick, the boss crashed down to the ground, as smoke rose and rocks flew. Through this, Akito then quickly ran up to continue the momentum that Lorius had established, only to hear a loud blast sound from within the smoke and Lorius suddenly flying out and crashing far behind him.

Before Akito could even wonder what happened, the boss suddenly appeared before him as it swung down its sword, forcing Akito to quickly block it with his own sword himself. However due to the force of the attack, the attack itself was so powerful, to the point that Akito had to bent his knee just in order to support the weight of the sword.

What's more due to that attack, his feet was then planted to the ground, making him unable to dodge the boss next follow up attack.

"Third Sword Moonlight Strike!!!"

In just one full swing, Akito was left with a huge cut across his chest, as he spar out blood, before being blown back to crash towards a distance away from the boss.

But before the boss itself could charge towards Akito, Lorius then suddenly popped behind it while being wounded, as he struck an attack towards the boss side while also shocking it with lightning coated fist attack. Alongside it, he then quickly pulled back its attack, as he quickly followed it up by a lightning coated kick towards the neck to the boss itself.

From this the boss then then momentarily shocked, quickly snapped back to reality by biting its tongue, as it swung its sword behind it, only to realize that Lorius had already teleported infront of him. Before he could even do anything against Lorius, the latter himself then immediately initiated an attack which sent the boss flying away once more.

"(Martial Skill) One Inch!!!"

With a mana coated one inch punch, the boss was blown back, which gave ample time for Lorius to check up on Akito's condition.

"Hey! Are you okay?"

"Not quite! I'm running out of health potion at the moment"

"You should have did your best to avoid getting hit"

"I am trying though, I'm not as nimble or durable as you guys"

"You could've dodged you know"

"My foot was planted unto the ground, its hard to dodge on that position"

"Yeah yeah! Excuses excuses"

"You..."

While both of them were talking to each other, the boss itself then slowly stood up as it glared at Lorius, after getting blown back multiple times in their confrontation. Such an act was really humiliating for him, so from there he then begun to fully focus on Lorius himself. Of course he didn't forget about Akito and Shun but at this point, Lorius was the utmost priority for his target.

Sensing that the boss monster was about to attack, Lorius then firing off multiple ranged magic towards the boss while obscuring Akito's presence from within the series of attacks in order to pave a way for him to reach the boss monster itself.

Of course this came as a surprise when the boss itself dodge all of those attacks, only to realize that Akito had sneakily slip in within those gaps just to reach him. Without a second moment to waste, both of then released their swordskills against one another causing multiple clashes to resound throughout the battlefield.

"Tomura's Second Tactical Sword Form Sakura no odori (Dance of the cherry blossom)"

"Second Sword Evernight Bloom!!!"

After a few moments of sword clashes, Akito then suddenly took a huge jump back, as Akito casted down an attack as light bolt struck from above and squarely hit the boss monster.

"Thundering strike!!!"

Of course this too was easily defended by the boss using a type of stance, which only gave an opportunity for Akito to jump in and enact an unexpected attack.

"Tomura's First Tactical Sword form Megakuramu kuroi karasu (Blinding Black Crow)"

From that sword skill, Akito temporarily took out the boss eyesight, making him blind for a short duration of time. However that short duration was all Lorius needed as he casted an attack he had never used before.

"Incandescent Flame!!!"

Conjuring a towering flames sword from the palm of his hand which sizes about 50 meters (164 feet). He then swung the towering sword towards the boss monster which left the whole island to literally change its topography due to such huge attack.

Naturally when that attack was conjured, it was so tall and so bright, that everyone in the island and the people from far away could see such an attack coming from an island. The moment that attack was slashed down, it then literally changed how the island look as it left a huge crevice upon its wake.

Of course the island wasn't the only one affected but even the sea water that got hit by that attack, as the sea temporarily split for a second there.

Alongside it due to how huge and grand that attack was, Lorius was left gasping for air, as he was exhausted beyond a doubt when he casted a magic that existed during the primal era, an era that was way far back into the past than his previous life's era. The consumption of mana was drastically horrendous, at most Lorius hoped that he won't need to use it again the second time.

Unfortunately that attack wasn't enough to take down the boss monster, as it crawled out from the ground with its whole armor taking a serious damage to the point that it was pushed to its breaking point.

Seeing this, Lorius couldn't help but click his tongue, before relaxing for a bit when he realized that Shun was done with his preparation.

"Finally! You've come"