Chapter 17:- [Bonus Chapter 3] Labyrinth [IV], Title of Monarch
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By now, William's ears were starting to hurt because of all the messages from the system. But compared to the excitement he was currently having, the buzzing sound in his head was like a healing potion that was making him feel more motivated to kill.
Sitting on the throne, the Dark Lord looked at William with a confused look. "What just happened? It's like his whole personality has been flipped."
Bang!
Sword Dance!
Boom!
The ground shattered as small pieces of dead demonic monster bodies flew everywhere. Meat, blood, bones, brain, and organs of demonic beasts were everywhere. As time passed, William's fighting style began getting more and more brutal.
Standing in the middle of a monster horde, William was madly swinging the 200 kg black sword. The weight of the sword didn't seem to affect the Incubus King at all. But when the sword landed on the monster's bodies, the black sword left heavy damage to them. Some monsters with weak bodies couldn't even handle one strike from the black sword and ended up exploding like watermelon.
Seeing how fast this man was killing her comrades, one of the female goblins raised her magic staff to cast debuff spells at William in hope of weakening this monster otherwise her entire family will be killed.
Shadow Spike!
Bang!
Cough!
All the mage goblins coughed a mouth full of blood as they stared at William in a mix of despair and fear. Even without looking, William just used shadow spikes.
Before the mage goblins could finish their spells, from the ground the black spikes created large holes in their bodies.
[Ding! Passive skill Shadow Spikes have been leveled up]
As William continued fighting his awareness of the surroundings also grew. In the beginning, William was like an inexperienced swimmer who was forced to swim in the sea. As minutes passed, William began developing his own fighting style by combining all the skills and powers he held. Compared to before, his movements now were much more refined and heavy.
He did not care about the blood, meat, or organ of the dead demonic beasts that was covering him. What he cared about more than anything else was killing. When this battle started, it was as if William has been enlightened. He was progressing very fast. William was sure if he fought like this regularly for the past 4 years, then he would have become strong enough to kill a gold rank warrior.
Level 1 to 50 beings are called Silver rank warriors or mages depending on the type of skills they have. While level 51 to 100 beings were called Gold rank warriors or mages. A gold rank warrior can destroy 100 silver rank warriors. The gap between the two ranks was huge.
William can feel the progress he was making. Each time he swung his sword, he could feel his powers increasing. It was not the power of the system, it was the power of experience. Under Laura's guidance, William's skills progressed rapidly but he was still weak as he lacked the fighting experience that he was gaining from his slaughtering battle.
Right now the group of monsters that were surrounding William was simply colossal. His visions were blocked by monsters and monsters only. He could no longer see the grassland. The only thing that came into his view was blood, dead bodies, and monsters. By now the demonic monsters' numbers had reached 12,000. The number was still increasing. Every few minutes a group of 1,000 monsters was being summoned to fight William.
Despite being surrounded by this huge number of monsters, the Incubus King did not back down. There was only one thought on his mind. And that killed the monsters. Whether it was demonic giant snakes, goblins, undeads, eagles, rabbits, wolves, ogres, or apes, no one was spared.
Seeing that the monsters were pushing from all sides, William poured his mana into the black sword and swung his sword faster than the demonic monsters could react.
Bang!
[Ding! The passive skill Sword dance has leveled up.]
When he stopped hundreds of monsters lying on the ground another group of monsters stepped over their bodies to attack William.
William was too occupied to read the changes taking in his skills. As he kept on increasing the mastery level of his skills, his skills ranks kept on increasing.
"Let's make some space."
White flame!
The Night Lord widened his eyes in shock and in a trace of fear as he looked at the White flame that for some reason looked very familiar to him.
William summoned a white orb of flame. He then grabbed the white flame orb and slammed the flame orb on the ground.
Boom!
Slamming the white orb to the ground released a huge shockwave of white mana that instantly killed thousands of the monsters near William. The shockwave spread in all directions. Even the 15-meter-long giants were instantly burned to ash by the White silver flame.
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When the white flame stopped on its rampage, all the bodies of the demonic monsters within 100 meters radius were turned to ash. Even the grass was not spared. "As expected the white flame is very dangerous. Sadly, I cannot use it openly in a fight where I have to save my mana for an emergency." William saved his mana as much as he can. He has lost the count of time or the number of monsters he has slain. He needed mana to get out of emergency situations.
And thus the killing spree continued on. When one hour passed, The night Lord was beyond and a little terrified seeing how brutal William's fighting style was. By the time the second hour passed, William was showing some signs of slowing down which made the Dark lord think that the Incubus King was getting near its exhaustion level.
But to his shock, when the 3rd hour came, he fought like he was full of energy. Though most of the time he relied on his physical attacks to finish off the monsters. Now and then he would use that mysterious and powerful White flame to instantly kill a few thousands of monsters.
By the time when the 3rd hour finished, the number of monsters surrounding William was at an all-time high. Almost 50,000 level 25 monsters were surroundings a 14 years boy who was still at level zero. What kind of logic was that? Even the Night Lord wasn't sure.
William wasn't stupid enough to head on a 50,000 horde of monsters. He decided to use his agility to move between the monsters. Instead of holding his ground and fighting monsters, he changed his technique and started using his agility to prevent the monsters from attacking him. His agility was so high that no monster was able to keep up with him. As long as William run he was safe.
But running for an hour was not an option even for him. Running and fighting at the same time consumed a lot more stamina than he realized. In the last 11 minutes of the battle, William started showing signs of weakness.
This was the first time William's stamina had fallen below [10]. By now he was feeling extremely exhausted and tired. He was feeling the weight of his body had been multiplied by a few times. He was having trouble keeping his eyebrows open. Due to fatigue, he was also starting to hallucinate.
"No, I cannot fall here. I am so close." William raised his hand as hundreds of black spiraling spheres started forming above his head. Each spiraling sphere was about 2 meters in size. "Go"
Boooooooom!
[Ding! Shadow ball has been leveled up]
In an instant ten thousand monsters near William were killed by the explosions. The explosion was so huge that its shockwave had sent hundreds of monsters flying.
Before the explosion could happen, William used Shadow blink to escape. Now that the Shadow blink had leveled up, the range of his teleportation also had increased.
[Ding! Shadow Blink has been leveled up]
The last 10 minutes felt like the most unbearable period for William. At that time he was very exhausted, and his mana was nearly drained as well. He only had [19+] mana left in his body. With his heavy and exhausted body, he was running between monsters and trying to get out of the 50,000 hordes of monsters so that we can take a breath.
Only William knew what he was going through. Due to his exhaustion, he even ended up taking several powerful blows. Fortunately, he was able to keep on running despite the serious injuries.
[Ding! 4 hours have ended. The 3rd and final phase of the trial has ended.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the user for surviving for 4 hours.]
Hearing the voice, William stopped running and lay on the grass not caring about the blood that had around him. He felt like closing his eyes.
"All the healing potions and mana recovery potions that Laura gave me have been used up. If there is another phase of this challenge, then I have to stop now." It was mainly because of the Mana recovery potions that William was able to keep fighting for that long.
All the monsters in the grassland started disappearing. The monster corpses were still lying on the ground. While taking heavily, William looked at the deep blue sky. "This whole challenge feels like a personal lesson to me. I have become so much stronger. No treasure can compare to the fighting experience I have gained here."
Clap! Clap! Clap!
"Congratulations, you're the first person in this era to pass my trails." The Dark Lord appeared behind William. He then sat next to Will and also looked at the sky.
[Ding! Calculating all the Karma points.]
[Ding! 1%.....51%.....100%.]
[Ding! The host has earned 200,000 Karma points.]
"This is the first time someone has managed to break the 50,000 number and has managed to collect over 200,000 karma points. You're more than qualified to receive the title of Monarch." The Dark Lord sounded really happy and proud when he looked at William.
"Little boy, do you want to receive the title of the Monarch?"
"Title of the Monarch?" Just hearing those words, William felt all of his exhaustion has left his body. Who does not wants the title of Monarch?
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