STAKED FROM THE BEHIND
"The loser always blames the winner for cheating", I replied to him.
Although Prince Bion's conjured diamond spears were extremely powerful, it became useless to someone who has chaos magic or chaos artifact. There was only one way for Bion to win this battle- going down dirty with his hands.
Suddenly, Prince Bion's hands elongated into long sharp diamond swords. The prince charged towards me with his long conjured diamond broadsword.
The prince was quick and in no time, he was near me. But as he smashed his diamond broadsword on me, I disappeared.
Then I reappeared behind him and struck him from the back with my sonic punch.
"Bully's Backstab" "Drums of Kradesh"
"You are tricky, but your punch doesn't even tickle me", Prince Bion shouted to me.
As he spoke, I continued to strike him repeatedly with my sonic punches which didn't seem to harm him much at all.
"This is a difficult fight. The Bully cannot break the Diamond Knight's armor", someone commented in the flying pavilions.
"Where is the diamond Knight's Tetrahedral plane?" I asked Asterix on my earphone.
"I cannot find them. This diamond structure doesn't have any flaws", Asterix replied to me to my disappointment.
The last time I defeated Iasonias was by breaking his diamond body by cracking the tetrahedral planes between his armor, or the fault points on him. But Bion's diamond armor doesn't seem to have any flaws in them.
"Damn, If I can't destroy his diamond armor, how can I win this duel?" I asked.
Suddenly, an unlikely voice on my earphone came to my aide.
"Moron, why are you looking for tetrahedral planes on the diamond when he had major flaws on his conjured armor", Sara told me suddenly.
"Where is his major flaw?" I asked her.
"The same spot you always punch to break these scums' balls, his bloody crotch. There is a gap in his armor there among others", Sara told me.
There was an Achilles Heel on Bion's diamond armor conjuration. In fact, there were many of them.
Bion's diamond armor wasn't cast in one complete piece.
There were several pieces of diamonds that were joined together to form his unbreakable diamond armor, to enable his flexibility and mobility.
The design that enabled his flexibility and mobility was also the cause of the Indestructible armor's failure.
Suddenly, Bion charged toward me again with both his conjured Diamond Broadswords. Bion rose into the air with both his broadswords pulled to his back before he would swing the swords down at me.
However, Prince Bion's position above me was exactly where I wanted him to be.
"You are done", I said to Prince Bion when something sprouted from the ground.
At first a small shoot of bamboo like growth appeared followed by vines that swirled around the growth. The vines grew thicker, transforming the initial stalk into a pillar of immense growth.
The sharp pointed growth struck Prince Bion from under him, penetrating through the joints between the pieces of diamonds that encased his legs and body.
"Giant Slayer of Ikea"
"Argghhhhh"
Bion screamed as his diamond armor was broken and so was his body. Prince Bion lost all his diamond armor, and he was now staked into the air by my conjured Giant growth, while sharp vines pierced out from his chest and back after going into his body through his backside.
There was almost silence in the Magic Arena after the killing of Prince Bion. Everybody who witnessed it was in a state of shock.
"Gee… that is a disgusting way to die", someone in the crowd screamed out in horror and disgust.
"The Bully of Starri is truly vicious", another added.
"Who dares to challenge the Bully after today", a third person speculated.
"I guess you still have to announce the winner although my opponent is already dead", I told the referee of the Magic Arena.
"Erm… The Bull…no…Duke Oriese of Kaleon wins", the referee announced in horror.
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After winning the duel, it was time to collect my reward from the fight. Less a large commission to the Magic Arena, I obtained almost all the valuable properties of the Gamanos and Hermaois family in Tarah city.
"You cannot take our property", Duke Pausias said to me.
"Why not, I won it fair and square and according to the law", I replied to him.
"These are the properties of the Noble families, you have no right to them", he shouted out to me.
"Arrest this Pausias for the molesting of a decent woman and injuring her after she refused his advance", I shouted out to the guards.
The guards quickly arrested Duke Pausias.
Duke Pausias was no longer the head of the Hermaois family in Tarah city because after today, there would no longer be a Hermaois family in the city and also of the Gamanos family.
"Duke Oriese, you have taken everything from the Hermaios and Gamanos family in one battle, congratulations", Prince Raslee said to me and congratulated.
"Yes, two less families to oppose the rule of the city. That can only be a good thing for Tarah city", I replied to the prince.
"Yes, yes", he said to me with a smile.
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"Your highness, are we really allowing the Kaleon family to take over all the properties of the Hermaios and Gamanos family?" Minister Holden asked Prince Raslee.
"What do you want me to do? Annul the result of the fight when that Bion is already dead", Prince Raslee replied to him.
"This Duke Oriese is getting too powerful and influential in our city. He must be stopped", Minister Holden told the prince.
"Don't worry, what happened today won't be ignored by the Harmaios and Gamanos family", Prince Raslee replied to him.
"I'm afraid there is nothing much the two families can do about the Bully. He is also the son-in-law of the Mithridocus family, and he is also friendly with the Appolokis and Demetriodes families", Minister Holden replied to the prince.
"This Oriese is not someone that we can deal with. I suspect he has the backing of a powerful but yet invisible force in the Ten-Kingdoms", Prince Raslee told the minister.
"What force? The Church?" Minister Holden asked.
"I don't know. Maybe. We should leave Oriese for the Queen to deal with. We don't want to end up on a stake like Prince Bion", Prince Raslee told Holden.
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