King: Your kingdom started this war.
King Hakao: Yes, your people are only fit to be slaves.
King: Shut your mouth!
King Hakao smiled.
King Hakao: So? Now you want to kill me?
King: I want to make a deal.
The King stared sharply at King Hakao.
King Hakao: What deal?
King: The war ends here. All hostages must be returned to their original kingdoms, and no fighting for the next five years.
King Hakao heard that and smiled widely.
King Hakao: What if I refuse?
The King didn't like hearing that.
King: Then we must settle this by force.
The King drew his sword and charged it with aura.
King Hakao: Try it if you can.
King Hakao also drew his sword and charged it with aura.
Hifung approached Ray and spoke softly.
Hifung: Ray, what should we do?
Ray: Let's watch first. If the chance is right, then we attack.
Hifung: Okay.
The King ran toward King Hakao, and King Hakao ran toward him.
They began to clash swords.
The King launched blow after blow, but King Hakao parried all of them.
King Hakao then started attacking fast and strong.
The King blocked all attacks and tried to counterattack occasionally.
Their movements were so fast that Hifung and Ray had trouble keeping up.
The King blocked King Hakao's strike.
King: Hifung! Ray!
Hifung: Okay.
Hifung and Ray immediately advanced, swords in their right hands.
King Hakao: Seems King Milty likes to gang up.
The King just smiled.
Hifung and Ray got closer to King Hakao, who was still blocking blows with the King.
King Hakao: Ugh, annoying.
Suddenly, King Hakao strengthened his attack, pushing the King back a little.
King (thinking): "What!?"
King: This is bad!
Hifung and Ray, getting closer to King Hakao, suddenly had their swords break and were thrown quite far away.
King: What!?
King Hakao: That's all you've got?
Hifung and Ray were shocked.
Hifung: How is that possible!?
Ray (thinking): "That attack just now!?"
The King looked angry.
King: You! How many people did you kill to get that power?
King Hakao: Huh? You mean this eye power? About a thousand people.
King Hakao smiled wickedly.
King: A thousand!?
Hifung: What power is that!?
Ray: It's acceleration power.
Hifung: Acceleration!?
Ray: An eye power that speeds up movement or vision.
Hifung: What!?
Ray: Besides using certain magic, the way to speed up movement is by using that eye power.
Hifung was shocked hearing that as he looked at King Hakao.
King: You don't deserve the title of king!
The King released magic in his right hand.
King: DragonFire!
A dragon-shaped fire magic shot toward the target.
The magic flew at King Hakao.
But he blocked it with water magic.
King Hakao: WaterDragon!
Water magic shaped like the DragonFire.
The two magics collided.
When the magic faded, the King sped forward with wind magic to boost his speed, holding a sword in his right hand wrapped in orange flames.
King: HUAAA!
King Hakao smiled.
He also charged his sword with orange fire, and they slashed at each other.
Ray: Hifung, this is our chance, attack him with your magma magic.
Hifung: Okay.
Hifung threw away his broken sword.
He ran toward the King, releasing magma magic from his right hand.
Ray sped forward with wind magic to assist.
King Hakao saw Hifung's magma magic.
King Hakao: That kid... still a child but already has huge chi capacity.
King: Yeah, if your body gets hit by magma, you're finished.
The King and King Hakao still blocked each other's slashes.
King Hakao: Then I won't let that magma hit me.
King Hakao smiled.
Hifung released his magma magic.
It shot toward King Hakao.
King Hakao raised water magic in his left hand, ready to release it to the King's stomach.
But Ray was just in time, kicking the King to the side so the magic didn't hit him.
King Hakao: What!?
The magma magic was close to King Hakao.
King Hakao: Ugh!
He charged his left hand with magma magic and punched Hifung's magma magic.
King: Thanks.
The King thanked Ray, then sped forward with wind magic toward King Hakao.
King Hakao: You guys are really annoying.
Hifung's magma magic was gone.
King Hakao used his left hand to punch the King who was charging at him.
The King immediately used ice magic.
King: IceBricks!
Large ice blocks flew toward the target.
The ice magic flew toward King Hakao's punch.
Their magics collided.
The ice slowly melted, but the magma in King Hakao's left hand hardened into stone.
Finally, all ice melted, and King Hakao's left hand became magma stone.
The King sped toward King Hakao and slashed his left hand until the stone broke.
But King Hakao, with the sword in his right hand, charged it with lightning magic and slashed the King's chest.
King Hakao then kicked the King with his right foot, sending him flying far.
Hifung and Ray immediately approached the King.
Hifung: King, are you okay?
Ray was shocked seeing the wound on the King's chest.
Ray: This is bad. The wound still has lightning magic, it won't heal for a full day.
The King looked pained.
Hifung: What do we do!?
King Hakao: Hahaha, that's all you've got.
Hifung looked at the King's wound, confused about what to do.
The surroundings spun, and King Hakao's voice became faint to Hifung.
King Hakao: This ends now.
King Hakao released lightning magic on his sword.
King Hakao: In this level five world, only Stephanus Hery has ever defeated me. But if I fought him now, he'd lose for sure. Hahaha.
Ray looked at King Hakao, then glanced at Hifung who was silent.
Ray: Hifung.
Ray lightly tapped Hifung's shoulder.
Ray: Hifung!
Time seemed to slow down.
In his silence, Hifung suddenly remembered Stephanus Hery's book.
Hifung (thinking): "Aura is the natural enemy of magic."
He also remembered when he was training to release aura.
King Hakao sped forward with wind magic, rushing at Hifung with his lightning-charged sword.
Hifung snapped out of it.
Hifung (thinking): "Right! The most important thing is determination!"
Ray then got up and coated his hands with yellow aura.
Hifung also stood and coated his hands with red aura.
King Hakao looked surprised seeing Hifung's red aura.
Finally, Hifung and Ray punched King Hakao's lightning sword with their aura-coated hands.
The King watched, amazed, eyes wide, in pain.
A big explosion happened on King Hakao's sword.
It sent King Hakao flying far away.
The King, Ray, and Hifung also got thrown far.
King Hakao's sword broke, bu
t he still stood, struggling and burned.
Elsewhere, Ray and Hifung lay on the floor, with small burns and unable to move.
King Milty was thrown further and unconscious.
Ray and Hifung saw King Hakao staggering toward them.
King Hakao stood before them, swaying.