Ting! Ting!
As their daggers clashed in dozens, even hundreds of exchanges, Ozymandias stared at Kang Yuseong and laughed uproariously, shouting with evident delight.
"Hahahaha! You're not even faltering against my assaults—you're actually pushing me back! How entertaining!!"
"Bullshit, you think this is fun!?"
With that, Kang Yuseong immediately dodged Ozymandias's attack and plunged into his embrace.
However, Ozymandias had anticipated such a move and twisted his body to evade, then swung his daggers. But Kang Yuseong had also predicted that and blocked with the Demon King's daggers.
Ting! Ting!
The clashes continued relentlessly.
Although Ozymandias was facing Kang Yuseong with pure martial skill without using the power of his Noble Phantasm, Ramesseum Tentyris, he began to be pushed back gradually. Empowered by this, Kang Yuseong's attack speed started to rise sharply.
Swish!!
Fwoosh!!
When his speed finally peaked, Kang Yuseong shattered Ozymandias's defense and sliced through his shoulder.
"Impressive!! But it's still far from enough!!!!!!"
Ozymandias's attack, clearly aimed at Kang Yuseong's heart, was quite difficult for him to defend against. However, he had no need to defend.
"Kuh! The attack... isn't reaching!?"
The skill and ritual he possessed, Muhāhan, applied an infinite series converging to zero in space, causing any target within range to have their approach speed converge to zero as they got closer, preventing attacks from reaching the practitioner—a power that required at least a technique to completely sever the world and space or a means to interfere with the ritual itself. But Ozymandias didn't know that, so—
"If you don't know, you get hit!!!!"
Immediately increasing Muhāhan's output to blast Ozymandias away, Kang Yuseong looked at him and said,
"Phase, Twilight, Eye of Wisdom."
Ah, maximum output.
Kang Yuseong quickly created a gravitational center point at a distance, forming a sphere, and by swinging it in that state, he pulled in and ground up the surrounding objects.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!!!!!
As a result, the pillars around the throne were instantly shredded and collapsed, and seizing the opportunity, Kang Yuseong began running by stepping on the walls around the hall.
[Skill Mana Burst activated]
[Skill Gale's Path activated]
[Skill Acceleration activated]
[Skill Raphael activated]
Using four skills simultaneously, Kang Yuseong accelerated like a rocket, breaking the wall he was stepping on, and soon appeared before Ozymandias. He gripped the dagger in reverse and swung it.
[Skill Random Slash activated]
[Skill Aura activated]
Kang Yuseong coated the Demon King's dagger with aura and recklessly slashed at Ozymandias, but Ozymandias had already anticipated the attack and evaded it with leisurely steps. The Demon King's dagger only shattered the innocent floor like cutting tofu.
"Hoh... that dagger is quite a powerful weapon..."
"Of course! Despite appearances, it's a weapon used by a bastard with the title of Demon King!!!!"
Whoosh!!!!
At the same time, the Demon King's daggers, thrown rapidly at Ozymandias, tore through the air, aiming to shred him. Seeing this, Ozymandias hastily used Imperial Privilege to grant himself superhuman strength, barely managing to deflect the daggers.
Kwa-ang!!!!
The deflected Demon King's daggers soared into the sky and embedded themselves in the ceiling, causing cracks to spread across it with a creaking sound.
"Hoh... that was close—"
Zzzt!!!
"Pathetic!! Do you think I'd let my guard down over something like that!!!"
At Ozymandias's words as he lightly blocked Kang Yuseong's surprise attack, Kang Yuseong chuckled, thinking of some golden, overly careless AUO somewhere, and said,
"Some golden bastard out there would probably do just that..."
"You'd do well not to treat me the same as that fool!"
Immediately, Ozymandias struck Kang Yuseong, who was wielding Kayserium, and Kang Yuseong himself toward the wall with his dagger. Kang Yuseong embedded Kayserium into the ground to avoid colliding with the wall and quickly summoned an angel.
"Metatron!!"
Using Metatron's power, Kang Yuseong rapidly transformed into light and moved through the air, indiscriminately shooting light at Ozymandias. Dodging the attacks, Ozymandias then glared at Kang Yuseong in the air and shouted.
"You bastard!! How dare you look down on me from the sky!!!"
"Fuck off!! What's it to you!!!"
With that, Kang Yuseong immediately fell toward Ozymandias, swinging Kayserium, but Ozymandias wasn't one to just take it, so he blocked it.
This was repeated hundreds of times.
The hall with the throne writhed in agony from their battle, with cracks forming on the floor, walls shattered, the ceiling about to collapse, and pillars fallen to the ground.
"Hahahahahaha!!!! That's still not enough to even scratch me!!!"
"...Not enough?"
At Ozymandias's words, Kang Yuseong's demeanor changed instantly. Sensing this change, Ozymandias tensed up and stared at him. Kang Yuseong looked at him and threw kunai at Ozymandias, but since the kunai were just kunai, not Noble Phantasms or holy relics, Ozymandias easily deflected them.
The problem was what came next.
"!? He disappeared... this is different from simple invisibility or presence concealment!"
After deflecting the kunai, when Kang Yuseong suddenly vanished completely from before his eyes, Ozymandias was momentarily surprised and hesitated briefly.
"!"
Swish!!!!!
With a sudden sharp sensation felt instinctively, Ozymandias hastily twisted his body. At the same time, a large wound appeared on Ozymandias's waist.
Schwaaaaaak!!!!!!
Red blood shot from Ozymandias's waist into the air, soon staining the floor red.
"What... how on earth, when..."
"...Tch, if the level of Nameless Three-Step Thrust was a bit higher, I could have turned you into a heat hunt right then."
Schwaak!!
"!"
Before he knew it, Kang Yuseong appeared far behind Ozymandias, expressionlessly shaking off Ozymandias's blood from his sword, Hwamoo Sibilhong. Seeing this, Ozymandias momentarily wavered, silently staring at him, then as if realizing something, began to laugh wildly.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Impressive!!!! You were planning to completely slice me open in that brief moment!!"
"Bingo... but it failed spectacularly..."
Saying that, Kang Yuseong then pointed Hwamoo Sibilhong at Ozymandias and said,
"Are you satisfied by now?"
"Satisfied... satisfied, yes, I am already satisfied!! You are a hero worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with me!!! However!!!! The fight is not over yet!!! Both you and I can still fight—"
Slice!!!
"Da—what...?"
Thud
Ozymandias's arms flew through the air, struck by a flash of light that descended from the ceiling, and then plummeted helplessly to the ground.
Schwaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!
Fierce blood spurted from where Ozymandias's arms had been, and soon he knelt down.
"Come."
As Kang Yuseong lightly stretched out his hand, the Demon King's daggers, which had been embedded in the ceiling earlier, were pulled out by an invisible force and returned to their owner's hand.
"Ha... haha, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! So you had even this planned."
Ozymandias looked at his arms, which had flown off and were lying scattered on the ground.
Even if his arms could be recovered later with magical energy, the absence of both arms now made it difficult to continue the fight. Moreover, blood was still gushing and flowing from the cut on his waist. This is... yes...
"I must acknowledge what must be acknowledged... yes, I have lost... Hero, you have achieved victory over me, the incarnation of Ra..."
It was Ozymandias's complete defeat.