Souta and the rest arrived at the capital of the Sydfri Kingdom. It was a huge city with a diameter of one hundred kilometers. It was bustling and the view was astonishing before but now... It was filled with smoke, corpses were scattered everywhere, and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. Even the palace at the center of the city was burning.
Heimer, Baldur, and Princess Dreimi couldn't believe what they were seeing. One of the most famous cities in the world was burning. Flames were everywhere and blood dyed the ground.
"This is a sight to see..." Souta commented.
"They are fighting there." Eilish looked up.
The hero of the Sydfri Kingdom was a young man wearing silver-colored armor. He was swinging his sword against a man covered in a dark red robe. Their battle was fierce and they were using all of their might against each other.
They were fighting twenty kilometers above the city. Still, the aftershocks of their battle could be felt throughout the entire city. It even extends to farther land.
The space was distorting and all sorts of elements were bursting out every second. Each of their attacks was cancelling each other and it didn't cause more damage to the surrounding.
They were evenly matched.
Souta raised his eyebrows when he saw the battle.
"Souta..." Eilish said as she watched the battle. She noticed something strange.
Yeah, there was a strange thing about this battle. The hero was only at Three Shackles yet he was able to fight a powerful man at Four Shackles. The mana in the atmosphere and the laws of this world were moving strangely. The hero was able to control it completely.
If it was any other experts, there was no doubt that the hero would defeat them. Unfortunately, the one he's fighting was a top-tier expert. Souta recognized the insignia on the robe of the man.
That man was from the Wingless Crow.
"I see... Their target is me." Souta understood immediately.
That woman named Layla warned him about this. The Wingless Crow wanted to kill him since he annihilated the branch in Hall Plains.
Souta glanced at his fellow warriors and said, "Set up the artifact. Once you activated it, I will start moving."
The warriors nodded before they left to activate the artifacts.
While waiting, Souta continued to watch the battle.
Boom!!
The hero fiercely attacked his opponent. Each one of his attacks contains a vast amount of mana and laws. It was capable of annihilating this entire land.
If this continued, Souta guessed that the whole city beneath them would collapse under the sheer pressure of the battle.
The man from the Wingless Crow took the hero's attack head-on. From his point of view, the hero was simply a man that got lucky to obtain the protection of this world's law. If not for this world's laws, he would have already killed this hero.
Still, he could crush all types of laws that were thrown at him. He even has the upper hand in this battle.
Boom!!
The land shook heavily and it caused a ripple on the ground that destroyed countless infrastructures.
The battle was getting fiercer and fiercer with each passing second. They have already thrown hundreds of thousands of attacks. The space was full of cracks and the mana in the air was chaotic. The pressure from this battle immediately killed all the people below A-rank while people under Shackled Realm fainted from the pressure.
Only people that had the protection of high-grade artifacts could handle the pressure. Unfortunately, there was no such thing in this land. Most of the artifacts in this land were only at blue grade. The orange grade was too rare to the point that some countries considered it a national treasure.
Heimer, Baldur, and Princess Dreimi were under Souta and Eilish's protection so they were fine.
"That hero... He's like the child of this world. I could control the causality of this world yet he is controlling it as if it is one of his limbs." Eilish commented.
"Yeah, if it is against people from this world, they wouldn't be able to defeat that hero. Too bad, his opponent is an expert from Imperium. That man is destroying the laws that are trying to restrict his movements." Souta said.
Boom!!
The shockwave directly traveled hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
Souta could see the wailing souls in the air. He was tempted to consume them but he held himself back. He just experience that horrible experience so he didn't want that to happen again. He should just take the souls slowly. He couldn't take a lot of souls in an instant since he didn't want to happen that once again.
Ohm!
A strange ripple swept out and everything stopped. Wind, smoke, flames, piles of rubble, and every living creature had stopped moving.
The time had stopped.
Except for the man from the Wingless Crow. He forcefully broke the laws around him with his overwhelming energy.
He dashed forward and launched a powerful blow at the hero's stomach.
Bang!!
Souta turned his head and glanced at Eilish. Even Eilish was affected by the time. She stopped moving along with Baldur, Heimer, and Princess Dreimi.
Sigh...
He waved his hand and a crack formed in the air.
Bang!
The time around them was shattered and his energy slowly spread out.
Eilish was still a Two Shackles so she wasn't strong enough.
Eilish came back to her senses. She didn't know what happened.
"Eilish, you can go now. Bring Baldur, Heimer, and Dreimi with you. They will activate the artifact soon." Souta said.
Eilish glanced at him and nodded. Souta was going to move so she had to create a certain distance. Even the battle between the hero and that unknown man was too much for her.
"Be careful," She said before she turned around and left. She brought the three with her.
Souta looked at her back for a few seconds before he stared down at the city.
The Wingless Crow didn't simply dispatch one expert to kill him. They knew that he fought No God Emperor's vessel and even drive away the experts from the other factions in Hall Plains, directly controlling the land.
Hmm...
Aside from the man that was fighting the hero, Souta could sense six more experts hiding within the city. They were watching the battle with interest in their eyes.
All of them were Four Shackles experts.
The Wingless Crow really wanted to kill him for them to dispatch seven experts that broke a great shackle. These seven experts were already a huge force even within a powerful organization like Athen's Champion. They were qualified to become Grain Leaders.
Ohm!!
The atmosphere suddenly changed. A huge barrier covered everything within a diameter of one thousand kilometers. The hero and the man from Wingless Crow were surprised at this sudden change. Even the other six experts were shocked at this event.
No one expected this to happen.
The warriors from Athen's Champion finally activated the artifact.
The barrier isolated this place from the outside world. Even the space was cut moving from this place to outside was blocked. The only way to escape this place was to break the barrier but that was impossible.
Even a Seven Shackles expert wouldn't be able to escape this place. Only those experts that broke nine shackles and above have the power to break this barrier. Even then, it would at least take them a while before they could break through.
Swoosh!!
Souta appeared in the air staring down at everyone. Right now, all the people within the city were dead. There's nothing they could do on this scale of battle.
It was too much for them.
If the two continued fighting, this whole place, no, this entire continent would be affected as well.
Souta already felt the change in the planet's system. The hero manipulated the laws and his opponent crushed it causing natural disasters to occur in other parts of the world.
If the other experts also used their powers then it would be over in an instant. This planet wouldn't be able to handle their overwhelming energies.
Souta's presence was revealed. The hero and the rest of the experts from the Wingless Crow glanced at him.
"Blood Lightning Monster, Souta..."
The experts from the Wingless Crow recognized him. He was their target. He was the reason why they invaded this sub-world, to begin with.
"Target confirmed. The Blood Lightning Monster has appeared."
The man who was fighting the hero said while staring at Souta's figure.
Souta stared at them before he shifted his gaze to the hero. He smiled and said, "You're quite good, hero. You are blessed by this world."
Ohm!
A figure appeared behind Souta in an instant. This figure was covered in a dark red robe and was holding two sharp daggers. The person behind the robe thrust the daggers forward with overwhelming force.
The daggers landed on Souta's neck. It tried to slice his neck but it failed because of his touch flesh.
Whoosh!!
The figure didn't stop and slashed the sword. This time the [Element Drive] of the attacker was activated.
Bang!!
