On another side of the battlefield, the fight between ‘The Prodigy Sword Saint’ and ‘The Uen General’ raged on.

  To most, it would appear as though Olivier was dominating, not giving Kaymin a ce to breathe, and to be fair, that recisely what was happening.

  Olivier’s speed made him a nightmare for other warriors. Unless your speed were up to par, you’d find yourself overwhelmed by flickering lights of golden battle-qi.

  Even General Kaymin, a warrior at the peak of the ninth rank who was anything but slow, couldn’t find the time to ter, all he could do was block, parry, and dodge, preventing his oppo from nding a strike.

  ‘Hmph, and they said I’d need help to fight someone of this level…’ Olivier thought disdainfully as he tinued his onsught. ‘It’s only a matter of time before he makes a mistake, and I make him pay with his life!’

  General Metria could practically read her fellow general’s mind just from seeing the arrogant smirk pying on his lips, and whilst she had to admit that Olivier’s ability as a warrior was truly incredible – to the point where if it were her, she would’ve already died – she was still clutg her sword and shield ready to react at any moment.

  Olivier may not have cshed with Kaymin before, but she had, and she knew better than to think this was the limit of his strength. Just the tranquil expression on his face as he was ‘overwhelmed’ was enough to let her know that the monster in front of her hadn’t even started getting goi.

  Every time their swords met, a shock wave would ripple out from them at the epitre. The trast of the gold of Olivier’s battle-qi against the red of Kaymin’s made it look like a captivating fireworks dispy from afar, but each of those ‘captivating’ fireworks helped turn what was once a grassy pin into a devastated wastend.

  It was at that moment that Olivier’s relentless assault finally breached Kaymin’s defe was a shallow wound across his shoulder, but it was still a wound, and as far as Olivier was ed, it was the start of the end for his foe.

  Unfortunately, before he could take advantage of Kaymin’s injury to add to it, the uen general swung his great sword across his body with unbridled ferocity, creating a scarlet, crest-shaped sword light f Olivier to hurry out of the way.

  “Looks like you really are the more powerful warrior out of the two of us…” Kaymin sighed as he slowly raised his hand, pointing at his brown-haired oppo.

  A smug smile was just starting to form on Olivier’s face when the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.

  “[Scorg Meteor Shower]!” Kaymin muttered softly.

  Olivier’s eyes widened as he saw dozens of house-sized meteors form in the skies above him. As the fight between him and Kaymin raged on, he had fotten that the real reason the uen general was shtening was that he was just as skilled a mage as he was a warrior.

  Although, as far as warriors went, Olivier was undoubtedly the more powerful of the two, General Kaymin’s prowess as a warrior beat all of those he’d ever gone up against, including all of those from his own nation. As a result, Olivier subsciously believed this had to be everything he had.

  Still, as a highly experienced and exceptionally talented warrior, he instinctively suppressed the shock he was feeling to deal with the ining attack.

  Re-coating his body and sword in his golden battle-qi as he leapt up to meet the meteor shower head-on.

  “[Light-Sword]”, Olivier roared as he sshed out as fast as he possibly could.

  “He really is aremely talented warrior,” Kaymin sighed as he watched the young man’s sword light multiply, going from oo two, to four, to eight.

  Eight enormous sword beams tore through the air, cutting one of the meteors i smaller pieces, giving him a path out of the meteor shower. Unfortunately for the young swordsman, Duke Kaymin had already seen through his iion.

  “You die now – [Dance of the Fire Serpent]!” Kaymin voiced coldly as a 100-meter-long crimson serpent of pure fming mageforce appeared in the skies above Olivier diving down like a diviribution.

  Olivier had been so focused on finding a path out of the meter encirclement that he didn’t notice the fiery snake in the sky until it was virtually on top of him.

  Despite his lightspeed reas, Olivier immediately uood he wouldn’t be able to block this one. All he could do was increase the battle-qi coating his body to its maximum output and brapact. Still, he khat his esg with severe injuries was already the best-case sario.

  But just as his body tensed, anticipating the pending explosion, he saw a shadow flicker past him to intercept the spell just before it hit its target, reminding him that he wasn’t alone in this battle.

  The spell [Dance of the Fire Serpents] ell of the eighth rank that created seven teer-long fire snakes, but Kaymin had long siered the spell to make it a siarget spell of the ninth rank, a feat that only went to show his impressive talent as a mage.

  Luckily for Olivier, Metria, who had been waiting on the side-lines, had been ready to intervehe whole time. The moment she saw the enormous sky-c serpent taking form, she leapt into a.

  Coating her body in a purple battle qi of the lightning element, she tore through the air like a bolt of lightning, her battle-qi-coated shield in front of her to meet the spell and her sword sshing out from behind, creating a lightning sword beam.

  The sword beam did little to weaken the fire spell, but it did slow the attack just enough for the only female general on the side of the O’Brien Empire to intercept.

  As the giant burning serpent and General Metria’s shield made tact, it created a sky-shattering explosion that made all of the other battles happening pause to see what had happened.

  The only person that didn’t wait to see what had happened was the main culprit of the explosion. General Kaymi a trail of fire as he sped into the cloud of smoke.

  The sounds of metal g could be heard throughout the battlefield as the smoke slowly dissipated, showing the shog sight of General Kaymin fighting Generals Metria and Olivier to a standstill.

  Despite the speeds he had been moving at before, during the whole of the first part of their battle, miraculously, Olivier didn’t have so much as a hair out of pce or a single crease on his robe, but now…

  Half of his robe was ied, and his body was covered in burns. His injuries weren’t enough to impact his strength, but as he wasn’t the oo bear the brunt of the attack, it only went to show the power of Kaymin’s spell.

  Despite wearing expensive armour fed from some of the sturdiest ores on the ti, General Metria was in far worse dition than Olivier, with her armour beied in several spots and her just as many burns so deep the bones became visible.

  Still, as a warrior at the peak of the ninth rank, her vitality was nothing to scoff at. Despite her gruesome injuries, she was still able to fight at a level that would put the average ninth-rank warrior to shame. But her oppo was far from your average warrior of the ninth rank.

  General Kaymin had mao create a fighting style which perfectly fused the spells of a mage with the skills of a warrior, which allowed him to domihe fight, f both his oppos into a positiohey could only defend.

  Now that Kaymin was going all out, Olivier finally realised hht everyone had been. Even if he wasn’t caught off guard by his st strike, as he was currently, Olivier wasn’t Kaymin’s match. It was only with Metria’s help that he was able to st so long.

  ‘If only I hadn’t been sant and wilful,’ Olivier cursed mentally. ‘Maybe then we wouldn’t be in this position.’

  He may not be affected too badly by his injuries, but the same couldn’t be said for his fellow General. Though not life-threatening, Metria could barely fight at 70% of her best. If she was at 100%, theweewo of them, they might actually be able to fight to win instead of fighting to survive.

  As the other battles restarted, most soldiers on both sides made sure to divert some of their attention to General Kaymin’s battle.

  Everyone already khat that was the ohat would prove to be the deg battle, as whoever won would immediately turide of the whole war.

  With Kaymin now in such a dominant position, it had the Rohault soldiers fighting steadily, just biding their time, waiting for the moment they got to erupt and win this war ond for all. Whilst the remaining O’Brien generals began fighting with wild abando, uanding that if they were going to have any ce at victory, they had to defeat their Rohault terparts and go to support Olivier aria before Kaymin found a way through their defences.

  The only two not paying any attention to the battle betweehree generals were Ad his oppo – el Lorne!

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