Nameless King

Nitra had already been in difficult situations many times during this fight, and she had almost died once. She had been saved by the past Tree and gained great strength because of it.

However, until now, Liang seemed invulnerable. All of Nitra’s actions were simply useless against him, except for the last one. She was able to destroy his Spirit and that brought her closer to victory, or rather she had already almost won, she thought.

However, the reality turned out to be more brutal than Nitra’s expectations. Liang simply did what was only possible in theory and completely unrealistic in practice, but it was no barrier for him. After all, he was The Strongest One for a reason. Titles like that don’t just happen.

“Well, well, looks like I’m back on track. What a pleasant surprise.” Liang smirked insidiously while his Second Vortex rotated, gradually accelerating slightly.

When Liang melted his Spirit, the temperature around him was abnormally high, so the ice layer just like frost needed to be restored. Otherwise, Nitra could once again use her ability and escape directly from Liang’s grasp.

“Tell me, how much energy did you use for the last attack?” Liang asked, with a slight smile on his face.

Nitra remained silent, she just frowned, taking a few steps back. In fact, Liang didn’t need a straight answer, he himself could guess as his eyes headed towards the cracks in Nitra’s arms.

“I see… Given the circumstances somewhere around 30%, maybe a bit more, right?” Liang suggested, causing Nitra’s eyes to go wide for a moment. ｂ𝚍𝚘𝚟ｌ.ｎｔ

“Hehehehe looks like I guessed. Alright, let’s continue.” Liang chuckled evilly before bending his body forward and bursting into tears.

Whoooooooosh.

A wave of sand rose up behind him as he quickly found himself right in front of Nitra, with his sword drawn to attack.

Then, their weapons clashed, causing powerful energy waves, and causing waves of sand to rise.

“Damn… I thought it would take him some time to recover. After all, besides the destroyed Spirit, he also suffered a lot of other wounds, didn’t he?” Marlis muttered in a confusion. She didn’t expect Liang to be able to actively fight so quickly.

“Hah, you don’t seem to realize that the more wounds Liang receives, the more active he becomes.” Wain grinned, looking down at Marlis from top to bottom.

“Hey. I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on! I still can’t believe he was able to recover his Spirit so easily.” Marlis exclaimed irritably.

“Calm down.” Sven said slowly, “Actually Wain said all the right things. A few cuts or other similar wounds can’t seriously harm Liang. I mean, he doesn’t have regeneration like Alucard, but his body can withstand a hundred times more damage.”

Sven turned his head, directing his gaze towards Liang and Nitra.

“So… As long as Nitra doesn’t pierce his heart or brain, he will fight. Nothing will be able to stop him and hopefully, Nitra has realized that. If not, we will soon see her death.” Sven said calmly as if it was a sentence from the reaper for Nitra.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

Every time the spear and sword collided with each other, a shockwave was created. Last time, Nitra was able to inflict serious wounds on Liang with only 25% strength, now she was using 35%. However, she felt that Liang had no trouble suppressing her.

‘Shit! Shit! Shit! What’s going on? Shouldn’t he have spent a lot of effort to recover his Spirit? Wasn’t he weaker than me a few minutes ago? Why did everything suddenly change? It shouldn’t be like this! It’s illogical!” Nitra internally exclaimed, trying to figure out what Liang’s secret was.

Nitra, like any other Construct when explaining anything always used logic and calculations. However, she couldn’t use those methods to understand what Liang was doing and what processes were going on in his body.

Nitra couldn’t accept the fact that she couldn’t calculate everything, not against Liang. His actions weren’t illogical, but it was his logic. He used what others could, and he did what was impossible for others because he was The Strongest One.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Liang smirked, unleashing another attack on Nitra, she barely had time to react and block the attack.

“Go!!! Use more of your power, otherwise, I’ll turn you into a bloody stain in a few seconds! I don’t want our fight to end like this after all we’ve been through.” Liang uttered, swinging his sword sharply.

Nitra’s pupils narrowed as she abruptly swung her spear, the tip deflecting the attack. A violent shiver ran through her body, and her hands went numb for a moment due to the violent recoil.

“I still want to see the look on your face when you see me destroy your Tree! So, don’t you dare die so early!” Liang exclaimed, attacking once more.

Now, Nitra had no way to block or reflect the attack, and Liang acting too fast.

Whooooooooooooosh.

A stream of dark blood gushed from the long wound on Nitra’s chest while her eyes filled with fear and anger at the same time.

She couldn’t let Liang do what he was planning, but, she didn’t realize what she needed to do to defeat the monster in front of her.

‘Damn… It turned out to be much harder than I thought it would be…’ Nitra internally muttered, looking at her reflection in the dark drop of blood flying in front of her. Then, the world seemed to slow down for her, everything seemed to freeze and her eyes filled with sorrow.

‘Even though I am a Progenitor like him, even though we are on the Transcendence Stage… but I can’t help but get the feeling that we are still on different levels, just like him…’ Nitra’s eyes came into motion as she looked at Alucard.

Though the world stopped, Alucard noticed Nitra’s gaze and smirked slyly, then his lips moved.

Nitra didn’t hear him, but she was excellent at reading lips, she understood him without words.

‘Fight! To the death! That’s what Alucard said, knowing that Nitra would have no choice but to do it and let him enjoy the incredible show.

At the same moment, chaotic streams of black energy began to emanate from Nitra’s body as she increased her strength from 35% to 50% at once. Increasing her firepower by one and a half times.

Whooooooooooosh.

Nitra swung her spear, leaving a star plume, and despite the vivid pain from the wide wound on her chest, she thrust her spear into Liang’s Spirit again. This time she was going to destroy it, not just damage it.

‘Right. Alucard is definitely not my ally, but that psycho is right. I have to do whatever it takes to win and I have that opportunity. With 50%, even Liang won’t be able to keep track of my movements!” Nitra exclaimed internally, with a slight smile on her face.

However, her smile quickly disappeared when she looked up and saw Liang’s sly smirk.

“Is something wrong?” Liang asked without taking any action.

Then, Nitra looked at the tip of her spear, which to her surprise could not advance any further. This time, she had used 50%, which was twice as much as before when she had damaged Liang’s Spirit. However, now she couldn’t even scratch it.

“What…? What’s going on? Is it just me?” Nitra muttered in a disbelief.

“Don’t you know that steel becomes much stronger after it’s melted and cooled? Do you think my Spirit is a worse material than plain steel?” Liang asked although he didn’t need answers to these questions. He was simply taunting Nitra as he wished.

Crackle.

Liang gripped Nitra’s spear tightly, making it tremble slightly due to the immense force he was exerting to crush it. However, Nitra’s spear was strong enough to withstand it.

Whooooosh.

Nitra quickly pulled the spear out of Liang’s grip, leaving a light cut on his palm from which drops of blood trickled out.

Then, before the drops of blood could fall on anything, Liang was behind Nitra before she could realize anything.

A crack.

Liang’s sword came down on her, quickly reaching her shoulder. Nitra had only a few moments to react, and then for the first time, she relied on her instincts rather than calculations.

Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.

The clashing spear and sword caused a violent space-distorting tremor, then Nitra directed energy pulses at the spear, causing the tip of the spear to glow brightly.

Liang’s eyes went wide as his Vortex swiftly spun, attracting wind and forming a protective barrier in front of him.

Booooooooooooooom.

The powerful explosion threw Liang aside, causing waves of ash to come in waves. Nitra was not injured at all in the process.

“Agh… Unbelievable, even though the explosion happened right next to me I didn’t take any damage, but this is illogical and doesn’t make sense…” Nitra muttered in disbelief while looking at her hands.

She knew that even those who used the fire attribute had to be careful to hurt themselves. Fighters had resistance to their attribute, but not invulnerability.

Nitra smiled happily as she turned around about to attack Liang, who was yet to recover from the explosion.

However, what Nitra saw made her eyes go wide as a huge wind blade was coming straight at her, cutting the ground with ash tens of meters deep.