Sitting on her throne, Incus was looking down on the royal family.

"It seems we’re missing some people... oh right, they’re dead!" Incus chuckled, which echoed throughout the large throne room.

Stepping down, Incus put her hand on a woman’s chin and raised her head.

"Are you not mad, I have just killed your husband." Incus then pulled her face and licked tears that were pouring down.

"But my goodness, you’re quite a beautiful queen. Such a face shouldn’t cry."

"W-what is it that you want..?" The queen visibly shaken.

Strengthening her grip, Incus threw her on the ground.

"Mother!" A young man who looked just like Kanium knelt down.

"Have you forgotten that I’m your king, if you forget my honorifics once more... I won’t be so merciful the next time around."

"Captain, is it just me or has Incus grown crueler. She was cold before but now she’s just committing murder without a second thought."

Nodding, I grit my teeth.

I understand character development but this is madness.

The giant doors which led into the throne room was then slammed open.

"Wheres the bastard that killed my father."

Staring at the woman, she looked just like the one who was in Kanium’s backstory. Focusing my gaze, she was. But what’s she doing here, I thought that she must’ve died off somewhere because of the lack of any indications of her.

Pulling out a sword from behind her back, veins grew visible on her face.

"What did you do to my mother you fucking piece of shit."

Lunging at forward Incus blocked an attack by pinching the blade.

"You’re pathetically weak, and you think that you can waltz your way in here to get your revenge? What a fool."

"Hah, you think that this is my true power... this is!" An explosion of aura then destroyed the windows and ruined the room.

Running inside, the servants looked around.

"Your majesty are you alright!"

Coincidentally, Incus was launched towards the thrown.

Standing up, Incus waved her hand.

"I’m alright, just clean up the aftermath."

Incus the appeared of the woman and landed a back fist on her face, sending her flying outside the window.

Jumping outside, Incus landed on the woman and kicked her down.

Following after them, we jumped from ledge to ledge.

"W-wait for me!" Vertere struggled to follow.

Climbing up, Lieur carried him then descended swiftly.

Nearly reaching the bottom, we jumped down.

The woman had landed in a fountain as Incus was just a little bit away.

"Before we continue, I’m curious. What’s your name, and why go through such lengths for your father."

"My name’s Patella Everlight, and the reason is that why shouldn’t I... is it not normal to get revenge for your own blood."

Laughing Incus held up her hand.

"Scales, form into a sharp sword."

Doing exactly as she said, the dragon armor scales turned into a straight sword.

"You continue to insult me even further, use your hero swords to fight me!"

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[Chapter 133: Royal blood]

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"This is more than enough to defeat someone such as you." Incus scoffed.

Gritting her teeth, an explosion of mana around Patella, destroying the area.

"Ho? I certainly wasn’t expecting that... check status."

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𓆩༺「Information」༻𓆪

[Name: Patella Everlight]

[Class: Warrior]

[※ Equipment]

✦ Royal armor of Everlight (+10 str)

[※ Weapons]

✦ The bastard sword

𓆩༺「Stat points」༻𓆪

[Strength: 49 (+10)]

[Agility: 42]

[Vitality: 52/52]

[Mana: 28/29]

[Intelligence: 34]

𓆩༺「Skills」༻𓆪

[Advanced Sword Technique]

[Adept limit surge]

[Advanced blade aura]

[Adept Aura slash]

[Advanced Pain Tolerance]

[Basic mana sense]

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’Shes strong, but that explosion of mana should’ve expended more mana... she must have incredible mana control.’

Raising [The bastard sword], Patella lunged forward and swung downwards.

"I shall kill you and rejoice in the crown which is rightfully mine!"

Countering the attack, Incus used ’Sky severing thrust’, landing a swift strike.

Struggling to block the attack, Patella redirected it to the side.

"First sword technique of wind hero!" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

A force of spiraling wind then enveloped the steel of [The bastard sword].

Patella then slashed forward, the force of the attack making the sword that Incus made of scales ricochet into the air.

"You’re the second person to see me use this technique, all tomes of the hero’s true elemental techniques has been wiped from existence but I however have found a page of his book where he created the techniques in the first place! Not only should I be the king, but the hero!"

Staring coldly at Patella, Incus sighed.

"You arrogant scum keep saying that you should be the hero instead of me... but if you simply used your strength in the first place to help your fellow man then I wouldn’t be summoned in the first place... it’s pieces of shits like you that make my blood boil."

Smiling manically, Patella stepped back and swung her blade.

"Second sword technique of wind hero!"

A slash of cutting wind then shot out, aiming for Incus.

Cutting down the attack, the remnants destroying the walls behind them, Incus attacked with multiple sword strikes, targeting where the major arteries are located.

Struggling to catch up with the swiftness of the attacks, Patella stepped back and pulled her scabbard down to her waist then sheathed her sword.

Angling her body, she quickly accelerated forward while unsheathing the blade.

"Third sword technique of wind hero!"

The trail of a passage of wind was left behind her.

Turning around, Patella scoffed:

"I expect you to still be alive from that attack but even I’m afraid of getting hit by it—"

"Sweeping stream."

Incus then did the same in a hyper speed motion, she lunged forward, slashed across Patella’s body before putting the sword of scales on her shoulder.

"I have a similar technique, it’s nothing special."

Stumbling with her steps, Patella touched the surface of her broken armor, underneath was a large gaping wound, her blood pouring down.

Gritting her teeth, Patella swung her sword multiple times.

"Second sword technique of wind hero!"

Multiple slashes of cutting wind then shot forward.

Cutting through the attacks, Incus was left completely unharmed.

Lunging forward, Patella clashed blades with Incus.

"Just fall already, I’ll make sure that your death is as painless as possible." Incus said coldly.

Gritting her teeth, Patella slammed her through the palace walls.

They clashed blades with each other, entering different rooms and floor levels.

In the next moment they were in the palace kitchen.’

Grabbing multiple knives, she threw them with astonishing speed.

Blocking the attack with a pan, she landed a kick on Patella, sending her towards another room, the maid’s quarters.

Throwing a maid at Incus, Patella stabbed through the both of them.

But Incus had already anticipated it and commanded the scales to block the attack, using a pillow to give an illusion of piercing through flesh.

"Urgh..." Taking off the [Royal armor of Everlight], Patella only wore a simple military uniform.

Ripping apart a blanket, she wrapped it around her chest, stopping the gushing of her wound.

"There’s no use for stopping the bleeding, you’ll die very soon anyways."

Using the second technique of the wind hero, she shot out multiple slashes of cutting winds from every direction, using the third technique to maneuver around the room.

Appearing in front of Incus in a kneeling position, she swung upwards, her blade still augmented by the spiraling wind.

"Die you scum!"

Taking the blow, Incus slammed an open palm downwards at Patella’s face, taking her down to a lower floor level.

"You son of a—!"

Pulling back her arm, Incus repeated the same attack, sending her to a lower floor level.

"Piece of—!"

Incus did it again.

"Asshole—!"

And again.

This repeated over and over until they reached the lowest floor of the basement.

"...I’ll... kill... you..."

Raising her hand at the hero that was casting a shadow over her, the only visible thing was her left crimson purple pupil that burned in the darkness.

"Well, say something... to me..!"

Struggling to stand up, Patella struggled to swing her blade, each strike was sluggish.

Humoring her, Incus took the attacks but they were all incredibly shallow, Incus hasn’t worn her armor lately because she felt that the [Dragon scales armor] was more than enough.

Loosing grip of [The bastard sword], Patella clenched her fist and began punching.

But they didn’t do anything, it felt like a little kid punching her with wailing fists.

"Please... just die..."

Falling to her knees, Patella lost all of her strength.

"Stop looking at me like that you bastard..!"

Grabbing Patella by the head, her head was then getting slowly crushed.

"L-Let go of me!"

As blood poured from her eye sockets and nostril, Patella clawed her nails into Incus’ forearm.

"No, no, no, I don’t want to die!"

Releasing her hand, Incus turned her back.

With labored breathing, Patella lifted her head.

"Thank you—!"

Patella was then sliced in half by a technique the first technique she learned:

"Impact line."

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