Chapter 412 My Rules (2/2)

In the distant sky, a red stream of light suddenly appeared. That light moved so fast that it looked just like a meteor crossing the sky. Tahm stood at the top of his mansion as he witnessed the meteor flew across the gap between the three mountains. Without any reason, he found it not beautiful at all as it felt like something bad was about to happen.

He quickly put out the fire in the smoking pipe as he squinted to observe the red light. However, the thing he saw shook him up real bad–he took a few breaths looking at the red light, that light had already crossed a long distance and had arrived near the three mountains.

An enormous power energy wave instantly triggered the Defensive Circles around the Imperial City. With a long buzzing sound, large-scale Magic Circles began to appear around the Triplet Mountains. A tremendous amount Magic Energy began to activate the Defensive System of the Imperial City in an attempt to suppress the red meteor that was behaving dangerously unstable.

However, the attempts were futile. The meteor was like a long spear that could penetrate anything. All the barriers and obstacles around the Imperial City were broken through as if they were not even there. Twenty-four layers of translucent air barriers were easily torn apart, making the sound of shattered glass. However, before the sound could even be heard by anyone, that red flowing light had already arrived above the Imperial City's wall.

The defense of the Imperial City was more stable than the defense system installed around the Triplet Mountains. Golden chains began to rise from the white walls as the chains slowly rolled themselves over the red light to form a light-emitting cocoon. It was an attempt to stop the red light from moving further towards the Imperial City. However, a mass of flame was shot from the red flowing light as the light chains were shattered by that fire attack.

At that time, Tahm was only able to respond towards the alarm and the warnings sounded by the guards on the towers. He was ready to get back into the mansion to warn his two other brothers so that everyone could fully prepare themselves to defend against the threat that was rapidly approaching. However, the red flowing light had already arrived right above the mansion that was as tough as the defensive of a fortress.

There was no sonicboom, nor did there be violent winds being hurled across the atmosphere of the air in the surroundings. The air seemed to be pushed away by a strange force though. After that, it forcibly stabilized itself. The red flowing light was so intimidating and yet silent as it moved into the vicinity. Even many residents of the Imperial City who remained the windows of their horses shut did not even notice the arrival of the red flowing light.

Tahm turned his head around. His face looked as if he was shocked to the core as he was staring right at the red flowing light. After that, he let out a miserable scream – the light was too bright for his eyes as he was almost blinded by the intense light shining straight into his eyes. However, even though that was the case, the warrior who just managed to cross into the realm of the Beginner's Gold-Tier was momentarily blinded.

However, before that, Tahm had already saw the identity of the person that came into the vicinity along with the red light. And that had caused his chest to feel extremely tightened in an instant.

Joshua!

The current man of the Radcliffe Family!

He actually arrived at the Imperial City and he actually came here like a barbaric being that never interested in negotiating. He could be completely deemed as an intruder that broke through the entire heavy defense system of the Imperial City!

So what exactly does he want to do?!

Before Tahm could even understand anything, the warrior had already lifted the greatsword in his hand. The movement of Joshua had always been faster than the thoughts of his enemies. That was not an exception as well—

With a swing of his sword, the power of Infernal Breath was activated. The high temperature of thousands of degree Celsius had been condensed into shockwaves of vacuum, followed by a trajectory of a gigantic sword extending towards the tough black fortress as it was smashed upon the black fortress from top to bottom.

The ripples spread s as impact followed. Right between the moment, a tremendous outburst of rumble came along as the main body of the entire fortress was smashed in. The spots that were struck by that assault instantly crumbled to dust. Golden lava had neatly cut the black mansion in half.

That strike of the sword was so precise and swift. During the last shockwave of the sword sweeping across into the surroundings, the entire mansion of the Feltham Family had been completely split apart. Through the gigantic gap, it remained obvious to be seen that the servants and maids who were shocked to the point their legs went soft as they were sitting on the ground in terror, wondering what just happened. The guards who remain stationed on the four towers on four corners of the mansion could not stand steadily because the mansion had been tilted. Some of them were almost thrown off from the towers they were standing guard on.

However, none of the innocents died though. The power that was being controlled to the extreme did not even startle the neighbors in the surroundings of the mansion. In merely shorter than two seconds, the two young men of the family who remained in the underground basement of the Feltham Family had been completely reduced to nothing the moment they came into contact with the scorching air pressure of the sword that was deemed to be as blazingly hot as the sun. There was not even a single trace of ash and dust remained within the vicinity.

Tahm had yet to die.

Among the rubbles of the mansion, the half-dwarf who already had his lower body scorched into ash and dust was currently buried among the shattered pieces of Sparkling Black Rocks. He fixed his raging eyes upon the warrior who kept his greatsword back as his eyes were filled merely with marvel and fury at the same time.

”Feltham Family will definitely retaliate!” the temper of the half-dwarf was even tougher than the rock. Even though every part of his muscle was trembling in fear, he remained conscious to spit words in an attempt to threaten Joshua. After being buried among the rubbles, Tahm spat some blood out of his mouth after getting hit by the rebound impact of the shockwave. He forcibly resisted the intense feeling to prevent himself from passing out as he looked into the sky with his half-blinded eyes. Then he forced out his voice as he cursed the warrior in the sky with foul words. ”You unruly bastard! The Noblemen of the northwest will all be—Cough!”

After speaking for a while, he spat another mouthful of blood out. His pupils scattered right after that. Then he died.

In that regard, Joshua did not say anything or respond to it. He only turned his head around and look towards the south where the Morlaix Palace was located at.

In the meantime, the dimension suddenly shattered.

The furious Legendary-tier champion had arrived right before the warrior.

”Joshua!”

Israel Diamond was in his pajamas at the time. There was also a trace of someone's lip print on his neck. Because of some reason he could not speak off, Israel had arrived one second late. In the meantime, his late arrival had resulted in the death of all members of the Feltham Family. ”What are you doing?!”

”It's been a while since, Your Majesty.”

Standing right in the middle of the air while the black mansion behind him was slowly crumbling down, Joshua calmly greeted the Legendary-tier champion who was obviously furious by the look on his face. The screaming of the servants from the Feltham Family in terror was echoing back and forth in the sky of the north region of the Imperial City. However, the noises within the vicinity did not overshadow the soft voice of the warrior though. ”As you can see, I'm retaliating.”

Some things would never change.

Just like the current situation.

It was not because Joshua was incapable of understanding the rules that one must abide while struggling with the other Noblemen. He was well aware of those rules. That was a culture that had been founded since hundreds of years ago. It seemed that Alphonso had actually prepared himself to accept his death much earlier on. His son and his assistants had also accepted the fact pretty much easily.

However, Joshua would not accept that. He had never actually set much thoughts on anything. He was Joshua. He wanted revenge. No one could have stopped him.

”… Humph.”

Israel glanced his eyes across what was remained of the mansion belonged to the Feltham Family. He only let out a cold humph before he extinguished all the scorching heat and the lava remained within the surroundings. After noticing that there was no fourth casualty except for the death of three half-dwarves, Israel's mood gradually subsided. He turned around and looked at Joshua, then he spoke to the warrior with a cold tone. ”Even though it was ruthless and unfair, this is the rule of acquiescence among all of the champions across the great continent. If everyone would behave just like you, would there even be order to maintain then? Do you think that the Extraordinary beings could just attack each other at random? Do you want Moldavia's main city to be attacked by others as well?”

Meanwhile, Joshua replied the Emperor with a straightforward answer of his own. ”Then, let them come. They can try.”

The warrior did not show even the slightest hesitation though. ”Regarding business, if they want to negotiate with me, I am willing to accept their proposals. If they want to use their fame and power to pressure me, they can always come to confront me. Regardless of anything, I won't simply kill. But if they really have the guts to make their moves on my men, I shall retaliate straight back at them without a single doubt.”

”You're just feeling stronger than any one of them. Hence, you do not have anything to stick on. That is your rule.”

Israel was furious to the extent that he actually laughed. The Emperor was too lazy to waste his breath as well. So, he revealed a smile that was extremely familiar to Joshua and said, ”Never mind that then. Haven't you always wanted to challenge me?”

”Then let's do this!”

Soon after that, the warrior had also revealed the same expression on his face.

”Alright.”

On the next instant.

The two men vanished from the Imperial City.

In the early hours of the morning, mesmerizingly beautiful morning rays were rising from beneath the layer of clouds in high altitudes.