Chapter 162: The Holy Empire's Hero Party (3)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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“C-Cut off…?” (Saintess Elvira)

“I see… Seems like your prophecy didn’t tell you this, lady saintess,” (Peter)

“The church demands lots of things towards the kingdom, Lady Saintess. And they often ask for bribes for their help to defy the citizens. Don’t you get it? Not because of me, but the citizens had grown tired and had lost their trust towards the church, that’s more than enough for me to cut my ties with the church,” (Peter)

“I couldn’t stand for the church to meddle with the royal and political affairs of the kingdom too, after all. As you’ve known, I’ve removed all of the corrupted nobles and officials of the kingdom, and after discussing with my ministers, the church is believed to be 80% corrupted, so it’s already more than enough reason for me. So don’t consider me as a king that serves your church, Lady Saintess,” Stated Peter fearlessly.

The silence inside the throne room dropped the temperature and hold great pressure. The members of the holy empire gritted their teeth towards Peter’s words, but they can’t rebuke or deny it since his words are true. If it’s in normal circumstances, they will admire him and praise him for his words that no king would say for his people. But now, they’re currently the representatives of the church, hearing those words couldn’t help but make them grit their teeth in humiliation.

“I understand your meaning, your majesty… I’ll contact the empire and try to request more resources as compensation if you accepted the offer. Forgive me for my ignorance of the church’s state inside your kingdom, your majesty,” (Saintess Elvira)

“It’s fine, Lady Saintess. I will need to discuss your offer together with my ministers since this is a great decision to make, you may take some rest at the royal castle for several days until I make the decision. Make yourself comfortable, dear heroes of the Holy Empire,” With a single clap, royal maids came inside the throne room and escorted the hero party.

It’s the end of the discussion, with Peter that played the conversation right under his palms.

But suddenly.

“It might be disrespectful of me, your majesty. But I heard that the hero king of the Grandaria kingdom is a great fighter and loves to fight,” Hero Lian suddenly spoke that shocked even his comrades and Saintess Elvira.

“Hero Lian?” (Saintess Elvira)

“You-” (Supreme General)

“It’s fine,” Peter cut in the Supreme General’s words.

At this moment, Saintess Elvira could suddenly saw the change in Peter’s and Hero Lian’s eyes. Hero Lian’s eyes shone with a yellow light, while the hero king of the Grandaria kingdom shone with a green light as they once again confront each other’s gazes.

“Do you want to spar, hero? To make it more fun, how about having a bet with me?” (Peter)

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“Whoa~ As expected of the hero king of Grandaria, to challenge a spar towards the great hero of the Holy Empire, how fearless~” Alfred casually said as he played his knives.

“That stupid brother…” Sera couldn’t help but sighs as she grows worried for her brother.

“It’s still felt strange whenever you called him brother…” Sen suddenly said which made Sera shocked and embarrassed at the same time.

“W-We’re family so it’s normal for me to call him that, right? S-Sen… You rarely talk, but your words always have a huge impact whenever you talk…” said Sera with a wry smile.

“I don’t mean to, though,” Answered Sen indifferently even though he just made Sera embarrassed and afraid of calling Peter ‘brother’.

“Sen~ You surely are heartless~,” said Alfred as he holds back his laughter.

“Yes, you are too heartless, Sen. Stupid to be more exact,” Edreale suddenly voice her discontent with Sen.

“You have no place to say that, Edreale,” Sen gives Edreale a strong reply.

“W-What is happening here…?” Albus that just arrived at the location asked as he saw the two expressionless siblings stared at each other sharply.

“Stop it you two~ It’s going to start soon, let’s focus,” Alfred stops his goofy attitude and sharply observes the battle that about to begin.

The battlefield between the great hero king of the Grandaria kingdom and the Hero Lian is at the huge royal training grounds of the Grandaria kingdom. Knowing that the hero king is about to spar with the here of the Holy Empire, all of the bigshots of the Grandaria kingdom gathered to watch, and to make sure that even if the king loses, there are no people that will dare to spread the outcome in order to harm the king’s reputation.

Everyone left in the Grandaria kingdom is only the loyal nobles, generals, and officials. They all gathered when they heard the news of the spar, the great generals, the royal knights, Duke Renstenor and his friends, and most of Peter’s classmates from the magic academy’s special classroom.

Even someone that shouldn’t be at the place is watching the place from a rather close distance. Disguising as one of the nobles, he smirked as he saw the Holy Empire’s hero party.

(Hm~ Their strength are not bad, but it’s not enough to be called the ‘Hero Party’. It’s just a party of high-ranked adventurers) (Slime Tarot)

(The one that possessed enough power to compete with Sera, Peter, and the others are only that blonde guy who is about to fight with Peter, and the Lady Saintess) (Slime)

“I will be the judge, are both parties ready?” Asked the supreme general that acts as the judge of the battle.

“Ready,” (Hero Lian)

“Anytime,” (Peter)

“That Peter, not bad~ He’d become a great king. As expected of the great hero king of the Grandaria kingdom,” Praised Slime.

“Then, start!” (Supreme General)

*Clank!*

Peter and the Hero Lian immediately dashed towards each other and collided their sword at a high speed. Peter usually fights with heavy armor, but since the Hero Lian didn’t use one, so he followed suit and only used light armor.

Despite their strikes against each other are quick, the nobles, generals, and the officials of the Grandaria kingdom that saw the battle haven’t impressed yet. They often see a high-leveled battle training between the knights of the Tarot empire and the generals and high-ranked soldiers of the kingdom, after all.

So all of them knew, that these exchanges of strikes between the hero king and the hero are just a form of greetings.

(How fearsome. Even the officials and the nobles of the kingdom understand the flow of a high-leveled battle. Different from the other kingdoms, here, the nobles seem to didn’t have any noble faction that opposes the royal faction) (Saintess Elvira)

(They all come here not to see the loss of the hero king, but to support him and to gauge the strength of their possible enemy, which are us. And to be able to keep up with this fast-paced battle, all of them are high-ranked in terms of cultivation strength too… What is this kingdom? The information I read didn’t mention any of this!) (Saintess Elvira)

Not only the Saintess Elvira, but all of her comrades inside the Hero Party are also shocked by the high-ranked generals, officials, and nobles that gathered. The weakest of them are only at the master swordsman rank, while most of them are already at the Sword Saint rank, while the Sword God ranked warriors are not few.

(Well of course you’re shocked, Dear Lady Saintess. Do you think I’ll let the old man join my empire without making sure the Grandaria kingdom safe? I make sure to train all of the soldiers and nobles and give them fruits that could help boost their cultivation. I even let them watch and spar with my knights to hone their skills, senses, and to make sure they familiar with such a high-leveled battle) (Slime)

(So in short, you’re currently a small pack of wolves, trapped in the middle of a lion den) (Slime Tarot)

Slime makes an evil smirk as he continues to observe the battle between Peter and the Hero Lian.

“Tsk!” Hero Lian clicked his tongue as his sword once again got skillfully parried by Peter.

Hero Lian’s swordsmanship is by no means weak. He’s an expert in terms of swordsmanship, but somehow…

“My swordsmanship is ineffective against his…” Hero Lian muttered towards himself in a voice that is low enough to make sure that the others didn’t hear it.

As the battle goes on, they start to get even fiercer, faster and give a stronger blow against each other. The exchange of blows between sword god-ranked warriors is strong enough that they make a sound of an explosion and send powerful winds every time their swords collided.

But as the fight gets more intense, the one who is holding the upper hand is getting more obvious too.

“What’s the matter, Hero? Shouldn’t you start to make turn the tables of the game?” (Peter)