Seunghyuk's words were sent into the jail cell and the female figure then turned around, but her face was one of familiarity as she looked at Seunghyuk with a dangerous glow in her eyes.
"Choi Seunghyuk, we meet again," Chae Myeongeun, the Head Royal Guard of the current King stood before Seunghyuk instead of his expected rescue target which momentarily stunned Seunghyuk, but he almost immediately came back to his senses when her longsword was aimed and pointed directly at Seunghyuk's chest, "You really assumed that we would not have any particular plans, did you not? How foolish."
Seunghyuk's eyes opened wide with pure shock as he immediately took three whole steps back instinctively, looking straight at the longsword wielding Chae Myeongeun, fulfilling her role of the Head Royal Guard of the King well.
"How did you people find out?" Seunghyuk asked cautiously as he awaited for the dangerous slash of the longsword but it never came, instead, Chae Myeongeun put down her hand and spoke with the usual arrogant tone in her now clear and unfiltered voice, "Did you really presume that the tracker inside of your dear Elder Nighthowler's body was not able to pick up voice commands? Words like 'save my partner', 'position tracker', and you still think we would not know about your malicious plans? You are truly oblivious to an incorrigible extent, Choi Seunghyuk."
Seunghyuk frowned, but his tensed body immediately released all the stored energy within it, regarding the threat before him calmly. Seunghyuk conjured a small fire ball in his palms and that obviously got the Head Royal Guard's attention like the ball of fire dancing on Seunghyuk's palm was an invitation to fight and cross swords.
"Well, if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!" Seunghyuk let the fire grow in size rapidly as he swiped his flaming palm across the air in front of him in a parabolic arc, aiming for the Head Royal Guard's helmet-less head but his hand was stopped by a stiff longsword, "Choi Seunghyuk, using the same, useless moves multiple times would not increase it's nonexistent potential. Allow my longsword to consume some fresh blood!"
Chae Myeongeun launched forward aggressively with her longsword pointed straight in front of her towards Seunghyuk's chest. The reflex in Seunghyuk quickly kicked in and he twisted his body to the side agilely, avoiding the stabbing attack cleanly. However, after a single wave calms down, many other waves are growing in height, approaching Seunghyuk at terrifying speeds.
"Triple Swords!" The Head Royal Guard screamed loudly, the longsword in her arms floated up into the air and split into three, casting three ominous shadows on the floor, "You will perish under my longswords! You will regret stealing your undeserving rights from our King!"
The three longswords, as if on cue, plunge right down towards Seunghyuk menacingly. With his eyes on the three longswords at once, Seunghyuk took steps to the right, to the left, and in all directions to avoid the endless slashes and cuts in all directions.
"Ah! Damn it!" Seunghyuk took a huge jump backwards and landed heavily with his feet, panting like a hamster forced to run rounds after rounds on the hamster wheel without rest as he sounded out his complaint with a retaliation, "Snake of Ophiuchus! Serpens Caput Strengthen!"
The snake slithered its way into appearance with the usual golden head, swirling around rapidly like a spinning ceiling fan according to Seunghyuk's directing finger to repel all the longsword attacks. It felt like so long until Chae Myeongeun's Triple Sword skill ran out of time and reverted back to one longsword, dropping downwards back into her hands. She swung her longsword downwards to her right, an empty strike, but the magnitude of the attack was palpable even when the attack was not targeted at Seunghyuk. The snake slithered slowly and disappeared beside Seunghyuk, evidently it took too much damage from defending the attacks.
"Your snake moves are not going to assist you any further! What else do you have hidden up your sleeves?" The Head Royal Guard, currently with her silver long hair messed up with locks here and there, but she did not care much about how dishevelled she looked at that moment, she immediately rushed towards Seunghyuk whom she was ready to slice his head off.
"Snake Of Ophiuchus! Serpens Caput Strengthen! Serpens Cauda Strengthen!" Seunghyuk summoned the Snake of Ophiuchus once again, but this time both its head and tail was layered with gold, "I'm quite sure the same moves with do just fine!"
The snake slithered through the air rapidly, ramming its hard golden head at Chae Myeongeun's longsword which she struggled slightly to hold her ground. As if the head attack was not enough, Seunghyuk willed the Snake of Ophiuchus to swing its golden tail forward and it hit the struggling Head Royal Guard's longsword so hard that she had to took three steps back to stabilise herself.
"You! I will make you see how ineffective your despicable moves are! Concussion Wipeout!" Chae Myeongeun gripped the hilt of her longsword tightly and swiped her longsword through the pocket of air in front of her, casting a long sword energy arc that expanded towards Seunghyuk threateningly like it was aimed to kill Seunghyuk's summoned snake, "Damn it! Serpens Totum Corpus Strengthen!"
It was at that exact moment when Seunghyuk made use of his new ability earned when his Snake of Ophiuchus skill's mastery reached three stars. Seunghyuk watched as the snake gave off a blinding light as it's whole entire body was wrapped with rigid, strong gold. Seunghyuk's face of desperation turned into one of confidence as he controlled the snake's movements to force itself forward, cutting through the air like the air was just a thin piece of paper.
"You'll have a taste of its Full Body Transformation!" Seunghyuk shouted out loudly as he watched Chae Myeongeun's longsword bounce harmlessly off Seunghyuk's snake's newly-formed golden suit of armour, "Choi Seunghyuk! You hid your true power during our fight! How despicable!"
Seunghyuk smiled as the golden Snake of Ophiuchus rolled its long body into a circle continuously at an insane speed, charging towards the helpless Chae Myeongeun and smacking her painfully back. Her silver hair rose and fell as her body smacked against the iron bars of the jail cell, wincing in obvious pain, the Head Royal Guard stood back up stubbornly with fire of anger burning in both her eyes.
"You are overstepping your boundaries! Choi Seunghyuk!" Chae Myeongeun used her hind foot to boost herself forward, leaping up into the air with both her arms raised high gripping onto the longsword as she landed roughly with her body turning like a spinning gyro top, swinging her longsword in all directions in which Seunghyuk barely avoided any of the formless strikes, "Argh! How does she still have so much energy in her!"
Seunghyuk stumbled backwards as his clothes once again was filled with tears with blood oozing out from the holes in his clothes. Seunghyuk did not worry much about his injuries as he was sure that a Conqueror's body would heal relatively quickly, but he was worried that if he sustained consecutive injuries, his body would not be able to heal as quickly. That was the absolutely scary thing about Chae Myeongeun's control over he swordsmanship.
"Choi Seunghyuk! I am not done with you! Ember pillars! Onstellan meol hâligdôm speldm¯æst wlite of sacred trûwung ðætte oferswîðrian sum inde sê canne!" Seunghyuk heard the panting Head Royal Guard chant her spell out and anxiety immediately started kicking in bit by bit.
"Rise!" she shouted and the painfully familiar five obsidian pillars rose around Seunghyuk, surrounding him with helplessness as flames started to build up around the five pillars which gave Seunghyuk more than enough time to realise that he was unable to take the attack without losing his life given the difference in stat points and ability level, "Short-Fused Explosion!"
Conqueror's Name: Choi Seunghyuk (Male) (Leader of Legendclad)
Conqueror's Level: 4
Strength: 27 (raised by 7)
Agility: 27 (raised by 7)
Defense: 27 (raised by 7)
MP: 27 (raised by 7)
Skills: Short-Fused Explosion (2 stars)
Eye of Detection (2 stars)
Heart of Cold Steel (2 stars)
Ancient Language Comprehension (3 stars)
Snake Of Ophiuchus (3 stars)
Dancing With Fire (3 stars)
Nighthowling (0 stars)
Charm (0 stars)
The Demon's Spear (0 stars)"
Seunghyuk immediately increased his stats, but immediately picked up the differences in his stat window. With some simple mathematics done inside of Seunghyuk's head, he realised that adding up 17, which is his supposed base stat point, with 7, which is the amount that his stat points should be raised by, would give him 24, not 27. Furthermore, Seunghyuk realised his Ancient Language Comprehension skill also increased its skill mastery to 3 stars, and most importantly, he gained a new skill.
"Why was I not informed about all these changes by System?" Seunghyuk complained but he realised he was running out of time as the five pillars concentrated their embers into one and shot out fire beams towards Seunghyuk, "Damn it! No time to think!"
Seunghyuk's mind wrapped itself around his new skill and the summoning chant automatically appeared in his head like it was always there. The ember beams inched closer and closer to Seunghyuk's face millisecond by millisecond and Seunghyuk immediately clenched his right fist like he was grabbing onto an imaginary polearm weapon.
"Yaaomaogauigauai! The Demon's Spear!" The pocket of air Seunghyuk was grabbing onto was immediately replaced with a red, glowing spear, an ominous, red skull tip attached with a bloodthirsty blade, "Wha...What is this?"
Seunghyuk's confusion was not given time to be accounted for as he immediately swung the long spear in front of him, slicing the ember beams from the obsidian pillars cleanly. The demon spear black tail touched the ground and a nauseating sensation filled the whole room, watching as the Head Royal Guard immediately stopped maintaining her obsidian pillars to pay attention to herself.
"What...What did you do?!" Chae Myeongeun shouted in between her short breaths like she was being chained up by imaginary chains from her neck which Seunghyuk only raised the demonic staff on his hands, wielding it with both arms as he spun it with weird professionalism and perfect stances, releasing all that built-up tension out through a single, lethal point at the tip of the demon spear, "I don't think I've told you yet, but keep this in mind...When I decided to do something, I always do something without fail. Of course, this includes getting rid of any obstacles like you in the way."
Seunghyuk intentionally allowed the spear to miss Chae Myeongeun, piercing the demon spear into the wall beside her as he allowed the spear to disappear from his hands.
"You...You think I am going to be satisfied with this result? You are utterly wrong!" Chae Myeongeun somehow overcame the passive effect of nausea but Seunghyuk was sure that the passive skill ran out, "You are definitely going to suffer all the pain that I have endured before!"
The longsword split into three in her hands as her face twisted seriously with more determination in her expression than anger. Her silver hair trailing dangerously behind like it was signalling the downfall of a newborn star. However, confronting such a dangerous attack from the Head Royal Guard, Chae Myeongeun, Seunghyuk chose to do something seemingly stupid and illogical...
...And that was to stand there like a stationary statue as the attack nears.