Dark and ominous mana oozed out from the Dark Lord's body as dark flames emitted from his back and horns.
"And that lack of trust of yours, even after the Harmony Covenant, was slowly demolishing everything my wife had accomplished for both nations. An insolent old man who can't let go of the past. You failed her time and time again, and I am always the one saving her from the problems you have caused her. You are a great Light King but you are a garbage father. An old man who can protect his people but not her daughter. Did losing the last Grimy War make you like that, oh protector of the weak?" Atrox irritatingly raised a question.
"Cocky little bastard!"
Grit.
The Light King couldn't back away now.
The Dark Lord did not only infiltrate the Light Kingdom but also beat his dutiful Paragon Knight Commander.
On top of it, Atrox made a fool of the Light King.
And most importantly, his pride as the sovereign of the Light Kingdom was at stake once again after he lost against the previous Dark Lord in the last Grimy War.
No previous Light Kings experienced such humiliation twice in their supremacy.
With that in mind, King Paragus hastily stood up, punching using his right fist.
He was aiming for Atrox's face.
Unfortunately for him, the latter simply sidestepped to evade his attempt and connected with his own fist, uppercutting the Light King's chin.
"Ack-kk-heok!!!"
The Light King's body rapidly flew!
However, before his body could even reach the ceiling, Atrox appeared before King Paragus as if he teleported and freakishly smashed the Light King's body downwards.
BOOM!!!
For the second time today, Atrox appeared on the chamber's floor, waiting for the right moment to strike.
When Paragus opened his eyes, Atrox dashed towards his plummeting body and jumped with his left leg while he raised his right leg.
Although Atrox didn't need to fake a right kick because King Paragus couldn't evade it, he still did it anyway.
No, the fake kick wasn't to deceive King Paragus at all.
It was used to add momentum to the timely left kick.
A left foot met King Paragus's face, sending him back in the air.
Boom, boom, boom!
The same thing happened again and again.
The nearly destroyed chamber was barely holding out as if all hell broke loose inside it.
Every time Paragus was about to hit the ceiling, walls, or the floor, Atrox would flash before him and vigorously trampled his body as if it was a rag doll.
Ka-boom!
"ACCCCCKKKK!!!"
Atrox kicked the Light King's abdomen upwards, planting its head into the chamber's ceiling.
King Paragus pushed his head out of the ceiling and vomited a mouthful of blood after landing back on his knees on the nearly destroyed chamber's floor.
A shadow slowly covered his body as the Dark Lord proudly strode towards him.
Before the Light King could completely look up, a foot came flying towards his face and flippantly sent him towards the farthest back of the chamber, creating a massive crater that also hurled the lone
The Dark Lord gave Liam a slight nod after he saw his secret Dark Knight's body flying, signaling him to escape using the holes in the force fields Atrox created earlier.
Liam expelled a heavy sigh before he nodded back to his Dark Lord.
Immediately after the Dark Lord shifted his gaze back to the Light King, his eyes instantly widened from shock after seeing King Paragus silently appear in front of him.
Atrox flinched and attempted to create a distance between them to avoid getting attacked.
However, the Light King was a few seconds early before Atrox could realize the danger of his situation.
The Light King wittingly stepped on the Dark Lord's right foot, using his own right foot to prevent Atrox's attempt to escape and grabbed the young Dark Lord's right forearm using his right hand.
The Dark Lord's brows quivered violently before he gulped a plentiful amount of saliva.
The Light King intentionally stared at the Dark Lord's flaring eyes before he skillfully bumped the back of his right thigh towards the Dark Lord's hips to lessen Atrox's balance stability, pulling Atrox's right forearm upwards simultaneously to throw Atrox's entire body forcibly on the floor.
KA-BOOM!!!
It was an immaculate throw!
A part of the chamber's floor caved in from the perfectly executed throw as Atrox unintentionally coughed a plentiful amount of blood after his back crashed onto the floor.
It was a variation of sweeping hip throw!
A technique on Earth from a branch of Judo called "Harai-goshi" was devised in order to prevent an opponent's escape by stepping on their foot before the practitioner of the said technique executes a throwing technique.
"Hahahaha! You can still move sneakily like that, old man?!" Atrox annoyingly asked as if the immaculate throw was nothing to him.
"You are definitely right, Atrox. I couldn't let go of the past and it inevitably caused my daughter's death. Now, don't repeat what I did. A battle between us was the last thing Celestia would like to happen," suggested King Paragus, offering his hand to the Dark Lord on the ground.
King Paragus gave up the fight.
He has no retort against what the Dark Lord stated earlier.
The fact that Princess Celestia died under his supervision was something he couldn't simply deny.
His body went limp when this realization hit him. It was even worse than Atrox's brutal attacks earlier.
Therefore, the saying that 'words cut deeper than knives' was certainly true.
However, no matter how vicious those attacks seemed in others' eyes, the Light King knew Atrox was still holding back in respect of his daughter.
He knew Atrox and fought him in the last war.
The guy didn't even kill Theon.
In a normal circumstance or the Atrox in the Grimy War, would heartlessly shred an insignificant creature in his eyes like Theon in a blink of an eye.
Some Paragon Knights were even more terrified of him than the previous Dark Lord.
Pissing in their pants and losing their will to fight once they saw him descending from the dark sky.
No, even the Dark Knights were as terrified as them, since he was attacking with no regard to his allies' lives.
That was why the entire Light Kingdom was grateful to Princess Celestia for convincing a beast like Atrox in the war's aftermath meeting to sign the peace treaty called the Harmony Covenant between two nations.
Or else they might perish all together in the hands of the most terrifying new Dark Lord before they could even recover from losing the last Grimy War.
It was certainly a good thing for both nations that the uncontrollable creature named Atrox has an affection towards the Princess since then, shifting his focus from destroying the Light Kingdom to winning the princess's heart.
And he actually did when the Princess was in his custody during the last Blood Moon.
Atrox calmed himself.
He looked at the Light King and grabbed his offered hand to rise from the floor.
"When you finally hold the funeral, tell me! I have the right to send off my wife. You can at least allow that much, can't you?"
The Dark Lord did not wait for a response as if his statement was a demand more than a question and flew far from the shattered chamber.
He turned his head towards Liam, who jumped out from the highest infrastructure in the Light Kingdom to escape.
One of the two sovereigns on the
The two briefly exchanged a nod, acknowledging each other's presence.
'Continue your mission, Ronin. They are hiding something,' a message transmitted in Liam's head just by staring into the Dark Lord's eyes.