From the very end of the room the king without name was always sitting in came two figures, exuding an aura of holiness each, a stark contrast when compared to what the cocoon not so far from him was emitting, the king still had all of his head but as he saw the two people that weren't afflicted, something sparked within him, he couldn't tell what was the true cause of this spark as no one had ever come far enough to challenge him, he couldn't tell whether the flame or his bloodlust was at work here but he embraced it and stood up from his throne.
Similarly to all of the other nameless figures, the king had a strange shape, one that was clear but couldn't be described at all, when thinking about it anyone would find themselves unable to give a clear description of the king, the only thing that seemed to be remembered was his head.
It ressembled a helm but due to the brilliant orange that came out of its large slits, it was more akin to a lantern now, the nameless king held a long weapon which the tip was made of the orange flame, the flame stood so still it was difficult to beliebe it was the same thing that burned within all of the monsters the holy due had met up until now.
Despite the visual absence of such limbs, the footsteps of the king emmited loud threatening sound each time he took a step forward, with simple movement of his weapon, a dome of fire envelopped the three of them and leaving the cocoon outside, out of their reach.
The nameless king was the first one to attack, the speed at which he swung his weapon left the holy paladin in the dust, the horizontal slash sent out a powerful blade of bright orange flying straight at the duo.
The saint clapped his hand as he brought his hands in a prayerful position, a barrier of brilliant yellow appeared before the both of them and blocked the slash from going any further, making a motion as if he was pushing something, the saint sent barrier toward the nameless king, who simply extended its invisible left hand, stopping it right in its track, the barrier erupted with orange flames and the holy energy was destroyed.
As he had been doing so, the paladin had used this time to run at him and was already swinging in an upward motion with his mace, aiming to send the king flying away and instead of trying to dodge, the king simply slammed the end of his weapon into the much bigger mace's head and stopped it right where it was.
The flames present in his helm, started moving and the king slightly reeled his head back, the paladin jumped back and it was then that the king started breathing out a powerful stream of flames, the paladin had managed to get far enough to avoid it but the king had covered both of the challengers vision of himself.
When the flames went away, the king was nowhere to be seen, both on their guards, the saint noticed it at the last moment and managed to dodge the stab of the king's weapon, the king had suddenly appeared out of thin air and as his strike missed he disappeared as a bit of smoke appeared in his place.
The king started appearing, thowing a single strike everytime before disappearing, the timing of his attacks seemed to indicate that he wasn't simply going invisible but that he was teleporting after a few missed attacks, the king instead appeared further away from each of the two and raised his weapon high up in the air before slamming it down as if it was a hammer, sending out a small but powerful and extremely fast wave of flames, eh repeated the action multiple times, sending out waves at each of the two and attempting to close out any possibilities of dodging, he then swipes his weapon close to the floor, this time making a much larger but slow and weak wave that nearly covered the entire interior of the dome.
The larger wave covered his actions and he quickly started sending small waves again, except this time, the duo was unable to tell where he was sending them, while the paladin mostly dodged, the saint used his holy magic to dispel the waves coming for him, not even moving at all from his starting position, soon the paladin managed to regroup with the saint and both of them where able to sit still until the nameless king stopped the onslaught.
The slow wave soon came for them and the saint effortlessly dispelled enough of it for it to miss them completely, during the time they were waiting here as the saint dispelled waves, the sound of the weapon smashing into the ground and the arrival of powerful waves had not stopped but when they saw what was going on behind the wave, it was already too late.
The paladin was stabbed in the back, the weapon of the king piercing through the armor without any problem, still the paladin wasn't one to just grunt in pain and fall to the ground, he sent a strike of his elbow right into the king's face, caving his helm-like face in a bit and sending him away, pulling out his weapon in the process, the weapon was part of his body after all.
The saint swiped his right hand and countless holy bullets were sents out, the staggered king getting hit by one of them before deflecting the rest, the saint kept casting this spell, locking the king in place for a small moment as he used his left hand to cast a healing spell on the paladin, the injury wasn't lethal immediately at all but the stike from the orange fire infused weapon had left residual energy and was attempting to consumed the paladin's holy mana as well as keeping the wound open.
The saint managed to heal the injury fully before the nameless king broke out of the short-lived lock he had been put into, exploding into a shower of fire, the king's flame seemed to burn even stronger, his weapon spun in his hand for moment before he thrusted it toward the saint, sending a spike of condensed fire, the speed was too fast for the saint to dodge but the paladin grabbed him and dodged in his stead, while throwing his mace at the king, having tied it to his wrist just like against the flying monster.
The fight had just begun and a fourth fighter was soon to make his appearance.