"FUCK! That guy escaped again, and he even injured my daughter. I'LL KILL HIM!"
"Calm down Fire Monarch, you're daughter is fine and he is significantly weaker than before."
"Be quiet Metal Monarch."
"But Earth Monarch, the Metal Monarch is right."
"What do you know Frost Monarch? You have been away for years and only now you come back."
"Gravity Monarch, you hot-headed dumbass, shut your mouth you only came back a few months ago."
"What was that Thunder Monarch? Want to lose to me again?"
"ALL OF YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTHS!"
"We are sorry Light Monarch."
"Thank you Frost Monarch."
"Now to the reason we, the League Of Monarchs have gathered. There are two reasons. The Shadow Monarch is back and the Anti-League is making their moves on The Shadow Monarchs skill books. We cannot let them get those skill books at all costs!"
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The Shadow Monarch and Ezekiel just witnessed the ship passing by but now they had nowhere to hide or supposedly they would've except there was an unexpected guest waiting for them.
They walked outside and they saw the pre-war bike that The Shadow Monarch and Ace had.
It was fixed and now they didn't need to use the shadows to make it work.
There was a note on the bike and there were coordinates.
"Ezekiel, do you know where these coordinates are?"
He looked at it and he became very happy.
"They finally did it."
"Did what?"
"They finally told me where the base was!"
Ezekiel was jumping in joy from something that The Shadow Monarch couldn't understand.
Ezekiel got on the bike and he told The Shadow Monarch to jump on.
After The Shadow Monarch got on and they started to drive off, he fainted, he fainted and Ace returned.
"Where are we? What happened to that place we were in? Who are you?"
Ace wasn't awake from the point Ezekiel and The Shadow Monarch met, he'd been asleep for a very long time.
"My name is Ezekiel, The Shadow Monarch has been with me for many of these hours."
"Ah, no wonder it's getting dark. Where are we going?"
"We are going to the Anti-League."
Ace was ready to find out what the Anti-League was so he sat on that bike quietly.
After a few hours on the bike, Ace felt strange familiar energy that was attracting him.
He looked over there and he asked Ezekiel and pointed to where he felt the energy.
"Do you know what's over there?"
"That's where we are heading."
Because they were heading there, they wouldn't need to make a detour.
Soon they got there and it was a massive fortress, one that could compare to a city.
At the door there was a woman whose presence would leak out of her body, it was close to a crushing presence.
She had dark blue hair and a white gown.
She walked towards them and Ace could feel his body being crushed to bits while Ezekiel got off the bike and walked towards her with no pressure on him at all.
"Mum, you're going to crush him."
"Oh, that's right, I'm sorry I forgot."
The pressure eased up till there was none left.
"Sorry about that. I'm The Water Monarch as well as Ezekiel's mother."
"No, it's fine."
"Anyways I want you to follow me."
She took them all around the massive city-looking fortress.
In the middle of the fortress, there were stairs going down.
We walked down and it looked like a government bunker with all the high-tech features and the white rooms.
There were many rooms but all of them were empty except for two.
In one room was a dungeon.
In the other room, there was a skill book that was oozing out that black energy.
It was the familiar energy that Ace was feeling.
He instantly realized what it was when he looked at it.
"Is that The Shadow Monarch's Skill Book?"
"Yes it is, everything is prepared for you."
Ace walked into the room where the skill book resided and he opened it.
He opened it and the skill book disappeared while the skill flowed into him.
[Shadow Engulf has been learned]
"What does this skill do?"
"The Shadow Monarch will be able to answer that for you."
Ace was waiting for The Shadow Monarch to take over his body but it didn't happen.
The Shadow Monarch did not come out.
"The Shadow Monarch isn't coming out."
"He used all his time before."
The Water Monarch surprisingly knew a lot about his situation.
"Although he has used all his time to take over your body, he can still speak to you. You just need to call for him."
"Shadow Monarch, I need your help."
Just like The Water Monarch said, he came out.
"I see that you found one of my very important skills."
"I don't understand how to use it."
"First you need to increase your mana pool by 3 times."
"How am I going to do that?"
"The Monarchs will do it for you but the pain will be excruciating."
The Shadow Monarch disappeared and Ace resolved himself.
"Water Monarch, will you help me expand my mana pool by 3 times."
"I'll do it if but the pain will make you want to die, can you handle it?"
"Yes."
Her face went a bit dark and serious compared to before, she wasn't happy and gentle anymore, she was completely serious.
Her attitude completely changed.
"Follow me."
Ace followed her into one of the rooms.
"Sit down and wait, I need the other Monarchs."
Ace sat down and waited for a few minutes.
In those few minutes, The Water Monarch gathered all the Monarchs in the Anti-League.
"Is this The Shadow Monarchs vessel?"
"Yes, it is, Monarch Of Time."
They all walked into the room and each of them put their hand on Ace's back.
"Relax, if you don't then this will be even more painful."
The Water Monarch's words soothed Ace a little somehow and he relaxed.
After he relaxed the door closed, the Monarch's started.
Their mana was flowing through Ace and it was excruciating, there was blood all over the place and constant screaming from Ace.
The Monarch's mana kept pouring in despite the cries from Ace.
[Mana +1]
[Mana +1]
[Mana +1]
[Mana +1]
[Mana +1]
[Mana +1]
[Mana +1]
After hours of what sounded like torture, it was finished.
The whole room turned from white to red.
Ace passed out when it was finished and the Monarchs became sluggish.
"It is finished."
Ezekiel brought Ace's bloodied body out of the room and to another room.
He laid him on the bed and left.
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Ace awoke and it was a bright sunny day.
There was a note on the table for him.
"Go outside and take a left and head to the biggest building. Ps Monarch Of Death."
Ace followed The Monarch Of Death's instructions but he didn't know where the biggest building was.
He kept walking but he couldn't find it, there were no people there as well, there were many holes and there looked to be training dummies.
Soon enough as he kept walking, he saw a giant building.
He walked into that giant building and there was a big round table where all the Monarchs sat.
"He made it here."
The Water Monarch seemed surprised for some reason.
"Your seat is here Shadow Monarch."
He was seated right next to The Water Monarch at the round table.
"Since he is here, all of you need to introduce yourselves."
They went in a circle.
"I am The Monarch Of Time."
He had bright bluish-white hair with pale skin, he looked very young.
"I am The Monarch Of Air."
He was probably the most normal-looking person, he had black hair and he wasn't completely pale, he had black hair and green eyes while all of his clothes were a light green color.
"I am The Monarch Of Death."
He was wearing a hoodie so there wasn't much to see except for his red eyes and brown skin, he even had 3 earrings on both ears.
"I am The Monarch of Nature."
She was green in every way, her power, her clothing, even her skin. She was completely green.
"I am The Space Monarch."
She had blonde hair tied up into pigtails and she wore elegant clothing.
"I am The Plague Monarch."
The Poison Monarch was a dignified man, he wore stylish glasses and he had long black hair that had a middle part. He didn't look like he was in an apocalypse with how stylish he was.
"That is everyone Shadow Monarch."
"Hi, everyone my name is Ace Blaine..."
When they heard his last name Blaine, they all let out disgusted faces.
"Would you look at that? The Light Monarch's son." Monarch Of Air
"My father is the Light Monarch?"
"You didn't know?" Monarch Of Air
"No, I didn't."
"It doesn't matter if his father is that disgusting man, the Shadow Monarch sleeps within him."
They all shut up after The Water Monarch reacted that way, seems she had past experiences with Ace's father.
Seems like all of them have negative pasts with Ace's father.
"Anyways the main reason we are all here today is to explain the plan and everything that's going to happen. How we will take down the League Of Monarchs and when."
They all got serious.
"The key to this plan is none other than The Shadow Monarch, we have to get each of his Skill Books and he has to cultivate a dungeon-like he used to. We already completed two steps of our plan which was to acquire The Shadow Monarch and to unleash the monsters, throw them into a little disarray, we also have to train this one, Ace."
Ace was surprised by what was going to happen, and frankly, he wasn't sure if he'd be able to deliver.
"We have waited 100 years for this plan to come to fruition, we will not lose to them!"