[15 Years ago]
[Capital, Ethos]
[3rd Person's POV]
The capital was in an uproar, a huge wave of rumors and news was flowing around with the wind, seemingly unstoppable. The Second Prince of Ethunesia Igor Von Ethos, going to hunt a dragon! This was the excitement everyone was waiting for.
Commoners, their perspective these figures of the Royal Family are as closest to Gods. When such news flows around of people they consider 'Gods', there is bound to be a huge uproar everywhere. Everyone needed a topic to discuss, everyone had this particular topic in their conversation.
What everyone didn't know was that a dark scheme was brewing in the background of this potential feat of bravery. Something neither cunning nobles nor sheep commoners expected. A plan to assassinate the Brave Igor.
Edward's plans were almost fulfilled, he successfully infiltrated his cooks and utility staff inside his camp of Igor, which was about to depart. He did this by giving the 'Military Utility Minister's job to his brother 'Leo Von Ethos'. Leo, who neither had the strength nor backing to fight or oppose his First Brother could only accept his proposition.
And by that, he successfully tamed his two younger brothers with the guise of 'learning responsibilities'. This way his image within Nobles and Knights skyrocketed and then he became a beacon of kindness. One who loves his brothers dearly.
— -
[Somewhere on the route to Scorch Mountain Range]
The first plan for Igor's demise was to weaken his allies, for the infiltrated cooks will mix some light amount of drugs in their food which will impair their nervous control. Slowly but steadily Igor's Army started weakening, without them even knowing what was happening with their bodies.
By the time they will reach the mountain range, his army will be a pile of bones and muscles, just extra weight with no capabilities whatsoever. The nervous system of the body will collapse under the continuous dosage of poison.
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[As they reached the Scorch Mountain Range]
Soldiers were slowly weakening, and it was noticeable now, they were almost reduced to husk and bones.
"Somethings really wrong" 'I thoughts they were dead weights, but weakened so much this is quite impossible naturally' when this thought occurred to Igor, everything was already too late. The surrounding started to turn Icy, as a silhouette jumped in front of him.
The silhouette of a man, if looked closely had ashen hair that was flowing by the cold wind he created. The Ice further weakened the already husked army and people started dropping like flies.
The Ashen-haired built-up man, was another, merely overshadowed by the first one's aura, he was Uto, another member of Silent Rouges. Although he is not as strong as Bill he was really hard to deal with too.
Uto, a [Level 8] member of Silent Rouges, was sent on the mission to assassinate the Second Prince Igor. His job in this mission was to eliminate all the small fries and witnesses. They wanted this murder to be a mystery. In no way they were going to let live the eyewitnesses, even the accomplice of Edward too had to die.
Bells were ringing inside Igor's head, as the person exuding an Icy aura released killing intent toward him.
"What the hell are you doing?" "Do you know who I am"
Igor was not stupid inside battles, he knew that the person before him was powerful, almost the same level as his, but with far higher battle experience, it would be a hard fight.
A fiery aura burst through Igor, as he shouted "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" "HOW DARE YOU BLOCK MY, SECOND PRINCE IGOR'S PATH"
"ARE YOU COURTING DEATH???!!!!"
He shouted like a giant in rage, the fiery aura getting stronger by the second as he sees the ashen-haired man standing in front of him with a solemn expression, that exuded... disappointment?
Yes, on the other side Bill was thoroughly disappointed after seeing Igor. He was hopeful for a great fight, the fight which can satiate his battle hunger. But seeing the arrogant young master in front of him, he sighed and said solemnly "It matters not, who you are"
Igor was powerful, stupidly so, but he severely lacked battle experience, and Bill can see from his muscles that he was more of a brawny giant who likes to overpower things. But in front of Bill who has spent a good part of the last 200+ years just mastering his techniques and battling strong opponents, Igor was but a child's play for him.
— -
Igor launched himself at Bill at almost supersonic speed, covering his whole body with fire, and with all his strength punched towards Bill, creating a heatwave so strong that it melted everything that it passed through.
But the attack never connected Bill, he increased the intensity of coldness around him and casually sidestepped Igor's Fist's way, his fiery fist destroyed the ground behind Bill, creating a 10-meter deep and about 200-meter long cone-like molten path indicating the force and heat of that punch.
"I am not here to play games kid"
Bill then summoned Ice shards and covered his body with dense Ice energy, sending a barrage of fists towards Igor, which Igor countered with his barrage of fists. Two silhouettes moved around the whole battlefield attacking countering and defending from each other.
Bill tried to attack Igor's stomach, which got countered by Igor's fist, and then he counter-attacked with his second fist trying to get his face, which got countered too.
For the spectators, this was an equal match, that was going nowhere. But if a skilled person saw it, they will be shocked to see Igor getting played by the old Ice user.
Bill was directing all his attacks by leaving intentional openings for him to follow, making him predict almost all Igor's attacks. Used it to counter it quite effectively, though their magic was at the same level with opposite elements, theoretically, this was a battle of attrition, but with Bill's superior skills, he pushed down Igor.
Soon the punches started connecting to Igor. These punches of Bill weren't normal punches by any means, they were covered by Ice Magicules, which means almost all of the punches will do internal damage to Igor, creating Icicle shards inside one's body and impaling him by ignoring defense.
This was one of the strongest Ice properties that can ignore defense and freeze beyond the surface that was being touched.
"Hahh! Hah! I will not lose to some rag-tag bandit, I AM IGORRRRRRR!" he shouted and cladded himself with an overwhelming amount of Fire Magic. Bell just sighed, he was already pretty disappointed, the fight was like a buff gym dude fighting a trained MMA fighter, with a flick of a wrist he created a sword and impaled the heart of Igor, then flicked up the sword and exited while slicing through his skull and brain.
With that one attack, he ended Igor's last attempt at the nuclear explosion, or maybe power up, and his breath.
Then, Igor, the Brave was no more.