As Alek gets punched through the floor, Ash watches him fly through it and turns to see who did it, and she turns her eyes widened.
"That. That is impossible."
Ash sees Tristen walk up to the hole, with his arms and shoulders still on fire, as the rest of his upper body starts to heal all his other burns instantly. He looks over at Ash for a second before looking down the hole at Alek.
"Can you two handle her? I am going to take care of him and the Lord."
Reinhart looks at Tristen as he speaks.
"What do you mean, you will take on the lord? Are you going to fight him on your own?"
"That is the plan."
Tristan jumps down after Alek. Ash tries to move so she can help Alek, but Madison puts an arrow at her.
"If you try and use that swap of yours. You will force me to use mine."
Ash looks at Madison with a face of confusion.
"How is that man still alive? Even after what I just did to him. How is that even possible?"
Madison keeps his bow on Ash, as Reinhart speaks.
"That is a question we all would look to know. To be honest he did the same thing back at Havoc Kingdom."
Ash looks back at Reinhart.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean Tristan had half of his body get destroyed by someone that could destroy anything, and he still got back up and kept fighting."
"It has to be a title or a blessing."
Reinhart looks over at Madison.
"A title? What the hell is that?"
"I don't know much about them, but they do give you special abilities depending on what title you have."
As both Madison and Reinhart watch Tristen slowly walk towards Alek, Ash swaps places with a small statue that Hoshiki was looking at on the other side of the castle. As Ash explains what is happening right now, Alek slowly starts to try to stand up, but before he could Tristan walks right up to Alek and looks down into his eyes before speaking.
"You're still trying to fight. Even when you have already lost this battle."
Alek puts his right hand over his stomach, trying to stop it from bleeding out, before gripping the sword tighter in his left hand, before using the sword to help him stand up. As Alek finally stands on his two feet, he looks at Tristan and speaks.
"I…I…I will never give up."
"Oh."
Tristen stares blankly into Alek's eyes as Alek continues to talk.
"I made a promise to someone. And I will stop until I complete that promise."
"So, you're willing to die for that promise?"
Tristen looks at Alek's with the eyes of someone that is willing to kill. Alek closed his eyes for a second, and before Alek opened his eyes, he went to strike Tristen with the sword, but Tristen saw it coming and blocked it by grabbing Alek's left wrist. Alek looked down and saw that his sneak attack didn't work as he planned. Tristen pulls back his left hand and goes for a gut punch on Alek, as Alek starts to think.
("Shit. Was I not fast enough? No, he is just that good, at fighting.")
Alek watches as Tristen punches him in the gut, he grabs his sword back from Alek's left hand, as Alek flies backwards into the wall, right next to Lord Haro. Lord Haro watches as Alek's body falls off of the wall and onto the ground before looking back at Tristen. As Tristen starts to walk a little closer to Lord Haro, he has a memory of what Lloyd told him.
[Flash Back]
Lloyd looks at everyone in the room before speaking.
"Now, we need to talk about Lord Haro.'
"Isn't that the lord of Zusian?"
"That is correct Tina. But does anyone here have any idea what Lord Haro is capable of doing."
Everyone starts to think, then look at each other as Icibis speaks.
"I don't think anyone in this room, but you have the knowledge of his capable."
"Icibis has a point there. Without knowing anything about Lord Haro, we can't engage him without taking a risk."
"Indeed. But with risk, there is no way you can win any fight."
Reinhart looks over at Lloyd and speaks.
"If that is the case. What have you risk, in this war?"
Icibis turns and looks at Reinhart with a look of disbelief on his face before speaking.
"Reinhart that is enough now."
"No, it is fine Icibis. Reinhart is just being curious, that is all."
Lloyd looks at Reinhart and speaks with the blankest looks on his face.
"I have risked more than even you could imagine."
The room goes quiet for a minute before Madison speaks to Lloyd.
"So, in that case, please tell us who has a chance to fight equal to Lord Haro power."
Lloyd looks over at Tristen and speaks.
"If anyone has a chance against Lord Haro. It is you, Tristen. You are the only one that can fight Lord Haro at the beginning."
Tristen looks at Lloyd before looking at Princess Vita, as Princess Vita looks back at Tristen and gives him a nod. Tristen smiles then speaks to everyone in the room.
"Okay, if that is the case. I will fight Lord Haro."
[Back To The Present]
Tristen looks up at Lord Haro, who is still sitting in his chair. Tristen points at him and speaks.
"Your name is Lord Haro, or am I mistaking you for someone else?"
Lord Haro looks at Tristen and speaks back.
"Yes, I am Lord Haro, and you must be Tristen Welshock, the Gifted Human. Is that correct?"
"Yes, indeed you are."
"So, do tell me. Why are you attacking my castle? I don't remember my man completing their mission."
"That might be true. But you still tried to kidnap Princess Vita. And as her personal guard, I can't overlook that. And besides that, you did take someone else as a prisoner. A little girl that my new comrades have taken a liking to."
Lord Haro puts his right hand on his chin before speaking.
"So, you are not here too free that girl yourself? As a member of the Welshock Clan, you only follow certain rules. Or do you not follow those rules? Is that why you follow Princess Vita around? Because you failed your clan?"
"Shut up. You think you know me. You think you're better than me because you have the title of a lord. Well guess what."
Tristen puts his fists together as he smiles at Lord Haro.
"I am going to beat you until you realize that a title means nothing. But that's just a weak little scumbag that sits in his little throne. To hide from his enemies"
"You bastard. You will pay with your life for saying that to a lord. Late along with me."
Lord Haro puts his hands on the armrest of his chair and pushes down on them, as he pushes down on the armrest, it breaks the armrest into the seat as Lord Haro dashes at Tristen. Lord steps quickly to Tristen right side, making Tristen to step backwards but as Tristen does that Lord Haro teleports behind Tristen and punches him in the lower back of his back, making Tristen fly and bounce a couple of yards from Lord Haro. Lord Haro then punches the ground as he pours mana into the ground around him, then casts an earth spell.
"Earth Eater"
The ground becomes a giant mouth that eats Tristen. As the ground slowly starts to go down Lord Haro pulls his hand out from the ground and starts to walk away.
"So, the Gifted Human was just talking. How disappointing."
"Oh, trust me. I am more than just talk."
Lord Haro turns around and looks at the mouth and hears Tristen speak again.
"Sword Art, Earth Breaker."
Tristen cuts out of the earth mouth and in an instant, Tristen was right in front of Lord Haro. Tristen goes for a sideway slash on Lord Haro, but Lord Haro was able to dodge to the side of Tristen's attack, but before Lord Haro could do anything else, Tristen continued to turn his body and then do an upward slash on Lord Haro, cutting off Lord Haro left arm. Then after cutting off Lord Haro left arm, Tristen follows up with a turning side kick into Lord Haro chest. Making Lord Haro fly back into his chair. As the smoke clears a little, Tristen looks at Lord Haro and speaks.
"So, I guess that the title of Lord, are just a bunch of weaklings that need someone to put them in their place."
Lord Haro looks at Tristen with bloodthirst in his eyes.
"I am going to kill you, and everything you stand for."