As the food began to be delivered, a seat was made for Iudex, but before he could sit down..
(Lord Rimuru! Some of the Holy Church knights and people called the Seven Luminaries have arrived and are destroying the town! Should we respond to them?!) A distressed Benimaru called out to Rimuru.
(Deal with them! I'm coming soon!)
Rimuru got up and smashed the table in half, looking at Luminas.
"What's the meaning of this?! You sent your church behind my back? And here I thought we might get along!"
"What? What do you mean I sent my church? I didn-"
"Cut the bullshit! I just got a message saying some knights and some Seven Luminaries are attacking Tempest, answer!"
"Trust me, those fools are independent workers, they are very rebellious and don't respond to my calls easily."
Rimuru grunted knowing full well of the dangers.
"Well then excuse me, I'm leaving." Rimuru said this.
"Wait, Rimuru, don't...
I'll go.." Iudex stopped Rimuru.
"Don't be stupid, you're injured, and even if you were healed, this is my problem, and my country."
"No it's mine for not telling you, it completely skipped my mind, I'll go."
Iudex forced Rimuru down on his seat.
"....You better kill them all, I don't care if they serve her."
"Oh no, by all means, kill them, they are nuisances."
"Well then, Demon Lords, I'll see you later.
Enjoy the banquet."
He said his goodbyes and left.
Rimuru looked distressed, he didn't know if he should follow him.
"Why don't you go with him? It's not like we're doing anything important." Guy gave him an excuse.
"Thank you!" Rimuru sprinted after Iudex.
"Diablo! Take my place!"
"Wait no! Take him with you!!!
Rimuruuuuuu!" Guy tried to stop him in vain.
"Kufufufu.. this is the greatest honor...
Let the Walpurgis Banquet begin then, I must return to my Lord."
Everyone else was sighing in disbelief, Diablo had quite the reputation.
For a few minutes, Diablo was silent, he was barely holding in his massive desire to watch his Lord fighting... so after a few minutes of discussion he just proposed they watch.
"Kufufufu.. such mindless chatter..
How about we watch the glorious battle at hand?
I'm sure it would be far more entertaining, no?"
Guy took a minute, then Rain brought a crystal ball, almost dropping it.
"Fine then, since we really have nothing to do."
Rimuru POV
By the time I arrived, even though it was a close few seconds to Iudex, I could feel heavy tension coming from the west of Tempest.
I made my way over there as fast as possible, I saw a few robed priests fighting Iudex, who had Shuna behind him, she seemed to have been caught in this.
'Those bastards... they dare attack me when me and Luminas aren't there..'
There was one man that stood out, he was wearing a black suit, he seemed to be the leader.
He and the other priests were putting on an equal fight to Iudex, I thought he had it handled so I took Shuna and led her to safety.
I went to the other side of town where Benimaru, Souei and Geld were fighting back the Holy Knights, it wasn't really that much of a fight, but it still counted.
I decided to return to help Iudex, but the shock waves being released from the fight were massive, I thought he could handle it, so I went to help Konomaru, the Ogre chief, who was with Zegion to defend some of the outskirts.
3rd POV
"This aura.. You're a True Hero, why are you siding with monsters?" The suited man asked Iudex.
"Because they have dignity to talk first, unlike you.
You must be Granbell, correct? I've heard about you."
They exchanged blows.
"Yes, I am.
Fine then, it doesn't matter if we kill a True Hero on the way to peace.
Melt Strike!" Granbell raised his sword and brought it down with immense speed, but this is why you don't talk while using skills.
Iudex had already stepped behind him, the strike caused massive destruction in it's radius, but it was already late for Granbell to react.
Iudex immediately balanced on one foot, and then kicked Granbell's side with his left foot, using the leverage from his left foot on Granbell, he spun and kicked Granbell right in the neck with his right.
Granbell was knocked down to the ground with his sword on the ground.
Granbell then tried to get up quickly and attack while the other Luminaries attacked Iudex right after he knocked him down.
"Curse this man! Who knew a True Hero would be so strong?!" One of the Luminaries pouted.
"Tch! Such speed and technique..
You might as well be a monster!"
The Luminaries then began to unleash a barrage of attacks at Iudex, and as soon as Iudex was focused with them, Granbell had attempted to attack him again, succeeding to slash him in the back of his neck with an attack imbued with something he could not tell what was... but it hurt..
"Aghhh! Bastards! That.. hurts..
I can't focus.."
Iudex began to lose a bit of his consciousnesses, he was still exhausted from blocking Milim's Drago Buster.
Rimuru had thought he would do fine so he went to help someone else.
'Sigh.. exhaustion... I must do it..'
"Ultimate Skill: Divine God of Martial Arts: Zhen Wu!" Iudex activated his ultimate Skill at maximum Potential, activating his Flow, Decastrike and Null Misstep.
It might sound like an extremely powerful skill, the toll it takes on the body is massive, physical stress from each punch being full powered while firing thousands of them is able to kill any divine being under such pressure.
It's not also overriden with resistances or nullification, it's quite literally impossible to avoid such stress, that is the price of the skill.
Granbell sensing that something wrong was happening ordered his men to step back and chant disintegration.
Iudex took a deep breath.
"Observe.. the speed which puts anything to shame.
Iudex Style: One Punch Too Many!"
Iudex immediately disappeared right as they were going to finish casting the spell, but they had just missed him.
Suddenly the ground where he was exploded and rumbled below it a little, all Granbell could see was 6 Iudexes each throwing one punch at each Luminary, before the 6 caught up to where he was, Granbell attempted a block but he was already struck in his gut, what followed after was a barrage of over 9 full powered punches at him.
'I must.. leave..' Granbell, who was down on the ground, immediately tried to get up, but he was immobilized by the damage.
All the other Luminaries had their bodies mutilated from the force of the punches, some had gotten their heads exploded, some had their limbs torn off, all was related to how they handled such pressure.
Iudex then reappeared where he originally stood but couldn't move, he fell on the ground in pain and couldn't move aswell.
Granbell tried to move with all his might, slowly getting up and making his escape.
Iudex fell unconscious, his Ultimate Skill disabled after he was knocked out.
As the battle cleared, Hinata caught up to where the battle was going on after she noticed her subordinates were missing, she saw them fighting everywhere, dead bodies of Holy Knights scattered.
"Stop! Cease!" Hinata ordered Arno who immediately stopped fighting Benimaru.
"Took you long enough! Help us out!"
Whack
Hinata whacked Arno's head.
"You speak to me with respect, and why are you fighting?!"
"We were told to attack here! Those Seven Luminaries said that God has decreed it so."
He replied to her dumbfounded.
"When? I didn't hear anything about this!"
"Huh? They told us you left ahead of us! I thought you got lost!"
"Go stop the others right now!"
Arno ran as fast as he can.
"I am so sorry.. this seems to be much deeper than I thought.."
Hinata bowed a little in apology.
Benimaru didn't know what to make of her.
"What a daze.. follow me."
He walked with her behind him to the town center, and waited there, soon other Knights joined them confused, Konomaru and Zegion had come back from clearing the outskirts, soon the others followed.
Rimuru walked back from the part of town Iudex was fighting from, as he saw him unconscious he ran to him thinking he died, in that moment Rimuru almost cried.
"No! Iudex! I told you not to do this!
Don't die! Don't!"
{He is still alive, but the pressure of using his Ultimate Skill "Divine God of Martial Arts Zhen Wu" must have taken a large toll on him.
It is recommended to immediately hospitalise him as his body might collapse any moment under the sheer pressure, it is considered a miracle for him to have not died yet.}
"Thank goodness.. you're alive.."
Rimuru carried Iudex back to the town center, where the others were surprised to see Iudex in such a state.
"Benimaru, help Shuna take him to an emergency room and keep him under constant observation until he wakes up, he might die any moment, go, now!"
Benimaru hurried with the help of someone else and took Iudex to a room.
"Are you alright Rimuru-Sama?" Shuna asked him, worried about him.
"What are you still doing here? I said go help them!" He reprimanded her.
"You obviously see I'm still fine, he's the one who's about to die!" Shuna soon apologized and ran behind Benimaru.
Rimuru took a deep breath, he knew he should have handled this alone..
'I should have stopped you..
They're probably watching this right now..
If something happens to him I will...
I don't even know what I'm going to do..'
Rimuru went to talk with Hinata, who explained to him this is all just a big misunderstanding, he wanted to kill them all but then understood it would serve no purpose.
"I understand... But this will be of grave consequence to you and the church later."
Hinata sighed.
"We'll talk when we get there.."
Iudex POV
...I think I just fainted...
Is this Sleep Space?
No.. it's not.. I don't feel Omniscient..
Hm.. is this what it is like to be knocked out? Interesting..
That Granbell guy knocked me off my guard... I thought I was good enough but I'm weak...
I need to be stronger, for everyone.
I need to be useful..
How, if I get knocked out after one fight..
I guess I was just defending against that Drago Buster..
But still, I severely underestimated him..
I want to get stronger..
I have to, one way or another.
[Success, individual Iudex has regained the following skills integrated into his Ultimate Skill "Divine God of Martial Arts Zhen Wu".
-Balanced Footing: The skill holder has an ability to instantly adapt to any situation he is in, whether it be locked in hand to hand combat, parrying, defending, attacking, the holder's footing will immediately set to the best possible position.
-Fist of God(God-Fist): The holder can use this skill to unleash a supercharged fist, using this with any repetition attack will apply the supercharge, but every repetition will cause an equal amount of stress to the person, it is worthy to note that the supercharging uses an alteration of magicules which is heavily condensed.
-Uncontrollable Rage: This skill is gained through the user's desire to cause a change to the world around them, when used, this skill will send the holder in a state of utter rampage, in this state, the user's physical, spiritual and other aspects of the body are raised and overclocked three fold, reflexive actions are raised to be able to predict attacks spot on.
The mind and soul of this user are placed under lock down, disallowing any direct interaction with them, and total existence collapse is possible.
This concludes this skill usage.]
So it returns.. huh.. Uncontrollable Rage.. this is the same skill I used when I almost lost Rudra...
But last time.. I could be stopped through being put to sleep or killed.. Total existence collapse as well, what the hell is that.. So this time it's a one way ticket to hell..
I wanted to destroy everything, make everyone regret ever existing.
This time.. was it because I wanted to get stronger?
I see a light..
Am I waking up again?